Re: wvdial problems being recognized
I read the README and they didn't mention anything about that. I'm guessing that's on the man page and I missed it? Maybe it should be RTFMT (RTFM thoroughly) for me. Thanks for the quick turn around on this. Scott --- ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you set up /etc/resolv.conf to list a search domain and nameservers? Hamma Scott wrote: Hello, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I needed to reinstall my system. I'm starting with a 2.2r3 version of potato on installation CD's. I tried to setup wvdial. I was able to get a connection it found the login line, password line and was able to call a ppp connection. The problem is no other application can see that I'm connected. I verified that I am connecting by putting in a bogus id and it dropped on me. So my question is how do I get applications to recognize wvdial? Scott Hamma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
wvdial problems being recognized
Hello, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I needed to reinstall my system. I'm starting with a 2.2r3 version of potato on installation CD's. I tried to setup wvdial. I was able to get a connection it found the login line, password line and was able to call a ppp connection. The problem is no other application can see that I'm connected. I verified that I am connecting by putting in a bogus id and it dropped on me. So my question is how do I get applications to recognize wvdial? Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies is generally sufficient, packages are snared over the 'Net. Well, I came here to learn, so where would I find documentation outlining this procedure? Or where would I be able to find the base tarball. Looked on Debian's ftp sites, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
RE: Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)
--- William De Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personnaly, I install the base system from an old CD, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the distribution I want and then do an apt-get dist- upgrade. I have done that, and have finally upgraded to Woody. Right now I'm having a bit of a problem dialing up. Must be a change to pon or diald. However, the primary servers may be slow, so I recommend using other servers, which can be found at: http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors Just use the one closest to you, or when you decide to upgrade to the woody (aka testing) distribution, you can use the apt-spy package to determine the fastest server for you (install and read the man page) apt-spy is something I haven't heard of. Little bits of knowledge, a little at a time. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: Apt dependency problem
--- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the process finished, I figured to redo: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade and be okay again. Not! It results in: libsdl1.2debian: Depends: libsdl1.2debian-all (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not going to be installed or libsdl1.2debian-oss (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not going to be installed or libsdl1.2debian-esd (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not going to be installed or libsdl1.2debian-arts (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not going to be installed Does anybody have a clue on how to fix this? Very much appreciated! Have you tried apt-get dist-upgrade -d (download only)? If this works you can use dpkg -i to install the necessary packages. If that doesn't work there is apt-get dist-upgrade -f (force upgrade without checking for dependencies). I would suggest to leave this as a very last resort. Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
dpkg -i * gives segmentation fault
I was trying to upgrade to Woody. I've downloaded the packages and did the following through instructions (thank you by the way for all the help so far) # dpkg -i perl* I only had one package for perl (seemed a little odd). I then tried to run: # dpkg -i * After a bunch of output, I got a segmentation fault. I then went through to try to upgrade libraries as I was getting dependency problems and didn't know what forcing the upgrade would do. Then, I thought the best thing to do is to do an apt-get with dist-upgrade and --nodownload. I found out that the apt-get must have been upgraded because --nodownload is not recognized anymore. I can run pon and apt-get, dpkg, vi, vim, but not emacs right now. Am I cooked? And what information would you need to determine if I am? I'm considering using apt-get dselect-upgrade, is this viable now? Well, I got till tonight. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
apt-get sources.list question
I've recently had some problems upgrading to Woody after downloading all the packages for a dist-upgrade. I'm wondering if I didn't shoot myself in the foot with the sources I was pulling from. I install from a CD, and first was updating my potato installation, so I had all those options in the sources.list. When I wanted to upgrade to Woody, I commented all those entries in the CD and potato. My question is should I have kept them entries live to supliment my Woody upgrade or would the packages they would have downloaded have just cause more problems? Any advise on this matter would be appreciated. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
apt-get upgrade to Woody errors out
I'm trying to upgrade from 2.2r17 to woody. I want to thank the responses for the proper areas to apt-get from. I did an apt-get update and then dist-upgrade -d to just download the files last night. I then ran apt-get with --nodownload option for dist-upgrade. It was scanning and at 83% I got the following error: Template parse error near at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, TEMPLATES chunk 2 E: Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg-preconfig --apt return error code (29) E: Failure running script /usr/bin/dpkg-preconfig --apt Does anyone know what I did wrong? Any additional help would be appreciated. Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
apt-get areas
I put the loop in for apt-get just to download files(thank you very much Karsten). However one of the areas I was pulling gave me an 404 not found error. Could I get the URL's to download Woody from its official site (or a site that works). Thank you in advance. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: Multiple copies of messages to list?
