where is gs man page?
In Debian 1.1 beta, there seams to have no man page installed for the gs package, there is a directory /usr/doc/gs full of ghostscript documents though. Do one really need the gs man pages? If so, how to install one? Godfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.1 installation problem: no /dev/xconsole, no /dev/ps2mouse
My installtion of 1.1 had an error message about not being able to find uname. Some things appear not installed. In particular, no /dev/xconsole no /dev/ps2mouse (Module not loaded) Can I do these by hand? --Derek Lee
Re: xconsole for 1.1?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] >dpkg -S xconsole >xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole >xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xconsole.1x > >Hope that answers your question... That's the unstable xbase. It is, of course, in the stable xbase as well. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
configuring ghostscript...
I have a HP laser printer model LJ5P. I always use gs as my filter for postscript files. Unfortunately the drivers in gs only access the low resolution mode in my printer (plain "laserjet" driver). Does anyone has the driver for 600 dpi mode, for ghostscript? sorry if I am asking this in the wrong list. Nunes
Re: Sendmail Log
On Sat, 11 May 1996, Rob Leslie wrote: > > Just a quick question. I was looking through the log for sendmail this > > afternoon and noticed that it stopped recording where mail was comming > > from and only recording who the mail is for. > > I'm not sure I understand the situation. Can you provide an excerpt of your > sendmail log where this has occurred? > > Sendmail normally logs mail transfers as a two-line event, the first line > indicating the sender and source statistics, and the next line indicating the > destination and delivery status. These two lines can be separated, > unfortunately, by other syslog events. But I don't have any idea yet what > would cause sendmail to log one but not the other... Here is an extract from the log files. You can see that there is only one line for each mail transfer. Its only displaying the stats for the destination. Any ideas ? This log file is the last 5 lines this morning and no activity for over 30mins for all entries should have been written to the log file. May 12 08:01:25 intrepid sendmail[14726]: IAA14724: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:03, mailer=local, stat=Sent May 12 08:13:04 intrepid sendmail[14758]: IAA14756: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:06, mailer=local, stat=Sent May 12 08:21:05 intrepid sendmail[14783]: IAA14781: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:08, mailer=local, stat=Sent May 12 08:23:23 intrepid sendmail[14788]: IAA14786: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:03, mailer=local, stat=Sent May 12 08:37:21 intrepid sendmail[14799]: IAA14797: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:08, mailer=local, stat=Sent Regards, Andrew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= andrew stephenPost Office Box 299 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Gosnells, 6110 Web: http://byteline.com.au Western Australia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Must pppd be run by root?
I'm configuring a fresh install of 1.1. I can only start pppd as root. I found that /etc/ppp had permisions of 700. After changing that it still can only be run as root. Comparing "strace" output shows that it may be failing doing an ioctl on /dev/ttyp0. Changing the permissions of this tty to 666 didn't help. Any ideas? ...RickM...
Orchid Fahrenheit ProVideo 64
Hi, I'm a new Debian user. I just installed 0.93R6 4 weeks ago and upgraded to 1.1 last week following Dale's instructions. My system is now up to date but I have problems configuring my Orchid Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 video card. This card uses the S3 Vision 968 Chipset, whith a Bt485 RAMDAC and an ICD2061A ClockChip. I had to specify these in my XF86Config file since SuperProbe doesn't detect the Ramdac and ClockChip. Now when I startx, my screen turns black and after a few seconds, my monitor turns to power save mode. I can't get back to text mode even with . I'm forced to shutdown my computer using(and power it off/on) in order to get my monitor display things again. I tried the stb_pegasus option in my config file. With this setting, I was able to startx and exit using the sequence which correctly returned to text mode. But my english is not rich enough to describe what I had on my display after starting X :-) I also tried with the 3.1.2D version of XF86_S3 but it didn't work any better. I know this problem is not Debian-specific but if someone around can help... Thanks. Daba Olivier Abad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/psdevtab?
After upgrade my base packages to the 1.1ELF stuff, I see a file /etc/psdevtab which wasn't installed by any of the packages. What is this file? -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "They that have I's shall be blind until their death." - Lyse
Re: Must pppd be run by root?
