Re: Second Hard Disk

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:

> Hi,
>   before I changed over to linux, I was MS-DOS and had two 
> hardrives installed.  They both worked fine.  When I changed i didn't 
> install the second hard drive and now I need to.  How can I.  I tryed to 
> find some docs but couldn't.  Also after I do, how to get to that hard disk?

Assuming they are both ide drives on the same controller, jumper it to be
a slave and connect to the other connector on the ribbon cable.  It should
automatically be recognized by the kernel--check your boot message with
'dmesg|more' to see that it is. 

Next, do 'fdisk /dev/hdb' to partition, run mke2fs to prepare the
partition(s) for data, add it to /etc/fstab and you should be in business.

Bob

 
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Re: LARRY ELLISON

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au, accessing
> a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/), but I'm IP
> masquerading via silly.rising.com.au, which isn't really called that
> at all because I'm on via my ISP who's given my a dynamic IP, so I'm
> really dialin-a1-30.melbourne.internex.net.au or similar, and then
> I've via proxy cache proxy1.mel.connect.com.au, but that page still
> knows I'm from hamishpc!
>
> I do CGI but can't see how they do this one.

view the document source - they're using a java applet:






If you're reading this you need to get a JAVA-capable
browser!!


so, urname2.class is run by your netscape and it displays your hostname.

I'd like to see the source of that applet - i'd like to know what else
it does...e.g. does it log my hostname & login id (email address) at the
remote site?

i just did a search for urname2.class at alta-vista and came up with:

http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~gwoersch/java.html

which has a lot of java demos and source code, including urname2.java.

here it is. it looks innocuous enough but it could quite easily be
modified to send information back to the server.



// Used to get the user name. special crdits to Scott Clark at
// the Central Java Message Base for the tech part and Mig9 for
// the motivation part. Amit C. (ConnectSoft Ruksun, Pune, India)
// [EMAIL PROTECTED] Updated by public demand. Lots of people wanted a
// version, where the font, etc can be changed

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontMetrics;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.lang.String;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class urname2 extends Applet
{
  Color clrTextColor = new Color (255, 255, 255);
  Color clrBackGndColor = new Color (160, 160, 100);
  String sFontName; // Text font, max = 72 ?

  int iFontSize;

  InetAddress myAddress = null;

  public void init ()
  {
// Get the specified color for text, else 
// use black
clrTextColor = StringToColor (
   MygetStringParam ("text_color", null),
   Color.black);
// Get the specified color for background,
// else use red
clrBackGndColor = StringToColor (
MygetStringParam ("background_color", null),
  Color.red);

// Font name
sFontName = new String (MygetStringParam ("font_name", "Courier"));
// Font size
iFontSize = MygetintParam ("font_size", 14);
// Now set the font specified
setFont (new Font (sFontName, Font.PLAIN, iFontSize));

try
{
  myAddress = InetAddress.getLocalHost ();
}
catch (UnknownHostException e)
{
}
  }
  public void paint (Graphics g)
  {
g.setColor (clrBackGndColor);
g.drawRect (0, 0, size ().width - 1, size ().height - 1);
g.fillRect (0, 0, size ().width - 1, size ().height - 1);

g.setColor (clrTextColor);

g.drawString ("Welcome " + myAddress.getHostName () + "!", 10, 20);
//  g.drawString(myAddress.toString(), 10, 20);
  }


  public String getAppletInfo ()
  {
return "urname2,  a Java Applet by Amit Chaudhary \n([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 
3/7/96";
  }

  public String[][] getParameterInfo ()
  {
String pinfo[][] =
{
  {"background_color", "0-255,0-255,0-255", "Background Color"},
  {"text_color", "0-255,0-255,0-255", "Text Color"},
  {"font_name", "String", "Font for the text, TimesRoman, Courier, 
helvetica, .."},
  {"font_size", "8-72", "The font size"}};

  return pinfo;
  }

  // A changed version of getparam
  public String MygetStringParam (String att, String def)
  {
String ret;

  try
{
  ret = getParameter (att);
  if (ret.length () < 1)
return def;
  else
return ret;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
  return def;
}
  }

  // A another changed version of getparam, this to get int params
  public int MygetintParam (String att, int def)
  {
Integer RetParam;

  try
{
  RetParam = new Integer (getParameter (att));
  if (RetParam.intValue () == 0)
return def;
  else
return RetParam.intValue ();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
  return def;
}
  }

  // Given a string parses it to get the colors  
  public Color StringToColor (String strColor_p, Color clrDefault_p)
  {
if (strColor_p.length () == 0)
  {
return clrDefault_p;
  }

int r;
int g;
int b;
// Delimiter is ','
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer (strColor_p, ",");

try
{
  r = Integer.valueOf (st.nextToken ()).intValue ();
  g = Integer.valueOf (st.nextToken ()).intValue ();
  b = Integer.valueOf (st.nextToken ()).intValue ();
  return new Color 

getwd error with amd

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  When running a program from the shell under a directory
automounted with amd, I often get the following error:

shell-init: could not get current directory: \getwd: cannot access
parent directories

The actual mount directory on my system is /a and the automount point
is /mnt.  This error is frequently reported under directories /mnt/*.

Any ideas?  This /mnt directory just contains symbolic links.  Can't
getwd handle that?

Thanks!

-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Camm Maguire
==
"The earth is one country, and mankind its citizens."  Baha'u'llah

Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

[Steve]

> > If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line
> > #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and
> > /bin/bash are equivalent?
> 
> /etc/init.d/* do, in fact, all start with "#!/bin/sh" as they should.
> I believe that bash was written to be a free version of and painless
> replacement for sh. So if /bin/sh is a link to bash, all is well.

The problem is that the scripts only work with bash in sh mode and not
with sh-compatible shells such as ash. Try making /bin/sh a symlink to
/bin/ash and reboot. You'll get error messages from the startup
scripts.

Even when invoked as sh, bash has options not available in other sh
clones. The scripts use these options and thus don't work with Bourne
shell clones other than bash.

It would be nice to be able to use ash instead of bash, especially on
small systems, because ash uses less memory.

> The problem arose when the original writer linked /bin/sh to zsh.  I
> understand, perhaps incorrectly, that zsh is a freen version of ksh,
> but it apparently has some failure to mesh with sh/bash.

Zsh, like bash, has sh compatibility options enabled when invoked as
sh.

Most people have no problem using ash or zsh for /bin/sh. But most
people are not Debian users. :-/

Dosemu

[johannes martinez]

Has anyone installed dosemu?  How do you get it to boot off of 
the hdimage?  Can you then access your partitions from this hdimage?  
I've got it so far that i can start up with opendos on a floppy, but 
that takes ages.  Any info would be appreciated.

johannes martinez

Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mar 03, 1997 at 01:45:37PM -0800, Steve wrote:
> > I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in
> > /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to
> > /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up.
> 
> If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line
> #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and
> /bin/bash are equivalent?

And if so, that's not very portable; /bin/sh is typically something
else again, and certainly is on this Solaris box I'm typing this on.
/bin/sh has no command line editing, for example.


Hamish
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Re: LARRY ELLISON

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mar 03, 1997 at 06:39:16PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
> > Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au,
> > accessing a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/),

> Maybe finger.  It seems you can CGI for the OS and if it's *nix run finger,
> or just run finger and see what happens.  Check out www.digicrime.com, 
> they have all kinds of interesting things there.

