Developing flash on debian
Hi all I was wandering how easy is to develop flash on debian, are there any tools? official or not... I'm quite new to flash world, and old on java and c world, but I never had contact with flash beyond .swf before. Thanks for any advice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: networking stopped working on sarge
IMHO there could be something like this: 1. an upgrade failed. This should not happen in theory, but happend to me in practice: the thing was that I change lilo configuration, and when the kernel was upgraded and lilo, by some reason lilo did not run and I got an unsuable system (until managed to boot and run lilo). Now that I wrote this, shuold not be your case, since I couldn''t boot 2. A kernel module got corrupted, or a configuration file, which is the same here, make sure you have your net module loaded, then try to configure manyually (ifconfg eth0 10.1.2.2 up ie) that should give you an idea if the conf was messed or something more serious 3. Something similar to 1 happend to me with sound, but I used modconf, loaded the sound module and everything worked smooth again good luck - Original Message - From: Kevin Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:24:48 -0400 Subject: networking stopped working on sarge To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm probably missing something obvious here, but my sarge box suddenly became unable to access the internet (and vice versa) the other day. There were two unusal events that day, and unfortunately, many ill-advised experiments in mixing coffee and beer later, I don't remember the order of the events and the onset of my problems ;-) 1) I updated via synaptic -- however, nothing should have been updated, if I understand how synaptic works, because one package failed to install correctly (due to dependency problems introduced by a non-testing package). 2) Also on the same day, power was cut from the box (kicked power cable). The fsck made about a dozen repairs upon startup. Most of the time, I can't ping anything from the box, even by IP address, and I can't ping the box from the outside. When I ping from the box, it says Destination Host Unreachable. Bizarrely, there was a stretch for a few minutes at one point when networking was working. Anyway, I'm not sure what to look for. Here's what I've done so far: * I checked the cable, and that is OK. As a check, I unplugged a working cable from the back of another computer and plugged it into my sarge box, to no avail. * I rebooted the computer. * I did /sbin/ifconfig -a, which shows the machine's correct IP address under eth0 (I'm typing the following, so excuse any typos): eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr blah inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: blah UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets: 3507 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets: 2789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:801243 (782 KiB) TX bytes:262918 (256.7 KiB) Interrupt: 11 blah * I did /sbin/route, and it spits out: 192.168.0.0 *255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 immediately, but 30 or so seconds later (!?), it spits out: default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Is that delay unusual behavior? * I looked at /var/log/syslog, and while I don't understand very much that I see there, the only strange thing (to me) were a few messages about certain UDP packets that appear somewhat sporadically every once in a while, usually in bursts of one message every couple minutes. These message occur even while I can't get anything else to work, btw. * Top shows low CPU usage, 46M memory free. * df -k shows plenty of space. * I updated (via manual download on another machine, copy to CDROM, and dpkg) from kernel-image-2.6.3-1 to kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k, just for the hell of it. * I have an AMD K7 system with a Kingston KNE100TX NIC. I'm using a DLink DI-514 router, and other machines on that router are working fine. Sorry for the long message. What should I do next? Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange behaviour updating Sarge
Hi, I haven't used much dselect not aptitude, but AFAIK apt-get utpgrade is not the same as apt-get dist-upgrade, also, sometimes packages are put into hold, and you need to apt-get install them specifically to get the newest version. You can see all this form apt-get, I don't know how dselect handles this issues, but I thing they are to be considered. I hope it helps you a bit On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:14:54 -0300, UnKnown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya all, I move some machines to sarge to see how it does as production server, after a while updating apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, a use dselect to add some packages, then I notice that some package not within those i select to install or its dependencis where to be install or even remove. I did some aditional testin and the same happend in others machines. I allways thought that doing apt-get upgrade was exactly the same as apdating with dselect or aptitude, but it seams that those package managers take into consideration more things than apt-get does. Whats the correct method for keeping update a testing or unstable install, dselect/aptitude, apt-get or a mixture of the both. Just for the record apt-get upgrade works fine in stable ;) just in case, someone get mess up. Cheers, rak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webcam hardware recomendations
Does anyone know how of a list of compatible webcam hardware for debian/linux? I'd like to buy a cheap one, not a lot to choose from (I'm in argentina) and this makes such info more important... Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java problems in browsers with Sid
seems you have a java runtime, it does not mean you have the browser plugin installed. in the sun jdk theres a jre/plugin/i386/ directory where you can find the plugins that must go in .netscape/plugins (not sure about this, maybe .mozilla/plugins or similar) NOTE: I could not get the sun plugin to work, but I downloaded the blackdown jdk and the plugin worked great On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:12:20 -0700, Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The Mozilla and Konqueror browsers on my Debian Sid computer are unable to view a page that supposedly requires Java to view: http://www.nacs.uci.edu/ssh The browser window just shows up as a blank screen. In both browsers I have set enable Java globally. However, I'm not sure I have Java on the system. I've read the Debian Java HOWTO and it's still not clear to me how to get the java executable on my system. Here are my installed Java packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/zender# dpkg --list '*java*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++--- ii java-common 0.22 Base of all Java packages un java-compilernone (no description available) un java-virtual-mac none (no description available) ii netscape-java-47 4.77-2 Netscape Java support for version 4.77 ii vnc-java 3.3.3r2-5VNC java applet and command line program Am I missing some plugin required to load Java webpages? Thanks, Charlie -- Charlie Zender, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (949) 824-2987, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best iso image for unstable
Hi everyone I'm about to install unstable on a new machine, I have been running debian for long and I need now a nice cd image for installing unstable, which is the preferred way? are there any weekly images with packages for unstable (to save download time)? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Database
AFAIK both postgres and mysql have command line driven programs which are quite powerfull. have you tried them? On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:51:32 -0500, Bradley Pursley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a non-X windows dependent database management program? I need a program that is reliable and simple but still can import data and fairly easily edit data and data structures. Does not have to be graphical. Bradley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital camera corrupted images
Hi all I have debian unstable up-to-date and a kodak dx3500 I download images and they get corrupted, while I see them fine on the camera. moreover, I had an onld memory card with pictures (I previously downloaded) and when downloading them now they are corrupt (images haf gray, bad colors). Anyone has any idea of what can I do? I really need to take pictures of my 5 months old daughter :) Any help or tip will be greatly appreciated. please cc me since I'm not currently on the list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bad mouse problem in unstable
Hi, all I have a simple, weird problem: On a yet unidentified (by me) cause, the mouse cursor will be about 2 centimeters to the rigth where the actual click will be done. I have keeping mu system up to date in the hope that this was some sort of software bug, but I belive now that it's more a configuration/enviroment problem, any help, workarrond or similar experience please reply to my personal address as I'm not on the list now, thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
seting up debian on presario 1245 laptop
Hi all, anyone has installed debian on a compaq presario 1245 (or similar) laptop? Could you help me a little in setting up sound? I'm having a real hard time setting up sound wiht alsa and 2.4.19 kernel the chipset is supported, because I previously had suse and sound worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting sound to work
Hi all, I finally installed kernel 2.4.19 and alsa-source, alsa modules seem to be loaded ok, but I can get no sound, I use alsaplayer and it keeps printing null plugin active...no sound output can anyone give me a hint on how to make this work? thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.5.50 kernel compilation problem
Hi all I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've arrived to an error which I have no clue about. after compiling/intalling: request_module[ide-disk]: not ready kernel panic does anyone have any idea how to interpret this? is a driver missing? a disk driver? I'm sorry if to ambiguous but I'm quite lost. any help or info* would be appreciated. thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:01:26AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | Hi all | I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ | configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've arrived to an error | which I have no clue about. If you're not a C/kernel developer then don't try development I am a C developer, which is in fact what allowed me to solve syntactic compilation problems. My main problem now is semantic, not an unresolved symbol or some compiler error, but something dealing with configuration(?), or else. releases. The 2.5.x kernels aren't guaranteed to work or even compile. Use 2.4.20 instead. I want to use 2.5 becase it is faster and I want to try the incorporated alsa support. I do have the right to test the kernel without being a kernel developer, don't I? do I have the right to ask support to the list for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X problem
as the regular user who logged in xhost + for more info man xhost there are security issues with this. Bruce Park wrote: Hello Debian users, I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and X. Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su command to become root. Whenever I need to utilize X(xmms, emacs), I get an error stating the following: == Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by the server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0 Check the DISPLAT environment variable or use `-d' Also use the xhost program to verify that it is set to permit connections fro your machine == I'm thinking that I need to add the root user to the Xlib somehow. Unfortunately, I'm a newbie when it comes to linux so bp _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux 2.4 freezeing with palm m515 hotsync ?
