On one of my machines, I initially installed ssmtp and I now want to replace
it with exim. However...
dpkg -i exim...deb
fails because exim conflicts with ssmtp and
dpkg --purge ssmtp
fails because various other packages depend on mail-transport-agent...
I know I can use dpkg's 'force'
Can leafnode (well, fetchnews) be configured to retrieve message bodies
immediately in some groups, but not in others?
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Charles O. Hartman said:
(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
10 [so I don't know modern hardware interfaces], and Linux never.)
Welcome!
I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
(AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However,
Cameron Matheson said:
I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where
(or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks,
1) Run WPrefs, preferably version 0.40 or later. Set your
background/title/sizebar/etc. appearances as desired.
2) Bring
Hans said:
Questions:
1) How do you know what device a program pipes it's output to?
lsof | grep programname
2) How can you change that?
Depends on the program.
3) Can you make global settings, so that e.g. all wav file are send to
/dev/audio regardless of what program you use to play it
Jonathan Chang said:
Is there any standard way for debian to change ip address? Or
I need to modify files in /etc manully? Thanks in advance.
To change it temporarily (until the next reboot), use ifconfig.
For a permanent change, yes, you have to edit a config file in /etc.
Jonathan Markevich said:
Is there some other way?
How I handled it (given that I'm only dealing with 1 ISP, but I've had to
send mail to other users of that ISP):
In /etc/exim.conf set
qualify_domain = usinternet.com
qualify_recipient = localhost
local_domains = localhost:internal names of all
My quest for hardware acceleration using my Black Magic card appears to have
been a failure. But, in the process I learned that Voodoo3 has a crucial
feature that the earlier 3dfx cards lack: The ability to use hardware
acceleration in a window.
So I count the failure as no loss, for I would
aphro said:
i'd reccomand one from STB/3Dfx, since they now are working directly to
support linux their stuff is sure to work(but even the other brands should
have no trouble)
I'm a little wary of that combination... My existing V2 Black Magic is an
STB card and it seems to have been orphaned
Alec Smith said:
Well, the only company I know of selling a Voodoo3 is 3Dfx/STB. So if you
don't like 3Dfx, you might have to go take a look at one of the other
graphic chips like the GeForce 256.
Oh, I like 3dfx. It's STB I'm a bit sour on. But if they've (semi?) merged,
then that pretty
aphro said:
well wasnt the black magic card a special card? dual processors on the
board or something?
It's definitely not dual processor. It was one of the first V2 cards out,
though, and I think it _may_ have been the first one with 12 MB RAM on it,
but I'm not sure about that. (You could
aphro said:
any of the v3 3dfx cards should do this but not in XF86 3.3.5. Note if
you use XF86 4.0 chances are none of the games will work(until they are
updated for XF86 4.0).
You are correct. Glide3 versions are not currently available.
or you could get a Matrox G400 and use openGL and
Blazej Sawionek said:
I've just fallen into serious trouble:
can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used.
I'm sure it is not, what may have happened is that I was examining it's
contents with `mc' which died suddenly.
I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if
Wayne Topa said:
Try a paper clip, strightened out, and inserted into the little hole
in the front of the CDROM drive. Works on the 3 I have.
I thought you weren't supposed to do that while the system is powered up.
Something about possibly damaging the hardware. Is that no longer a problem?
Gary Hennigan said:
My SGI is entirely soft button. If it crashes sometimes I can't even
turn the power off on it, I end up having to unplug the stupid thing
to reset it!
That's excessive, of course, but I'd like to see something along the lines of
the option on most ATX BIOSes to have a
Adam C Powell IV said:
Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five
seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients
when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for
fsck...
From man mount, under the heading Mount options
Cameron Matheson said:
Then I type chmod u+x removeCiv.sh to add execute permission to myself,
but when i type removeCiv.sh at the prompt i get the error bash:
removeCiv.sh: command not found
Try
/removeCiv.sh
or move the script to an 'executables' directory, such as /usr/local/bin.
By
I just picked up a copy of the Linux version of Myth2 and haven't been able
to get it to work. There are two issues currently, both Glide-related and
both ignored by the 3Dfx-HOWTO:
1) I got the 3Dfx and Glide drivers from linux.3dfx.com, used alien to
convert their rpms to debs, and installed
Nate Duehr said:
Total guess here, but have you tried symlinking libglide2x.so to the
3x.so file? Might work.
No dice. Myth2 hangs with the symlink in place. (I also picked up Heretic2
at the same time and am having the same problem with it, but it's a lot more
verbose about its startup
aphro said:
last i checked the 3dfx howto was VERY outdated, yeah 1998..damn. almost 2
years old.
