potato release 3 and dial-up user dns problem
Hi, On one of my client's machine I installed debian potato Release 3 from the 3 CD set. However with the kernel 2.2.19-prex version there seems to be some problem. What happens is for the first time when I connect to the net everything is working. nslookup, dns. But as soon as the connect is terminated, the next time when it connects dns is not working. I am using isp's dns. The machine is very low end hence could not afford to put up a dns server on this. Basically this machine is only for email server. Due to the above problem now there is problem in sending and receiving email. Anybody faced the above problem ? What can I do so that dns works throughout without problems ? I have got proper dns entries in /etc/resolv.conf. (It works for the first time). Thanks in advance. Please cc the replies to me as I am not subscribed to the list due to heavy traffic. Peace -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux Kernel 2.5.0(ext3) : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #032-** Sub : Window Manager (icewm) **- For a lightweight and feature rich Window Manager for Linux have a look at : http://icewm.sourceforge.net/preview/
ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12
Hi, There is no patch for 2.4.12 for ext3 on the main site. http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ Is ext3 included in linus's kernel in 2.4.12 ? Please cc your replies to me. I am not on the list. Thanks in advance. Peace -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux Kernel 2.4.9(ext3) : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #140-** Sub : Line numbering your programs (#1) **- Want a listing of your program with line numbers ? Try: grep -n $ my_prog.c my_prog.no.c -n is to number a line; and $ for till end ...
Re: Re. Window Manager
Sidney Brooks saw fit to inform me that: Following Ano Nim, I created /home/.xinitrc with the text icewm and,lo and behold, when I start Debian, I still get enlightenment. Why have u created .xinitrc in /home ? It should be in /home/sidney assuming that sidney is your login name. Things should work fine. Just create a link called .xsession pointing to .xinitrc. ln -sf /home/sidney/.xinitrc /home/sidney/.xsession My /home/rajesh/.xinitrc contains this : xset -dpms s 0 xscreensaver -no-splash -timeout 2 -cycle 5 icewm I am using icewm for a long time now. Coool Window Manager :-) HTH Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #075-** Sub : Sending pending mail in queue **- Sendmail did mot manage to send few mails during the last time you despatched mail, and mailq command shows them spooled. To send out pending mail in mail queue, as root do: #sendmail -q
Re: apt-get packages marked as rc
Vineet Kumar saw fit to inform me that:
* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:23]:
Hi,
Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg
?
When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I
want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration
files, How to do that ? At present I am doing dpkg --purge all the
packages. Is there any better way ?
are you looking for something like this?
dpkg --get-selections | awk '/deinstall/ { print $1 \tpurge}' | dpkg
--set-selections
Thanks Vineet. But this is just one part of it. Now packages are marked as
pc instead of rc ( i.e. purge candidates ). Now how can I remove with one
command all these packages ?
Warm Regards
--
Rajesh
http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux
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LOST #018-** Sub : Console gibberish (#1) **-
To clear gibberish all over the screen (e.g. after cat of a
compressed or binary file) :
Method #1: Use ANSI escape sequence: $echo -e \033c
Re: glimmer compile error
dman saw fit to inform me that: On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:17:09PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | Hi, | | I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following | error : | | SNIP --- | checking for GnomePrint libraries = 0.25... configure: error: You need at | least GNOME print 0.25 for this version of glimmer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/compile/glimmer-1.1.9-1$ | SNIP --- | the latest release tarball from ftp.gnome.org. The alternative might be to try and disable printing support in glimmer. Thanks for all the replies. However there is no option in glimmer ./configure to disable printing support :-) --- Usage: configure [options] [host] Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions] Configuration: --cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE --help print this message --no-create do not create output files --quiet, --silent do not print `checking...' messages --version print the version of autoconf that created configure Directory and file names: --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX [/usr/local] --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX [same as prefix] --bindir=DIRuser executables in DIR [EPREFIX/bin] --sbindir=DIR system admin executables in DIR [EPREFIX/sbin] --libexecdir=DIRprogram executables in DIR [EPREFIX/libexec] --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data in DIR [PREFIX/share] --sysconfdir=DIRread-only single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/etc] --sharedstatedir=DIRmodifiable architecture-independent data in DIR [PREFIX/com] --localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/var] --libdir=DIRobject code libraries in DIR [EPREFIX/lib] --includedir=DIRC header files in DIR [PREFIX/include] --oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc in DIR [/usr/include] --infodir=DIR info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/info] --mandir=DIRman documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man] --srcdir=DIRfind the sources in DIR [configure dir or ..] --program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names --program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program names Host type: --build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [BUILD=HOST] --host=HOST configure for HOST [guessed] --target=TARGET configure for TARGET [TARGET=HOST] Features and packages: --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no) --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] --with-PACKAGE[=ARG]use PACKAGE [ARG=yes] --without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no) --x-includes=DIRX include files are in DIR --x-libraries=DIR X library files are in DIR --enable and --with options recognized: --enable-maintainer-mode enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer --with-gnome-includes Specify location of GNOME headers --with-gnome-libs Specify location of GNOME libs --with-gnomeSpecify prefix for GNOME files --enable-shared[=PKGS] build shared libraries [default=yes] --enable-static[=PKGS] build static libraries [default=yes] --enable-fast-install[=PKGS] optimize for fast installation [default=yes] --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no] --disable-libtool-lock avoid locking (might break parallel builds) --enable-compile-warnings=[no/minimum/yes]Turn on compiler warnings. --enable-iso-c Try to warn if code is not ISO C --disable-nls do not use Native Language Support --with-included-gettext use the GNU gettext library included here --with-catgets use catgets functions if available --disable-xim Enable international character input support --disable-python Enable python scripting support support --- Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #037-** Sub : Hard Disk Upgrade **- Do you want to upgrade your Hard Disk ? The following HOWTO is a must : http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
apt-get packages marked as rc
Hi,
Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg
?
When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I
want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration
files, How to do that ? At present I am doing dpkg --purge all the
packages. Is there any better way ?
Thanks in advance.
Warm Regards
--
Rajesh
http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux
:
[Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LOST #060-** Sub : Procmail recipe for OE Worms **-
Several M$ worms like SirCam, CodeRed use a dummied multi part
OE boundary, starting with an underscore ( _Outlook_ ... ) . A
procmail recipe to segregate mail with such payload:
* ^Content-Type:
* multipart.*[A-F0-9]+_Outlook_Express_message_boundary
/home/{user}/mail/danger_here
glimmer compile error
Hi, I am trying to compile glimmer. However ./configure gives me the following error : SNIP --- checking for GnomePrint libraries = 0.25... configure: error: You need at least GNOME print 0.25 for this version of glimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/compile/glimmer-1.1.9-1$ SNIP --- The version of gnome-print I have is the one which came with potato : --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/compile/glimmer-1.1.9-1$ dpkg -l | grep gnome-print ii gnome-print0.10-5 The GNOME Print architecture --- However inspite of doing apt-get update on woody tree I am not getting any new version of gnome-print. It looks as if no gnome-print is present in woody tree. Here is the output : --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/compile/glimmer-1.1.9-1$ apt-cache show gnome-print Package: gnome-print Version: 0.10-5 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: gsfonts (= 5.10a-1), libaudiofile0, libc6 (= 2.1.2), libesd0 (= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.16), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (= 1.0.55-0.1), libgnomesupport0 (= 1.0.55-0.1), libxml1, libz1 Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/admin/gnome-print_0.10-5.deb Size: 472592 MD5sum: f046b7b47f165b20244dedc02e4eef52 Description: The GNOME Print architecture This is a prototype implementation of the Gnome Printing Architecture, as described in: . http://www.levien.com/gnome/print-arch.html installed-size: 1945 --- Where can I get the debs for the lastest version of gnome-print (= 0.25) which are required by glimmer. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #009-** Sub : User floppy mount **- NOT RECOMMENDED for a multiuser system. For a stand-alone box add to /etc/fstab, (where /floppy is your mount point): /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,nosuid,nodev,noauto,user 0 0 $mount /floppy ... as an user will do the trick
Re: offtopic: How to seperate only sound from a mpeg file
Damon Muller saw fit to inform me that: Quoth Thomas Wegner, Is it possible to seperate sound from a mpeg-file and save the result into a soundfile? Although I've never tried to do this myself... [rei:~]% mplayer -ao help MPlayer 0.18pre4(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available audio output drivers: oss OSS/ioctl audio output nullNull audio output sdl SDLlib audio output pcm RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output It looks like mplayer will write the audio from a video file to a wav file. I had never tried this. But when I tried just now it is very slow. The video plays very well under Mplayer but this audio dump is slow. I however use vsound for converting only sound part from mpeg and rm files. Description: virtual loopback cable for audio VSound is sort of like a 'virtual audio loopback cable'. That is, it allows you to record the output audio stream of a program (similar to connecting a loopback cable to the line in and line out jacks on the sound card, and recording the sound from the line in jack, but without the DA/AD conversion losses). One possible use for this application is as part of a RealAudio to WAV file converter. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vsound vsound - digitally record output of an OSS audio program vsound [options] program arguments options: -f, --file=FILEoutput file name -v, --verbose set to verbose output -k, --keep-temps don't delete temporary files -h, --help this help message -V, --version show program version -r, --resample resample the output file to the given sample rate eg. vsound -r 44100 realplay file.rm -d, --dspout enable simulateous output to /dev/dsp and file (may be required for some programs) -s, --stdout write the intermediate (Sun AU format) file to stdout (no other output file is generated) -n, --no-convert do not convert the AU file to WAV I got these proggy long time back. Don't remember the site now. u can just search at Google or Freshmeat and u will get the link. HTH Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #046-** Sub : Console gibberish (#2) **- To clear gibberish all over the screen (e.g. after cat of a compressed or binary file) use tset from ncurses-bin package Usually the command reset will clear the screen for you. reset is merely a symlink to the program tset.
