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fixed: more on: oh, and ultra simple mail aliases
hmm. it seems that the aliases work, and the error messages are extraneous. I can live with that :) hawk
more on: oh, and ultra simple mail aliases
ack. I set cc rather than reply-to on that. Please re cc me if you replied to the last message; when my digests break, I get the rest of the message where it broke, but none from after that point . . . Also, I can't successfully run newaliases: fac13:/etc/mail# newaliases Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliases Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases hawk
XFree86 4.0 and the testing distribution
Gee, the testing distribution was announced later in the day when I decided that a lagged unstable was what was really needed . . . :) Anyway, I've tried toinstall it on the kids machine with mixed success. As near as I can tell, the dependencies between XFree 3.3 and 4.0 cross over. When I select the Xfree tasks, I end up with parts of 3.3 and nothing working. I don't see anything in the archives for the last month or so, so could someone kindly pass me a clue? Thanks hawk, who actually downloaded it all over a 28k modem -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Unidentified subject!
Subject: Re: ppp install failing (loopback?) In-Reply-To: Message from David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:43:13 BST." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . I've installed minicom, and can successfully dial out with it. The speaker works, so I can hear a dial. After configuring ppp during initial setup, i choose the http option for installation method. The blue menu system goes away, and a bunch of apt-get fails splat down the screen, and are covered by the dialog system again immediately before they can be read. The system never dials; the failure is immediate. plog reports the grand total of: Sep 27 07:14:34 eyry pppd[225]: Connect script failed Sep 27 07:14:35 eyry pppd[225]: Exit. the last 20 lines of /var/log/syslog are Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: registered device ppp0 Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry pppd[225]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (VOICE) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: send (ATZ^M) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: expect (OK) Sep 27 07:13:25 eyry kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Sep 27 07:13:49 eyry chat[232]: alarm Sep 27 07:13:49 eyry chat[232]: send (AT^M) Sep 27 07:13:49 eyry chat[232]: expect (OK) Sep 27 07:14:34 eyry pppd[225]: Connect script failed Sep 27 07:14:34 eyry chat[232]: alarm Sep 27 07:14:34 eyry chat[232]: Failed Sep 27 07:14:35 eyry pppd[225]: Exit. while the last 20 lines of /var/log/messages are Sep 27 07:11:12 eyry kernel: kernel build: 2.2.17 unknown Sep 27 07:11:12 eyry kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Sep 27 07:11:12 eyry kernel: Intel PCIC probe: not found. Sep 27 07:11:12 eyry kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded! Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry kernel: registered device ppp0 Sep 27 07:13:03 eyry pppd[225]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (VOICE) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: send (ATZ^M) Sep 27 07:13:04 eyry chat[232]: expect (OK) Sep 27 07:13:49 eyry chat[232]: alarm Sep 27 07:13:49 eyry chat[232]: send (AT^M) Sep 27 07:13:49 eyry chat[232]: expect (OK) It looks to my inexperienced eye like the modem is responding "OK" to the ATZ, but never responds to the following AT. ANd now that I think ofit, why should it send a simple AT??? SHouldn't it send a command that *does* something instead? :) hawk, still perplexed --
Re: [OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome
Daniel dallied, > Unfortunately, NeXT has been swallowed by Apple, and they ceased > development of their OS. ??? A public beta of NeXT just started a few days ago under the name "MacOS X" or some such :). When the actual compilers (such as Absoft Fortran) ship in January, they'll generally be fully nextstepized (although the beta compilers I've seen are temporarily using MPW)> hawk --
Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition
> recover with dd. the better question is, how to find them. if you've > overwritten only the fat, than the problem is not that big: the fat is > used only to find the second and following clusters of a file; the first > cluster is stored in the directory, from which the file is referred to. > so you might find the starting sector of the file using some low-level > disk browser (like the diskedit for dos). there are also some disk editors > for linux, but they all suck more or less (pointers to _really_ good editors > are welcome). diskedit also has a string search function, so you might > search for the tar magic (or some filename at the beginning of the archive) > if more than the fat is destroyed. I guess that's the big question: what *is* the tar magic that I'm looking for? There's a mini-howto on recovering data from ext2 partitions that I"ve used on a previous problem; I suppose I can look there. But once I start madly searching, what am I searching for? I expect I can come reasonaby close by looking for the first textual appearance of home/hawk (or I suppose there would first be home, then home/hawk . .), but I'm not sure what to do with this information (and, as usual, there's only one file I *really* care about :) hawk --
finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition
I started up on this a couple of weeks ago, and got swamped. I have a new big drive, and my old one will go to beef up the kids computer. In the process, I'm switching it from FreeBSD to Debian. I created a new primary fat partition, tarred /home to it (without compression), and then overwrote the fat when I tried to use the cylinder numbers to make it part of an extended partition (we got this far last time :). It was a brand new partition, and only two files should ever have been written there (tars of /home and /etc), so I presume that they were written continuously. Any suggestions on how to recover these? hawk --
getting exmh to display text as default on rude mime messages
I keep dinking around wiht options, but haven't found a way to work. There seems to be no solution to the rude and clueless who send mime messages with html. Unfortunately, exmh insists on defaulting to the html rather than the plain text. I see different ways to display/not display things, but none to set the default types. I thought there were priority settings somewhere in /etc, but I can't find any (I'd rather solve ithtere, as I get the same problem at the command line. If a mime message has text, it should just plain be displayed, rather than requiring a few keystrokes and popping windows . . .) has anyone solved this? hawk --
Re: finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]
- - David Wroght, > Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): The original partition table was: Primary1 Primary2 Primary3 Extended EXT2 FAT0 UFS FAT1 FAT2 Spare That is, there was plenty of unused space in the extended partition. However, FreeBSD can't handle these, so I needed a primary partition large enough to take the tarball. All of my primaries were taken, so I deleted the extended partition, knowing that I could recreate it later. The new table became Primary1 Primary2 Primary3 Empty Primary 4 EXT2 FAT0 UFS (FAT1 FAT 2) FAT 4 > Are we to assume that you deleted the extended partition because > you already had three primary partitions before it in the table? Yes. In hindsight, it would have made more sense to delete 2 and use that entry where I created FAT4, or to have untarred in linux while FAT4 was still a primary, but it had been a very long day fighting with the machine, and I wasn't thinking that clearly any more. > What, FAT1 FAT2 and FAT4. Are we to guess that you've tried to put > all three in the new extended partition? Yes. I'd learned in the past when DR-DOS shifted my partition table (1-2-3 become 2-3-4, 4 gets lost. I've seen this about 3 times from DR-DOS fdisk on at least two different machines) that you can recreate the extended partion and recover your logicals. It didn't occur to me that I couldn't make the primary a logical . . . > I take it the two former *logical* partitions survived, and that the > singular partition with the backup did not. And that you redeleted > the extended partition before you tried to recreate FAT4 as a > primary partition. Yes. I deleted FAT4, then gave the area from FAT1, FAT2, and FAT4 to the extended, and recreated all three on their former cylinder boundaries. > I think you have trampled on the start of your FAT4 partition if > and when you tried to make it a logical partition. Each and every > logical partition has an extended partition table at its start, so > you should have left a gap before FAT4 when you first created it. this makes sense, and is consistent with the error messages. > (This might have allowed you to recreate FAT4 as a primary partition, > though I have no idea whether it would help in changing it into a > logical partition.) > You might as well try. I don't think you can recover the partition > because (I would imagine, I haven't done the arithmetic) both FATs > have probably been overwritten by the extended partition table. --
finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]
*sigh* I've found more ways to lose data . . . This time, I needed to switch a system from FreeBSD to Debian. I wrote down the cylinder information for my two fat partitions in the extended partition, deleted the extended partition, and created a new fat partition as partition 4 after them. I tarred /home and /etc separately and without compression to this new partitiion. These are the only two files that have ever been in that partition. I then installed debian where FreeBSD used to be, deleted partition 4, created the extended partition again, and used the cylinder information to recreate the three fat partitions. The two former extended partitions survived. The partitions with the backup did not, and I can't mount it. I've tried recreating it as a primary, but still no dice. I don't really need to recover the partition (though this would be easiest if it's possible). I just need those tarballs (actually, just the first) back. Is my best bet going to be to feed the output of dd to tar? Or is there a better way to do this? hawk, master of damaging partitions --
Re: filtering out ads
> Thanks to both for my banner-free browsing. > GAT - Gif Animation Toggle - is another great browsing plus. Is there one of these for linux, or do you mean as a browser feature? so far, the only way I've encountered on linux is to edit the executable to change the name of the string that causes animation to something that will never be encountered. hawk --
Re: lynx gone mad!
> give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. And it renders both > frame/table nicely. I've heard this a few times, and just tried it. So far, I prefer lynx: easier to navigate, I can spawn extra instances of lynx on a link, and better frame handling: lynx uses the entire screeen, and lets you choose which frame to view. I'll keepit around in case I need to read tables, though. --
Re: regularly dying network connection
nate nibbled > hawk wrote: > > My network goes down quite regularly, especially under load. > > The card is a eepro, > i had a similar problem a couple years ago using eepro100 cards in old > machines(p100-p133) my solution was to rip out hte cards and install $12 > NE2k 10baseT cards(ISA) instead..worked great. that's good to here--I just happen to have an unused one of those . . . :) hawk p.s. THe odd thing is that the system worked fine for weeks before the problem . . . --
regularly dying network connection
My network goes down quite regularly, especially under load. I've written a script to force-reload after waiting five seconds, whcih leaves it functional most of the time (although some requests hit when the network is down and casue errors--meaning that sometimes it doesn't even stay up five seconds). It's also necessary, about once a day, to power off the machine to reset something on hte network card, as even force-reload won't recover. The card is a eepro, and when the connection dies, the tcpdump report is: fac13:/home/hawk# tcpdump tcpdump: listening on eth0 15:00:33.547471 146.186.61.60.1033 > 231.182.220.243.36546: udp 4 [ttl 1] tcpdump: pcap_loop: read: Network is down hawk
Re: filtering out ads
David dithered, > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wrote: > > Interested in hearing different strategies for blocking ads. Presently I > > use a mixture of input-chain firewall rules and redirection in my > > /etc/hosts file. > > Since I'm running DNS for my LAN, is there a way to set it up to block ads? > > Also, there's one ad system I haven't figured out how to block: I've seen > > many ads that have URLs "ads.admonitor.net" but nslookup claims this is a > > nonexiststant host/network, so I can't add it to my firewalling rules. Any > > ideas? > Check out junkbuster: > I've installed it, but not yet adjusted the configuration. I added a group junkbuster, then made /etc/junkbuster and it's contents a member with g+rwx permissions. An alias vj then edits the junkbuster settings from my user account. Quite simply, when something blinks at me, I grab the url of the offendingimage, and ad part of its address (hopefully enough to block similar schemes) to the blockfile. I don't block ads, but rather annoying blinking things, or things that take so long to load that they hold up page rendering (generally ads from overwhelmed servers). It's also great for dealing with cookies. You can specifiy which domains *are* allowed to set cookies. hawk --
Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)
daved declared, > Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): > > Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an > > irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that > > it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a > > connection. Judging by a brief flash on the screen (why are error > > messages *still* going to the screen where they're not visible or > > recordable after all these years?), it may be using the provider script > > rather than the psu script I told it to use. I've tried editing > > provider, but with the same results. > > > > Checking /var/log/syslog, it appears that the message is that the tty > > is looping back to itself. (horrible idea that just hit me: does this > > mean that this old modem for which I have no documetnation is set to > > half-duplex?? it's a gateway from a 486 with a set of 8 dip switches . > > . .) > Is that *all* the log says? Does the modem dial? Is there a response > from the other end? pretty close. There's no dial tone. In fact, it's so fast to fail that it can't have talked to the modem. > Until your modem makes a connection, it will normally be reflecting > back to you everything you send to it. Here's a fragment: > Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: send (ATZ^M) <---sent I don't think it gets this far. I'll bring a disk in in the morning. There is also a reference (sometimes) to a pid that has locked ppp, but there is never a corresponding entry in /var/lock > You might try posting the log (sanitised like the above). I'll post it tomorrow. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)
> i've had success with the "script" command (to capture the fast-scrolling > screen > messages): > > ~ script [my madeup file name] > ~ [type the command i'm trying to execute] > ~ exit > then i can use "cat [my madeup file name] |less" and read the output at my > leisure, > send it to the printer, paste in an email hmm, I should have thought of that :) Will ncurses and the like run under script? (particularly, pppconfig?) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
ppp install failing (loopback?)
I've never tried to install over ppp before. In fact, my one round of ppp with a working installation was a nightmare. However, I've trying to face it for my home machine (and will need to do so again for the kids). I made the resc1440 and root disks, and copied these and the base and drivers tgz's to a zip. These were then stuffed into a spare (to become swap) partition, and I got the base system installed. Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a connection. Judging by a brief flash on the screen (why are error messages *still* going to the screen where they're not visible or recordable after all these years?), it may be using the provider script rather than the psu script I told it to use. I've tried editing provider, but with the same results. Checking /var/log/syslog, it appears that the message is that the tty is looping back to itself. (horrible idea that just hit me: does this mean that this old modem for which I have no documetnation is set to half-duplex?? it's a gateway from a 486 with a set of 8 dip switches . . .) What do I do next? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: R: net install of staroffice 5.2
> yeah, i think i know what you are talking about. are you sure > you did it with 5.2? it was a snap with 5.1 .. but i don't see > it as an option using 5.2 (i.e. running the big so52-..-.bin file) I didn't have any problems installing 5.2 as a /net install. However, as an act of paranoia, I first created a user soffice, a directory /usr/ local/soffice, and set it to 755 (world read/execute). I then ran the install script as that user (hey, the damned thing has java. No root for it!) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: Console based Word Processor
> Wow ! That's news. Seems rather interesting. A console > based frontend to LaTeX ! > If you cannot recall the URL, is there any clue to the > project/ program name so that one can search for it on > one of the search engines on the net? It's www.lyx.org. I don't remember who is working on it, but the ncurses version will eventually make it to he light of day. There might even be an alpha-level port already; i don't know. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
ack! StarOffice 5.2 => excel ???
