Re: How does one activate sound on Slink
Most likely, you need to compile sound support into the kernel. You'll need to know your sound device and a few other items for configuration. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: 56K internal modems
On 7 Aug, Salman Ahmed wrote: | US Robotics does make a few internal hardware modems, but I think | that all of their current and newer models are only PCI WinModems. I | got bitten by a WinModem when I first bought my system a few months | ago and had to buy a hardware modem. I have an internal 56k PCI Fax/Data modem made by USR that is not a WinModem. This was purchased about 10 months ago. Looking at VA Research's custom workstation page, an internal 3com (aka USR) 56k PCI fax-modem is available as an option. So, you should be able to find one if that's what you want. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Crystal CS 4232
On 7 Aug, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | Hi all, | my brother has a computer with a Crystal Sound Card 4232 - Sound | Blaster PRO compatible. | I tried to recompile the kernel (2.2.5) to enable the sound but I | cant figure what are the options. | Anyone has the same card and can help me? | Thanks,Paulo Henrique | | Try: io=530, irq=5, dma=0,1 You might need different irq, or dma depending on what else is using those, but this works for me - more or less. I still get an annoying pop when sound is first sent. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | Eric G. Miller wrote: | | > gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you | > have running. | | The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session | will sometimes lose all your customizations. I actually tried | gnome-session once and it worked okay, but that warning makes me | nervous. The problem you describe sounds like the panel. I've been using the gnome-session for better than a month and this has never occured. However, the panel has forgotten it's settings. It seems, everytime I upgrade gnome stuff, some gnome-apps forget their former settings. I don't know why. The only problem I've noticed with gnome-session is that sometimes it will open applications you closed just before logging out. Seems it doesn't necessarily do a final check, but rather does them at timed intervals. But, I've made it a point to always use the panel to log out since I discovered this problem, and everything seems to be okay. One thing that certainly doesn't work is to have gnome-session manage a kde desktop. Boy, talk about the mess that creates! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
OFFTOPIC - (F)lex/yacc(bison) prob. compiling Grass5.0beta
If there are any experts on using lex & yacc out there, maybe you can help me. I'm trying to compile Grass5.0beta2 and I'm getting an error. The other errors I've found, I was able to fix, and send off bug reports. But, since I don't really understand lex/yacc, I'm a little stumped. Here's the output of make, if that will help any. make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/grass5.0beta/src/raster/r.mapcalc/polish' rm -f lex.yy.c y.tab.c flex pol.l yacc pol.y conflicts: 14 shift/reduce, 17 reduce/reduce rm -f OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu/y.tab.o gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/src/grass5.0beta/src/include -c y.tab.c pol.y: In function `yyparse': pol.y:53: `storage' undeclared (first use in this function) pol.y:53: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once pol.y:53: for each function it appears in.) /usr/include/stdlib.h: At top level: In file included from pol.y:73: /usr/include/stdlib.h:484: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit declaration /usr/share/misc/bison.simple:753: warning: previous implicit declaration of `free' /usr/include/stdlib.h:484: warning: `free' was previously implicitly declared to return `int' In file included from pol.y:75: local_proto.h:6: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit declaration pol.y:43: warning: previous implicit declaration of `mapname' pol.y:89: `storage' used prior to declaration make[2]: *** [OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu/y.tab.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/grass5.0beta/src/raster/r.mapcalc/polish' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/grass5.0beta/src/raster/r.mapcalc' GISGEN failure at STEP: src/raster/r.mapcalc make: *** [do-install] Error 1 -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: Try doing this: 1. Login to Xwindows as you now have it. 2. At the command line, execute 'gnome-name-service &' 3. Then execute, 'gmc &', 'panel &', 'gnome-session &' 4. Now edit your .xsession, to read like: #!/bin/sh exec gnome-session gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you have running. If you want sound with gnome, you might want to put this line before gnome_session: 'esd -as 2 &'. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA
On 30 Jul, Carl Mummert wrote: | This is correct. There are lots of programs/scripts that call either | /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/bin/mail when they want to send an email message. | Several programs come to mind. For instance, cron! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed
I believe that particular error is caused by not running the postmaster with the '-i' option. It's come up before, and I know it's a configuration issue. Just not remembering exactly what configuration is needed to get past that. But: Have you first initialized a database location with initlocation and installed the template1 database with initdb? Also look at the configuration files in /etc/postgresql. Especially look at pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Installing X
On 30 Jul, Robert Rati wrote: | I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all. | I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine. | Really, well when I last checked, there were no drivers for the Matrox Millenium G200 8MB AGP card in XFree86-3.3.3.1. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Installing X
On 30 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm | getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can there | be problems with mixing different versions? | | I upgraded to potato for this very reason. You can't really mix the two distributions very well. The alternative, would be to build X 3.3.3 from sources so you don't have libc problems. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Logitech mouse M-S48
On 29 Jul, virtanen wrote: | Which kind of device driver module should I install to get that beast | working? Or what should I do? | | It makes no effect at all with any of the possible protocols available | with XF86Setup. Perhaps you're not using the correct device (not driver). Try /dev/psaux if it's a PS/2 style mouse. Sometimes the symlink /dev/mouse isn't pointing to what you need (you can change that of course!). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: .xsession not being read?
