Can't access Swat.
I'm trying to set up a network with Samba and can't get Swat to open in my Netscape browser. I've tried, http://localhost:901/ which nets Netscape unable to locate the server keyword.netscape.com Please check the server name and try again. http://xyf:901/ Gives the same error. (xyf is my hostname.) http://127.0.0.1:901/ The error here is Netscape's network connection was refused be the server 127.0.0.1:901. The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy. Try connecting again later. Does anyone know why I can't get Swat up? Thanks, kent
Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr
Kent West wrote: ktb wrote: Kent West wrote: ktb wrote: I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not the case. I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in /etc/fstab, /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 I've also tried, mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, kent I once ran into a similar problem when I was trying to install from a Win95 partition, and then after having a working system deleting the Win95 partition and reclaiming it as my / partition. During the moving of the files, I had to do some fancy footwork in mounting/moving/unmounting, and a few times I'd wind up with a mounted directory that was empty even though I knew it had files in it. A bit more mounting/umounting and soon the files showed up again. At the time I was able to figure out what was happening, but I've forgotten now. I only mention this in the hope that it'll click in the clue that you need in order to figure out what's happening. I have found I can mount Redhat's /home/kent directory directly with the following line in /etc/fstab, /dev/hdb6 /mnt/redhat ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 I just don't understand why it doesn't show up in the directory tree when I mount the '/' partition. Muttering to myself... kent I suspect that when you're mounting /, you don't have a separate partition for /mnt, and I believe /mnt is part of the default directory structure. Therefore it's getting mounted as part of /, and is therefore clobbering your /mnt/redhat mount. It's hard to say without having a better idea of your entire partitioning structure. You might try creating a new mount point instead of /mnt/redhat, say something like /redmnt/redhat, and see if that has any effect. I had tried something like that and did again but still can't see /home/kent. Here is how my disk is partitioned. Don't laugh too hard. This is my first install with two os's on one drive. I was winging it a little:) Redhat hdb1 / hdb5 /usr hdb6 /home hdb7 /usr/local hdb8 /var hdb9 swap Slink hdb3 / hdb13 /usr hdb12 /usr/local hdb11 /home hdb10 /var Thanks, kent
Re: New Guy questions
Jason Vormbaum wrote: Hi, I am completely new to the Linux world. Today i set up a Linux machine and somehow I got it to boot, but now I don't know what to do with it. I need to connect it to my network to start with, but in the setup the 3Com 3c905 card I am using was not there. Before I ask a whole bunch of dumb questions about how to install my network card and CD-Rom, i will ask if there is anyplace good I can read about how to do this. How about a list of commands and what they do? Have you taken a look at the documentation at the Debian site? There is a lot of good info there, http://www.debian.org/ Take a look at both the documentation link and the Debian books link. There are free online books specific to Debian or you can purchase them. Also you can use the mailing list search engine. There are also man pages (if installed) on your system. Type 'man man' without the quotes at a prompt for more info on how to use this documentation. hth, kent
Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr
Kent West wrote: ktb wrote: I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not the case. I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in /etc/fstab, /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 I've also tried, mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, kent I once ran into a similar problem when I was trying to install from a Win95 partition, and then after having a working system deleting the Win95 partition and reclaiming it as my / partition. During the moving of the files, I had to do some fancy footwork in mounting/moving/unmounting, and a few times I'd wind up with a mounted directory that was empty even though I knew it had files in it. A bit more mounting/umounting and soon the files showed up again. At the time I was able to figure out what was happening, but I've forgotten now. I only mention this in the hope that it'll click in the clue that you need in order to figure out what's happening. I have found I can mount Redhat's /home/kent directory directly with the following line in /etc/fstab, /dev/hdb6 /mnt/redhat ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 I just don't understand why it doesn't show up in the directory tree when I mount the '/' partition. Muttering to myself... kent
Re: Floppy Drive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I access my floppy drive from command line? You can do so with the following command, mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy that is if you have a /floppy directory which I think is created by default so you probably do and the file system you are trying to access is 'msdos'. If it is a linux file system use 'ext2'. /dev/fd0 I assume is where your floppy drive is located. After you use the command above you need to 'cd' to the /floppy directory and use ls -alF or whatever to look at what is on your floppy. To get out 'cd' back to the directory you started in and use the same line as you mounted with but use the 'umount' command. See 'man mount' for more details and look at 'man fstab' for a more convenient way of mounting file systems. hth, kent Donivan Roby -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?
If you have 'X' up I would say install Netscape Communicator. If your downloading ftp I would try 'ncftp'. hth, kent Andy Thomas wrote: I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by default? I thought I'd downloaded a few things but couldn't find them. It turns out that the dns settings from pppconfig in resolv.conf worked after all... yay... What's the easiest, simplest way to start getting mail under debian? TIA Andy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?
Andy Thomas wrote: I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by default? I haven't used Lynx much but I would guess the directory you fired it up in or your home directory, possibly /tmp. I did a quick 'locate lynx|less and found a file you might want to take a look at '/etc/lynx.cfg'. I have to run to work or I'd look a little deeper. Also look at 'man lynx'. hth, kent
Re: Setting Path ENV variable
Andy Thomas wrote: Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search path can be set in .bashrc file, but the only .bashrc I'm finding is for a user I created, not root. Is there a bash configuration file for root? To get to that file you have to be signed in as root or su to root and cd to the /root directory. I'm trying to add some directories to the search path. I found a file named /etc/profile with a PATH statement in it, but attempts to add to that don't work. The comment at the top says it's the system-wide profile for bash(1) I'm by no means an expert on this but I've found that /etc/profile effects my console sessions and not my 'X' sessions. hth, kent
Can't mount /home/kent and /usr
I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not the case. I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in /etc/fstab, /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 I've also tried, mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, kent
Re: xconsole placement
To reply to my own message, what I figured out is I needed to move -file /dev/console to the beginning of the command like so, + I exec xconsole -file /dev/console now it's working fine. kent ktb wrote: I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, + I exec xconsole -geometry 480x130+297+434 -bg gainsboro -exitOnFail -dae -notify -file /dev/console These are the permissions, ~$ l /dev/xconsole prw-rw-rw- 1 root adm 1951 Dec 7 00:10 /dev/xconsole| At any rate with this setup, xconsole appears on my screen for a second and then winks out. I've looked through the various xdm files and found a place (/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources) it looked like geometry could be controlled but when I changed the geometry nothing happened at all even when I commented out the line, XConsole.text.geometry: 480x130. The geometry I assigned xconsole and want, is 480x130+297+434. With this geometry it would stay on my screen. Otherwise the way it is it goes out of view when I deiconify it. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xconsole placement
I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, + I exec xconsole -geometry 480x130+297+434 -bg gainsboro -exitOnFail -dae -notify -file /dev/console These are the permissions, ~$ l /dev/xconsole prw-rw-rw- 1 root adm 1951 Dec 7 00:10 /dev/xconsole| At any rate with this setup, xconsole appears on my screen for a second and then winks out. I've looked through the various xdm files and found a place (/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources) it looked like geometry could be controlled but when I changed the geometry nothing happened at all even when I commented out the line, XConsole.text.geometry: 480x130. The geometry I assigned xconsole and want, is 480x130+297+434. With this geometry it would stay on my screen. Otherwise the way it is it goes out of view when I deiconify it. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, kent
Re: Epson L 1500
I didn't see it listed here, http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Epsonformat=full but maybe someone else knows. Just thought I'd make you aware of the link if you didn't know. hth, kent Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, anyone knows if this printer is supported under Linux? Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av. Presidente Vargas, 509/4o andar - 852-4564 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ Brazil -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
64Mb memory problem (only 16Mb is seen by the kernel)
This is a long shot but did you recently compile your kernel? There is a place where you can select something about 16mb of memory. Maybe a coincidence maybe not. hth. kent Hai, I have been working with debian 2.1 for almost one year now in a productive environent and I'm real happy with it! (running samba/qpopper/roxen http server/imp (web mail)/sendmail/ and some other stuff). In my new PC at home I have 64Mb of memory but only 16Mb is seen by the kernel. I alreadu tried 'append=mem=64Mb in my lilo.conf file but then my system craches (havy) after several minutes, a reboot will give me a kernel panic at boot time (first time I have seen one!) My PowerEdge 1300 with 128Mb RAM has no problem with it. What could be the problem? (kernel 2.0.36) Regards, Ries van Twisk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?
Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: [[[SNIP]]] As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink at this point it doesn't boot my custom kernel, which is not surprising since lilo.conf says image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15. I changed that line to read, image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 but then I get an error when I run /sbin/lilo that that file doesn't exist. So what do I do here? Do I copy my Slink kernel to /usr/src on the Redhat side? Try mounting the slink partition (e.g. as /mnt/slink) and changing the slink image line to something like image=/mnt/slink/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 I've never tried this myself, but it should work. Even if it doesn't work, it won't hurt anything to try. Well I tried adding that line and it didn't work. When I boot into Slink off the HD it set me up with the Redhat kernel, not my custom Slink kernel. This is the error I got when I ran lilo after the change in /etc/lilo.conf: Added redhat * Added 95 open /mnt/slink/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 No such file or directory. Did you remember to mount the slink partition under /mnt/slink (i.e. mkdir /mnt/slink; mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/slink)? Can you look in there and find the proper path for the kernal image file? Ok I already changed the mbr back to windows default and reran lilo from Slink and now I boot directly into Slink on startup. I'm not entirely sure what your getting at here but I've reversed this and did, mkdir /mnt/redhat; mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/redhat After cding to /mnt/redhat I found directory /boot and inside is vmlinux-2.2.5-15. So if I get you correctly you are saying to put the following in my lilo.conf, image=/mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 lable=redhat root=/dev/hdb1 Now to make this all work after running lilo do I have to put something like the following line in my /etc/fstab? /dev/hdb1 /mnt/redhat ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Thanks, kent
Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?
ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: [[[SNIP]]] As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink at this point it doesn't boot my custom kernel, which is not surprising since lilo.conf says image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15. I changed that line to read, image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 but then I get an error when I run /sbin/lilo that that file doesn't exist. So what do I do here? Do I copy my Slink kernel to /usr/src on the Redhat side? Try mounting the slink partition (e.g. as /mnt/slink) and changing the slink image line to something like image=/mnt/slink/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 I've never tried this myself, but it should work. Even if it doesn't work, it won't hurt anything to try. Well I tried adding that line and it didn't work. When I boot into Slink off the HD it set me up with the Redhat kernel, not my custom Slink kernel. This is the error I got when I ran lilo after the change in /etc/lilo.conf: Added redhat * Added 95 open /mnt/slink/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 No such file or directory. Did you remember to mount the slink partition under /mnt/slink (i.e. mkdir /mnt/slink; mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/slink)? Can you look in there and find the proper path for the kernal image file? Ok I already changed the mbr back to windows default and reran lilo from Slink and now I boot directly into Slink on startup. I'm not entirely sure what your getting at here but I've reversed this and did, mkdir /mnt/redhat; mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/redhat After cding to /mnt/redhat I found directory /boot and inside is vmlinux-2.2.5-15. So if I get you correctly you are saying to put the following in my lilo.conf, image=/mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 lable=redhat root=/dev/hdb1 Now to make this all work after running lilo do I have to put something like the following line in my /etc/fstab? /dev/hdb1 /mnt/redhat ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Thanks, kent Ok I found that if I mount /mnt/redhat and run /sbin/lilo while mounted to /dev/hdb1 I get the error message that the lable for Redhat is too long so I made a directory /mnt/rh still get the error, xyf:/mnt/rh# /sbin/lilo Added slink * Label vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 is too long I noticed there was a vmlinuz link to vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 so I changed the line in lilo.conf to read image=/mnt/rh/boot/vmlinuz and got the following error, xyf:/mnt/rh/boot# /sbin/lilo Added slink * Added vmlinuz Syntax error near line 50 in file /etc/lilo.conf Arg. Thanks, kent
xterm title bar change and prompt change
This may be hard to explain but I'll try. I have this in my /home/kent/.bashrc, case $TERM in xterm*) PS1=\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1=\w\$ ;; esac This displays user name or [EMAIL PROTECTED] name:directory. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc or [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc The prompt in my xterm in this example as a regular user would be, /etc$ Ok, all that is fine till I su to root. In order for any of this to work I put the above script into my .bashrc while signed in as su root and in the /root directory. Then when I su to root I get the changes in title bar BUT I don't get the prompt change. My root prompt doesn't change from $ to # like I would like. I have tried to change the line PS1=\w\$ to export PS1=\w\$ that did nothing. Ok to further complicate things if, as su root, I cd to the /root directory the prompt looks like this, ~$ this confuses me sometimes because I think I'm in /home/kent. So to get around this in my .bashrc in the /root directory (/root/.bashrc) I removed the title bar script and just put this, export PS1='$(pwd)\$ ' this works great because now when I cd to /root the prompt shows /root#. As it stands the title bar displays what I want regardless if I'm a regular user or root. The way the prompt is displayed as a regular user is fine but the root prompt lacks two things: It does not change to # but remains $. Instead of displaying /root# while in the /root directory it displays ~$. I looked at the Bash prompt howto and the script there doesn't work for me. I've tried various other scripts I have found on the net and this is the only one I have found that even executes. I've looked at man bash and man xterm. I'm using Slink and Bash version 2.3.10. If anyone knows how I can fix this please let me know. Thanks, kent
Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?
I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable root partition is on hdb3 and Redhat's is on hdb1. I have lilo installed now through Redhat. The condensed lilo.conf is: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 lable=redhat root=/dev/hdb1 other=/dev/hda1 lable=95 table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 lable=slink root=/dev/hdb3 As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink at this point it doesn't boot my custom kernel, which is not surprising since lilo.conf says image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15. I changed that line to read, image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 but then I get an error when I run /sbin/lilo that that file doesn't exist. So what do I do here? Do I copy my Slink kernel to /usr/src on the Redhat side? If so how do I do that? I would rather have lilo set to boot directly into Slink first as I've never used Redhat before. I tried setting up lilo from the Slink side but didn't get anywhere. Thanks, kent
Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?
Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable root partition is on hdb3 and Redhat's is on hdb1. I have lilo installed now through Redhat. The condensed lilo.conf is: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 lable=redhat root=/dev/hdb1 other=/dev/hda1 lable=95 table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 lable=slink root=/dev/hdb3 As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink at this point it doesn't boot my custom kernel, which is not surprising since lilo.conf says image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15. I changed that line to read, image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 but then I get an error when I run /sbin/lilo that that file doesn't exist. So what do I do here? Do I copy my Slink kernel to /usr/src on the Redhat side? Try mounting the slink partition (e.g. as /mnt/slink) and changing the slink image line to something like image=/mnt/slink/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 I've never tried this myself, but it should work. Even if it doesn't work, it won't hurt anything to try. Well I tried adding that line and it didn't work. When I boot into Slink off the HD it set me up with the Redhat kernel, not my custom Slink kernel. This is the error I got when I ran lilo after the change in /etc/lilo.conf: Added redhat * Added 95 open /mnt/slink/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 No such file or directory. I think what I'm going to do for the time being is set the mbr on the windows HD back to what it was, floppy into the Slink side and rerun lilo so it boots off the HD and use a floppy to boot Redhat. I tried setting up lilo from Slink before but it didn't erase what lilo from Redhat had done. There has to be a way to boot these three oss though. Thanks, kent
Switch /hdb for /hda?
I have been having problems with my hard drive with Slink on it putting
out the following errors and hanging:
Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Dec 3 22:14:24 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 3 22:14:24 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
I've posted about this before and see there is lots of info about these
errors. I've checked cables and so on. I had this problem with another
HD and replaced with this brand new one. I don't have any trouble with
my Windows side so I was thinking I could try to swith the two HDs to
see if I could get the HD with Slink on it to work better. My HD with
Windows on it is hda the master drive. Slink is on the slave drive
hdb. They are both on the same cable. My question is how do I swap the
HDs on the cable so Slink would be hda and windows hdb? In other words
how do I get my system to boot directly off hda (which it does now) but
boot the Slink drive? What do I have to do to the Slink drive before I
switch them physically? Here is my /etc/lilo.conf
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 50
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdb1
label = slink
other = /dev/hda1
label = 95
table = /dev/hda
Thanks,
kent
Re: Checking MD5sums
I did a, ~$ apropos md5sums debsums (1) - Check the md5sums of a package debsums_gen (8) - Generate /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums for packages lacking it dh_md5sums (1) - generate DEBIAN/md5sums file Looks like there is one that checks .debs it's in the debsums package. I'm sure I saw one somewhere for other files. If I run into it I'll send the info. hth, kent Richard Drisko wrote: Hi, Awhile ago I remember seeing something to verify the MD5 sums of binaries in installed packages. I don't remember if it was a script or a package or what but can somebody help me out I can't seem to find it at the moment. Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Checking MD5sums
Richard Drisko wrote: Check out man md5sum Do a locate sum|less and you'll find all files containing sum. hth, kent Hi, Awhile ago I remember seeing something to verify the MD5 sums of binaries in installed packages. I don't remember if it was a script or a package or what but can somebody help me out I can't seem to find it at the moment. Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problems mounting CD-ROM
I don't know if this will help or not but if I put an audio CD into my drive and use your mount command I get the same error. When I use a Debian cd it mounts fine. Just a stab in the dark. hth, kent Jens K. Olsen wrote: I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM. When I use dmesg I get the following: hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive when I do a mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc, and /cdrom is an empty directory, I get the following: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems I am using the default Debian kernel (2.0.36) with iso9660 support. I checked with cat /proc/filesystems Any idea what can be wrong? Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout
I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my
xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X
environment is acting like Windows does sometimes:( I hate this.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knew what is going on here and how I
can fix this? I just installed a new HD and reinstalled Slink.