Mmpf. I happily exported from StarOffice 5.2 to all three excel formats it supports--5.0, 95, and 97/2000. They all lost at least something. 97/2000 was closest, but it lost column widths, turned gridlines back on, and required me to open the formulas, insert the cursor, and hit enter before they calculated properly. It also lost all of the protection information. Is there some secret I'm missing? I thought StarOffice was supposed to do better than excel at these conversions. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: Console based Word Processor
bish believed, > Surely, LaTeX (and LyX) is definitely a class apart for do- > ing real fancy documents, but that's not the use that I am > envisaging. I used LyX in the past as well (a good frontend > for LaTex for lazy bones)! FYI, a console version of lyx is on its way--the current move is to toolkint independence, and someone is working on an ncurses version in this regard. As I still need to resubscribe (again) to the developers' list, I can't tell you any more off the cuff. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: printing FAQ? (simple parallel)
shaul said, >I said > > The printer is online, and I can cat to it and cause output (which would > > get > > me by if it was a postscript printer . . .) > > I start and stop the daemon, but nothing happens. > > I've tried playing around with lines like > > gs -sDEVICE=ljet2p -sOutputfile= | cat > /dev/lp0 syllabus.f00.micro.ps > > also to no avail > This might indicate loadable modules problems in your kernel. > What Kernel version are you using? What parallel port relates modules do you > have? Thank you. Turns out that the printer had chosen this week to roll over and die :) It can't even get through it's self-test without jamming paper, among other thins [this is the one that was held together by rivets & duct tap--I was impressed to see such a thing work at all :) ]. I plugged in another printer, and off it ran . . . hawk > > > > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my > > retainer. > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com > > > -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: You are a Linux Guru!
>I don't like gnome-apt as one has to use the cursed mouse. err, isn't that enough to file it as a critical bug? :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
solved the IIP printing problem
After fighting for the IIP for a couple of days, it suddenly printed a page when I turned on the computer this morning--and then would no longer do anything but fail to print, have errors, etc. But I've found the asolution: Someone had an unused Laserjet 4plus, which works fine after running magicfilterconfig hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]
Paul Pondered > Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > You could try finding and running the IBM "Drive Fitness Test". It's > on their web site somewhere and creates a bootable DOS floppy. You might > need Windows to do that bit. I found the like; it's at www.ibm.com/harddrives, then off to http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm It then tries to link to http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/, but the domain doesn't seem to exist . . . I sent a comment, but who knows when they'll get back to me. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Laserjet IIP (not postscript) and ghostscript?
I have in my office, at least for the moment, a LaserJet IIP. This is from before the P meant postscript on these; I think it meant "personal." It is *not* the same printer as a regular II. I've found ghostscriptt and magicilter information starting at about the laserjet III. Does anyone know how to get a IIP to talk to ghostsrcript? Will Bad Things (tm) happen if I try to use the drivers for a III? ANd has anyone ever seen a printer feed tray that has been repaired with *both* rivets and duct tape before? :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato
David declared, > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I can't get > > anything from a remote machine to display. Jobs on this machine > > can display remotely. I've tried displaying on my own box with FreeBSD, > > and on a redhat box. I get the same errors with each: > I had a similar problem after doing an `apt-get dist-upgrade', with > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to the X update for slink. > It turns out that xdm was upgraded, and my old config files were somehow > overwritten. The one in question was /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. It is well > commented and you should be able to figure it out. If not, let me know. I have the entry * #any host can get a login window In both the local machine, and the corresponding file on the remote machine (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess). Yet I get the response, Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 444176001 failed for display hawkins.cba.uni.edu:1: Cannot open display xdm is running on both machines. I use ssh to get to the remote machine, set the display variable to the local machine, cut and paste my xauth code, and get nsSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hawkins.cba.uni.edu:0.0 Then, going for broke, I try using xhost from the local machine to enable the remote display: hawkinsttyp8:hawk>xhost + dhcp252-100.vlc2-100e92.cfu.net dhcp252-100.vlc2-100e92.cfu.net being added to access control list and in the window to the other machine, and get the same result. As I understand these files, the * in Xaccess in the *remote* machine should be enough to get a login screen on console vt8, and *either* the xuath codes or the xhost+ should give me the remote screen the ability to use the local server (and should not be affected by any xdm settings). rick hawk
*wham* there went ncpfs . . .
Potato seems determined to kill off my system piece by piece. Now it's ncpfs, which simply hangs. Has anyonw found the cuase of this yet? rick
Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato
Karsten called, > I've got a similar problem, also one-way. > Is either of your machines on a dynamic IP dialup line? One of mine is, > one isn't. One of the three, but it's not the problem :) The offending machine (this one) has a static IP, and a fixed name (hawkins.cba.uni.edu). It's the one that can't display output from other machines, either the redhat machine (also with a static ip/name), or the machine on the cable modem (after setting DISPLAY, xauth, etc., of course). It is no problem displaying programs from this box *to* the box with the dynamic IP. At this point, I'm pretty much convinced that the problem is with something in xdm configuration that changed going from slink to potato. And I *really* need to be able to access the remote machine--this machine strains on starcalc3, which has a tendency to produce erros in spreadsheets that cause it to crash on load. The only known solution is to open and save the sheet in scalc3 format with soffice5--and running *that* on this machine is utterly out of the question (until potato, I ran netscape from a machine 100 miles away. Now I've got lynx configured to launch new instances and have a light background, so I don't need netscape more than a time or two a week). Overall, though (hmm, I'm babbling . . .) potato seems to put a much harsher load on my resources; the things that I used to be able to do are no longer possible without several minutes of paging :( rick > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm sure it's just yet another one line config change to get my box working > > the way it was before the "upgrade," but this time I haven't been able > > to find it. > > > > Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I can't get > > anything from a remote machine to display. Jobs on this machine > > can display remotely. I've tried displaying on my own box with FreeBSD, > > and on a redhat box. I get the same errors with each: > > > > smithpts/0:hawk>xterm > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113 > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hawkins.cba.uni.edu:0.0 > > > > This happens after posting my xauth code to the other machine. In this > > particular case, I used both xhost and a paste of the xauth string (ssh > > isn't installed at the other end on that machine). > > > > I'm getting desparate, here . . . > > > > rick > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /d > ev/null > > > > -- > Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > > Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ > Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
can't display remote X jobs after potato
I'm sure it's just yet another one line config change to get my box working the way it was before the "upgrade," but this time I haven't been able to find it. Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I can't get anything from a remote machine to display. Jobs on this machine can display remotely. I've tried displaying on my own box with FreeBSD, and on a redhat box. I get the same errors with each: smithpts/0:hawk>xterm _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113 xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hawkins.cba.uni.edu:0.0 This happens after posting my xauth code to the other machine. In this particular case, I used both xhost and a paste of the xauth string (ssh isn't installed at the other end on that machine). I'm getting desparate, here . . . rick
Re: changing mime handlers
OK, i got a bit farther: more grepping led to a trail ending at /usr/lib/mime/packages/, and lowered netscape's priorities while increasing lynx's, but when lynx opens the message, there's a blank line at the beginning, followed by all of the html. rick
changing mime handlers
Every time some knucklehead sends me a message with an html component, show tries to fire off netscape to read the stupid thing. I've looked high and low in all of the . files in ~, in everything with "mime" in /etc, and every man page I can think of. I can't find *anything* that tells it to use netscape for html. If I can't get it to at least ask permission before this, I'd at least want to switch to lynx. Better yet, just show me the text (it's doing this even if the text is first and the html is the following package). Hmm, maybe a script that autobounces html email with a "you moron" message . . . hawk
Re: Installing source lyx
Micha mentioned, > I got the latest source for lyx from their site, because I need thw hebrew > support thats installed there. > The problem is, can someone tell me how to configure it to the right > dirextories ( what are they ?) I got the source package for 1.1.4 from > debian and I tired to copy the configure script from there, but t didn't > work. I also got the diff, ( how do I apply it? ) > Is there a way that I can easilly package it so it can be later easily > removed when the newer version comes out as a debian package ? ( I don't > care if its packaged as 1.1.4, can I switch the sources and keep the diff > and desc files and jsut pack it up somehow?) The solution is not to debianize it at all. Just untar it in /usr/src, cd to the lyx directory, apply the patch (I'm not familiar with the particular patch, but usually something like "patch -p1 < patchfile"), then do a ./configure which defaults to installation in /usr/local, a make, and a make install. If tghe version you wants ever comes out as a .deb, you can then remove lyx and reLyX from /usr/local/bin, the man pages in /usr/local/man, and /usr/local/share/lyx hawk
Re: latex2html and table/figure references--more info
[original below] I've got a little more information now. All of the students who have problems have netscape (and don't know their version number). latex2html is using links on the figure numbers--so a reference to figure 2 should show as an underlined (or whatever) 2, with a hyperlink to that portion of the document. It displays properly on lynx, netscape 3, and a netscape 4.5/windows we tried. I can't duplicate the problem, but I've seen a couple of printouts with boxes rather than links. One of the pages causing the problem is at http://hawkins.cba.uni.edu/micro/homework/ch6/ch6hw/ch6hw.html rick > Due to the difficulties that many of my students have had installing > ghostview (I didn't know that it *could* be done wrong), I have > had to distribute assignments in html form as well. > > It seems that latex2html is producing grey square boxes rather than > the proper references for figures and tables. It looks like I > can us pstoimg to create huge bitmaps, but this will be ugly :) > > Is there a cleaner answer? > > Rick
latex2html and table/figure references
Due to the difficulties that many of my students have had installing ghostview (I didn't know that it *could* be done wrong), I have had to distribute assignments in html form as well. It seems that latex2html is producing grey square boxes rather than the proper references for figures and tables. It looks like I can us pstoimg to create huge bitmaps, but this will be ugly :) Is there a cleaner answer? Rick
Unidentified subject!
