Courier IMAP directory structure with Exim
Hi, Out of the box, Courrier IMAP works very easily with exim when delivering mail to local users $HOME/Maildir. I followed http://www.flatmtn.com/computer/Linux-Imap-Courier.html However when connecting via IMAP to the server, you cannot create directories on the level of the IMAP account, subdirectories can only be created in the inbox. I tried to deliver mail via Exim to $HOME/Maildir/.Inbox however the IMAP server did not recognise it as a Maildir directory - even though I ran makemaildir for it (actuall same effect as sending myself a mail via exim as exim creates the directory). Does anyone know how to move the inbox directory down a directory? Courier docs are no help. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)
Seems like there are a few options 1) clamva which is gpl'd but maybe fails www.testvirus.org 2) use "exim heavy deamon" (whatever that is) which seems to nuke a lot of attachments. 3) buy a commercial AV where amarvis or mailscanner is your friend (which seem to do the same thing (amarvis without the spam stuff)). thanks for the tips guys. tom On Thursday 15 April 2004 21:54, Thomas Halahan wrote: > Hello, > > I just set up a small mail server with exim+fetchmail+courier-imap. In > doing so, however, I seemed to have opened up a virus threat which was > previously handled at the workstation where mail was downloaded straight > from a pop3 account on the net. After some investigation is seems that I > have the following options > > 1) Buy IMAP compatible virus software for the Windows work stations - > although I cannot actually find any. > > 2) Buy a comercial email virus scanner, although very few seem to support > exim which may force a switch to qmail or procmail. > > 3) Use a filter like amavis, and a commercial command line scanner which it > supports. > > 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of. > > My budget is small, maybe $100. > > The following is the only HOWTO I have found > > http://www.clues.ltd.uk/howto/debian-sa-fprot-HOWTO.txt > > My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply > antivirus scanning? > > Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)
Hello, I just set up a small mail server with exim+fetchmail+courier-imap. In doing so, however, I seemed to have opened up a virus threat which was previously handled at the workstation where mail was downloaded straight from a pop3 account on the net. After some investigation is seems that I have the following options 1) Buy IMAP compatible virus software for the Windows work stations - although I cannot actually find any. 2) Buy a comercial email virus scanner, although very few seem to support exim which may force a switch to qmail or procmail. 3) Use a filter like amavis, and a commercial command line scanner which it supports. 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of. My budget is small, maybe $100. The following is the only HOWTO I have found http://www.clues.ltd.uk/howto/debian-sa-fprot-HOWTO.txt My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply antivirus scanning? Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portfw timeout
I tried connecting from the outside, but my browser just keeps on trying to load, then a timeout. Anyone know how I can start forwarding in debug mode to get extra logging? On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:39 am, nate wrote: > Thomas Halahan said: > > Suggestions welcome and very appreciated... > > are you testing it from outside the firewall? my experience, many > things with port forwarding fail to look like they "work" if your > trying to connect from the system doing the forwarding or from > a system that is doing NAT for a machine doing the forwarding. > > try connecting to the service from outside the firewall(perhaps another > mahcine on the same subnet as the firewall) to see what happens. > or ask someone you know to telnet to the port and see what response they > get. > > nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portfw timeout
(apologies if already sent - my mails never seem to arrrive or am i impatient?) Hi, Running 2.2 kernel with ipchains etc.. firewall setup. Have got a simple firewall and have tried both the ipmasq package and a simple firewall builder GUI called firestarter (seems pretty good for my requirements). The problem I am having, after successfully compiling and installing the ip_masq_portfw module, is that the port forwarding is timeing out (despite clearly listening for connections on the fw port). I have an ADSL modem with ip EXT_IP and a machine (not the firewall) with internal ip INT_IP and have configured port forwarding as seems pretty standard for a web server as follows ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L EXT_IP 80 -R INT_IP 8081 ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L EXT_IP 80 -R INT_IP 8081 (tomcat server as the target). When I issue the commands above I can tell that forwarding has partially started as my browser pointing to http://EXT_IP:80 continues to attempt to load the site (before issueing the portfw commands the browser comes straight back with unable to connect to host). If I issue a lsmod I can see the module is being used. I cannot find any logging. Have played with hosts.allow and hosts.deny. Finally I tried a "$ telnet EXT_IP 80" and which stayed in a waiting to connect state. Any ideas why I might be getting timeouts? Clearly something in the chain is not passing on reuqests. Suggestions welcome and very appreciated... Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and IDE RAID?
