Re: executable won't execute

Hi, [readelf output] ELF Header: [...] INTERP 0x000114 0x08048114 0x08048114 0x00011 0x00011 R 0x1 [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-lsb.so.3] That dynamic linker doesn't look right. A little googling shows that Redhat and Suse seem to be using that one now. A

Re: lenny, xterm,rxvt, ncurses programs do not act on terminal size change

Hi, I've noticed some time ago that when I change terminal size(both urxvt,xterm) ncurses programs running inside do not get this information or do not act on this information. Is anyone else having the same problem? Is it some problem with the terminals or is it a problem with ncurses? It

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

Hi, is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be installed? Not that I can see. You can query the disk geometry, but proc is too low level to know about what filesystems are on the devices.

Re: mutt: the + tag

Hi Andrei, AFAIU mutt will show a + in front of messages that are addressed directly to me, but considers me to be only [EMAIL PROTECTED] so the only messages with a + are mails from cron. Is there a way to instruct mutt that my real address is also me? man muttrc(5): ] alternates

Re: crontab -e

Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command #crontab -e I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. How do I change what gets used? Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your preferred shell.

Re: autofs and /home/home

Hi, I can't seem to figure out a *very* simple automount configuration (I've done this before, but it was over two years ago :-( ). After much work (and not enough understanding!), I have succeed in automounting a remote /home directory on a local client using 'autofs'. Unfortunately,

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

Hi, deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates testing contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates testing contrib/ Your first line points to testing but the third line (security) still points to etch. Oh wow, I didn't notice that. Well I removed the etch and replaced it

Re: Really stupid mutt question

Now deleting 1000 messages, which may or may not contain important or confidential data, is to me a less than optimal way to write a new message. So I would like to know what is the magic key I need to press to compose a *really* new message (i.e. to bypass or get rid of the postponed

Re: receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN

Hi, I'm on a VPN set up by a D-link router connected to a cable modem. The internal IP address of the router is 192.168.0.1, and its dhcpd is set up to deliver IP addresses between 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.0.199, with my MAC address bound to 192.168.0.109. The bizarre thing is that my

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

that in the past... Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

Am 2006-02-23 14:49:15, schrieb Jan C. Nordholz: Then your permission bits on /dev/console and/or /dev/tty0 are not as strict: ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/tty0 /dev/console ] crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 2006-02-23 08:17 /dev/console ] crw--- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-03-29 21:30

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

] crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 2006-02-23 08:17 /dev/console ] crw--- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-03-29 21:30 /dev/tty0 Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

0; ] } Apparently VT_GETSTATE doesn't work when you're under X (returns EINVAL)... but there's an alternate solution: Marc, what about the vtXX commandline option to the X server? See man XFree86 or Xorg... HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

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Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

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Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

if you plan to use it directly. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bash scripts: how to determine directory of 'source'd file

the argument lists of the subroutine calls currently on the execution stack - and 'source' (or '.') qualifies as a subroutine, so its argument (the filename to be sourced) is on the stack. This, in combination with $(pwd), should be sufficient to locate the sourced file. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz

Re: Immortal processes

to signals. So summing up, this sounds like a bug in TkRemind... where exactly is TkRemind? Could you name me the package? (I'd go look myself, but packages.d.o is currently down...) Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

(because then your software has to cope with EIO errors from NFS operations). Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

the same. (Btw: 'ps' can show you in which function the process is blocking - that's the WCHAN column.) Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

session); or, even more interesting perhaps, strace -echdir bash -c echo 'X' HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Hi Luis! strace -eopen bash -c echo 'X' Many repeated lines, but, after uniq: open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/lib/libtermcap.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/lib/libdl.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 3 open(/dev/tty,

Re: Probs with netboot/NFS

:255.255.255.0: Yep... the ip= parameter tells the kernel how to configure the network device, but you have to repeat the NFS server IP in the nfsroot= parameter; this ought to work: auto rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/nfsroot ip=... HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net

Re: custom rescue/boot cd? (trouble with intel sata raid ICH6)

://syslinux.zytor.com The process of creating a bootable CD is explained there, although the explanation given there is not very verbose, IIRC. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get update problems

around in unstable and experimental for quite a while, apt 0.6 finally entered testing these days. -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get update problems

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 05:20:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi! 1) several errors of followig form Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY i used suggestions from http://lists.debian.org

Re: compressing tar files / backup scripts

.tar.gz - you could have achieved the same result by doing tar -czvf backup$1.tar.gz java/projects .mozilla bin because tar -z is doing nothing more than piping the resulting archive through gzip. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cannot get Xorg to start

at the same time you migrated from XF86 to Xorg? Do you have a USB or a PS/2 mouse? Did you compile the kernel yourself, or are you using a prepackaged one? Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:38:40AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the origin.