Subject: Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:02:56 PST." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aphro added, > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Joe Block wrote: > jpb >I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full unix? I > jpb >run OSX Server on a couple machines and it seems pretty full to me - > jpb >most stuff builds with ./configure;make > i dont think it can qualify as real unix(not that linux does either) i > think it just uses a BSD kernel and cross breed between NeXT and macos > technology, i dont think it uses X as it's display system. it is very > unix like though. can run most unix apps. "very unix" ? A unix kernel, all of the unix commands and utilities, a unix file system--what more could you possibly ask before calling it unix??? Also, I don't think I've ever heard it disputed that NeXT is unix. X, however, is not integral to unix, but a (fairly standard) addition. > calling Mac OS X unix would be kinda like calling BeOS unix since it has > unix commands and can compile stuff too.. No, because BeOS isn't unix underneath; it's its own thing that can use some unix pieces. MacOS X is unix with a mac display. My understanding is that X apps will display on the MacOS display. hawk
Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)
> > I'm kind of curious - what makes you say MacOS X isn't a full unix? I > > run OSX Server on a couple machines and it seems pretty full to me - > > most stuff builds with ./configure;make > Interesting. My understanding was that MacOS X wasn't a full Unix. I'm > often wrong. > Could you provide pointers to the Unixy features of MacOS X? Are the > standard Unix features and utilities provided or do you have to obtain > them independently There's a handful on today's slashdot, though they're focused on the gui than the unix itself. It does point to screenshots of tcsh running on macos . . . hawk
Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?
Karsten krabbed, > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:27:11AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Karsten kried, > > cross application cut and paste. Come to think of it, that's the *only* > > thing I've seen either of these offer that I've seen any use for . . . > > I'm quite happy with xterms, LyX, and a nice grey interweaved desktop. > > Everythingt else takes extra cycles or screen real estate (and I'm not > > to happy that I can't remove the buttons within lyx for this same reason > > . . .) > ...only when the X paste buffer isn't available. It works pretty well > for me. MSFT's six-action CnP just kills me. Two clicks, that's all it > takes. Though option to clear the target field would be nice Oh, I much prefer X's version for almost everything. But I can see the value in being able to move images, etc. I am *not* trying to defend MSFT, though I find them funny. A friend went to save a one page document to floppy, and it wouldn't fit. Seems he'd pasted in an image from excel, and it used every known format . . . > > > > I know Gnome and KDE are called "environments", but they still only > > > > look like...errrm...a tweaked MS task bar and program launcher. > > > Funny, I see the same thing . > > Nah, it's a tweak of the MS ripoff of MacOs 5.0/multifinder, with one > > or two $20 shareware extensions . . . > Wait! The Alto!! What about the Alto?!! OK, what about Raskin's master's thesis? :) I drew the cutoff at 5.0/multifinder due to what's there. The tasks cycle and list,(gee, the bar at the bottom) [oops, they stopped cycling with multifinder; that was the switcher], a heirarchical extension (choose from a couple) gives you the whole start menu, boomerang did a better job of providing recent files, and I think you have the whole W95 interface. Some of this wasn't in earlier versions of Mac, or the other windowing systems. (no, I don't think the GUI started with apple [Although Raskin may have a claim, and he helped apple do it . . .]). ob trivia: the lisa interface predated the PARC visit . . . > > > Well, aside from the all-too-cool dock on the right of my monitor > > > Yes, I run WindowMaker and like it. Clean, quick, handy keyboard > > > accelerators, stable. I'll occasionally fire up KDE or Gnome for kicks. > > gee, do you kick puppies, too? :) put hamsters in microwaves? > My lawyer will be in touch with you. Don't move. Sorry, he can't sue me due to professional courtesy :) [But now I'm a recovering lawyer. It's one day at a time, but I've been clean for nearly six years . . .] > > > There's nothing "required" in Gnome or KDE. > I meant -- there's nothing required in Gnome or KDE that you can't get > without them. Yes, there are requirements *for* both, particularly > memory (even my 96 MB box slows down under them). Oh, in that case :) I will admit to having KDE on the FreeBSD box at home for the kids. But I haven't gone as far as figuring out how to get it to start netscape. It does seem to save their session, though. I refuse to let it near the internet running windows . . . come to think of it, I need to get the sound card working (it's a wierd one) and see if I even *need* windows for the old progams they use now that I have a reasonably recent version of wine . . > > Oh, and the dependency of gnumeric on gnome leads to gnomes dependencies > > on sound managagers and the like--even though there's no sound card . . . > Gee. Fun. there was a simple solution :) And on the same day I deleted them, I figured out how to get lynx to a light background in X (though it only works in debian, not freebsd for some reason), and to spawn a new lynx for links, letting me dump netscape . . . > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix > > > despite its Mach core). > > But on top of the mach core there is a full unix as I understand it, > > including an Xserver that coexists with the mac display > More info? i'm sure it's out there :) More seriously, though I don't have links to back it up, my understanding is that X apps can display under MacOs X, and that the whole unix stuff is there, just hidden from view of those that don't have a reason to go looking. Assuming that a high-end fortran 90/95/00 compiler is avaialble, it's entirely possible that I'll ask for one of these at my next university for my desk machine. hawk
fonts gone wierd in wine
OK, who ate my fonts. After another round with dselect, my fonts have
gone wierd in wine.
