Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:39:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 May 1999 19:18:48 +0200 Peter Granroth wrote: How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a normal user? If you put the following in root's .bashrc (assuming you use bash), you can start X programs when su root in a users X session: if [ $USER != root ] ; then export XAUTHORITY=`eval echo ~$USER/.Xauthority` fi Just curious...I can do su root from a user's X session, but I have nothing like that in root's .bashrc, nor in /etc/profile. (I do use bash.) Is this happening through some other mechanism, or am I missing a file? This has nothing to with the ability to su to root from a users X session, but to be able to start X clients as root /from/ the su root shell. Without the above in root's .bashrc (or some other equivalent solution), you will not be able to do that. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://soke.dhs.org + --
Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:32:55PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a normal user? If you put the following in root's .bashrc (assuming you use bash), you can start X programs when su root in a users X session: if [ $USER != root ] ; then export XAUTHORITY=`eval echo ~$USER/.Xauthority` fi -- -- + Peter Granroth + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://soke.dhs.org + --
Re: X woes (potato)
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:47AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: After yesterdays X update to 3.3.2.3a-9 my system wanted to run xdm (I previously didn't use xdm). However, whenever I would log in, it would immediately return to the login screen. I decided to remove xdm, but now when I try to run X using startx, I get the gray screen and cursor (the window manager icewm-gnome, but it does this with any window manager doesn't get started) then X stops running and I see: waiting for X server to shut down I had the same problem. I solved it by renaming ~/.xsession to ~/.xinitrc and ~/.Xresources to ~/.Xdefaults (or rather made symlinks) and then it worked just fine. (somewhat unrelated: I noticed that the new fvwm2 package has it's modules in a new location, /usr/X11R6/lib/fvwm2/fvwm/2.1.10/ rather than /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/ which did break my custom config (easy fix though)) -- -- + Peter Granroth + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://193.10.242.45 + --
Re: removing/updating a stuck package
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 12:54:32PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ben Messinger wrote: While using apt-get to update my packages (144mb worth) I lost my ppp connection. I re-connected and resumed the update, but the package that was being downloaded when the connection was lost got corrupted (all other packages upgraded properly). This package (ftape) is now stuck part installed/part uninstalled/part updated. #snip Any idea how to correct this? I am not able to install/remove any packages at this time due to this situation. Please advise. Thanks in advance. I'm not where I can check it right now, but I believe dpkg (not dselect) has an option to force a removal. You might check the man pages for dpkg. dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq packagename -- -- + Peter Granroth + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://granroth.ml.org + --
Re: Problem compiling the kernel
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 08:06:56PM +, Allens wrote: Hi, I am at the moment trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) I have configured it (make xconfig, then ran make mrproper as advised by a post in the mail archives on this problem, and then done make zImage, and it comes up with this error after a long time: You should not do 'make mrproper' _after_ 'make xconfig' since it removes .config (among other stuff). do 'make mrproper' first, _then_ 'make xconfig', 'make dep', 'make clean', 'make zImage' (and 'make modules modules_install if you have any modules). -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 04:32:13PM -0500, Tun Yang wrote: [snip] the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error... ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory I suspect I'm missing some X development package? Are there any others? hmm I had the same error when compiling xanim, and it suggested the following fix (it worked when compiling xanim): === Problem: You are using Imake and XFree and the compiler can't find the X11 include files and you have installed the X11 include files. Solution: The Imake setup with XFree has recently been broken. The fix is to edit the file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/X11.tmpl and change the following line from: INCDIR = $(INCROOT) /* header files */ to be: INCDIR = $(INCROOT)/X11 /* header files */ === HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Howto: Printing Howtos?
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 03:01:01AM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Hi all, does someone know a practicable way to print out the HOWTOs? I think I have to study some of them more deeply and don't want to read them on the screen bit would like to have them on paper. But neither the html nor the text versions seems to be ready for printing out :( There are postscript vrsions of the HOWTO's available at: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ps/ the mini-HOWTO's don't seem to come in postscript format though. -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Ifconfig
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:31:09PM -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote:
I have a question about ifconfig.
