How do I print .sgml files?
This is crazy, but I can't find out how to print .sgml files. I installed the debian-sgml package and got a raft of files installed but just _WHAT_ is it that I do to print a file? I tried using man sgml to no avail, looked for all *sgml* in /usr/bin but only found three utilities, and now have no idea where to look next. Please someone put me out of my misery! Cheers, Robin Collins
Applying LFS patch kernel + glib
I want to apply the large file system (LFS) patch to 2.2.14 and glibc-.2.1.3. I'm happy with the kernel bit but not the glibc. Clearly I can get the source of Debian, apply the LFS patch and re-build, but I'm very wary of re-building glib for obvious reasons. Alternatively, there's a .RPM for RedHat which I could install. My question is: which is the lesser of these two evils? I've never built glibc before so have no ideas what dependencies it has, what gotchas there are etc. Conversely, applying a non-Debian package to something critical like this is also risky. I'd appreciate help in deciding which route to take. Cheers, Robin Collins BTW, I must use 2.2.14 due to massive corruption problems with 2.2.17/NFS/loop/crypto which I don't get with 2.2.14.
lprng/samba/win98 problem, at a loss to know what to do
I hope someone can help me figure out what's going on here. State so far: 1) printer is an OKI20, running native postscript. 2) lprng installed 3) magicfilter slected ps600 a) can print from Linux using lpr and also from Netscape b) can print from Win98 DOS box with captured lpt1: c) CAN'T print from a Win app. What happens in (c) is that the print goes across (I can see network activity) and /var/log/lp-acct shows job start and job end entries at the same time and exactly the same as those cases which work ... however no print arrives. I figure it's _something_ to do with filtering, presumably Windows has created a file which magicfilter is tossing away for some reason (?): if this isn't the case then I've no idea. Can someone please help me discover just where the print's going? Cheers, Robin Collins
ipchains packet logs get displayed on active tty
Packet logs generated by my ipchains firewall are being displayed on the currently selected tty device yet I don't have any syslog rules which use /dev/console. I have activated the rule sending much output to /dev/tty12, yet the packet logs (generated using the KERN_NOTICE facility setting by ip_fw.c in the kernel) which should match the *.=NOTICE rule aren't going to tty12! I didn't get this when I was using SuSE's distro and have no idea what to try to fiddle with. Anyone any ideas? Cheers, Robin Collins
Re: Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?
Griffith Feeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1) QMAIL - 'cos it's also a POP server, meaning I can revert to my Windows clients if I fail to find a Linux one I likt. Do you really want to run a POP server? I.e., is your machine on all the time, and do you want to receive incoming mail for other people and let them pick it up from your machine? Probably not. Why not stick with exim, using eximconfig option 2 smarthost to send mail via your ISP's machine. 2) FETCHMAIL - to get my mail from other ISPs. This is my situation: ISP1 delivers using SMTP ISP2 and ISP3 require me to retrieve using their POP servers As I see it, QMAIL acting as an SMTP server (MTA?) receives the mail from ISP1, while FETCHMAIL goes to ISP2 and ISP3's POP servers and downloads the mail, giving it to QMAIL just like ISP1's SMTP server. Thus QMAIL now has all my mail. By using QMAIL's POP3 server I can use my normal Windows POP3 clients and/or Linux clients to read it, these clients being configured to use QMAIL as their outbound SMTP server. Erm ... am I making _any_ sense ;-). Thanks for trying to unconfuse me! Cheers, Robin Collins
Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?
Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP (Demon) which tries to deliver mail using SMTP, the only ISP I've ever had where this is an option. It therefore seems time for me to get to grips with this-here Linux mail stuff. I still need to retain POP3 client access to other mailboxes, so at present I'm thinking that from the vast array of MTAs, MUAs (etc. etc.) these seem to fit the bill for me: 1) QMAIL - 'cos it's also a POP server, meaning I can revert to my Windows clients if I fail to find a Linux one I likt. 2) FETCHMAIL - to get my mail from other ISPs. As far as I can see QMAIL will receive my Demon mail via SMTP and FETCHMAIL can go off to my other ISPs and get the mail there and wack it into QMAIL, so I have all my mail ready for reading via POP. Will this work like I think it will? Will QMAIL act as an SMTP server to deliver mail I send out, meaning I won't have to use an ISP's SMTP server? Sorry if this are naive questions, but even after reading a _lot_ of HOWTOs, READMEs etc. I find the whole area of Linux mail systems pretty much impenetrable :) Cheers, Robin Collins
Can't get ISDN MPPP working [sigh]
After much struggle I've got myself a nicely working 64k connection, but like very many before me MPPP has me beat! I found the ISDNUTILS scripts and docs impenetrable, and came up with scripts based on a couple of HOWTOs I came across. This is my script to configure the connection: MYUSER=robinsc REMNAME=demon MYIP=158.152.143.92 REMIP=158.152.1.222 MYMSN=1925xx REMMSN=08440416672 /sbin/isdnctrl verbose 3 /sbin/isdnctrl system on /sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 /sbin/isdnctrl eaz ippp0 $MYMSN /sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $REMMSN /sbin/isdnctrl huptimeout ippp0 90 /sbin/isdnctrl l2_prot ippp0 hdlc /sbin/isdnctrl l3_prot ippp0 trans /sbin/isdnctrl encap ippp0 syncppp /sbin/isdnctrl dialmode ippp0 auto /sbin/isdnctrl addslave ippp0 ippp1 /sbin/isdnctrl pppbind ippp1 1 /sbin/isdnctrl eaz ippp1 $MYMSN /sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp1 out $REMMSN /sbin/isdnctrl huptimeout ippp1 90 /sbin/isdnctrl l2_prot ippp1 hdlc /sbin/isdnctrl l3_prot ippp1 trans /sbin/isdnctrl encap ippp1 syncppp /sbin/isdnctrl dialmode ippp1 auto /sbin/ifconfig ippp0 $MYIP pointopoint $REMIP /sbin/route add default netmask 0 ippp0 /sbin/ifconfig ippp0 -arp -broadcast /sbin/ipppd user $MYUSER remotename $REMNAME \ $MYIP:$REMIP name $MYUSER\ -detach mru 1500 mtu 1500 lcp-restart 1 +mp debug \ /dev/ippp0 /dev/ippp1 To dial I issue: isdnctrl dial ippp0 isdnctrl addlink ippp0 Both channels dial and connect, the problem lies when the slave receives the IP from the host, it terminates with a sifaddr failed error. The debug trace shows the master successfully negotiated MPPP. I figure this means set interface address and refers to the fact that since I have a static IP it's trying to set interface ippp1 to the same IP as the master on ippp0. I'm tried reading and re-reading HOWTOs, READMEs etc sigh, can someone point out where I've gone wrong? It seems to me that I'm that close to getting it going. TIA, Robin Collins
Re: Debian Firewall/Gateway
S . Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have any ideas as to why name resolution/lookup might not work ? How did you configure DNS on this second machine? I'm far from a firewall expert :) but all I did was to put my ISP's DNS server IPs in /etc/resolv.conf on my internal system and the firewall simply passes on the request out through the NAT and gives me back the reply. I can't think I did anything else. Did you check your firewall log for any indications that you're blocking the DNS traffic? Robin Collins
NT4 in VMWare VM can't see Samba over network - Yes, PlainTextPassword set :)
Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot. When booted to native NT4 SP6a with PlainTextPassword set A can see B and access B's shares perfectly. When booted to Linux, SMBCLIENT can see B's shares, use them and can also NFS mount them. BUT, when I run NT4 SP6a in a VMWare VM the VM can see the host, can see a Win98 system also on the network but can't see B nor map a share using NET VIEW: attempts fail with an error 53, name not found. Network Neighbourhood is also missing B, but the stange thing is that after a while (where while seems indeterminate!) B appears in Network Neighbourhood but it's shares cannot be seen. There are no errors logged by smbd or nmbd on B but the problem feels like some sort of name resolution problem; though clearly not DNS since the VM can ping B by name. PlainTextPassword is set since the VM can map drives from the host's Samba. SMBCLIENT on B can get to the VM's shares so B in able to see A's VM by name. I've installed many NT4/Samba systems in my time but I've never seen this, anyone any ideas? Cheers, Robin Collins
Re: Opera for Linux