chmod 700 ~/.xsession It must be executable. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: X11amp for 2.1?
On 28 Jul, Steve Udell wrote: | First of all x11amp is now XMMS www.xmms.org | Second of all potato has a nice .deb of xmms | Third of all StarOffice 5.1 (the 40 doller version on CD) gave me no problems |installing on a potato system, no I didn't even need to put thoes old libs |in to correct. Yes I had problems with the download of 5.0. Let's say I gave |up on thier download versions. Maybe 5.1 download version will work also. | Even used .debs of the JDK version of Jave to make SO java enabled. | I downloaded StarOffice 5.1, and it seems to work better than the 5.0 version I had running on a RH system a while ago. Admittedly, I don't use it too much. But I was glad to see the personal edition database coming along. Now, if I could figure out how to use it as a front end for Postgres! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?
On 27 Jul, Carl Mummert wrote: | | AFAIK, the person who owns the copyright on the work is free | to change that copyright as the code goes on. | | Only the owner can sue to enfore the license, so the owner is free to | violate their own copyright or to change it at any time, since | they won't sue themselves. | | The KDE people had this problem for a while, too. Their license | required Qt to be gpl'ed, but qt wasn't, so no-one else could | follow the license terms. But the owners were free to violate | them because no one could force them to follow their own license. | | | Carl | That's what I was thinking. However, is it copyright infringement to take up the last GPL'ed version of the software, modify it and release it under GPL? Of course, the original copyrights would remain intact and be distributed with it. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?
Okay GPL experts. The once free alpha versions of IglooFTP, copyright by Jean-Marc Jacquet and released under GPL is now in beta and being released *only* as a commercial product for $$. Now, does this violate the GPL under the derived works clause? And is it enforceable since the person in question is a French citizen. Check out the igloo website if you don't believe me: http://www.littleigloo.org It's the bait and switch! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: fetchmail / sendmail problem
On 27 Jul, Oz Dror wrote: | | | Michael Merten wrote: | | > What does your ~/.fetchmailrc file look like? (user names and | > passwords x'd out, of course) | | The ~/.fetchmailrc works on my slink system, with no problems. | I have the same problem even when I try manually to get the mail (removing | ~/.fetchmailrc) | | my fetchmailrc is | server mail.dslspeed.com |protocol POP3 |username y |password xx |fetchall | Do you have different usernames on the two machines (yours and the servers)? I'm no fetchmail expert, but I run it as a daemon when my ppp connection is up and my .fetchmailrc file indicates how to make the translation of usernames. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?