But you can't make connections to a host that's behind
a masquerade, and finger wouldn't tell you the host name.
The IPs which the names belong to are only being used
on the ethernet between the masquerader and my PC,
not on the internet at all. The answer seems to be javascript.
I'll try it on a miscellaneously-named PC here at university
and see what happens.


Hamish
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Cron backup save (fwd)

[Pete Templin]

I'm running into some sort of filesystem corruption when I dump one of the
filesystems on my spare machine.  Anyone got any ideas?  The machine runs
real well, and came up A-OK after a reboot the other morning.

Thanks in advance,

--
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Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key.
PGP fingerprint = BD 9D 90 1C 8D 6D CA 21  D7 0F 2D C6 29 93 A6 1E


-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:03:53 -0500
From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> backup save


  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Mar 11 23:03:53 1997
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/rft0
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 12869 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
/dev/hda2: EXT2 directory corrupted while converting directory #24

mt: /dev/nrft0: Device or resource busy
  DUMP: Date of this level 1 dump: Tue Mar 11 23:03:54 1997
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Mon Mar  3 23:08:40 1997
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda4 (/usr) to /dev/rft0
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 333 tape blocks on 0.00 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: master/slave protocol botched.
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
mt: /dev/nrft0: Device or resource busy
  DUMP: Date of this level 1 dump: Tue Mar 11 23:04:12 1997
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Tue Mar 11 16:56:52 1997
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdc4 (/var) to /dev/rft0
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 9054 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: DUMP: 9055 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
  DUMP: level 1 dump on Tue Mar 11 23:04:12 1997
  DUMP: Closing /dev/rft0
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
mt: /dev/nrft0: I/O error
  DUMP: Date of this level 1 dump: Tue Mar 11 23:07:59 1997
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Mon Feb  3 23:52:42 1997
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdc1 (/local) to /dev/rft0
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 4933 tape blocks on 0.00 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: End of tape detected
  DUMP: Closing /dev/rft0
  DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
  DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: No such device or address
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Re: Where is modutils? & bind syntax error

[Richard Sharman]

Lawrence Chim writes:
 > In a previous message Lawrence Chim said:
 > > These are the files in modules_2.1.23-1.deb.  It seems that all
 > > binaries and manpages are missing.
 > 
 > modules_2.1.23-1 is a dummy package used when upgrading from modules to
 > the newer modutils. Unfortunately modutils has not been installed yet.
 > 
 > Wichert.

I ran into this and simply grabbed the latest modutils
(modutils-2.1.23.tar.gz (at that time) from nic.funet.fi
(in /pub/Linux/kernel/src/v2.1).

Re: samba

[Ed Donovan]

Hi Peter,

It's on master.debian.org and hasn't made it to ftp.debian.org yet.  I
got through and snagged a copy if you wouldn't mind it as a mail
attachment or some such...

-- 
Ed Donovan  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux 2.1.28

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hello all:

I have recently upgraded my debian system from 2.1.2 to 2.1.28 
because of the SMP support and found the following problems.

1.  Masquerading doesn't work in 2.1.28

2.  The pppd reports a netmask error once LCP negotiation is
complete even if a netmask is provided in either of the options 
files.

3.  The /etc/init.d/network file is not compatible between 
2.1.2 and 2.1.28. A netmask must be provided for network
interface and route definitions or the system will hang on boot.

4.  ext_fs and xia_fs header and support files were missing  from
/usr/src/linux/include/linux therefore applications requiring those 
header files would not compile. ( I copied them from my 2.1.2 )


Regards



Peter Iannarelli

block diagrams

[Richard Sevenich]

I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that will let me efficiently create
such diagrams in gif or jpeg format? I am currently using tgif, but am
wondering if something better is out there.
Thanks,
Richard

Re: acct package, a bug?

[Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:

> You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
> device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
> you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.

The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5
characters; the 2.x kernels can handle at least 6.

Some people use ttyC0 - ttyCf (or ttyCv, for 32 port) on the first board,
ttyD0 for second board, etc.


I don't speak for Cyclades anymore, ever since they decided they 
didn't want to pay for qualified support people.  Now I have a 
less stressful job with a much better paycheck.  Thanks, guys...

Re: acct package, a bug?

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote:
> 
> >> /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:69: problem: missing login record for `ttyC12'
> >> /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:364: problem: missing login record for `ttyC10'
> >> 
> >> All I can think of is that somehow the way that we rotate the wtmp file is
> >> corrupting it somehow, yet it works perfectly with the old ac we were using
> >> and with debian last!
> >
> >You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
> >device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
> >you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.
> 
> Yes we are using Cyclades cards.  This rings a vague bell from linuxisp
> about a year ago but why would this affect the new ac and not the old?  And
> why would it cause an error like days missing?

Actually, I have no idea why it misses some days. Maybe it chokes
on the bad tty and scraps the whole day instead of reporting a bogus
value? Hmm.. skipping the days are just as bad...

Tim

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Re: acct package, a bug?

[Adam Shand]

>> You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
>> device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
>> you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.
>
>The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5
>characters; the 2.x kernels can handle at least 6.
>
>Some people use ttyC0 - ttyCf (or ttyCv, for 32 port) on the first board,
>ttyD0 for second board, etc.

We're using 2.0.28 kernel.  Can the device numbers of our Cyclades serial
ports be ruled out then?

Thanks,

Adam.

Re: need help; Netscape 3.01; bus error

[David M. Cooke]

Eugene H. Sevinian wrote:
> 
> This version  of Netscape which I have installed recently works very
> bad. I am getting this error very often.
> 
> Will be thankfull for any advice.

One of my users complained that Netscape would "bus error"
whenever he tried to use it to send email.  I found this
very odd since it _only_ happened to him.  I spent about
an hour figuring out what was wrong.

Netscape stores a user's address book in ~/.netscape/address-book.html.
Note that the format looks like HTML.  This user had recently added
a user to his address book and had pasted information from an email
message into the description field.  The information contained ">"
characters.  Netscape saved the address book file with the new info
included very litterally.  This made the file look like an HTML file
with bad syntax and Netscape core dumped every time it tried to read
the address book with that entry.  This is a bug netscape.

If this sounds like the same bug you're encountering, try renaming
your ~/.netscape/address-book.html file so Netscape won't find it.
Then either re-enter all of your address book data being careful
of what you put in the description fields or copy the file back
to ~/.netscape/address-book.html and use an editor to fix the
description fields until Necscape no longer chokes on it.

If this doesn't sound like the bug you're stumbling over, at
least I've warned a few people about this nasty one.

testing tonight

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Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

[Thought]

Maybe either the scripts are so old that they were never updated when
newer shells besides bash came out, or maybe they assumed that all newer
shells would be bash-compatible, or maybe the people who wrote them are
just stupid :)  Not everyone's a genius you know :)

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote:

> > I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in
> > /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to
> > /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up.
> 
> If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line
> #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and
> /bin/bash are equivalent?
> 
> 
> 

Re: was: I screwed my net access

[Richard Morin]

To follow up my own problem, isn't it funny how sending the message
triggers your mind

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:

> The strangest thing in all of this, is that I can, now at least, connect 
> with minicom and start pppd manually, which is fine, but I can't get my 
> mail with fetchmail.  It seems that the remote system is querying my 
> machine for some reason, and my smtp port is not listening.  ftp works, 
> nntp works, telnet (which I'm using now to write this from pine on my 
> providers machine)
> 

I had munged up /etc/init.d/networks 
and I had played with /etc/hosts.deny

after reseting these to original settings, I think, all is getting better.

