Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration
Maybe dia will be to your liking. It's quite similar to Visio, if you're familiar with that. There are both Debian and Ximian packages for it: Package: dia Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 10836 Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 0.88.1-ximian.2 Depends: libart2 (= 1.2.0), libc6 (= 2.1.2), libgdk-pixbuf2 (= 0.9.0), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.0), libpng2, libpopt0, libxml1, libz1, xlib6g (= 3.3.6-4) Description: A GTK+ based diagram editor andcharting tool Dia is used to draw diagrams, graphs, charts, and so forth. This is an early version, but the program is fully usable. In this version there is support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), Entity-Relationship diagrams and Network diagrams. Diagrams can be exported to postscript. Noel
Re: superformat?
On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own format, ala CDROMS with iso9660? ZIP drives are treated as hard drives: /dev/hd[a-d]4, if you have the IDE version. Most (all?) ZIP disks come preformatted for PC (vfat) or Mac (HPFS?). You're perfectly free, of course, to reformat the disk as ext2. Noel -- Immanuel V. Yap [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is the fate of Department of Plant Breeding and Biometry | operating systems Cornell University | to become free. |- Neal Stephenson
Re: Using AucTeX with XEmacs 21
On Apr 28, 2000, Joseph Martin wrote: Hello All, I have xemacs21.1.9 installed. I cannot install AucTex as it conflicts with xemacs21. The description with the auctex says that auctex is included with xemacs. When I open LaTeX files the buffer is in LaTeX mode and the file is appropriately colorized. However I cannot use commands that the auctex info pages (in /usr/share/xemacs21/site-packagtes/info/auctex) says I should be able to use. For instance C-c,C-c is supposed to automatically generate a dvi file from the current file. Instead I get C-C,C-C undefined. Also when I look for commands to enter manually (using A-x 'command') I don't see any of the commands that the auctex info pages says should be there. Is this a bug? Do I not have something set up correctly? Put this in your .emacs: (require 'tex-site) This is documented in /usr/share/doc/xemacs21/README.Debian. Noel
Re: graphic login does not allow choice of wm
On Thu Sep 9, 1999, John wrote: Have installed 2.1 from Official CDs: this took 2hrs as program continually spent long periods searching sectors and 'resetting atapi' and made it difficult to recall what options I selected. After completion XF86Setup was run successfully and startx fvwm95 worked fine. Now on booting, a graphic login screen is presented and leads immediately to what I believe is olvm. I am unable to switch to any other window manager. I believe I must have agreed this default setting. To set the default for the entire system, edit /etc/X11/window-managers and put your desired window manager at the top of the list. Individual users can create their ~/.xsession like so: #!/bin/sh # Execute desired programs at X11 startup. You generally # want to run these in the background with `'. xterm # Execute the window manager of choice. This should be the last # item and should *not* be run in the background (i.e., with `'). exec wmaker Am new to Debian (a little knowledge of another distribution). Can anyone explain how to change settings so I can choose which wm to use after login (I shall eventually opt for KDE or Gnome). You probably have xdm installed. If you want to choose at the login screen what window manager to use, try wdm. Also, the menu package will allow you to choose your window manager from within your X session, as well as creating menus for launching most of the major programs. Noel
Re: A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?
On Fri Sep 10, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow
the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I
noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs
under the source. Is this no longer necessary, or is it a grievous mistake
on the writer's part?
I've never had to do this and I've never had any problems.
Noel
Re: Samba and /etc/passwd
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to change his password? Not necessarily. You don't have to use the same password for login and for samba. (Indeed, one could argue that this is a Good Thing.) Noel
Re: Samba and /etc/passwd
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. Noel
RE: bash color
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 16-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: This is what I have in my .bash_profile in order to get colors: export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' eval `dircolors` The last line is apparently superfluous, so I removed it. It's useful if you want to change the colors from the default, though you'd probably want to use something like eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors` (assuming that's where your custom colors are kept). Noel
Re: Terminal errors
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional. What does 'echo $TERM' say? Noel
Re: Terminal errors
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Immanuel Yap wrote: On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional. What does 'echo $TERM' say? Thump! Thump! Thump! sound of user banging head against desk :) Now why didn't I check that?? Thanks Noel. You asked the right question, the $TERM variable was blank. I ran an env command and compared it to my hamm disk. All the other variables looked ok. I then added TERM=linux and export TERM to my root .profile to see if that fixed it. It did. However I'm sure that that's not the correct place for TERM to be set. So! I've been checking files on my hamm disk in an attempt to find the correct spot. so far I've looked at /etc/inittab, .profile, .bashrc and any file I could find that said getty, login or init. No luck yet. You wouldn't by any chance have another hint in you, would you? :) Sorry, I don't have a clue. I've never had this particular problem of $TERM not being set at all. I always thought it was hardwired when you log into the console. A quick check of 'man login' yields: On some installations, the environmental variable $TERM will be initialize to the terminal type on your tty line, as specified in /etc/ttytype. but '/etc/ttytype' doesn't exist on my system. Noel
Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?
On Wed Jul 21, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:47:02- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not mind something that could: 1. Gives color coding 2. Be good for perl AND html AND cgi AND javascript (I doubt I'll get all 4) 3. Let me save to a web server. 4. The only time I save stuff locally is for graphics, which I upload via ftp. Is there something that will do most of this? the color coding would be nice. vim, with some hacking. Xemacs, too ;) Noel
Re: Refusing to deliver mail
On Fri Jun 18, 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me clarify: My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible (with sendmail or something else) to make b's message bouce back complaining about the unavailability of a ? This is really a user-level filtering issue rather than a system-level one. Procmail should do the trick. I wish I could be more specific, but I use exim's builtin filtering mechanism. Noel
Re: grep \ ... how
On Fri Jun 11, 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? Put the expression in single quotes? Noel
Re: screen 'savers'
On Thu Jun 10, 1999, Judith E Bush wrote: I'm looking for what might be blanking out the screen on several linux systems. On all three systems, power management in the bios is set to 'always on.' All three systems have dramatically different monitors. I'm running metrox's Xwindows and have not selected any of the screen saver/power down options, but the screen blanking occurs even when X isn't running? You mean the monitor blanks on the text console? Try setterm. Noel
Re: pack/compress?
On Mon Jun 7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they still are mildly useful. am i blatantly wrong and there's actually some package containing them, or should i just write my own copies? Look for the ncompress package. It is in non-free due to certain alleged patent restrictions. Noel
Re: rvplayer working?
On Fri Apr 30, 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work? I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't come with the .class files for the plugin; so I had to get those from the .tgz archive). But the only thing it will play is the default in rvplayer's location bar: pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm. Everything else - EG: the welcome.rm that comes with it wont play, clips from cnn, trailers from movie sites, clips from realguide etc either give the General Error #1, or Error #19? - Unable to connect to server. :(. Errors of the first kind are accompanied by: audio: write error: 706 bytes errno: 0 type messages at the command prompt. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?! Use the Debian rvplayer installer: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/net/rvplayer.html Noel
Re: is postgresql free?
On Fri Mar 5, 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: can I have unlimited clients conected to postgresql with no licese payment. Yes. See http://www.postgresql.org for more info. Noel
Re: Removal of idle telnet connections?