CPU Overclocking and Kernel compile on ASUS - fault found
Martin Schulze saw fit to inform me that: Overclocking Tips. Rajesh Fowkar is looking for advice on [13]overclocking an Asus motherboard and Celeron CPU. Seems that the machine has some issues with compiling a kernel. Thanks Martin for highlighting my problem in the Debian Weekly News. I got the reply from a New Zealand distributor of ASUS regarding problems for that make of the motherboard. This might be helpful to some of the folks on debian-user hence CC'ing this copy there too. Here is Dave's reply : --- Hi There was mention of your overclocking question the the Debian Weekly Newsletter. I work for the New Zealand Distributor of Asus and the P3C-2000 was recalled. If memory serves it has the Intel 820 chipset with the MTH (Memory Translator Hub). There was a severe bug in the MTH the causes memory corruption. I'm very surprised you haven't noticed it already as it was quite bad. The MTH is the translator chip that coverts the RAMBUS signals that the chipset talks, into SDRAM signals so standard SDRAM can be used. As far as I know the P3C-2000 was the only board that has the MTH soldered onto the board. All other Asus 820 Chipset boards has riser cards and Intel replaced all of those with Rambus memory instead (removing the MTH from the equation). But in the case of the P3C-2000 the board had to be replaced. At the time we were using a VIA based Asus board to replace them with but I would imagine an Intel 815 Chipset board would be more relevant now. My only concern is that the board may have fallen out of warranty. If not give the place a call that you bought the board from. If they are of no help try emailing Asus directly Hope this helps Dave --- Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -- Mark Twain
wma files and player
Hi, Is there any player under Linux which can play .wma audio files ? Is there a plugin in xmms for that ? Thanks in advance. -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #069-** Sub : Learning PERL techniques **- Is there a good place to learn snarky PERL TECHNIQUES ? One of my favorite is http://webtechniques.com where Randall Schwartz contributes a monthly sample, explaining line-by-line what his code does, and why. (Look under Programming with Perl in the archives.)
Re: [LIH] Re: Unidentified subject!
Jakob B. Jensen saw fit to inform me that: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:52:20AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: CPU Overclocking Kernel compile Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Rajesh Consultancy http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ (Please check your e-mail program to make the headers go in the headers, it helps the e-mail system associate questions and answers). Sorry for this. I use mutt. I still fail to understand how this one mail went like this. Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #067-** Sub : Listing partition **- To know the total size of hard disk inclusive of Non-Linux and non-formatted partitions, as root do: #echo p | fdisk /dev/hdX 2 /dev/null (where X is a, b, c etc) OR #fdisk -l (this will list all drives together)
Unidentified subject!
Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Compiling a kernel on another processor Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Rajesh Consultancy http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Thanks to all who replied. Will get back to the list with my results. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Harry Henry Gebel saw fit to inform me that: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:52:20AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: This is at one of my clients place. He has got an athlon machine. Are there any issues in compiling the kernel on a different machine with a different processor ? Now I am thinking of compiling the kernel for this Celerone machine on the Athlon machine. I will set the parameters for kernel as per the celerone machine. Will this create any problems ? What is the best way to compile kernel like this ? After compiling the kernel on Athlon I am planning to copy this kernel to the celerone machine along with the modules /lib/modules/2.4.9 !!! Is this OK ? This shouldn't be a problem as long as you choose the correct processor when you run 'make config'. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #063-** Sub : Default Console Font **- Do you long for a change of the default font at boot up ? Look at the kbd fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts installed by the kbd package. man setfont for details ... You may prefer to include the line in your.bashrc ... Try : $setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/b.fnt.gz
Re: .m2v files which format ?
Vineet Kumar saw fit to inform me that: * Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 12:10]: Hi, My friend has got a CD on which he has got some mpeg files and some files are in .m2v format ? Which format is this ? It also looks to be a video file from its size. Has anybody come across this format ? Which player can play these files ? I tried mplayer but it does not play them. Has anybody comeacross this file format ? Thanks in advance. 'fraid I have no fish for this request, but here's a fishing rod: Package: file Priority: standard Section: utils This is what I get for both .mpeg and .m2v files : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/data/Music_Videos$ file Destinys\ Child\ -\ Independant\ Woman\ \(SVCD\).m2v Destinys Child - Independant Woman (SVCD).m2v: MPEG system stream data [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/data/Music_Videos$ file Junia\ -\ It\'s\ Funny.mpeg Junia - It's Funny.mpeg: MPEG system stream data As u can see both are showing as MPEG system stream data. But mpeg files can be played using mplayer or xing or windows media player but how to play this .m2v file ? It is not playing in any of these. Any ideas ? Thanks for the help. Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #042-** Sub : Ctrl+Alt+Del key bindings (#2) **- To change the bindings of ctrl+alt+del so that it does sweet nothing on a 'three finger salute': As root, edit /etc/inittab. And, comment the following line: #ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
rm download
Hi, Is it possible to downloads the following files : rtsp://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm pnm://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm One is using rtsp:// and other pnm:// Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #025-** Sub : DOS to Unix conversion (#1) **- Method #1: To convert a DOS text file to Unix so that the extra ASCII 13 does not show up when viewing / editing a DOS text file. $cat filename.dos | tr -d '\015' filename.unix
CPU Overclocking Kernel compile
Hi Listers, What are the issues involved in compiling a kernel on a machine with CPU overclocked ? Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.9 kernel on a celerone machine 466MHZ which was overclocked to 550MHZ. The motherboard is ASUS P3C2000. During kernel compilation the machine is either rebooting in between or it is giving segmentation fault. Has anybody compiled the kernel on overclocked CPU ? We also could not find a way to turn the clock speed to it's original speed. Has anybody done the above stuff in the above make of ASUS motherboard. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #043-** Sub : Re-initialise /etc/inittab **- To re-initialise changes made to /etc/inittab without the need to reboot, do: #init q Init is the last step of the kernel boot sequence. q option re-examines and re-initialises /etc/inittab.
Re: .m2v files which format ?
Dan Chen saw fit to inform me that: Hrm, I've no experience playing .m2vs (thought I'd suggest Mplayer since it purportedly plays everything) under Linux; a few of my Windows-using friends use software DVD programs to watch them (or hardware-assisted ones if they have hardware decoder cards). Sorry. Go it. Videolan can play mpeg1 and mpeg2 streams as well as files from Hard Disk. http://www.videolan.org/ Trying to compile the above support in mplayer. But videolan is cool too. Thanks for all the help. Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #063-** Sub : Default Console Font **- Do you long for a change of the default font at boot up ? Look at the kbd fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts installed by the kbd package. man setfont for details ... You may prefer to include the line in your.bashrc ... Try : $setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/b.fnt.gz
Unidentified subject!
Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: CPU Overclocking Kernel compile Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Rajesh Consultancy http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ dman saw fit to inform me that: On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:22:32PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | Hi Listers, | | What are the issues involved in compiling a kernel on a machine with CPU | overclocked ? | | Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.9 kernel on a celerone machine 466MHZ | which was overclocked to 550MHZ. The motherboard is ASUS P3C2000. | | During kernel compilation the machine is either rebooting in between or it | is giving segmentation fault. I notice with my machine (not overclocked, BTW) that kernel compilation is a CPU-bound process. It really works the CPU at the max for several minutes. If you are overclocking your CPU then building a kernel, I would not be surprised if it generated excessive heat or if it lost/corrupted data because it doesn't have enough time in a cycle to properly transfer it. I would recommend not overclocking the machine or do your compilation on a different machine. This is at one of my clients place. He has got an athlon machine. Are there any issues in compiling the kernel on a different machine with a different processor ? Now I am thinking of compiling the kernel for this Celerone machine on the Athlon machine. I will set the parameters for kernel as per the celerone machine. Will this create any problems ? What is the best way to compile kernel like this ? After compiling the kernel on Athlon I am planning to copy this kernel to the celerone machine along with the modules /lib/modules/2.4.9 !!! Is this OK ? Thanks for the help. -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #013-** Sub : Locking a directory **- To lock a directory under your $HOME directory for privacy of data, do: $chmod 000 dir/ [root still has access though] Changing permission to 000 even denies an ls to that dir by all users. You need to do chmod 755 or 777 (for access).
Re: .m2v files which format ?
Dan Chen saw fit to inform me that: Hrm, I've no experience playing .m2vs (thought I'd suggest Mplayer since it purportedly plays everything) under Linux; a few of my Windows-using friends use software DVD programs to watch them (or hardware-assisted ones if they have hardware decoder cards). Sorry. Dan. Got it working with mplayer. After upgrading my codecs.conf file with the latest one. It works very well with mplayer too. Thanks for all the help guys. Warm Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #003-** Sub : Catching console output **- To capture console output to file, when lines just scroll ... $script filename $issue command $exit Then view with: $cat filename | less
mutt send hook
Hi, I have got the following in my muttrc : set default_hook=~C %s send-hook ! ^(howtos|linux-india|debian-user|ilug-goa|icewm) set editor='/usr/local/bin/rajeshsign.sh' send-hook ^(howtos|linux-india|debian-user|ilug-goa|icewm) set editor='/usr/local/bin/lostsign.sh' ( Each send-hook is on one line ) What I want is if the CC or TO address is of the mailing lists than execute lostsign.sh script else execute rajeshsign.sh. -- rajeshsign.sh is : INFILE=$1 echo -en \n\n\n $INFILE cat $HOME/.rajeshsign $INFILE fortune -s $INFILE vi $INFILE rm -rf $INFILE -- -- lostsign.sh is : INFILE=$1 echo -en \n\n\n $INFILE cat $HOME/.rajeshsign $INFILE fortune /usr/share/games/fortunes/lost $INFILE vi $INFILE rm -rf $INFILE -- But whenever I start to type any mail and than quit vi I get the message as message is unmodifed ? This happens inspite of my typing the contents in the mail. If I say yes I come to the screen where I have to send the mail,( presss y ), However the mail is empty ?? Any problems with my script ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh : [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : Steps for kernel compilation LOST #087 1. #cd /usr/src/linux 2. #make mrproper 3. #make menuconfig 4. #make dep5. #make clean 6. #make modules 7. #make install8. #make modules_install Change /etc/lilo.conf and than run lilo -v For detailed explaination refer to Kernel-HOWTO. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.m2v files which format ?
Hi, My friend has got a CD on which he has got some mpeg files and some files are in .m2v format ? Which format is this ? It also looks to be a video file from its size. Has anybody come across this format ? Which player can play these files ? I tried mplayer but it does not play them. Has anybody comeacross this file format ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh : [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : Copying from Linux to Win partitionLOST #040 Method 2: To copy a file from Linux to a Windows partition #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy (/floopy is mount point) #cp /path/filename /floppy Then boot through Win/ DOS and copy from Floppy [EMAIL PROTECTED]###
Re: mutt send hook
dman saw fit to inform me that: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:10:14PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | | -- | rajeshsign.sh is : | | INFILE=$1 | echo -en \n\n\n $INFILE | cat $HOME/.rajeshsign $INFILE | fortune -s $INFILE | vi $INFILE | rm -rf $INFILE | -- | Any problems with my script ? Yes: you shouldn't be removing the message when you finish writing it. Mutt will remove it once it is sent. That is kind of like if vi removed the file every time you quit it. Thus mutt doesn't see any changes between the original (empty/nonexistant) and what it is when your editor finishes (nonexistant). Thanks a lot. Now it works. Silly mistake on my part :-) Regards -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #082-** Sub : Linux through NT boot loader **- To add linux to NT boot loader menu, in Linux do: #dd -if=/dev/hdaN -of=/tmp/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 [where N is the partition of the Linux / (root dir)] Ensure /tmp/boot.lnx is 512 bytes. Copy it to c:\ of NT. Append 'c:\boot.lnx linux' 'to c:\boot.ini and you are done
apt-get problem
Hi, If I add in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free and than do apt-get update, I can install any package from the woody tree. However /etc/apt/sources.list also contains entries for the 3 Debian 2.2 R3 CD's. deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main I am on a dial-up line, which no too fast :-) Now the problem is, say I want to install something from the 3 CD's and try to use apt-get install , apt tries to go to the net to upgrade to the latest version of that package. This problem can be solved by commenting out the woody line in /etc/apt/sources.list and than running apt-get update But the next time I am on net and want to upgrade to some package in woody tree, I have to again download the Packages file ( which is around 1.3MB) by doing apt-get update. Is there any way to avoid this ? Thanks for any help. Warm Regards -- Rajesh -- : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #049-** Sub : DOS to Unix conversion (#2) **- Method #2: To convert a DOS text file to Unix so that the extra ASCII 13 does not show up when viewing / editing a DOS text file. If you have recode package installed you may use the following alias in your .profile or /etc/profile: alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc' alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1' :
Re: apt-get problem
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry saw fit to inform me that: Is there any way to avoid this ? not really. The problem here is you are using potato cd's and woody from the net. So apt thinks it needs to upgrade you all the time. A major problem for a person like me who can not go on upgrading everything on this slow dial-up :-) Anyway. Thanks a lot. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3),Mutt 1.3.22.1i, IceWM If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
Re: udf linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that:
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 04:05:44PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
make sure the cd is being mounted with the udf fs type, not iso9660.
mount will show you. but basically try mount -t udf /cdrom
/dev/cdrom, or whatever your proper devices and mount-points are.
Thanks to all those who responded to my posting. Yes. in /etc/fstab the
filesystem mentioned was iso9660. Than I tried to mount the CD(written
using DIRECT CD of windows - udf format) using :
mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /cdrom
However this results in infinite reading loop and on the console I get the
following error :
hdc : cdrom_decode_status : Status = 0x51 { Drive Ready Seek Complete }
hdc : cdrom_decode_status : error Error=0x30
hdc : irq timeout : Status=0xd0 {Busy}
hdc : ATAPI reset complete.
I even tried disabling DMA ( hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc ), but still I get the
same errors.
Please can anybody help me in reading a CD with udf filesystem on Linux ?
Why am I getting the above error when I try to mount the CD with udf
filesystem. For IS09660 it mounts fine.
My util-linux version is :
util-linux-2.11f: /bin/mount
I have upgraded since now I am on ext3 filesystem on my debian machine.
Thanks in advance.