On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote: | Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no | gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it | shows only 1 workspace). | Are you sure ~/.xsession is being ignored? What does your file look like? I somehow doubt the problem is with icewm. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)
On 26 Jul, Moses Leslie wrote:
| I'm taking an intro C class, and of course everything there is run on
win95.
| For a project we're doing now, I need to be able to tell if a
scanf("%d",&x)
| actually gets an int or not, but scanf seems to freak out if it gets
anything
| but an int. For example:
|
| int test;
| for(;;)
| {
| printf("Status is %d\n",scanf("%d",&test));
| fflush(stdin);
| }
|
| prints out "Status is 1" if it gets an int, but freaks out and keeps
printing
| "Status is 0" over and over if you give it a char. The same snippet works
fine
| under visual C++. Is this something that's (most likely) broken in vc++,
or
| perhaps (less likely) broken in glibc 2.1? All I have to test it on is a
| potato box, so I don't know if other versions of gcc have the same problem.
|
| Pointers to faqs or relevant docs are appreciated, I've spent an entire day
| poking around in various gcc things (I hate info :)) but with no luck.
|
| Thanks,
| Moses
|
| --
| Moses Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
|
Firstly, scanf is evil. Don't use it for user input! If you want to see
if input is an integer or not, you need to read it as a string first
with, may I suggest fgets(), or simply getchar() for a single
character. Then use isdigit() to see if it is a digit. Also,
fflush(stdin) is guaranteed to give "undefined behavior", which is
certainly part of your problem. I highly recommend comp.lang.c as a
place to get expert advice on ANSI/ISO C (don't ask about OS specific
stuff! and please read the C FAQ).
--
Eric G. Miller
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Re: Using Rock Ridge extentions with Windowns NT 4
On 27 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | HI, | Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to | serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work | OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and | does not make use of the rock ridge extentions. Therefore dselect can not | find the packages as it expects them to be called. | | Is there any software availabe that supports rock ridge extentions under NT | 4.0 or alternativly a script that, after copying the CD to harddisk, | modifies the 8.3 file names to there long version using the trans.tbl | translation table? | | Cheers David | | Which Service Pack are you using? Seems it should support long file names, and have both Rock Ridge & Joliet extensions. Is it a Winnt ftp-ism causing this? Or when you read the CD, say with Explorer, are the file names truncated? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Using apt with downloaded deb
On 26 Jul, Brad wrote: | On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: | | > I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I?m not being very lucky. | | Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? I saw somewhere that this is caused by some forms of M$ software where they made up their own character encoding order. You'll see this from time to time on websites too. Apparently if you have such an offending system, you'll see those "?" displayed as "'", so all appears in order. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?
On 26 Jul, John Hasler wrote: | Steffen writes: | > I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP. | | I'm having the same problem. I see it with pppd 2.3.7 and 2.3.8, so I | don't think the bug is in pppd. Pppd seems to respond to every request | from the other end with this LCP packet (not always the same id, of | course): | ConfRej id=0x5e < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 09 03 00 00 bc 0f 12 70> < 17 04 07 cd> | | > There are some strange hexdumps in the ppp.log file and the connection | > hangs sometimes what is very annoying. | | Hangs *sometimes*? Mine never connects. Could you post some log entries? Did you remove/comment out a line such as this from /etc/init.d/network? route add -net 127.0.0.0 -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: The Hat: was Re: new logo on debian.org
On 26 Jul, Matthew Cordes wrote: | > I'm not sure it's really necessary, though. If there's any meaning | > behind that hat, I don't know what it is. | > | > -Michael | | The 'Hat' is a clever marketing icon. The Debian Swirl is a little too abstract. I theorize that it will be changed relative soon (1 year or less). What was wrong with the clever looking bird, prior to the swirl? | | -matt | | What exactly is "clever" about the "Hat"? I got the jinni thing. Furthermore, what's with the penguin? That never made any sense either. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.
Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. I too can confirm the $ rm ~/.netscape method of temporarily fixing netscape-4.61 hangs (or whatever). But the most successful fix at the moment is $ dpkg --remove nestcape-smotif-4.6.1. ;-) -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Fw: irc.openprojects.net
On 26 Jul, Matthew Cordes wrote: | >ps and top are in procps, and xmkmf is in xlib6g-dev. You can find | > this out quicker by going to #debian on irc.openprojects.net and | > typing "!find ps" "!find xmkmf", etc. | | i tried this but irc.openprojects.net did not seem to respond. The website | at http://irc.openprojects.net has an image of two people and the title | "Service discontinued". | | Does anyone know of any other service that has this cool file to package | lookup capability? | | -matt | | | You can search packages on debian's website. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive
On 25 Jul, Brian Schramm wrote: | I am upgrading a Xenix computer with Linux. I have seen in the mount that I | can mount this drive and I would like to do that so I can copy the data off the | drive. But it does not work. I am just typing: | | insmod sysv | mount -t sysv /dev/hdd4 /mnt Are you sure you have support for sysv/xenix/coherent compiled as a module? It wouldn't be the default to have support for xenix, AFAIK. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: idiot's question on hooking up ISP
On 26 Jul, a wrote: | i follow instructions in ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and edit various files. | Then I use seyon to dial a number. I manually login, then garbage | appears on the terminal. What should i do next? How do I start PPP? Ignore what you just read (well, not completely), run "pppconfig", then type "pon". Some of those "HOWTOs" are a little dated. Although, it sounds like you got halfway there. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user
Exactly how did you reinstall? Did you recreate everything, or are you trying to reuse parts of a previous installation (e.g. /home)? Many people, including me, have upgraded from Slink to Potato without such a problem. You're not trying to use passwd and group files or /home directories left over from a previous distribution are you? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: wallpaper Question
On 25 Jul, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: | hi list, |please bear w/ an X newbie. anyway, i managed to place a wallpaper on my Xwin using xv but whenever i close X, i'd have to put the wallpaper in again using xv the next time i log on. can anyone suggest me a way to make my wallpaper permanent ? i use icewm. | TIA, | Chad | | xroot will do the job in an .xession file. But! You can configure IceWM to always set it. In the directory ~/.icewm, there will be a file called preferences (if you have neither, just create them). In it you need a line like: DesktopBackgroundImage="/path/to/some/background/image.xpm" There are a couple tools to configure icewm, icepref and iceconf. Neither works perfectly, but they'll get you started. Then refer to the icewm documentation (it's pretty short) for other settings. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
Did you look at: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/gnome Supposedly there are a bunch of Slink built gnome progs. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: error messages in dselect and xterm
On 24 Jul, pplaw wrote: | hi debian community, | | i'm a newbie who would like an internet box running debian linux. i've | gotten a successful install, but i get error messages in dselect and | xterm: | | 1. re: dselect's install. "installation script returned error exit | status 1"; | 2. re: dselect's configure. "dpkg--configure returned error exit | status 1"; | 3. re: exterm. "error in loading shared libraries libImlib.so1: | cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory." | | also, when i look at "select" in dselect, i see some packages that are | not configured. (does it have any connection to #2? | | ...any suggestions... | | thx. | | bentley taylor. | | // | | | Sometimes re-running the Install a few times will clear up these problems. Often the problem is that package A hasn't been installed and configured before package B which depends on package A. I'm not sure how dselect figures the order of installation, but this happens all the time when installing a bunch of new packages. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: To: Looking for good HTML editor
On 24 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: |I agree, but my frames option and script option in the | toolbar isn't working. Do you know what causes this problem. | Or is it just not implementated jet. | | Cuno | | I think they're not implemented yet :( After all it's not yet to version 1.0. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: ttyp0 permissions
On 23 Jul, richard wrote: | I'm running potato and modemu has developed a problem. I start it with | modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -o -p tty%s" . | The tty%s always translates to ttyp0. Recently the permission | on ttyp0 has become | crw--- 1 root tty3, 0 Jul 23 21:37 /dev/ttyp0 | I hit it with chmod go+rw and it works for a while, then gets | changed back. I have no idea what's causing this or where to | look for help. | | | You might look in your cron jobs. I had a similar problem with ppp configs and commands being changed from root.dialout to root.root with default cron jobs (a security thing I guess). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Useing debian
On 23 Jul, RUSSELL SATTER wrote: | I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I | have to start with a new hard drive, or what? | | Russ Satter | | No, if you have four gigs or more you can have good installations of both. You will need to have your Win98 software discs as you will have to reinstall it after repartitioning your hard drive. So, you'll also want to back up every important file on your system first. I understand tools like Partition Magic can repartition your hard drive without wiping everything out, but I wouldn't want to bank on it! If you know nothing about Linux, I'd suggest stopping by the Linux Documentation Project first http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP . It pays to familiarize yourself with what is ahead of you. You'll especially want to know about how to partition your hard drive, what hardware is supported (so know your hardware!), and the installation of your chosen distribution. There's a pretty steep learning curve if you have no Unix experience. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
To: Looking for good HTML editor
I recently installed webmaker (a kde package). So far, it looks to be an excellent web page editor. Some features: 1) Color Syntax highlighting 2) Auto indent, lcase all tags 3) HTML 4.0 compliance (so the docs say) 4) TAGS list/insertion 5) Standard file editing capabilities 6) Spawn external browser with file 7) Toolbars for script, list, table, form, font elements 8) Directory/File browser tree window (great for organizing pages) Lacking ability to use ftp to auto upload file to server. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off
| Where can I Find APM option | in menuconfig. I can't find it. | I'am using kernel 2.036 | | Cuno | | APM is under general settings. You also have to specify power off at shutdown further down the list. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | > apt-get --install icewm | > | > should be all you need to do. | | No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in | *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is | install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my other | packages to the unstable version. My bad. In that case, you're gonna have to go for broke and upgrade the whole shebang. Too many things have changed. Or, you could try compiling the sources against your libraries. Can't guarantee that'll work though. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off
On 22 Jul, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: | Hi, | | I have : | Kernel2.2.10-1 + potato + ATX_box | All packages are the last. | | When i do a : | shutdown -h now | or | halt | my system is rebooted, but not power off. | | Wheras I set this option in the kernel. | | do someone have the same probleme are the solution ? | | Thanks. | | Does it actually reboot completely, or does it just go into the halted state, but not poweroff. The latter can be taken care of by recompiling the kernel with APM support. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
kde sources.list entry
I need a kde sources.list entry so I can use dselect/apt to get/update kde packages in the U.S. The ftp sites I've looked at don't seem to be organized with Packages.gz files, so I can't get a whole list of packages with descriptions. I can ftp the packages and install them with dpkg, but I'd like to have the info in dselect. Thanks, -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
apt-get --install icewm should be all you need to do. On 21 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | I've installed apt-get. It works great . . but. (You knew there was | a "but" coming, right?) | | If I want to upgrade one package, e.g. icewm, to the version in | unstable, the only way the man page seems to permit would be to edit | /etc/apt/sources.list so apt would look for *everything* in unstable, | install that one package, then re-edit the file . . . which would also | require running "apt-get update" twice, right? | | The man page makes it clear that you can't give apt a version number, | so is there any other way to tell it "I just want this one package | from unstable, not everything."? | | For that matter, what if I wanted an *older* version for some reason? | Would I have to specify that in sources.list as well? | | Thanks for any answers. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?
VIM does HTML text highlighting, runs in a terminal and it much easier to learn and configure the all that emacs stuff. Just run your favorite browser simultaneously, when you make changes to the page, reload it in the browser. It's not beautiful, but it works. IMHO emacs tries to do too much for its own good. On 21 Jul, Andrei Ivanov wrote: | XEmacs works for me, but if your system is low-memory (less than 16M), | you might use something else. No idea what, though, since I never had that | problem. | Andrew | | --- | Andrei S. Ivanov | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN 12402354 | http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. | http://www.missouri.edu/~c680789 <--"Computer languages of the world" | My work in progress. | --- | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: FAQ for ipchains?
There's an IPCHAINS HOWTO. I have/had it on my system somewhere until 1/2 of the potato packages moved everything around to follow the new /usr/share/doc policy. On 21 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | | I've checked my system and debian.org (did not seem to find anything | helpful so far) | I'm trying to use ipchains under 2.2.10(slink) to enable port forwarding | into my private network, but I cannot seem to get anything working. I'm | going so far off my old ipportfw scripts which still work with | 2.0.36(patched) and the ipmasq script which calls ipchains for me to | handle masquerading. | | Could someone point me to a specific FAQ or HOWTO that can explain how to | do what I want? | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: How to switch off line buffering in stdin?