> Take pity on me, I've spent way too much time reading to be 
> objective about this anymore

I take that back, don't pity me, feel free to throw your rotten veggies at
me for cluttering up the list...with my self inflicted probs...

Rich M
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woah, check this out:

[Thought]

Woah, check this out:  I just installed Debian a couple days ago, and
'thought' is my first user with UID 1000 and GID 1000.  Look at what I
found when I was poking around:

[21:35:35]/etc# find / -gid 1000
/usr/doc/procmail/HISTORY.gz
/usr/doc/procmail/README.gz
/usr/doc/procmail/FAQ.gz
/usr/doc/procmail/FEATURES.gz
/usr/man/man8/pppstats.8.gz
/usr/man/man8/chat.8.gz
/usr/man/man8/pppd.8.gz
/usr/man/man1/pon.1.gz
/var/catman/cat1/newgrp.1.gz
/proc/244
/proc/285
/home/thought
/home/thought/.lynxrc
/home/thought/.zhistory
[21:35:58]/etc#

All of those files have GID 1000 ???  Look:

[21:37:40]/etc# l /usr/doc/procmail
total 19
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Mar  6 21:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 102 root root 2048 Mar 10 01:02 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 thought  thought  4199 Apr 10  1995 FAQ.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 thought  thought  1887 Sep 27  1994 FEATURES.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 thought  thought  5982 Oct 31  1994 HISTORY.gz
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 Mar  6 21:05 README.DEBIAN ->
../copyright/procmail
-rw-r--r--   1 thought  thought  2817 Dec 22  1994 README.gz
[21:37:44]/etc#

Why in the WORLD would stuff in /usr/doc/procmail have uid/gid 1000??  The
first file I noticed with gid 1000 was /etc/cron.daily/ppp

Just interesting is all.  I'm going to chown all of them right now! :)

Re: Woah, check this out:

[Joey Hess]

Thought:
> Woah, check this out:  I just installed Debian a couple days ago, and
> 'thought' is my first user with UID 1000 and GID 1000.  Look at what I
> found when I was poking around:

These are all bugs, but all of them seem to have been fixed by the latest
version of the packages (from unstable.)

> /usr/doc/procmail/HISTORY.gz
> /usr/doc/procmail/README.gz
> /usr/doc/procmail/FAQ.gz
> /usr/doc/procmail/FEATURES.gz

All fixed on my system, which is using procmail 3.10-7.

> /usr/man/man8/pppstats.8.gz
> /usr/man/man8/chat.8.gz
> /usr/man/man8/pppd.8.gz
> /usr/man/man1/pon.1.gz

All fixed after ppp version 2.2.0f-20, I think.

> /var/catman/cat1/newgrp.1.gz

This is no suprise, when a user looks up a man page, the catman page ends up 
owned by their group.

> /proc/244
> /proc/285
> /home/thought
> /home/thought/.lynxrc
> /home/thought/.zhistory

These are all not a problem.

> The first file I noticed with gid 1000 was /etc/cron.daily/ppp

/etc/cron.daily/ppp also appears to be fixed by ppp 2.2.0f-20 and above.

If you find any more of these, you should report them as bug reports against
the offending packages.

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LPD network printing

[Tim O'Brien]

Howdy, glad to be back after being away for a while.. Hope I haven't missed
much :)

A quick question regarding LPD and remote printing: I have two Debian boxen,
both running kernel 2.0.6. One has a printer on it that functions locally, 
but not over the network. Locally, lpr produces a text output quite nicely.
But over the network, nothing appears to happen.

Using lpc and issuing stat, I find that the pritjob has queued locally, and
says it's waiting for the other machine to start a queue. Running lpq tells
me 'lpd: lp: Your host does not have line printer access"

I know the local net is working, all other TCP functions work. I think the 
printcap is set up ok, since I can print locally and there's no restrictions
in it.  I have an entry in /etc/hosts.lpd for the machine that wants access
to the printer. 

Thanks in advance for any assistance that's available, I really do appreciate 
it! 

Tim O'Brien
 

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apology

[Pure Energy]

Dear Fellow Debianers,
My apology is directed to my 2 previous postings. It was a mistake
that they were sent to this list. This will not happen again.

-Rob

Re: Login Incorrect with xdm...

[Philippe Troin]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:49:16 +0100 Mathieu LEGRAND 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Just to thank you all and to tell you were right :
> my keyboard was not well configured. My AltGr key on
> my french keyboard doesn't work. Therefore, this is a
> bug of the Debian distribution ;-). Does someone know
> how to fix this bug ?

>From one of your previous emails, it seems like your keyboard worked with 
>startx, but the xdm login didn't have the correct keyboard mappings ?
Then you should have a /etc/X11/Xmodmap for French keyboards, but it isn't 
activated by xdm (only when you login, via /etc/X11/Xsession).
Edit the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0, and add the following line:
xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap

Phil.

ps/2 mouse woes

[Michael Stoia]

HELP!!!

I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
Slackware out and go with Debian.  I decided to recompile the kernel
myself with support
for PS/2 mice.  In addition to that I deleted the psaux module that
Debian installed.  I didn't think both would be needed.  Well  now
my mouse does not work with gpm or X-Free86.  How can I get the psaux
module again without re-installing all of Debian's modules.  I would
really appreciate any advice.  It is miserable having an OS without a
mouse.

Mike

++
Michael Stoia
ERC Computing Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
++

Re: ps/2 mouse woes

[Thought]

I have a PS/2 mouse (Go ASUS! :) too.  Why don't you just install psaux
and "Support for mouse (Not serial mice)" fully instead of installing as
modules?  But if you really want to, you should just be able to make
config and put psaux back in as a module and then make dep;make clean;make
zimage;make modules;make modules_install etc...

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Michael Stoia wrote:

> HELP!!!
> 
> I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
> Slackware out and go with Debian.  I decided to recompile the kernel
> myself with support
> for PS/2 mice.  In addition to that I deleted the psaux module that
> Debian installed.  I didn't think both would be needed.  Well  now
> my mouse does not work with gpm or X-Free86.  How can I get the psaux
> module again without re-installing all of Debian's modules.  I would
> really appreciate any advice.  It is miserable having an OS without a
> mouse.
> 
> Mike
> 
> ++
> Michael Stoia
> ERC Computing Center
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ++
> 
> 

MATLAB

[Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH]

Hi,

I've got a PC with a P166+ cyrix processor and Debian 1.2 
installed on it. Since I've got a matrox mystique video card, I have 
also AcceleratedX.

I tried to have Matlab 5.0 installed on it but when I run 
matlab, I get the error:


/usr/local/matlab/bin.lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol 
'--register-exceptions'

Is it a problem with Linux or matlab installation ?


Thanks
Franxk

RE: ps/2 mouse woes

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hi Michael:

Simple do a MAKEDEV busmice and it will create all the
bus mice device files with the applicable majors and minors
in /dev.

Michael Stoia wrote

HELP!!!

I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
Slackware out and go with Debian.  I decided to recompile the kernel
myself with support
for PS/2 mice.  In addition to that I deleted the psaux module that
Debian installed.  I didn't think both would be needed.  Well  now
my mouse does not work with gpm or X-Free86.  How can I get the psaux
module again without re-installing all of Debian's modules.  I would
really appreciate any advice.  It is miserable having an OS without a
mouse.