Warm Regards
--
Rajesh
--
:
[Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LOST #065-** Sub : Dependent libraries for a binary **-
The easiest way to check out as to which libraries a binary is
dependent, try: $ldd binary-file
Example: $ldd /bin/ls
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40018000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
:
udf linux
Hi, Is there anybody who has tested success in reading, writing or reading/writing CD's burnt using DIRECT CD software from Windows. The CD is burnt in UDF format. I have compiled the kernel with UDF read support (as module). But when I mount the CD after loading the udf module, I get the following : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cdrom$ l total 414 -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 65 Dec 17 2000 autorun.inf -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 421546 Dec 17 2000 udfrinst.exe Why is it not reading the UDF file system ? What is the use of udf file system support in the kernel ? Thanks in advance. ps.: With DIRECT CD use can just copy the files from one window to other. Is this possible somehow in Linux. Means using simple cp command can some files be backed up on this CD ? -- : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #058-** Sub : Linux Users Counter **- There is no way to know the exact number of Linux users in the world ... a counter was set up five years ago. All linux users NOT registered should do a one-time registration at: http://counter.li.org/ :
Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes
Matt Jones saw fit to inform me that: | Could you please explain straightforwardly, step by step how you | compiled your kernel? Make sure you enable initrd when you are doing the xconfig. It is not something that stands out greatly and I missed it a few times. After enabling the initrd I was able to compile with no problems at all. I have seen lot of threads here about initrd image which is required it seems for 2.4.x kernels ? But I have always compiled the kernel without any initrd stuff and the kernel boots fine. There is no initrd in my /boot. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ l total 3184 -rw-r--r--1 root root 419469 Aug 12 20:22 System.map-2.4.8 -rw-r--r--1 root root 428802 Sep 2 15:10 System.map-2.4.9 -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Jul 14 19:45 boot.0300 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4568 Jul 14 19:44 boot.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 612 Jul 14 19:44 chain.b -rw-r--r--1 root root20187 Aug 12 20:08 config-2.4.8 -rw-r--r--1 root root20578 Sep 2 14:56 config-2.4.9 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 2 15:11 grub -rw---1 root root33792 Jul 15 00:31 map -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Jul 14 19:44 mbr.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 640 Jul 14 19:44 os2_d.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 730588 Jul 14 22:03 redhat -rw-r--r--1 root root 752902 Aug 12 20:22 vmlinuz-2.4.8 -rw-r--r--1 root root 788789 Sep 2 15:10 vmlinuz-2.4.9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ What is this initrd ? Why it is required when kernel boots without it ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh -- : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOST #073-** Sub : Backing Up your System **- Been thinking about how to back up your LINUX system ? There is a whole website just for you: http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html Concepts, methods, applications, procedures... Have a look! :
Re: ot: vcd's on mtv
csj saw fit to inform me that: On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:40:15 + p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But then why use the non-free mtv, when there are two great free Debian alternatives for playing VCD's? (You need to be using at least woody/testing, however.) apt-get install smpeg-plaympeg apt-get install xine Have a look at mplayer too. It can play vcd's , dat, mpeg, avi, asf, DVD's. Just download the sources and compile. Compilation is easy and u can create a deb too. Excellent video player. A GUI front end for mplayer is in development. It is due for release any time. Check out : http://192.190.173.45/homepage/news.html Enjoy Video Playback on Linux with mplayer. Regards -- Rajesh -- : [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : PGP sign out in mutt LOST #026 To sign out outgoing mail with PGP/ GNU-PGP in Mutt, add the following in ~/.muttrc: set pgp_default_version=gpg set pgp_autosign set pgp_sign_as=your key id set pgp_timeout=7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]### :
Re: [LIH] XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato dri
Rajesh saw fit to inform me that: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:35:38PM -0700, Naren Devaiah wrote: In your XF86Config file you must load the DRI module. Have you done that? In the Modules section, add Load dri Yes. That is already there. Finally I got it. I had the following in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : Section Module Loadddc LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loadextmod Loaddri Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection However when I changed the order of 'dri' loading ( I made it as the first module to be loaded), dri started working on my i810 :-) Section Module Loaddri Loadddc snipped EndSection [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxinfo |more name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 Nice to play quake III on Linux finally. -- Rajesh -- : [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : Linux Gazette LOST #059 Get your copy of Linux Gazette on the first of every month: #!/bin/bash ISSUE=61 #Note: Issue 61 was Jan 2001 change for month reqd wget --tries=0 -v -c ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-base.tar.gz;' wget --tries=0 -v -c ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue'$ISSUE'.tar.gz' [EMAIL PROTECTED]### :
lxdoom-x11 and music
Hi, Has anybody running lxdoom with midi music ? I have got a Creative Ensonique es1371 sound card. When I try to play doom I get sfx sound but midi sound seems to be not working. I am using the kernel oss sound modules. When I run doom the following is displayed : I_InitSound: Passing sound data to /usr/games/sndserv via pipe: I_InitSoundGen: configured /dev/dsp for 16bit signed data sent OK /usr/games/musserv: midi_setup: error opening /dev/sequencer /usr/games/musserv: No such device or address Broken pipe S_Init: Setting up sound. S_Init: default sfx volume 13 Any ideas what could be wrong here ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh -- [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : Linux Gazette LOST #059 Get your copy of Linux Gazette on the first of every month: #!/bin/bash ISSUE=61 #Note: Issue 61 was Jan 2001 change for month reqd wget --tries=0 -v -c ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-base.tar.gz;' wget --tries=0 -v -c ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue'$ISSUE'.tar.gz' [EMAIL PROTECTED]###
Re: [LIH] XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato dri
Rajesh saw fit to inform me that: However when I changed the order of 'dri' loading ( I made it as the first module to be loaded), dri started working on my i810 :-) Section Module Loaddri Loadddc snipped EndSection One more thing. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file contained : VideoRam 8192 I changed 8192 to 16384 and this has actual been responsible for dri working on my i810 now :-) -- Rajesh -- : [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : DOS to Unix conversion (#2)LOST #049 Method #2: To convert a DOS text file to Unix so that the extra ASCII 13 does not show up when viewing / editing a DOS text file. If you have recode package installed you may use the following alias in your .profile or /etc/profile: alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc' alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1' [EMAIL PROTECTED]# :
Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato dri
Jon Masters saw fit to inform me that: On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Any ideas what am I missing ? Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules installed prior to the X server attempting to use them. glxinfo gives me the following : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat -- 0x23 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 16 tc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None 0x25 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x26 16 dc 0 16 0 r y . 5 6 5 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None It also says direct rendering : No. Any ideas why ? At present I have compiled both agpgart support and i810 support directly into the kernel 2.4.9. and I am on XFree 4.1.0-2 I have got mesalibs installed too. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep mesa ii xlibmesa3 4.1.0-2XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep xserver ii xserver-common 4.1.0-2files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-2the XFree86 X server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Thanks in advance. -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3),Mutt 1.3.22.1i, IceWM Q: Why did the programmer call his mother long distance? A: Because that was her name.
Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: * Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010901 15:47]: Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same problem ? I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. However my postings are going though to the list. But why I am receiving the below message ? It's not a problem with you or the list. The person who's referenced in the bounce message is a subscriber and their mailbox at their ISP is full. Since *you* sent the message, the error message is coming back to you. I'll likely get one for sending this message too. ;-) I am subscribed to the list with gmx address. That mailbox in no case be full. How I am getting those bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?, when I have sent the message to the list ? The puzzling thing is that my message gets posted to the list and in the digests which I receive from the list my posting is present. If my mailbox was full than the digest which I am receiving also should have bounced to the list When I am sending a posting to the list where is the question of my mailbox getting full ? and what is this [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I have never sent any posting of debian-user to that id ? All this seems to be very confusing. ps. : let's see if I receive a bounce from [EMAIL PROTECTED] for posting this message to the list ? Thanks everybody for the help. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3),Mutt 1.3.22.1i, IceWM You will soon forget this.
promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
Hi, I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). Is the above card supported under Linux ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
Jimmy Richards saw fit to inform me that:
Hi,
It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at
http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---
[*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68} support
Thanks Jimmy. It's there.
I went to Network Device Support - Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) and could not
find the above card hence posted to the list. :-)
Regards
--
Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/
Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3
Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM
Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
Re: Offline APT
Ross Burton saw fit to inform me that: Hi, At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) to get a package list from apt which can be retrieved via wget. So now I have a directory with 140 meg of .deb files in. The document says that: $ apt-get -o Dir::Cache::archives=/mnt/debian/unstable update Should update my system using the packages I downloaded. However, apt ignores that directory and starts downloading the files from the ftp servers again. Help! Why is apt doing this! Any suggestions? Ross. I also wanted to do similar thing and succeeded. I have written a small documentation of that on my web site. http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Do have a look at it and follow the steps. HTH Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Mark Twain
Re: Offline APT
Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: $ cd download/directory/; su # dpkg -i *.deb If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. What about dependecies ? For that apt-get is the correct tool. If u are going to install deb using dpkg -i in a particular order than what is the difference between rpm and deb :-) OK. For installing just 1 package dpkg -i is ok. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Mark Twain
Re: Installing vimtutor help file
dman saw fit to inform me that: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and | try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction | in section 7), I'm told that the help file, | /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. | | Do you have /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt or | /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt.gz on your system? | | If you find only help.txt.gz, | | $ zcat help.txt.gz help.txt Yeah, I noticed this the other day with my vim, but I think it was my homemade version 60at. I simply 'gunzip'ped the file (now have both compressed and not) and the complaints went away. The weird thing was it looked like vim used the .gz version even though it complained the first time. On my debian 2.2 R3 box vim takes help.txt.gz and it itself does the gunzip. :-) Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One and a half.
Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on
Hi, Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post to the debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the same problem ? I am subscribed to the list in digest-mode. However my postings are going though to the list. But why I am receiving the below message ? List admin ? Regards Rajesh Mensagem Automatica da TERRA saw fit to inform me that: Your message with subject [Re: Installing vimtutor help file] was not delivered to the following recipient: [heiliger]. This recipient's mailbox is full. Sua mensagem com assunto [Re: Installing vimtutor help file] nao foi entregue ao seguinte destinatario: [heiliger]. A caixa-postal deste destinatario esta' cheia. by srv4-bra.bra.terra.com.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08834 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:30:47 -0300 Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6]) by mx8.terra.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 395CA785DF for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:30:46 -0300 (GMT+3) Received: (qmail 5257 invoked by uid 38); 1 Sep 2001 19:30:16 - X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 5224 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2001 19:30:15 - Received: from unknown (HELO prodserver1.goatelecom.com) (210.212.161.28) by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2001 19:30:15 - Received: from debian by prodserver1.goatelecom.com (8.9.3/1.1.20.3/07Jul00-0916AM) id BAA030036; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:06:46 +0530 (IST) Received: from rajesh by debian with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15dLf5-fE-00 for debian-user@lists.debian.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2001 01:02:55 + Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:02:55 + From: Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing vimtutor help file Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Organization: Rajesh Consultancy http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/167676 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:30:46 -0300 (GMT+3) -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it.
XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato dri
Colin Watson saw fit to inform me that: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:47:53PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: hi ho... I will be installing Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) for the first time soon, but as I understand, it comes with XFree86 3.3.6. The problem is that I really need XFree86 4.1.0 (due to my NVidia GeForce2 MX). What's my best plan of attack? Should I install the base Potato system, and then just install 4.1.0 from the unstable package collection? Try the packages here: http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ I downloaded xfree 4.1 from the above site using apt-get. I have enabled all the stuff for dri ( I am now on 2.4.9 kernel ). But still I get the following : (**) Option dpms (**) I810(0): DPMS enabled (==) I810(0): Direct rendering disabled ^^^ Any ideas what am I missing ? My kernel options are : # # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver # # CONFIG_FTAPE is not set CONFIG_AGP=y # CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set CONFIG_AGP_I810=y # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set CONFIG_DRM=y # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set CONFIG_DRM_I810=y # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life.
Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato dri
Jon Masters saw fit to inform me that: On 02 Sep 2001 02:32:12 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Any ideas what am I missing ? Do you have agpgart and other modules correctly inserted? sometimes dependencies seem to miss-generated and fail to get the correct modules installed prior to the X server attempting to use them. Here is the output of lsmod. Everything looks perfect. i810 module contains agpgart support, I hope. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lsmod Module Size Used by lp 5024 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 6352 1 bsd_comp4144 0 ppp_deflate39200 0 ppp_generic14320 3 [ppp_async bsd_comp ppp_deflate] slhc4704 1 [ppp_generic] ide-cd 26352 0 cdrom 27008 0 [ide-cd] es1371 26176 0 ac97_codec 8816 0 [es1371] sound 55520 0 (unused) soundcore 3952 6 [es1371 sound] i810 62656 0 loop8000 0 (unused) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What do the relevent proc interfaces report? debian:~# more /proc/dri/0/name i810 0xe200 debian:~# Thanks for the response. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Someone is speaking well of you.
ipchains home user
Hi, What is the minimum firewall that can be build required for a home user ? On a dial-up line. Using ipchains. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: ipchains home user
Martin Feeney saw fit to inform me that: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:07:06 Rajesh Fowkar wrote: What is the minimum firewall that can be build required for a home user ? On a dial-up line. Using ipchains. apt-get install ipmasq It'll do pretty much what you want with plenty of sanity-level security. It also provides an rc-style set of rules files that take a little bit to get used to, but are very nice once you do. Thanks all who replied. I will check out ipmasq. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: ipchains home user
Jason Majors saw fit to inform me that: The minimum is none. :) I don't know if you really need firewalling...do you have a network on the other side of that machine? Yes. That is Internet :-) When I am connected through Dial-Up :-) Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian
Davor Balder saw fit to inform me that: Hello all, Command-line mode works for me for now... after all, it's quick, dirty and it works... and it makes those unfortunate Windows users say WOW!!! In case u want to use GUI than do try out gcombust. Interface is really neat. I tried audio CD stuff too. It also creates wav files of the tracks on local HDD. Cool one. Impressed by this GUI frontend for CD-burning. The best thing is it is there with Potato :-) just do apt-get install gcombust Since gcombust uses the following backends : cdrecord mkisofs cdda2wav make sure u have installed them. That's all. Enjoy. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: ext3 howto
Wayne Topa saw fit to inform me that: Subject: ext3 howto Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:16:28PM + In reply to:Rajesh Fowkar Quoting Rajesh Fowkar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I have posted a mini-howto from my experiences in converting from ext2 to ext3 file system on my Debian 2.2 R-3 machine. Do have a look at it and let me know if any corrections needed or something can be added to make it even better. My site address is : http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Might I suggest that you add something to Section 5. Get, Set, Go... Make menuconfig will not run very well from the /usr/src directory. You might like to add a cd linux, or cd kernel line before the make menuconfig. Thanks Wayne for pointing out the error. Sorry, gof on my part :-) Rectified. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: ext3 howto
Raghavendra Bhat saw fit to inform me that: [Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:49:46AM +] Rajesh Fowkar : Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: You want to make sure that copying and pasting *most* of your HOWTO from this page If this has hurt somebody than I apologise. No, not at all. It is that some guys who post, may not have read 'between the lines'. ;-) More than hurting, I could move over to ext3 thanks to your HOWTO. Nice to know that Ragoo. BTW, Boot floppies - Blade's Special Edition at: http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf-ext3 Thanks for the link. Enjoy the transition... Enjoy :-) Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: An MP3 player
D. Hoyem saw fit to inform me that: Do a apt-get install xmms after the install you need to alow the user to use it, I do su, password then adduser username audio. Of cource I'm on a one person system, so I'm not worried about the security. My personal favourite is gqmpeg. Less memory hungry. Excellent output. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing
dman saw fit to inform me that: On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: | I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv | driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. | | After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to | uninstall all X-related packages and start over. This worked fine except | that now colors are screwed up when I run mozilla or | netscape. Basically, blues are rendered as aqua/green and netscape, at | one point, complained about not being able to allocate pixmap for | default background. Up until now mozilla/netscape are the only apps | that have given me trouble. | | Is there a package I'm still missing? Or maybe my XF86Config-4 file's | missing something? Any ideas? What color depth is your display running at? Netscape is a color hog and if you don't have enough colors in your display, then it gets a private colormap. It uses the same indices as other programs, but for it it refers to different colors. That's when you get the funky looking color dance when you switch focus between netscape and other stuff. I've seen this quite a bit on the Solaris systems at school, which I think are running at 8 bit color. Afterstep is another color hog. Just try running afterstep, netscape and xfig at the same time :-). Change your color depth in XF86Config-4 file to 16 instead of 8. Everything will work fine. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that: Greetings!! I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on CD-Writing HOWTO) that tracks are ripped first, then put into .cdr or .wav format and then burt onto a CD... Obviously .cdr files were not well encoded in the first place... My question is: what is the easiest way to copy an audio CD on Debian? I know of cdrdao and am going to try it tonight after I get back from work (and I should remember to use that --simulate option :-) What experiences have other people had? I am not going to use windows to do this!!! I am sure I can do it under Debian (with a bit of research and of course fun)... Some time back I was using xcdroast and even burnt 2-3 audio CD's too. It creates wav files for each song and an index. Than you have to burn those wav files on a blank CD. At present I am using gcombust. One of the listers suggested this to be and I liked its interface too. However I have not yet burnt any audio CD using gcombust. Try it out. Take Care -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