I am told ncurses is what you want to use for text screen programs. On 21 Jul, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: | Hi All! | | I'm writing an application, which implements some terminal functionalities. | I'd like to receive every keystroke, just after the key is pressed | (like with vga_getkey(), but in text mode). | The standard "fgetc(stdin)" receives the char only after the whole line is | entered. The "setvbuf(stdin,NULL,_IONBF,0);" doesn't help at all. | How to implement it? Probably I should use "ioctls" to change the console's | behaviour. Where should I look for the information? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: PPP Connection Problems
This is what my log looks like: Jul 20 20:32:22 moira pppd[1881]: pppd 2.3.8 started by eric, uid 1000 Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (VOICE) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: send (ATZ^M) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: expect (OK) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: ATZ^M^M Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: OK Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: -- got it Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: send (ATDT2310899^M) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: expect (CONNECT) Jul 20 20:32:23 moira chat[1882]: ^M Jul 20 20:32:50 moira chat[1882]: ATDT2310899^M^M Jul 20 20:32:50 moira chat[1882]: CONNECT Jul 20 20:32:50 moira chat[1882]: -- got it Jul 20 20:32:50 moira chat[1882]: send (\d) Jul 20 20:32:51 moira pppd[1881]: Serial connection established. Jul 20 20:32:51 moira pppd[1881]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 20 20:32:51 moira pppd[1881]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Jul 20 20:32:52 moira pppd[1881]: Remote message: ^@ Jul 20 20:32:53 moira kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered My /etc/chatscripts/provider looks thusly: ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" ATZ OK ATDT2310899 CONNECT \d\c Actually, it looks like your first initialization string didn't send anything to your modem: > | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATZ^M) > | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: expect (OK) > | Jul 20 00:51:38 cheshire chat[304]: > | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: OK > | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: -- got it But then it sets up for dialing: > | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATDT7770591^M) > | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: expect (CONNECT) > | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: ^M > | Jul 20 00:51:58 cheshire chat[304]: ATZ^M^M > | Jul 20 00:51:58 cheshire chat[304]: OK^M But the dial string isn't echoed, and it's followed by the initialization string followed with "OK^M" which is sent instead of returned. It's all pretty cryptic stuff, but what does your chatscript look like? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: PPP Connection Problems
On 20 Jul, Cheshire wrote: | Hello all, I've a potentially elementary situation to present. I have an internal Zoom56k dualmode modem on ttyS2. I have, with the assistance of a linux friend of mine irl, got my internet connection working before, so I know it isn't the hardware but I'll just throw that in anyways. I've got debian 2.1 installed on a new hard drive, and I simply can't get my net connection going again. I even copied all of the scripts and config files from the old hd, and still, no connection. I can get it to dial and sorta connect, but even with that, the initialization process seems to take forever, whereas my previous setup was very quick. Sorry, I'll quit my rambling and give you something to work with--I resorted to 'pon' and, well below you see a section of my ppp.log, on of the connection attempts. Could someone please give me a hint as to what's going on? :) | | Jul 20 00:51:28 cheshire pppd[300]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: abort on (BUSY) | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: abort on (NO CARRIER) | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: abort on (VOICE) | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: abort on (NO ANSWER) | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATZ^M) | Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: expect (OK) | Jul 20 00:51:38 cheshire chat[304]: | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: OK | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: -- got it | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATDT7770591^M) | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: expect (CONNECT) | Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: ^M | Jul 20 00:51:58 cheshire chat[304]: ATZ^M^M | Jul 20 00:51:58 cheshire chat[304]: OK^M | Jul 20 00:52:33 cheshire chat[304]: alarm | Jul 20 00:52:33 cheshire chat[304]: Failed | Jul 20 00:52:33 cheshire pppd[300]: Connect script failed | Jul 20 00:52:34 cheshire pppd[300]: Exit. | That second ATZ looks suspicious. Why would you want to reset your modem, *after* you have already dialed. I'd take it out of your script. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?
I've been very happy with IglooFTP. It's better than any graphical FTP clients I've seen anywhere. On 20 Jul, Bryan Scaringe wrote: | I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and | supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. | | gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any | operation. I'm using the latest version, 2.0.2, but have noticed | this with all other versions I have ever used. | | IglooFTP is somewhat more stable, but still not enough to be useful. | This morning, it kept dying of a "broken pipe". I had to boot to | Windows and run CuteFTP to find out that the site I was uploading to | was full. I can't believe that IglooFTP couldn't handle that gracefully. | | Any Ideas? | | Bryan | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Diald auth problem
On 20 Jul, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: | Hi, | | I have a problem with diald. Diald connects and then disconnects with the | message: | | peer refused to authenticate | | It does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file, but the man | pages say that I should not do this. | | Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? | | TIA, | | Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven | | Just stabbing in the dark, but I think that authenticate is asking the machine you're connecting to to authenticate itself to your machine, which it probably can't do. I'm assuming you're setting it up for auto-dialing to an ISP. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Unidentified subject!