Hi all! I got a palm m515 and when i try to hotsync the machine seemes to freeze (no ping answered, kerboard ligths not responding). I was able to hotsync before with my 2.4 kernel (unstable) and last pilot-link version, but now that the palm is loaded with a bunch of programs hotsync dies on different points (as well as the hole OS!). Does anyone know something about this? Am I missing something important? If anyone could point me to any docs, or tell me how did s/he solved the problem (or similar) I'd be really thankful. Thanks in advance! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recompiling kernel with just one change?
without erasing the /usr/src/linux, just cd there and make menuconfig (or whichever you prefer) the config loaded will be the one you last choosed, so adding a module should be seconds of typing and minutes of compiling after config, make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg... (usual) hope it helps Alex Polite wrote: When I need to recompile my kernel I usually erase my /usr/src/linux, get a fresh version copy in my old .config and start working. Compiling the kernel only takes 10 minutes, so it's no big deal. But still... I'd rather just recompile the stuff that needs it. Sometimes It's just a matter of adding a single module. I'm sure there some smart way of doing this, preferably using kernel-package. alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sooyo 7vca
anyone has this mainboard? can anyone help me configuring (onboard) sound on this ? I'm using unstable and 2.4 thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sooyo 7vca
anyone has this mainboard? can anyone help me configuring (onboard) sound on this ? I'm using unstable and 2.4 thanks! (reposted due to date mess) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound on motherboard soyo 7vca
Hi, Any one got sound on woody with this board? there are some binaries only for RH6.2, but I couldn't get it to work on woody, any help/advice will be highly appreciated.
Re: machine version and platform?
uname ? On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:26:38PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Is there a command that will show my machine, kernel and (possibly) debian version? I recall using such a command but cannot, much to my embarassment, remember it! Thanks for any help. Rory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody: segfaulting all over the place
it happend to me once, it was memory, you can donwload a boot disk with a mem tester (memtest86, as mentioned before) and see what it says On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: hello friends, i recently did a fresh install of potato and immediately dist-upgraded to woody.. now, after playing around with it for a few days and installing the stuff i wanted i have this strange windows like problem: after i've been working on the computer (or after it has just been sitting around idle, even) some program might or might not give me a segfault and from then on i can't do anything anymore.. well, almost, at least, some apps might or might not work, i can't log on and when i get so far as to give the halt command init often says: switching to runlevel 0, sending the term signal, sending the kill signal, no more processes left in this runlevel and then nothing happens.. or i get Id [number] respawning too fast, disabled for five minutes.. gosh, i have absolutely no idea what this is all about, i upgraded to kernel 2.4.8-586 but iirc the strange behaviour started before that.. i installed a 3com 905c tx m recently (it has nothing to do so far, no network as of yet) but it happens even when i delete the driver and the card is not seen by the system.. what i don't understand is why is almost any app segfaulting on me? i'm trying hard to get rid of windows and now my gnu/linux crashes in the same haphazard manner as the redmond shit.. is this all about init, is something perhaps hosed there? i would be really grateful for any help so that we could at least file a bug.. right now this would be against woody as a whole, i fear.. :-/ here's the hardware config: pII 350 on an intel board (440bx chipset) nVidia riva 128 graphics (btw: x4 doesn't work in 800x600 anymore on that one), es1371 soundchip (all on board) wd ac26400b harddrive, teac 532ea cdrom as mentioned above 3com 905c nic all crappy stuff, i know, but it works and as a student i don't have the dough to get a new box every two years.. though it's well about time.. :-( again, thanks for any help offered, i'm at a total loss here.. frank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mutt quickies
Hi people I've set up fetchmail and procmail to do what I want, I'd like to know two things now: 1) How do I tell mutt to not go to /var/spool/mail/me and to start opening ~/Mail/mbox 2) How can I change from one mbx to another? Thanks in advance!
Re: mutt quickies
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:35:32AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:19:12PM -0300, Miguel Griffa scribbled... 1) How do I tell mutt to not go to /var/spool/mail/me and to start opening ~/Mail/mbox in your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc ...my choice) add the line: set spoolfile=~/Mail/mbox 2) How can I change from one mbx to another? hit c, then type the name. There are special aliases for inbox, mbox (saved), and record (sent box): !, , and respectively. Thanks in advance! Thanks, I have now mail pretty much working as I wanted!