That would explain why it seemed to be almost-but-not-quite-entirely
useless...
you running potato?
Yep.
i got _nothing_ but segfaults when i installed the
binaries from linux.3dfx.com had
I said:
..but I missed the link to the source. Time to dl that and see how it
works.
Rolling my own libglide2x.so seems to have worked. Thanks for the pointer to
the source.
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OK, so I spoke too soon... I managed to get glide working last night, but
only in software mode. I still can't get it to recognize my Voodoo2 Black
Magic 3D card for hardware acceleration.
Last night I was working with the rpms and raw source from linux.3dfx.com.
Today I pulled the new Potato
[Bernd _berbacher] said:
what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a
file every 5 mins??
i have
5 * * * * root cp ...
but this copies just every hour.
crontab entries define patterns that the time has to match for it to execute,
not intervals. So you need to use
Mark Brown said:
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 08:06:39PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
and 15hrs per box. Since the -d downloads, can I take the files being
downloaded for box1, tar them up, copy and untar to box[234] and then
just apt-get install from the single downloads? I'd hate to
I've got a file named logfile that keeps reappearing in my / directory.
It's owned by root.games and permissions are -rw-rw-rw-. lsof does not show
it as being open. It contains:
--- cut here ---
Begin New Server Session
Waiting for
luis said:
how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ?
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Brian Servis said:
It will get added to the swap at boot with the rest of the swap space. I
would recommend giving your swap partitions/files different priorities
in this case so that the faster partitions are higher priority and the
swap files are lower priority. See swapon(2) for more
Jack Sonnie said:
I have the source
code for the program, but it just says to type make and cross your
fingers...
I hate (lack of) documentation like that...
From what I can tell, make must be either a Unix compiler or
was in the original Linux...
Uh... No. Make coordinates the actions
Richard Dansereau said:
Does the kernel
have to be compiled differently?
Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support.
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Richard Dansereau said:
Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically
compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have
it in all of the time.. even if your machine does not have APM.
If it's compiled with APM support, it will always be there... (It's not
I rebooted my dialout server two weeks ago to install a new hard drive and
I've been having trouble with pppd/diald ever since. Specifically, it
doesn't add a deafult route through the ppp link when it goes up. Updating
to the latest versions of both has not helped any. (I initially suspected
peter karlsson said:
I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to
resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail
and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use
for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not
allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and
professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two
environments, Linux is a born winner). I Am
John Hasler said:
It's trivial. Just create /etc/passwd entries with null password fields.
Ah! Excellent! Thanks!
I knew you could reset passwords that way, but had assumed that it would
force you to enter a password the next time you logged on. Guess I was
wrong...
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Andrew J.F. Clark said:
I'd like to encode some cds I have as mp3s and I'm wondering what the
best packages are to do this.
I use cdgrab/abcde (I don't remember which is its name in Potato and which is
in Slink), which is a shell script that coordinates various other programs
(cdparanoia,
I'm setting up a Linux box as an MP3 jukebox for a (technically
non-sophisticated) friend to use at her dance studio. We've decided that
we'll want to have separate login accounts for each instructor, but I don't
want passwd forcing them to come up with 'good' passwords - the box isn't
going to
Ben Collins said:
Edit /etc/login.defs and modify the minimum password length config.
That allows _short_ passwords, but not _weak_ ones.
After changing it to 1, I just had the following exchange with passwd:
Enter the new password (minimum of 1, maximum of 8 characters)
Please use a
I have a machine here with an AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI card in it (or at least
that's how it identifies itself) that works fine under Win98, but refuses to
cooperate in Linux. Specifically, using kernels 2.2.9 or 2.2.12 compiled
with generic SCSI, SCSI CD-ROM, and AHA-152x support, no hosts are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You probably need to add append=x,x,x,x to your /etc/lilo.conf file to force
detection at boot. I believe it's explained in the lilo man pages.
The syntax of append is in man lilo.conf, and then I had to look in kernel
tree/drivers/scsi/aha152x.c to find out what to
Phil Brutsche said:
Hrm... A quick grep through the kernel source indicates that this card
uses the AMD PCnet (aka lance) chipset. The driver is lance.o. What
specific problems are you having with this card?
During installation, I haven't been able to come up with a parameter string
which
Shaul Karl said:
1) /sbin/isapnp
2) Donald Becker home page has links to programs to run that will give you
info about installed NIC.
Donald's page has a number of ISA card utilities, but they're all tied to
specific chipsets. NE2500/Lance is not among them and, of course, trying to
use a
I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and
am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The card, however, is
not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray.