Mike

++
Michael Stoia
ERC Computing Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
++

Why does debstd strip non-debug libraries?

[hogendoorn r.a.]

While playing with flex 2.5.4, I discovered that libfl.a was stripped.
Consequently, linking fails because the symbol yywrap is not defined in
the library.

I got the source of flex and rebuild my own copy of the debian package.
It turned out that debstd strips all libraries, except the ones ending
on _g.a. Why?

Regards,

Rene' Hogendoorn

Login Logs

[St. Johns Computer Center]

How do you view the log of the past logins?



St. Johns Computer Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

nis problem...

[Magic]

Hi!

I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1 One of tem is a nis
server, a the rest - clients. Now i would like to have one PC with Debian on
my desk :) and... i've a problem...

I instaled:
nis-2.10-1

other:
libc5   5.4.23-2
libgdbm11.7.3-19
netbase 2.10-1

In /etc/deafultdomain i have my nis domain...
In /etc/yp.conf adreess of my nis server
and in /etc/passwd i've add +::

/etc/init.d/nis stop ; /etc/init.d/nist start

and... what can i do now? It's my first touch nis and i havn't idea.
can u help me? thank's...

what about /var/yp/binding ?

  Magic
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email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic phone(office): 47.27.88
  Dzialac mozna dopoty, dopoki sie ma marzenia.

RE: Login Logs

[Peter Iannarelli]

Use the last command. For example

last  -100 will give you the last 100 logins.

--
St. Johns Computer Center wrote

How do you view the log of the past logins?



St. Johns Computer Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does debstd strip non-debug libraries?

[Santiago Vila Doncel]

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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, hogendoorn r.a. wrote:

> While playing with flex 2.5.4, I discovered that libfl.a was stripped.
> Consequently, linking fails because the symbol yywrap is not defined in
> the library.

You are right.
I have uploaded flex-2.5.4-2 two hours ago :-)

It should be in all the Debian mirrors in a few days. In the meantime, you
can get that package from this site:

ftp://ftp.unex.es/pub/linux/debian/flex/flex_2.5.4-2_i386.deb

> I got the source of flex and rebuild my own copy of the debian package.
> It turned out that debstd strips all libraries, except the ones ending
> on _g.a. Why?

Policy says to strip all libraries. However it does not specify exactly
how this should be done. You may report that as a bug against debmake, if
it is not already reported.

strip -g on static libraries seems to work, so I have included a modified
debstd inside the new Debian flex source package (I didin't want to
rebuild without debstd just because it is not perfect :-).

Libraries ending in _g.a are usually debug libraries, so you don't want to
strip symbols in those libraries (or they would stop being debugging
libraries!).

Regards,

Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, current Debian flex maintainer.

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Re: nis problem...

[Santiago Vila Doncel]

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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Magic wrote:

> I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1 One of tem is a nis
> server, a the rest - clients. Now i would like to have one PC with Debian on
> my desk :) and... i've a problem...
> 
> I instaled:
> nis-2.10-1
> 
> other:
> libc5   5.4.23-2

As far as I know, libc5 5.4.23 is known to break NIS.
Until this is solved, please downgrade to 5.4.20 if possible.

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Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

smail problem

[stephen]

I have just noticed that I have got a message in the Q
that has been waiting to be delivered for 2 months 
(Trying every 20 mins).The reason for failure is that the
host is responding connection refused. 

Does anyone know why this is still in the Q, and hasn't been
bounced back to the sender? How can I make it do this?
I've tried setting 'retry_duration 5', but this doesn't seem to
do anything.

Any suggestions gratefully recieved

Stephen.

Problem with postitplus

[Andrea Arcangeli]

I am using postit since last few minutes when I recived the message
==
$ xpostit
Warning: MenuButton: Could not find menu widget named [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Warning: MenuButton: Could not find menu widget named [EMAIL PROTECTED]

every time I press a mouse button over the popup menu. Then xpostit is
locked and I must kill it.

Why?

Thanks in advance.
--
Andrea Arcangeli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/

strange who/wtmp

[Remco van de Meent]

Hey



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w
  2:10pm  up 1 day, 22:32h,  1 user,  load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01
USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$


Strange, isn't it?
When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged in. But they don't show up with
w/who.

Anyone hints how this little problem could be solved?



// Remco van de Meent   
//   email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
//   www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl
//   " Never make any mistaeks. "

Background for fvwm2

[Karlheinz Nolte]

Hi Debians,

I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for me so far.

Yesterday I tried to apply a background picture (a GIF File) for the
fvwm window manager. As you can read in the file
/usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc you have only to put a file
background.gif either in the directory /etc/X11/fvwm2 or in ~/.fvwm2

But this dosn't work. Of course I restarted fvwm2. Nothing happend.

Have I do additional things?

Hoping for help,
Karlheinz
-- 
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D-70430 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel.:  +49-711-821-41834
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mouse and mounting problems

[Karlheinz Nolte]

Daniel Karlsson wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Now I've almost got the mouse to work in X. It's only the middle button that
> doesn't want to work. How do I make it work?
> 
> I've also tried to mount my floppy drive. I wrote the following at the
> command line:
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> and I got the message:
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> How do I cure this one?
> 

Hi,

to access a MSDOS floppy, I prefer the mtools. This allows you to use
nearly the same commands (mdir, mcopy, mcd, ...) like under DOS and
without mounting the floppy. Check for the mtools package ...

CU.
-- 
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D-70430 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel.:  +49-711-821-41834
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsh don' t work?!?

[Karlheinz Nolte]

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> I want to use rsh, but I found:
> 
> $ rsh localhost ls
> Permission denied.
> 
> What I must change (for example in hosts.allow) to run it?
> 

Hi Andrea,

you have to create the file .rhosts in the users home directory on the
remote host (with permission rw-). This file contains the hostname
and the users name of the local host.

For more information RTFM rsh(1) and rhosts(5).

Hope this helps.
-- 
Karlheinz Nolte, VS/ETB5, ALCATEL SEL AG 
D-70430 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel.:  +49-711-821-41834
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nis problem...

[Pierre Blanchet]

> "Magic" == Magic  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Magic> Hi!  I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1
Magic> One of tem is a nis server, a the rest - clients. Now i
Magic> would like to have one PC with Debian on my desk :)
Magic> and... i've a problem...

Magic> I instaled: nis-2.10-1

Magic> other: libc5 5.4.23-2 libgdbm1 1.7.3-19 netbase 2.10-1

Magic> In /etc/deafultdomain i have my nis domain...  In
Magic> /etc/yp.conf adreess of my nis server and in /etc/passwd
Magic> i've add +::

Magic> /etc/init.d/nis stop ; /etc/init.d/nist start

Magic> and... what can i do now? It's my first touch nis and i
Magic> havn't idea.  can u help me? thank's...

Magic> what about /var/yp/binding ?

Magic>   Magic ---
Magic> Artur Zaworski, Computer Center, Technical University of
Magic> Gdansk, Poland.  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Magic> http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic phone(office): 47.27.88 Dzialac
Magic> mozna dopoty, dopoki sie ma marzenia.