Re: Suspicious behavior: cracked or just a dying machine?
did u try memtest? I had really wierd behaviour and memory was _totally_ broken... I still wonder how the hell it managed to boot... replacing memory did the magic At 11:49 a.m. 15/08/01 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: Folks- I just logged in (from work) to my home machine to copy a file I needed. It's behaving very weirdly, and I'd love some advice as to whether you think I've been cracked or it's likely just a hardware issue. I'd strongly prefer not to shutdown remotely, but will do so rather than waiting until I get home tonight if y'all think that's what's appropriate. The machine is a (rather old) Pentium 200, 92MB RAM, with lots of stuff plugged in(nVidia graphics, Adaptec SCSI running a CD-ROM and a Zip drive, and four IDE hard drives of various sizes). It's running deiban 2.2r3, kernel 2.2.19pre17 with all current patches. Here's what's happening: 1.) There's nobody doing anything on the machine, and yet I get the following load averages: 11:43am up 6 days, 22:06, 6 users, load average: 1.42, 1.50, 1.31 2.) top segfaults: nujoma:~ top Segmentation fault 3.) man doesn't work: nujoma:~ man ps /usr/bin/man: Input/output error. 4.) scp fails: nujoma:~ scp paychecks.sdc geingob: scp: error in loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied 5.) Can't write my / filesystem (/home): nujoma:~ touch foo touch: foo: Read-only file system However, mount shows it as rw: nujoma:~ mount /dev/hdb3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hdd1 on /src2 type vfat (rw,umask=) /dev/hdd3 on /share type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /rosa type vfat (rw,umask=) /dev/hdc1 on /theodor type vfat (rw,umask=) /dev/hda3 on /karl type ntfs (rw,umask=) AFS on /afs type afs (rw) //jacobi/cousins on /mnt/cousins type smbfs (0) 6.) shutdown -r also segfaulted, so I can't reboot remotely. I don't see anything suspicious in the logs, with the exception of the following that I seem to get at least once a day: Aug 14 17:38:43 nujoma /sbin/rpc.statd[257]: gethostbyname error for ^XF7FF BF^XF7FFBF^YF7FFBF^YF7FFBF^ZF7FFBF^ZF7FFBF^[F7 FFBF^[F7FFBF%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 \220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 Aug 14 17:38:43 nujoma C7^F/binC7F^D/shA0C0\210F^G\211v^L\215V^P\215N^L\21 1F3B0^KCD\200B0^ACD\200E8\177FF Thanks for any advice. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dosemu
it's a MS-DOS emulator you use it by wirting dos (or dosemu, long time I don't use it) At 10:40 p.m. 10/08/01 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you use 'dosemu' and what is it ? Thsnks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might hand it an untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute it . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/info
Can I remove all files in this dir safely? will it be rebuilt wit apt-get ? I seems that I have several corruted (fs problems) there... Thanks in advance
Re: Debian.
Hi, I don't speak portugueses (spanish yes) I think you are looking for cdimage.debian.org At 04:58 p.m. 08/08/01 -0300, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: Olá, sou usuário da Conectiva e gostaria de esperimentar o Debian, vocês poderiam me informar onde pego uma imagem ISO do cd do Debian de ultima versão estável??? Procurei no FTP mas não encontrei. Abraços Gilberto Villani Brito
problem upgrading packages
Hi all, When I try to upgrade or install (my woody box) I get files list file for package `tcl8.2' is missing final newline I tried deleting the file manually, also apt-get clean but the error seems to be on the .deb downloaded anyone has any idea of how to a. fix the problem b. upgrade/install all packages excepe this ? Thanks in advance!
Re: problem upgrading packages
At 11:28 a.m. 07/08/01 -0700, Yvonne Kelly wrote: I've seen that before -- I've had /etc/fstab complain about it. These files expect the last character to be a carriage return -- the final newline. If you can edit the offending file, then simply opening it up, paging to the end, hitting enter once and then saving, should do the trick. (Yay, a question I have a clue about! :) ) Y.Kelly how can I edit a file inside a .deb? -Original Message- From:Miguel Griffa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:14:56 -0300 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem upgrading packages Hi all, When I try to upgrade or install (my woody box) I get files list file for package `tcl8.2' is missing final newline I tried deleting the file manually, also apt-get clean but the error seems to be on the .deb downloaded anyone has any idea of how to a. fix the problem b. upgrade/install all packages excepe this ? Thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto.
Re: restarting a service
At 02:39 p.m. 07/08/01 -0400, Bob Koss wrote: In Redhat, I would: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart to restart a service. How do I do that with Debian? /etc/init.d/samba restart Robert S. Koss, Ph.D. | Training and Mentoring Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design Object Mentor, Inc. | C++, Java www.objectmentor.com| Extreme Programming -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cable Modem on Linux
At 08:15 a.m. 06/08/01 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: What if I choose to just connect my machines to a hub hooked up to the cable modem? How would I configure them to access the internet then? What you probably want is to do masquerading, read the masquerading howto, ipchaing how to and so on, you'll need 2 adapters on the machine that is hooked to the interrnet AFAIK. It's quite easy, You may try rusty's 3 line guide to ipchains (in ipchains howto)
Re: How to detect scans
Thanks for all data! At 08:51 a.m. 02/08/01 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Miguel Griffa wrote: Hi, Could anyone point me to info on how to detect scans on a machine? BTW, it's potato. Thanks in advance! Have a look at snort. Greetz, Sebastiaan
Re: hi..reg woody iso selection
AFAIK with CD1 you have most you need, you may want to include CD2, I burned 3 images for potato, and I *never* used CD3... so the first to (or 3 for woody) will probably be enough At 03:16 p.m. 02/08/01 +0100, java guru wrote: Hi., I have searched the user listing..still have the question... I see 6(or 7) woody iso images..do i need all of them..I dont need source packages... My primary aim is to have debian with gui running for home desktop.. Thanks = Thanks and have great day srini Do You Yahoo!? For regular News updates go to http://in.news.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
soyo 7vca sound driver
Hi, anyone knows which module for this?
How to detect scans
Hi, Could anyone point me to info on how to detect scans on a machine? BTW, it's potato. Thanks in advance!
Re: Who's using a program
ps aux for programs? At 07:30 a.m. 30/07/01 -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, I seem to recall reading (somewhere in my wanderings) of a utility that would tell me who is currently accessing a file/program. Does anyone know of any such beast? Thanks -- -bob Remember the... the... uhh. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *MS 0847 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Albuquerque NM 87185-0847 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (505) 844-9297 * ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo does not work!