On 20 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | What do I put in my fstab to be able to mount the floppy with just 'mount | /mnt/floppy'? Currently I have a line, but that one makes the system try to | mount it at boot, which fails... | | Anders Ohrt | | You want something like this line: /dev/fd0/floppy auto defaults,noauto,user,rw0 0 The "noauto" tells it not to mount at boot. See man fstab for more details. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: clean umount?
On 19 Jul, Wonko wrote: | evrytime i restart it says hda2 not cleanly unmounted and it takes 10 | minutes checking inodes or something like that... when i shutdown i type | 'shutdown now' is this right? i tried all the number combinations in | fstab and nothing works, what should i do? | | That should be 'shutdown -h now'. It needs a flag to know if you want to stop the machine, reboot it or cancel a previous shutdown command. There are some other flags as well. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Setup Issues
Look at man ping (use ping -c [n] [www.someplace.org] - where is the number of pings). Ctrl-C should also stop it. In lynx.cfg STARTFILE:file//localhost/var/www/index.html will open the file /var/www/index.html The "localhost" should preceed the rest of the regular file path. You'd think the "file:" part would be enough. Of course, make sure the file you're pathing to really exists. On 20 Jul, Doug Young wrote: | Would someone please tell me where to find info on the following can't | find | anything relevant in HOWTO's or MAN pages or that makes any sense to me | | (1) When I ping a remote site . how to stop the stuff ?? | | (2)When I try to get Lynx working, it initially seems like its looking | for the | URL but then it stops and gives a "can't access startfile" message. | I found the | "lynx.cfg" file but the MAN page is really confusing and there | doesn't appear | to be any sort of HOWTO on lynx | | | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
On 19 Jul, Hans van den Boogert wrote: | | >"shutdown -h now" is good. Remember to run it as root. | > | >> reboot | | KDE comes with KDM which has a shutdown function which ordinary users also | can invoke. Seems handy for stand alone PCs, but on a network this might | be dangerous. -- Hans | | Yes, but you can turn off this functionality. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Unidentified subject!
look under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Of course, you must be root to configure the graphics display. The "locate" command can be your friend when an executable is not in your $PATH. On 19 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and install | enlightenment. I don't have much experience with X... I've installed the X | base stuff, and the enlightenment package (and all it depended on), now | what? I did a locate for xf, but didn't find an xf86config or setup... Can I | really have xf86 then? | | Anders Ohrt | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Download af linux
On 19 Jul, henriktrolle wrote: | hvor kan jeg downloade linux operativ system ftp://ftp.dk.debian/org/debian You'll need boot/root/install floppies. Easier to order a CD from someplace like Cheapbytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: fsck: Duplicate blocks error
| Only unusual thing I did prior to this is attempting to create a new | user with not so good results: the new user's home directory was | created, and so is the line in /etc/passwd: | | usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash | | but I cannot log in as the new user! | | TIA You have to explicitly give the user a password before the account can be used. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Remove cronjob is safe?