I'll get duplicates of some messages and I'm using Yahoo through a browser. So it's not just you. Scott --- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just swapped from using Procmail to carve up my post to using Gnus own mail-splitting facility. I find that I am getting up to four copies of individual messages on this list - hitherto procmail has weeded them out. Is that normal? Is it my system which is propagating them or the list or the OP? Just curious. and off to learnt ho to eliminate duplicates with the great and glorious Gnus! Glyn -- ** * Here we are then... * * http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade dropping carrier
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:53AM -0700, Hamma Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and have been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier. Immediately? Or after some time? After some time. The download is approximated at 16 hours and I would see about 8 go through with no problem. apt-get will resume a download in progress. If necessary, force a loop: $ while ! apt-get dist-upgrade -d; do :; done ...will download packages, repeating, until successful. I'll try that this weekend. I'm using pon to connect to my ISP and when I try to poff, I get no connection available. However, I wasn't around when it dropped. Thanks for the info, I think I need to refocus my attention to the *NIX environment. Wouldn't have thought of that. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: Takin' the plunge...
--- Royce Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't particularly want to go back to the command line, but I do appreciate the minimalist approach of Unix, especially from a security standpoint. Any suggestions to ease the mind and grease the process? I'm using Red-Hat at work (working on setting up a web server) and I'm using Debian at home. Check out http://www.debian.org for more on Debian's standards and practices. It's more of a community effort. Because it's more flexible, it's harder to install than Red Hat, but not too hard. If I, a low down, thrown down VB programmer, can do it, you can! I've been devoting my extra time (?) to Linux and while I'm learning slowly, I love the open environment and the ability to learn. I did it as an act of defiance to my job. My goal is to get my stuff together, learn an area and contribute to the cause at http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ Hope this helps Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
apt-get dist-upgrade dropping carrier
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and have been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier. Is it possible to apt-get dselect-upgrade after my update to install Woody in pieces? And if that's possible, is there a set order that should be followed? Thank you for your time on this matter. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: Debian Linux
Debian makes me want to dive in and learn all it's internal workings. Keep up the good work!! mike Here are some tips I've harvested from this group straight from Will Trillich's Tips. Hope they come in handy: DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #1 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Looking to use your Debian machine as a FIREWALL? No problem! Try apt-get install ipmasq... After you've got your /etc/network/interfaces file set up properly, ipmasq will save you lots of work, setting up firewall and routing tables automatically. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #5 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What's a MANPAGE? It's the documentation you get when you enter man something such as man sources.list or man interfaces or man bash. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #6 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : How do you keep text from SCROLLING BY TOO DAMN FAST? :) Before pressing the ENTER key of a command that you know will generate a lot of output, pipe it through your pager: ls -lR | pager locate tgz | pager grep -r pattern /home | pager You can also try SHIFT-PAGE-UP to scroll back. This works both at the console and in rxvt/xterm windows. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #7 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Wondering what COMMANDS you have at your disposal? Try pressing the TAB key at the command line. For example, aptTAB will show you all the commands that start with apt. (This is called completion if you want to look it up in your shell's manpage.) (Different implementions have the TAB completion set up differently -- you may need to press TAB twice.) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #8 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Search for Debian PACKAGES online with this shortcut: http://packages.debian.org/[packagename] If you can't find it right off, just hop to the search packages link that's offered there. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #9 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] :SLINK was the code name for Debian release 2.1; POTATO is Debian 2.2 (currently a synonym for stable) and WOODY is the upcoming release (currently a synonym for testing). And SID is unstable. The names are all characters from the movie Toy Story. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #12 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where is the DOCUMENTATION? It's all over the place... and there's lots of it. Much was written for non-debian distributions, and much was written long, long ago. But try these anyhow: on your own system, try man and info and apropos, and also look under /usr/share/doc/package* ... Online, there's linuxdoc.org, debianhelp.org, and debian.org/doc/ of course. Also try http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/general/index-deb-help-sys.html -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #13 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : How can you generate RANDOM EMAIL SIGNATURES? Many email client shave this feature -- for mutt, simply declare in your ~/.muttrc file something like send-hook debian- set signature='~/.signature-debian |' (note the quoted value ends with a 'pipe|' symbol) Then whenever you send email to any debian-* address, it'll append the output from your script, instead of appending a static file. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #14 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What's a RUNLEVEL? It's simply a big-time setting group; runlevel 2 might have a full-blown web server plus X running, and runlevel 3 might be ssh-only, for secure logins. Check /etc/inittab (and /etc/rc[RUNLEVEL].d/*) for details on how yours are set up. And try man runlevel. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... __ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1