I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local
network.
I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76
I type:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76
[snip]
How do I get it to stay at 192.168.76.76?
Check the file /etc/init.d/network. It is run at boot and configures
the networking parameters. On my box (with a NE200 NIC) it looks
like:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=193.10.242.45
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=193.10.242.0
BROADCAST=193.10.242.255
GATEWAY=193.10.242.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
So, open the file and change the IP adress there and reboot (or run
the script) and the IP adress should now be set up correctly.
HTH
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Re: [Debian] max. swap size?
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 I added the append=mem=128M line to lilo.conf so the system realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 on SUN and SGI I created a swappartition of 256MB and did mkswap and... got only 130MB. Why can't I use 256MB of swap? 1. Do you really need that much swap space? I have 48M RAM + 50 M swap and I never run out of memory (If I don't run extremely many apps at the same time), and if I occassionally need more memory, I set up a temporary swap file (It's a bit slower than a swap partition, but since I almost never need one, I can live with it) 2. If you feel that you really need that much swap, You need to set up at least two swap partitions since Linux has a limit of 128M per swap partition with a maximum of eight swap partitions. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:53:01PM +1000, Robert King wrote: Hello, Anyone had success with this installation? You need to have the following packages installed in order to run matlab 5.2 (from main/binary-i386/oldlibs): xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb xlib6_3.3.2.3-2.deb libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb libc5_5.4.38-1.1.deb I run matlab 5.2 with the slink versions of these packages, and it works perfectly. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: slink breaks
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:25:13AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I removed xlib6 and re-installed it, but when dselect tries to install it, this error is given: ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale does not exist Please report this bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone does this? I suspect that this what is causing my error with netscape. Are the X packages still basically broken? I had the same problem a couple of days ago, and IIRC I solved it the following way: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 (/usr/lib/X11 is a symlink to this directory) rm -rf locale rm -rf locale.xlib6-old (if it exists) reinstall xlib6g reinstall xlib6 (gave a couple of error msgs but installed) cd to /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/ and do 'rm -rf locale' (this directory was empty on my box). Then do (in the same directory): ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale locale This procedure got things working on my box again (most notably Netscape and Matlab started to work OK again) HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Mozilla segfaults
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I'm using E0.15. I've just installed mozilla (I have netscape intalled...), and it segfaults. No error, no nothing. Just a segfault. An strace produces tons of output, but the last few lines before the segfault aren't anything helpful. Any ideas? Don't run mozilla. It's very alpha and as such may or may not run, and it is far from ready for final release. Stick to Navigator / Communicator 4.5 until Mozilla is ready. If you want to try out mozilla anyway, you might have more luck fetching a binary from: http://mozilla.asimov.net/ -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: GIMP plugins
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I want some plugins :). a) are any debian packages? b) if not, where will the gimp debian package look for them? just get the plugin (e.g from the plugin registry at gimp.org) then 'man gimptool': == quote == DESCRIPTION gimptool is a tool that can, among other things, build plug-ins or scripts and install them if they are dis tributed in one source file. = end quote === c) having installed a plugin, how do I use it (i.e. invoke the plugin) If it's a filter for example, it should show up in the menu when you start gimp after installing the plugin since it scans the plugin directories at startup, so there usually is nothing you need to do manually, expect installing the plugin in the right place (that is what the gimptool is for) HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: xfstt + xset
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai ps aux | grep xfstt root 227 7.4 1.3 1332 520 ? S12:53 0:50 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai xset fp+ unix:/7101 xset: bad font path element (#38), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Any ideas? try xset fp+ unix/:7101 (see the difference?) -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Stopping apache at boot
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I stop apache from starting at bootup? I have installed it for learning purposes (another item to put in my CV :) but I don't need it running all the time. Somehow I have a feeling the answer is going to be very simple... should be as easy as removing the apache symlink from the /etc/rc[2-5].d directories (it's S91apache on my box). then when you want to run apache, just do: /etc/init.d/apache start or /etc/init.d/apache stop to start and stop it. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: icewm backgrounds