Re: control of modules?

in there. Check the contents of the file against the error list you get, and against the present modules in /lib/modules/2.6.12/ . If that doesn't (or insufficiently) solve your problem, you should post a small excerpt from your bootlog containing the error messages. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

have configured at least one UTF locale ('locale -a' shows all configured locales, and 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' will let you re-choose). HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi, debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character with an ASCII value 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode - e.g. xterm has

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

already replied to myself in this thread with a solution that will work without meddling with your system's locales. ;-) Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: When kill -9 won't do

for corresponding error messages. But to answer your original question: There's no way to force a process to come out of the 'uninterruptible sleep' state - it can recover by itself (when the kernel function returns), or you can reboot the machine. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net

Re: customizing xterm

-explanatory. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: annoying iptables messages

() yourself), and add something like this to your /etc/syslog.conf: kern.* /dev/tty8 Note that now the debug messages will have the usual syslog stuff prepended (timestamp, hostname, and kernel:), but I can't think of a different solution atm. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn

Re: annoying iptables messages

you use another source of information: by customizing syslog.conf you should be able to extract every possible subset of logging messages pretty comfortably. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:54:59AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] The real puzzle to me, is that the only recent change to this file is to add a hardware address for the wireless pcmcia card. Before it was always working Anyone any ideas as to what is wrong? my

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

between host and the opening curly brace as the hostname to the DHCP client, but use the value of the host-name option instead. I'm glad it works. Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

ACPI battery state doesn't get updated

11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:03.1[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 --- I'd be very glad if someone can help me. Thanks in advance! Jan Nordholz -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174

Re: Remote X-Desktop

and the virtual terminal it shall connect to to your needs) Don't know if I got the syntax exactly right, but you can look up the mechanism in the manpages of xadm(1) (especially read through XDMCP ACCESS CONTROL) and Xserver(1) (concerning the commandline options of X). HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list of locale programs including

Re: how does mutt send?

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:31:17PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says Sending message... and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. SO what does mutt do at this point? I must have to configure something, but I'm unclear what. Hi

Re: how does mutt send?

Do you get an Exim banner come up? Yes, I get 220 potty.co-ho.net ESMTP Exim 4.34 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:27:09 + When you say Sending mail normally from command line functions correctly, what exactly do you mean? It is possible that the command(s) you issue are not invoking the

Re: ssh w/o password?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:20:55AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my password, but I have

Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)

on... ;-)) is of course possible. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network options

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:09:22PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I found this in my /etc/network/options ip_forward=no spoofprotect=yes syncookies=no Can someone explain how this is used for the iptables configurations and for setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/... options? I am also

Re: Number of Loop devices

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:52:24PM -0500, david wrote: I would like to know how to mount more than 8 loop devices (if this is permited by the kernel). Hi david, you can pass the max_loop=your number, max. 255 option to the loop device driver; if you're loading it as a module, pass it as a

weird ppp problem

... Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

Hi! I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod it to 754 so user could access it but it doesn't change the permision on it. Simply chmod'ing the permissions of the mount point won't help. Use mount with the uid, gid

Re: Problem with apt

want to save your cache, you'll have to take a closer look at what exactly is wrong with it - if you don't care, you can just delete those files. I had the same problem a couple of months ago, and mine was unrecoverable, i.e. I had to clean the cache. HTH, Jan C. Nordholz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: command for disk free ?

Hello, I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI command so I can process its standard output. man df Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Disappearing cursor in opera

and this only occurs with opera, I'm pretty confused. Can someone explain this spontaneous focus loss to me? TIA, Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Options for mkisofs

I use the following commandline to make my .iso images: mkisofs -A Some\ title -JR /burndirectory /tmp/some_img.iso Try mkisofs -V label. HTH, Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

use that. Hope my apt cache hasn't been cleaned automatically already... Is there any way to obtain the latest debian kernel sources that are compatible with the -3 headers? Thank you! Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

... but there seem to be no matching packages in unstable that allow for - compiling one's own kernel manually and - compiling additional modules matching the kernel version, for which I'd need the correct header package Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

always installed both when migrating to a new version (and rebuilding the kernel). Hmm, ok, seems I've got to browse the HowTos once again... thanks for your patience! Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature