java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?
Hi All, i am running Debian stable (squeeze) and have java installed 6.26-osqueeze1 as a package. Firefox uses this package but when I asked it to check if plugins are up to date it says nope, need version 7... So am I right in thinking that v6.26 is old (and thus the advice to upgrade to 7) but does not have any known security vulnerabilities because it is part of stable ? Or have I missed something ? Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+-bttyv4cyl2mp0w-wr1fn6wap_kv41ry2r9aito95bqy7...@mail.gmail.com
can server directly access exported nfs dir ?
I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my network, I also want to back up this nfs share. Do I need to mount this share on the server itself before I access it for backup or is it OK to access it directly ? I am not sure how picks nfs is with respect to direct access of its exported shares Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+-bttxc8xunaxpbqamyoexfd6omvuu8_kjd1z-vw-fgqh2...@mail.gmail.com
Re: can server directly access exported nfs dir ?
Thanks for that, I appreciate it Cheers Dave On 3 June 2012 18:07, rjc r...@linuxstuff.pl wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 04:19:09PM BST, dave selby wrote: I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my network, I also want to back up this nfs share. Do I need to mount this share on the server itself before I access it for backup or is it OK to access it directly ? I am not sure how picks nfs is with respect to direct access of its exported shares You can access the files directly from the server. Direct access is always referable over NFS or any other transport for that matter. -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120603170711.gb20...@linuxstuff.pl -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+-BTTyAJvb2i-LXzkSjuANVPgZLpG_t=bfiqmk0i00cnhw...@mail.gmail.com
aptitude streaming loads of errors, help please
I seem to have a problem, noticed that aptitude flashed up an error after adding a package, so dropped to aptitude and got a ton of error messages every time I try to add / demove any package Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... The following partially installed packages will be configured: pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-x11 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Writing extended state information... Setting up pulseaudio (0.9.21-3+squeeze1) ... insserv: warning: script 'K07smfpd' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'smfpd' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and mountnfs if started insserv: loop involving service mountnfs at depth 8 insserv: loop involving service nfs-common at depth 7 insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and checkroot if started insserv: loop involving service checkroot at depth 5 insserv: loop involving service hostname at depth 4 insserv: loop involving service alsa-utils at depth 12 insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on rc.local and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on
Re: Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?
Thanks for that, I will give it a go :) Cheers Dave On 16 August 2011 19:38, dave selby dave6...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse changing activities seems to change all possible activity screens through one monitor at a time, so 2 x activities gives four possible activities per monitor ... yuk. Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ? Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+-BTTzbvSszXbhSBKtR=szRt=3pvdrludnnnxvqeomeibt...@mail.gmail.com
In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop
In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, sorry can't get on with the default desktop containment, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop ie a mini PDF image rather than a generic PDF icon etc etc Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+-BTTy=ei8ognmfzx8huwftnryw1alkdfwss+dvivo1p5b...@mail.gmail.com
Re: In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop
OK found it ... or rather bumped into it, Cheers Dave On 17 August 2011 21:28, dave selby dave6...@gmail.com wrote: In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, sorry can't get on with the default desktop containment, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop ie a mini PDF image rather than a generic PDF icon etc etc Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+-BTTyvK=YerXWbGShTKHt_r8gJ7q3R=vaepelojhwcsmf...@mail.gmail.com
Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?
Hi All, Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse changing activities seems to change all possible activity screens through one monitor at a time, so 2 x activities gives four possible activities per monitor ... yuk. Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ? Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+-BTTwRDknmphBd1x454necbCsMd2_21vfGRXOr=0wqtwx...@mail.gmail.com
Looking for a package management GUI in KDE
Hi, I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something equivalent to synaptic for QT ? I am struggling with aptitude and would like something friendlier. Many thanks in advance Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+-bttzst4pkfkupux2htuutojxyfdzbau0868+ftufge1p...@mail.gmail.com
Re: sed problem
Dave selby wrote: I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag put it in a string. ie titlespecialist cards/title I need the specialist cards in a variable $titlecontents I thought it would be easy with sed sed -n '/title/,/\/title/p' But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail. Any ideas ? Dave I got all your e-mails, many thanks. I will try them out ... Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sed problem
I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag put it in a string. ie titlespecialist cards/title I need the specialist cards in a variable $titlecontents I thought it would be easy with sed sed -n '/title/,/\/title/p' But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail. Any ideas ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SED problem
Michael D Schleif wrote:
Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:04:16:32:37-0500] scribed:
Dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:04:19:25:32+0100] scribed:
I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from
all of them.
I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with
the sed code.
I need to delete all the code between
!-- lockon:a:1
--
and
!-- lockoff
--
Including the above comments.
Do you want to specify a range like this:
sed '/!-- lockon:a:1/,/!-- lockoff/d' /tmp/tmp.txt
Oops! I forgot about the closing the lockoff comment:
# sed -f /tmp/tmp.sed /tmp/tmp.txt
# cat /tmp/tmp.sed
/!-- lockon:a:1/,/!-- lockoff/{
N
/--/d
D
}
Many thanks, it works great ... just playing with it to get how it works !
Dave
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Re: SED problem
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Dave selby wrote: I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with the sed code. I need to delete all the code between !-- lockon:a:1 -- and !-- lockoff -- Including the above comments. I have tried, played with N, d substitution to // but can't pattern match across multiple lines. Any ideas ? You can handle that sort of thing in perl pretty easily. The syntax is pretty similar and the performance is about the same. However you get to use variables, conditions, loops, etc. Bijan ...mmm... perl, I have heard of it but not played with it yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Further SED problem
Im may be trying to push SED to far, in which case perl has been suggested, but here is my problem ... For a series of html pages, I need to take the text from the title tag and insert it where there is a xx in the document, deleting the xx. Ie use a template, fill in the title let SED do the hard work. My best guess so far is /title/,//title/h to get the text into hold space, then I hit a problem, s will not accept the hold space as a replacement string c\ is a block command I have looked at h,H,g,G but I still need a substitution. Any ideas, or is it hello perl ? Dave 4 !-- lockon:a:3: 5 -- 6 titleSpecialist cards/title 7 meta name=keywords content= 8 specialist cards, cards, photograph, card, photographs, personalised, design !-- lockon:a:4: 31 -- 32 xx 33 86 div class=botlinkOrder a href=order.htmlxx/a/div 87 88 !-- lockoff by ...br 33 !-- lockoff 34 -- etc . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SED problem
I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with the sed code. I need to delete all the code between !-- lockon:a:1 -- and !-- lockoff -- Including the above comments. I have tried, played with N, d substitution to // but can't pattern match across multiple lines. Any ideas ? Dave In the HTML I have the following img src=pngs/whkeepsakebanner.png title= keepsake cards, designers of personalised cards alt= keepsake cards, designers of personalised cardsbr /td /tr !-- lockon:a:1: -- tr td class=toplinksa href=index.htmlHome/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href=aboutus.htmlAbout us/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href=gallery.htmlGallery/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href=order.htmlOrder cards/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href=pricing.htmlPricing/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href=contactus.htmlContact us/abr a href=faq.htmlFAQ/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href= sitemap.htmlSite map/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href= links.htmlSpecialist Links/a nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; a href=reciplinks.htmlReciprocal Links/a/td /tr !-- lockoff -- !-- lockon:a:2: -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
multisesion cd gcombust
I have installed a DVD/CDRW am using cdw gcombust. I am trying to make a multi session CD for backups ... If I make it multi-session, write a directory, all is OK. I can mount the drive and read it. If I then add a second directory, with multi-session still enabled, it appears to write OK but if I mount the CD I only get the first directory. Appologies if I have missed something simple, but any ideas ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does anyone know an application that ....
On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:23, dave selby wrote: Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it now. I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories to ftp. Idealy some GUI, I tried axyftp-gtk, it hangs with lots of GTK errors, does anyone else have this problem? Shame it looks easy to use. I also need site statistics software or traffic analysis software, again preferably with a GUI, any suggestions ? Dave Thanks for all your advice, will investigate, As usual most helpfull ! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know an application that ....
Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it now. I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories to ftp. Idealy some GUI, I tried axyftp-gtk, it hangs with lots of GTK errors, does anyone else have this problem? Shame it looks easy to use. I also need site statistics software or traffic analysis software, again preferably with a GUI, any suggestions ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting time via internet ?
On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:54, dave selby wrote: Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via the internet every time I log on? Any ideas Dave Many thanks for all your help ! will investigate ntp ! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setting time via internet ?
Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via the internet every time I log on? Any ideas Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mozilla composer problem ...
Im starting to use mozilla composer to generate HTML. It seems great except I have a couple of queries ... Having changed text in mozilla I can save AOK, once I publish the save and the publish options grey out, when I do more changes on the text the publish option lights up, makes sense to me, but the save option does not. The effect, once a page is published, save to hard disk is not avalible, apart from save as. This does not seem right ... Am I missing something or is Mozilla 1.0 as on the DVD buggy ? I have had some other odd behaviour, mozilla cant find file when it is sitting there right next to a file it can find, but am unsure if it is me or the software, still relatively early days. Any comments greatly appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
babelfish for linux ?
I am in need of a language conversion program, english spanish, spanish english. Babelfish works great but only for 150 words and loses formating. The babelfish products only work for windows (yuk!) Does anyone know of an alternative for linux ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GIF driver for Gimp ?
I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files related to GIF, and some legal stuff about not being able to compress images. Does anyone know which .deb to install to enable .GIF on Gimp, preferible in compress mode as well as de-compress. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?
On Sunday 16 March 2003 15:29, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: dave selby wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files related to GIF, and some legal stuff about not being able to compress images. Does anyone know which .deb to install to enable .GIF on Gimp, preferible in compress mode as well as de-compress. Dave I too am in need of such a plugin, but it was my understanding that the patent held by Unisys has expired. At least we know where to get a gimp with .GIF now !! Do you have any more info about the patent, I want to use .GIF for commercial work but am wary. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 100dpi, 75dpi, unscaled ?
On Friday 14 March 2003 02:44, David Z Maze wrote: dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? If I ask for -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-110-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 but there are only 10 and 12 point Helvetica fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi (I asked for 11.0 point), the :unscaled version won't return a font at all, but the not-unscaled one will try to scale one or the other to the requested size. This is bad with bitmapped fonts, since you don't wind up with smooth edges (or even consistent-width lines, often). Also if I have the 100dpi versions, is there any advantage to having the 75dpi versions, are these just less memory intensive versions of the same thing ? It's not memory, it's how big your screen is. Try this exercise: take the horizontal resolution of your display, divide by .8, and divide again by the diagonal size of your monitor in inches. If this number is closer to 75, the 75dpi fonts are closer to accurate for you; if it's closer to 100, the 100dpi fonts are better. In any case you can be happy with scalable (Type 1 or TrueType) fonts. Happiness here is relative, too, it's really how much you care about a 12 point font being exactly 1/6 inch tall. (It turns out that X does have a concept of display pitch, and 'xdpyinfo' will tell you this, among many other things. The last time I looked at an X server source, though, X would only hand out 75 or 100 dpi fonts unless you asked really nicely [e.g., with explicit resolutions in the font name]; modern XFree86 might be different. I think the newer font-rendering libraries try to use the reported display resolution. Getting this sort of thing right can be tricky, but as I understand it, the Unix world has a lot more hope than Windows...) Many thanks for helping to clear things up, it starts to make a bit more sense ... Do you know of a web page where I can read up in more detail ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time dave selby said... Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones till I do a complete re-boot. Run the command xset fp rehash - this forces the X server to re-read its font database. I gave it a go ... debian:/home/testbed# /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload Reloading X True Type Font Server configuration...Stopping X TrueType Font Server: xfstt. xfstt: sync in directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/. Found 5 fonts. Starting X TrueType Font Server: xfstt. I added a new font ... making it 6 fonts debian:/home/testbed# /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload Reloading X True Type Font Server configuration...Stopping X TrueType Font Server: xfstt not running. xfstt: sync in directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/. Found 6 fonts. Starting X TrueType Font Server: xfstt. AOK so far, tried xset fp rehash in root, no go ... debian:/home/testbed# xset fp rehash Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xset: unable to open display :0.0 debian:/home/testbed# so tried it as logged in user .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xlsfonts | grep ttf -ttf-aarcover-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-actionis-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-cairo-medium-r-normal-medium-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-celticmd-bold-r-normal-decorative w drop caps-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-drifttype-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xset fp rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xlsfonts | grep ttf -ttf-aarcover-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-actionis-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-cairo-medium-r-normal-medium-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-celticmd-bold-r-normal-decorative w drop caps-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-drifttype-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 5 fonts before the command, still 5 after ?? Am I doing this correctly ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:25, you wrote: * dave selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030312 21:32]: Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following installed xfstt copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload It counts the correct number of fonts, all ok so far modified the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file, adding FontPath unix/:7101 re-booted X server, no new fonts re-booted system xlsfonts | grep ttf lists all the fonts Fonts appear in gimp menus, all work AOK Its the re-booting the system bit Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones till I do a complete re-boot. I dont think I should need to completely re-boot the system, after all this is not windows !!, so I guess I am doing something wrong. My pet theory is I need to get the X server to re-interigate my font servers, and it only does this on bootup to see what fonts are avalible ? I don't know if X-Windows can update it's available fonts on-the-fly after you re-run xfstt, but apparently, it can't or doesn't. So, restart *just* X. I assume your setup boots directly to X-Windows and not a console prompt. Do this: Log out of windows. Then press CRTL-ALT-F1 and then login, either as root or as a normal user. If normal user, you'll have to 'su' to root. Determine what X display manager you're using (if you use Gnome, it *might* be gdm; if KDE, it *might* be kdm; or it could be plain old xdm). Type this: /etc/init.d/[k,g,x]dm restart (use k, g, or x, whichever is appropriate for your system). Regards Hall I gave this a go, I run KDM, unfortunately no go, in fact it lost all the ttf fonts I had installed, weird, had to re-boot anyway !! all back now. Worth a try ... someone has suggested xset fp rehash am trying that ... Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ttf more info ...
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time dave selby said... Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones till I do a complete re-boot. Run the command xset fp rehash - this forces the X server to re-read its font database. A bit more info. as a follow on ...with 6 fonts located by xfstt force-reload and five via xlsfonts | grep ttf ... I logged out to my graphical loggin, KDM, logged out to the command line and at someone elses suggestion /etc/init.d/kdm restart interestinly when KDM restarted and I logged into the same user, /etc/init.d/xfstt still gives 6 fonts BUT xlsfonts | grep ttf gives none !!! I had to completely re-boot to get them back, which incidently now gives me 6 fonts, its the rebooting thing I am trying to avoid ! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
font viewer ... recommendations ?
I have a lot of fonts, and its growing. I need to quickly scan through my font collection. gtkfontsel is good but I have to click on every font to see what it looks like. Apparently there is an appliaction kfontshow, I have searched the dvd and the net but cant find any info ... I cant get on with xfontsel, its in an unreadable font !! Any ideas, I would idealy like to scroll through all my avalible fonts seeing what they look like without having to click each one in turn ! any ideas dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font viewer ... recommendations ?
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:46, dave selby wrote: I have a lot of fonts, and its growing. I need to quickly scan through my font collection. gtkfontsel is good but I have to click on every font to see what it looks like. Apparently there is an appliaction kfontshow, I have searched the dvd and the net but cant find any info ... I cant get on with xfontsel, its in an unreadable font !! Any ideas, I would idealy like to scroll through all my avalible fonts seeing what they look like without having to click each one in turn ! any ideas dave Opps .. being a dope ... gtkfontsel and use the CURSOR keys NOT the mouse !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?
Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with fonts. Can someone clarify a point with me ... when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-config, in my case Section Files FontPathunix/:7101# true type server FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection this can be viewed with xset -q If I want to tempory reduce the number of fonts on offer I would use xset -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic xset fp rehash when I next do a xset -q I find that cyrillic has gone, all good however the font is still avalible. Is this because at the start of XF86config-4 it accesses xfs via unix/:7100 ? xfs looks at a config file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config, which contains ... # paths to search for fonts catalogue = /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefonts/ so am I right in thinking that server unix:/7100 will find the fonts anyway regardless of what I do with xset -fp ? This seems to be what is happening. So is there any tempory way of removing font directories short of removing them in XF86config-4 AND /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config for xfs ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?
On Thursday 13 March 2003 14:32, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 01:54 PM 3/13/2003 +, dave selby wrote: Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with fonts. Can someone clarify a point with me ... when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-config, in my case Section Files FontPathunix/:7101# true type server FontPathunix/:7100# local font server I always comment out those lines (though my setup only has the 7100 entry. # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi I re-order those along with removing the Type1, Speedo, and cyrillic entries. I add my truetype dir and put it first in the list, followed my 75dpi, then 100dpi, and finally misc. I no longer have entries for the :unscaled fonts (could be my version of X and the current debconf settings. : # paths to search for fonts catalogue = /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/1 00dpi/:unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dp i/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefonts/ so am I right in thinking that server unix:/7100 will find the fonts anyway regardless of what I do with xset -fp ? This seems to be what is happening. Yes, it will. If it doesn't find any, it falls back to the directories listed above. So is there any tempory way of removing font directories short of removing them in XF86config-4 AND /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config for xfs ? For a long time, that's what I seemingly HAD to do to get it to work the way *I* wanted it to. That method still works for me though it may no longer be necessary. Regards Hall Thanks for the confirmation, I thought I was out on a lim, You say you dont use unix/:7101 as a server for true type yet truetype works, without the server ? I must give this a go the less servers the better. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
100dpi, 75dpi, unscaled ?
Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? Also if I have the 100dpi versions, is there any advantage to having the 75dpi versions, are these just less memory intensive versions of the same thing ? Many thanks for any advice Dave PS as some of you may have guessed, having debian day today !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?
Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following installed xfstt copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload It counts the correct number of fonts, all ok so far modified the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file, adding FontPath unix/:7101 re-booted X server, no new fonts re-booted system xlsfonts | grep ttf lists all the fonts Fonts appear in gimp menus, all work AOK Its the re-booting the system bit Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones till I do a complete re-boot. I dont think I should need to completely re-boot the system, after all this is not windows !!, so I guess I am doing something wrong. My pet theory is I need to get the X server to re-interigate my font servers, and it only does this on bootup to see what fonts are avalible ? Any Ideas Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?
I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any idea where the correwsponding lib is in debian ? Second query. I will be doing some commercial work for a web page, I have been advised that I cannot use Sharefonts, they have licences attatched, can I use freefonts ? and also can I use True Type ? Any help greatfully appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, you wrote: surely serif and sans serif are about the limit of what you want for web-work? or are you talking about fonts for images? dave selby wrote: I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any idea where the correwsponding lib is in debian ? Second query. I will be doing some commercial work for a web page, I have been advised that I cannot use Sharefonts, they have licences attatched, can I use freefonts ? and also can I use True Type ? Any help greatfully appreciated Dave Sure am, those quirky fonts for headers on web pages. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?
My DVD drive is making some real loud whineing / graunching sounds for approx 30 secs when first powerd up after being off all night. I am looking to replace it. Will any bog standard IDE DVD drive do ? I have never had a driver issue with a DVD drive nor have any of my friends. They seem to work out of the box but before I part with my cash I thought I would ask ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gimp gimp print
I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select postscript level 2, and modify the command executed to lpr -PepsonC60_photo to make it print, having setup epsonC60_photo via cups as a photoquality mode. However to change resolution or media type I have to keep going into CUPS and modifying the printed setup for epsonC60_photo. I have dpkg-reconfigure gimp1.2 in the hope it will pick up the later added gimp print but to no avail. Has this gotsomething to do with a PPD file, is this a printer driver file ? Failing this is there some other way to get gimp to see what is avalible via CUPS ? Any ideas Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 18:53, Jérôme Blanc wrote: As far as I know, there are no problem with any DVD drive. But well, I don't know very far though ;) All I can testify is that so far, both the IDE DVD drives my computer had have been recognised perfectly by my system and are/were working fine. Jérôme This is what I suspected, but thanks for the backup ! I will now go forth with cheque book in hand . Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gimp gimp print
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:52, Donald Spoon wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select postscript level 2, and modify the command executed to Hrmmm it appears something is wrong with your setup (maybe). I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I am running CUPS + CUPSYS-DRIVER-GIMPPRINT from testing here sucessfully and GIMP seems to work OK. BTW, I am using another printer (a HP 960C), so I cannot help you with things specific to your printerjust general info. Your Epson C60 is listed on my list of supported printers under both CUPS and GIMP here. Was it listed when you setup CUPS? You might try re-installing the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package and re-configuring your CUPS setup, if you haven't done this already. I use the Printing Manager wizard under KDE for all my CUPS config work rather than the web-browser interface, but that shouldn't matter. lpr -PepsonC60_photo to make it print, having setup epsonC60_photo via cups as a photoquality mode. However to change resolution or media type I have to keep going into CUPS and modifying the printed setup for epsonC60_photo. One method I use here to keep from going into CUPS to re-configure for various printing modes is to pre-define the various modes I want to use in CUPS. Although you have only one printer, you CAN define it in various ways under CUPS. For example, I want a general-purpose printer for text printing, I config LP-Text for black white only. I then define a second printer under CUPS for low-res color work as LP-Color, and a third as LP-Photo for photo-quality work. You can extend this as far as you want/need. Some apps will automatically select the mode they want...GIMP appears to do this for me. On most apps, I then have 3 printers to choose to use...LP-Text, LP-Color, and LP-Photo. I select one of these as the system default for the most common printing tasks. I have dpkg-reconfigure gimp1.2 in the hope it will pick up the later added gimp print but to no avail. Has this gotsomething to do with a PPD file, is this a printer driver file ? Failing this is there some other way to get gimp to see what is avalible via CUPS ? One final thought... do you have BOTH the gimp 1.2 and the gimp 1.2-print packages installed?? I have both here in addition to the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. If you want to compare setups (packages) and procedures further, just holler. That is about the only other thing I can think about doing. Cheers, -Don Spoon- AAAH Sweet Sweet success !! Thank you so much ... I had gimp 1.2 but not gimp1.2-print, this is what I needed I can now access all my dpi, media size etc from gimp I owe you one Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gimp gimp print
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:17, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:44 am, Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select postscript level 2, and modify the command executed to lpr -PepsonC60_photo to make it print, having setup epsonC60_photo via cups as a photoquality mode. However to change resolution or media type I have to keep going into CUPS and modifying the printed setup for epsonC60_photo. The Gimp print dialog box allows me to choose any of my printers that I have set up with Cups. I can choose media size do some color adjustments etc. but it seems the resolution media type are set by Cups for the printer. I have dpkg-reconfigure gimp1.2 in the hope it will pick up the later added gimp print but to no avail. Has this gotsomething to do with a PPD file, is this a printer driver file ? Failing this is there some other way to get gimp to see what is avalible via CUPS ? Any ideas Dave I am just begining to work with Cups but so far I can see no way to change some printer driver settings outside of the Cups interface of Kprinter (KDE). The closesest I have come is to change them with Kprinter but this works only for apps that use Krinter for printing, afaik mostly the KDE apps. gimp1.2-print solved all my problems !!, It may be of some help to you also ? ie I can now change resolution and media from gimp Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde fonts stuff ...
On Sunday 09 March 2003 7:05 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 9:05 pm, Dave Selby wrote: I have bought a 15 TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected use defaults and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly helvetica 12, however although they have changed back in the controll center they have not changed back in kde. I have re-booted the system, any ideas ? Dave It's a fontconfig bug. PITA, but fixable... http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52538 Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org Is there a way round this short of deleting the user and steting him up again ? ie can I copy a part of the users environment from another user ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde fonts stuff ...
I have bought a 15 TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected use defaults and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly helvetica 12, however although they have changed back in the controll center they have not changed back in kde. I have re-booted the system, any ideas ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does root mail go ?
On Friday 07 March 2003 9:57 pm, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:20, Dave Selby wrote: When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. On some systems (of which mine is one) it it not possible, because the email delivery process isn't allowed to suid root, to deliver mail to root. I really have no idea what would happen to it. The solution is to set an email alias for root to a genuine mortal. OK this is real usefull, thanks to everyone, Ive got something to work on now Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does 'root' mail go ?
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via what do u mean by via the web with kmail ... anyways mostly root is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta -- 'M.C.S.E - Minesweeper Consultant Solitaire Expert' via the web with kmail, as in access the internet for my email. /etc/aliases contains ... daemon: root bin: root sys: root sync: root games: root man: root lp: root mail: root news: root uucp: root proxy: root postgres: root www-data: root So my root mail goes to root ? because of mail:root ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?
On Friday 07 March 2003 7:26 am, Carla Schroder wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:54 pm, Andrew Hurt wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? I compiled Wacom and USB into the kernel, and my Wacom 6x8 USB does the job. Didn't have to do anything with XF86Config-4--it just works. I'm still trying to diagnose the lack of pressure/eraser support, but that will come ;-) I have a Wacom Graphire USB that also 'just works' with the X drivers. It replaces my ps/2 mouse. the Graphire mouse works fine, and it saves space. To get pressure/eraser functions, you need to install the Wacom drivers, the X drivers only give basic functionality. See http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/, and be sure to cruise the list archives. The list is low-volume, but very helpful. Many thanks, most helpfull Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does 'root' mail go ?
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +, Dave Selby wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: what do u mean by via the web with kmail ... anyways mostly root is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases via the web with kmail, as in access the internet for my email. The Internet is not just the Web. E-mail is one of the bits that's (usually) decidedly not the Web. /etc/aliases contains ... daemon: root bin: root sys: root sync: root games: root man: root lp: root mail: root news: root uucp: root proxy: root postgres: root www-data: root So my root mail goes to root ? because of mail:root ? No, that means that mail to the 'mail' user is delivered to root. Is there a line beginning with root:? I got a root:root # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. # It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # This file originally generated by eximconfig at Thu Jan 2 18:25:12 GMT 2003 # See exim info section for details of the things that can be configured here. postmaster: root root: root daemon: root bin: root sys: root sync: root Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?
I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where does root mail go ?
When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. Is it supposed to be posted to ... /var/mail/ ? Any help appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does root mail go ?
On Thursday 06 March 2003 6:20 pm, Dave Selby wrote: When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. Is it supposed to be posted to ... /var/mail/ ? Any help appreciated Dave Many thanks guys, will follow up on info, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TFT monitor and XF86config-4
Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. How can I re-run the configuration again without re-installing ? I think it will be a dpkg-reconfigure ? but which package ? Any help much appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 7:12 pm, Mark Schouten wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:08PM +, Dave Selby wrote: Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. How can I re-run the configuration again without re-installing ? I think it will be a dpkg-reconfigure ? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Mark Many thanks everyone Am playing as we speak !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power off
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:16 am, daniel huhardeaux wrote: Hi list, I have 4 computers running kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 and all of them, when I ask to power down, *never* really dot it. They stay switch on with last message on the screen power down It's a problem for one of them which is connected to an UPS. He will never restart if power is coming back before UPS switch off :-( This computers are not the same: one Dell notebook, one old NoName with cheapset winchip 225, one AMD athlon 1000 and one Celeron 2000. If someone have an idea, thanks in advance. I had a lot of problems getting my system to auto power off, hell I had a lot of problems getting my system to do most things, all part of the fun ! Anyhow this ih how I solved it ... woody, 2.4.19 kernel How to setup apmd for power down ... install apmd for advanced power management, soft power off, use dselect or aptitude Set following modules in the kernel Y General setup/power management support M General setup/advanced power management BIOS support recompile kernel add apm power_off=1 to the end of /etc/modules re-boot test it ta ta it workes, at least for me ! Hope this helps, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !
On Saturday 01 March 2003 3:05 am, Bob Proulx wrote: Dave Selby wrote: Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established. Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem At a guess something in /etc/cron.weekly/* is causing the trouble. My /etc/crontab now looks like ... That just calls the scripts in /etc/cron.weekly and others. Check all of them, specifically weekly, and see what you see. I thought I had cured the problem until it did it again tonight !!! do I need to do something with the crontab command ?? *Any* output from a crontab command is simply mailed to the owner of the crontab. In this case it looks like root. Why would mail access the network? Will diald start if you simply send a mail message? From the local user to the local user? Something does not seem right there. Perhaps it is configured for DNS to the net and therefore is spawning to look up a hostname? Perhaps you have a smarthost configured and it is forwarding? Just guesses. If that is the problem then you will need to deduce ways around the problem. It is normal for some crontabs to generate output which needs to be mailed. You won't want to completely prevent that. Bob mmm .. me thinks me is on the edge of my knolledge here. My dial on demand links to the web if it does not recognise a web or email address. This works AOK To my understanding when /etc/cron.weekly is executed it obviously has something to report, doesnt know the email address where it is supposed to send it so dials the web ? I guess my first step is to check to see if root has mail from cron.weekly, because i set MAILTO=root ... Anybody know where roots mail is kept ? If you could let me know that, I will do more research and get back to you guys. with more info ... Thanks Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
crontab just wont stop mailing ... !
This is a re-posting for a very frustrating problem. I have dial on demand via pppd, works like a dream. However I have problems with crontab. Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. I have set MAILTO=, MAILTO=root all to no avail /var/log/syslog Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' started Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[611]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2003-01-30 Jan 30 07:24:01 debian syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established. Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem My /etc/crontab now looks like ... # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root # m h dom mon dow user command 25 6* * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts /etc/cron.daily 47 6* * 7 roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 52 61 * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts /etc/cron.monthly # I thought I had cured the problem until it did it again tonight !!! do I need to do something with the crontab command ?? any ideas Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble with password manager ...
I use phoenix as a browser, when filling in passwords I get a message from the 'password manager' asking me if I want to remember the passwords. yes, never for this site, no. If I select yes all worls well. However I reciently did a yes with an incorrect password !! every time I log in it re-presents the incorrect password, a royal pain. I cant work out if this is a KDE function or a phoenix function. I have tried disabling cookies, I have gone to controll centre, web browsing, stop HTML form completeion all to no avail. Any idea what application is causing the forms to be filled in? how to correct the data? and how to stop it ? Dave Its just one big learning curve ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: phoenix java plugin - installed, but not installed
On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:28 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:27:44PM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote: said Sandip P Deshmukh (on 2003-02-21), some confusion here. i already have a link that you are talking about. here are contents of my /home/sandip/phoenix/plugin directory: total 24 drwxr-xr-x6 sandip sandip 4096 Feb 19 18:46 java2 lrwxrwxrwx1 sandip sandip 73 Feb 19 17:51 libjavaplugin_oji.so - /home/sandip/phoenix/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji. so -rwxr-xr-x1 sandip sandip 19728 Dec 8 05:20 libnullplugin.so here are contents of /home/sandip/phoenix/plugin/java2/plugin/i386/ns600 directory: total 268 -rwxr-xr-x1 sandip sandip 269600 Mar 15 2002 libjavaplugin_oji.so so, what is wrong here? doesnt java like to be placed in a differnt directory? this sounds very window-like directory shouldn't matter at all. maybe your version of java is too old... ? all right, i downloaded java for linux binary from sun site to my home directory. ran the .bin file and it created a directory structure. now, i create a symlink to i386/ns610/libjava etc in phoenix/plugin directory. no use. i try ns600 and ns4, no use still!! what is wrong? anything to do with file permissions? help please!! Hi mate, I had a lot of problems getting java to work with phoenix. I have copied my homemade how I did it !! file for you. Hope this is of some use. If all else fails visit the web page ... http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml my HOWTO ... Start phoenix and visit ... http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html Download ... j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin mkdir /usr/local/java cd /usr/local/java sh j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin ln -s j2re1.4.101 java.current chmod -Rc g+rX,0+rX . apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 vi /etc/profile Add the following to path ... /usr/local/java/java.current/bin Installing as 'plugin' for phoenix rm -rf /usr/local/phonix/phonix/plugins/java2 ln -s /usr/local/java/java.current/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/phoenix/phoenix/plugins/ Installing as 'plugin' for konqueror In GUI, configure konqueror, enable java globally, set java path to .. /usr/local/java/java.current/bin/java For a HOW-TO visit ... http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod set user ID query ?
