Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:

> Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian.  It 
> takes really good pictures.  I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera.  
> For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my 
> website.  The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable 
> pixilmap or .ppm extention to take a picture. the command is:
> cqcam > filename.ppm If I do this it works fine, the file is viewable 
> from xv and xpaint.  I also tried to take the picture using the file 
> formats of .jpg and .gif and the sam thing happens.  From inside netscape I 
> can open the file and view it just fine.  It doesn't work when I put it on my 
> web-page. The picture looks like a broken picture icon.  (I know that this is 
> a bad way to discribe it - but it is the only way I know how.  If anyone can 
> help me, or you need anymore information please email me.
> Thanks
> Paul

Hi Paul,

If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save 
the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg.  After xv saves the 
file, it should work on your web site.


Syrus.

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Re: 1.2 to 1.3 upgrade

[Rob MacWilliams]

Scott K. Ellis wrote:

> This is an indication that your libc5-dev package is out of sync with your
> libc5 package.  Finishing the upgrade will solve this problem.
> 
> Just let the upgrade fix it, when you install the new libc5-dev package
> the link will be correct.
> 
> Your LANG variable should be en_US
> 

Thanks for the help.  I'm finishing the upgrade now, so I'll see how the rest 
goes.  

FYI, the first part of the upgrade included X and I was running dselect in an 
xterm window,
oops.  A bigger oops was answering YES to the "Can I shut down XDM to upgrade 
it"  But
I logged into a console window and finished off the upgrade.  The only real 
problem I encountered
was the Xserver file was replaced wiping out my -bpp 16 appendage.  Maybe the 
config script
could put the contents of the old Xserver file in the comment section at the 
top.  It's a pretty
small file so space really isn't a consideration.  Just a thought.

Thanks to all of the maintainers and users, Debian is a great distribution!
 

"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."

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Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Rob Browning]

Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save 
> the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg.  After xv saves the 
> file, it should work on your web site.

[Haven't tried these, but they should give you the idea]

Alternatively f you have imagemagick installed:

  cqcam > filename.ppm
  convert filename.ppm filename.jpg
  convert filename.ppm filename.gif

or if you have netpbm installed:

  cqcam | ppmtogif > filename.gif

or if you have libjpeg-progs installed:

  cqcam | cjpeg > filename.jpg

Please see the respective man pages for more options.  As usual Linux
has umpteen different ways to do the job.
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Re: Setting up UUCP over TCP

[George Bonser]

I have several uucp over TCP/IP connections and you do not even need the
service 540 entry, it defaults to 540, use the service entry if you are
connecting to a non-standard port.


> : 3. port:
> : 
> :  porttcp-conn
> :  typetcp
> :  service 540
> : 
> : and that's it.  The dial, dialcode and call files are unnecessary in 
> : this case.
> 
> Think so, but not for sure.  /usr/lib/uuchk is a very helpful tool.
> 
> :  Here is where I start getting a bit confused.  If this ran over 
> : a modem line and was logged in using mgetty then life would be simple 
> : in that the shell of the user would be set to uucico.  When the user 
> : logged in uucico would run and off they go.  Over tcp there has to 
> 
> Right.  Some systems use login names as ``Ulotte'' for the uucp logins
> (as ``Plotte'' for PPP and ``Slotte'' for SLIP).  The shell for
> ``Ulotte'' would be uucico.  IMHO getty passes the login name to uucio.
> (probably uucico needs some options (-l), thus you'll have to set up
> a litte script, calling uucico w/ the right options (as /etc/passwd
> doesn't allow options for the shell)).  This is explained in uucico(8).
> 
> 
> : be a daemon listening to port 540.  In one of the docs that I read 
> : about uucp mentioned a uucpd that I couldn't find.  In the man page 
> : for uucico the -l or -e options makes uucico negotiate a login.  Does 
> : this mean that uucico will naturally listen to port 540?  (It doesn't 
> 
> As far as I know -- no.  uucico should be called via inetd.  
> 
> : seam likely to me.)  The man page also says that the /etc/passwd file 
> : is not used but instead /usr/lib/uucp/passwd.  Are these files in the 
> : same format and could the /etc/passwd file be copied to make the 
> : /usr/lib/uucp/passwd file?
> 
> This is a compile time option.  (Better yet:  was a compile time
> option when I had to deal with.)  Normally uucico performs a simple
> look up in it's own password data base, there are not even crypted
> passwords -- again, AFAIK.  I felt look-up's in /etc/passwd much better
> -- because of security and because I didn't want to maintain just
> another password file.  At least an strace should show you the file
> uucico expects.
> 
> 
> :  I think that this is about it for now.  Sorry about the bother 
> : but it seams that most of the references to uucp are related to 
> : dialup lines and tcp is usually only mentioned as an after thought.  
> 
> UUCP (Taylor UUCP) is accompanied with a very comprehensive/detailed
> description of it's options.  (Although some UUCP basics are useful to 
> understand this doc.  I'd recommend O'Reilly's _Managing_ UUCP and
> Usenet -- but your questions show that you probably read this book ;-)
> yet)
> 
> : It seams to me that uucp is the ideal way to move mail or news when a 
> : host is not on all the time and only comes on to gather it's 
> : information then get off in a polling cycle instead of being poled.
> 
> Yes.  It should be the choice for all these non permanently connected
> sites --- but it seems, that it's often considered as ancient, ISP don't
> like  or don't know it, and customers never heard about it :-(
> 
> 
> 
> Heiko
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Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