Hi from the manual: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. could it be possible that you miss a step in compile/install kern? At 10:00 p.m. 30/07/01 +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: hi guys i tried to install a 2.2.19 kernel inseead of a 2.2.17. after booting it sayed LI LI LI etc. i dont know, somehow i must have killed my lilo or at least parts of it. do you know how to fix it? can it be that i am using a wrong scsi driver in the new kernel? i am booting now with 3.5 disk the 2.2.17 kernel which takes hours. thank you for helping. markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using convert to batch convert
At 01:30 p.m. 30/07/01 -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page doesn't make it clear how to do this, and I'm stumped as to how to generate a new name for each input file name. The command I would expect to work: convert -sample 50% * only converts the last file in the directory, and converts it twice (!) to a filename with '.0' and '.0.0' appended. Any way I can use convert in some kind of batch mode? I don't know about convert but if this works convert -samle 50% original.ext new_file.ext you can easilyu do that with bash for i in `ls *`; do convert -sample 50% $i `echo $i |sed -es/.*/new_/`; done bash rocks :)
Re: install dpkg without dpkg
At 10:23 a.m. 27/07/01 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote: Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, I agree. but if you really want to the ar command (which is built into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get your hands on dpkg...deb, unpack it, and manually move files into their proper locations. You may also need to do the same for some lib...deb files in order to get dpkg working. Do we have to move everything manually? dpkg -i has following option -R | --root=dir | --admindir=dir | --instdir=dir to enable chroot install. Not that I used this. Was anyone succesful using this? I am curious if there is any how-to for this kind of disastor recovery. :-) That's a good idea... Or the
install dpkg without dpkg
Hi, I posted a similar msg few days ago, and having no response, I reformule :) My woody system got severrr FS damage, and lots of binaries are broken (including apt, dpkg...) how can I install dpkg and apt ? also, how can I reinstall all installed packages? Thanks in advance
Re: install dpkg without dpkg
mmm... in your opinion would it be better to tar data and cfg and reinstall? I'm somewhat afraid of cfg... but it's good to consider that it may be easier that. thanks At 06:49 p.m. 26/07/01 +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:48, Miguel Griffa wrote: Hi, I posted a similar msg few days ago, and having no response, I reformule :) My woody system got severrr FS damage, and lots of binaries are broken (including apt, dpkg...) how can I install dpkg and apt ? also, how can I reinstall all installed packages? Just some thoughts, not really concrete, but probably it helps: Try to get some statically linked versions of dpkg, usually installation cd's have some (- Read the install file). Perhaps you can build static versions yourshelf. Extract it on another (working) installation (dpkg -x ..), and just copy the executables to the damaged one. It is possible that a clean reinstall (after backing up configuraion files) is much less work, then reinstalling everything on this broken system. Daniel _ Daniel Faller Fakultaet fuer Physik Abt. Honerkamp Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Tel.: 0761-203-5875 Fax.: 0761-203-5967 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~fallerd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody became unusable - how to recover
At 11:21 a.m. 26/07/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I'm having a serious problem with my woody installation at home. The system freezed, and when I rebooted, fsck reported problems. I booted with rescue, fscked and now I have a very weird and unstable system: symptoms: I boots, ok, I login in X (kde2) but almost all programs cause segmentation faults, and programs may or may not work on an unknown (to me at least) pattern. ie: I su, dpkg --get-selections - segmentation fault (yesterday) but today it was ok. There were some kernel messages on a free page (sorry don't have it here). Fortunatly, I have all data on separate partitions and also CDs. but I don't want to reinstall because: 1) it's winnie stuff, and 2) recovering configuration takes some time NOTE: apt-get, dpkg, and dselect are badly broken (almost). Maybe I should reinstall them... how? The question: Is there any way I could reinstall programs without reconfiguration? From your system backups. You have system backups, right? not system but data and some cfg (X, specially)... I'm thinking that I'll better reinstall...
woody became unusable - how to recover
Hi all, I'm having a serious problem with my woody installation at home. The system freezed, and when I rebooted, fsck reported problems. I booted with rescue, fscked and now I have a very weird and unstable system: symptoms: I boots, ok, I login in X (kde2) but almost all programs cause segmentation faults, and programs may or may not work on an unknown (to me at least) pattern. ie: I su, dpkg --get-selections - segmentation fault (yesterday) but today it was ok. There were some kernel messages on a free page (sorry don't have it here). Fortunatly, I have all data on separate partitions and also CDs. but I don't want to reinstall because: 1) it's winnie stuff, and 2) recovering configuration takes some time NOTE: apt-get, dpkg, and dselect are badly broken (almost). Maybe I should reinstall them... how? The question: Is there any way I could reinstall programs without reconfiguration? Isn't there something like apt-get reinstall-binaries (would be cool) Well questions are not quite specific, I'd like to get any advice on how to recover the system without reinstalling...
Re: Debian Firewall
I have a potato r3 doing that job some of the tasks you mention, it's a poor 586 with 32MB ram, only 500MB of HD What I did was install base system I did't check any grout in simple mode (tasksel) and then, I installed what I needed (apache, ssh, so on) Just my experience At 10:11 a.m. 24/07/01 -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: I want to setup a firewall for my home LAN. I will have 5 - 10 PC's behind it. It will be running on a PPro 233 w/ 80mb RAM, and 2 Intel 100mb NIC's. I want a lot of features. I want a lot of features: Security, Security, Security SSH Daemon NAT (Masq) Port Forwarding Graphical (web based ?) Network Analysis PPPoE support VPN support Convenient Method of Configuration (Web based, GUI based ?) I would also like it to be fairly upgradable. I love APT-GET, and would love to have the core of this firewall be Debian so that I can do my updates with this method. I also would like to experiment with the CISH (Cisco simulated) shell provided by the Linux Router Project. What is the best apporach to creating this Firewall. Should I start with my own basic install of Debian and build from there ? Is there a floppy or CD based image worth trying that is based on Debian ? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with X setup
At 01:42 p.m. 24/07/01 -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: Have got potato installed my system, but typing startx starts tvm. Which file do I edit to have startx start gnome using sawmill? Thanks in advance for any help. try editing ~/.xsession
Re: Another Question regaring X setup
At 02:32 p.m. 24/07/01 -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give me the complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much sense to me at this point. ~ is a sort of alias of the username of the current user try cd ~ the same AFAIK as $HOME If you userid is peter ~ will point to peter's home dir (defined in /etc/passwd) and probably /home/peter cheers Again Thank You for your help Alex
Re: install debian up redhat 6.2 ...
At 09:42 a.m. 17/07/01 -0500, Saul Fabian wrote: Hi! I have a problem, ¿How I can format my hard disk ? I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but I can´t install debian. When I boot the debian installation disk, my system gives my this message: loading linux ... can anibody help my??? I guess you won't be willing to do this unless you: 1) have your home partition separated 2) have backups from all your important data now boot from your debian cd, press alt+F2 (to get a different console) and play there with fdisk and mkfs (be sure to do this before beeing asked in which partition to install debian) hope it helps
Re: 2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6
At 04:08 p.m. 17/07/01 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I sent an email out yesterday about setting up 2 monitors on my Matrox Millennium G400 card. The response I received seems to assume that I'm running X 4.x. I'm not, I'm using Potato and don't want to dabble with woody if I don't have to. Can someone give me a lead or hint on what I need to do with a X 3.3.6 system to setup dual monitor support? AFAIK it can be done on X3.3, butis far easier in X4. for what I've heard, try installing X4 (no need to upgrade to woody for that, there are sources.list for potato). Not much but might help.