ext3 howto
Hi, I have posted a mini-howto from my experiences in converting from ext2 to ext3 file system on my Debian 2.2 R-3 machine. Do have a look at it and let me know if any corrections needed or something can be added to make it even better. My site address is : http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Thanks a lot. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: ext3 howto
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: I have posted a mini-howto from my experiences in converting from ext2 to ext3 file system on my Debian 2.2 R-3 machine. Do have a look at it and let me know if any corrections needed or something can be added to make it even better. You want to make sure that copying and pasting *most* of your HOWTO from this page, http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, worked okay ?? Sorry, either you copied it or you were thinking exactly like the person who wrote the steps on the 'official' ext3 patch site were. Yes. Some part I have just copied and pasted it from the above site and I think I have mentioned about it too in the howto. Examples: The ext3 site: An ext2 filesystem maybe converted to ext3 by creating a journal file on it. To do this, run tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX on the target filesystem. The filesystem is now ext3! Note that the filesystem need not be unmounted for this operation. Yours: An ext2 filesystem maybe converted to ext3 by creating a journal file on it. To do this, run tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX on the target filesystem. The filesystem is now ext3! Note that the filesystem need not be unmounted for this operation. You are spot on. Yes. That is copy paste, but I thought the above explaination is the best one. Is there any point in my changes few words here and there just to say it is my howto. No. That is the reason. Look at the last link in the howto there I have clearly mentioned about this and I have even given the above link too. I have just added few things about kernel compilation and you can say rather than the one page I have organised it a little bit. If this has hurt somebody than I apologise. Bye bye. -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)
Stephen Gran saw fit to inform me that: Thanks a lot for the link. I am using Kernel 2.4.9 however I have got XFree 4.0.2. At present I cannot upgrade to 4.1.x. Hence I downloaded the tarball file from the above link. How should I compile this ? No INSTALL file with this. Can u help me out ? bunzip2 drm-4.0.x.tar.bz2|tar -xvvf rm -vf /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/* cp drm-4.0.x/* /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/ cd /usr/src/linux/ make config (or menuconfig or xconfig, whatever) Recompile your kernel, install and reboot. I recompiled the kernel after doing the above thing. However I am still getting this in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (II) I810(0): direct rendering: Disabled Any ideas why this might be happening ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ dpkg -l | grep XFree ii xfree86-common 4.0.2-1X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xserver-xfree8 4.0.2-1the XFree86 X server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ uname -a Linux debian 2.4.9 #1 Sun Aug 26 14:06:38 GMT 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ dmesg | grep drm [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xd000 64MB [drm] Initialized i810 1.1.0 2928 on minor 63 Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
ext3 filesystem
Hi, Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: kernel 2.4.x
Oren Gozlan saw fit to inform me that: any info about kernel 2.4.x ? any one have tried it ? Yes. I am at present on kernel 2.4.9 :-) What u want to know ? ( I am working on this kernel at home ). Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)
Stephen Gran saw fit to inform me that: Oh - a note to others with similar problems - 2.4.9 no longer supports drm for XFree 4.0.x (only 4.1), so you have to download the drm for 4.0.x at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/drm-4.0.x.tar.bz2 and replace the directory drivers/char/drm/ in the normal directory tree. Hello Stephen, Thanks a lot for the link. I am using Kernel 2.4.9 however I have got XFree 4.0.2. At present I cannot upgrade to 4.1.x. Hence I downloaded the tarball file from the above link. How should I compile this ? No INSTALL file with this. Can u help me out ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Choosing a Debian Variant
thomas saw fit to inform me that: it is in the standard kernels. I am not talking about debian kernels. I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'm using it right now. Can only be a matter of weeks until Linus' puts them in the offcial kernel. btw. is there any advantage to make-kpgk the kernel over the non-deb method (= normal method)? just asking out of curiosity. Hello Thomas, It's always helpful to have a deb file of your custom compiled kernel handy. Say in case of crash etc. you need not recompile the kernel :-) Just dpkg -i kernel-image* In case your new kernel does not work as u want or some bugs etc. than u can easily revert back to your old kernel. It is always better to keep packges installed using a Package Manager. When u have been given such a nice utility why not make full use of it :-) There is also a nice tool called checkinstall using which u can create a deb file for any of the compiled stuff. I have got now icewm.deb, mutt.deb, mplayer.deb etc. using checkinstall. Coool. Here is the link, try it out, u will never regret it : http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/ Bye bye. -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Choosing a Debian Variant
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: it is in the standard kernels. I am not talking about debian kernels. I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'm using it right now. Can only be a matter of weeks until Linus' puts them in the offcial kernel. That's what I thought when I patched my 2.4.7 kernel. We're at 2.4.9pre?? and still no ext3 support... I've kinda lost interest in having the latest and greatest kernel, so I'm sticking with 2.4.7 until I have a good reason to upgrade. I always wonder why it takes so long for some patch which appears to be quite stable to be included in the linus's kernel Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: File Manager for wmaker
usucapiao saw fit to inform me that: Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! Jo?o Laureano Leme Cuiab? - Brazil Have a look at rox-filer. It is really good. I am using it for last 2 months now along with icewm as the Window Manager. rox-filer is lightweight with some cool features. http://rox.sourceforge.net Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Framebuffer support in kernel
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: I've compiled framebuffer support into my kernel using the Matrox option. Has anybody compiled framebuffer support on i810 ? There seems to be no support for i810 framebuffer mode. If I compile using vga framebuffer the tux on startup looks ugly :-) Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.hserus.net/rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.8(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Choosing a Debian Variant
Nathan Weston saw fit to inform me that: The hardest part may be ReiserFS... AFAIK debian won't do this during the install... you will probably have to roll a custom kernel and migrate partitions after installation. But don't take my word on this... hopefully someone more knowledgeable will post on this issue. I have compiled Kernels 2.4.7 - 2.4.9 with ext3 patch and converted my exisiting ext2 partition to ext3 without any hicups. Using ext3 here at home for the last 3 months without any problems. I have written a mini-howto on this. Please have a look at http://www.hserus.net/rajesh/ in case u are interested. ext3 is quite sturdy. No problems for me till now. The best thing about ext3 is that you can easily convert from ext2 to ext3 whereas for other file sytems the procedure will be take backup of existing partitions, recreate the partition / format the partition with reiserfs or JFS and than restore the backup. ext2 to ext3 is cool. Red hat guys seem to be coming up with their next release with ext3 file system support. Still the ext3 patch is not put in the standard kernels. Patch has to be separatly applied. I think shortly it will make its way in the standard kernel as well. My 2 cents on this. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.hserus.net/rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: Choosing a Debian Variant
thomas saw fit to inform me that: Red hat guys seem to be coming up with their next release with ext3 file system support. Still the ext3 patch is not put in the standard kernels. Patch has to be separatly applied. I think shortly it will make its way in the standard kernel as well. it is in the standard kernels. I am not talking about debian kernels. What I do is just apply the recent patches from kernel.org to my kernel tree on local hard disk and recompile with make-kpkg. I am now on 2.4.9 and I still can not see any ext3 support in file system option. I have to apply the ext3 patch separatly :-) Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.hserus.net/rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: reiserfs mount
Karsten M. Self saw fit to inform me that: on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:59:02PM +, Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, A few days back I had downloaded the latest versions of linux-util and e2fsprogs since I converted my ext2 partition to ext3. Now I have a free 1 GB partition /dev/hda9. I wanted to try out reiserfs on it. So I created reiserfs partition (mkreiserfs). Everything fine till here. Now surprise. If I put the following in /etc/fstab : /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 What happens if you remove all the options after 'defaults'? I believe 'errors' is just an ext2fs filesystem option. Though my 'mount' manpage doesn't have any reiser info in it. Thats correct Karsten. I had just done copy and paste in my /etc/fstab and as a result errors=remount-ro also remained and I missed out on that. After removing that option now it works fine. I also had a look at man mount and could not find any mention of reiserfs in it :-) But it works fine. Thanks for the help. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7(ext3), Mutt 1.3.19i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
reiserfs mount