Thanks,
kent
Nov 23 23:08:19 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:08:24 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Nov 23 23:13:40 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
Nov 23 23:14:21 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout
Sorry for the post I see there are a million messages about this in the
archives. I just panicked. I am using a brand new IDE Western Digital
HD (6.4 gig one) if anyone has any specific info about this HD and the
error please let me know.
Thanks,
kent
ktb wrote:
I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my
xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X
environment is acting like Windows does sometimes:( I hate this.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knew what is going on here and how I
can fix this? I just installed a new HD and reinstalled Slink.
Thanks,
kent
Nov 23 23:08:19 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:08:24 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Nov 23 23:13:40 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
Nov 23 23:14:21 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
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Can't reinstall sysklogd
I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix a screw up I did. At any rate now when I try and install sysklogd with dselect I get the following errors: syntax error at -e line 1, near startup links for Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near /etc/init (Missing operator before nit?) Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 2, near /etc/rc0 (Missing operator before rc0?) Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I looked in the two directories mentioned in the error with locate and I found two files, /etc/rc0.d/K90sysklogd /etc/init.d/sysklogd Both were gone of course but I touched some into existence. I still get the error message when I try to install. There must be some lines that go in the files or permission problems or something? If anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks, kent
Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd
Ok, I left things last night late and am back at it. I booted up today and tried reinstalling sysklogd again. This time dselect tells me, Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near /var/run (Missing operator before run?) syntax error at -e line 1, near /var/run Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I don't know if that will give anyone more info to help me or not. Thanks, kent ktb wrote: I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix a screw up I did. At any rate now when I try and install sysklogd with dselect I get the following errors: syntax error at -e line 1, near startup links for Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near /etc/init (Missing operator before nit?) Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 2, near /etc/rc0 (Missing operator before rc0?) Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I looked in the two directories mentioned in the error with locate and I found two files, /etc/rc0.d/K90sysklogd /etc/init.d/sysklogd Both were gone of course but I touched some into existence. I still get the error message when I try to install. There must be some lines that go in the files or permission problems or something? If anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks, kent
Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd
Sorry to keep replying to my own posts but I have sysklogd installed now. The thing I did to get around the errors was an accident. Instead of going into dselect and selecting sysklogd to install, I ran dselect again and skipped selecting (I had previously done that) and went strait to install and it worked perfectly. The only thing now is I get no output to xconsole but I will start to work on that. kent ktb wrote: Ok, I left things last night late and am back at it. I booted up today and tried reinstalling sysklogd again. This time dselect tells me, Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near /var/run (Missing operator before run?) syntax error at -e line 1, near /var/run Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I don't know if that will give anyone more info to help me or not. Thanks, kent ktb wrote: I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix a screw up I did. At any rate now when I try and install sysklogd with dselect I get the following errors: syntax error at -e line 1, near startup links for Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near /etc/init (Missing operator before nit?) Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 2, near /etc/rc0 (Missing operator before rc0?) Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I looked in the two directories mentioned in the error with locate and I found two files, /etc/rc0.d/K90sysklogd /etc/init.d/sysklogd Both were gone of course but I touched some into existence. I still get the error message when I try to install. There must be some lines that go in the files or permission problems or something? If anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks, kent
Apache/Netscape unable to find server.
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have no desire at this time to set up a web server for myself but I am doing some volunteer work for and archeology agency (writing a search program to work through a browser). I'm suppose to meet with them on Monday and I can't test my script. I had Apache installed on my Debian system and was using it to test a Perl script I was working on. I had to reinstall and when I installed Apache this time I get this Netscape error when I try to run my search program, Netscape is unable to locate the server www.xyf.com Please check the server name and try again. I have everything set up as I did before. My html form is in /var/www and the program is in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. Last time I edited, /etc/apache/httpd.conf /etc/apache/httpd.conf.0 by adding ServerName www.xyf.com and everything worked fine for me. The page in /var/www loads just fine but when I use this form to search a file the Netscape error I listed above pops up. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I looked in, /var/log/apache/error.log and nothing was there but Apache shutting down and starting. Thanks, kent
Re: Apache/Netscape unable to find server.
Erick Kinnee wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 06:35:55PM -0600, ktb wrote: I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have no desire at this time to set up a web server for myself but I am doing some volunteer work for and archeology agency (writing a search program to work through a browser). I'm suppose to meet with them on Monday and I can't test my script. I had Apache installed on my Debian system and was using it to test a Perl script I was working on. I had to reinstall and when I installed Apache this time I get this Netscape error when I try to run my search program, Netscape is unable to locate the server www.xyf.com Please check the server name and try again. I have everything set up as I did before. My html form is in /var/www and the program is in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. Last time I edited, /etc/apache/httpd.conf /etc/apache/httpd.conf.0 by adding ServerName www.xyf.com and everything worked fine for me. The page in /var/www loads just fine but when I use this form to search a file the Netscape error I listed above pops up. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I looked in, /var/log/apache/error.log and nothing was there but Apache shutting down and starting. Thanks, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sounds more like DNS problems than apache or netscape. Does the machine that gives the error have valid nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf? I really don't know anything about DNS. I have never attempted to set up a network. I looked at the file /etc/resolv.conf and found two valid primary and secondary DNS numbers from my isp, probably put in by pppconfig. I'm not trying to test my program online though. I'm just trying to test the cgi/perl stuff on my system, which is one stand alone box. I ran ifconfig and found a number under lo that corresponded to the number in my /etc/hosts file. I put that in /etc/resolv.conf to see if that would help and it didn't. I don't know if that provides more info towards my problem or not. Thanks, kent
Re: Apache/Netscape unable to find server.
Eric G . Miller wrote: Umm, Either just point your browser at http://localhost or add a line to /etc/hosts that will resolve to the local box, so connections can be passed on to apache. The first way is easiest, unless your script has that domain hardwired into it. Your right the first time I installed Apache that's what I did and things worked great. Now when I put in www.xyf.com I get, Netscape is unable to locate the server www.xyf.com Please check the server name and try again. I know Apache is running. I put ServerName www.xyf.com in, /etc/apache/httpd.conf /etc/apache/httpd.conf.0 My /etc/hosts looks like this, ~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 xyf localhost What could be wrong? Thanks, kent
Re: good book to learn perl
aphro wrote: can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl ? :) saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to hack some perl scripts up at times. thanks! nate I'm far from an expert on the subject but as a fellow beginner I would recommend Learning Perl, Schwartz and Christiansen. Don't let chapter one bog you down. It's an introduction as the title implies:) Go to the library and check out a few and see what helps you. hth, kent
/etc/syslog/conf
I saw this nifty little command at Linux.com and I thought I would give it a try. It reroutes log information to tty12. The command was, echo '*.* /dev/tty12' /etc/syslog.conf The file now looks like this, ~$ cat /etc/syslog.conf *.* /dev/tty12 I didn't realize that it would become permanent and wipe out my xconsole info. At any rate I was wondering if someone could send me their default Slink /etc/syslog.conf file? I read through the various man pages but there didn't seem to be a default that I could see. I looked in dselect for a syslog package but couldn't find one. I was thinking I could delete and reinstall on my system to get it back to the way it was. If that is a good option which package is this in? I see from the archives there are many setups which is interesting and I'd like to play with it later but right now I just want things back the way they were. Also is there a way to start the syslog running after changes without rebooting? Thanks, kent
Re: file of manage
HU-LIAO wrote: Halleo, I am a new user of Debian. For keeping the system run better or solving some problems occured, could anyone tell me what kinds of files to manage the system and where there are, or where I could find this kind information or books? I would suggest looking at http://www.debian.org/ there you will find specific documentation regarding Debian. There is also a link to Debian books. The question you are asking is pretty broad. I would suggest picking a specific task or problem and asking about that. Your future question may have already been answered so it is good to search the Mailing List Archives. There is a lot of good info there. hth, kent
Bash can't find, PS1 and HISTSIZE
I have freshly installed Slink and put the following lines in my ~.bashrc : case $TERM in xterm*) PS1 =\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1 =\w\$ ;; esac HISTSIZE =1000 _ I get the following error when I open an xterm, bash: PS1: command not found bash: HISTSIZE: command not found bash-2.01$ I don't understand this. Both commands worked in my last Slink system. I checked the list archives and didn't find anything. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, kent
Re: Installation
James D. Scott wrote: How do I change the Debian install routine so I can put Linux on my secondary hard drive. Not with Windows. Jim Scott I may be wrong but it sounds like you have two HDs and you wish to install Debian on your second HD. Windows is on your first HD. If that is the case when you run the install program and it recognizes both HDs they will be listed as hda (first HD) and hdb (second HD). Just pick the HD you want to install on. hth, kent
Re: Code Freeze for Potato
No, see, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/07/1611205mode=thread kent Account for Debian group mail wrote: Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 7 as planned? Thanks, Ken Rea -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
HD problem/kern.log.3gz
I was running the [EMAIL PROTECTED] program a month or so back and got up in the
morning and found my X screen completely frozen. Ctrl-alt-delete or
Ctrl-alt-backspace had no effect. So I did a hard reset. I got the
forced check as expected but in the final stages of the boot routine I
received errors flying by and couldn't boot into Debian. I should
mention that my hard drive made a loud clunking noise I had never heard
before. I tried several times to boot and the same thing happened. I
gave up thinking my HD was blown. A couple days ago I accidentally
booted the HD Debian is on and it booted fine. I have booted twice now
and everything is ok. I've looked at the log files but don't understand
what the error messages mean. I was hoping someone could clue me in on
what is going on with my HD. Sorry for the length of this message.
Thanks,
kent
/var/log/kern.log.3gz
Snip
Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: Partition check:
Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: hda: hda1
Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb5 hdb6
Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: Adding Swap: 72288k swap-space (priority -1)
Sep 28 12:30:53 www kernel: registered device ppp0
Sep 29 07:53:24 www kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Sep 29 07:53:24 www kernel: ide0: reset: success
Sep 29 10:24:24 www kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Sep 29 10:24:25 www kernel: ide0: reset: success
Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 19:53:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 19:53:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 19:53:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 20:03:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 20:03:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 20:03:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 20:13:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 20:13:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 20:13:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 20:23:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 20:23:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 20:23:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 20:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 20:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 20:33:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 20:43:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 20:43:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 20:43:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 20:53:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 20:53:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 20:53:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 21:03:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 21:03:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 21:03:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 21:13:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 21:13:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 21:13:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 21:23:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 29 21:23:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector },
LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750
Sep 29 21:23:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector
53750
Sep 29 21:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete
Re: User menu problem
G. Crimp wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:52:05PM -0500, ktb wrote: You could edit /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook directly. kent Bad idea. /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook is an automatically generated file. Next time the file is regenerated, any changes you made to it will be lost. The Debian menu system has supplied specific mechanisms for menu customization. Why side step what was specifically provided for this purpose ? G. None of the changes I have made have been lost even after a reboot and it is easy. Thanks for correcting me though since it isn't the proper way of doing things. kent
Re: Archives?
Take a look at the Debian site, http://www.debian.org/ kent Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: Does this mailing list has any message archives somewhere on the web? Regards, Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com Fed. Portuguesa de JuJutsu e D.A. Webmaster : http://welcome.to/fpjujutsu World Kobudo Federation - Portugal Webmaster : http://welcome.to/wkf-pt E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page me at : http://wwp.mirabilis.com/361853#pager Site Builders Network Level 2 Member HTML Writers Guild Member -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: x windows problem
Alfalfa Sprout wrote: Hey. I think I setup the mouse as the wrong type in xf86config (I wanted to use XF86Setup, but when I try to go into that, all I get is a scrambled screen). Anyway, the computer boots into x windows everytime (which is annoying...I'd like it to boot into text linux first), Check the list archives for a variety of fixes but one is to remove the XDM package. and since my mouse won't do anything when I move it around, I can't open up a terminal window so I can try to reset things. How do I use the keyboard to access a terminal window, so I can go back into xf86config and redo things? Try 'control-alt-F1' to get to console from X. Other console screens can be accessed F2 through F6. To get back to X use F7. hth, kent I'm using debian, btw. Thanks. I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so please respond to my email address. Have a good day! Rita -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Tab Tab program/command line editing
If you hit the tab key twice in a row it lists all available commands. This seems like a useless thing because I see no way of sending the output to 'less' and most of the 1917 possibilities scroll off the screen. Anyway my problem is I get the same result if I hit the Esc key twice. I'm learning command line editing and when I use Esc-b for example and then Esc-f I get the following, Display all 1971 possibilities? (y or n) I searched with 'apropos' and did a search in the bash man page and can't find the program that lists the commands or where this emanates from. I'd like to get rid of it unless someone else has a better idea. Anyone know the name of this program? Thanks, kent
Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing
When I tried 'exim tabtab' the output listed 156 files in my home directory. This is different than the output that you got. Am I experiencing a bug? I'm using Bash for the shell. The Bash man page is large and I may have missed a reference to this tabtab function but I didn't see anything listed under commands or list that pertained to tabtab. I'll keep looking. Thanks, kent Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:14:35 -0500, ktb wrote: Anyone know the name of this program? The shell, IIRC. Kent, have you tried something like this? eximtabtab yields, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} exim exim exim_dumpdbexim_lock eximconfig exim_dbmbuild exim_fixdb exim_tidydbeximstats - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBN4F1gXpf7K2LbpnFEQIOMgCfVxPGW6eqFSBKsWowSezrmulWduQAmwXB 3xB8F5S6O7AggEyHEmIPvjSJ =fWoQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Regroup/Tab Tab program/command line editing
Thanks everyone for the info about tab completion. I've used that from time to time myself but this is getting away from my original message. I get 'tab completion' when I use the Esc key. I'm happy to leave tab completion bound to the tab key but how do I turn this off when using the Esc key? This screws up my Emacs-mode command editing when I use an Esc-key twice. This results in a tab completion spitting out all available commands. I don't want to use a different shell. Thanks, kent Robert Maynard Rhyu wrote: Hi, As I understand bash, 'eximSPACEtabtab' will attempt to complete an argument to exim (with the files in your pwd). 'eximNOSPACEtabtab' will attempt to complete a command (in your $PATH) beginning with 'exim'. Robert. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, ktb wrote: When I tried 'exim tabtab' the output listed 156 files in my home directory. This is different than the output that you got. Am I experiencing a bug? I'm using Bash for the shell. The Bash man page is large and I may have missed a reference to this tabtab function but I didn't see anything listed under commands or list that pertained to tabtab. I'll keep looking. Thanks, kent Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:14:35 -0500, ktb wrote: Anyone know the name of this program? The shell, IIRC. Kent, have you tried something like this? eximtabtab yields, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} exim exim exim_dumpdbexim_lock eximconfig exim_dbmbuild exim_fixdb exim_tidydbeximstats - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBN4F1gXpf7K2LbpnFEQIOMgCfVxPGW6eqFSBKsWowSezrmulWduQAmwXB 3xB8F5S6O7AggEyHEmIPvjSJ =fWoQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Just my opinion
I started with Debian after one year of windows 95 experience. It took some patience and persistence but I've learned a lot. Difficulties are not barriers to learning they are learning. Which distro a person starts with really is up to what the person wishes to do with it. I took some time picking the disto that I felt was right for me. My impression after reading various information on the net was RedHat was easy to install and user friendly, Slackware was the most difficult to deal with and Debian was somewhere in the middle. I chose Debian because I wanted a challenge (but not too much) and it wasn't a commercial distro. After a few weeks with Debian I thought maybe RedHat would have been a better choice for myself. I did not anticipate how hard it would be switching from Windows. With encouragement from people on this list and a change in my attitude from 'being in a huge hurry' to 'I want to learn I can always use Windows if I have to' I found a very pleasurable experience in using Debian. Have fun with whatever disto you choose:) Good Luck, kent Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: Yeah, good idea Dan. I think that's what I'll do to... If you think RedHat is better for a begginner, that's what I'll do... Cya people!!! Regards, At 04:08 06-07-1999 +, Dan wrote: First of all, debian is mostly for a hacker or at least someone who has used another linux before. I started with Slackware and it seemed excellent. It had great documentation and everything. For some reason, though, some person marked it as the lowest out of the top 5 distro's (this was a few months ago). I decided to try debian as a result to Rob Malda's phanatic'ing about it and because it seemed like a well organized distro since it was mostly public rather than private like most of the other distro's were. Therefore I figured a lot of hackers used it. While I didn't read the documentation on how to install it all that much, I pretty much winged it and at first I thought it kinda sucked cuz the dselect program seemed ridiculous, but then after using it I started liking it. It now runs on my server at nightsifting.dhs.org. The point is that you should start out on something like Redhat if you aren't close to being a hacker (and complaining definately takes away any possibility of even resembeling a hacker). So I'd stop complaining, go buy a nice thick book on Redhat Linux, read it carefully, install it, then come back and we'll see if the attitude has changed. From: Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Just my opinion Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:11 MST My printer works fine. My modem works fine. The documentation has always been right on and the installation is a breeze. On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 17:11:51 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I have come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/debiandoug/ ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com Fed. Portuguesa de JuJutsu e D.A. Webmaster : http://welcome.to/fpjujutsu World Kobudo Federation - Portugal Webmaster : http://welcome.to/wkf-pt E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page me at : http://wwp.mirabilis.com/361853#pager Site Builders Network Level 2 Member HTML Writers Guild Member -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing
Brad wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, ktb wrote: I'd like to get rid of it unless someone else has a better idea. Anyone know the name of this program? It's a feature of bash, as has been mentioned. According to the bash manpage, you can get rid of it by adding a line set disable-completion on in your /etc/inputrc (for the entire system) or ~/.inputrc (for whichever user's home directory it's in). Be advised you have to restart bash for this to take effect. Other shells might use a different file. i don't know why it's doing it when you press esc twice. i have to press esc four times to do it... Thanks for the info. I don't really want to get rid of command completion but at this point it is the best alternative for me. I have to hit the Esc key four times also to activate command completion at a blank command line, it's when I use say 'Esc-b' followed by 'Esc-f' that command completion is activated. Thanks, kent
Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing
Carl Mummert wrote: It's a feature of bash, as has been mentioned. According to the bash manpage, you can get rid of it by adding a line set disable-completion on in your /etc/inputrc (for the entire system) or ~/.inputrc (for whichever user's home directory it's in). Be advised you have to restart bash for this to take effect. Other shells might use a different file. Looking at the bash manpage, you can also use the 'bind' command to bash to change your keybindings at runtime; 'bind -P' will list the current bindings. Thanks:) It's getting late for me but I see that, possible-completions can be found on \e=, \e?. when I checked 'bind -P' I'm learning Perl right now and I know '\e' is used as an escape character so I bet '\e=' and '\e?' in Bash is the Esc key. I'll look into how to modify the key bindings tomorrow. i don't know why it's doing it when you press esc twice. i have to press esc four times to do it... Is this on a console or over a terminal? It works the same in console or in an xterm. It may be that you have to press escape twice to get a single escape character to be read; that is, escape may be acting as a sticky modifier, and you have to hit it twice to get the actuasl keycode. Thanks again, kent
Re: User menu problem
You could edit /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook directly. kent Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi all, I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory with the contents: ?package(local.soffice):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editors title=StarOffice \ command=~/Office51/bin/soffice and then I run update-menus command. Unfortunately there is no new entry in the menu. What did I wrong? Thank you for any suggestions. -- Tad -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: device files
Have you tried looking in your /dev directory? kent John Cuson wrote: hi- can anyone point me to where i might find a device file index of some sort? John Cuson [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What's compiled into the kernel?
Would it be something like /boot/config-2.0.36 that you are looking for? hth, kent Kent West wrote: This may be a stupid question, but I couldn't figure out how to phrase it for the archive search engine to return anything useful. How do I find out what's compiled into my kernel? For example, how do I know if I have NFS compiled int? How do I know what sound card I've got compiled in? Whether the sound card is compiled in or set up as a module? Etc. Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Boot Floppy
The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: Hello, A friend of mine is trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 4 CD Set onto a computer that doesn't enable booting from a CD Rom. Can you tell me how to make a boot floppy please? Much appreciated! First go to the Debian site and look at the documentation, http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ You can find the install instructions for Intel x86 architecture here, http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install I have the Cheap*Bytes Slink CD set. The files you are looking for can be found in disk #1 here, dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22 hth, kent
Re: How to create rescue disk in Debian
Rian Fahrizal wrote: I want to know how to create rescue disk in Debian, since I've a problem with my Debian which slow in startup Maybe I'm wrong but I'll make the assumption you are booting from a floppy. If so, set up your system to boot off the hard drive. You can use a program such as Lilo to do so. After that you could compile the kernel to get even more boot speed. I hope this helps, if not post back to the list. kent
Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink
I don't know if this will help or not as I'm really not familiar with the program but after a cd install the xzoom program is found here, /usr/X11R6/bin/xzoom I looked under dselect and no zoom was found just xzoom. If there is a zoom program perhaps it wasn't included with Slink. Just some thoughts. hth, kent Johann Spies wrote: Since upgrading to slink, the zoom does no longer work in X. The dontzoom line is commented out in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. How can I get it back? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help!
Algernon NG wrote: Help me! First I subscribe to debian-user, then I subscribed to debian-user-digest, and unsubscribed from debian-user. Since then I receive no emails. Do I have to be subscribed to debian-user to receive debian-user-digest? No, you didn't say how long you've waited, maybe the digest is coming. They are sent out periodically. kent Thanks, Algernon NG
Re: Problems with new hardware
Karen Hanson wrote: I just built a system from motherboard up and am having a few problems and looking for pointers. I used the latest Debian version from Cheap Bytes, slink, I think. Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes too. Sometimes the crash is severe enough to kill the X server, and sometimes the system hangs completely. Of every 10 crashes, 7 are just Netscape or Mozilla, 2 are the X server, and 1 is a complete system hang. I am running the Debian kernal that was on the CDs. When I try to make a new kernal, I can't get X to start at all. I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the problem. It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the motherboard and CPU chip. I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with an AMD K6-3 400 CPU, with 256MB RAM. Alll of these crashes must leave log entries somewhere, right? Where do I look? I'm by no means an expert but you might try the /var/log directory. hth, kent
Re: installing packages
Jason Errol Draut wrote: I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files are listed as executables, so I tried typing the file names... nothing ... I tried gzip to decompress them , but they're not gzip files... Any suggestions? What am I missing? There's no explaination on the debian website about installing packages. I'm sure others can give more info but take a look at 'man dpkg' I've never installed more than a few .debs at a time so there may be a more efficient way possibly through dselect or apt or dpkg but you can install individual .debs with, dpkg -i filename.deb hth, kent
Re: multi-cd help
Dselect automatically asks for the first or second cd as it needs it when installing programs. At least that has been my experience. You have to choose 'multi cd' in 'access.' hth, kent Aaron Solochek wrote: I'm attempting to install stuff using dselect off the double cd image that I downloaded and burnt from debian.org. I have no idea how to do this. I put the second cd in first, and had it scan to look for the files it wanted, but I don't know when or how to put the other cd in. Is there a apge that deals with doing this? I looked around the webpage but didn't find anything useful, and since I'm on a modem, I'd rather not use http or ftp. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hardware support
Take a look at the install manual for your architecture at, http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ hth, kent Rolf Edlund wrote: Hi, all you Linux users out there! I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ? /R -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?
I poked around and found this link, http://proforma.real.com/mario/player/player.html hth, kent Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available downloads (neither free, nor Plus). Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Q: Lexmark 2050
Take a look at, http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark which was found in the Printing HOWTO at, http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html#ss3.1 In short they clasify your printer as a paperweight meaning, These printers don't work at all. They may work in the future, but don't count on it. I've got a paperweight myself a Lexmark 2030:( hth, kent Philip Hempel wrote: Has anyone ever setup a Lexmark 2050 or any Lexmark before? This is an inkjet printer and I can not get it to take any kind of print commands at all. I do know that this printer works find with the windows driver. Any help would be appreciated, thanks -- Philip S. Hempel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux HardCore http://www.linuxhardcore.com
Re: Atapi Boot disk
belindacobby wrote: We have a AMD K6 2 with an Atapi CD Rom. Could you please inform me as to where I can download a suitable Boot disk. Thanks. Very much appreciated! Have you taken a look at the Debian web site? http://www.debian.org/ I'm assuming you want to install Debian on your system. The easiest way would be to buy a CD and install that way. You can find a list of vendors here, http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors Boot disks can be found at, http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist as well as information on installation. hth, kent
Re: HD activity
Thorsten Manegold wrote: Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. I remember that string somewhat. I think they were talking about MARK Although MARK doesn't run every three seconds on my machine, maybe every 20 minutes or so. Cron is another thing that initiates jobs periodically and will make your hardrive churn. You can check to see what process are accessing your HD with a program like xconsole or take a look at your /var/log/syslog file. hth, kent 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed?