Re: No funciona...
At 06:45 p.m. 15/07/01 +0200, Juan Pablo García Esquerdo wrote: Primero felicidades por la calidad de la informacion de vuestra Web. Comunico con vosotros, ya que tengo Corel Linux desde hace mas o menos un año y hasta ahora el unico problema que he tenido ha sido que no conseguia Driver para el Scaner y la Camara Digital (USB) cosa que no me importaba mucho, pues usaba Windows para sacarlos.(Si me podeis dar una direccion donde buscarlos ¡¡¡GRACIAS!!!). Mi verdadero problema es que hace poco instale una tarjeta grafica PCI (antigua a falta de un Slot AGP), con el fin de usar un monitor secundario. Cual fue mi sorpresa cuando, arranque Linux y la pantaña empezo a parpadear usando los drivers de la tarjeta grafica PCI (S3 Trio2x) con la tarjeta que tenia antes (Voodoo3), e intentado ajustar los driver, pero, nada. Solo he conseguido cargar Linux cuando en la BIOS puse PCI, como tarjeta grafica primaria. Pense en dejarlo asi, pero Windows no iniciaba la Voodoo como monitor secundario, a si que he estado cambiando la BIOS segun el S.O. (Un rollazo) ¿Es posible usar dos o mas monitores bajo Linux? Si es asi ¿Como?, en caso negativo ¿Como puedo ajustar la configuracion y que no cambie al detectar la S3? Si se pueden usar dos monitores en linux, aunque no tuve experiencia en la configuracion, recuerdo haber visto algunos articulos de configuracion, verifique www.google.com/linux para 2 monitores, linux cinerama (un prgrama relacionado). Finalmente, como esta es una lista en ingles, obtendria mas ayuda probablemente escribiendo en ese idima. saludos
Re: Newbie
search the list archives, as someone posted url for unofficial woody and sid images, which you might be intrested on At 10:47 a.m. 13/07/01 -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: Ok..I just moved into a new house and my DSL wont get hooked up for another week. I have a 28.8 dialup account, but that isnt much for getting most packages. I went ahead and burned the 3 ISO's for Debian 2.2r3 (Potato). I want to run UNSTABLE though. Where can I d/l all the UNSTABLE packages to a CD for use with APT-GET ? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More SID CD Image questions.
At 02:56 p.m. 13/07/01 -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote: OK.. I am d/l all of the SID CD's from ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ . Would it be possible to mount those images without burning them to CD. If so, how would I do that ? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount -o loop -t iso9660 iso_images.iso /mnt
Re: ssh strangeness
At 01:57 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the network (PPC) I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I get the same error when I try on a different PPC Deb box as well. I CAN log into the PPC Deb box from the redhat server and I also CAN log into my Debian box from the server. Could this be a problem with reverse name lookups? We're using M$ as our DHCP and primary DNS and it works about as well as you'd expect it to work (read: it sucks). Any hints, tips, pointers, or other wisdom would be greatly appreciated. I had that problem when a ssh server was down. Did you try telneting to see if ssh answers? Can you access that server form other machine(via ssh)? I don't think it's a DNS problem, but if you can add the hostname to /etc/hosts, It will get faster (at the beginning).
Re: ssh strangeness
At 08:38 p.m. 12/07/01 +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: At 13:57 Uhr -0400 12.7.2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: Could this be a problem with reverse name lookups? We're using M$ as our DHCP and primary DNS and it works about as well as you'd expect it to work (read: it sucks). Yes, it's probably exactly that. We experienced the same problem when trying to log into our debian box from a machine which didn't have a reverse DNS entry. (There must be a configuration option to sshd - we didn't need to solve it so I can't tell.) I used to ssh from woody to potato witout reverse dns, it was a bit slow on the beginning, but it ended up working... maybe is has something to do with the (somewhat obscure to me) ALL: PARANOID in hosts.deny...
Re: ssh strangeness
At 02:51 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Miguel Griffa wrote: At 01:57 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the network (PPC) I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I get the same error when I try on a different PPC Deb box as well. I CAN log into the PPC Deb box from the redhat server and I also CAN log into my Debian box from the server. Could this be a problem with reverse name lookups? We're using M$ as our DHCP and primary DNS and it works about as well as you'd expect it to work (read: it sucks). Any hints, tips, pointers, or other wisdom would be greatly appreciated. I had that problem when a ssh server was down. Did you try telneting to see if ssh answers? Can you access that server form other machine(via ssh)? I don't think it's a DNS problem, but if you can add the hostname to /etc/hosts, It will get faster (at the beginning). Ah, telnet fails as well. Very interesting. Here's what I get when I try to telnet to that box: go check the logs on debian boxes, pretty nice info is there. Usually, if connections are refused for security reasons, you'll see that on the logs, a bit of grep sshd... please, post any entry you might find intresting/related
Re: SSH AND IPTABLES
At 03:03 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, dude wrote: Very simply what should i read and what would it look like to enable ssh on my firewall so that it accepts ssh connections (only) from the outside? apt-get install and run sshd one possibility is to edit hosts.deny to something like sshd: ALL EXCEPT .internal-domain (notice the starting dot) check the man page for multiple sintaxes (and also to see if this is correct, I'm kinnda newbie to these files: hosts.allow hosts.deny)
Re: SSH AND IPTABLES
At 03:03 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, dude wrote: Very simply what should i read and what would it look like to enable ssh on my firewall so that it accepts ssh connections (only) from the outside? I just checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 uncomment this line and put there the outter address of your box. but if that machine acts as gw, you should also deny sshing from that machine to itself, in hosts.deny it would be sshd: 1.2.3.4 It probably has other ways, but I don't know...
Re: ssh strangeness
At 02:50 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Perhaps the versions of ssh are incompatible. Post the output of ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq I CAN log into the PPC Deb box from the redhat server and I also CAN log into my Debian box from the server. How can you log in if you can't ssh into it? Telnet? phisical access?