On Friday 21 February 2003 7:33 am, Rob Weir wrote:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:59:55AM +, Dave Selby wrote:
I have a query about chmod. pon is turned on by root, I want it to be
turned off by any user. I have looked at several options, sudo,
downgrading permissions for kill, gulp, etc etc but decided that for my
setup using chmod and setting the user ID for poff would be the best.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
Password:
debian:/home/test# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/poff
debian:/home/test# ls -al /usr/bin/poff
-rwsr-xr-x1 root root 2772 Dec 10 2001 /usr/bin/poff
debian:/home/test#
debian:/home/test# pon
debian:/home/test#
debian:/home/test# exit
exit
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ poff
/usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which poff
/usr/bin/poff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
mmm, my ls-al seems to tell me suid has been set, as I understand it the
process generated by calling poff from user test should now be run as
root. As root it should kill the link started by pon.
It fails when poff executes /bin/kill. Any idea why ?
poff is a shell script. setuid scripts are massive security holes, so
the kernel refuses to honour the set{g,u}id bit on them.
Does SUID only apply to the called process and not any secondary
processes ?
The elevated permissions would be passed along, except that, as I said
above, the kernel isn't letting the script even start with setuid. My
suggestion would be to use sudo for this, since it lets you have very
tightly controlled permissions.
Ah ha that makes sense. I guess a bit of information is a dangerous thing ...
seemed simple !
Many thanks for the info, I realy appreciate it
dave
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can anyone recomend an application ??? ...
I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes birthday etc !!, I have tried korganiser, which has an alarm facility to flash a warning on the screen. This is AOK if the system is up and I am logged on as that user at the time of the alarm. When I log on later, no alarm. I need an application that will warn me when an event is comming up, and if I am not logged at the the time of this pre-set alarm, it will remember the alarm and alert me as soon as I do log in. I have also looked at remind, but I could do with a GUI, and I have looked at gkrellm with the reminder plugin, ... I dont need all that info !! Any suggestions ? Is there a way to tweek korganiser ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chmod set user ID query ?
I have a query about chmod. pon is turned on by root, I want it to be turned off by any user. I have looked at several options, sudo, downgrading permissions for kill, gulp, etc etc but decided that for my setup using chmod and setting the user ID for poff would be the best. test@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/test# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/poff debian:/home/test# ls -al /usr/bin/poff -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 2772 Dec 10 2001 /usr/bin/poff debian:/home/test# debian:/home/test# pon debian:/home/test# debian:/home/test# exit exit test@debian:~$ test@debian:~$ poff /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped. test@debian:~$ test@debian:~$ which poff /usr/bin/poff test@debian:~$ mmm, my ls-al seems to tell me suid has been set, as I understand it the process generated by calling poff from user test should now be run as root. As root it should kill the link started by pon. It fails when poff executes /bin/kill. Any idea why ? Does SUID only apply to the called process and not any secondary processes ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best WWW browser..
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) and am currently using Galon for web-surfing. However, it seems to break on some sites - they seem to be moaning about Frames support mostly. Anyway, which browser should I use under gnome to get the most pages viewed? I'd prefer a .deb package from stable but if not, what do people think of the Opera 7 that recently appeared? http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/353-20030214-P1/ Thanks for your help, Kevin I use phoenix through KDE though it should work in gnome, Ive added a couple of plugins for java etc, works AOK, have yet to meet a page it wont display and is quick, not as quick as dillo but quick !! Not avalible as a deb package as far as I am aware, but compile from source and it works AOK http://www.mozilla.org/releases/stable.html Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeamp problems ?
On Monday 17 February 2003 7:32 am, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:24:14PM +, Dave Selby wrote: Is anyone else having problems with freeamp ? I love its user interface but it seems to lock up a lot on my machine PIII 700Mhz, debian woody. I can select a ogg file AOK, it plays AOK but oftern the GUI seems to die, I can move the sliders, select buttons but zip happens. The music continues but I am not in control ! Even the x does not kill the application, I have to ctrl-alt-esc kill it. Has anyone else had these problems ? Is there a work around ? /var/log/messages syslog report nothing. Usually only system-level stuff reports here (daemons and the kernel and such). Any ideas ? I'd run freeamp from a terminal (such as xterm), so you can see if it prints any useful debugging messages. I have run freeamp from xterm, zip new info, just locks, HOWEVER I noticed that it sometimes freezes at exactly the same time as my modem droppes the line. I have a win modem with driver dependency problems. I have had a RS232 full hardware modem on order for 2-3 Weeks from amazon !! I am hopefull the two are linked and my freeamp will become stable when I remove the winmodem driver. If other people are using freeamp AOK then this is my pet theory. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeamp problems ?
On Monday 17 February 2003 9:49 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 4:26 pm, Dave Selby wrote: I have run freeamp from xterm, zip new info, just locks, HOWEVER I noticed that it sometimes freezes at exactly the same time as my modem droppes the line. Might it be attempting to access a cddb database when the line drops? Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org You lost me, cddb database? When my rs232 modem finaly arrives I will let you know the outcome ! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freeamp problems ?
Is anyone else having problems with freeamp ? I love its user interface but it seems to lock up a lot on my machine PIII 700Mhz, debian woody. I can select a ogg file AOK, it plays AOK but oftern the GUI seems to die, I can move the sliders, select buttons but zip happens. The music continues but I am not in control ! Even the x does not kill the application, I have to ctrl-alt-esc kill it. Has anyone else had these problems ? Is there a work around ? /var/log/messages syslog report nothing. Any ideas ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wget and ftp download problems
Having a bit of trouble with wget loading from ftp sites, have set it up to load urls from a text file. In a shell script I have ... #!/bin/sh # Script to read list of URLs form /mnt/archive/wget/sources.list # download the files and leave them in /usr/archive/wget/downloads cd /mnt/archive/wget/downloads wget -t inf -T 600 -S -c --progress=bar -i '/mnt/archive/wget/url.list' and in /mnt/archive/wget/url.list I have ... http://www.mikebonnell.com/pub_html/0252/pub0252.html ftp://debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/kernel-image-2.0.38_2.0.38-3.deb The first part works great, I get my file from the http, happy bunney . However the ftp load appears to log on then just hangs for a couple of mins then issues an error message, re-tries,re-tries etc etc etc. I have enabled debug to get as much info as possible. test@debian:~$ wget.sh --08:16:20-- http://www.mikebonnell.com/pub_html/0252/pub0252.html = `pub0252.html' Resolving www.mikebonnell.com... done. Connecting to www.mikebonnell.com[216.105.35.35]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK 2 Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 08:12:23 GMT 3 Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 mod_auth_pam/1.1.1 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6h 4 Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 05:29:21 GMT 5 ETag: 198819-2653-3dfc1331 6 Accept-Ranges: bytes 7 Content-Length: 9811 8 Content-Type: text/html 9 Age: 578 10 Connection: keep-alive 11 Via: HTTP/1.1 ntl-site (Traffic-Server/5.1.3-50227-50963-51463 [cHs f ]) 100%[==] 9,811 11.87K/sETA 00:00 08:16:22 (11.87 KB/s) - `pub0252.html' saved [9811/9811] --08:16:22-- ftp://debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/kernel-image-2.0.38_2.0.38-3.deb = `kernel-image-2.0.38_2.0.38-3.deb' Resolving debian.org... done. Connecting to debian.org[192.25.206.10]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... 220 gluck.debian.org FTP server (vsftpd) -- USER anonymous 331 Please specify the password. -- PASS Turtle Power! 230 Login successful. Have fun. -- SYST 215 UNIX Type: L8 -- PWD 257 / -- TYPE I 200 Binary it is, then. -- CWD /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base 250 Directory successfully changed. -- PORT 62,253,48,102,5,26 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. -- RETR kernel-image-2.0.38_2.0.38-3.deb 425 Failed to establish connection. Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. This is a bit of a problem since I wanted to use wget to download open office etc all from ftp sites . Any ideas ? Dave, learning fast but a way to go ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wget and ftp download problems
On Sunday 09 February 2003 8:50 am, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Quoting Dave Selby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 425 Failed to establish connection. Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. This is a bit of a problem since I wanted to use wget to download open office etc all from ftp sites . Any ideas ? There may be a firewall between you and the FTP server that is blocking active FTP. Try adding --passive-ftp to the wget command line. HTH, Jeffrey wget -t inf -T 600 -c -v --passive-ftp --progress=bar -i '/mnt/archive/wget/url.list' AND IT WORKS I never realised ftp would initiate a NEW connection from ftp site, bizzare, I assumed it was like a web page. Anyhow many thanks, I learn a little every day ! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK now but dont know why !!