Hi, I've just succesfully installed and am now running Debian3r0 with Abit BD7II-RAID ATA133 motherboard which uses the Highpoint 372 Controller (hardware). It was a bit of a struggle getting it to work as you need a spare disk to prepare the kernel that will boot from the raid disks. I have the RAID in 0 mode and it is fast. Highpoint provide a driver that you can compile as a module for your kernel. Some of this is non-free, therefore it is downloaded partly as source and partly as a pre-compiled lib. It works much like CDRW by making the RAID devise a scsi one. I have not had to use any raidtools package. Highpoint also provide a frontend that allows you to monitor your disks, rebuild them etc.. Tom On Tuesday 27 August 2002 4:27 pm, Danijel Pajur wrote: > Hi everybody! > > The time has come to upgrade my trusty old Debian box, and I\'ve started > looking into getting an affordable IDE RAID solution. Searching the web for > various IDE RAID controllers and Linux revealed lots of problems, most of > which I\'d assume are related to the actual hardware, or lack thereof. > > I know times change, and I\'m wondering if anyone could advise me if > there\'s an IDE RAID controller out there that works well with Debian, in > RAID1 (mirror) mode? Or would I be better off just scrapping the idea, and > going with single drives or software RAID? > > What I\'m really looking for is a trouble-free solution to running two > drives in a mirror, and if there\'s a management software - great, if there > isn\'t, the least I expect is to see errors in the syslog if one of the > drives fails. It doesn\'t seem like much to expect, but somehow I think it > might be hard to find with IDE RAID offerings :) > > I appreciate all your help. > > kind regards, > Danijel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on wysiwyg editor
I know its not WYSIWIG but LaTex does all the image, footnotes etc. you need, looks the best by far (has the best alorithms) and you can see exactly what your page is going to do in the dvi view or even ghostview. whatsmore pdf is becoming as much of end format as ps is now, which means all your docs can have hyperlinks, bookmarks etc. will admit is takes some effort, but nothing $20 on the small LaTeX manual by lamport wont solve. Tom On Monday 25 March 2002 6:12 am, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi ! > > Well, I need a wysiwyg editor a la M$ Word. The documents > I'll edit are more or less as complex as one see in > papers, I mean, numbered schemes, headers, footers, > inserted images and tables, page numbers, footnotes, text > styles, chapters, TOCs, etc. > So far I'm trying with Kword, Abiword and Lyx. Abiword is > better that Kword at importing M$ Word documents. Lyx > seems to be the perfect tool for the task, but it lacks > (to my taste) a little feedback. OK, I'll admit it, I > believe it's very powerful, but I find it UGLY :) Some > sort of "Print Preview" would be very valuable. > > While I keep playing with those three, it'll be very > useful to hear some advice. > > Thanks in advance !! --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the quest for a *stable* browser
Opera is great. Fast, doesn't crash. Is compilant etc. Mozilla I found to be big, slow and simply refused to be configured. I hated it. On Monday 11 March 2002 18:16, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > I had read a review in news.com recently that opera is > the most stable and fastest (in terms of page display) on > linux. Try it out (free version comes with a small advt > banner logo). > > -Ramesh > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:37 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: the quest for a *stable* browser > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:32:49PM -0800, Joe wrote: > > >From the non-free tree, Netscape 4.x is rock solid. > > It is? Then why is it that, when I have a dozen windows > open to graphics-heavy sites, closing one window will > occasionally shut netscape down entirely? Usually with a > simple "bus error" as the entire explanation, although > yesterday it managed to hose X so badly that I had to > reboot to recover (first time I've seen that happen > without DRI being involved). > > So, no, I wouldn't call Netscape 4.77 "rock solid".
Re: Which FTP client?
I really like ncftp. It's got queueing batch jobs (ncftpbatch), you can list remote directories (ncftpls), it remembers the directories you were in etc.. It's great. Tom On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:37, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client > CuteFTP with a Linux one. > Which is the best client out there? > > I'd like to be able to: > -easyly create a queue of files and directories > (recursive) to be downloaded > -leave it unattended > > For the second point it should be able to reconnect if > disconnected and retry say every 60 seconds if it does > not get it. Then it should resume the downloads without > asking questions. > > Any advise is greatly appreciated! > Many thanks for your help in advance! > best regards, > Balazs
Re: LAN setup
Look at dnsmasq package (thekelleys.org.uk I think - or just google find). Its simple and easy and much better than bind for small LANS. Excellent! On Thursday 31 January 2002 20:11, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. > I'm using a gateway/router/firewall (hadrian) to stop > unwanted traffic and allow internet access and LAN access > to everybody else. Then I have gashuffer, my main > workstation, and a Win box that my girlfriend uses, and > an occasional laptop. Now, the question is this: Without > running BIND on hadrian (or elsewhere on the LAN) is > there a way to allow, e.g.: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine now) > > or an exim .forward like > # Exim filter > # -- > #Forward all mail to gashuffer > > if $h_From: matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > then > deliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] > finish > endif > > I ask because BIND seems more trouble than it's worth, > security-wise, and it's a small LAN that's well served by > my ISP's nameservers. Right now I can't even mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gashuffer's LAN address) although I'm > not sure exim like's those sorts of addresses. Any > pointers to good docs or suggestions welcome. Thanks all, > Steve