[Karl Ferguson]

At 05:28 PM 11/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3.
>It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer.
>However, I just read the following from H.J. Lu regarding his new
>release (5.4.33) of libc:

Yes, I do agree with you that Debian 1.3 broke NIS - but not the latest
version of disks.  I decided to test the latest disk set 1997-05-30 (I
can't remember the date of the last 1.3 disks) and NIS now works for me -
you must make sure you say No to shadow passwords during the setup as well
(I think it defaults to yes if you press enter).

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libXt.so.6

[dpk]

I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'.  I am
hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually
solve the problem.  My recent confrontation was when I installed
mpeg_play.  These is the errors I get:

mpeg_play: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6'
Unknown error
mpeg_play: can't load library '/lib/libXt.so.6'
Unknown error
mpeg_play: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'

This library does exist, however it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. I am running
Debian 1.2.6 and have added /usr/X11R6/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf and ran
ldconfig. I have tried making a symbolic link to it from /usr/lib and /lib
to see if that would fix the problem however no such luck.  I find this to
be odd, because netscape and sirc ( a perl irc client ) have been the only
NON-debian installs.  And I don't have any unconfigured or error-ing
packages I figure it *should* work being basically a totally debian
box.  I have tried to set paths ( I use tcsh ) and have had no such luck.
Anyone know a fix for this problem?

Thanks,
Dennis
 

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Re: libXt.so.6

[Bruce Perens]

From: dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'.

I think this happened to me a while back. It turned out that
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 was a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0,
and that second file did not exist. Please go look very carefully and see if
that is what is happening to you. If that is the case, please remove the link
and then re-install the "xlib6" package.

It's not clear to me how the system got this way.

Thanks

Bruce
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Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

[jghasler]

Heiko writes:
> You should ask your provider for an UUCP account, this will show you the
> qualification of your ISP.

I got my news and email via uucp for years.  I'm not about to ask my
present ISP about it, though.  They are the only ISP I can reach without a
long distance call, and view anyone not running dos/win/mac with suspicion.

You may be right in suggesting uucp to the originator of this thread,
though.  He should take a look at the bear book (Managing uucp and Usenet,
O`Reilly).

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slrn help please

[Bob Nielsen]

I realize this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I currently cannot
access any news groups and hopefully someone here can help me with this
problem.

I have been using the slrn_0.9.3.2-2 package as a news reader and suddenly
it isn't working any more.  It turns out my ISP's news server just started 
asking for my user name and password.  When slrn sees this, it doesn't
know how to handle the request and also wipes out my .jnewsrc file.   

Looking at the slrn man page, I found that I needed the following:

%nnrpaccess HOSTNAME USERNAME PASSWORD

I have tried all sorts of combinations of this, with and without quotes,
various forms of HOSTNAME (isp, news server, my local hostname, etc.) and
I still can't get things to work.