Re: Security on debian
Linux Journal has a monthly column called the Paranoid Penguin. This month: GPG: The Best Free Crypto You Aren't Using Part 2 of 2. --- Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any one point me to the best books, how-to's, articles, scripts, etc. on hardening debian and making it really secure, but still easy to use? I was looking on the debian site and I saw a security how-to, but for some reason it would not let me access it. It said i didnt have permision to view it. -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
Re: decompress tgz Thanks from a lurker
I want to thank everyone that adds more information. It helps us who are clueless when we see more to the picture than we expected. For people who didn't ask the question, it helps even more. We didn't know enough to ask. Scott Hamma --- Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:02:13PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: shyamk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shyamk What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? shyamk I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf Typically, foo.tgz is a shorthand filename for foo.tar.gz, so 'gunzip foo.tgz; tar xf foo.tar' should work. As a shorthand using GNU tar (the tar included with Debian, for example), you can just do 'tar xzf foo.tgz'. I always learned that .tgz meant the file was created via tar czf ... while tar.gz meant the file was a tarball that was compressed (tar cf - | gzip -9; tar cf file.tar ... gzip -9 file.tar, etc.) Note that it's not quite the same: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ tar czf test.tgz drm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ tar cf - drm | gzip -9 test.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ll test.* -rw-rw-r--1 nnorman nnorman153609 Sep 13 14:54 test.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--1 nnorman nnorman155636 Sep 13 14:54 test.tgz Of course both files can be read via tar zxf or zcat file | tar x, so my point (if there is one :) is that tarring then compressing is more efficient. __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/
RE: Solidarity
--- Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me ,I am of topic with linux but all my thoughts are with the americains, specially the innocent victims. -- Gerard Thanks. We will be in mourning for some time. Had a sister working near the World Trade Center. She is okay (thank God for that) but she was shaken up for a few days. I'm sure she's got more to work through, but one step at a time. Scott Hamma __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/
Re: XML Tool Server problem
--- Jan Ulrich Hasecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick answer! But ... :-( Danie Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wild shot in the dark. Do you have a jdk installed? If not, put a line like this in your sources.list # Blackdown Java deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian woody non-free and apt-get install j2sdk1.3 I installed jdk1.1 then xae I installed j2sdk1.3 then xae But no success. I think that's the right direction. type %java -version This is to verify you can get to 1.3. If you can't see it, you might want to try setting JAVA_HOME to the main subdirectory you installed 1.3 to (probably /usr/jdk1.3 but check on your system) and JAVA_PATH set to the bin subdirectory under JAVA_HOME. Setting environment variables on the fly (as an exercise for myself) is done by typing the following: %export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk1.3 Hope this helps Scott Hamma P.S. Thanks for the info on an XML editor for emacs. I'll try to set it up at home and let you know the outcome. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
Re: simple scripts made difficult? (1 problem answered 1 open)
--- andrej hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see it as usual on screen? Check the tee function out. ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or an output to a script Are you talking about sending arguments via the command line that comes from a file? Like get the info you want from one script and want to pass it to another? Not sure about that part. I would be best to split up questions in the future. This way the really simple (like myself) could answer the first and leave the clued in people to answer the second. Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
Re: ide problem on potato/2.2.17
I need some more information. If you could please provide the following information: Does this happen at kernel load? What CPU Type/Speed are you using? Hard Drive Manufacturer? Did this happen with 2.2r3? unfortunately, I had to relalize that my potato box is making some trouble: Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: 03:02: rw=0, want=8421508, limit=779152 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: dev 03:02 blksize=4096 blocknr=538976288 sector=16843008 size=4096 count=1 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: 03:02: rw=0, want=1283506308, limit=779152 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: dev 03:02 blksize=4096 blocknr=1394618400 sector=-1727954688 size=4096 count=1 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: 03:02: rw=0, want=75616648, limit=779152 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: dev 03:02 blksize=4096 blocknr=1092645985 sector=151233288 size=4096 count=1 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: 03:02: rw=0, want=1149356484, limit=779152 Aug 31 00:07:34 torriac kernel: dev 03:02 blksize=4096 blocknr=824210032 sector=-1996254336 size=4096 count=1 What's going on?? A search on google showed some answers for older kernels (ide-driver problem), but with 2.2.17?? fsck always returns a bunch of errors. -- Tschoe,Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [maybe OT] Liveice: anyone knows where it defaults for the config file?