Re: small network setup tools
Thanks for the advise guys. Need a little more clarification. Have got my PC networked now, and all point to the gateway PC which has the modem attatched. However when I dial up the gateway PC doesn't allow the other PC's to route through it to the internet. The route table suggests that this should be possible when the ppp0 ip addresses are assigned. Reading aroung it seems that I need the 'ipmasq' package. Can you confirm this. Also I need some kernal modules (of kernel compile flags) available. Will I have to recompile my kernel. I hope not. Tom On Tuesday 22 January 2002 08:41, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 22 January 2002 3:40 am, Stephen Gran wrote: > > [snip lots of useful advice] > > I think you left a most important thing out. > > do a > > man interfaces > > This describes what to put in the file > /etc/network/interfaces - which basically how to tell a > debian system which interfaces to bring up during boot > and how to treat them. Specifically, on the non gateway > machines you can specify the ip address of the gateway > which then tells it how to route packets for the internet > from your client machines out through the gateway an on > to the internet. No need for route add etc > > - -- > > Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8TReW1mf3M5ZDr2kRAnmPAJ0VBKiIDP/xVBMKubbITeBOEF/MA >QCgsWwS 2tSCevoASPKz+fO2ruvDA+8= > =L9Tx > -END PGP SIGNATURE-
small network setup tools
Hi, Looking for a few pointers as how to best set up a small office network. Basically can install debian on the machines but don't really know how to join them in the simplest way (4 machines). I want the server to be the gateway to the internet. I've tried linux conf at setting up gateways etc but no luck. I've also tried 'routed' (is this the right thing?). Can't be bother to fiddle with 'route add' every time I boot - there must be a standard way in debian. Also how can i set up the server to dial in to the internet by ppp and allow the other machines to access the internet through it. I guess i need some pointers as to the pertinent conf files and commands and whether there are any good config applications out there. Any key-words / suggestions very welcome. Thanks Tom
Re: DVD player
I don't understand why I can't get my K6-2 400MHz, and Rage IIC greaphics card to give good playback. In the DVD howto I see that you need io ctrl in the Kernel. Could it be that I do't have this feature enabled? Is it really that critical. I guess I want to know what is the likely weakest link in my setup as I really know nothing about hardware. Tom > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. For > film-source DVDs you want 72Hz or 96Hz refresh so you > need a RAMDAC of 82MHz or 110MHz respectively. The other > consideration for video cards is that it really must have > an implementation of Xvideo for XFree86, hardware color > space conversion, hardware scaling, and it must have > enough video memory bandwidth to convert/scale at > 1024x768/16. > > Briefly: you need at least a Matrox Millenium (c. 1995). > > Regarding the rest of the system, any 350MHz+ CPU with a > vector math unit will work. Pentium II/III/IV, Celeron, > Duron, K6, Athlon, G4 should be fine. Once you get to > zero dropped frames, there isn't a lot of point in piling > more hardware on. > > -jwb
Re: Sending mail from bash scripts
Yes, mailx -s "Subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < some_file_with_contents.txt (One line clearly) tom On Thursday 13 December 2001 23:46, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is there any easy way to send a message complete with > subject and body from a bash script? I want to run > something simple from cron, but can't seem to get the > format down just right...
Making non-official debian CDs
Hi, I want to make debian non-US CDs but I also want to get non-free stuff on the CDs also. I'm currently using the make-pseudo-image method to get the .debs from a mirror. I guess my question really is: is it sufficient to get the non-free stuff and just put it on the CD in the relevant non-free directory tree or do I need to create some ls-lR.txt or Contents.gz file that will tell apt-cdrom about it? Tom.
Re: WYSIWYG Html editor recomendation...
I have tried 'amaya' which is open surce from the w3 organisation. its' well featured and also makes very nice looking HTML at the back end. However there is not ability to refresh if you change outside the editor (like in emacs) which I find a bit annoying. I have also used the mozilla composer, but this kept of crashing on me and also put loads of 's where they weren't wanted. tom On Friday 23 November 2001 16:38, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! Can some one recomend me a good WYSIWYG > editor that will work with debian testing? I would like > to find something that will let me create tables and > forms with all the possible html controls... Thanks!
dot matrix printing labels
Hi, I'm looking into printing labels from a roll of labels one label wide on a dot-matrix printer from a debian box. I don't want to print a whole page of them at once, only one at a time - depending on when the stock comes in. Does anyone know how this incremental print could be done. A label is about 5cm by 3cm. Tom
starting netscape without toolbar and addressbar
Hi deb-user, I have a role account on my network where users logging on will have netscape started for them directed to the intranet. I think I can get netscape to boot up ok on login but don't know how to start it without the addressbar and icon bar shown at the top. Does anyone know how to disable this (not in preferences I don't think). (netscape 4.75) I know I could open another window with the right look with javascript but there are privelage problems doing it this way as it is difficult to close the original window. tom.