The error message I get is:  Server failed LIST ACTIVE

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

TIA,

Bob


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Re: libXt.so.6

[dpk]

A little more info:

It appears that they are correct, however, I deleted the symlink and
reinstalled.  Still no luck because I get the same error.  I also just
checked ldconfig -v and it shows that it sees libXt.so.6:

/usr/X11R6/lib:
libXm.so.0 => libXm.so.0.76
libMrm.so.0 => libMrm.so.0.76
libXpm.so.4 => libXpm.so.4.7
libXtst.so.6 => libXtst.so.6.1
libXt.so.6 => libXt.so.6.0
libXmu.so.6 => libXmu.so.6.0
libXi.so.6 => libXi.so.6.0
libXext.so.6 => libXext.so.6.1
libXaw.so.6 => libXaw.so.6.1
libXIE.so.6 => libXIE.so.6.0
libX11.so.6 => libX11.so.6.1
libSM.so.6 => libSM.so.6.0
libPEX5.so.6 => libPEX5.so.6.0
libICE.so.6 => libICE.so.6.0
libxview.so.3 => libxview.so.3.2.2
libolgx.so.3 => libolgx.so.3.2.2

Thanks to those that can help.
Dennis

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 97 19:05 PDT
> From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re:  libXt.so.6
> 
> From: dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'.
> 
> I think this happened to me a while back. It turned out that
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 was a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0,
> and that second file did not exist. Please go look very carefully and see if
> that is what is happening to you. If that is the case, please remove the link
> and then re-install the "xlib6" package.
> 
> It's not clear to me how the system got this way.
> 
>   Thanks
> 
>   Bruce
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XFree86 problems

[Robert Kerr]

I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since 
I mave a Matrox Mystique.  Everything was going well, until I ran startx, 
whereupon I received the following error message:


fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Would someone be willing to point me in the right direction so I can 
solve this problem?  Thanks.


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Re: XFree86 problems

[Jason M. Daniels]

>I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since 
>I mave a Matrox Mystique.  Everything was going well, until I ran startx, 
>whereupon I received the following error message:
>
>fatal server error:
>xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)



The server is telling you the problem! Login, or su, to root, and cd to 
/dev. Execute this command:

./MAKEDEV tty0

I had the same problem, but running the above fixed things nicely.

Luck,
Jason


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Re: xforms, offix: what are they?

[Sébastien Phélep]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:

>I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
> They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1.  Does anyone know what they are and
> whether it's safe to remove them?
xforms is a library for creating X applications, offix is a set of X
clients (file manager, trashcan, ...).

X-Forms is used by some programs such as LyX but I don't know how much
other programs use it. What I know is that a 0.86 version of the library
is available which is *not* compatible with the older one, so if you use
LyX, you'd better not upgrade now.
Offix is quite independent (it mainly depends on the Dnd library), so you
may upgrade it.

>I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also
> reports as obsolete.  Does anyone know what the status of this package is?
Sorry, I don't know.

Hope it helps
Seb.


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Re: xforms, offix: what are they?

[stephen farrell]

Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
> They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1.  Does anyone know what they are and
> whether it's safe to remove them?

xforms is a toolkit for making GUIs.  There are a few programs that
rely on it, so it might be important if you use any of those
programs.  I think I have it installed, as I might have one or two
things I use occassionally which use it.

OffiX is a attempt to enhance the gui experience in X.  Most notably
it includes libdnd--a drag 'n drop library, support for which has been
hacked into xemacs, afterstep, xv, and a few others.  It's kind of
nifty, but if you don't know what it is, and don't use dnd, you can
probably live without it.  Of course, if any of your apps are
dynmically linked against libdnd, they can't live without it =).

So I'd say in both these cases you should investigate that you're not
actually using them, otherwise best to just leave them there.


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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

[Carey Evans]

Zachary DeAquila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


[snip]

> 'ifconfig eth0 up' results in the message 
> 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again'.   Anyone got any ideas?  is this
> a known bug?  I thought the 3com drivers were pretty bug-free...

I got this with an IBM Etherjet (UTP only model) when it wasn't
physically connected to a hub.  I think it must be returned for quite
a number of different errors.