Hi, A few days back I had downloaded the latest versions of linux-util and e2fsprogs since I converted my ext2 partition to ext3. Now I have a free 1 GB partition /dev/hda9. I wanted to try out reiserfs on it. So I created reiserfs partition (mkreiserfs). Everything fine till here. Now surprise. If I put the following in /etc/fstab : /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 and try to mount I get the following : debian:/home/rajesh# mount /mnt/hda9 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9, or too many mounted file systems As u can see below reiserfs kernel module is loaded. debian:/home/rajesh# lsmod Module Size Used by reiserfs 150816 0 (autoclean) lp 5024 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 26032 0 cdrom 26976 0 [ide-cd] es1371 25760 0 ac97_codec 8528 0 [es1371] sound 55520 0 (unused) soundcore 3920 6 [es1371 sound] i810 74880 0 (unused) loop8000 0 (unused) Now if I try to mount the same reisefs partition with : debian:/home/rajesh# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9/ it mounts fine. debian:/home/rajesh# mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (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/hda5 on /mnt/data type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda6 on /mnt/funstuff type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda9 on /mnt/hda9 type reiserfs (rw) ^ Why is mounting after putting the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab not working ? The same stuff works with -t reiserfs option to mount. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7(ext3), Mutt 1.3.19i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: reiserfs question
Kevin C. Smith saw fit to inform me that: Maybe this is a stupid question but: I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about the fsck. In particular, about when it runs after so many boots. Do I have to disable this somehow. I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs would be bad. tune2fs -i 0 -C 0 is what u need. However make sure that u run e2fsck on your ext2 partitions periodically. HTH Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7(with ext3),Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
Re: How to install Linux source code - part 2
Giri X saw fit to inform me that: Also when I use dselect , the first option Access does not list CDROMS in it. It says that it can be used only for http, ftp and APT. How do I install Use apt-cdrom add and insert all those 3 CD's one by one. Entries for them will be created in /etc/apt/sources.list. Now u will be able to install from the CD's. HTH Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7(with ext3),Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
Re: reiserfs question
Karsten M. Self saw fit to inform me that: on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Maybe this is a stupid question but: I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about the fsck. In particular, about when it runs after so many boots. Do I have to disable this somehow. I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs would be bad. This behavior is dictated by your /etc/fstab. ext2fs filesystems will fsck on some count of mounts (with appropriate mount options). By specifying 'reiserfs' as the filesystem type, which is necessary to mount the reiserfs filesystem(s), you'll avoid this behavior. Compare, e.g.: vfat, minix, iso9660, and other filesystem types, which don't run automatic filesystem checks on mount counts. e2fsck on a non-ext2fs filesystem will exit with errors, no harm done (not sure in case of ext3fs). Just yesterday Converted my ext2 file system of Potato to ext3. It was a smooth shift. debian:~# mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (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/cdrom on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=rajesh) /dev/hda6 on /mnt/funstuff type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda5 on /mnt/data type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda9 on /mnt/ext3 type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) debian:~# debian:~# e2fsck /dev/hda9 e2fsck 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda9: clean, 12/134784 files, 175293/269080 blocks No problems with e2fsck on ext3. However see to it that u have the latest version of e2fsprogs. The current one is 1.22 which works quite well. Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7(with ext3),Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
Re: reiserfs question
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about the fsck. In particular, about when it runs after so many boots. Do I have to disable this somehow. I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs would be bad. tune2fs -i 0 -C 0 is what u need. I read this on the ext3 patch page but I've got questions about it... - Should that command be in a startup script ?? If so, use /etc/rc.boot ?? - Is there a permanent config file this could be spec'd in ?? I've ran the command and it reported that it work (cycle count set to 0, etc) but I have a feeling that after a reboot, it will be forgotten. Is that correct ?? No need to put it in rc.boot. After running that command, reboot and type tune2fs -l /dev/hdXX where XX is your partition. You will see what I mean. PS I believe the -C above should be lower-case, as in -c. At least that's what the patch page showed... maybe they're equivalents. Sorry. Typo. It is indeed -c. From man tune2fs : -- -c max-mount-counts adjust the maximal mounts count between two filesystem checks. -i interval-between-checks[d|m|w] adjust the maximal time between two filesystem checks. No postfix or d result in days, m in months, and w in weeks. A value of zero will dis? able the timedependent checking. -C mount-count set the number of times the filesystem has been mounted. -l list the contents of the filesystem superblock. -- Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7(with ext3),Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
Re: debian 2.2 rel 3 and wvdial
Rajesh Fowkar saw fit to inform me that: Hi, Since I installed debian 2.2 r.3 I am facing this problem. Earlier on 2.2 it was working fine. Problem is. I am using wvdial to connect to the net. When I first time connect to the net using wvdial DNS is not working. However if I disconnect and than reconnect again everything seems to work fine. Can anybody point out where the problem lies. I have to daily connect twice now. Otherwise since DNS is not working I can not send mail nor can I browse. I have put the following in /etc/ppp/options usepeerdns it works fine. After connecting it creates /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. I have created a link /etc/resolv.conf which points to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. I forgot to mention one thing. Now I am on 2.4.7 kernel and I have upgraded my ppp and modutils from sid. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep ppp ii ppp2.4.0f-1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. ii pppconfig 2.0.5 A text menu based utility for configuring pp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep modutils ii modutils 2.4.1-1Linux module utilities. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7,Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM 1.0.8-6 Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
debian 2.2 rel 3 and wvdial
Hi, Since I installed debian 2.2 r.3 I am facing this problem. Earlier on 2.2 it was working fine. Problem is. I am using wvdial to connect to the net. When I first time connect to the net using wvdial DNS is not working. However if I disconnect and than reconnect again everything seems to work fine. Can anybody point out where the problem lies. I have to daily connect twice now. Otherwise since DNS is not working I can not send mail nor can I browse. I have put the following in /etc/ppp/options usepeerdns it works fine. After connecting it creates /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. I have created a link /etc/resolv.conf which points to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7,Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM 1.0.8-6 Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
debian 2.2 release 3 and net connect
Hi, I am new to this list. I am a home user on a dial up line, using wvdial to connect to the net. When I was using Debian 2.2 everything was working fine. But since I have installed Debian 2.2 Rel-3 there seems to be some problem. What happens is when I connect to the net for the first time using wvdial, it gets connected but my dns is not working. nslookup just gives the names of /etc/resolv.conf dns servers along with the error that no servers not found. However if I disconnect wvdial and dial again than everything works fine. Why I have to dial twice to make dns work ? Anybody faced this problem with Release 3. I am wasting my telephone calls here. Please help. My /etc/resolv.conf contains : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 210.212.161.28 nameserver 210.212.161.30 (DNS servers of my ISP here). Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.6,Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM 1.0.8-6 Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious --
Re: where is kde2.1 download for debian?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that: Hi Eric! Look at www.kde.org for mirrors where you can get best stable packages or use: deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional in your sources.list for the newest packages! how about deb ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/deb potato main Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIA Powered By : Debian GNU/Linux (Potato) Kernel 2.4.1 Mutt 1.3.16i The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes --
Re: sound ensoniq es1371
Anthony Campbell saw fit to inform me that: On 14 Feb 2001, Kent West wrote: Or don't use modules, at least to start with (as advised in the Sound HOWTO). If you compile the driver directly into the kernel you reduce the layers of possible error. Personally, I don't use modules at all. I am using es1371 module compiled with kernel 2.4 without any problems :-) Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: apt-cache and search
Colin Watson saw fit to inform me that: Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I do apt-cache search keyword I get listing of packages available in apt cache. Suppose I want a filename search not package how this can be done. I want to find if the file I need is present in any of the packages in apt-cache. You can either download the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file from the Debian archive and run zgrep on that, or else use the web interface at URL:http://packages.debian.org/. Thanks to all of you who replied to my post. I will try out your suggestions. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: missing debian-user-digest list??