software strategy for shop
Hi, a friend of mine is starting a record shop (old and new vinyl and cds) and i am helping him on the technical side. our objectives to start with are: 1) Have all stock coming in and going out recorded on a database that will allow for stock control, account reporting, profits, unit sales etc. 2) Have certain fields of the database available to debian terminals in the shop so that customers can browse the available stock (an possibly listen to clips too). 3) On a regular basis upload the available stock to our ISP so that online customers can browse the stock. There are no plans to have online payment at this time - telephone or email orders to start with. Therefore I would welcome any advice on the following: i) What database would you use (server will be debian but there will be at least one windows machine off of it). ii) In what language would you write the administrators screen for data entry and sales reports. iii) How should the shop browsing be organised, and similarly the online ISP browsing. Clearly it would be easier if I were to mirror the online website with one in the shop. I am aiming for minimum development time that will produce a nice simple but effective system for my friend. Any suggestions on custom software or exisiting systems much appreciated. Tom
kill netscape persistant
When netscape (4.75) crashes I often still get: "PID" /usr/lib/netscape/475/navigator/navigator-smotif.real running under processes. even if i try to explicitly kill it with its pid it will not go away. this is really inconvenient as to get rid of this process running in the background i end up shuting down. has anyone any suggestions? tom
Re: Programming in Java
be warned, i did this and X was upgraded with the jdk, and x broke which took a while to fix. > > echo "deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian potato > non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list (all one line) > > apt-get update > > apt-get install j2sdk1.3 > > > Have a look the packages "jikes" and > > "ibm-fdk1.1-installer" for example. > >
video card for dvd
dear deb-user i want to upgrade my video card for DVD playback with a tv out, with 32Mb or more i presume. however there is so much choice out there i can't see the wood for the trees. if anyone has had any success with their vid configuartion please tell me what card you have. i am not interested in games, just video playback quality and color. suggestions welcome. tom
Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?
yes latex rules, spend a bit of time getting your slide (color) template and pdf stuff ok, then save time, get better looking presentation (with less fluff) and have a truely sharable presentation. i have played with texpower with pdflatex and dvipdfm with good results. on the downside its difficult to get a good answer to which is the best combination of packages to use that provide good functionality with simplicity. On Saturday 09 June 2001 15:30, Matthias Richter wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the > > facilities of Powerpoint? > > I've just completed a presentation using pdflatex (texpower, > hyperref, ifmslides) \ldots so if you're already very familiar with > (pdf)latex you might also use this cross-plattform way of > presenting things nicely ;-) > > Matthias Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}
or use
\usepackage{verbatim}
...
\verbatiminput{filename.txt}
this package also provides the comment environment which is good for
big comment blocks.
tom
DVD movie hardware requirements
dear deb-user i recently purchased a dvd player and tried to play a dvd movie using videolan. whilst the dvd did play the results were juddery, which i assume comes down to insufficient hardware to decode the dvd in real time. during play my cpu and ram were flat out. after reading the dvd howto i still didn't get a feel for what hardware i would need to get perfect replay. if anyone knows the minimum requirements (if this is definable) i would be very interested. currently i have 2.2.17, 4MB video card, 128MB RAM and 400MHz K6-2. regards tom
non kde app font size
dear deb-user i have just increased my working resolution on X11, as well as upgrading to kde2.1.1. despite, in the control panel, selecting non-kde apps to have same fonts as kde fonts, my menu fonts for netscape and friends are big and bold. do you know how i can change this?? regards, tom
Re: LaTeX and PDF-files
Mike I did compile dvipdfm a while ago. I have not used it much as it did not seem to offer me anything new in particular - but having said that I didn't really test it much. Q. What do you think dvipdfm is good at? I'm just curious to know when it might be useful. Tom On 21 4:34 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:48:39AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > How about just using dvipdf if you don't need all those fancy pdf > > features? > > I personally find dvipdfm to be superb. ps2pdf does _not_ do > nice output in my experience, but dvipdfm is used by me for all my > pdfs. > > Mike Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: LaTeX and PDF-files
meant to add this my my 1st reply,
I have heard that you can embed javascript in pdflatex files for
presentations, for example.
does anyone know if this is true?
tom
On 15 10:44 am, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Well, thanks for everybody's suggestions.
>
> I have tried out this way:
> \pdfoutput=1
> \documentclass[a4paper, pdftex]{report}
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg}
> \begin{document}
> \includegraphics{somepicture}
> \end{document}
> That worked for me (not only with .jpg but also with png, which is
> better for black-and-white graphics ;-))
> I will try out the other ones as well
>
> joerg
Re: LaTeX and PDF-files
Joerg,
I use 2 ways
1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures.
> pslatex filename.tex
> dvips filename -o
> ps2pdf filename.ps
the pslatex embeds the fonts for you, it is like using
\usepackage{times}. the ps2pdf results are better this way. you can
then also use the psfrag package for example (which works with dvips).