Check in /var/log/messages for something like:

Jun  5 22:52:18 psyche kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
Jun  5 22:52:18 psyche kernel: cs89x0.c:v1.02 11/26/96 Russell Nelson <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>
Jun  5 22:52:18 psyche kernel: eth0: cs8920M rev B found at 0x300 media RJ-45, 
IRQ 5 00 20 35 73 5a b5
Jun  5 22:53:16 psyche kernel: eth0: 10Base-T (RJ-45) has no cable
Jun  5 22:53:16 psyche kernel: eth0: no network cable attached to configured 
media

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resizing xterm with nvi

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

Got this question...

Whenever I resize an xterm (or rxvt) with an nvi session, I need
to either go to the bottom of the screen with the cursor and type
^L, or explicitly type :resize before the editor `realizes' the
screen has become larger.  Other programs, like less, adjust
immediately.  Is there a way to make nvi quicker aware of xterm
resize events?

Any comments greatly appreciated,

Eric Meijer

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I need help with installation

[Bullhead]

And I also have a problem, When I push enter at the boot screen when
first installing it says

Loading Linux.
root.bin..

Then just reboots what should I do?


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lprng 3.2.6-1: hostname problem

[hogendoorn r.a.]

I have a laptop that is not always connected to the network.
If I am connected to the network, lpd starts fine. However,
If I am not, lpd fails with "Get_local_host: hostname 'artasp1' bad".

Apparently, this is a get_host_byname() problem. However,
"hostname" returns "artasp1" and "hostname --fqdn" returns "artasp1.nlr.nl".
So it seems that hostname lookup is working.

/etc/resolv.config:
# eth0 begin
domain nlr.nl
nameserver 137.17.96.52
nameserver 137.17.96.51
# eth0 end
# eth1 begin
# eth1 end

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1   localhost
137.17.20.85artas2 artas2.nlr.nl
137.17.20.117   artasp1.nlr.nl artasp1 
137.17.20.193   bluedagger bluedagger.nlr.nl
137.17.248.1time-nop time-nop.nlr.nl
192.168.6.8 artas1 artas1.nlr.nl
192.168.6.10artas3 artas3.nlr.nl
192.168.7.7 Midkemia.fantasy.nl Midkemia 
#192.168.7.6artasp1.fantasy.nl

Any pointers?


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Re: libXt.so.6

[Philippe Troin]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:53:32 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'.  I am
> hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually
> solve the problem.  My recent confrontation was when I installed
> mpeg_play.  These is the errors I get:
> 
> mpeg_play: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6'
> Unknown error
> mpeg_play: can't load library '/lib/libXt.so.6'
> Unknown error
> mpeg_play: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'

Mpeg_play is one of the few packages in debian which are still a.out (gasp !).
You need to have support for a.out installed in the kernel and the xcompat and 
libc4 packages to run it.
If you volunteer to maintain it, you're more than welcome !

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Re: I need help with installation

[Andree Leidenfrost]

Looks like your rescue disk is broken. Did you try another floopy? Did
you check the floopy image? If you are connected to the internet you can
grab a new image and copy it to a new floppy and see if this helps.

Regards,

Andree
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Re: SGVAlib/SVGAdummy

[joost witteveen]

> If SVGAdummy replaces SVGAlib why are there dependancy prblems with gs
> etc?

Because gs etc depend on a specific version of svgalib, and dpkg drops
all "provides: " when there are version numbers in a dependancy.

This apparently will be corrected in dpgk.

> Will these SVGAlib dependant programs run without SVGAlib if the dummy is
> installed?

Yes.


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Re: Xfree 3.3

[joost witteveen]

> Is this located in the unstable/x11/ section of the webpage?  I looked at 
> it, and the version numbers are 3.3 but the descriptions of the packages 
> are the same as the old 3.2 versions.

You mean this description (for xbase):

Description: Local clients and configuration required by X
 This package contains the basic X11R6 distribution.  It includes the
 basic clients and configuration files.  It does not provide a
 server--servers for several different video cards are included in
 separate packages.  This package also does not include the shared
 libraries; for these you must install the "xlib6" package.  When a
 server and the shared libraries are installed along with this package,
 it provides a functional X Window System installation.  For a more
 complete installation you can install the "xcontrib" package.

But surely that description both applies to xbase_3.3 and xbase_3.2?

(You mention the web page, this actually comes from the ftp server,
but that should be the same anyway).

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Re: Locales Problem?