On 19 Jul, andreas pålsson wrote: | Hello. | | My logfiles are filled by the line "/USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD | (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a)". | And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules | since I have no modules and no module-support in my kernel. | | Since "cron.d" seem to be something debian-specific my question is: Is | it safe to delete the "/etc/cron.d/modutils", or is there a recommended | debian-way to inactivate cronjobs that are not used? | | Regards... You could just comment it out with a "#" at the beginning of the line. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT
I believe there's a "APT Offline Howto" that is just what your looking for. I can't seem to find it since my recent update that moved documentation all over kingdom come. Search in the debian docs on apt... On 19 Jul, Joel Gautschi wrote: | I want to do the following thing: | I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update some packages | or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian dist. the problem is that | I don't have a static connection to the internet (or sth like that) at home. | My connection isn't fast enough if i want to upgrade to a later | debain-dist... (-> it would cost a lot of money). the best solution would be | if I could generate a list of the needed packages for upgrade on my | linux pc at home (f.e. with apt-get). then I want to take this list to a NT | workstation at firm (where we have a static internet connection) and | download there the needed debian packages (automaticly with help of the | generated list on my pc). any ideas how I can do that? | | regards | Joel Gautschi | aka J-freak / Carrots | http://www.game-over.ch/ | | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: problem with .xsession
My experience has been that it's better to start those applications before you start your window manager. Also, I've had problems when the window manager isn't "exec"'ed. Try: swisswatch & xload & xbiff & exec enlightenment I've been running gnome-session (which usually remembers the applications you had open when you log out). So my .xsession file looks like: #!/bin/sh . $HOME/.bash_profile xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults esd -as 2 & #esd sound daemon that shares... exec gnome-session If you plan to use the gnome-session manager. First log in with enlightenment as usual. Then start the gnome-name-service, and other gnome apps like panel and gmc. Then edit your .xsession file with exec gnome-session last (it'll remember which window manager you last used). .xession should be executable (700). On 19 Jul, Cyrus Patel wrote: | | Hi guys, | | I recently made the switch from fvwm to enlightenment as my default window | manager. | | Currently, my .xsession file looks like this and works fine: | | enlightenment | | But when I tried to add other progs at startup using the new .xsession file: | | enlightenment & | swisswatch & | xload & | xbiff & | | it wouldn't work. My .xsession-errors file is as follows: | | Imlib Init | X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). | Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server | Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server | Error: Can't open display: :0 | Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server | Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server | Error: Can't open display: :0 | | Am I going about this the wrong way, is there a better way to do it? | | Thanks alot in advance | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: E2fs failures
Which kernel version are you using. I understand that there has been a file corruption problem in some of the newer kernel versions. On 19 Jul, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hello, | | recently I detected problems with 2GB harddisk in an old 486 machine. | The disk worked for two years very well. I tried several checks | under DOS including a check routine from Quantum (it's a Quantum | Bigfoot disk) and Calibrat (from Norton Utilities). No DOS check | program detected any error. | | Repartinioning with Linux fdisk and creating e2fs worked well | but after writing data to the disk and unmounting leads to | more errors than I could count. E2fsck is unable to repair | the problems. | | Any idea what could cause this strange problem? | | Kind regards | | Andreas. | | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: postgres install error from apt
Is the postmaster running? Can you use psql to connect to a database, say template1? If those work, I would think the script will work. I just upgraded the same thing and it worked fine. Did you just change to the 6.5 series postgres? If so, you'll have to run pgdump on your old databases before you can run postgres 6.5. Since the install script need to run psql, this may be your problem. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
On 18 Jul, tyler spivey wrote: | ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place? | the command is as root: | shutdown -h now This is rude and uncalled for. Everybody has to start somewhere. Comments like the above help no one. Better to let someone else respond if you can't muster some civility. However, it would behoove the original poster to spend some time reading the Debian tutorial and some of the HOWTO's. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!
Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
You should always use one of the following (where you need to be root): $ su -c '/sbin/halt'# To shutdown immediately $ su -c '/sbin/reboot' # To reboot the machine immediately $ su -c '/sbin/shutdown ' # To shutdown or reboot sometime in the future You must be careful to shutdown the machine properly, because data in memory may not have been written to disk yet (among other reasons). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!
What provides glib.h?
I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev packages, so I was wondering what package I'm missing. I tried a search, but the packages I came up with I already have installed. Here is the exact output of make: stuff that compiles make -C ../konica libgphoto_konica_qm100.so make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gphoto/gphoto-0.3-2-990422/konica' gcc -g -Wall -c -fPIC konica_qm100.c In file included from /usr/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:33, from /usr/include/gdk/gdk.h:31, from /usr/include/gdk_imlib_types.h:1, from /usr/include/gdk_imlib.h:5, from konica_qm100.c:7: /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [konica_qm100.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gphoto/gphoto-0.3-2-990422/konica' make[1]: *** [../konica/libgphoto_konica_qm100.so] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gphoto/gphoto-0.3-2-990422/src' make: *** [gphoto] Error 2 -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!