Rick Macdonald writes: >I'm configuring a fresh install of 1.1. I can only start pppd as >root. I found that /etc/ppp had permisions of 700. After changing >that it still can only be run as root. Comparing "strace" output >shows that it may be failing doing an ioctl on /dev/ttyp0. Changing >the permissions of this tty to 666 didn't help. > >Any ideas? pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter. Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root? The diald package removes all the hassle of starting and shutting down network connections over a transient link, incidentally - you might like to investuigate that. ttfn/rjk
Re: New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing
I just went through a base upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 using Dale Scheetz's upgrade notes. Before I begin upgrading anything else, I though I would make some comments. Firstly, things went very smoothly. However, there were some minor snags: 1) modconf depends on dialog, and I didn't have dialog installed. You might want to alter your upgrade notes to reflect that, Dale. Or, perhaps the debian maintainers can remove modconf from the base system, or include dialog in the base system. 2) modules installs kerneld. This is broken on two levels: a) kerneld doesn't seem to work with kernel 1.2.13, which I am currently using, and I imagine most people are using since it's the stable version (I see the version provided is 1.3.64 -- is it smart to offer a development kernel on what's supposed to become a production system?) b) the kerneld daemon is handled in *both* /etc/init.d/boot and it's own /etc/init.d/kerneld script. I would imagine it should only have one starting point, preferably in the boot script, since the mount -avt nonfs depends on the modules for filesystems (dos, sysv, etc) 3) "/etc/init.d/sysklogd reload" doesn't seem to work. I made changes to /etc/syslog.conf for my news system, did the reload, but syslogd didn't update itself. I had to 'killall -HUP syslogd' by hand. 4) I get a strange message from syslog at boot-time: May 12 04:28:30 galileo kernel: ps tried to do a shared writeable mapping I don't know what causes this message, or if it is important. There were a few other inconveniences (as opposed to the above "bugs"): 1) The timezone setup is severely altered. I *liked* being in the Canada/Mountain timezone. Now my choices are SystemV/MST7MDT (correct, but not very pretty :) and America/Edmonton (and I absolutely *refuse* to have any reference to Edmonton in my setup -- I'm from Calgary, and we just don't get along with our northern neighbours :) 2) the 'console' terminfo entry is missing. I notice there is a replacement for it called 'linux'. The conXXxYY entries are also gone. All of this can be dealt with easily enough, but it was a bit of a pain to have to notice it the hard way. Also, /etc/termcap wasn't cleaned up, yet I assume it's not being used anymore, since it doesn't show up in the new base package. [Will there be any more orphaned files laying around after a 1.1 upgrade?] 3) it was a little awkward to merge in the old passwd and group files with the new one (I noticed some discussion on this already). Also, there are a number of new "users" which seem questionable in value (qmail*, amanda, www-data, postgres, gnats, and proxy[listed twice at uids=13 and 36]) -- shouldn't most of these be added by their respective packages, rather than included in the base? Anyway, overall, a very good job. Now, I'll start to upgrade things piece by piece. Stay tuned for more progress reports :) I just hope that the new sendmail has makemap and SMARTHOST fixed... BTW, what's being done about the a.out libs? Will they be evolving, or are they already at their final stage before extinction? Stupid Netscape still requires them... -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson
Re: Orchid Fahrenheit ProVideo 64
Olivier Abad wrote: > I have problems configuring my Orchid Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 video card. > Now when I startx, my screen turns black and after a few seconds, my > monitor turns to power save mode. > Unfortunately, exactly the problem you report with this card has also been observed by others. Some say that the card has problems with the AMD and Cyrix processors; I don't know. As of April 28 (when a news message on this topic was posted), Accelerated X (not free software) was planning to supply an update to their drivers in "one or two weeks" that was meant to solve the problem. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but hope it at least saves you some time. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/psdevtab?
Hello, > After upgrade my base packages to the 1.1ELF stuff, I see a file /etc/psdevtab > which wasn't installed by any of the packages. What is this file? its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run "ps" (from the procps package in the base) the first time. This speeds up ps a big time and reduces the amount of 'stats' in the /dev/ directory on the following invokations of ps. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],ka.sub.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy
Re: Checking if the network is up
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Rob Leslie wrote: > Try using `fping' on your network gateway host. e.g.: > > if fping -q $GWHOST > then > popclient ... > fi > > Or, if you prefer compactness (also good for crontabs): > > fping -q $GWHOST && popclient ... > > Substituting $GWHOST with the name/address of your gateway, of course. Better > yet, substitute the name of your POP server. I use a variant of this, run out of cron every few minutes to keep my PPP connection up. REMOTE_IP=x.x.x.x # IP Address of remote gateway machine. fping -q $REMOTE_IP && exit 0 . . remainder of script here . or (on machines which don't have fping...e.g. slackware): ifconfig | grep $REMOTE_IP >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0 . . remainder of script. . if the exit code of either test is true, then the script exits immediately. otherwise the link must be dead, so it runs the remainder of the commands which bring the link back up again. The fping version could use either an IP address or a domain name. The ifconfig version must use an IP address. Craig
Re: Must pppd be run by root?