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've ran liveice before as a tarball, and now I'm glad that debian had included it. I'm just wondering where does this version reads its default config because it says it reads one in /etc/liveice.cfg, so I copied one there, but it doesn't read it still... Hm It has 644 permission, so anyone could read the file... Any ideas anyone? Calyth Shot in the darks here, but have you checked for man pages on the liveice.cfg. Also, are you sure about the name of the config file. I seem to recall more .conf files than .cfg files. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: newbie APT troubles
I believe the problem is that Evolution is compiled with a later C lib. Most questions I needed answered for apt-get can be found here. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net Is a good reference too. --- Avdi B. Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, bear with me, I'm new to the Debian thing. Just dist-upgraded my Progeny system for the first time. Lots of yummy new software, no problems. But now, I want to get some other new packages, and upgrade some that dist-upgrade didn't. For example, I want Evolution. Seems Evolution is only in 'unstable'. So, I uncomment the debian-unstable line in sources.list. Then, I 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install evolution'. Whoah, problem: evolution: Depends: gtkhtml but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcamel0 (= 0.12-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: bonobo (= 1.0.7) but 1.0.4-1.0progeny1 is to be installed Depends: bonobo-conf (= 0.7) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcamel0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgnomeprint15 (= 0.29-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtkhtml14 (= 0.11.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Whadya mean, but it is not going to be installed. You mean you can't? Or you just won't? Do you have some sort of grudge against those packages? And what's up with Depends: bonobo (= 1.0.7) but 1.0.4-1.0progeny1 is to be installed??? I don't recalling asking for anything but evolution to be installed. Why is it telling me that 1.0.4-1.0progeny1 is to be installed, and why can't it just install the one it needs? And what about that Broken packages messages? OK, I think, let's try this 'dselect' thingy... I select evolution, and all's well until I hit the Install command... suddenly it wants to confirm an *enourmous* list of unrelated adds, removals, and upgrades with me. (462 packages upgraded, 122 newly installed, 117 to remove and 7 not upgraded) *Whoa*, I never asked for all those. I just wanted Evoultion. I try again with diety, same story. This is just one example. I've had the same thing happen trying to upgrade kde, or install CUPS, or Webmin, or stormpkg, or various others. Ever since the dist-upgrade, any package that isn't part of Progeny's distribution (stable, testing, or unstable) gives me the same kind of grief when I try to install or upggrade it. It's a different list of packages each time, but the same type of issues with apt-get, dselect, and deity. So, what am I doing wrong? Thanks much, Avdi B. Grimm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: konqueror vs. session cookies
Sounds like someone already asked for that and it was demoted to wishlist status http://bugs.kde.org/db/16/16757.html --- will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this may be a bit off topic -- aren't session cookies (i.e. those without an expiration date) supposed to go away when the client (browser program) exits? i quit konqueror (making sure there are no other instances running, keeping a 'session' alive) and re-launch it; when i check settings-cookies, the cookie is still there. or am i presuming the wrong definition of 'session'? i've got debian potato with konqueror 2.1.1 (according to its default startup display) with kde 2.1.2 (according to its control center display) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #17 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Why is TELNET considered spawn of Satan? Because every keystroke sent by you, is transmitted -- clear as a bell -- across the ether. Anyone can sniff your network packets and see what you're typing -- passwords, love letters, cold fusion blueprints... It's as secure as shouting from the rooftops. Everyone can see! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)
I read the article. It doesn't sound like bashing. I have been bashed for using Linux and to paraphrase my favorite debate line that, senator is not bashing. The upshot of the article is: - We decided that RPM's are the defacto standard - DEB's are more reliable, easier to update and conform to a stricter policy making them more reliable. - Don't know if RPM's will follow this. - A standard should follow this tighter set of rules. Just sound like someone has an over-inflated view of themselves. Scott Hamma --- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David McNab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From my short time with Debian so far, I sense that there may be some discrimination against the debian platform. The excerpt below is one dramatic instance. The excerpt below is not one dramatic instance. It's a sensationalist article from a publication which apparently hasn't read the LSB, hasn't read the discussion that went through debian-user and debian-devel, and is just trying to rile people up (LATE) to get readers. I'd suggest not reading LinuxFormat, if they can't be troubled to get things right. Check out http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg00071.html, for starters. From: Miaoling Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of interest to this group: RPMs in, DEBs out LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! FORTH IF HONK THEN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: Debian dream machine?