Re: pine 4.10 .deb
I found what I think you were searching for here, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg00668.html Unfortunately the link to http://ompages.com is dead right now but maybe you could email him. hth, kent Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A couple months ago somebody from this list got permission to distribute the modified Pine binary in .deb format. He made this file available for ftp. Does anybody know where I can get this file? I checked the list archives and found lots of discussion regarding Pine, but I couldn't find a link to the actual file. I know it exists because I downloaded it for my home machine at one point. TIA, noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN26ddodCcpBjGWoFAQH8JgP+KNjtv+IJ59vQApL6mCPcfO0P7XhINgua 7avpcStL4TcUyuhdaz4rflsuFois6ajIemBeTTr8KeBMJmKib7QlxCat4rqMUpt5 DO60TgTX6Pt5Tp/WuxcpP4gwkbdY+0kXxvc2pMv8sp6qOMJsXFsiHiMjEMob54uM cHO4e5Do1g8= =8G/g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Switch console in xterm
Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I poked around in the packages at the Debian site but can't find anything. I don't even know what to call it. Makes it a little hard to search for:) Let me know if you've heard of such a thing. Thanks, kent
Re: Switch console in xterm
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I poked around in the packages at the Debian site but can't find anything. I don't even know what to call it. Makes it a little hard to search for:) Let me know if you've heard of such a thing. You might be looking for a thing called screen it makes multiple consoles(windows) in any terminal (not just xterm) you can get it form any of the GNU mirrors eg... http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/gnu/screen/ Use the Debian package if this is what you want, screen is in its own Debian package in the misc section. Are you talking about switching between desktops under X? Most modern window managers under X support some form of multiple desktops and virtual desktops. No not switching desktops in X. Switching the screen within a single xterm. I'll check out 'screen.' Thanks guys:) kent
Re: ppp don't work
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: Subject: ppp don't work Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:41:17 -0600 From: Camilo Alejandro Arboleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ascom Colombia To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help! I am trying to configure PPPD in Debian 2.1, using wvdial as dialer. I edited all the files as is described in the HOW-TO, but don't work. When I run wvdial the modem start the physical connection, pppd start-up but after 5 seconds the daemon dies and the modem hangs-up. I don't know how to init the troble shoting. The HOW-TO assumes that I understant the basis of ppp connections, and this is not true. Can some one help me? Unless you have a specific reason for using 'wvdial' you might try 'pppconfig' it's an easy way to setup ppp. Just a thought. hth, kent
Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
I kind of hate to jump into a string like this but at the risk of sounding real stupid how can one create this /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz file. I've searched for it on my Slink system and it just isn't there. I took a look at the dpkg man page and see no reference to the file. I see that you can look for packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available but that's not the same. Thanks, kent Kirk Hogenson wrote: Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: For example, someone asked if there was a package containing the Howtos. Instead of telling him the name of the package, he should have been told how to grep the Contents file, that way he can find things on his own instead of asking the list every time. Remember, catch a man a fish and you feed him that day, teach the man to fish, and he'll never starve again. Kristopher Johnson wrote: I'm the guy that asked which package had the HOWTOs. I know it seemed like a dumb question, but I did try searching on HOWTO in both dselect and on the Debian web site, and came up with nothing. And I started paging through the 2700+ packages shown in dselect, but gave up after an hour or so of that. I don't want to speak for Eric, but I really doubt he was saying that you were asking a dumb question. I think he was instead criticising those who answered by just telling you which package you needed, rather than telling you how you find this information out for yourself. That way, the next time you have a question of the form I need to find out which package has something, you won't need to ask again. Even more than that, you perhaps might see someone else ask a question like that, and pass the information on. Please don't feel bad for asking dumb questions! (Though I really think you were asking a good question, but even if it were a dumb question you should not feel bad for asking it.) That is what debian-user is for. Anyway, let me describe what Eric was talking about. The file /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz contains information about which package contains what. If you want to find the HOWTO's, for example, try something like: zgrep HOWTO /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz | less This searches through the Contents file and prints all of the lines that contain the word HOWTO. As another example: suppose you are compiling something and you get the error: sgml2html: command not found. This happened to me last night. I tried: zgrep sgml2html /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz | less and it printed: usr/bin/sgml2html text/sgml-tools usr/man/man1/sgml2html.1.gz text/sgml-tools So, I knew that I need to install the package sgml-tools, which is in the text section. I hope this helps, and good luck getting your sound card working. And please ask here if you run into problems. You are immune to What a dumb question attacks if you've read the Howto. :) Kirk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: New Debian Logos
Check out the Debian Weekly News, http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/23/ kent Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: Can anyone let me know where I can get the New Debian logo's from? As I wish to update my web pages etc... Regards Graham -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Auto Shut-off
As root use the command, shutdown -h now See man shutdown for more details. When I use this command I still have to press the off/on button so this might not be exactly the answer to your question. hth, kent Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi My new box has an automatic shut-off capability, i.e. in ms-windows you make shutdown and the box shuts itself off (without the need of pressing the button). How can I have the same beaveour in Linux? Now, whenever I want to shut-off the computer, I do a shutdown at Linux, them I must!!! (the switch-off button does not work, it is only a switch-on button) go to ms-windows to do a shutdown there (with the corresponding shut-off action). At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ phone: 351 39 791170 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How/where can I see the messages from booting
After you boot you can use the command dmesg and pipe it through less or more. For example at the prompt, $ dmesg | less That won't show the whole boot message but most of it. hth, kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, as you can see I'm new in that media because that's my second try to post a question, because I didn't see my first mail, sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopefully now that's the right way. I startet with debian installed from a CD included in the german magazin CHIP last year. Having troubles in configuring an xserver on my debian linux system I'm faced the following: when booting linux there are lots auf messages scrolling away, so I can't read. I guess they are stored in a logfile anywhere in the system for later viewing. But where? Could anybody give advice? Thank's for hints Wolfgang -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat Run the program Xconsole or top or ps aux at command line to see what is happening. There are cron daily, weekly, and monthly jobs that are run periodically. kent
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
Jim B wrote: That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic. After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk. YMMV. - Original Message - From: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat Run a program such as Top that monitors your processes. Find the pid that is sucking the memory and then kill it. Look at man top htht, kent
PPP problem
I've installed Hamm on an old 486 via floppy and I'm trying to get a connection to the net. I installed a new modem Zoom 56k model 2819A. I ran pppconfig. When I try to dial out this is what /var/log/ppp.log says: Jun 6 09:40:50 www pppd[222]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: abort on (BUSY) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: abort on (VOICE) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: send (ATZ^M) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: expect (OK) Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: ATZ^M^M Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: _K^M *This line sometimes says ^?[^M* Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[222]: Terminating on signal 15 Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[222]: Connection script failed Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: SIGTERM Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[222]: Exit Mostly I don't get any sound out to the modem speaker but a couple of times I heard the modem try to dial. I believe when it did that this was logged: chat[207]: expect (CONNECT) : ^M : ATDT55?^M^M *The number is made up but the ? was there.* : C^?NNECT 115200^M : _e|c^?^?e t^? I~ter~ut ^ubra^?^?a^M : ^M : T^?pe INFO at the pr^?^?pt f^?r ^?^b^?cripti^?^? i~v^?r^?ati^?~^M : ^M :^M : alarm : Failed : Connect script failed I've copied much of this by hand so the times above aren't accurate and this is somewhat abbreviated. The modem was sent to me by mistake and the company said they would send a UPS person to pick it up so I decided to use it. Possibly the modem may be bad or maybe it is me:) I could use some help in figuring this out. Thanks, kent
Mouse without gpmconfig?