On Thu Feb 25, 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how might I disable it? If he's using tcsh, the 'autologout' shell variable controls this. I think you can 'unset autologout' to disable this. Noel
Re: /home/ftp directory question
On Wed Feb 24, 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically changes the root directory to /home/ftp. There should be a list somewhere in the docs as to what files you need there. Pay special attention to the permissions on those directories and files. Also, I've noticed that updates to the wu-ftpd package occasionally re-copy the appropriate programs and libraries, so that the correct versions are available for anonymous ftp use under /home/ftp/. I installed Proftpd not wu-ftpd and those subdirectories are absent. Someone told me that is normal for a Debian install. I suppose it won't be a problem unless I want to have anonymous ftp logins. Proftpd is totally self-contained. You don't need special bin/ or lib/ subdirectories, even for anonymous ftp. Noel
Re: Crashing Install with Debian 2.0
On Fri Feb 19, 1999, Tallon wrote: Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a Genoa 3d Phantom Video Card and a SMC Ethernet card 1211TX. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c65f752c current--- tss.cr3 = 03eb2000, %cr3 = 03eb2000 [Kernel oops snipped] Does it fail consistently in the same place? If the crash appears to be random, I would guess that you have bad hardware. Noel
Re: VM problem
On Wed Feb 10, 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote: I have a problem with the VM mail reader that has been annoying me for a LONG time. I use an exim filter to put e.g. the debian-user mail in a ~/mail/debian folder. Then when I open this folder, there will usually be new mail coming into the folder while I read it. That makes it impossible to save the folder after I've finished reading since it's changed on disk. Can this be solved, perhaps by telling exim to keep the mail on the queue if the folder is open (lockfiles or something)? You need to tell exim to filter into a separate SPOOL file, then get VM to read from the SPOOL. This URL: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~smikes/emacs/vm-procmail.html explains the process for procmail, but is applicable for exim, too. Noel
Re: TK installation
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, ktb wrote: I've never attempted anything like this before so I really have no clue. What I'm trying to do is ultimately install the aol instant messenger program for unix. To do this I have to install Tcl/Tk. I don't know what they are for but I followed the directions and installed Tcl just fine, I think. I didn't see any errors and when I type in tclsh at the prompt I get a different prompt % and I can type in commands, so I assume that is Tcl. Anyway I then tried installing Tk. I did this first: ~/tk8.0.4/unix$ ./configure -enable-gcc-shared [SNIP] Rather than compiling your own, why don't you just install the Debian packages tcl8.0 and tk8.0. They're in the libs section. Noel
Re: debian-user trailer line: incomprehensible to those who need it
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: So, shall we take this opportunity to reopen the discussion about the debian-user trailer line? The evidence just keeps indicating that the existing one is useless to those who could benefit from it and ignored by everyone else. Thomas P. Egloff wrote: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I agree. If you know enough to translate that cryptic statement, you would certainly know enough not to send the unsubscribe message to the list. Noel
Re: emacs xemacs
On Wed Dec 9, 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: Kent West wrote: Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could Uh, isn't console-based graphical anything an oxymoron? How could your ever expect to see graphics on a text-only display? (Unless the graphics are ASCII-art or some such thing.) ksb One word: SVGAlib Noel
Re: Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions
On Tue Nov 3, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not complete on my system. SunOS uses $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Is it the same in Linux? What else am I going to find that needs setting up? Is there an easy way to do it all? Try running ldconfig as root. Noel
Strange Netscape font problem, '=?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(')
appear as question marks(?). This problem as been around since bo and
since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly. When I look at the
source it shows question marks as well. The funny thing is that some
of the apostrophes so up fine while other don't. Has anyone else seen
this? What should I look for? My fonts are set as Helvetica(Adobe) for
variable width and Courier(Adobe) for fixed width. I have tried other
fonts including True Type ones and it doesn't help.
I believe this is caused by a broken editor, e.g. Microsoft Word with
`Smart Quotes' enabled, that produces non-standard HTML. IOW, there's
really nothing you can do to fix this short of writing to the author
and asking them to fix their code.
Noel
Re: Y2K Compliant?
Here's a link to Debian's Y2K statement: http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Noel
Re: vnc x-windows server looking for xauth
David Karlin wrote: Hello, I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up vncserver, it says: vncserver: couldn't find xauth on your PATH. First I checked my hard-drive for xauth (find / -name xauth); the file does not exist on my drive. Then I checked in packages.gz (from hamm), and couldn't find it there either. From what I've gathered, it's a file which controls who has access to the vncserver, but that's about all I know. Can anyone help figure out how to set this up? Do you have X11 installed? ascus:~ $ dpkg -S xauth xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.gz Noel
Re: help getting started with postgreSQL
Shaleh wrote: Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users because foo# createuser Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user root is not in pg_shadow createuser: database access failed. foo# The docs are not helping. What is the necessary steps to getting a database up so I can learn SQL. postgres doesn't allow `root' to manipulate the database, as that could be a breach of security. Create a user `postgres' who will be database administrator and run createuser from there. Noel -- Immanuel V. Yap e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Curator, RiceBlastDB[EMAIL PROTECTED] Plant Breeding Dept.office: (607) 255-3103 Cornell Universityhome: (607) 257-3463 320 Bradfield Hall Ithaca NY 14853
Re: Unidentified subject!
Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm man cp Install the man-db package. Noel
Re: running X windows
Bostjan JERKO wrote: I still have problem running X windows (Xfree86) on Debian 2.0 as ordinary user. It works fine if I log on as root. I use it on stand alone machine without network card and xdm is not running. The messages I get are : _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ... Socket CreateListener() Failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: Server already running Fatal server error: Canno't establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running. Are you sure an X server isn't already running? What does `ps aux' say? Noel
Re: Kernel compiling error
Ken Archer wrote: Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition. as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s make [1]: as86: Command not found make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make [1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.1.122/arch/i386/boot Seems everything went ok till it tried to make the zImage in the boot directory. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it on Debian 2.0? Install bin86. bin86 - 16-bit assembler and loader This is the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans. It's a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries). kernel-source-2.0.35 - Linux kernel source. This package provides the source code for the Linux kernel, as well as the scripts that maintain the symbolic link /usr/src/linux). You may configure the kernel to your setup by typing make config and following instructions, but you could get ncursesX.X-dev and tk4X-dev and try make menuconfig for a jazzier, and easier to use interface. Also, on intel platforms, you may wish to get bin86 (if you wish to compile the kernel sources, that is.) Also, please read /usr/doc/kernel-source-V/README.headers.gz. kernel-package - Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. This package provides the capability to create a debian kernel-image package by just running make-kpkg kernel_image in a kernel source directory tree. It can also build the kernel source package as a debian file, the kernel headers package. In general, this package is very useful if you need to create a custom kernel, if, for example, the default kernel does not support some of your hardware, or you wish a leaner, meaner kernel. If you are running on an intel x86 platform, and you wish to compile a custom kernel (why else are you considering this package?), then you may need the package bin86 as well. (This is not required on other platforms). Noel
Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area
Default Debian Reader wrote: I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports... CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd, 17160K buff Swap: 130748K av, 1416K used, 129332K free 24180K cached it seems it is only using 64M or my physical memory? Anyone know the problem? IIRC, this is a BIOS problem; it can only report a maximum of 64 MB of memory. To get your kernel to recognize all your memory you need to put: append=mem=128M in your /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo, and reboot. Note that your system can get seriously fscked if you don't actually have 128M. Read lilo(8) and lilo.conf(5) before trying anything. There's also some stuff in /usr/doc/lilo/*. The BootPrompt-HOWTO also has a few things to say on this. Noel
Re: xterm menu problem
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the smaller font size.) ok, I double checked. The problem is related to the user' .Xresource. There is a line that create the problem: XTerm*geometry: 80x40 You are setting the geometry resource for *all* the xterm widgets, including the menu. You should say: XTerm*VT100.geometry: 80x40 The man xterm command says: geometry (class Geometry) Specifies the preferred size and position of the VT102 window. so what can be wrong? If you go back (way back), the man page actually says: The following resources are specified as part of the vt100 widget (class VT100): by way of introduction to a very long list of resources, including `geometry'. It's very easy to miss. Noel
Re: Modules
Kenneth Scharf wrote: |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules. |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I |manually |give: | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 |I get the message that the ne modules has been |successfully loaded. |Now I want to ne.o module to be loaded at boot. |How/what/where? I know that if you list the modules to be loaded in the file /etc/modules (with arguments) they will be loaded at boot time. (You dont have to list 8290.o, loading the ne.o module will load the 8290.o because it depends on the former, assuming you run depmod -a first, which the kernel init scripts do). What I would like to know, is how to create the /etc/module file after building a new kernel, I think it has to be done by hand (yuck!). I believe modconf is the command you're looking for. Noel
Re: Auc Tex not working
Johann Spies wrote: After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working. I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my .emacs - file: (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq TeX-parse-self t) (setq-default TeX-master nil) I have re-installed auctex but without success. Does anybody knows where I can look for a solution? You need to add (require 'tex-site) to your .emacs file. Noel
Re: Font Servers
Mike Nachlinger wrote: Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on a Debian 2.0 system? xfs is included in the xbase package. Noel
Re: format a floppy ?
Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: Hello, as i upgraded from bo to hamm (and on other machine I installed directly hamm), I miss the fdformat command... where's that gone ? fdformat is obsolete; use superformat. Noel