Ok, downgrade to the libc in stable(5.4.20-?). I got the same problems,
(but my machine _is_ a NIS server so ypserv works but not
ypbind). Unstable is unstable ... :)

Pierre Blanchet.

gnuplot-beta327__(3.6)__

[C . J . Lawson]

Hi,
  I have been trying to compile gnuplot to work without X. I have managed to
get is working but, only if I log on as root. Apparently in the
"./term/linux.trm" file there is a piece of code that disables linux vga
(?svga) mode if 'uid' does not indicate root. When I commented this out it
compiled but wouldn't run. It gives some I/O error when trying to initialise
my video card. I noticed the same thing when I ran SVGATextMode, it only
allowed me to run it as root.
  Please could some-one tell me how to disable this feature?
Thanks
Jon.

Re: testing tonight

[Jason Costomiris]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Pure Energy wrote:

> [annoying ASCII art .sig Bobbitted]

Say adren,

Are you a regular on alt.fan.warlord or something?  Lose the nasty art.  A
full page .sig is a bit excessive, don't you think?

Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | "There is a fine line between idiocy
My employers like me, but not| and genius.  We aim to erase that line"
enough to let me speak for them. |  --Unknown

http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom

Re: strange who/wtmp

[Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler]

Remco van de Meent wrote:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w
>   2:10pm  up 1 day, 22:32h,  1 user,  load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01
> USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$
> 
> 
> Strange, isn't it?
> When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged in. But they don't show up with
> w/who.

Same here.

> Anyone hints how this little problem could be solved?

No. But could this be related to the wtmp corruption that was discussed
recently? I think it turned out to be a problem with SysVInit 2.70???

  Ulf

-- 

 #include 

Screen Saver

[Matthew Tebbens]

I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian still
blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using the system.
Where is this option in Debian ?  I want to disable it during the day.

Matthew

Re: LPD network printing

[Graeme Stewart]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:

> 
> but not over the network. Locally, lpr produces a text output quite nicely.
> But over the network, nothing appears to happen.
> 
> Using lpc and issuing stat, I find that the pritjob has queued locally, and
> says it's waiting for the other machine to start a queue. Running lpq tells
> me 'lpd: lp: Your host does not have line printer access"
> 

This is a problem with the `lpr' package. My solution (the solution?)
was upgrade to lprng (in the unstable tree, but I've had no
problems). Some people have reported that it messes up Samba
configurations, but that seemed to be surmountable too (and if you
have no windoze hosts, it won't be a problem).

In my experience `lprng' produces much nicer lpq output than plain
vanilla lpr, and we're using sucessfully it here with 6 networked
machines, all running Debian, of course.

Mail me if you have any problems.

Graeme
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Re: Login Logs

[Graeme Stewart]

"St. Johns Computer Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> How do you view the log of the past logins?
> 
> 
> 
> St. Johns Computer Center
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
`last' should do the trick. `last ' for a specific user.

Graeme

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fvwmrc --> fvwmrc2

[Paul Rightley]

I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
.fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file.  Where can I find such a utility?  I have
Debian 1.2 going well, and I want to transition to fvwm2, but don't have the
time to recreate the whole rc file.

Thank you for any help,
Paul Rightley

Re: fvwmrc --> fvwmrc2

[Rick Macdonald]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:

> I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
> .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file.  Where can I find such a utility?  I have
> Debian 1.2 going well, and I want to transition to fvwm2, but don't have the
> time to recreate the whole rc file.

It comes with fvwm2:

timshel:/dose/linux/home/rickm/Tcl$ locate conver | grep fvwm
/dose/linux/home/rickm/.fvwm2rc.conversion
/root/.fvwm2rc.conversion
/usr/doc/fvwm2/utils/convert_users
/usr/doc/fvwm2/utils/fvwmrc_convert

...RickM...

lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On 13 Mar 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote:

> This is a problem with the `lpr' package. My solution (the solution?)
> was upgrade to lprng (in the unstable tree, but I've had no
> problems). Some people have reported that it messes up Samba
> configurations, but that seemed to be surmountable too (and if you
> have no windoze hosts, it won't be a problem).

While on this subject, maybe somebody could help me here.

This is the setup I have:

o Debian box (lastest 1.3), no printers attached
o Windows 3.11 Box, Postscript printer attached, workgroup+sharing
  working.
o Both machines are on the same network.

There's another Debian box here where I use lprng, and it works very
nicely, so I'd like to use lprng on the other Debian box. I use
samba to send jobs to the Postscript printer, but there are a couple of
situations where a filter would come handy (there are a coupe of users
here that don't get the idea of what a .ps file is and insist on printing
.dvi's), so I'd like to use magicfilter.

The problem is that I cann't get these three things working together. What
I did what set magicfilter as an input filter (if=whatever), and a shell
script that calls samba_print  as an output filter (of=whatever),
but this doesn't work. In the printcap, lp is set to /dev/null, but
there's nothing unusual.

Any ideas on this?

TIA,

Marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: block diagrams

[Graeme Stewart]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Sevenich) writes:

> 
> I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
> diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that will let me efficiently create
> such diagrams in gif or jpeg format? I am currently using tgif, but am
> wondering if something better is out there.
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> 

Try `xfig'. It's a nice drawing package, which I think would do block
diagrams without any trouble. And the figures can be exported as
JPEGs, X11 bitmaps, etc.

Graeme

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HPLaserJet serie II: anomaly on first printed line in text mode

[Jean-Paul Lacharme]

Hi,
I configured a HPLaserJet Serie II printer in text mode. My /etc/printcap
entry is :
# /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
# the printcap(5) manual page for further details.

lp|LaserJetSerieII entry:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

Text files are printed with the script: cat $1 | unix2dos | lpr -Plp

It works, but the first text line generates an anomaly: a fist page is
ejected with some erratic characters on its head, then the text is
correctely printed from line 2 to end on next sheets.
Have HP printers particular features ?  
Which parameters do I need to set into the printcap file ? reading the
printcap man pages gave me no solution. 
Did anybody solve this soon ?
Thanks for any help.

JP L

 
Jean-Paul LACHARME. GREQAM UMR 9990 au CNRS, Centre de la Vieille Charite, 
2,rue de la Charite,F13002 MARSEILLE FRANCE. Tel:0491140731/Fax:0491900227.

Re: HPLaserJet serie II: anomaly on first printed line in text mode

[Graeme Stewart]

Jean-Paul Lacharme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> I configured a HPLaserJet Serie II printer in text mode. My /etc/printcap
> entry is :

I have an HPLJ II which was configured using magicfilter and works
just fine. The good thing about magicfilter (and apsfilter) is that
the set up filters for lots of different files. However, if you just
want to print text, here's what's in /etc/printcap...

lp|lj|hplj2|HP Laserjet 2P:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/ljet2p-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

And the text portion of magicfilter is...

# Default entry -- for normal (text) files.  MUST BE LAST.
default cat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N  \eE 

I strongly suggest installing magicfilter, though.

Hope that helps,

Graeme

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Re: X crashes when switching from VC

[Raymond A. Ingles]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:

> I have noticed almost the same behaviour. When I change from a VC back to X 
> and right after that use the accelerator keys (Alt-Left, Alt-Right) to change 
> between virtual desktops I usually get thrown back to a VC.
[...] 
> I use Matrox Mill. 4MB with 24bit 1280x1024 and SVGA server version 3.2A. The 
> exactly same things happened with the 3.2 server too.
> 
> Brian K Servis wrote:
> 
> > Occasionally when I switch from a VC back to X(alt-f7) and try and use
> > the mouse immediately X crashes and exits.

 I am using a Diamond Stealth 64 Trio64 w/2MB DRAM, just like Brian. 
(Though I only run in 1024x768, 16bpp.) Anyway, the odd startup symptom 
*I* note is that sometimes, when start up X and immediately launch an 
rxvt, xearth (a neat background program) doesn't succeed in starting up. 
The error messages (which I don't have handy) say something about a 
'BadWindow'. If I don't launch an rxvt immediately, there are no problems.

 I can't see anything in common among these symptoms, but they are weird.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles(810)377-7735  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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 3) Perform experiments. 4) Revise data to fit hypothesis. 5) Publish.

Re: Background for fvwm2

[Karlheinz Nolte]

Dennis Lundstr%F6m wrote:
> 
> >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:08:44 +0100
> >From: Karlheinz Nolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Debian User List 
> >Subject: Background for fvwm2
> 
> >Hi Debians,
> >
> >I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for me so far.
> >
> >Yesterday I tried to apply a background picture (a GIF File) for the
> >fvwm window manager. As you can read in the file
> >/usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc you have only to put a file
> >background.gif either in the directory /etc/X11/fvwm2 or in ~/.fvwm2
> >
> >But this dosn't work. Of course I restarted fvwm2. Nothing happend.
> >
> >Have I do additional things?
> >
> >Hoping for help,
> >Karlheinz
> >--
> >
> hmm,i never tried fvwm2 , but i think you ought to check your system.fvwm2rc.
> Im not to sure that fvwm can handle GIF´s, but you can allways
> download xloadimage from sunsite.unc.edu, end use a JPG file.
> 
> Have fun !! 8)
> 
> --Dennis

Hi again,

according to the file /usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc it is possible
to have a GIF file as background. Here is a part of the README:

---
  background.xpm
  background.jpg
  background.gif
  background.color
  background.list
These files define the screen background (root window).
They are searched for in order, and only the first
one is used.  (Also, for this case only, the user
hook is searched for before the system administrator,
because otherwise a user could not override the background).

background.xpm, background.jpg and background.gif
should be the graphic files themselves (or a symbolic
link to them).

The background.color file should contain one line that
gives the name of a color.  The background will then
be set to that color.
---

So I think to try an JPG file would not be the solution.
Because no error message is displayed, I assume the problem is to find
the "picture" file.

Still hoping for help ...
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Re: block diagrams

[digger vermont]

I have found Xfig to be pretty useful for diagrams.  The gif export doesn't 
seem to work that good for me, so I output to postscript and use XV to convert 
to gif or jpeg


> I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
> diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that will let me efficiently create
> such diagrams in gif or jpeg format? I am currently using tgif, but am
> wondering if something better is out there.
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 

-- 
digger

Re: nis problem...

[Karl Ferguson]

You did follow the documentation _exactly_ in /usr/doc/nis didn't you?  I
did and it worked perfectly.  However, I believe the latest libc from
unstable breaks NIS - hopefully it'll be fixed soon.  In the mean time you
can degrade to 5.4.20 and it should work.

At 12:10 PM 3/13/97 +0100, Magic wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1 One of tem is a nis
>server, a the rest - clients. Now i would like to have one PC with Debian on
>my desk :) and... i've a problem...
>
>I instaled:
>nis-2.10-1
>
>other:
>libc5   5.4.23-2
>libgdbm11.7.3-19
>netbase 2.10-1
>
>In /etc/deafultdomain i have my nis domain...
>In /etc/yp.conf adreess of my nis server
>and in /etc/passwd i've add +::
>
>/etc/init.d/nis stop ; /etc/init.d/nist start
>
>and... what can i do now? It's my first touch nis and i havn't idea.
>can u help me? thank's...
>
>what about /var/yp/binding ?
>
>  Magic
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>
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Re: block diagrams

[Alexander Lobkovsky]

Have you tried daVinci? (it is on the sunsite somewhere)
Allegedly, it was created specifically to make block diagrams.

   I have found Xfig to be pretty useful for diagrams.  The gif export doesn't 
   seem to work that good for me, so I output to postscript and use XV to 
convert 
   to gif or jpeg


   > I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
   > diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that will let me efficiently create
   > such diagrams in gif or jpeg format? I am currently using tgif, but am
   > wondering if something better is out there.
   > Thanks,
   > Richard
   > 

   -- 
   digger

Dial-In /Promise controller

[Mike Patterson]

First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I 
now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95
machines, and the install for it took <100 megs, easy!

Now on to the questions

* I have a promise VL4030-1 controller (currently it has the original BIOS,
  but I'm thinking of grabbing the latest) and I would like to put a third
  or fourth drive on it. Does Linux have any problems recognizing these 
  drives, or is there a patch out there for this? Or can I only use two
  of the Promise's drives?

* Now that I have this nifty Linux box that I'm using as a central hub for
  my network, I was wondering if it would be possible to give it dial-in
  PPP capability. Optimally, I would like the person to be able to dial in
  with a Win95 box and hook into my own systems using IPX. possible? Maybe
  someone could point me to some documentation on this one. 

Thanks for the help!

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Compiling gs 3.33 for HP660C printer

[Chris Brown]

I was looking at the man pages HOWTOs etc. for GostScript with 
the intent of using it with my HP 660C printer.  It looks like the 
standard distribution esecutable won't work for me so I got the 
source and was going to compile it.  It looks like the best option 
for monocrome wonld be to set it up with the laserjet driver however 
I'm not really sure if there is a good option for color.  There are 
probably other drivers that I would find usefull that I'm not 
familiar with or not thinking of now.  Any suggestions would be 
greatly appriciated.

Re: XFree 3.2A package?

[Stefan Hueneburg]

Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This has been hashed through a few times.  There is not, has never
> been, and probably will never be an official Debian package based on
> the XFree Beta releases, since they do not provide source for the
> betas.

Understandable.

But i think, it would be more useful for the Debian user, if exist
a Debian XFree86-3.2A Package in the 'non-free'-tree.

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Re: Dial-In /Promise controller

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Mike Patterson, you wrote:
> 
> 
> First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I 
> now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95
> machines, and the install for it took <100 megs, easy!
> 
> Now on to the questions
> 
> * I have a promise VL4030-1 controller (currently it has the original BIOS,
>   but I'm thinking of grabbing the latest) and I would like to put a third
>   or fourth drive on it. Does Linux have any problems recognizing these 
>   drives, or is there a patch out there for this? Or can I only use two
>   of the Promise's drives?

It should see them by default.

> * Now that I have this nifty Linux box that I'm using as a central hub for
>   my network, I was wondering if it would be possible to give it dial-in
>   PPP capability. Optimally, I would like the person to be able to dial in
>   with a Win95 box and hook into my own systems using IPX. possible? Maybe
>   someone could point me to some documentation on this one. 

While I'm not sure if the Debian pppd has ipx support compiled in,
take a look at my mgetty page (of course, ignore the building part since
the Debian version is built correctly) at http://www.buoy.com/isp. That
should get you started.

Tim

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Re: ps/2 mouse woes

[Dale Scheetz]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Michael Stoia wrote:

> HELP!!!
> 
> I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
> Slackware out and go with Debian.  I decided to recompile the kernel
> myself with support
> for PS/2 mice.  In addition to that I deleted the psaux module that
> Debian installed.  I didn't think both would be needed.  Well  now
> my mouse does not work with gpm or X-Free86.  How can I get the psaux
> module again without re-installing all of Debian's modules.  I would
> really appreciate any advice.  It is miserable having an OS without a
> mouse.
> 
/dev/psaux is found in the base package, or can be built with MAKEDEV.
The kernel module psaux.o is provided by the kernel-image package.

Luck,

Dwarf

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Re: Compiling gs 3.33 for HP660C printer

[Brian K Servis]

Chris Brown writes:
>
>
>I was looking at the man pages HOWTOs etc. for GostScript with 
>the intent of using it with my HP 660C printer.  It looks like the 
>standard distribution esecutable won't work for me so I got the 
>source and was going to compile it.  It looks like the best option 
>for monocrome wonld be to set it up with the laserjet driver however 
>I'm not really sure if there is a good option for color.  There are 
>probably other drivers that I would find usefull that I'm not 
>familiar with or not thinking of now.  Any suggestions would be 
>greatly appriciated.
>
>

I suggest using the Alladin Ghostscript in non-free.  It has some new
drivers for the Deskjet family of printers.  The deb package has them
included.  The available drivers are cdjmono, cdeskjet, cdjcolor,
cdj500, cdj550, deskjet, djet500, djet500c.  I uset the cdj550 for
mono and color printing by changing the -dBitsPerPixel option of
ghostview. 

You might want to look into using apsfilter or magicfilter to setup
different printer names for color, b/w, etc.



Brian 

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Problem with postitplus (fwd)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

Excuse me, I was wrong the Xresource file:

*MenuButton*translations:  Any:  PopupMenu()

instead of

*MenuButton.translations:  Any:  PopupMenu()

Excuse me again.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:09:30 +0100 (MET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Karl Sackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Problem with postitplus

I am using postit since last few minutes when I recived the message
==
$ xpostit
Warning: MenuButton: Could not find menu widget named [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Warning: MenuButton: Could not find menu widget named [EMAIL PROTECTED]

every time I press a mouse button over the popup menu. Then xpostit is
locked and I must kill it.

Why?

Thanks in advance.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: strange who/wtmp

[Andy Mortimer]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w
>   2:10pm  up 1 day, 22:32h,  1 user,  load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01
> USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$
> 
> 
> Strange, isn't it?
> When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged in. But they don't show up with
> w/who.
> 
> Anyone hints how this little problem could be solved?

I'm afraid I don't know of a solution, but I have this problem whenever I
upgrade base-passwd (or base-files? I don't remember now), because it
overwrites the utmp file. At least, this appears to be the case. The only
way I could find to get around it was to log out and back in again. I
suppose I ought to do some more research on this, actually ...

HTH,

&E

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GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

[val.tamarov]

Hi there!
Thanks for reading this!
Need help !!!
I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
install it on my computer.
I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
rebooting I got new boot option : "Linux" (cool), but when I tried to boot
to Linex System Commander gave me an error message:
"The selected operating system appears to have a defective boot record. The
normal boot signature is missing". There was an option to "Boot as-is",
when I clicked on it my PC just stopped doing any thing. Then I rebooted
from bootable floppy which I created during Linux installation, and
everything went fine. Linux booted from floppy and I was prompted to create
an boot password, then create regular account, user name and password for
it, and dselect. So I assumed that booting from floppy is doing fine and I
installed Linux properly.  Then I rebooted again from Rescue disk and went
right to option "Make Linux bootable from hard disk" and got message "LILO
wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your system if you
create a boot floppy but it won't be able to boot without a floppy. The
most common reason for LILO to fail is an over-large root ("/") partition.
LILO is unable read any block of the kernel from a disk cillinder numbered
higher than 1023. This is often a problem with disk larger than a Gigabyte
or so. One way to solve the problem is to make a separate "/" and "/usr"
disk partition, so that the entire "/" partition will be below the 1023
cillinder".  I checked my hard disks and 2.12GB has 1023 cillinders and
452KB has 1018 cillinders. But I decided to repartitioned my disk anyway.
So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap and reinstalled the Linux
from very beginning, but the same problem occur. I still be able to boot it
from boot floppy but not from the HD.
Please, help me to resolve this problem.
I am very new to Linux system and any help will be greatly appreciated (
even how to change directories, go to floppy, view files, set up hardware
and software and so on).
Thank you very much for your time, and sorry for any grammar mistakes in
this letter (I'm Russian and still Learn English).
Valeri
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:

> [clip]
> currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
> win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
> installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
> rebooting I got new boot option : "Linux" (cool), but when I tried to boot
> to Linex System Commander gave me an error message:
> "The selected operating system appears to have a defective boot record. The
> normal boot signature is missing". There was an option to "Boot as-is",
> [clip]

System Commander and LILO perform similar functions.  Your problem
may be that Linux is having trouble working with System Commander.
Here are two options:

  * Replace System Commander with LILO.
  * Call System Commander tech support (it is commercial software, right?)
and ask about how they support Linux.

--- Jean Pierre

Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

[Bruce Perens]

From: "val.tamarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
> 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap

Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
the first IDE controller (most systems don't have a second IDE controller,
so it probably is).

boot=/dev/hdb1
root=/dev/hdb1
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only

If drive D is on the second IDE controller, that should probably be hdc1,
not hdb1.

Edit your lilo.conf and then run LILO. Then try telling System Commander
to boot the first partition on drive D. If that doesn't work, try this:

dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/hdb bs=444 count=1

That will copy the boot block to your D drive, where it won't work but may
provide the required signature.

Thanks

Bruce
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Re: Background for fvwm2

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Karlheinz Nolte wrote:
> 
> Dennis Lundstr%F6m wrote:
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:08:44 +0100
> > >From: Karlheinz Nolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: Debian User List 
> > >Subject: Background for fvwm2
> >
> > >Hi Debians,
> > >
> > >I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for me so far.
> > >
> > >Yesterday I tried to apply a background picture (a GIF File) for the
> > >fvwm window manager. As you can read in the file
> > >/usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc you have only to put a file
> > >background.gif either in the directory /etc/X11/fvwm2 or in ~/.fvwm2
> > >
> > >But this dosn't work. Of course I restarted fvwm2. Nothing happend.
> > >
> > >Have I do additional things?
> > >
> > >Hoping for help,
> > >Karlheinz
> > >--
> > >
> > hmm,i never tried fvwm2 , but i think you ought to check your 
> > system.fvwm2rc.
> > Im not to sure that fvwm can handle GIF´s, but you can allways
> > download xloadimage from sunsite.unc.edu, end use a JPG file.
> >
> > Have fun !! 8)
> >
> > --Dennis
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> according to the file /usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc it is possible
> to have a GIF file as background. Here is a part of the README:
> 
> ---
>   background.xpm
>   background.jpg
>   background.gif
>   background.color
>   background.list
> These files define the screen background (root window).
> They are searched for in order, and only the first
> one is used.  (Also, for this case only, the user
> hook is searched for before the system administrator,
> because otherwise a user could not override the background).
> 
> background.xpm, background.jpg and background.gif
> should be the graphic files themselves (or a symbolic
> link to them).
> 
> The background.color file should contain one line that
> gives the name of a color.  The background will then
> be set to that color.
> ---
> 
> So I think to try an JPG file would not be the solution.
> Because no error message is displayed, I assume the problem is to find
> the "picture" file.
> 
> Still hoping for help ...