I've been looking in the archives and can't find an answer. I have Hamm base installed on an old 486 with only an 80 MB HD. I would like to get the mouse working but don't know if I can without gpm. This is a console only machine. The mouse I have is a 9 pin serial. It has three buttons and has the words A4 TECK on it. IF it is possible to get the mouse working without the gpm package what step do I take to do so? Thanks, kent
Re: PPP problem
John Hasler wrote: ktb writes: Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: _K^M ... : C^?NNECT 115200^M : _e|c^?^?e t^? I~ter~ut ^ubra^?^?a^M What UART does this machine have on the modem port? If it is not a 16550 you should not accept pppconfig's default speed of 115200. Run pppconfig again and set the speed to 57600 or 38400. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI The UART is 16550A. I tried changing the UART as you suggested anyway but nothing. I'm getting no response from the modem. I'm thinking the modem is just bad. It seems to me that I should at least hear the modem trying to dial most of the time. The opposite is true. I've only heard it try to dial a couple of times out of the dozens of tries. Thanks, kent
Re: OT: dual processor question
I've got three old IBM PS/2 #70s. There looks to be an extra socket for a processor on the motherboard. I don't know if it would really help to speed up the system or not as they only have 4 MB of RAM, or even if it would work. I was thinking about trying to add a processor to one of the computers but how do you get the thing off? This may be an incredibly stupid question but when I pull on the processor I'm afraid I'm going to break the motherboard. Thanks, kent Robert Rati wrote: Yes this is true, to some extent. YOu have to have two processors with the same stepping and revision in order to dual-proc them. I have heard though, that you can have two processors of different stepping and revision numbers and still multi-proc them, but your performance may suffer a little. Rob On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Christian Pernegger wrote: Is it true that two Pentium II 400 have to have a same number of some kind to use them in dual mode. I'd intended to buy a dual board and add a new proc. to my 400 but someone told me that wouldn't work Comments appreciated tia Christian -Original Message- From: D'jinnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 5:42 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: /dev/audio Never mind. It helps to go through old emails first before you post. I just don't understand why stuff like that is not created right away... --- ... After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key ICQ #2878130 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debians I'm a newbie; just managed to boot my 486/66 (28 ram, 540 WD HD) onto Linux late last night, and all seems to be well and good, only I can't install anything. Dselect won't let me choose the access method to use (I'm installing from the dos-partition, because the computer isn't connected to the internet). What dselect does is: loads fine, no errors. When I choose 0 Access enter it empties the screen and tells me this at the bottom: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile: Permission denied and the $-prompt. My guess is: 1. I have to be root to do this 2. I could have set something wrong when assigning privileges to (the one and only) user: me?! How do I change from user to root when Linux by default asks for my user password on startup? If you want to log in as root type root at the login and the root password. Another way is to login first as user and then su to root. Type su at the prompt and then the root password. Take a look at the debian tutorial at, http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/index.html there is a section on logging in as root and a lot of other good info. hth, kent Is it possible to change the user-privileges to allow me a large degree of freedom within the system as user (suppose it is, but how?!) I can't wait to exterminate my microsoft apps, and I'm really excited about this, so I'm looking forward to your answers. Regards Vitux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 preference file?
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks! Take a look at the file .fvwm2rc there it explains the differernt *.hook files you can create in order to do it the debian way. I place the exterms and so forth that I want to load on startup in ~.fvwm2/init.hook. hth, kent
Re: installing debian
Keith R. wrote: ive ben trying to install debian linux on an older 386 of mine an ibm ps/2 model 56slc it has a micro channel architecture when i place the boot disk in it goes through every thing seemingly well except it doesnt pick up the scsi drive and host adapter thats part of the mother board. any hints or tips that may help am i missing something or have to change any jumper setings ?? thanks in advance for any responce Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed Hamm (base) on a PS/2 model 70 tonight. I don't know what rescue disk you are installing with but the one I had success with I found at, ftp://ns.gold-link.com/pub/LinuxMCA/ I tried installing Slink first but I think the base may have been too large for my HD which is 58MB. I received a superblock error and couldn't boot. So I used the 'MCA-2.2.7-hamm.bin' disk and the regular Hamm base files. When asked during the install for the Modules disk I put in the regular 'drv1440.bin' disk but it wasn't read. Continued with the install and everything worked out fine. hth, kent
Re: Unknown processes.
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, after having been logged on my box for a while I have a lot of these processes running. I do not know where they come from (I am still a newbie), and I have the feeling they slow me down. What are these: 275 ttyp0S 0:00 bash -rcfile .bashrc 7343 ttyp3S 0:00 bash -rcfile .bashrc It looks to me like bash (your shell) is accessing the .bashrc file. Take a look at 'man bash' I'd not worry about it. The .bashrc file can be quite useful setting up alias's and such. hth, kent TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 16:28:33 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Can't read /floppy/type.txt
I'm trying to install on an IBM ps/2 model 70. I'm using an MCA Slink rescue disk. The computer reads the floppy fine until I get to the point in the install that says, Install operating system kernel and modules. I then get an error that reads, Cannot read /floppy/type.txt : Invalid argument I have a floppy directory with . .. in it and a file called type.txt with the word root in it. They are both in the / directory. Is the error telling me to move the file type.txt to the floppy directory? How can I get the installation program to read my floppy drive? Thanks, kent
Re:
Igor Majdandzic wrote: Hi, just one quick quastion: WHEN NEW VERSION OF DEBIAN IS COMING OUT? Thanks, MadMan You can find the info here, http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ Posting in html on this list is best not done:) kent
IBM PS/2 386 #70
I took a look at the archives and see many no responses so I'm not too hopeful about this but... The computer has a 58 meg ESDI HD. I'm trying to do a floppy install. I used the Debian 1.2 boot disk for IBM PS2 systems from, http://mojo.calyx.net/~bri/projects/debian/MCA/ Everything went fine (I installed base from Hamm), until I tried to Install the operating kernel. It asked for the rescue floppy. I put that back in and got the following error: Installing the rescue floppy ... [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n, conv=b, uid=0 gid=0, unmask=022, bmap] [me=0x63, cs=768, #f=0, fs=4832, fl=0, ds=4832, de=65530, data=8928, se=14783, ts=1702060386, ls=8308] Transaction block size=512 VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00. Mount /dev/fd0 (type msdos) on /floppy: wrong filesystem type, or bad superblock on /dev/fd0 I then added, /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults 0 2 to the /etc/fstab file. I then received the following error: Installing the rescue floppy ... end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 2378 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 2378 [: resque: unknown operand end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 2374 sbin/dinstall: ./install.sh I/O error After installing the base and before trying to install the operating system kernel I selected the option, make system compatible with ESDI disks. The readout starts, Special lilo and fdisk binaries then the errors come: sbin:/dinstall: /target/bin/mknod: not found sbin:/dinstall: /target/bin/mknod: not found Anyway I hope someone can make heads or tails of these errors and how I can proceed. Thanks, kent
Re: Copy/Cut Past in X windows?
John Foster wrote: One of the things that I seem to have missed in setting up Linux is the ability (as in Windows) to be able to highlight almost anything in any window and cut/copy it to another window. I have not been able to find any means to do that consistantly in Xwindows. Some individual applications will allow it to be done within the application but not to another application. Did I just miss something or is this really missing in a lot of linux applications? Thanks! To copy with a two button mouse, hold down left button and highlight text. To paste, push both left and right buttons at the same time. With a three button copy as described above and use the middle button to paste. You can also triple click left button to copy a line of text. Double click a word. hth, kent -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting out of fvwm
Barry Kauler wrote: I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux! I got X windows running, with default window manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight into graphics mode and gave me a login window for fvwm. This question is asked repeatedly. A quick search at the Debian User's archives will net you the info your looking for, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ In Red Hat, this is controlled by /etc/inittab, which sets the initial runlevel to 3. 5 is required to launch X. In Debian, inittab has default runlevel set to 2, so why is it launching straight into fvwm? Does anyone know what config file needs to be changed so I can login to commandline only? Also when I exit from fvwm, refuses to exit to the commandline. I'm back at that darn login window again. Even ctrl-alt-backspace won't get me out. To get a console from X just hit ctrl+alt+F1 through F6. To go back to X Alt+F7. That is the default set up anyhow. hth, kent
Re: getting out of fvwm
Barry Kauler wrote: I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux! I got X windows running, with default window manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight into graphics mode and gave me a login window for fvwm. In Red Hat, this is controlled by /etc/inittab, which sets the initial runlevel to 3. 5 is required to launch X. In Debian, inittab has default runlevel set to 2, so why is it launching straight into fvwm? Does anyone know what config file needs to be changed so I can login to commandline only? I forgot to mention that the package XDM is controlling this. Search for XDM in recent archives and you will find your answer:) kent Also when I exit from fvwm, refuses to exit to the commandline. I'm back at that darn login window again. Even ctrl-alt-backspace won't get me out. regards, Barry Kauler -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HELP!!!