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and not tile? xv -root -quit -rmode 5 -black backgroundcolour imagefile (the defult backgroundcolour is black) -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: staroffice .. libXpm.so.4 missing
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 12:08:08PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I downloaded staroffice from their ftp site. I tried to install it (put the files into /usr/local/staroffice and got the message 'can't load library libXpm.so.4' I looked in the oldlibs section of the cd but there is no such package. What package provides libXpm.so.4 or where can I find it? Has anyone installed staroffice, and if so how did you do it? it's in the xpm4.7 package (in main/binary-i386/oldlibs) -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 02:17:40PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage. I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters to turn ps and dvi files into the printers native languge (PCL I think ) It essentially involves the same lines as in the ljet4l filter of magicfilter but put in a script file which is being executed every time printing is required. It worked for me I can send the scripts if you want but it has to be early next week as I am away from my computer. Let m eknow if you want them george I have a HP6L and it works perfectly well with magicfilter (ljet4 filter). My printcap looks like: (set up with magifilterconfig) lp|lp|lp|HP Laserjet 6L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: The versions I have is: magicfilter: 1.2-25 ghostscript: 4.03-3 gs-fonts: 5.10a-1 lprng: 3.5.2-1 -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: what is the recommended way to downgrade?
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 02:00:15PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: What is the correct way to downgrade a package? I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to downgrade xbase because, after installing Version: 3.3.2.3a-4, I don't seem to have xset anymore.) xset seems to be in the xbase-clients package now: granis:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/xset xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: a couple of mutt questions
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 11:15:36PM +1300, Andrew wrote: Q3. If I delete a whole bunch of messages and then find that somewhere within that block there is one I need, I don't seem to have any option except to undelete from the top to the one I need, then go back up and delete the rest. Can I change this? just enter the message number and enter. this will take you to that message and you can then undelete it. -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Netscape install
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:48:28PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, I have grabbed the libc6 verion of netscape, and installed the following packages: netscape-base-4 5 netscape-base-4 4.07-1 I have no netscape binary - only netscape-remote, which fails with not running on display :0.0, when clearly it is (or so env says) Which package do I need to just be able to run netscape??? I think you need navigator-smotif-407, netscape-java-407, navigator-nethelp-407 and communicator-spellchk-407 for a complete install, although I think that you only need to install the first of the packages I mentioned above (or communicator-smotif-407 if you want the complete comunicator suite, not just the navigator) to get a basic install, but I'm not 100% sure, I use 4.5 now. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Can I turn off portmap?
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:51:50AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I don't think I nee the portmap daemon (I'm the only user) but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off in debian (there is in redhat). Or am I missing something? killall portmap If you want to permanently turn it off, just comment the lines in /etc/init.d/portmap that has to do with the portmap daemon. This is at least what I did, and it seems to work fine. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: .../movemail registered but not installed
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 07:34:48PM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: What does the following message mean and what can I do against it? --- Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:51:27 +0200 From: root (Anacron) To: root File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed --- I replaced emacs19 with emacs20 a few days ago which is also when these messages started. I guess emacs19 somehow wasn't removed properly. But where is movemail registered and how can I unregister it? I had this problem too. I seems that when you uninstall a version of emacs, it leaves a line in /etc/suid.conf that looks like: emacs /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail root mail 2755 just remove or comment out that line and you should stop getting the message. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Oracle8 for Linux
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:09:29AM +0100, Nuno Carvalho shared with us the following words of wisdom: Hi, I already had downloaded Oracle8(145Mb) and I don't know how to start it ! ;( It already has binary files but are so many and it seems to need for a installation. Unfortunally, I still not found any file to do that! :(( Can someone help me ? read the installation manual. You'll find it at: http://www.oracle.com/download/Linux/oracle8/html/instguide/server.805/a66251/toc.htm I havent tried out oracle myself yet (not enough space on my cramped hd) so I can't give you more detailed tips HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: printer setup for hp laserjet 6L
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 06:43:51PM -0500, Mrpeabody shared with us the following words of wisdom: I just got a hp laserjet 6L and I'm trying to set it up I got it to print by doing a cat /dev/lp0 ,but the printing is sloppy, how do I further configure my printer? I got gostscript from debian is there anything else I can get to make setup easier. -jeff My printing system consists of a HP LJ6L, ghostscript 4.03, lprng, and magcfilter. I used magicfilterconfig to set up /etc/printcap to look like: lp|lp|lp|HP Laserjet 6L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: and this setup works very well. If you need to change the printers settings (economode, toner density etc), there are no tools to do it directly in linux afaik, but you can use the PJL Configuration Wizard at http://www.hp.com/cpso-support/generic/pcl/pjlwiz.html In the resulting code you get there, you must change the [Esc]'s to the escape character, which you can produce in e.g emacs with C-q C-[ or in vi with C-v C-[. then you can cat the code to the printer device (cat printer_control_code_file /dev/lp0). HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Help
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:51:37AM +0200, Wilson Tuma shared with us the
following words of wisdom:
Hi
Which command do I need to to make my system recognized my
1. the ip address
2. Default Gateway
3. broadcast address
and how do I go about doing that.
these are set in /etc/init.d/network which on my box looks like:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=193.10.242.45
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=193.10.242.0
BROADCAST=193.10.242.255
GATEWAY=193.10.242.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
***
(sans the star lines)
HTH
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Re: remote
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 07:29:07PM -0400, Phillip Neumann shared with us the following words of wisdom: Hello, How can i access my X programs from another computer? I can telnet to me. Can i with telnet? how? Do i need to call from a UNIX maschine too? assuming you are telnetting from an other unix box: on the box you are telnetting FROM: xhost +box.you.are.telnetting.to and on the box you are telnetting TO: export DISPLAY=box.you.are.telnetting.from:0.0 (this is assuming you are using bash or similar. in csh and tcsh, use setenv nstead. See the documentation of your shell for more information about how to set environment variables) And now you can launch whatever X apps you want and they will be displayed on the box you are telnetting from. If you can, set up ssh on both boxes, and have sshd running on the box you want to connect to, and then X forwarding will be done automatically (i.e no need for 'export DISPLAY' and 'xhost +' commands) if you connect with ssh instead of telnet (this is a good thing to do anyway, since it's hell of a lot more secure than telnet). I know there are X servers for WinXX and MacOS too, but I have no experience with any of those so I can't give you any advice there. HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Getting Netscape Running
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:27:59PM -0400, MJ Watson shared with us the following words of wisdom: Having just installed 2.0 at home, my next project is to get Netscape up and running. I'm assuming that some form of Xwindowing is required. If so, startx blows off with numerous errors (sorry, I'm not at home, so don't have the errors at hadn: Basically, xinitrc can't be found, and a series of can't connect errors occur). have you run XF86Setup? Also, in looking at Netscape's ftp site, there is more than one version for linux: mklinux, linux20_glibc2, linux12. Is there a FAQ anywhere for how to choose and build Netscape? get communicator 4.06 from ftp.netscape.com:/pub/communicator/4.06/shipping/english/unix/linux20 and get the one you want of base_install, standalone or professional_edition put the tar ball in /tmp and make sure it's owned by root.root. Then install the netscape4 installer deb package which then will unpack and install the netscape tar ball that you previously put in /tmp. if you install the installer from dselect it will also install whatever other packages you need (if you install it from the command line, it might complain about needed packages missing and you will have to install those by hand). HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
xfig won't start
Hello fellow debian users, Has anyone else had trouble with getting xfig to work? When I try to start xfig, I only get the following error mesage: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 3258 Current serial number in output stream: 3272 which doesn't say me much. It doesn't matter what options i try to start xfig with. 'ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xfig' doesn't show any errors, so all libs seem to be there. If anyone has any ideas how to get xfig up and running, I would appreciate it. TIA -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: IRC
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 11:12:43AM +, Akop Pogosian shared with us the following words of wisdom: I have not heard of a #debian channel but #linux, #linuxos ,etc on Undernet, Efnet, and Dalnet are dedicated to discussion on Linux in general. However, I never thought of those as Linux support channels. Howtos or mailing lists like this one are much better for that purpose. not to forget #linux (plus several national chanels (#linux.se, #linux.fi etc)) on IRCnet. They are more or less support channels as well as disussion channels. -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Technical aspects that make Linux better than NT -- Is a list compiled somewhere?