> "R" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces R> and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter. R> Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root? Right, pppd really needs to be run as root. You don't want just any user killing your net connection. If you want to let a selected set of users bring the net connection up and down, check out sudo. It's designed for this. -- Rob
problems with mailagent
Hi I just installed mailagent and ma having problems setting it up. I followed the directions in the faq and it appears to work for mail sent locally but all the filters appear to be ignored for mail coming in from outside the system. Also I am using smail rather than sendmail for mail handling. Any suggestions. Joe.
using args with spaces in genscriptrc
The HP Jet Direct network interface prints out a banner page for all jobs sent to it, whether or not one uses ":sh:" in one's printcap file. To turn the banner off, one must use a command of the form: lpr -h [other-flags] filename I would like to be able to specify the '-h' flag to lpr in my .genscriptrc file. However, this has no effect: Spooler: lpr -h Enclosing the argument in quotes also fails: Spooler: "lpr -h" with the error message: sh: unexpected EOF while looking for `"' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error Broken pipe Is there a way to set one of the variables in .genscriptrc to a value that has an embedded space, or is there another way to accomplish the same task? Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.
> > The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a > > fresh installation. I'm sure some xmodmap commands (though I'm not > > sure which ones, if you can help) would do the trick, but I wonder > > what neither of them is usable by default? > > I did a ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/X386 > in order to get the motif application netscape running. > This way it will find the > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB > for wihich netscape looks at > /usr/X386/lib/X11/XKeysymDB My netscape installer package handles all this automatically. It's under the "net" section in the development tree. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
problems compiling with R0.93
When I try to compile my own "hello world" program I get these error messages: gcc -g -o hello -L/usr/X11R6/lib hello.o -lXaw -lXt -lX11 ld: Output file requires shared library `libc.so.4' gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 6 make: *** [hello] Error 1 Compiling the program with: gcc -g -c hello.c works fine, but the linking part just won't work. It's funny because I've successfully compiled the 'xli' package on my machine. And I have checked, I do have the libc.so.4 library in the /lib directory. ___ Magnus Therning ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing
Dale Scheetz said: > If you don't want to move to a higher level kernel, then you don't want to > upgrade modules, image, or source. You may not want to upgrade sysklogd > although I had no trouble with it. I didn't install the image or source packages. I did install modules and sysklogd, and so far, I haven't seen any problems. Should I be expecting some? -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Re: Must pppd be run by root?
Richard Kettlewell said: > The diald package removes all the hassle of starting and shutting down > network connections over a transient link, incidentally - you might > like to investuigate that. But does it handle dynamic IP address assignment nicely? Previous diald packages didn't, and I don't know if they even can. It's really quite annoying to start up ftp, have to kill it once the link comes up, and then start it again. Instead, I just created a group 'ppp', and did: chgrp ppp /usr/sbin/pppd chmod 2750 /usr/sbin/pppd chgrp -R ppp /etc/ppp chmod -R o-rwx /etc/ppp So, users in group 'ppp' can fire up the ppp link. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "May the Great Camel of Paradise bestow upon you and yours a dropping." - (?)
Re: /etc/psdevtab?
eckes said: > its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is > needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given > inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run "ps" (from the > procps package in the base) the first time. This speeds up ps a big time and > reduces the amount of 'stats' in the /dev/ directory on the following > invokations of ps. I guess it doesn't work, then. I've got a 12288 byte file full of zeros. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld
Re: New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > I just went through a base upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 using Dale Scheetz's > upgrade notes. Before I begin upgrading anything else, I though I would make > some comments. > > Firstly, things went very smoothly. However, there were some minor snags: > > 1) modconf depends on dialog, and I didn't have dialog installed. You might >want to alter your upgrade notes to reflect that, Dale. Or, perhaps the >debian maintainers can remove modconf from the base system, or include >dialog in the base system. > This is true. It was noted in my original pencil scrawl but failed to make it to the final script (probably because it got "fixed" on the test bench) I will add it back as a commented out line with a note in the base_list file, thanks! > 2) modules installs kerneld. This is broken on two levels: >a) kerneld doesn't seem to work with kernel 1.2.13, which I am currently > using, and I imagine most people are using since it's the stable > version (I see the version provided is 1.3.64 -- is it smart to offer a > development kernel on what's supposed to become a production system?) >b) the kerneld daemon is handled in *both* /etc/init.d/boot and it's own > /etc/init.d/kerneld script. I would imagine it should only have one > starting point, preferably in the boot script, since the > mount -avt nonfs depends on the modules for filesystems (dos, sysv, > etc) If you don't want to move to a higher level kernel, then you don't want to upgrade modules, image, or source. You may not want to upgrade sysklogd although I had no trouble with it. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