errr .. think I sorted it unplugged both hard drives, re-connected them ... all appears AOK now, wierd, dont realy understand ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT anyone got 98SE running under bochs ?
Hi all, Has anyone got bochs running 98SE on debian ? It boots, bios window AOK, starts 98SE with the splash screen, blue ribbon at bottom scrolls sideways AOK, then ribbon stops and zip ! It wont load any further, no error messages from bochs, top reports a lot of cpu and memory useage. boch itself appears to be ok, the power and restart buttons work AOK. It appears the 98SE has locked up, surprise surprise ! This is not vital, more of an interest thing really to have a pet windows on my system ! However if anyone can help or nudge me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. Dave PS Thank god for debian, something that actualy works -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloader advice ?
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:29 am, you wrote: I had the same problems with NTL. Try WVdial - it auto-redials and it doesn't drop the interface (or normally connections) when redialing. Regards, Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd -Original Message- From: Dave Selby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2003 20:39 To: Debian Subject: downloader advice ? Sounds good to me will give it a go !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 7:04 am, Dave Selby wrote: When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the middle mouse button. Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm is not ideal because it ceases when the user is changed. The same goes for the GUI ! Yep I am thinking of downloading long files via wget ! Any Ideas Dave Thanks for your suggestions guys, will try them out, also someone suggested wvdial as an option ... will investigate Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil
Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level, apparently I need to access the printer directly by defining the rew device, ie, escputil --ink-level --raw-device /dev/??? My printer is an epson stylus C60, using the parellel port. As a guess I tried par0 debian:/home/test# escputil --ink-level --raw-device /dev/par0 Escputil version 4.2.0, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Cannot read from /dev/par0: Invalid argument debian:/home/test# Then par1,2,3 ... debian:/home/test# escputil --ink-level --raw-device /dev/par1 Escputil version 4.2.0, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Cannot open /dev/par1 read/write: No such device or address debian:/home/test# Is /dev/par0 the parallel port for my printer ? If so any ideas why escputil cant read from from to it ? I execute escputil from root ? Dave ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
downloader advice ?
I am on unmeted internet via NTL UK. This works OK except after 2 Hrs on line NTL stops sending data but does not drop the line. This is a NTL thing, however not dropping the line causes me problems when I want to download large files. I need the line to be dropped and then the downloader to re-dial, giving me another 2Hrs of download time. At present I have setup dial on demand, which works great, so I am halfway there. Does anyone know of a downloader that will drop and re-dial every couple of hours or a work around to do this ? All help much appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:47 pm, you wrote: Thus spake Dave Selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level, apparently I need to access the printer directly by defining the rew device, ie, escputil --ink-level --raw-device /dev/??? My printer is an epson stylus C60, using the parellel port. As a guess I tried par0 The linux equivalent of LPT0 is /dev/lp0 Many thanks, looked real promising with great hope I re-tryed it but lp0 gives ... test@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/test# escputil -r /dev/lp0 -i Escputil version 4.2.0, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Cannot read from /dev/lp0: Invalid argument debian:/home/test# So looks like I have another problem apart from using the wrong /dev/ Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More detailed post ...
OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is, 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 9:41 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Dave Selby wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:47 pm, you wrote: Thus spake Dave Selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level, apparently I need to access the printer directly by defining the rew device, ie, escputil --ink-level --raw-device /dev/??? My printer is an epson stylus C60, using the parellel port. As a guess I tried par0 The linux equivalent of LPT0 is /dev/lp0 Many thanks, looked real promising with great hope I re-tryed it but lp0 gives ... test@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/test# escputil -r /dev/lp0 -i Escputil version 4.2.0, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Cannot read from /dev/lp0: Invalid argument debian:/home/test# So looks like I have another problem apart from using the wrong /dev/ Dave Make sure all your hardware ports and connectors are rated for IEEE-1284. This spec is needed for 2-way communications between the printer and computer via the parallel port. The most common mistake is not using an IEEE-1284 rated connecting cable. The standard cable only provides 1-way comm from the computer to the printer in general terms. This shouldn't be a problem with recent computer ports or recently manufactured printers. You can easily still purchase a standard cable. Cheers, -Don Spoon- Hi mate, Under windows 98, yuk !!, the pucker epson driver gets the info on ink levels etc AOK, so I guess the cable is AOK The computer is 3 yr old, ie obsolete !!, the printer 1 year old. ls -al /dev/lp0 gives debian:/home/test# ls -al /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/lp0 debian:/home/test# So read/write access is OK for root, even though the reported error is cannot read from /dev/lp0 My pet theory is the epson, being a new design, uses different from what escputil is looking for Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:27 pm, you wrote: Dave Selby wrote: - SNIP - Hi mate, Under windows 98, yuk !!, the pucker epson driver gets the info on ink levels etc AOK, so I guess the cable is AOK The computer is 3 yr old, ie obsolete !!, the printer 1 year old. ls -al /dev/lp0 gives debian:/home/test# ls -al /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/lp0 debian:/home/test# So read/write access is OK for root, even though the reported error is cannot read from /dev/lp0 My pet theory is the epson, being a new design, uses different from what escputil is looking for Dave Are you actually logged in as root when you did the debian:/home/test# ls -al /dev/lp0 command or into your user account. You might want to check it out when logged in as root. It might just be a permissions problem. From the above, I would say adding your user account to the group lp would also let you run this program from there. I am not familiar with this program I am just guessing here. The fact that you can clean the heads but not get the ink-levels would indicate your pet theory is probably correct... Just thought I would bring up the permission thing just in case... Good Luck! -Don Spoon- Yep, am logged in as root when i execute escputil, was only logged in as test while typing e-mail !! Have already setup /etc/group for root test I guess pet theory is most likely !! Thanks for all your help, hell cleaning the heads is more usefull than knowing the ink level anyhow You know when ink is low, it dont print !!! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More detailed post ...
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:08 pm, Seneca wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? Take a look at wget (I'm thinking of its options -c (continue a previous partial download) and -t (retries)). 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Assuming your modem is /dev/ttyS1, echo ATZ /dev/ttyS1. wget looks good to me, it even resets the modem and re-dials if it is not getting the file Probarbly asking the earth ... There isn't a GUI wrapper for it ??? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More detailed post ...
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 1:53 am, Seneca wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:48:45PM +, Dave Selby wrote: wget looks good to me, it even resets the modem and re-dials if it is not getting the file Probarbly asking the earth ... There isn't a GUI wrapper for it ??? Just do a reverse-depends check on wget in aptitude, I found two GUI packages that look like they use wget for their downloading: gtm and kmago. I never thought of that !!, will have to try aptitiude, heard good things about it. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?