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 07:40:47PM -0500, Asher Haig shared with us the following words of wisdom: Is there a list somewhere that's compiled about technical reasons that Linux is better than NT? I'm interested as far as having good reasons to quickly list off to NT hacks. Not a matter of convincing _me_ -- just them. I'd appreciate either a url of somewhere that has a bunch of reasons or just a bunch of reasons. Either way. Thanks. Take a look at: http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt/ Not strictly Linux -- NT comparison, but still makes good reading. -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Netscape Navigator
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:02:18PM -0500, the lone gunman shared with us the following words of wisdom: On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 02:52:26PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: The netscape license (until this past january, and no releases have been made since then) didn't allow us to redistribute the netscape binaries. You have to download them from ftp.netscape.com. Put them in /tmp, download the installer .deb, and dpkg -i it. It'll take care of setting up netscape and putting it in the right parts of the file tree, etc. .. What is the file name of the Netscape installer deb file? netscape4_4.0-12.deb -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: where is NNTPSERVER variable set?
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 07:50:22PM -0500, the lone gunman shared with us the following words of wisdom: I moved back to school, and now must use a different news server than the one I used at home. Where do I change where the NNTPSERVER environment variable is originally initialized? Changing /etc/nntpserver doesn't seem to do it. Thanks since you didn't tell what shell you use, I'll assume bash. the global configuration files are /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, and personal config files are ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. For more info on how bash uses these files, chek out the Invocation section in the bash man page. In your casse, simply put the following line in /etc/profile: export NNTPSERVER=put.your.newsserver.here HTH -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: *.au files ?
Hello, i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? If you just need somethin that can play them from the commad line without all the bells whistles with, you can grab playulaw from my ftp site (compiled or source). The files are 3.7K (stripped) and 4.1K so no long download times :) adress: ftp://ftp.granroth.ml.org/pub/Sound/ (files playulaw and playulaw.c) PS. I am not the author of the program, just so you know... -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: *.au files ?
*- Peter Granroth wrote about Re: *.au files ? | Hello, | i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player | supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? | | If you just need somethin that can play them from the commad line without all | the bells whistles with, you can grab playulaw from my ftp site (compiled or | source). The files are 3.7K (stripped) and 4.1K so no long download times :) | adress: | | ftp://ftp.granroth.ml.org/pub/Sound/ | (files playulaw and playulaw.c) | | PS. I am not the author of the program, just so you know... | If you have the /dev/audio and /dev/dsp support compiled into the kernel then all you have to do is cat the file to the device. % cat file.au /dev/audio or % cat file.au /dev/dsp Guess I didn't think that far huh? I just saw the post, remembered that I had the source to that particular program lying around and answered. I think I better start thinking faster than I type from now on... -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM
[stuff snipped] bring over the windows fonts and put them in /var/lib/ttfonts yikes no...ok=20 package version 0.9.7 : /var/ttfonts latest packages of 0.9.9: /usr/share/fonts/truetype then run xfstt --sync then run xfstt then just edit XF86Config to include that font server and run X bacsically yea :) add Fontpath unix/7100 (for pre xfstt0.9.9-4 or so) or Fontpath unix/7101 for the latest ones Shouldn't it be: FontPath unix/:7101 that's what I use and it works great (haven't tried without a colon there though) -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: saint netscape
Dear Debian Users, i just tried to get saint running. It tells me that I should run it as root (what is ok) and it will start netscape (which seems to be not okay). The problem is, that netscape will not be started as root saying /usr/bin/X11/netscape: Cannot be run an root (for security reasons). Hm, can anyone help me please ?!? just open /usr/bin/X11/netscape in a text editor (it's a script that set's some variables, and disallows root from running netscape.) look for the following lines and just comment them: # # # Don't allow running netscape as root # if [ $UID -eq 0 -o $EUID -eq 0 ]; then echo $0: Cannot be run an root (for security reasons) exit 1 fi and that should do it. -- |Michael Symalla(Uni-Dortmund Physik E5) | |DESY HERA-B Bldg.66/1 office phone: 040/8998 2571 | | Notkestr.85 Fax.: +49 40 8998 4033 | | D-22607 Hamburg home phone: 040/5000857 | | | | E-mail: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' | | | | PGP-KEY ID : 0xEFBFF2BD | | Fingerprint: CA57 8960 3C3B F4C2 15C8 2116 5FC3 338A | -- Is is just me or is your .sig just a liittle too big? -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: netscape 4 installer
will NS Communicator 4.06 work with netscape4.deb or can I just mv the NS tarball to NS Communicator 4.05? Thanks all! It will work just fine (Just did the upgrade myself) -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...