Re: new to debian have questions
At 02:20 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Jeremy Gaddis wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:23:31AM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: That said, I tend to be highly suspicious of anyone that posts email to this list with a MS mail client. It's one thing for a newbie that's having installation trouble with Debian, but it likely shows ignorance for a so-called experienced Linux user. You would be hard-pressed to find another person on this list that thought MS mail products are superior to Unix ones. Why would you be suspicious? I happen to like Outlook, and Because this is a debian-user list, and if you're using Outlook, you're obviously not using debian. Just one point: I've been using linux for some years... I write may university works on latex I read my mail on mutt I write my webpages on vi I have 4 networked debian boxes at home, and a notebook (debian too) I have written a couple of programs/docs under the GPL I happen to be in two projects at work, now one on windows, and another on AIX, I can only access internet form win, an thus, I write from Eudora (I happen to hate O/OE), How right would be to consider me suspicius for writing from win? I used to think that, before I had to install windows here... for the most part I think it's a good product. If you don't like it, don't use it. Why does it show ignorance for a so- called experienced Linux user? Because I like it? Because I think it's a better client than [mutt|Pine|other MUA here]? If you consider someone ignorant because of the mail client they use, you jump to conclusions way too quick. No, I thought you were ignorant because of your comments about dselect, apt, and dpkg. In my world, Outlook doesn't automatically make you ignorant, just suspicious. If I were a newbie posting to the list with Outlook/OE, spitting HTML messages everywhere, with screwed up line breaks, etc. etc. I might understand why I was flamed for using Outlook. I *do*, however, take the time to configure my mail clients to avoid such crap. That's good. I only flamed you because you because your comments were misinformed, and I hate to see misinformation spread by someone who isn't even using Debian. Joost is one of the most knowledgable people on this list, and you basically said he was wrong. I thought that was pretty ignorant, and not surprising from someone who used MS products. With your reply, you just proved my point nicely. I'm not sure how I said he was wrong. I try not to be like some people and be so quick to judge others, especially when it's WRT something as stupid as what mail client one prefers. Well, he said dselect was an essential tool for package management, and you replied that dselect didn't do anything apt and dpkg couldn't do. FWIW, Joost does seem rather knowledgeable, AFAICT from his list posts anyways. What if he decided to switch mail clients? Would you suddenly flame him in the same way and call him ignorant also? Only if he started saying stupid stuff too. I really don't care what email clients people use. I've even posted to this list using MSOE. The only different was I hated doing it. All I ask is that you don't try to sound like you know what you're talking about (but don't) if you're using MS Windows and Outlook. It's like RMS writing about the evils of closed-source software from a Windows machine. It's just weird. Ok, let's let this thread die now... -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh strangeness
At 03:20 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, D-Man wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:57:48PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: | Hi All, | I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our | server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the | network (PPC) I get the following message: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq | ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host | | I get the same error when I try on a different PPC Deb box as well. I got this problem when I upgraded one of my boxes to woody -- the potato box and the win boxes (with putty) couldn't connect. I also couldn't ssh to localhost! I then started looking at how to generate keys, since with debug messages turned on it seemed that the new sshd wanted a key somewhere. After using ssh-keygen to create RSA and DSA and ssh1 keys in my home directory everything seems cool. I didn't even need to copy the keys over to the client boxes. (Now I need to do some research, but for now it works is good enough) you can append your ~/.ssh/identity.pub to your ssh server dir ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (check the filename in man) and you don't need to nasty type the password :) really cool if you use it a lot, also with scp | I CAN log into the PPC Deb box from the redhat server and I also CAN log | into my Debian box from the server. I didn't have a RH box to try with, but none of the boxes I have could ssh into my woody box for a while (see above). -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non packaged software (newbie question)
These tools are packed for debian, I used them and they work just great check these packages prc-tools pilrc pose These give you all you need to compile and run a palm program, check also pilot-template which creates a skeleton for a pilot app, You can also check http://debian.dynip.com/Palm/, I have there a couple of palm programs which I developed on my woody box. At 08:21 p.m. 10/07/01 -0700, Norbert Froese wrote: I recently installed Debian and now have to install some software not available as a .deb package. (Specifically, PalmOS SDK 3.5 and PRC tools 2.0) Is there anything I need to know (other than to install it in /usr/local ) when I install/build non-packaged software onto Debian? Thanks Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop
At 12:27 p.m. 11/07/01 +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: Hi, I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). On the laptop I installed the X-server - that means - I am able to move the mouse-cursor on the screen only (no menues, no window). On the server I installed the whole X-stuff (KDE, applications). In textmode I am able to ping and telnet the server. While you can use it this way, I'd recomend you to use a small window manager (blackbox is really fast and good), and start remote apps from a ssh terminal, or a telnet. Detailed: open an xterm (or whatever flavor you like) xhost + (this is easy, but INSECURE, check xhost docs, can also be xhost +otherbox) ssh -X otherbox (or telnet otherbox) then you should be ready to run apps on the other macchine try xterm (the '' detachs the process from the console, try without it to see what happens), the xterm should open on your other machine and display on your laptop if you have any problem try (after telnet or ssh) export DISPLAY=laptop:0.0 BTW: Is there any chance for a lowmem.bin for Debian 2.2? You can use top, ps to see what process are running, I'd advice you to recompile the kernel with minimum needed, and take out any process/daemon you don't really need, By that I got a debian web server with a 586 120Mhz, wich is idle most of the time, and only uses 500MB of disk space have fun Thanks in advance for any help and greetings from Vienna Dieter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C routine that compares debian package versions
At 04:14 p.m. 11/07/01 +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: Hello debian users, I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the version numbers. Do the follow some kind of scheme? For instance, package ssh ssh 1:1.2.3-9.3 If I had the version string saved somewhere, and an other one like 1:1.2.3-9.4, how can I compare them, is there a function that can do this? mmm... wouldn't just strcmp work? TIA Alex -- Alex Suzuki_. :: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¦ :: WWW:http://www.cynox.ch ¦ :: Linux shop: http://www.cynox.ch/isoshop/ ¦ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: winmodem
At 02:55 p.m. 11/07/01 -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi all. I have a driver for my LT winmodem running on 2.2.12-20 kernel. Now, I had compiled 2.4.5 kernel, and when I try to load the driver, it tells unresolved symbols, and a message saying was compiled for 2.2.12-20 kernel. Is there a way to load the driver without the kernel check moudule version? Should I compile the kernel again? Do you know where can I found the sources for the ltmodem.o driver? at your own risk, insmod -f The modem is LT ITU 56K v90 on a Compaq Presario 1275. BTW, where did you get the driver? I have a presario 1245...
Re: debian vs suse
At 10:59 p.m. 07/07/01 -0400, Peter Kok wrote: Hi all What is the different between debian and suse? How are the security and stable? Hi, I was a SuSE user before Debian. This is my opinion: * SuSE has some really nice and easy admin tools (yast) for the newbie. There is a point, however, where you know what this tools do and you find easier to just edit the right textfile. * Both have lots of packages available, wich I find great. However, as for suse 7.0, upgrading is quite dfferent in debian and suse: one thig is apt-get update apt-get upgrade and quite another is getting the RPMs and upgrading them in the right order, or getting the CDs and staring an install/upgrade... * Debian is somewhat more extensible, adding sources to sources.list for some specific software is really easy and keeps you systems updated quite niceley (specially important for security issues). IMHO, Debian is the distro you want when you pass the first contact with Linux.