I got a Dell machine, but I was just getting into Linux and went Red-Hat for a while. The Red-Hat hardware support page only gave 4 Dells and 1 IBM. I would consider http://www.penguincomputing.com they specialize in Linux-compatible machines. If you are inclined to hear my tale of woe with Dell, let me know, it's an earful :) --- Abner Gershon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on building a computer from various components with the intent of setting it up to dual boot to Debian and Windows ME. Initially I had ordered an Athalon 1.3 Ghz processor and Abit KT7A motherboard but then got cold feet and canceled my order after reading some negative posts on this mailing list regarding AMD cpu's and VIA chipsets on motherboards. What would people recommend for motherboard and cpu? I am planning on going with an ATI radeon All-in-wonder video card, and a Plextor ATAPI CD-RW drive. The machine will mostly be used for word processing, gathering patient record information (I'm a physician), web site maintenance, and occaisionally for video capture. Ease of setup and compatibility are my major concerns. Ancillary advice welcome. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: konqueror infinite self-clones
I wanted you to know that I looked around and I could only find a bug written against the find help replicating http://bugs.kde.org/db/26/26220.html Don't know konqueror so I can't help you with setting up a different help app. Scott Hamma --- will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when using konquer in file-browser mode (nosnig around my home directory, for example) if i run across a *.tar.gz for example and if i make the mistake of double-clicking on it (thinking that if less can read it, everything ought to be able to) knoqueror tries to display the file, figures out it should pass it to a helper application -- which is konqueror -- and then hands the task off to that application. which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. so it spawns a helper application to do the work... ... until i ctl-alt-f1 to get console, log in an kill one of the main kdm processes; then all my current windows are okay (even switching virtual desktops is no problem) but no new processes can be spawned. when i log out (or wind up killing X via atl-alt-backspace) kdm restarts and then all is rosy again. i let it go one time to see if it'd quit after so many iterations, and there appeared to be no end in sight. how do i tell konqueror to NOT spawn itself as a helper app? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #65 from der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Wondering about which KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE UNDERSTOOD BY BASH? Enter this at your bash shell prompt: bind -p | less and see how much of that you can interpret :). For more info about all of this stuff, do man bash then search for emacs and readline (to search a manpage, type / and then the pattern to look for). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: newbie questions
--- James A. Hilsenteger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a Debian box. Welcome aboard, remember Google is your freind and this site is great for harvesting answers from. After a few false starts I have a working Debian computer using the Enlightened desktop. Under the main desktop menu, I cannot get some of the programs to respond. I've looked recently at the Enlightened desktop and have found that the menu list is not as complete as the GNOME menu bar (I'm assuming that's what you mean) Go to your home directory, you should see an .enlightenment subdirectory. You'll see .menu files under there. It appears that the floating menus are mantained as updateable text files. How to update them aside from manual intervention, I don't know. I was able to have my gnome task bar overlaid on my enlightened desktop. This could be a way around your problem (if I got it right). Also I need some suggestions on a word processor and user-friendly database program. Someone mentioned StarOffice, I think that's a good one to go with. I don't have it on my Debian system yet. If I were to need a word processor, I'd go that route. Hope this helps. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: Linking with X
--- Timothy Bedding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting this link error /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0' Does this mean I need an extra library? If so, which one? Sounds like a symbolic reference that's not resolved. Goto /usr/X11R6/lib and type $ls libX11.so -al you should see libX11.so - /someplace/else/anotherfile You might have a link to a link. Follow the paths until you find what your missing. Hope this helps. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: problems with configuring X
--- fouad HENNI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My video card is a 'Trident Blade 3d PCI/AGP (ICP)' When I installed X under Debian 2.2 r0 I choose in the database the card number '688', that is: 'Trident Blade3D (generic)' and the 'svga' server. But when I start X with server 'svga' driver 'Trident Blade 3D (generic)' the computer blocs and I have no way to stop it. When I specify (in the XF86Config): server 'svga' driver 'Generic VGA' X starts, but the only graphic mode that I had is the 320x200 with a very big font. So what can I do to repair all that ? Thank you. Are you connected to the internet via this computer? If you are do you have your sources.list setup to upgrade through apt-get? Perhaps a newer version of 2.2 will give you some more video cards to select from (hopefully, the one you have in particular). If wife/child will cooperate, I should be able to get to my Linux machine at home, just set it up to upgrade via the web, which is way cool! Here's a link to beginning apt-get documentation. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
RE: Bash/Perl weirdness
Someone suggested I check that my path includes . but I thought that's what the ./ was for? Yes, you are correct and DO NOT put . in your path. There was a rap-on-the-fingers thread about . in your path. The Skinny:If a malicious person gets into your account and puts a function named ls in your home you would call it first if . is in the front of your PATH. So, keep using ./ and the Gods will smile upon you. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: not enough partitions
--- Robin Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have a hard drive with ext2 (primary), swap (logical), and NTFS (primary) partitions. It's a large drive with a lot of unused space. I want to carve up the remaining space into several partititions, but cfdisk only offers to make one last primary partition, then there are no more partitions available. Why can't I make the fourth partition an extended partition and put as many logical partitions there as I want? I ran cfdisk (have the 2 primary and 1 logical partition). Although adding another primary partition stopped me from going foward, I was able to add a number of logical partitions. I've been playing with installing Debian on different configurations (dual boot, multiple Linuces) and at home, I was able to even put the /boot on a logical partition (that's how I have it now). So, if it's extra disk space you want to carve up, use logical partitions. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: Query
--- Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:38:07AM +0530, Jocky wrote: hello sir, i m a user of linux in india.i have a problem and i will be greatfull if u plz. help me solve it. i switched my desktop from gnome to Twm.now i again want to switch to gnome.so what should i do for that.how to handle TWM to go back to gnome. plz. reply soon.--thanx jocky. you can make a file called .xinitrc in your home directory and have one line in it: twm save it and run startx. that should logically start up twm. For GNOME the line in the .xinitrc reads: exec gnome-session __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: CD Writer
--- Gurusami Annamalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am currently using Debian GNU Linux version 2.2. I am planning to buy a CD Writer that is already supported. Try http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/cdr.html for a list of supported CD-Writers. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Perl Question Recap
Mike's Question:
I want to delete a directory that will have files in
it...I don't know the name of the files there for
wildcards might be needed
I understand that rmdir will wipe out an empty
directoryand unlink will wipe out files (only if
I know the names of the files)
What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that
had files in it? Even better what would be a nice
command to delete all files in one directory...