Except for printing, wine runs my program reasonably well. But all
of a sudden, the fonts it uses have been eaten. I now get a wierd
semi-italic san serif instead of (i think it was) courier, and get to
wait every time I start while:
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
I can't find any fonts other than foreign language stuff. I have
>dpkg --list | grep "^.\{4,20\}font"
ii freefont 0.10-8 Freeware font selection for X11
ii gsfonts5.10a-2Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
ii gsfonts-other 5.10-2 Additional fonts for the ghostscript interpr
ii gsfonts-x110.12 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11.
ii libxfont-xtt 1.3.0.1-8 X-TT patched font library of X (Shared libra
ii xfonts-100dpi 3.3.6-1100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 3.3.6-175 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base3.3.6-1standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-bitmap- 8.1-2 ETL 16dot bitmap font for X
ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-1scalable fonts for X
My poor computer is already taxed enough without having to make up fonts
on the fly :(
The good news is, that if you are teaching and your book uses Thompson
Publishing's software for the test bank, it runs just as well under
wine as windows. The bad news is, aside from that, it's crummy
software :)
hawk
Re: pronunciation of daemon
brian belabored, > People with Asian names > usually just give up and adopt a new name because the pronunciation of > their given name was impossible for non-Asians to reproduce. :) Living in graduate student housing, I was stunned to find (after more than a year) that my friend whose name I couldn't pronounce (and hence remember) who'd moved in to the next building over and the "Steve" my wife talked about were the same person . . . >(Just as > the stereotypical Asian confuses 'l' and 'r', non-Asians can't hear the > difference in Asian syllables... they no doubt laugh at us for the same > sort of thing.) There was a hysterical commercial when Isuzu first started selling in the U.S. The narrator approached Americans and asked them to say "Isuzu," at which they invariably failed. At the end, he faced the camera and told us, "Don't feel bad. We can't say Chevroway, either." > I actually vary on 'daemon'. I use the 'day-mon' pronunciation most of > the time, and 'demon' when I want to annoy people. (Works wonders!) gee, [*whistles innocently*], now *I* would never do something just to annoy anyone [*glances around for the lightning*] -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
getting lynx to respect xv choice
As shipped with debian, lynx defaults to "display" for it's image viewer--taking about 20 ofmy 24 mbfor itself, causing massive swapping. I've eded lynx.cfg to include VIEWER:application/postscript:ghostview %s&:XWINDOWS VIEWER:image/gif:xv %s&:XWINDOWS VIEWER:image/x-xbm:xv %s&:XWINDOWS VIEWER:image/x-rgb:xv %s&:XWINDOWS VIEWER:image/x-tiff:xv %s&:XWINDOWS VIEWER:image/jpeg:xv %s&:XWINDOWS and XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:xv %s & but these only cause it to use imagemagick. I don't need that, or it's annoyning insistence on a mouse rather than "q" to leave. I just want my plain little xv back. Any suggestions? rick
Re: cron not using new entry after crontab -e?
It turned out to be more subtle than I thought. I initially edited the file in /etc, which accomplished nothing. I then worked with the crontab command from user sace. Eventually, the command in /etc began executing, which is where my strangest result was coming from. Rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
odd cron returns
I have the crontab file "mycron" with the contents [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/bin/updatehw >> $HOME/tmp.quizlog which results in the crontab entry of # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.4hHwFM installed on Tue Feb 1 11:36:48 2000) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/bin/updatehw >> $HOME/tmp.quizlog # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.4hHwFM installed on Tue Feb 1 11:36:48 2000) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/bin/updatehw >> $HOME/tmp.quizlog However, the mail gets inundated with reports of Delivery-Date: Fri Feb 4 10:30:01 2000 Return-Path: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `&' That is, it's not executingthe command in the crontab, but a differetn one --note thatthe >> becomes a 2>>& How do I fix this? What I need here is for cron to *not* send any mail at all--this account exists to sort and process mail, and extra mail makes the job harder. Rick
answering my own lynx question
Hmm, I would have *sworn* that this stuff wasn't in /etc/lynx.cfg lasttime I looked. Once I had the source, I read debian/README.debian, and found the answer to my problems :) The color answer: These settings look nice on the crummy screen, but they have an interesting idea of what "white" means :) COLOR:0:black:white COLOR:1:blue:white COLOR:2:yellow:blue COLOR:3:green:black COLOR:4:magenta:white COLOR:5:blue:white COLOR:6:red:white COLOR:7:magenta:cyan As for the external viewer, EXTERNAL:http:xterm -T lynx -e lynx %s & : TRUE does just what I need. I suppose I could try to get greedy, and come up with a script to number lynx viewr, or use sed in `` to name it something else, but the point is to conserve resources so I can continue working. Removing netscape from my life can certainly do this . . . (But now I want another key in addition to . so that I can have wget, too :)
getting lynx to be its own external html viewr
OK, i admit it, the FM's are daunting on this one, and I failed the last time I tried. But someone else must have tried this. I want to set up lynx as its own external viewer for html. Thatis, I want it to launch a new xterm with a new instance of lynx when I type period on a link. This shouldn't be too hard, but I also assume that other people have already done the same thing. (Why, you ask? Because when I'm reading anews site, I like launching external viewers as I flip through the choices, and then reading them all, rather than waiting for all the pages to load. And now that I've moved the system to potato, 24Mb just isn't cutting it. I've moved even further to the command line, to the point where to remove the messages from cron to a quiz email account, it struck me as reasonable to type time /usr/bin/mh/rmm `/usr/bin/mh/scan | grep Cron | sed -e's/^\(\).*$/\1/' | tr '\n' ' ' ` . . .) Also, has anyone dinked around with the color? I can get -nocolor to work, but I'd rather -blink -- I need a light backgroundwith dark colors on this monitor (I also need a space key, a p key, and a k key [err, the switches, not the keytops.]) Seeing the docs about needing slang support, I've installed to compile (a scary thought on this poor little machine), figuring to see what it does by morning. Rick
user cron jobs
I can't seem toget user cron jobs to run on my system. As I'm reading man 1 and 5 for crontab, I should be able to have the line 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ch1quiz /usr/local/bin/updatehw 2>>& $HOME/tmp.quizlog in /etc/crontab, and every ten minutes user ch1quiz will run /usr/local/bin/updatehw with the output and errors appended to tmp.quizlog in its home directory. But nothing seems to happen. What am I missing? I've even tried stopping & restarting the daemon, even though it says that this is unnecessary. The ch*quiz accounts exist only to collect student homework; the script updates a web page so that they can confirm that their homework has been received. Rick --
fvwm and ActivePlacement
(my problem with windows needing to be manually placed). Yep, that did it--I edited out the ActivePlacement and replaced it with SmartPlacement in the system.fvwmrc. In the process of restarting fvwm, I lost the digest with the message. SO thank you, even though I can't send this to you directly. I don't suppose you can tell me how to get my alt-clic to raise/lower windows back? I've been using this for so long, it's instinctive--and I was at least five years away from my last cp/m or dos machine when I finally stopped trying to use wordstar commands in other wordprocessors. Thanks again Rick --
X/fvwm forcing me to place windows
Since switcing to potato, fvwm is behavng much differently. Most annoying of the changes is that for some programs (netscape), it is requiring me to manually place the windows, a la twm. For others, the winows happily appear themselve (xterm, exmh). And occasionally (exmh), programs that usually work force me to place windows. I supposedly have the same config files. What is going on? While I'm at it, I'e lost alt-click to move windows forward and backwards. Rick --
Re: cnews/nntp/slrn Problem
> i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. > Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn > hangs with "posting...". check /etc/news/inn.conf Switching to potato, it replaced this file without asking me, and there are two lines that the man page says *must* be given which are not added by the debian package: mta: /usr/sbin/smail pathnews: / Yet another thing that broke :) --
potato fscked fvwm, and *slow*