I've found a Red Hat-based NE2500 howto, but it basically boils down to
'install the system using a
Svante Signell said:
If I want
to start in text mode and move to X by startx, is it sufficient to
remove the scripts at the corresponding runlevel? (Runlevel 2?)
Yep. Or you can mv them from SnnDaemonName to snnDaemonName (e.g., mv S98xdm
s98xdm), which keeps the link there, but disables it.
csager said:
I get so many error messages that scroll by my screen so
fast that I don't know what all the problems are.
Is there a way to get all of the error message into a file
so that I can make a reasonable attempt at solving my
problem? Or possibly a way to step through the errors so
Matthew Denson said:
Do I just change /etc/lilo.conf? Or, do I change it and then run lilo? Is
lilo automatically run because the /etc/lilo.conf file is modified?
Nope, there's no process watching lilo.conf and running lilo whenever it gets
changed. Any time you edit lilo.conf, you _always_ have
Patrick Kirk said:
Is what I am trying to do possible and if so how have I
messed up permissions, assuming that is what I've messed up?
Oh, it's definitely possible... From my fstab:
genma:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs hard,intr,nosuid,noexec 0 0
Granted, that exact line won't
Wayne Topa said:
I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from
bookpool.
I've had Very Bad Experiences with bookpool - lousy service (particularly in
dealing with backorders), slow (and expensive) shipping... I placed one
order with them and will never do it again.
For
Christian Dysthe said:
I then have to log in as root and un-install WDM to be able to return to
how I used to log in: console and startx which works fine.
Actually, you don't have to uninstall wdm (or xdm or other similar login
managers) to login on a text console. To stop it from running, you
William T Wilson said:
Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use
There is that, I suppose... The current hda is an older 2.5 G Western
Digital drive while hdb is a 6 G Quantum Fireball UDMA. I'm assuming that
I'd get better performance out of the Fireball if it
Marco d'Itri said:
Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd.
I see... Sure enough, I'm using the nfs-server package, which is a user-
space nfs server. Is there a deb of a kernel-space nfsd? And why is the
user-space nfsd the (apparent) Debian standard, particularly given the
Phil Brutsche said:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux
systems?
Doesn't everyone?
Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby.
I also have Giedi, Fury, and a SPARCstation
Dwayne C . Litzenberger said:
LYE-nucks is totally unfounded (you just don't
pronounce his name that way).
Don't know where you're from, but, yes, in the US, Linus _is_ normally
pronounced line-us. True, it's not the way Mr. Torvalds is likely to
say his name, but it's no more incorrect than
I've got a system with Win98 installed on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1.
I'm planning to wipe the Win98 partition (when the Linux install has 2 months
of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot isn't needed) and considering
swapping the drives so the system is booting Linux from /dev/hda.
Jean-Yves BARBIER said:
You could enlarge it a bit, and use it to make your images for CDz
Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for
resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't
been claimed by my root and swap partitions...)
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Marco d'Itri said:
On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they
They *do* work with 2.2 kernels.
Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running
2.2.9 on both of the machines on my
Alisdair McDiarmid said:
The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB:
there's no free space left at the end of the drive.
Why's that?
I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system with a homemade
2.2.9 kernel and a 9 Gb drive. Windows could see the entire
peter karlsson said:
I noticed that netdate has been removed from potato. What should I use
instead?
ntpdate
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Noah L. Meyerhans said:
I'm having a problem that seems to be related to NFS on potato. Here's
the setup:
/home is mounted via NFS. When I run WPrefs, the configuration tool
included with Window Maker, I get the following error:
Could not open Window Maker domain
Astro D. Boy said:
I am running Debian Potato with Exim version 3.03 #1 built 04-Aug-1999; my
problems stem from local mail delivery. Whenever I try to send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], exim seems to strip the localhost and replace it with the
remotehost-- making it [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Although
Peter Ross said:
There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp
package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in
sync with another clock continuously.
Right, but, as I said in my original question, ntpdate is a package unto
itself. I don't know about
Joe Block said:
I like and still use _Programming Python_ by Mark Lutz. I hear they
came out with _Learning Python_, but haven't read it.
_Learning Python_ by Mark Lutz David Ascher is out, I've bought it, but I
haven't had a chance to read it yet. Just flipping through it looks good,
Tom Gray said:
4. How is Linux pronounced: lih-nucks or lie-nucks?
Linus's name is pronounced (in Finnish) lih-nus, so the 'offical'
pronunciation is lih-nux. However, he has said that, since his name is
pronounced lye-nus in English, it is appropriate for English-speakers to
pronounce it
Ray Schultz said:
Netdate will sync your computer clock with that of a Network
Time Protocol server (NTP). An example is time.uh.edu
What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is
a separate package)?