OR..
2) only refer to your images without the extension.
\includegraphics{filename}
then convert all your images to pdf using the "eps2pdf" perl script
(came with potato).
> eps2pdf *.ps
now run pdflatex and your graphics will be included.
Hope this helps.
Tom
On 13 11:12 am, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> To all pdflatex-users
>
> I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command.
> This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex
> cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex --> xdvi shows
> them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried
> .bmp, .png, .ps as input; latex --> dvi makes it all, but pdflatex
> just leaves space...) How can I do this?
>
> thanks
>
> joerg
why does xmms take so long to start playing?
dear deb users, i have xmms 1.2 on debian potato playing mp3's. when i had the same thing running on redhat the mp3 streaming would start after 10 seconds or so. however now on deb it takes up to 2 minutes to start playing after i press the play button. is there a reason for this. there doesn't seem to be any options for changing this. regards tom
Re: deleted root directory - fixed, actually a lib problem
Adam & Karsten, thanks very much for your postings. i am a fool for not backing up better - i suppose i was waiting to buy a CD writer but didn't want to spend. anyway hints from your emails gave me enough to go on. i ran fsck to repair. you also mentioned libraries which i looked into, and sure enough the contents to lib had been moved! so i'm sorry to say i was obviously wrong - i had not deleted the root (i don't think anyway) but somehow the essential system libraries had been moved and hence 'ls' and other command did not work. i would not have been able to do this without your promt help. thank you very much. regards tom
deleted root directory - help me!
Dear Deb-users This is a disaster. Whilst running a configure script (as su) it appears that my root directory was deleted. I could not even run the ls command, for example, and I had to turn the power off. I then booted the machine and the kernel is uncompressed but only gets as far as init - which it does not find and the boot stops. So I then booted from the CD-rom distro (potato) and used the "re-mount from previously initialised partition" option for my root, usr and home directories. I then use the "exectute sheel commands" option that taks me to ash shell. The partitions are mounted off a directory called /target. I find that using the ls command loaded at boot from the CD I can actually see all my files. However the file allocation table is clearly not ok on normal boot. How on earth can I repair this? I have looked into fsck command - from get started guide - but am too scared to use it. Whilst i can copy files accross to floppy, when in rescue boot, this will take forever which I would rather avoid if posible. I would greatly appreciate any commands (with options) anyone might be able to suggest that could fix this problem. PLEASE send answers to my personal account (as well as list) as, clearly, I cannot access the mailing list that easily! Thanks Tom
Re: apache 1.3.12 sources + dpkg-deb
Gabor,
I had *exactly* the same problem with gs-aladdin from woody
yesterday. I am new to source debs, but also tried to build it with
pdpkg-deb -b and got the same sequence of errors.
As you did I removed the spare line, and put in a version number, but
the dependancy line foxed me. So are we doing something wrong? We
must be - it can't be a problem with both sources.
Tom
On 27 9:35 pm, Gabor Gludovatz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the apache 1.3.12 sources and wanted to make a deb
> from it but dpkg-deb -b apache-1.3.12 says:
> dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file
> `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or
> directory
>
> I rename apache-1.3.12/debian to DEBIAN and then the same command
> again:
>
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' near
> line 7: missing package name
>
> ok, there was a spare new line on the 7th line. I deleted it.
> then I did a dpkg-deb -b apache-1.3.12 again:
>
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' near
> line 9 package `apache':
> `Depends' field, invalid package name `${shlibs:Depends}': must
> start with an alphanumeric
>
> that's all. what shall I do now?
>
> can my dpkg-deb be too new? (1.6.15 (i386))
>
>
> I'd like to make an apache with frontpage extension but first I
> wanted to make a deb file from the original source...
>
> thanx in advance
>
> ps.: does someone know of an apache+frontpage.deb? then I needn't
> to bother with dpkg-deb.
gs-aladdin source - how do i compile?
Deb-users, I want to compile gs on my box because i want to add in new drivers. However I am having trouble understanding how I can introduce my new c source code before compiling. There is no obvious source tree (like for a src-tar.gz). Where do i slot in new code and how can i play with the code? How do you compile a deb source (tried dpkg-deb -b to no real results)? where is there better documentation?? Tom
Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.