Re: debian vs suse
At 05:28 a.m. 07/07/01 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: What is the different between debian and suse? Debian is better!!! You are asking this to debian ML :-) Seriously, except for packaging system and few minor style differences, both are quite similar system (SYS-V init). Major difference is that debian is free volunteer efforts while suse is commercial distribution. How are the security and stable? System is as secure as its admin's skill and efforts. If you ask how easy to update to the latest security patched program, I can say that debian delivers security updates quite fast and updating system with them in debian is very easy even for active daemon programs. Judging from suse's RPM packaging, suse may not be as easy to upgrade active daemons like Redhat. (I do not know.) I can tell you that Debian has steep learning curve but it is worth it. oops, and you can download debian isos but not suse, suse has only that trial iso image I never liked that.
Re: [OT] Extraction of info from PDF file
At 10:00 a.m. 10/07/01 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and occasionally print them, using xpdf, but now I need to cut and paste a piece of text and a couple of pictures from as PDF file. Even with Adobe Acrobat (the real program, not the reader), I can only Select All and then copy it to the clipboard. This is on Windows, of course. You'd have to delete a lot if you're original PDF was a large file and you only needed a small portion of it... Can you do anything similar with xpdf ?? I've heard there was a patch for xpdf that allowed sellecting and copying. I've seen something on the list some weeks ago, (or maybe debian-devel) try searching xpdf and patch
Re: How to make a .deb...
check dh_make and dh_* They make it quite easy to make packages At 09:13 a.m. 06/07/01 -0400, Chapman, Matt wrote: .deb
anyone know HP Vectra modem?
Hi, I'm configuring a potato system on an HP Vectra, I need to configure dialup access (which I never did on debian since I got cable modem :). Could anyone tellme if the modem in this machine is not a winmodem and what tools shall I use for configuring? Thanks in advance!
RE: networking windows and linux
At 02:29 p.m. 06/07/01 -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Wow, Windows isn't a stable server!? Damn, I bet that's news to the millions of people and corporations worldwide who've been running it for years. ;) It's not news, just ask if they reboot servers every week or every morning... j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joost Kooij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:35 PM To: Dan Cox Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: networking windows and linux On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:44:53PM -0700, Dan Cox wrote: I'm currently trying to network a windows box and a debian box. I'm using ethernet cards and am able to ping both boxes respectfully. I use the windows box for the internet and mail (although once I am comfortable with Linux I will be converting fully).My question is how do I share the files from the windows box with the Linux box? And while I'm at it Don't do that. Windows is not a stable server. It will hurt when you do it. how do I share the Linux files with the windows box (I really don't care about that right now, but for future reference maybe)? Thanks. Install samba. There is a lot of good samba documentation available, try starting there first. Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel
At 08:15 a.m. 05/07/01 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: ...I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is not found. I had the same problem on a dual boot machine, The bios thinks there's 300M, but there are only 190M specifying mem=190M is OK BTW windows belives he has 300M... so IMHO it's definitly a mother/bios problem (at boot it also says 300M) Maybe a stupid question, but does your motherboard/BIOS recognize the new memory *first* ?? I've never really seen a good explanation of why the kernel is not always able to find all the RAM, or under what circumstances it happens. Around kernel 2.0.36, a major change was made in the software that detects actual memory. On some, if not many systems, this eliminated the need to pass the mem option to the kernel.
Help with ipchains please
Hi, I've seached the net and read the howto but I still don't get to realize what I need to do for something as simple as ip/port redirection. Here'e goes I want to accept any incoming connection on 1.2.3.4:81 and redirect it to (internal server) 192.168.1.20:80 could any one tell me what parameters should I send to ipchains (better with little explanation). The involved machine is potato. Thanks in advance!
Re: Help with ipchains please
At 12:14 p.m. 05/07/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:06:25PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: Hi, I've seached the net and read the howto but I still don't get to realize what I need to do for something as simple as ip/port redirection. Here'e goes I want to accept any incoming connection on 1.2.3.4:81 and redirect it to (internal server) 192.168.1.20:80 could any one tell me what parameters should I send to ipchains (better with little explanation). The involved machine is potato. ipchains doesn't do this, ipmasqadm does. Here is an example: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 1.2.3.4 80 -R 192.168.1.20 80 Make sure you have port forwarding enabled in your kernel. Thanks! I remember now ... It's very difficult to find a black cat in a completely dark room, but it is impossible if it is not there... kindda similar... Thanks again, I'll try it right now
Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation
You may also try vmware, run it in window mode and screenshot that window also there's plex86, but I haven't tried it yet and is not (the last time I saw it) as easy as vmware, but hell it's free software. At 01:36 p.m. 03/07/01 -0400, D-Man wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:48:18AM +0800, Lamer wrote: | I'm going to give a free course to the members of a local linux user group, | and would like to ask if it's possible to get some installation screenshots | or notes for them. My suggestion is to get some spare hardware and do an installation :-). The only way, that I know of, to get screen shots of an installation is with a digital camera -- after all you don't (necessarily) have a filesystem, clipboard, graphics programs, etc yet ;-). Alternatively you could do an installation and take pictures with your digital camera before the presentation and just show them as slides. -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP!!!
There was a problem with a broken pam that got into sid check the archives of the list, (1 or 2 weeks ago) with some luck, that's your problem and soutions are everywhere on past messages At 12:39 p.m. 30/06/01 +0200, vester wrote: hi everyone -- i fear i did something stupid. i wanted to try and see how good linux games actually work, so i downloaded the unreal tournament installer from loki, copied the cds to my windows hard disk (because i didn't have support for joliet extension in linux) and well...installed, which seemed to work fine. i then tried to start, but got some error messages because of missing paths, which didn't look very serious really. but then i restarted...on boot up, there were a lot of errors found on the hard disk and thus, the root system was mounted read-only and i was prompted to run fsck manually. i did that and answered yes to the questions (i realise now that i maybe shouldn't have done that) and it seemed as if everything had been fixed, for on the next reboot everything worked fine...all my scripts were executed and i ended up in gdm and wanted to log in...but that didn't work. i switched over to the console and tried to log in from there. no way. login incorrect is what i get for all my user accounts and for the root account too! i am desperate...i need to get back into my system! on the one hand i put weeks and weeks into configuring and customizing everything and on the other hand all my important data are in there...please, please help me...the loki support people have not answered me yet and i am on the verge of panicking. oh yes, my system is debian woody (with a few things from sid) with kernel 2.4.5...i don't know what else to say. :-( thanks all! -vester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows manager list in KDM
At 01:00 p.m. 02/07/01 -0500, techlists wrote: I just had the problem on 2 computers. I recently did a fresh install of Debian 2.2 r2 on my Desktop and my Laptop. I installed most packages,xfree86, gnome, etc From the cd it installs XDM, and makes Window maker my default. No biggy, because untill I started using KDE, window maker was my choice. So then I connected to the net, set Debian in my sources list, then did an apt-get update apt-get upgrade. After that, comes my first question, Since the default install use XDM, and I now have gnome and Window Maker, Where do I set which one starts as default? on a per user basis you can start the WM you like in .xsession but I think that this depends on the DM you use, not sure. I know it's little info but it's a start...