(leaving the directory intact)
---From
Lamer:
Simply Speaking, This would have been done better with
these shell commands:
# cd /directory
# rm -rf *
# cd ..;
---
From Joost:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Path;
rmtree(some/dir, 0, 1);
=pod
man File::Path
=cut
---From
Craig:
to remove a dirtory that had files in it:
- rm -rf directory
to delete all files in one directory
(leaving the directory intact)
- rm -rf directory/*
to delete everything in a directory, including
subdirectories
- find . -type f | xargs rm -f
to delete all files in a directory or its
subdirectories,
but keep the directory structure intact.
Perl isn't required.
---From
Bud:
Even better what would be a nice command to
delete all filesin one directory... (leaving the
directory intact)
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
$dir = /path/to/dir;
opendir(DIR, $dir) or die can't opendir $dir: $!;
while ( defined ($file = readdir DIR) ) {
next if $file =~ /^\.\.?$/; # skip . and ..
unlink $file;
}
Quick and dirty, but I think it will delete all files
in one directory. Won't handle subdirs. Then you
could probably just
close(DIR);
rmdir $dir;
to get rid of the directory.
---
From Larry Wall:
There's more than one way to do things
A fine example of life imitating art ;-)
Scott Hamma
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Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....
-- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #61 from Hamma Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ever have troubles with EITHER X OR CONSOLE LOCKUP? If your session is hung you can type CTRLALTF2- F6 to get to another login session. This way, you can shut your machine down properly, or kill whichever process is causing trouble (use ps axf to see them all). Welcome to the next level? ;) Thanks for the recognition, it's more than I get at work (sadly true). Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Perl Question Recap
--- Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for all the inputs !!! Just condensing all the answers given (more for myself) I'm really new to Perl and I'm guessing that I can't run shell commands within a perl script... Check out system() and exec()... __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....
--- Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you know that on the console, you can also use
leftalt+cursor{left,right}
to change vt's? Going back to X from vc1 is as
simple as leftalt-cursorleft.
So, to go through all virtual consoles would be
Left Alt-F1 throught Left Alt-F6 and Left Alt Arrow
Leftor Left Ctrl-Alt F7 to get in X. To get out
of X, Left Ctrl-Alt [F1-F6]. Way Cool!
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Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....
--- will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:46:58AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to use? There's six, by default: try Control-Alt-F6 to see console six, Ctl-Alt-F3 for console 3, and so forth. (If you don't use the X window display system, you don't need to include the control key.) Each console can have its own login, running its own jobs. Very handy! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... This might be more correct by saying ...try Alt-F6. (If you are coming from the X GUI display use Control-Alt-F3 to get to console 3. To switch to the GUI environment use Control-Alt-F7) Nitpicking and the fact the X needs to be running should be mentioned, and maybe that makes it a little too long for a Tip, but I just wanted you to know that they are being read. maybe i misunderstand -- X does NOT need to be running in order for someone to change to another virtual console: alt-F3, alt-F6 work just fine. when you DO use X, it takes over the first available (not-already reserved as a virtual console) slot which is #7 by default, reached via alt-F7. once you are IN the X window display environment, you need to add CONTROL to the ALT-Fkeys: ctl-alt-f1, ctl-alt-f4, etc. so, did i read your note correctly? I Never knew you could move to X with Alt-F7! I've been use Ctrl-Alt-F7 considering you need the same key configuration to get out (Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6]). People tend to remember the first and sometimes the last thing you tell them. To start with saying try Control-Alt-F6 to see console six and I would tend to have people think OK, this is how I change to virtual consoles. Instead IMHO, people should be presented with the Alt-F6 and told, if you're in X (or you're GUI environment to make it more generic) use Control-Alt-F6 instead of saying use Control-Alt-F6 to see console six unless you're NOT using X. I told you it was nit-picking! ;-) Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....
-- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to use? There's six, by default: try Control-Alt-F6 to see console six, Ctl-Alt-F3 for console 3, and so forth. (If you don't use the X window display system, you don't need to include the control key.) Each console can have its own login, running its own jobs. Very handy! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... This might be more correct by saying ...try Alt-F6. (If you are coming from the X GUI display use Control-Alt-F3 to get to console 3. To switch to the GUI environment use Control-Alt-F7) Nitpicking and the fact the X needs to be running should be mentioned, and maybe that makes it a little too long for a Tip, but I just wanted you to know that they are being read. Scott Hamma __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [OT] Linux is different (used to be Why is setting up X so arcane?)
Whereas I was working with different flavours of Unix as far back as 1986. But I've never had to configure X before. I have configured apache, SSL, written shell scripts, PHP, C, C++, and Java. I'm still finding this much more difficult than I think it should be. Maybe I've just got a mental block. I have read about 100 pages of documentation on configuring X, and, as I said before, understood about 50% of it. I have even tried experimenting (and got my filesystem burned in the process). Well, if you've done all that, you have outclassed my experience in the *nix world (stay around so I can ask you some questions esp. apache, once I get a handle on what to ask ;-)) If I remember, at the beginning, you were not sure about the monitor or the video card. Maybe you can do some hardware reorganization at work and swap for a monitor and video card with a pedigree. Just a thought. Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: newbie partition question
At work I installed a Window 2K/Debian dual boot. The steps I took were: 0. Read the Debian Installation Instructions http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.txt If you're new to Debian you might have been like me thinking that installation instructions aren't really necessary. In Debian, they are. There is alot of good information just in that document alone. 1. Install Windows. Partition the drive here in 2 parts 2. Install Debian Potato V2.2R3. I got a distribution on CD from Cheap Bytes and I made one partition for Linux Hope this helps! By the way, welcome the fun and sometimes confusing world of Debian GNU/Linux! Here's a couple of things I got out of this groups You should bookmark this sight: http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ and look at any mail that is sent by Will Trillich. He has newbie tips at the end of all his mail that are very good! --- phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i just started installing debian 2.1, but everytime i go to partition the drive, cfdisk gives me this error about a bad primary partition Then I get a message about how my partition table is either corrupt or my disk is 'factory clean' it requests to 'wipe my disk's current partition table and run cfdisk again'. I did this once and lost windows (poor me) i could only boot to linux with lilo. so i'm starting over i've used fdisk to partition the 40G drive into 10G primary and 10G extended... thus 20G left over... which I'm not going to partition til later, i guess. but I'm still getting this same error... should i just let cfdisk wipe out my current partition table? thanks for any help, phillip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?
If you have Windows, use it to get the information needed. once installed, go to the properties option of the desktop menu under Settings Tab, go to the Display type to get the video card. Check the monitor make/model, you should be able to find documentation online esp. if it's a Dell monitor. That's where I found my documentation. Hope this helps! Scott --- Nikki Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine here I would like to run X on. I am not sure of the specs of the VGA card, and have no manuals for it. I think I have a manual for the monitor (it has no manufacturer marked on it, but I have found a single sheet of paper which has a picture on it that looks vaguely like the front on my monitor). How on earth am I supposed to set up X? Why is it so difficult? I can install Microsoft Windows (spit), and it will find out for itself what card and monitor I have, and set itself up accordingly. Why isn't there a program to do the same thing with X? I have experimented as best I can, and I have got an X display. It is a 640 x 480 window on a larger desktop, and is really difficult to use. If I reboot into Windows NT, the thing displays 1024 x 768 quite happily. I have studied the stderr output of xinit, and it says (--) VGA16: clocks: 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz (**) VGA16: Mode 640x480: mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.170 (--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 800x600 (--) VGA16: Removing mode 800x600 from list of valid modes. (--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 1024x768 (--) VGA16: Removing mode 1024x768 from list of valid modes. (**) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 Where do I go from here? -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC Unix consultancy programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trumphurst.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[OT] Linux is different (used to be Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?)