Anthony, I, too, have this Esoniq card. I have also had exactly the same problem of not getting any sound out of it. Could you tell me what, exactly, you did to make it work. What is this OSS software? How can I install it and what is it called? Tom > > My sincere thanks to all who've replied on this, either on the list > or privately. Meanwhile I've downloaded the OSS file and everything > seems to be working (at least, something comes out of the speakers > though I haven't actually got anything to test it with yet!). I'll > work on the helpful suggestions made and see if I can get the > kernel version to function later. > > Anthony
what fax software do you suggest?
dear deb-users, I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send faxes from my box (but I don't really have to recieve them). Q> What software, from the debian distro, would you suggest which is easy to set up for sending PS files, for example. Thanks Tom
Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm
I have tried #!/bin/bash --login and #!/bin/bash -login in .xsession and neither works. I have also tried just "/bin/bash --login" in the saem file to no avail? I don't know why. Tom On 07 11:45 pm, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Denis Kosygin wrote: > > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > > > I tried to put > > > > > > > > > #! /bin/bash --login > > > > > > > > as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. > > > > should=20 this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession > > > > global config? > > > > > > im not sure that trick works in the ~/.xsession, i don't really > > > see why not, but it could. =20 > > > > You need `#! /bin/bash -login' not `#! /bin/bash --login' (see > > the bash documentation). > > i did: > >--login > Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login > shell (see INVOCATION below). > > bash 2 uses --login, bash 1 used -login. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm
Thanks Ethan, I tried to put > #! /bin/bash --login as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? however the following > if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then > eval env "$(cat /etc/environment)" > fi worked in my ~/.xsession. thanks v much. tom
xsession, bash_profile and xdm
Dear deb-users, I want my .bash_profile to be read "globally" whenever I log in from xdm. Previously in Redhat I would start X from /dev/tty1 which was a login shell. However with debian I log in from xdm, and consequently none of my konsoles (I run KDE2) or xterms (/dev/pts/?) are are login shells by default. This means that my bash profile is not read. Q> Is there any way, in .xsessions or otherwise, to load my bash_profile "globally" when logging in from xdm? Thanks Tom
Re: Alternate method (was Re: Presentation software)
personally i'm an acrobat fan. you get good looking results in all colours. you can even embed javascript for the forward tab functionality, and you get acrobat "full screen" option when doing the actual presentation. you can still hand out the presentation on a url. tom On 03 6:39 pm, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > > From: USM Bish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [...] > > > To keep such presentations completely system inde- > > pendent, of late I have started using plain HTML. > > Me too. My needs aren't all that sophisticated, but they > still look okay to me. For some (outdated) examples, see: > > http://www.tir.com/~sorceror/presos.html > > One nice thing about doing it in HTML is that you can give > your audience the URL and they can go look at it offline. > > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Microsoft Windows - You'll envy the dead.
Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?
I solved this recently for KDE 2. My solution was 1) Use the "xev" command in an xterm to find out what keycode the Alt key is. (mine is 64) 2) Put the equivalent line in .xmod (or .xmodmap) > keycode 64 = Meta_L 3) execute "xmodmap .xmod" 4) start emacs and try. Tom On 04 3:30 am, Scott V. McGuire wrote: > In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I can't > use alt-x in emacs. Does anyone know why? > > (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x) > > Thanks,
Re: pppd connection ok but no IP information from ISP
Thanks for answering. I find the pppd options very confusing to understand. Anyway I think I have the solution. I reset the pppd option "connect-delay" to 2 seconds, and this waits longer before asking the isp for ip allocatioon. the default must have been too short previously. Tom On 03 2:24 pm, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Debian users > > > > I am having intermitent luck connecting with my ISP. I know that > > my chat script is ok, but sometimes after the pppd starts the > > serial connection my isp does not give my my dynamic IP address. > > sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. > > > > Q> is there a way to get the pppd to ask for the ip address > > forcefully? at the moment the connection just waits, and cannot > > configure ifconfig. > > Are you sure that the IP is the problem and not a symptom since > something earlier in the setup of the ppp connection has broken? > One way to find out is to enable debugging, both in the ppp config > files and in /etc/syslog.conf and then inspecting the log files > again. > > > Tom > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
pppd connection ok but no IP information from ISP
Debian users I am having intermitent luck connecting with my ISP. I know that my chat script is ok, but sometimes after the pppd starts the serial connection my isp does not give my my dynamic IP address. sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Q> is there a way to get the pppd to ask for the ip address forcefully? at the moment the connection just waits, and cannot configure ifconfig. Tom
KDE2 and key bindings in emacs
Dear users I have asked the following to the KDE user mailing too. I have updgraded to KDE2 (which is very good) and found that there are global keybinding in KDE that prohibit the use of the ALT key in emacs and bash. This is very inconvenient. I have gone into global keybinding of the KDE Control panel and removed all uses of ALT. However this has not "released" the ALT key for emacs. Q> Has anyone any idea as to how I might change this? Tom
KDE2 keybindings and Emacs
Previously with KDE 1.1.2 I had emacs working with the Meta function being my ALT key. However after installing KDE2 on debian the ALT key no longer responds in the emacs window as it is being used globally by KDE2. Even if I change the KDE keybindings emacs is not able access the ALT key. Any ideas as to how I could remove the ALT keybinding totally from KDE? Tom
Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories
your solution is more elegant than what i have put together with a find call. however how could you get it to list recursively? i have tried ls -1 -R -d */ tom On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, USM Bish wrote: > I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the > command "ls -d */" on my home directory. Only the > sub dirs are displayed. > > aedes:~$ls -d */ > Mail/ page/ nsmail/ > bd4v605/ free/ tklatex/ > > HTH > > alias lsd="ls -d */" should do your job ! > > USM Bish >
Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories
Perfect, Thanks very much. I have just added a bit so that I can list directories recursively. E.g. lsd -R At present file "~/home/bin/lsd" is #!/bin/sh if [ $1 ]; then if [ $1 = "-R" ]; then MAXDEPTH="" DIR=$2 #echo $1 MAXDEPTH = $MAXDEPTH fi else MAXDEPTH="-maxdepth 1" DIR=$1 #echo $1 MAXDEPTH = $MAXDEPTH fi if [ $DIR ]; then find $DIR $MAXDEPTH -mindepth 1 -type d else find $PWD $MAXDEPTH -mindepth 1 -type d fi exit Tom On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Timo Benk wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > > I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list > > only the directories in a directory. It should have similar > > functionality to the ls command. E.g. > > > > [tom]$ lsd ~ > > Try this one: > > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ $1 ]; then > find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type d > else > find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type d > fi > > > Ciao, > Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > > .-'~~~-. >.'o oOOOo`. | Timo Benk > ;~~~-.oOo o`. | Germany >`. \ ~-. oOOo. | Fax/Voicemail:+49891488214215 > `.; / ~. OO: | > .' ;-- `.o.' | > ,' ; ~~--'~ | [ASCII stolen from Mescalito Ted] > ; ;| > _\\;_\\//_ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Simple sh or alias to list directories
Hello, I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list only the directories in a directory. It should have similar functionality to the ls command. E.g. [tom]$ lsd ~ should list only the directories in my home folder, not the files. Does anyone know of a way to do this please? Regards Tom.
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
Hello,
Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite
understand this:
> I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3,
> and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked.
Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new
libc6.so. Is this right?
LISTING--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l
-rw-r--r--1 root root 237708 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.2 ->
libdb1-2.1.94.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.3 ->
libdb-2.1.94.so
-rw-r--r--1 root root50876 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb1.so.2 ->
libdb1-2.1.94.so
> Thomas Halahan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had
> > the same problems as many. i.e.
> >
> > * libdb.so.3 not found
> > * ldconfig disappears
> >
> > But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved
> > dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve.
> > Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However
> > libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do.
> >
> > How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of
> > downloading individual packages that turn out to have
> > interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg?
Conflicts make APT useless
Hi, I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found * ldconfig disappears But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of downloading individual packages that turn out to have interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg? Tom
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Rafael
Nice summary. The only thing is there must be an easier way that
editing the PS file. I will investigate.
Tom
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:
> Damn, I had to make a presentation using a laptop and a projector.
> I could not use a PDF file because acroread would not show the
> document in landscape. From the previous messages the way to convert
> the PS to PDF is given by the next example.
>
> Say the latex file is:
>
> \documentclass[semhelv,landscape,12pt]{seminar}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{slide}
> A darned slide.
> \end{slide}
> \end{document}
>
> $ latex test.tex
> $ dvips -Ppdf -t landscape test.dvi -o test.ps
>
> Edit the postscript with:
>
> Thomas Halahan wrote:
> >
> > > Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the
> > > PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces
> > >
> > > %%BeginSetup
> > > %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
> > > TeXDict begin
> > > @landscape
> > > %%EndSetup
> > >
> > > If I modify this to
> > >
> > > %%BeginSetup
> > > %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
> > > TeXDict begin
> > > << /PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 >> setpagedevice
> > > %%EndSetup
>
> After checking http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm we
> use the cammand:
>
> $ ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 \
> -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true test.ps test.pdf
>
> $ acroread test.pdf
>
> Now it shows right within acroread! I guess I won't be
> needing Corel Office 2000 or StarOffice now :).