Re: Unidentified subject!
At 12:52 p.m. 02/07/01 -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote:
how can i set ftp mode to passive in order to download
some files from a website?
i use this command:
wget
http://216.219.229.225/download/debian-2.2r3-1.iso
It tells me to wait for an answer, but then it tells
me that i cannot download it 'cause the host doesn't
found a local ip ('cause i got a mask ip).
AFAIK you don't need to set passive because of masq,
but anyway, I downloaded the isos with lftp, which is extremly reliable for
these tasks...
also, that link doesn't currently work
I issued lftp -e get http://216.219.229.225/download/debian-2.2r3-1.iso;
and I got an html page...
Re: OT vim/uptime
At 12:23 p.m. 28/06/01 -0500, will trillich wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking to ENCODE OR DECODE SOME ROT-13 TEXT? No problem. Vg'f rnfl jvgu Ivz. It's a simple alphabet substitution where each letter changes to its counterpart 13 places away in the alphabet (a-n, g-t, etc) . Open the text in Vim, then select it (type v at one end of the text to encode/decode, then move to the other end) and then type g?. Or, to rot-13 a whole line, just g??. That's all! (Try :help g? for more info.) Cool, I learn something new about vim every day ... Drifting rapidly sideways onto the topic of things learnt today, one of my workmates pointed out readline's (and hence bash's) Ctrl-O keystroke, the default binding for operate-and-get-next. Try typing a sequence of commands, going back in your history to the start of the sequence, and then hitting Ctrl-O several times. cool, a key-typo CTRL-P prints the last command... what wonderfull world...
Re: Unix administrator
At 07:47 a.m. 29/06/01 -0500, Chris Parker wrote: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? mmm... this is just a guess, maybe be able to repeat by hard any line of any given file of the linux kernel source... Is athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? There are lots of documentation. You can start by reading all man pages Also what would be a good route to take for a beginner programming? Start with c, then c++, perl ,python, then lisp, then java, smalltalk, rubi, php IMHO this is a nice route
Fwd: Re: security
The funny thing is that in another mail, he clarifies the situation: Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. I'd have tried to hack my school computers, when I was there, if it wasn't because there were no computers at all... If you really want help with this project send a mail signed with a good trusted key that proves that you are who you say you are and really do work for this Uni. Otherwise I hope everyone on this list is smart enough to ignore you. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:44:05AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote: I have a question for the security guru's that hopefully I will get an answer for. The problem is that I have been given an assignment from my college's mis head to check their net security from my linux box. Where is a good prog for this? They want to see how easy it is to enter their net. Could someone showe me the way to info on this or give a list of progs for this? They are running a NT server and Novell. Sorry if I'm using this list for hw but this is the first place i thought of. Thanks in advance to any that reply.! STUDENT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- BOFH excuse #379: We've picked COBOL as the language of choice. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PLJeuAZxyjXbFnkRAmC7AJ9oxqByDL8IUmvt3N9T99mFETBElACeOP3V ny9/g2WOKCHOQmMUdjDjx0E= =Vium -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Routing Problem
At 12:49 a.m. 28/06/01 -0700, Debian GNU wrote: Hi all, My machine running potato has rtl8139 network card. I have configured it as eth0 and eth0:0 with two ip addresses. I am able to ping to machines in two ip ranges and working fine. Now I have added one more alias as eth0:0 with ip address 192.168.1.10 in /etc/network/interfaces. When I am pinging to the machines in this network (and even to this ip) I am getting operation not permitted error. What could be the reason. I have tried adding route manually. My kernel is 2.2.19pre17. AFAIK operation not permitted looks more like a permission problem that a route problem, route problems often end up in network unreachable did you try ping as root?
Changing the keboard layout for X
hi Could anyone help me on changing the kb layout for X, I always used us because I know it by hard and it's ok for some programming keys ; `... but now I installed debian on my girlfriends computer, and I need to have the kb on the proper spanish cfg. Any hint welcome, thanks
Re: ???
At 12:12 p.m. 27/06/01 -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote: Hi everybody!!! I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i do that? First check if it is compatible, then find which kernel module you need for it, then modprobe you_kernel_module and you got it. You _may_ need to recompile kernel in order have your module good luck
Re: [probably offtopic] xdm port listening
At 01:14 p.m. 14/06/01 -0500, will trillich wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:14:53PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: I've noticed a disturbing behavior in the version of xdm distributed in the x strike force's 4.1.0 prerelease series where xdm seems to listen on random ports in the 3-6 range. I'm not quite sure about this as I don't know exactly how to look up which program is using which port, though the listening behavior seems to be solely dependant on xdm running. If it makes any difference, I discovered this while running an 'nmap -p 1- localhost' out of sheer boredom and so far as I can tell all of the 'nolisten' options are set correctly in xdm's config files. you can also try netstat -l
Creating a custom floppy/cd debian system
Hi
I'm looking for some hints on how to do this:
I need ('d like, actually) to prepare a custom kernel, on a floppy, to boot
a minimal linux system with only one compiled program (not bash, but it
doesn't matter, I guess), I could use a cdrom, if I need lots of things,
the question is: how many things (and how, if possible) do I have to set to
do this?
maybe starting with boot floopies images (for install).. I'm noot quite sure,
and how could i mount / -o ro definitly (if it was on the cdrom).
Thanks in advance
Re: SiS6326
At 07:20 p.m. 06/06/01 +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: Hello All I have the above card which fails to get started. Storm does not have it on the web site as supported progeny debian also said that they have had problems with all SiS cards but will get it sorted on the next release Does not mean it does not work I have been trying 2.2r2 to get past this text mode which xf86config will not work any ideas any body my monitor I have all the vert and hoz figures. That card has been a real nigthmare to me. I finished by confiugring it manually. If you are intrested, I can send you the xf86config file from home. I could successfully use it with less memory than it has.