When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the middle mouse button. Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm is not ideal because it ceases when the user is changed. The same goes for the GUI ! Yep I am thinking of downloading long files via wget ! Any Ideas Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: not quite the regular sources.list problem
On Saturday 01 February 2003 1:18 pm, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:05:04PM -0800, lenny bruce wrote: I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have... I picked some bad sources and entered the deb lines incorrectly before I figured out the correct way to do these things... but apt and dselect won't forget every mistake I've ever made. now I have good sources in my sources.list file that all work great but apt and dselect continue to look up every bad entry I ever made along with my good sources... this takes totally forever for the bad ones to time out even though the good ones update very quickly how can it be remembering all my previous bad entries when I removed them from sources.list? how come updating sources.list doesn't just use my new sources? I've spent hours trying to get apt and dselect to forget my old entries despite the fact that I long ago removed them from sources.list... but I'm totally confused on how to get this accomplished. apt-get update doesn't solve the problem. Try hasing ou all your sources, yep even the good ones, in /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update Then un-hash all your sources, and apt-get update Will force system to re-load its sources database worked for me !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A more detailed posting ....
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:29 pm, Colin Ellis wrote: Try downloading the 4 deb packages manually via ftp or standard web browser. Check the integrity of the download using the md5sums. If the download works ok then try installing them manually with dpkg -i packagename This will determine whether it is apt or the particular packages that are at fault. If this still fails then I suggest providing details on the packages you are trying to install and what error messages are given. Regards, Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd. Firstly I have upgraded my /etc/apt/sources.list to deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020720)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free It wanted 11 upgrades, worked for 7 and failed for my original four !!! Hints towards the server for me ? Anyhow to pick a failed upgrade, I choose .. konsole 4:2.2.2-14.2 I went to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages searched for konsole, found ... konsole 4:2.2.2-14 no .2 on the end. downloaded and installed AOK. My assumption being that the .2 signified to APT that the package was an upgrade ? and debian.org would have the latest one ? . anyhow apt-get update apt-get upgrade still 4 packages to update !!! It did not see the konsole package as an upgrade. The error messages I am getting now are ... Error reading from server. Remote end closed connection How can I get konsole 4:2.2.2-14.2, where do I get a md5 string to check its integrity against ? Any help much appreciated Dave !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A more detailed posting ....
I re-configured my computer and installed 2 copies of woody on different partitions, all AOK. One for experimenting on, the other for work and serious stuff. I enabled dial on demand, and generally set up the system. I then tryed to udate my system via apt-get. To start with there were 88 upgrades, it upgraded 84 of them perfectly, the remaining 4 are a nightmare. They just will not load on either system. I have tried downloading at different times, downing my firewall, even changing my isp from NTL to virgin. The problem persists... My /etc/apr/sources.list contains ... deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020720)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free which I believe is pretty average. As an extra note, before my re-config I sucessfully downloaded all the updates AOK. I have tried to download approx 25+ times, its not a one off problem Is anyone else having this problem ? Is there a problem with the server ? Any idea what to do ? ANY help much appreciated, I am totaly out of ideas !! Many thanks in advance Dave One of many failed attempts . test@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/test# apt-get clean debian:/home/test# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Release Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/contrib Release Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Packages Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done debian:/home/test# debian:/home/test# apt-get upgrade --fix-missing Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 10.5MB of archives. After unpacking 69.6kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main konsole 4:2.2.2-14.2 [458kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main konqueror 4:2.2.2-14.2 [1929kB] Err http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main kdebase 4:2.2.2-14.2 Got a single header line over 360 chars Get:3 http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main kdebase-libs 4:2.2.2-14.2 [1652kB] Fetched 4039kB in 16m20s (4119B/s) Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/konqueror_2.2.2-14.2_i386.deb MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/kdebase_2.2.2-14.2_i386.deb Got a single header line over 360 chars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) ???
On Friday 31 January 2003 11:52 am, Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: My dial on demand link is activated when my cron.weekly job is terminated. Nothing in cron.weekly calls the link ... It appears that when it terminates cron.weekly mails the output or perhaps I should say cron mails the output?? !!! Any idea what process mails the output ?? and how to stop it !! Dave according to man ... put this in /etc/crontab MAILTO= but as far as i remember it doesnt work .. on the other hand - my cron do not mail anything maybe i shut it off somewhere else ontents of .. /var/log/syslog Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' started Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[611]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2003-01-30 Jan 30 07:24:01 debian syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established. Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem Im being dumb but which man suggests MAILTO= I tried man cron man crontab but can find no reference ... Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) ???
On Friday 31 January 2003 11:52 am, Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: My dial on demand link is activated when my cron.weekly job is terminated. Nothing in cron.weekly calls the link ... It appears that when it terminates cron.weekly mails the output or perhaps I should say cron mails the output?? !!! Any idea what process mails the output ?? and how to stop it !! Dave according to man ... put this in /etc/crontab MAILTO= but as far as i remember it doesnt work .. on the other hand - my cron do not mail anything maybe i shut it off somewhere else ontents of .. /var/log/syslog Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' started Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[611]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2003-01-30 Jan 30 07:24:01 debian syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established. Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem Opps found it, the \ function in man is usefull !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
broken download ?? help ??
This is a second posting, I'm pulling my hair out !!! I want to update my system, I type the following apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get upgrade --fix-missing The server at the other end persistently closes the connection before it completes the download. Usually while downloading kdebase 4:2.2.2-14.2. I have tried downloading at different times, I have shut down my firewall, I have logged on and used a different ISP, all to no avail. My /etc/apt/sources.list contains ... deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020720)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free Any ideas ? Is the server corrupt ? Is this happening to anyone else ? Dave slightly stressed after the nth failed apt-get upgrade !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get upgrade
On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:54 am, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:13:00PM +, Dave Selby wrote: I have hit a problem, I wanted to upgrade with bug and security fixes so I apt-get update apt-get upgrade Originally there were 88 upgrades, most went AOK but the last few will not load. Avoid updating around UTC (4PM American Pacific Standard Time). From what I can tell, things get updated to the mirrors around this time. Thanks for the tip, will try again at different time slot !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get upgrade
I have hit a problem, I wanted to upgrade with bug and security fixes so I apt-get update apt-get upgrade Originally there were 88 upgrades, most went AOK but the last few will not load. My /etc/apt/sources.list contains ... deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020720)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main I have repeadedly tried to load these packages, 6+ times and repeatedly get the following ... debian:/home/test# apt-get upgrade --fix-missing Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 20.3MB of archives. After unpacking 61.4kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main kdelibs3 4:2.2.2-13.woody.6 [6619kB] Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main konsole 4:2.2.2-14.2 Bad header line Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main konqueror 4:2.2.2-14.2 Got a single header line over 360 chars Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main kdebase 4:2.2.2-14.2 Bad header line Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main kdebase-libs 4:2.2.2-14.2 Bad header line Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main kdebase-doc 4:2.2.2-14.2 Bad header line Fetched 6329kB in 23m11s (4547B/s) Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs3_2.2.2-13.woody.6_i386.deb MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/konsole_2.2.2-14.2_i386.deb Bad header line Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/konqueror_2.2.2-14.2_i386.deb Got a single header line over 360 chars Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/kdebase_2.2.2-14.2_i386.deb Bad header line Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/kdebase-libs_2.2.2-14.2_i386.deb Bad header line Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/kdebase-doc_2.2.2-14.2_all.deb Bad header line debian:/home/test# I suspect the server I am getting the upgrades from is corrupt though I am not sure. Is it something I am forgetting to do ?? If it is a corrupt server is there another server I can use to get the package and security updates ?? Its a real pain, every time I want to add a package via dselect, it tries one again to load these updates, and fails Any advice gratefully recieved Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3 do I do it to swap ???
Thanks for the advice guys I will leave swap partition as nature intended !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3 do I do it to swap ???
Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems. Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
On Sunday 26 January 2003 1:56 pm, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:50:33AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:36:17AM +, Dave Selby wrote: mmm coffee ... so you thing it does have a use ? Yup. Wedge it under a door and it'll keep the door open. Or, you can cut off most of the PCB, and connect the line sockets to a spare disk drive power connector, via a wee regulator if necessary. Then you can plug a suitable cable into them to supply power to your external serial modem. If you have plasterboard walls, you can then use the cut-off PCB to pretend to be a ninja, throwing it like a death star and watching it embed itself in the wall. Pigeon No sorry I just cant agree, I used the winmodem as a door stop and jabbed my toe, I cut it up and threw it at the wall, it didnt stick Conclusion WINMODEMS ARE TOTALLY USELESS !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tune2fs ext2 - ext3
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a winmodem driver running with dependency problems .. OK I get the bit about tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 I dont get the bit about touch /forcefsck touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ? I can understand doing a fsck, but this command sequence has thrown me !! Can anyone shed light ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
External serial modem advice ?
Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... I am going to buy a full hardware modem. I have been advised that external serial modems are the best for linux. Does anyone know if the Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro 56K V90/V92 External Serial Modem Is OK with debian ? I can find tons on winmodems but no serial modem compatibility lists ? Anyone use it ... ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
On Saturday 25 January 2003 6:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 03:26, Dave Selby wrote: Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... I am going to buy a full hardware modem. I have been advised that external serial modems are the best for linux. Does anyone know if the Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro 56K V90/V92 External Serial Modem Is OK with debian ? I can find tons on winmodems but no serial modem compatibility lists ? Good news: All, and I mean *ALL*, external serial devices are compatible w/ Linux. I suspected as much, I'll give it a go ... Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
On Saturday 25 January 2003 4:48 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:26:09AM +, Dave Selby wrote: Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... Can't...resist... I hear you can make some strong coffee from it if you grind it up well. mmm coffee ... so you thing it does have a use ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3
On Saturday 25 January 2003 9:08 am, Dave Selby wrote: Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a winmodem driver running with dependency problems .. OK I get the bit about tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 I dont get the bit about touch /forcefsck touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ? I can understand doing a fsck, but this command sequence has thrown me !! Can anyone shed light ?? Dave WOW what a response, OK I got the idea now, Thanks to everyone .. will now covert ext2 to ext3 ... Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I do this in bash ??
Hi all ... I am writting a weekly automated backup script, very simple .. tars a directory called 'myfiles' to a second hard drive. Works AOK except I want the name of the file written by tar to be the time and date. So I get a list of tared dated backups I know 'date' gives me exactly what I want but I cant figure out how to get tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ... #! /bin/sh # Backup entire 'myfiles/' directory, name it with the date. cd /usr/local/ tar -czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/date myfiles I put this in /etc/cron.weekly and I get a file called date !!??? I have tried '' and all to no avail Any hints ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I do this in bash ??
On Sunday 19 January 2003 10:48 am, Dave Selby wrote: Hi all ... I am writting a weekly automated backup script, very simple .. tars a directory called 'myfiles' to a second hard drive. Works AOK except I want the name of the file written by tar to be the time and date. So I get a list of tared dated backups I know 'date' gives me exactly what I want but I cant figure out how to get tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ... #! /bin/sh # Backup entire 'myfiles/' directory, name it with the date. cd /usr/local/ tar -czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/date myfiles I put this in /etc/cron.weekly and I get a file called date !!??? I have tried '' and all to no avail Any hints ?? Dave Many many thanks for all your suggestions !! You have all been a great help, Auto updating should be on line in approx 10 mins complete with date !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dependency problems
I run debian woody, This same driver works flawlessly on redhat 7.2, If I do the following on debian, it actually works but I have persistent dependency issues which I cannot solve ?? My debian is standard, I have upgraded the kernel to 2.4.19, apart from that everything is standard. Any ideas ??? Dave debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# make clean cd coredrv; make clean make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/coredrv' rm -f *.o *~ core make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/coredrv' cd serialdrv; make clean make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/serialdrv' rm -f *.o *~ core make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/serialdrv' rm -f *.o rm -f *.o debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# make ham Module precompile check Current running kernel is: 2.4.19 /lib/modules... autoconf.h exists diff: /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h: No such file or directory autoconf.h matches running kernel diff: /boot/vmlinuz.version.h: No such file or directory version.h matches running kernel cd coredrv; make \ PSTN_DEF=-DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX \ ham; make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/coredrv' cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc-c -o coredrv.o coredrv.c cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc-c -o clmmain.o clmmain.c cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc-c -o rts.o rts.c cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc-c -o task.o task.c cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc-c -o uart.o uart.c cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I../inc-c -o wwh_dflt.o wwh_dflt.c ld -r coredrv.o clmmain.o rts.o task.o uart.o wwh_dflt.o hamcore.lib -o hamcore.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/coredrv' cp coredrv/hamcore.o . cd serialdrv; make \ PSTN_DEF=-DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX \ ham; make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/serialdrv' cc -DTARGET_HAM -DDSP_CODE_800_SERIES -DTARGET_LINUX -DLINUX -Wall -O -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -I ../inc-c -o clmdrvr.o clmdrvr.c ld -r clmdrvr.o -o ham.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451/serialdrv' cp serialdrv/ham.o . debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# make install bash haminst running kernel 2.4.19 installing hamregistry, used for persistant storage installing ham module installing hamcore module debian hamboot rc2.d and rc3.d scripts starting module and utilities error loading hamcore done debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# depmod depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/char/ham.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/char/hamcore.o debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# debian:/usr/local/v92modem/Intel-v92ham-451# depmod -e depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/char/ham.o depmod: schedule_timeout depmod: __wake_up depmod: tty_unregister_driver depmod: __generic_copy_from_user depmod: tty_std_termios depmod: __release_region depmod: tq_immediate depmod: tty_register_driver depmod: __global_cli depmod: pci_enable_device depmod: vfree depmod: pcibios_present depmod: free_irq depmod: free_pages depmod: __ioremap depmod: bh_task_vec depmod: tqueue_lock depmod: __global_save_flags depmod: request_irq depmod: tty_flip_buffer_push depmod: __global_restore_flags depmod: pci_find_device depmod: __tasklet_hi_schedule depmod: jiffies depmod: printk depmod: ioport_resource depmod: get_zeroed_page depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/char/hamcore.o depmod: enable_irq depmod: schedule_timeout depmod: __wake_up depmod: schedule depmod: __udelay depmod: __global_cli depmod: create_proc_entry
debian lockup, fsck fail ....
My woody ext2 totaly locked up, my win modem was dialing (I suspect the driver) while I did a search on kmail for an e-mail :( .. well I guess nothings perfect ... I tried ctrl-alt-del ctrl-alt-f1,2,3 ... all dead. I had to power down and re-boot. On re-boot the system ran fsck which bommed out and told me to run fsck manually. I ran fsck -A, all ok it corrected loads, maybe 20 inodes then hit some ti did not seem to know what to to with. It has dumped these in the /lost+found directory. The contents of which is ... debian:/# cd lost+found/ debian:/lost+found# ls #212421 #212424 #212425 #212426 #212427 #212428 #98297 debian:/lost+found# ls -al total 40 srwxr-xr-x1 test test0 Jan 15 18:00 #212421 -rw---1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212424 -rw---1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212425 -rw---1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212426 -rw---1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212427 -rw---1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212428 srw---1 test root0 Jan 15 18:01 #98297 drwx--2 root root16384 Jan 2 17:46 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan 2 18:22 .. debian:/lost+found# I also lost my kmail accounts which I have re-enterd. Are the above lost files ? If so how do I know what is what and how do I put them back ? Can anyone point me to documentation about what is an inode, web searches for info on inodes draws a blank. I would like to know more ? As always any help gratefully appreciated Dave PS The system appears to work AOK now, even with all that has happened. Still a bit disconcerting !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian lockup, fsck fail ....
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:57 pm, nate wrote: Dave Selby said: Are the above lost files ? If so how do I know what is what and how do I put them back ? they are lost data, could be portions of files. very difficult to determine what is what, you can try to cat them and if they are text files you may be able to determine what file it came from. In many cases your best off restoring from a backup when/if you determine you lost something of interest. I view these files much like the FILE.CHK files generated by MS Scandisk on win32 systems. nate mmm ... so wait till something doesen't work, check in var/log and figure out what to re-intsall ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