>
> --
> Rafael
>
>
> --
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Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Maybe a better way to do this, rather than edit the ps file is to issue >> dvips -t landscape filename.dvi -o to get the landscape ps file. However when you convert to pdf the page is shown sideways and on my acroread i cannot rotate it. Viewing a presentation sideways is not fun. Any ideas how you can get acroread to view true landscape? Tom > Thanks for the suggestion. It is not easy to do that because the > seminar style uses several PostScript specials. These would all have > to be rewritten to used pdflatex. Also, I am incorporating PostScript > figures into the slides. I would have to convert all of them to PDF > for pdflatex. > > Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the > PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces > > %%BeginSetup > %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi > TeXDict begin > @landscape > %%EndSetup > > If I modify this to > > %%BeginSetup > %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi > TeXDict begin > << /PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 >> setpagedevice > %%EndSetup > > I can convert the PostScript file to PDF with ps2pdf and get the > desired orientation. >
RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
I tried this recently. What happened was that ps2pdf gave rubbish looking results. I don't know why this happens, but the quality is far worse than for pdflatex. pdflatex, whilst quality is good, doesn't recofgnise the \specials from fancybox package of pstricks of some such. Therefore the pdflatex semainar presentation comes out without a border and not the right size. If you do find a solution tell me. I saw that one user of seminar recomended VTEX but i could be bothered to learn that. check out http://www.tug.org/applications/Seminar/ AHH.. I have just seen your later post about editing the pd file. Question: Do you find the quality of ps2pdf satisfactory. Are you really projecting this? Perhaps I don't have the right gs fonts or something cos my fonts come out horrid. Any tips. Tom On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Stephenson, Paul wrote: > Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use > > landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give > > the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader > > available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the > > full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. > > > > My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The > > resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. > > Just a thought: have you tried generating PDF directly from the LaTeX > source with pdflatex? I have no idea whether this will solve your > problem, but it might be worth a try. > > Regards, > > Paul > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: libdb.so.3 missing
Andrew, I have had very similar problems. I upgraded to libc6 libc6_2.1.94-1, which caused certain programs (apache, gnome-apt) to not locale libdb.so.3. So I upgraded my libdb2 and this didn't help. As encouraged I upgraded to libc6_2.1.94-3 but I could not becuase it required libdb.so.3 which was missing. So I downdraded libc6 and my ldconfig dissapeard. I'm now in trouble - as I can't re-install ldso (the package with ldconfig). How did you reinstall ldconfig? Tom On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On 30-Sep-2000 P.J.Walsh wrote: > > dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg > > -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? > > It belongs to the libdb package but the problem is with libc6. > I had to revert to the previous versions of libc6, libc6-dev, and locales. > > The new libc6 packages are buggy. Your ldconfig is probably missing after the > libc6 upgrade. Mine just disappeared. > > -- > Andrew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Configuring KDE- Dial Up PPP
I asked had this problem a week ago. Many people kindly replied, and I sorted it out. It is the 'auth' option in /etc/ppp/options. I have forwarded the emails to your email address so as not to clutter here. Tom On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:39:40AM -0700, Jacob Hunter wrote: > -|When i run Dial Up Networking on KDE a box comes up saying pppd died > unexpectedly... I have my connection configured properly to work with my > ISP, but it still says that... i even tried a different ISP... > -|anyone have any ideas? > -|jacob > -| > > Do an "ls -l" on your pppd and see what "group" it belongs too. > Add yourself to that group. Then logout/login to reset your > group list. Also look in /etc/ppp for an options file. If there > is no options file then "touch options" to create an empty one. > > --- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com > Preferred O/S: Debian Linux 2.2 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Urgent LaTex question
\raggedright On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Loren Hoffman wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line > breaks after each line. > > It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, with a guideline > that the text be only left-justified. If you could help me out today, I'd > be very grateful. > > Thanks! > > Loren > > > > ### > # Loren Hoffman # > # Junior, Physics # > # 204 Marks # > # MSC 515 # > ### > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Xclients and bash_profile not read
When I login my .bashrc file is read but NOT my .bash_profile or .Xclients. I don't understand where the commands are comming from because by default I get into kde, even though my .Xclient doesnt ask for it. Why isn't .bash_profiles working? Tom Halahan
Re: pppd dies immediately in kppp
Yes thanks, noauth solves the problem. however my debian distribution says not to change this for some reason! Thanks again On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:08:48PM +, thus spake Thomas Halahan: > > > > I cannot get kppp to work. After the handshake with my ISP, I can see it > > connect, but the pppd daemon dies immediately. I can connect with the 'pon' > > command. > > > > I get the following error with kppp: > > > > pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself > > pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to > > do so. > > pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) > > Have a look in your /etc/ppp/options file - somewhere it probably > says somethng like this > > > snip <-- > # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network > > # packets to be sent or received. > > # Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in > > # future releases of pppd. Use the call option (see manpage) to disable > > # authentication for specific peers. > > auth > ---> snip < > > try making it > > noauth > > See if that helps. If not change it back and ask again! > > Glyn M > > > > > > > > -- >** >* "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * >* Douglas Hoftstatder* >** > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Xclients and bash_profile not read
When I login my .bashrc file is read but NOT my .bash_profile or .Xclients. I don't understand where the commands are comming from because by default I get into kde, even though my .Xclient does't ask for it. Any ideas how to stop booting in kde, and how to make .bash_profiles read. Tom Halahan
pppd dies immediately in kppp
I cannot get kppp to work. After the handshake with my ISP, I can see it connect, but the pppd daemon dies immediately. I can connect with the 'pon' command. I get the following error with kppp: pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) Tom Halahan
Printing via win 95
Hi Debian users, Just installed Debian over RH system. Previously I had printing set up to print to a win95 machine using the RH printtool (via samba somehow). Does anyone know of the easiest way to achieve this in debian? what printing solutions do poeple suggest - pdq? Tom