Why waste time trying to get fvwm to set up your background? Just use
xv. You can pass command line parameters to cause it to paint to the
root window and then exit. It has many features for tiling, stretching,
etc. Then just put the command in your fvwm init function.

--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't replace the Linux kernel on the "boot" disk (1 of 5)

[James W. Lynch]

I've been trying to replace the kernel on the original boot disk.  The one
I marked boot when instructed to rawrite boot, root, base 1, base 2,
and base 3.  I read over the instructions on the disk, copied my zImage
file that boots fine from ldlinux on the dos C: drive, ran the 
rdev commands that are included in rdev.sh on the floppy, changed the
name of the zImage file to linux and tried to boot.  It does boot
the kernel, but it dies after I insert the root disk with:
[MS-DOS FS Rel 12 FAT 12 .
me = 0xc9  ..
TRANSACTION BLOCK SIZE = 512

KERNEL panic VFS unable to mount root fs on 02:00.

I suspect that my kernel might not have something that it needs like
minix support?  I also see a modules.gz file and a system.map (?) file
on the floppy.  Should I pack up some modules too?  I'm running an October
version of 1.1.

I tried to mount the root floppy, but it wouldn't mount as anything I
have compiled in.  Should it mount?

Thanks,
Jim.


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Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Re: Background for fvwm2

[Klaus Hergerschiemer]

I havent had much X experience under Linux, but the Solaris system we run
at school I've always had to run xli -onroot and other options to make it
look pretty.
joe

Joseph Palicke
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Karlheinz Nolte wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:08:44 +0100
> From: Karlheinz Nolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian User List 
> Subject: Background for fvwm2
> Resent-Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:22:00 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@cs.purdue.edu
> 
> Hi Debians,
> 
> I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for me so far.
> 
> Yesterday I tried to apply a background picture (a GIF File) for the
> fvwm window manager. As you can read in the file
> /usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc you have only to put a file
> background.gif either in the directory /etc/X11/fvwm2 or in ~/.fvwm2
> 
> But this dosn't work. Of course I restarted fvwm2. Nothing happend.
> 
> Have I do additional things?
> 
> Hoping for help,
> Karlheinz
> -- 
> Karlheinz Nolte, VS/ETB5, ALCATEL SEL AG 
> D-70430 Stuttgart, Germany
> Tel.:  +49-711-821-41834
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> From: "val.tamarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
> > 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap
> 
> Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
> the first IDE controller (most systems don't have a second IDE controller,
> so it probably is).
> 

I hate to nit-pick but... All Intel Triton MBs have dual IDE
controllers (which accounts for a quite large proportion of the
Pentium boxes out there).

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Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

[Bruce Perens]

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Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> From: "val.tamarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
> > 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap
> 
> Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
> the first IDE controller (most systems don't have a second IDE controller,
> so it probably is).
> 
> I hate to nit-pick but... All Intel Triton MBs have dual IDE
> controllers (which accounts for a quite large proportion of the
> Pentium boxes out there).

Yes. I have one of those. I trust the user to know if they have one, but
I guess it's appropriate to say that if your system has _two_ jacks for
IDE cables on the motherboard, or shows other signs of handling more than
two IDE disks, you might have two controllers. The mapping would be:

Primary controller, master drive:   hda
Primary controller, slave drive:hdb
Secondary controller, master drive: hdc
Primary controller, slave drive:hdd

It's also appropriate to build your kernel with Triton support if you have
that chipset. It makes the disk transfers use DMA, which is often faster
and concurrent with CPU operation.

Is the SCSI mapping still by order-of-detection rather than fixed by drive
ID? That really bothers me.

Bruce
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Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

[Igor Grobman]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:

> Hi there!
> Thanks for reading this!
> Need help !!!
> I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
> install it on my computer.
> I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
> currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
> win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
> installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
> rebooting I got new boot option : "Linux" (cool), but when I tried to boot
> to Linex System Commander gave me an error message:
> "The selected operating system appears to have a defective boot record. The
> normal boot signature is missing". There was an option to "Boot as-is",
> when I clicked on it my PC just stopped doing any thing. Then I rebooted
> from bootable floppy which I created during Linux installation, and
> everything went fine. Linux booted from floppy and I was prompted to create
> an boot password, then create regular account, user name and password for
> it, and dselect. So I assumed that booting from floppy is doing fine and I
> installed Linux properly.  Then I rebooted again from Rescue disk and went
> right to option "Make Linux bootable from hard disk" and got message "LILO
> wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your system if you
> create a boot floppy but it won't be able to boot without a floppy. The
> most common reason for LILO to fail is an over-large root ("/") partition.
> LILO is unable read any block of the kernel from a disk cillinder numbered
> higher than 1023. This is often a problem with disk larger than a Gigabyte
> or so. One way to solve the problem is to make a separate "/" and "/usr"
> disk partition, so that the entire "/" partition will be below the 1023
> cillinder".  I checked my hard disks and 2.12GB has 1023 cillinders and
> 452KB has 1018 cillinders. But I decided to repartitioned my disk anyway.
> So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
> 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap and reinstalled the Linux
> from very beginning, but the same problem occur. I still be able to boot it
> from boot floppy but not from the HD.

Do you still get the same error message from Lilo when you try to install
it after the repartitioning?  Could you send me the contents of your
/etc/lilo.conf please?
I do have System Commander installed, and running with no problems, so it
looks like this is not where the problems are coming from.

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Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

[carlos]

zsh can be used as sh instead of bash for almost everything. I have
two machines here where /bin/sh is a link to /bin/zsh. This makes
apsfilter work. bash gives an error in a pipe, complaining about some
signal. It's a bash bug; with zsh it works. The only problem is that
some packages, such as gzip, give an error in the perl (!!??) postinst
script. I don't know why. Perhaps the zsh maintainer could investigate
this?

Carlos

Re: Can't replace the Linux kernel on the "boot" disk (1 of 5)

[Ben Gertzfield]

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> I've been trying to replace the kernel on the original boot disk.  

**snip** I've noticed a big problem on the latest boot disk --

The rdev.sh script looks for a /dev/ram to tell the kernel which
device to make the root device if you install your own kernel on the
boot disk.

But there is no /dev/ram; just a /dev/ram0. Change /dev/ram in the
rdev.sh script to /dev/ram0 and it'll work.

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Re: block diagrams

[digger vermont]

> 
> Have you tried daVinci? (it is on the sunsite somewhere)
> Allegedly, it was created specifically to make block diagrams.

No, I haven't, but I'll take a look.  



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could someone send me these files?

[Richard Morin]

Hi folks, I'm still having some difficulty with my setup, but I trudge on.
No questions this time, just a request for some files so I can compare and
see for myself what I'm doin' wrong.

If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please
send me the following. 


/etc/init.d/network
/etc/hosts
/etc/network 

and your /usr/bin/pon (if you use it)

and... if you use diald, 
/etc/diald/diald.options

and anything else you thing might help from looking at this.

TIA
Rich M
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sz

[Pete Poff]

Hi,
I was wondering, who do you set up sz to resume a download?  I 
use minicom and when I go into setup, file transfer protocols, then the 
program is uses to download it sz.  And right now the it says sz -vv.  
When I try it like that and try to resume download.  How can I set it up 
to resume a interuped download?  is it sz -vvr or sz -vv r or what?  I've 
tried the two I just named and they don't seem to work.  Any suggestions?

thanks,

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