Kyle Landon wrote: Hi all, First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working. I can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program. I cannot seem to do much at the $. A few other good books are A Practical Guide to Linux Running Linux and The Debian Linux User's Guide which you can purchase or view online at Linux Press, http://www.linuxpress.com/debusered2.html Also go through the Tutorial and other documentation at debian.org. hth, kent I run dselect with my root account but cannot find the packages.cd. I thought Debian had a graphical interface. What might I be doing or have done that is wrong? I get the error message /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. Thank you, Kyle ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 May 1999 19:18:48 +0200 Peter Granroth wrote: How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a normal user? If you put the following in root's .bashrc (assuming you use bash), you can start X programs when su root in a users X session: if [ $USER != root ] ; then export XAUTHORITY=`eval echo ~$USER/.Xauthority` fi Just curious...I can do su root from a user's X session, but I have nothing like that in root's .bashrc, nor in /etc/profile. (I do use bash.) Is this happening through some other mechanism, or am I missing a file? I think they were talking about starting applications as su root in X. If I get you correctly your saying you can su to root while in X, which is normal. hth, kent
Re: zxip??
Person, Roderick wrote: was I in some haze or fog or was it just to late at night, but wasn't there a package called xzip or some type of .zip .tar frontend for x. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find anything in slink. Rod After selecting select hit space bar and then type / you can then enter xzip for example and you get (at least on my slink system): * Xzip interprets story-files (which are usually text adventure games) in the format used by Infocom. This includes the games published by Infocom, as well as any games produced by compilers to this format, such as Inform. This is an interpreter for X. For text mode, try frotz. * You could also follow the steps as described above but enter zip then press the \ key to cycle through all entries in dselect with the word zip. I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for but possibly this might help you find it:) hth, kent
Re: Xemacs won't use setup files
Micha Feigin wrote: When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and .xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around. If you're talking about saving Font, Size, Weight. Add the following line to your .emacs file, (setq options-save-faces t) if that doesn't work add it to .xemacs-options. I can't remember which one I put it in. Then save options under Options. I've added this line to both files at one time or another. The line gets bumped out of the file, which I don't understand, but the options are saved next time you bring the program up. This works for emacs 20.x. I read somewhere there is another fix for prior versions. It has been a while since I messed with this:) Take a look at the Xemacs web site I think this is all documented there. hth, kent
Re: running scripts (manual and auto)
J Horacio MG wrote: I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it executable permissions(0777): 1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 horacio horacio This works providing I run it like: $ ./getmail but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without ./). I place my Perl scripts in /usr/local/bin. I would think that would work for you. I can't help you with the next one:( hth, kent Also, I created another script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/: - start script - #/bin/sh fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 runq - end script - named it 02fetchmail, and gave it the following permissions: 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root so that it fetchs mail from my ISP at connection, but this one doesn't work at all... what's wrong with it? I too have another two scripts in the same directory: - start 01sendmail - #!/bin/sh # Flush exim queue if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -qf fi - end 01sendmail - (actually, this is just the default exim script renamed), and: - start 00time - #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc - end 00time - I think these two work (don't really know for sure). TIA Horacio -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: help with internet connection needed
Run pppconfig as root. After running this program use pon connection name to connect and poff to disconnect. See the man page for pppconfig. hth, kent Jason Winters wrote: how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Unidentified subject!
Jason Winters wrote: how do you install kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw Here are the directions from a few days ago. I followed this and installed kde on Slink. I had to install the rpm package and librpm1 in addition to what is listed below. hth, kent Paul Winkler wrote: I recently installed Kde 1.1 on Debian 2.1. I did it this way; 1. Install the qt library version 1.42 -2 from the debian site 2. Download from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/debian , (or a mirror) , the following fpackages and install them using dpkg (dpkg -i package.deb) in this order: kdelib2g kdebase1.1 kdebase-il8n kdeanim kdesupport kdegames kdegraphics kdenetwork kdetoys kdeutils kdewallpapers This desktop is very nice!
Re: Apache?
ying shang wrote: When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I can not find out where is the home directory of the apache. The command 'which' will show the path to the program, for example used with the program Joe, ~$ which joe /usr/bin/joe or you could use, ~$ whereis joe joe: /usr/bin/joe /etc/joe /usr/man/man1/joe.1.gz for more info use 'locate' ~$ locate joe /etc/joe /etc/joe/editorrc /etc/joe/jmacsrc /etc/joe/joerc ... hth, kent
xterm/top horizontal scrollbar
I have Top loading in an Xterm window in Fvwm2. I set Top to display the command line instead of the command name and some of the command lines are well off the right edge of the Xterm window. I can resize the window to view these command lines but I was hoping I could find an option to Xterm to add a horizontal scrollbar. I've looked at the man pages for Top and Xterm and don't see anything like that. I notice Xconsole has such a scrollbar. I was wondering if anyone knows how to set up Xterm with such a scrollbar or is there another option that would suit my wants better? Thanks, kent
Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version
I've used both (4.5 libc5, 4.51 glibc2) and haven't experienced any difference. Both have there bugs of course. kent Sami Dalouche wrote: In one of their readmes, they theid the glibc2 version is less stable than their libc5 version of communicator/navigator. Have anyone tried the both version and seen a difference ? On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 01:35:17PM -0330, Greg Starkes wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? It's under the unsupported unix section, so you can get the 128-bit from their web site. The supported one is libc5, as you probably already know. --- Tower Visit my WindowMaker page at http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/ You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge. -Neil Peart, Rush, Show Don't Tell -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linhax| | 01.34.83.16.76 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ : 25529539 | \\ -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--// -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: debian logo thing
Chad A. Adlawan wrote: hello List ... anyone know what came out of that debin logo contest announced 2 months ago ? They are voting again. ... i also saw some Debian logo at slashdot (debian/corel/kde news) ... is that the official debian logo ? No. Check out the last two Debian Weekly News, http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/15/ http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/16/ kent
Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions
Ulrik Haugen wrote: * Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the 40 - 80 some megs of updated packages. I'm afraid I choose a rather misleading subject, I'm not sure I want to upgrade to the unstable version of everything, I only intended to upgrade the packages required to run 2.2.x kernels. Whenever I select Install in dselect it sayes a lot of packages will be removed and asks if I understand that it's bad... How do I unmark all packages marked for uninstallation? Thanks in advance. Most everything works on my Slink system with 2.2.x. I didn't upgrade any packages. If you want to run 2.2.x with Slink just install the kernel and see if anything breaks. The only problems I have seen so far with 2.2.1 and 2.2.5 the eject button doesn't work properly with the Workman program and in 2.2.5 I lost the program xosview. If I'm wrong about this I'm sure someone on the list will correct me. hth, kent
Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions
ktb wrote: Ulrik Haugen wrote: * Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the 40 - 80 some megs of updated packages. I'm afraid I choose a rather misleading subject, I'm not sure I want to upgrade to the unstable version of everything, I only intended to upgrade the packages required to run 2.2.x kernels. Whenever I select Install in dselect it sayes a lot of packages will be removed and asks if I understand that it's bad... How do I unmark all packages marked for uninstallation? Thanks in advance. Most everything works on my Slink system with 2.2.x. I didn't upgrade any packages. If you want to run 2.2.x with Slink just install the kernel and see if anything breaks. The only problems I have seen so far with 2.2.1 and 2.2.5 the eject button doesn't work properly with the Workman program and in 2.2.5 I lost the program xosview. If I'm wrong about this I'm sure someone on the list will correct me. Another thing you can do is set lilo up so you can boot more than one kernel then you can fall back on your current kernel, if need be. hth, kent
Re: Screen Blanker
Nidge Jones wrote: Real dumb stupid silly question.. Where does Debian (2.0) set the screen blanker parameter at boot ! I guess it's set with setterm -blank - but where. I have snooped about all over the place trying find the answer to this. I want to disable mine (-blank 0) permentley? You can dissable it in X in the file, /etc/X11/XF86Config changing the BlankTime to 0, Section Screen Driver Accel Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor DefaultColorDepth 16 BlankTime 5 SuspendTime 0 OffTime 0 hth, kent
Re: Printer Compatability
Micha Feigin wrote: I couldn't find the answear to this on the Hardware-HOWTO I am looking for a printer to connect to my linux machine. I was wondering which of these printers (this are whats avainlable) will work with linux without too much of a fuss ( I don't have too much time in the near future to take on too complicated a job). Also If anyone can comment on the quality of any of these. Thanx The relevant options are: Lexmark 3200 and 52__ (I don't have to last 2 numbers right now) Epson stylus 740 and 850 HP 695C, 710C, 720C, 895Cxi Check out the Printing howto esp.-- http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi hth, kent