i get this error as well as a lot of errors during the compile(?) complaining about references to free variables. i also get errors about a symlink that is supposed to be slave link or non-existent as Kent said (below) i also have put this on the back burner but would love to see a fix posted. ivan. If you have chosen to install the tm package (mime handlng tool for Emacs), try installing without it. I have had no problem installing emacs (19 or 20) when I have chosen not to install that particular package, but when trying to install tm, it fails every time. At 10:02 AM 07-08-98 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0 and I can't get emacs 20 to install. Here is the error message I get: Cannot open load file: debian-rundir emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 -- Thanks, Keith MCNE I'm having this problem also, but I've put it on the back burner, as I have other problems I'm dealing with first. But I'd love to see a fix for this. Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + +http://granroth.ml.org+ The answer is NO+
Re: wmaker 0.14.1 autostart file location.
Hi all, I've got a great 1600x1200 jpg and after reading through all the docs I found 2 different ways to set it as the background: $ xv -root -quit -max /usr/share/wallpaper/foo.jpg or $ wmsetbg /usr/share/wallpaper/foo.jpg However, the most currently packaged wmaker I can find for Debian is 0.14.1 and the latest is 0.17.5, and most documentation for wmaker off the web and the official windowmaker.org site seems to apply to 0.15 and above. So putting one of the above in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart as the documentation specifies does not work. So how do I get this jpg loaded as the wallpaper every time I start X? Get the 0.17.5 deb package :) you'll find it at: ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/beta/compiled/linux/debs/ -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + +http://granroth.ml.org+ The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
True Type fonts??
Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X? I have tried the following to no avail: installed a couple of ttfonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype (monotype.ttf, voyager.ttf) then run the following commands: xfstt --sync --dir /usr/share/fonts/truetype (this adds ttinfo.dir and ttname.dir) added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to font path in XF86Config startx errlog.txt 21 looked in errlog.txt, found: Warning: 'fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/truetype) OK, no problem me thinks, exit X and run 'mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype' (as root, of course) but it doesn't do anything. Start X again, read xfstt man page again, it says: Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt then tell X11 about the font server with xset fp+ unix:/7100 or (assuming the X11 server runs on host 127.0.0.1) xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7100 try both, gives me following error: xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax hmm, read 'man mkfontdir': The kinds of font files read by mkfontdir depend on con figuration parameters, but typically include PCF (suffix .pcf), SNF (suffix .snf) and BDF (suffix .bdf). If a font exists in multiple formats, mkfontdir will first choose PCF, then SNF and finally BDF. How do I pass parameters to mkfontdir? the man page doesn't tell. So, it seems to boil down to how to make mkfontdir capable of recognizing true type fonts... ideas? solutions? TIA -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + +http://granroth.ml.org+ The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: True Type fonts??
Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X? [snip] Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt then tell X11 about the font server with xset fp+ unix:/7100 or (assuming the X11 server runs on host 127.0.0.1) xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7100 [snip] I found the answer myself... (typical, isn't it? I try for hours and then ask someone. Then almost directly I find it myself...) The trick was to change the port number to 7101... -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + +http://granroth.ml.org+ The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: True Type fonts??
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X? [snip] Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt then tell X11 about the font server with xset fp+ unix:/7100 or (assuming the X11 server runs on host 127.0.0.1) xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7100 [snip] I found the answer myself... (typical, isn't it? I try for hours and then ask someone. Then almost directly I find it myself...) The trick was to change the port number to 7101... yes...I could have sworn I changed most of the docs to say 7101 instead of 7100...where did you get 7100 from? did I miss something? It said so loud and clear in the man page. btw you said [in previous message..which I just now read 5 mins ago] that you did xfstt --sync --dir /usr/share/font/truetype but...if you use the debina verwsion of xfstt, which is the only version which defaults to port 7100, is also the only version to default to /usr/share/fonts/truetype[1] Yes, the man page also said that it defaulted to that dir, but I wanted to be 100% sure to get at least that part right. (of course, a little testing shows that to be the case) (and yes I use the .deb xfstt) -Steve [1] I talked to Herbert Duerr about this (author) he agrees that /usr/ttfonts [the outside-debian default] is not a very good place for fonts but doesn't want to change it because of so many people already using it - I imagine he would say the same about moving it to port 7101... -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + +http://granroth.ml.org+ The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: messages that jam mail readers
I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. I just deleted the first three (by hitting control C then typing fetchmail again, then it regards the message as seen), but decided to look at the last two and find out what was going on. They're both from this list, and both have WYSIWYG Word Processor as their subject. What's more, both stall while loading after the lines -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- and Version 3.1 I'm going to guess that this geek code block is responsible for the problems, since both Hotmail and fetchmail have problems with the same messages. I'm not accusing anyone of doing this on purpose or anything. I would like to stay on this list, but it's not worth putting up with e-mail problems. Please do your best to make sure that what you send is not going to cause anyone problems. If e-mail you have sent is the culprit, you will be receiving e-mail from me politely asking you not to jam up my e-mail and asking for information that will help me piece together the cause of the problem. Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? Of course I fogot to write down the error message, but I also had problems getting fetchmail to get three messages (they were all from the same person). The error message was something like: SMTP error: hostname must resolve and it promptly refused to fetch any mail. -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + +http://granroth.ml.org+ The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: only root can hear sound..?
I've got something of a catch 22 going with regard to rvplayer and netscape, and the oss sound driver. I loaded the oss sound driver for my 2.0 config and it works nicely, but for root only. play -v /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/Snicker.au results in: /dev/dsp: Permission denied I can't run netscape as root (a security issue) and I can't hear audio as a user. Rvplayer works only under root root as well. I can start it up as a user, but can't hear anything, presumably because of th permissions problem. Thanx for help on this matter. try 'chmod a+rw /dev/dsp' as root HTH -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://193.10.242.45 + The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Which printer do you recommend?
Hi all, I have one Linux machine and five Win95 machines networked. I want to attach a printer to my Linux machine and shared among them. Can someone recommend a printer for this configuration? Depends on how much you want to spend, what performance you need and if you need color. If you have modest performance needs and no need for color, I can recommend HP Laserjet 6L or something such. I have on of those and it works really great in Linux (magicfilter with the ljet4-filter). It prints about 6 pages/minute. It's maintenance need are virtually zero (wipe the dust off from time to time), no powerswith (goes to power save mode after 10min of idle time), No problems with paperjam or such (I've had mine for a year soon and have printed 2000+ pages (It's great to have those HOWTOS on paper :) ) with no problems whatsoever). It comes with 1MB memory, upgradable to 9M. Resolution: 600dpi. According to the docs, the average lifetime of the toner casette is around 2500 pages. (And by the way, it works with WinXX too...) I'm sure other will come with good suggestions too, and I hope you will find a printer that suits you needs. HTH -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://193.10.242.45 + The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