I also posted regarding the same problem yesterday, but nobody replied. Is List admin listening please ? Thanks a lot. Regards Rajesh Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed saw fit to inform me that: Hi, Does anybody have any idea what has happened to this list? I haven't received a single message from this list in over 2 weeks...does anyone have any clue? I did notice a post on this subject last week or so, but haven't heard any responses from anyone. I have even tried re-subscribing under a new account, using a different machine, to eliminate any phantom procmail configurations or such If you too are experiencing this, could you let this be known? I find the traffic on debian-user way too busy...but also feel almost starved without debian-user-digest... kindest regards, --ibs. -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: Fw: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb
Bob Hilliard saw fit to inform me that: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a kernel-image.deb of the same version. A kernel-image.deb has many more of the possible options compiled into it than any one person would ever need, therefore it is larger and slower than one compiled with just the options that fit your preferences and your hardware. Say it is like this. The default kernel is : -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1042807 Feb 6 20:57 vmlinuz-2.2.17 My compiled kernel is : -rw-r--r--1 root root 689499 Feb 11 23:57 vmlinuz-2.4.0 See the difference in size :-) -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
debian-user digest
Hi, For the entire last week I did not receive any digest from the list. I saw lot of mails regarding this. Can the mailing list admin throw some light on this ? Now I have subscribe to debian-user back again. Is it not possible to subscribe to debian-user-digest Now ? Thanks in advance Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
apt-cache and search
Hi, If I do apt-cache search keyword I get listing of packages available in apt cache. Suppose I want a filename search not package how this can be done. I want to find if the file I need is present in any of the packages in apt-cache. How this can be done ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: apt-cache and search
Leonard Leblanc saw fit to inform me that: My apt cache is stored in /var/cache/apt/archives so you could simply do the following: % ls /var/cache/apt/archives | grep searchstring Thanks Leonard for your prompt response. My /var/cache/apt/archives is blank :-) - debian:/var/cache# apt-cache search fortune fortunes-min - Datafiles containing fortune cookies fortunes-off - Datafiles containing offensive fortune cookies fortune-mod - Fortune cookies provided upon demand. fortunes - Datafiles containing fortune cookies fortunes-cs - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune. fortunes-it - Italian fortune cookies debian:/var/cache# - Is there any way I can find out without doing dpkg -L package-name | grep fortune directly using apt-cache ? Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: re CD-RW
Hi, I have just added the following from CD-RW howto in /etc/modutils/aliases # Added on 31-01-2001 for CD-RW support ( SCSI emulation ) options ide-cd ignore=hdd# tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdd alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0 pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi Then run update-modules that's all. Both by CD-ROM drive(hdc) as well as my CD-RW (hdd) work fine. Regards Rajesh Jimmy Kaplowitz saw fit to inform me that: What I do is have both ide-scsi and ide-cd as modules, and I pass ignore=hdc as an option to ide-cd. (hdc is my CD-RW, not my regular CD-ROM) Then when I subsequently load ide-scsi the cdrom is IDE and the cd-rw is SCSI. (I set this up with Debian's modconf program.) - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: Is the list broken?
Gernot Bauer saw fit to inform me that: Hi, just recognised that I dont get any debian-user-digests any more (I guess for 3 days now). Is there something broken? I too faced the same problem. Hence Now I am subscribed to the debian-user list (no digest) and today I received mails. Regards Rajesh
Re: mailing list digest splitting
Mark Mackenzie saw fit to inform me that: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:30PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Why do you skip 2 messages? In Digest mode you get first 2 messages which are the indexes of all the mails in that digest. Are you sure? I have '| formail +1 -ds user' and don't see the index. splitdigest used to give me 2 dud messages, but not the procmail rule. I will try again today with formail +1 today :-) Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: mailing list digest splitting
Mark Mackenzie saw fit to inform me that: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:30PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Why do you skip 2 messages? In Digest mode you get first 2 messages which are the indexes of all the mails in that digest. Are you sure? I have '| formail +1 -ds user' and don't see the index. splitdigest used to give me 2 dud messages, but not the procmail rule. Initially when I used formail +1 one, I was still getting one mail with index contents. But now today when I tried the same I am not getting it. Anyway. Now I am using formail +1. :-) Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: mailing list digest splitting
Mark Mackenzie saw fit to inform me that: Please ignore my last post. I used to use splitdigest and saved in $HOME/user. procmail saves in $HOME/Mail/user as it should. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:27:15PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: :0: * ^TOdebian-user | formail +2 -ds Today_debian Why do you skip 2 messages? In Digest mode you get first 2 messages which are the indexes of all the mails in that digest. Regards Regards, Mark -- -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: Frequent download time outs
Hi, I too face many times such problems on my dial up connection. Just yesterday when I tried to download the rpm files of icewm, two of them got downloaded properly but the icewm-common file was just timing out in between. I tried it many times, but could not succeed. Finally a fellow icewm listers has sent me that rpm file by mail. Today I tried to download SDL latest version. The SDL binary rpm got downloaded properly but the SDL-devel package was timing out. I wanted the devel package for compiling some stuff I had downloaded from Freshmeat. Is this problem of the Host site or ISP ??? Presently I am using SuSE 7 and will be shifting to Debian soon. May be this week itself. Regards Rajesh Carl Johnson saw fit to inform me that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the base system packages. During 'apt-get update' download of the package lists, the system will time out. It took several attempts to finally get the full lists. It took even longer to download the necessary packages. I have the same problem, but some sites are much worse than others. I know it was happening with Debian 2.1, but I don't know about before that. You don't mention if you are using a modem, cable, or DSL, but I am using a modem. My suspicion is that it is due to timeouts at the host site, ISP, or somewhere in-between. Since modems are much slower, I suspect that modem users are much more likely to have this kind of problem. I used a unix login at my ISP to test some sites, and downloads directly to my ISP are completely error free. Downloads directly from my ISP are similarly error free, so see if you can come to any other conclusions. If anybody else has any other information *please* let me know. Some times are much better than others, so you may want to setup wget to automatically download at off-peak times. I use wget with options -t 10 -T 60 so it will keep trying with short timeouts. -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Hayes /**\
Re: mailing list digest splitting
Matias Vidal saw fit to inform me that: Hi, you can split the digest if you use procmail to organize your mail... In your .procmailrc add a rule that catch the digest and execute formail +1 -ds FullPathToTheMailbox Something like this: Start .procmailrc :0 * ^Subjet:.*Debian-user-digest.* | formail +1 -ds /home/matias/mail/listas/debian-user :0: * ^TOdebian-user | formail +2 -ds Today_debian works perfectly well. Thanks to all for the help. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * SiS6215 Card Configuration, RAID Configuration, Oracle 8i Installation under Linux * - Visit My Web Site * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com * Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. * -Hayes /**\
Re: mailing list digest splitting - solved
Kenward Vaughan saw fit to inform me that: On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:59:18AM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Hi Kenward, Kenward Vaughan saw fit to inform me that: Why not just get it in non-digest form? I will receive too many mails. I prefer to receive in digest form and then somehow split them. I wanted to know whether it is possible somehow. That's the point of filtering them into a directory/folder by themselves. A sort on subject of the contents gives you a great way to view it all, then. The Amount of mail w.r.t. bytes is about the same in either case, so the DL times are going to be roughly the same. Problem solved. Procmail receipe : - :0: * ^TOdebian-user | formail +2 -ds Today_debian - Regards Rajesh You can filter it into its own directory when received, thus achieving the same effect as a digest. Fetchmail can be run as a cron job to get new mail at certain times to keep you from having to sit through a long DL from your ISP (I run mine every hour). I am subscribed from my home from a dial up line. No cron job. :-) As intimated above, so am I. Your system can be set up to do nearly anything, including dialing your ISP and fetching the mail. Check out various issues of the Linux Gazette, searching on mail. -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * SiS6215 Card Configuration, RAID Configuration, Oracle 8i Installation under Linux * - Visit My Web Site * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com * Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. * -Hayes /**\
mailing list digest splitting
Hi, I have new to this mailing list. Subscribed just yesterday. This is my first mail to the list. Planning to install Debian in a short time once I receive the Debian CD's burnt from one of my friends. At present I am using SuSE 7. I have got a small question. Is it possible to split the mails from Digest mode to individual mail after receiving the mail in digest format ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards Rajesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 101 : Issue 160 Today's Topics: Re: static vs modules [ Jon Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: DHCP and NFS instalation [ Jon Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: wvdial connects, but then ppp ge [ Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: Making System Back-Ups[ Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: Matrox + XF4 + 2.4[ Jon Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: IMAP MUA and filtering[ D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] RE: NIC identification[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] fetching source/recompiling all my p [ Andreas Boman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] wterm and .Xdefaults [ Jools Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: static vs modules [ Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] pine4 [ Michal Kolesar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] jdk-runtime from blackdown.org versi [ Michael Meding [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: [OT] sound card recommendations [ Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: curious: Re: running another X f [ Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: MUA Blues in X[ mike polniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: static vs modules [ Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: Full System Restore with tar: Re [ csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: Debian GNU/Hurd? [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: Looking for a driver for a sound [ mike polniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: pine4 [ W. Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] -- Rajesh Fowkar /**\ * SiS6215 Card Configuration, RAID Configuration, Oracle 8i Installation under Linux * - Visit My Web Site * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com * Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * The expert at anything was once a beginner. * -Hayes /**\