I'm pretty new to the Linux environment myself and I can understand you're growing pains. useful stuff One thing I did learn is if your session is hung you can type ALTF2-F6 to get to another login session. This way, you can shut your machine down properly. /useful stuff So, having drawn a blank, I went in and used XF86Setup to set up the S3 driver, but clicking the Done button hung my machine solid. Rebooting showed my filesystems to be partly trashed. Oh great! I'll restate my original complaint - Why is it so difficult to set up X? [ the following is the opinion of the sender] Being a programmer, I've learned languages, some more arcane than others. By coming to a different environment you should resign to the fact that you will be scanning newsgroups and mail-groups, combing through things for valuable information. I came here to learn. Learn the environment, how to best exploit it to my ends, and learn how things work. It's just the nature of the beast. If you don't want to learn this new environment, I'm sure you can stay with Windows and not be bothered learning how to configure X, apache and its Secure Socket Layer, write Python scripts, Perl scripts, shell scripts, etc. I ask you, how did you learn you're favorite application, if not hitting help files, books, and maybe even news groups. Now instead of an application, you're diving into an entirely different environment. If you want to learn be prepared to hit man pages, HOWTO links, and even e-mail groups to learn. I apologize for this off-topic rant. Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: (OT) Perl books
I'm pretty much where you are. It's those quick starts and stops that kill ya.Those books are good http://www.perl.org http://www.perlmonks.com are 2 sites that have some pretty good stuff. --- Jay Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope I don't get flamed for asking this on this list but here goes. I've decided that it's time I learned a little about programming and I've decided that, for various reasons, Perl would be a good place to start. But I'm confused on which book would be best for a total newbie. I've been leaning towards the oreilly books Learning Perl 3rd edition, and/or Programming Perl but thought I'd ask for opinons before making the purchase. Any suggestions? -- Jay Latham Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy! Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: xf86config failed. Need help!
--- Tim Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We baught the debian potato linux CD package, and installted it on a new IDE hard drive. There is error message came up during installing selected packages. The message is as below: Processing was halted because there were two many errors. E: Sub-Process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code(1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to comfime the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. Only the errors aboves this message are important. please fix them and run (install) again. Press [Enter] to continue. After press 'Enter', it will continue to setup something. Then asks if setup VGA16 X server as default. If press 'Yes', it asks 'do you want create xf86config file'. If my answer is 'Y', it will show: This may take a while Press [Enter] to continue... If I press [Enter], screen will be blak for a while, and the following messages are came up. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 The /etc/X11/XF86Config file was not created I'm pretty new at this, but I came across the same problem. I went into /usr/X11R6/bin and ran XF86Setup. Hope this helps __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: crontab running scripts
I'd verify to see if you put the paths to these external programs into the PATH variable it would work. you can type $export PATH = path to progs1:path to progs2:$PATH path to progs = the absolute path of the external programs you are calling. If there are more than one, like the above example, use colons to separate. If that works, then add these paths to your PATH variable at startup. If you are using the bash shell, I believe it's in .bashrc (could be .bash_profile, I'm not 100% sure and I'm at work). Whatever shell you are using, the startup files will be found in your Home directory. Anyway, look for the PATH definition and add to it. --- André Borman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 to run right. Foo is a script that calls external programs itself that need the mentioned options and arguments. It seems that when foo is executed, the external programs are not executed because they're not in the path. When I include the absolute paths in the script everything works fine, but that's not really satisfying. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
verbose installation issue
Hello, I was installing 2.2r0 bought from Cheap Bytes last week. I hit a problem with the installation (I'll submit that seperate) and went to re-install and decided to use verbose installation. From the beginning I received the following error modprobe: could not find module /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I got that more times than I could count. After the installation and I was logging in I was still getting it. If I did an 'ls -al' I'd get it. I went to /lib and found modules linking to an area /target (don't remember the rest) I also found modules.old with a 2.2.17 subdirectory. I renamed modules to modules.001 and modules.old to modules and things seem to be going along. Is that an acceptable solution? I intend to re-install, because I'm paranoid, but just wanted to know if I was reading this problem right. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
PCI Card *wishlist*
I was installing 2.2r0 and my PCI video card was not found. I'm staying away from X for right now, but wonder if the Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 is supported in r3 of Debian. If not xviddetect came back with the following line 10de002d|i386|Nvidia Coirporation|Riva TNT2 Model 64 If you could add it to the PCI wishlist, I'd appreciate it. Just as an aside, I was coming into GNU/Linux last December and decided that the best way to go was to get a machine that was ok'd by one of the GNU/Linux distributors, so I went with Red Hat. Their list of compatible systems were limited to Dell an IBM. There was no mention of Penguin Computers, and given the crap I had to go through to order a Linux machine from Dell, I'd have probably gone with them. The point here is that the video card that Red Hat suggested is not supported in generic GNU/Linux, it makes me suspect they are trying to steer any new users to being exclusivley Red Hat users. It almost makes me wonder if GNU/Linux is going the way of UNIX, with different flavors and no one agreeing on a standard. Just my opinion. Scott __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