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A couple weeks ago, I finally got a chance to install Debian on my laptop,
a UMax ActionBook 320T. It works, more or less, but a number of problems
remain:
1) Power management control #1 - APM seems to kick in at random intervals.
Sometimes the machine will sit for 5-10 minutes without going to
There was one other problem that I forgot to mention:
When the machine goes into a suspend while I'm running X, it will frequently
(but not always) come back up with an all white screen and I haven't been
able to find a way to recover from this without rebooting. (Text consoles
remain available,
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) said:
If `Foo' does contain `}' (like \textsc{\Foo{\Bar}}) then I don't know
how to handle that.
IIRC, ORA's Mastering Regular Expressions has an example along these lines of
how to capture parentheses, with nesting both possible and respected, but
it's pretty ugly. If you
jh said:
Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and
missing it? Something like dos /p?
By using a pager such as more. (There are others out there. I usually use
less and there's also one I haven't gotten around to trying named most.) If
you're just reading a
Mickael Vera said:
My problem is that there are not enough lines on the console,
is it possible to scroll back on the console,
Shift-PgUp
or to
make the boot processus make a pause ?
Ctrl-S should halt text (either Ctrl-Q or Ctrl-S to restart), but I haven't
tried it myself.
Some errors
Stephan Engelke said:
Check xntp and ntpdate. I believe there is a .deb-package called xntp.
Next place a call to ntpdate servername in your ip-up.d.
Not to steal another Dave's question, but...
Where can one find a list of publicly-usable NTP servers?
Taupter said:
When I log in my system using a console terminal my aliases, locales
sets and variables (stored in /etc/profile) work fine. I start X and
they're still valid till I log out. When I boot my system with runlevel
2 (starts xdm) and use xdm to log in, these prefferences doesn't work
Peter L. Schroeder said:
What is a useful configuration in apt.conf and/or anywhere else
to avoid downloading packages twice if I run
apt-get first on one and then on the other box ?
Although it may not be the most correct way of doing it, here's what I did:
1) Have one machine share
Brad said:
WindowMaker will do that. But, if you dock the new appicon that was
created when you ran it with the ssh -f ... command, it should work ok
then.
Got it! As I was responding to this, it occurred to me that the -f may
be what's causing the problem. When I drag over the appicon, the
I just got ssh set up and it works pretty slick, except for one little
detail... One of the things I wanted to be able to do with ssh is dock
apps running on other machines and have them restart automatically when
I log in. (i.e., have a wmmon for my local machine and another wmmon for
a remote
I've got a couple machine here that I want to have share their lists of
available packages and downloaded package binaries. To this end, I've had
one of them share its /var/cache/apt directory and NFS mounted it on the
other.
Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work. When I update the list of
Where could I find a PostScript to Epson Stylus Color 400 convertor? Or is
there some other (standard) way of getting non-PS printers to print PS data?
Thanks for any pointers.
John said:
Am new to Debian (a little knowledge of another distribution). Can anyone
explain how to change settings so I can choose which wm to use after login
The system keeps a list of available window managers in
/etc/X11/window-managers. Whichever one is listed first is the default
window
Tom Lineman said:
I installed linux on a 75 mb partition and have no others to spare,
so obviously space is a problem for me. All I'd like to know is how I can
see how much space there is left on my system, other than going through each
directory and ls'ing and then adding up space used.
Daniel Barclay said:
From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios
sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little).
Why are so many computer users so ignorant of international
standards?
What do international standards have to do with it?
Seth R Arnold said:
On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word amidala in it. No
change.
If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your display,
use the xhost command: xhost amidala
Duggan Dieterly said:
just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32
file partition tables. use fdisk instead.
What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder
1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the
version on the
Duggan Dieterly said:
while cfdisk will work with big disks, it will not work with the
partition table created by windows 98. in order to use partitoions bigger
than 2GB with windows 98, you must use the FAT32 partition scheme.
Again, it seemed to work fine for me. On an ~8 Gb drive with
Brad said:
This was posted a while back on the list. i forget who or when though...
# mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.old
# clear /etc/issue
# cat /etc/issue.old /etc/issue
Assuming you're using bash as your shell, a much simpler option is to just
create a file in your home directory named
Dave McFadden said:
I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount it
as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than
extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right now.
:-)
Taking the opposite approach from the
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