Don't know about the Linux version, Beta2 just came out and I plan to look at it sometime soon. I've been a user of the Windows version since early 3.something and find it very good. Of course, it depends on the sort of web sites you visit since Opera pride themselves on standards conformance and so don't support Microsoft's perversions ... sorry, extensions ... of the W3C standards. I'm now using 4.02 on Windows and find the browser and mail client both suffice for my needs, I use a homegrown app for Usenet. The mail client may be limiting if you need to do a lot of filtering, I don't so it's not a problem. As long as their QA for the Linux version is up to par with that of their Windows product then I think it'll be a good bet. My own personal inclination was to go with the Lizard, but I frankly have given up ever seeing a long-term usable Mozilla this side of the next millenium :) HTH, Robin Collins PS, of course Opera isn't Open Source, but then again much of what's available in OS is worth what you pay for it! - Original Message - From: USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:36 PM Subject: Opera for Linux Been on this list for the last few months. Never noticed anything posted on Opera web browser for Linux. I have a triple OS system (Win98, deb and slack) I am in the process of an upgrade from slink to potato and Slack 7.1. I have several programs, inclusive of Netscape, which run from /opt dir, so that they are shared between the two Linux distros. I usually unpack static binary tarballs for such programs downloaded directly from their parent sites. My present Netscape was downloaded over a year ago (ver 4.51), and has subserved its purpose (given the glitches of running on 32mb RAM) and some of the other problems posted on this list. Iam looking for something lightweight and less resource hungry, in the process of my upgrade. Yes, mozilla is a contender, but would like to keep my options open. Opera is also currently available (though not Open Source or GPL). Need first hand info on Opera for Linux, from anybody who is currently using it or has tried it out. There are some .debs on the Opera site as well, but I don't have a clue regarding its popularity in the debian world. Never used it myself, so any kind of info like resource utilisation, speed, customisation, java support, plug-in support, glitches etc would be welcome. Thanks. USM Bish -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Suddenly I need MEM= to lilo, why?
I've just discovered that after re-installing potato I now only have 64Mb out of 256Mb unless I use MEM=256M. VMWare was first to tell me, then I noticed /proc/kcore was only 64Mb. This is on a Supermicro P6DBS with dual PIII 700s which has had several Linux flavours installed, including potato, and till now has always recognised 256Mb. While everything _seems_ to be working after using the MEM= lilo append I'm worried as to why all of a sudden the kernel needs to be told. About the only difference I can see is that I now have LILO in the MBR, whereas before I was booting LILO off NT's boot loader. Could that somehow make a difference? I'm baffled. Robin Collins BTW, this is with 2.2.17 + international patch.
dpkg -scanpackages - how?
In response to a question from me about how to make use of the .debs I'd accumulated in /var/cache/apt during a re-install several people helpfully suggested I did dpkg -scanpackages Well, I tried and failed. Looking at the man and info pages for dpkg I don't see any scan capability. What do I have to install to get this feature? Cheers, Robin Collins
ISDN info (for UK)
Giving up on ever seeing ADSL (too far away from the exchange, screw you BT!) I'm installing ISDN as my best hope this side of the next millenium. I know a lot about modems and nothing about ISDN so I'd appreciate some advice on what ISDN card to insall for use in England. These are issues (using that word the way God intended, not the way Microsoft perverted!) which I can see I need to resolve: 1) compatiblity between modems is always a problem - I have two modems which work fine with one ISP each and abysmally if I swap them over. I doubt this is an issue with ISDN cards or is it? 2) Linux hardware support - clearly the Howto is going to be the bible but is there a recommended brand of ISDN card for Linux? 3) Linux software - does pppd still apply (I use wvdial) or does one have to use something else? 4) channel bonding - anything I should know? 5) anything other consideration I haven't listed? I'd be grateful for any thoughts before I get myself hopelessly confused ;) Cheers, Robin Collins
KDE2 source build sequence
Can someone tell me the order in which the KDE2 source packages should be built? With Gnome there's a page on their web site listing the package order and using this I fired up Gnome with only one minor glitch. With KDE2 though I can find no such list, meaning a massive trial-and-error excercise discovering which libs any package depends on (and I'm getting _very_ bored trying to build packages only to find they have dependencies I haven't built yet sigh). Cheers, Robin Collins
First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?
Hi, I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and am finding lots about Debian I like better, not the least is dpkg/dselect/apt. One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages off the Web which replace those on the potato CD. I now want to re-install on a second machine from scratch and wonder how I can have dselect recognise the accumulated .debs. As far as I can see I need to create a Package.gz for dselect's benefit but don't really know where to look for information on how to do this. Is it possible? Cheers, Robin Collins