I "upgraded" to potato since it was easier than a package-by-package upgrade to get the newer version of wine (OK, that was stupid). Two problems 1) fvwm is, uhh, bad. It's behavior has changed a *couple* of times over the last couple of days. Initially, the wine windows behaved normally, rather than sticking to the foreground like the documentation mentioned. Then I lost my left-click menus. The little window box in the lower right came back (I'd edited the old files to get rid of it, but this is the least of my concerns). Then this morning, it popped up windows with no controls at all up top--they would go active as the mouse passed over, but there was no way (including mouse & control tab) to move them around, or move them to the front). I hid all the .fvwm* in ~, and most of that went away. But now for some programs (netscape3, plan) it wants me to place windows twm-style (including new netscape windows, but not netscape dialogs), but others work fine (xterm, exmh). 2) It's become pig-slow. Massive paging, and generally noticeably slower than under slink. Not as bad as when the cache got turned off, but netscape loading big pages while dselect runs doubly nice brings it too its knees--high load, visible redrawing of windows, then a couple of minuts of heavy paging with 20-70% idle CPU [i'm interpreting this as it having things to do, but it can't do them until I reload] The system is a p5/120 with 24mb (8 of which I had to bring from home). rick --
Re: Happy.exe
> I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? [this is too easy :) ] Since you're reading this list, you already know the *best* way . . . :) rick, who can run the one set of darkside progams he needs under wine. --
Re: Pathetic Performance
also make sure that you caches are turned on in the bios. I ran into sluggish performance a couple of months ago after a bios reset, and this was it. Of course, this gateway p120 is still about the same speed as my 486/50 thinkpad with 4m less memory (ok, except when rendering postscript or latex), but at least that rought it back to the same speed :) --
having netscape 3 and 4.7 installed
I need to keep netscape 3 for my own use, both due to processing power and because later versions removed features I use. However, I need 4.5 or later for materials for the classes I teach. (I'm not trying to run them both at once; dragons be there . . .) I'm considering using dpkg -i --instdir=/usr/local --force-conflicts to install 4.7. Is this going to be safe? will it work? rick --
Re: ncp (novel) wrongly locked
aphro added, > did u check lsof? it would show if something is using that partition..i > just checked one of my machines and saw that one partition was in use, > just because i started a program on which forked to the > backgroupd(vpnd) it is not"using" the partition at all but lsof shows it > as having the mount point as an open file I just tried it, and get hawkins:~# lsof /dev/hda2 lsof: can't determine system map file path The only thing in the man page that seems to be vaguely relevantis Linux 2.0.3[234] and 2.1.8[89] for Intel-based systems --I have 2.0.36 I get the same result as user and as root. rick --
ncp (novel) wrongly locked
I'm using the ncpfs to use space on networked novell drives. It works most of the time with most applications, but it has a tendency to halfway dismount itself on errors. Some I can reproduce, but they all involve manually dismounting then remounting. This time, though, it wrongly concluded that the file system was still in use, and refused to dismount. I could find no way to remount other than to reboot! I searched for lock files in the usual places in /var, but found nothing. Is there some other way to deal with this situation? --
windowless wine and "could not stat c\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am trying to run wine for a very simple application (I can probably = use a browser once it installs itself) but I have no windows = installation. I've tried to follow the wine howto, which gives an example for debian, = but when using that (or nearly anything else) I get the message, Could not stat /usr/local/lib/win Type=3Dhd Label=3DMS-DOS Filesystem=3Dw= in95, ignoring drive C: Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration f= ile. The directory certainly exists, and I get the same problem as root or = a user. I'm stumped. Rickcc -- =
getting netscape 4.5 & 3.0 to coexist
Before I do something *really* stupid . . . I need both 3.0 and 4.5+ of netscape installed. I need 3.0 for my regular use (both for features & size on this crippled machine), and I need 4.5 or later for some of the materials on the classes I teach. What's my best bet here? My inclination is to install the raw 4.5 from netscpae, and stay with the 3.0 debian-style. Or is there a reliable way to make both debianized versions coexist? Rick --
Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
Pann proposed, > Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the > newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. We have a winner :) Wow. Do you happen to know how they got a non-y2k date bug in? I wasn't expecting to worry about those for another 30 years :) Or was this a debian quirk--the slightly older packages on that other debian box weren't bothered and still worked. Rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
Howard hollered, > > hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was not > created upon installation of the .deb package. > It worked after I " manually" invoked the postinstall script for the app. > The *.fmt files were then created. > > Try the same thing for " TeX" If it works, you may want to inform the package > maintainer. Thanks. I tried this, but no joy. What's *really* bothering me is that i used find on /usr on a working machine and can't find the offending file anywhere . . . rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no luck. The output is hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! I've used find on a working machine, and this file doesn't seem to exist anyway. I was briefly able to make the system work through lyx, but now I get the output (from a postscript preview) of: This is dvips(k) 5.82 Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. I assume that this is something very simple, but I'm stumped. Rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
still trying to login root after install
During installation, I used vc2 to change the root password (among other things) before vc1 got to do its song & dance (there were network issues, and I didn't wnat it starting until the network was properly configured). This has left my system in a state such that everything works, but that it presumes root on vc1, and asks only for a password. This wouldn't be so bad, since I only use X, but it also presumes root on telnet. How do I tell it to stop doing this? (root does not get the first time song & dance, which apparently also clears this behavior). rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
Re: disabling remount ro on errors
william wiled, > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:06:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that my hardrive didn't > > switch to ro due to errors on the weekly cron run. The remount as ro > > both stops incoming mail, and makes it impossible to telnet in to fix > > it. > Did you run fsck on the filesystem? The cron job triggering the problem > might be something like updatedb that touches everything on the disk. > Fix the filesystem and the problem will go away. oh, yes. I fsck, and I fsck. This throws off bad sector errors. I'm convinced the underlying problem is hardware, both from the funny sounds the drive makes and the patterns in which the errors occur. > > I successfully installed onto a replacement drive, but for whatever > > reason, I can't get the network functioning--even after copying /etc > > and /lib from the old system (freebsd can't reach the network, either). > > It's a tulip card, and we have a single incoming ip with switches > > rather than real subnets (ie, I talk directly to *.*.1.1 as my router). > Is the kernel and all its modules properly copied over? they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive. > > If I edit out the "remount=ro" from /etc/fstab, and remove the weekly > > cron file, is my system likely to keep running? I know I'm playing > > with fire, but the remount is catastrophic. > So is continuing with the errors. yes. There's no good choice here. The good news is that I'll get a hand-me-down machine at the beginning of next semester. rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
disabling remount ro on errors
OK, I know I'm playing with fire here, but I'm backed into a corner. On saturday, I leave for three weeks. Immediately afteards, I fly to Boston for interviews that get set up during those weeks. I *must* have email functioning on this account. Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that my hardrive didn't switch to ro due to errors on the weekly cron run. The remount as ro both stops incoming mail, and makes it impossible to telnet in to fix it. I successfully installed onto a replacement drive, but for whatever reason, I can't get the network functioning--even after copying /etc and /lib from the old system (freebsd can't reach the network, either). It's a tulip card, and we have a single incoming ip with switches rather than real subnets (ie, I talk directly to *.*.1.1 as my router). If I edit out the "remount=ro" from /etc/fstab, and remove the weekly cron file, is my system likely to keep running? I know I'm playing with fire, but the remount is catastrophic. rick, beginning to panic -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
the perils of software re-use
Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but amusing . . . Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As virtual reality simulators assume larger roles in helicopter combat training, programmers have gone to great lengths to increase the realism of their scenarios, including detailed landscapes, and--in the case of the Northern Territory's Operation Phoenix--herds of kangaroos, since disturbed animals might give away a helicopter's position. The head of the Defense Science & Technology Organization's Land Operations/Simulation division reportedly instructed developers to model the local marsupials' movements and reactions to helicopters. Being efficient programmers, they just re-appropriated some code originally used to model infantry detachments, changed the mapped icon from a soldier to a kangaroo, and increased the figures' speed of movement. Eager to demonstrate their flying skills for some visiting American pilots, the hotshot Aussies "buzzed" the virtual kangaroos in low flight during a simulation. The kangaroos scattered as predicted. The visiting Americans nodded appreciatively, but then did a double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and launched a barrage of Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. Apparently the programmers had forgotten to remove that part of the infantry simulation. The lesson? Objects are defined with certain attributes, and any new object defined in terms of an old one inherits all the attributes. The embarrassed programmers had learned to be careful when reusing object-oriented code, and the Americans left with a newfound respect for Australian wildlife. Simulator supervisors report that pilots from that point onward have strictly avoided kangaroos, just as they were meant to. - -- >From June 15, 1999 Defense Science and Technology Organization Lecture Series, Melbourne, Australia, and staff reports -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
can't get to network after changing drive
I'm trying not to use any bad words here . . . They found another drive to try again at replacing my failing drive. I can't get a good image out of the old one with dd; it ends too soon and I get an unusable file system (mounting panics the kernel). I finally gave in, and reinstalled on the new disk. No matter what I do, I can't get it to talk to the network. I've even used cp to duplicate /etc and /lib/modules. Just to taunt me further, if I use lilo to boot from the old drive, mounted on the second chanel, I can get to the network (which is how I'm writing this). It's an smc card with the 21040 (or whatever), which uses the tulip driver. The networking around here is all ipx. I have the tulip & ipx drivers installed (and I've tried without the ipx driver). I can find no difference between the two installations, yet only the damaged one can get to the network. I've even tried FreeBSD boot disks, which correctly identify the card, but tells me that it can't resolve the ftp server's name (the freebsd version of "*thtpt* can't reach the network *nyah,nyah." I can't think of anywhere else to look. Also, even without the network, once I load tulip with modprobe it announces that it cannot be unloaded because it's in use--even though it's the only module and the network hadn't yet been started. I'm stuck. I'm desparate. I need this machine as an Xserver to put out grade sheets (it really does nothing more than Xserver, lyx, and exmh). Rick
Re: problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3
> > Dear Fellow Debian Users: > > (let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think > it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't > solve). > > I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my > work computer. My home computer runs man just fine, but on my > work computer, man doesn't work. > > If I type man , some disk activity and CPU are used, but > then the man process appears to just hang (no more disk or CPU > consumed). I know that man is actually a front-end to several processing > steps, so I suspect that one of the intermediate steps is hanging. > I have deinstalled and reinstalled packages relevant to man and > the problem has not gone away. Have you partially upgraded to unstable? I saw similar behavior under those circumstances rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
multiple fs types for user floppy access?
I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing "msdos" to "auto", but no dice. Is there a change so that it can automount both msdos and ext2 disks? rick, who also wonders why linux and 10 year old mac's can read/write msdos disks faster than windows -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Voice/speech recogintion software for Linux
IBM had an add a couple of weeks ago in the wall street journal which said "It understands unix." However, when I looked at the website, all I saw were windows versions. I've been meaning to look into this, but perhaps it menat that "ls" and "cp" are in the vocabulary . . . -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ghostview sneakily learning about another filesystem
This shouldn't be possible . . . After it's first use in a session, ghostview tends to give me the following message: Exec of /afs/iastate.edu/public/ghost/bin333/gs-axp failed: No such file or directory Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window. This is the path on our university's vincent (athena) alpha's, running OSF1. But there is no way that this k6 box should even know about those paths. I did a clean install, but it still pulls this. Any ideas? -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ATA-3 drives
george bonser wrote, > > 1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives > No linux supports ATA33 as far as I know. If you can put the drives in > EIDE mode (as most will), Linux will work fine. There is a patch (I forget where, but it's out there) for the kernel to support them. I tried it, but my maxtor8.4 won't handle this mode at 83mhz, only 66. So I set the mode back down, and went back to my old kernel. rick - - -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. - --- End of Unsent Draft --- End of Forwarded Message -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: loss of xauthority
Martin wrote, > From: "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + > Subject: "xauth +", not a good idea... > > If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit > about xauth. "xauth list $DISPLAY" will list the key for the display > $DISPLAY. > pianocktail.org/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 53a82429fe56a1cf5236f3d4852e7d79e > Anyone who has that key is authorized to connect to the X server managing > display $DISPLAY. So say you want to grant user bar access to the display > that user foo is using, you just do (as bar): > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]> xauth add pianocktail.org/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 > 53a82429fe56a1cf5236f3d4852e7d79e curioser and curioser. I tried this, and it worked--once. I then successfully launched emacs, then lost the ability to change the remote xauth entirely. (???). Getting the sequence from the login xterm, I then type pv2086ttyp7:rhawkins>xauth list $DISPLAY eyry.econ.iastate.edu:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 e627d47d72c34079be1f6c35ca3b58b1 pv2086ttyp7:rhawkins>xauth add eyry.econ/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 684e3c0f4c1e460741426f5272005d0c pv2086ttyp7:rhawkins>xauth list $DISPLAY eyry.econ.iastate.edu:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 e627d47d72c34079be1f6c35ca3b58b1 That is, it isn't changing it in the remote system. However, it does seem to work in the root window on the local system. The remote system is using kerberos if this makes a difference. I still haven't figured out how to get the rpm's for kerberos installed. This prevents me from using rsh, getting pop-3 mail, etc. I've looked at the telnet man page, and it looks like I could evaluate the cookie, put it in a variable, pass this with the environ option, then have the remote .cshrc check for the variable, and add it if present. At the moment, i'm not worried nearly as much about security as in getting something to work. Even xhost + only works for a few seconds. thanks rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
loss of xauthority
I'm stumped again. I've lost my ability to control xhost for more than a minute or so. This is fairly recent. my "xhost + . . . " line in .xsession used to let me specify my common hosts, including localhost. No longer. It is necessary to do an xhost + immediately before a program tries to open an xwindow. ANd for each additional attempt. I don't *think* i did anything to bring on this change. WHile I'm at it, should I be using something other than xhost? the fm's i rt 'd seem to suggest I should be using magic cookies instead. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
>Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo > system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or > so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance > would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. You can find them in the unstable tree of the ftp site with the installation instructions. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sound
> I have a SB 16 PnP, and I am using Debian 1.3.1 "stable". I have > installed the isapnp package. Do I need to do anything special to > generate a voxware kernel module appropriate for my system? I just > looked at the output of pnpdump, and I think that I can figure > out how to set the card to a particular IRQ etc. you're probably already set to IRQ 5 unless someone changed it already. Just enter this 5 when configureing the kernel, tell it you want sb16, fm synthesis, and /dev/dsp support, and you're in business rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...
> If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... > How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and > printers... use NFS to export home directories and the like from one of the machines. Eithr use the print-server software (i forget the name), or put the printer onthe ehternet. > What if one of the machines was a windows machine...? Your sould would be in jeapordy. However, you could compile the kernel for IPX and use samba to export files to the windows machine. However, be sure to draw a pentium around it before launching windows or otherwise trafficing in demons. > What if they where both windows machines ? :) Umm, you'd be a bad person? :) -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
"no valid newsgroups" mesage in trn
I have had no problem in getting trn to work with the university newserver. The problem is that I can't post. I get messages to the effect of "no valid newsgroups found in header". How/where do I set the newsgroup list for this? rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Real Audio solution
OK, I've found the problem. It's how I configured netscape. rather than "rvplayer", the correct entry is "rvplayer %s" However, i then stumbled across a site that wanted a plugin, and haven't cracked that one yet. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
staroffice 4.0b2 working, sort of
This version was *a lot* easier to install. download it, move it to a user directory, untar it (for some silly reason, it's jsut a tar rather than .tgz), and it creates a directory. Then run the setup in this directory, but from your home directory, and it creates an Office40 directory. then just ~/Office40/bin/soffice, and you're off & running. But it's as annoying as microsoft stuff to use. Only one main window, and everything else opens within this. ugh. You can't see the help pages (pain in the *** to access/maneuver) and your document at the same time unless you launch a second instance. subwindows are limited to the boundries of the original. any attempt to search causes a segfault--but it does create correct rescue files. A lot more hassle than lyx, but i need formletters for the job hunt. It's this or the 25mhz mac with a printer that no longer feeds properly. And it apparently trades files with msoft just fine. It kept all formattting information from a mac word 5.0 file saved as rtf. Now if someone who understands such things would make an installer . . . :) I tried installing it as root in a couple of places, but it doesn't work right; it crashes when it doesn't find some files. But I'm the only one using this machine, so it will work for a while . . . rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: which fm to rt on apache and access?
oh, and thank you. hit the wrong key and sent it off. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: which fm to rt on apache and access?
> > Take a look at your directive(s) for the directories you wish > to access. It should contain "FollowSymLinks" if you wish symlinks to > work. (www.apache.org has all the docs; take a look at "Options"). I had this > As far as using the ~hawk URL, what is your UserDir directive set to? I > believe the default is "public_html" ... if you changed that to "www" > your URL should work. Otherwise, it won't :) changed to this, and then found the big problem: no global execute access on the directory. changed this, and it works. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bare X-windows
> Hi Debian world, > > Thank you for helping me about XF86Setup, Xserver_svga,x86config,xbase. > I had installed Debian Linux 1.3.1.r6 and X-windows package completely > without a CD rom and a CD. I am using FTP installation. > X-windows is now working for me. Well done Thank you, all Debian users. > > I see the bare x-windows on Debian Linux. It looks original windows and > no application at all. There is no manager with menus. it was very > funny. > > How do I put up Windows Explorer/Menus? > and how do I setup fvwm95? Fvwm95 was installed done. well, if you really want the 95 stuff [yech . not defaulting to that is a big advantage of debian over redhat :) ] In general, left-click on the backround for a menu of applications. But you could change the last line of your ~/.xsession to use fvwm95 rather than fvwm, which would give you that atrocious thing. or, the easy way :) In the xterm, just type someappname -theoptions & and it launches it and returns. eg, netscape & If you leave off the &, you don't get your xterm back until it quits. rick > I have already downloading all X11 packages on his HD. > > Thanks advance > > -- > Cheers > > K.Y.Lo > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
which fm to rt on apache and access?
I'm sure there's a simple answer somewhere to this, but after scouring the spots I could think of, I can't find it. Access to eyry.econ.iastate.edu is no problem; it happily brings up the default page. I then created /home/hawk/www, copied the index.html to it, and created a symlink from /var/www/hawk to it. The first yields Forbidden You don't have permission to access /hawk on this server. even from the machine itself, while eryy.econ.iastate.edu/home/~hawk yields Not Found The requested URL /~hawk was not found on this server. >From rtfming around, it would seem that i should be editing /etc/apache/access.conf. However, it already contains # Controls who can get stuff from this server. order allow,deny allow from all help! :) -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mouse on Xwindows
Try running gpmconfig as root. It will create the appropriate configuration. But before you do that, make a symlink for /dev/mouse: ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse [assuming the mouse is on ttys0] Tell gpm to use /dev/mouse, and then tell XF86Setup to use /dev/mouse. WHile it workes with the raw device, I believe there are a number of programs & packages that expect a /dev/mouse. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Real Audio
Has anyone gotten this working? I have it happily playing local files, and it happily launches from netscape, but doesn't get any data from the broadcast site. I tried the suggestions for use behind a firewall, but no dice. I believe that there is a firewall here; mail cannot go out from netscape on our workstations [which this box is not]. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail not starting on boot
> However, something bad seems to have happened to the smail postinst > script, resulting in the smail entry getting commented out in > /etc/inetd.conf. > Uncomment the smtp line and it will work again (maybe you > need to give inetd a HUP signal before it notices the change, not sure.) yep; this did it. thanks. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
the root login problem; shadow bug?
I located the problem with the root login without password with the help of Mark Ciciretti. passwd and shadow were out of sync; they had different entries. This caused errors that were not reported until trying to turn shadow off. It was necessary to delete all of the users, and remove all of their entries from the group files. The behavior was that root could log into the consoles without a password. However, the password existed, and was necessary for su. the passwd command would claim to change root's password, but didn't get it into shadow, apparently. However, no error was reported. I believe this came about when i tried to lift some lines from my old password file directly into the new file. I don't recall whether I used vipw or not. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail not starting on boot
> On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 > > It responds, but I've manually started smail. The problem is that the > > init.d file doesn't seem to be run automatically. > But when it runs out of inetd, there is nothing for it to do on startup. > There is nothing running all the time. It's not that there's noting running that's bothering me. It's that mail goes neither in nor out until i manually type /etc/init.d/smail start as root after each boot. It used to process mail automatically, and i told smailconfig to use the default that it offered. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: .xsession not executing
> Other than not being executable, all I can think of is that you may not > have allow-user-xsession in /etc/X11/config. that's it. I wonder why i didn't get one of those to start; I think i used to. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
.xsession not executing
I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out. After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than to be executable. I've tried 700, but this doesn't seem to do it. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail not starting on boot
> But when it runs out of inetd, there is nothing for it to do on startup. > There is nothing running all the time. OK, so what should I be doing so that smail automatically starts/starts listeninging/whatever? Currently, once i start it from init.d, it stays going until shutdown. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
no fsck after new install of hamm
I got irritated enough at the assorted problems from my dirty, inherited installation to wipe the disk and do a clean install. Installing hamm with X and a few more packages required about 10 (at least) passess through install/configure in deselect, and even so, i had to manually install perl with dpkg. anyway, I now get a boot message that fsck is not found. and sure enough, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin don't have an fsck or e2fsck. I've had to edit /etc/init.d/chkfs and chkroot to remove the fsck's to get booted. Now how do I fix this? Oh, and lilo didn't install properly, either. it wanted to use /dev/hda3 rather than /dev/hda as the root device, and when booting it came up as LIL- and hung. editing /etc/liloconfig solved it, though. rick --- End of Forwarded Message -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