[Victor Torrico]

W Paul Mills wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> 
> > Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain
> > Debian packages such as xemacs for instance.  Everything seems to work
> > OK.
> >
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > LANG = "us"
> > are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> >
> > Should I be concerned about this message and how do I correct this
> > situation?
> 
> Change your LANG variable to LANG="en_US". That should solve it.
> 

Hi, 

I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us
when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice.  What am I
overlooking?

Sorry for the delay in replying.  We have had company recently.

Cheers,

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dselect corrupted filesystem

[JIM_BURT_at_nass-fx]

 I have run debian's "bo" since December, 1996.
 I nightly mirror the debian packages.
 Usually, I use dpkg to update a package, though I have used dselect 20 
 times.
 Last night I used dselect to update packages that I have not updated 
 with dpkg.
 
 During the installation phase, text flew by on my screen, seldom 
 pausing.  I believe install went well until post-configuration.
 As text flew by, I saw some "broken pipe" and either "gzip" or "grep" 
 errors, until dselect hung on post-configuring xfnt75.
 
 After dselect installation, "gzip" failed, "grep" failed, "fsck" 
 failed, and of course booting now failed.
 At one point, I got a "gzip" off a live RedHat package, then used dpkg 
 to install gzip and grep, but much more was corrupted.  With no log of 
 dselect transactions, I can not fully identify how dselect corrupted 
 so many files.  So, I give this general message.
 
 I must now get my "yard" emergency disks and reinstall every debian 
 package.  
 
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Re: dselect corrupted filesystem

[J.H.M.Dassen]

On Jun 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>During the installation phase, text flew by on my screen, seldom pausing.
>I believe install went well until post-configuration.  As text flew by, I
>saw some "broken pipe" and either "gzip" or "grep" errors, until dselect
>hung on post-configuring xfnt75.
>
>After dselect installation, "gzip" failed, "grep" failed, "fsck" failed,
>and of course booting now failed.

>At one point, I got a "gzip" off a live RedHat package, then used dpkg 
>to install gzip and grep, but much more was corrupted. 

>With no log of dselect transactions, I can not fully identify how dselect
>corrupted so many files.  So, I give this general message.

IIRC, one of the newer install methods (dpkg-mountable?) now does logging
through script(1).

What do "dpkg --audit" and "dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii'" give?
If they fail too, try to reboot with your rescue disks, mount your normal
system, and try "dpkg --root=/mountpoint --pending --configure".

HTH,
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Re: XFree86 problems

[Rick Morrison]

Robert,

   Had that EXACT same problem.  There's a fix on the XFree86 web site.  
Anyway, get to /dev (?) and do a ./MAKEDEV tty0.

Rick Morrison

>>> Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/12/97 2:46:53 AM >>>
I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since 
I mave a Matrox Mystique.  Everything was going well, until I ran startx, 
whereupon I received the following error message:


fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Would someone be willing to point me in the right direction so I can 
solve this problem?  Thanks.


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Another Installation Question

[Bullhead]

anyway to install without formatting the HD, because I can't back
anythig up right now
so


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Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Paul McDermott]

Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked 
just fine.  Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the 
file from an extention of ppm to jpg?  Thanks again for all your help.
Paul

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian.  It 
> > takes really good pictures.  I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera.  
> > For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my 
> > website.  The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable 
> > pixilmap or .ppm extention to take a picture. the command is:
> > cqcam > filename.ppm If I do this it works fine, the file is viewable 
> > from xv and xpaint.  I also tried to take the picture using the file 
> > formats of .jpg and .gif and the sam thing happens.  From inside netscape I 
> > can open the file and view it just fine.  It doesn't work when I put it on 
> > my 
> > web-page. The picture looks like a broken picture icon.  (I know that this 
> > is 
> > a bad way to discribe it - but it is the only way I know how.  If anyone 
> > can 
> > help me, or you need anymore information please email me.
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save 
> the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg.  After xv saves the 
> file, it should work on your web site.
> 
> 
> Syrus.
> 
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> 
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Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

[Eloy A. Paris]

Hello everyone,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

: You may be right in suggesting uucp to the originator of this thread,
: though.  He should take a look at the bear book (Managing uucp and Usenet,
: O`Reilly).

I am the originator of this thread and yes, I'll go with UUCP. For what
I've heard in the thread and everywhere else, UUCP is the way to go.

I am working right now in getting this set up.

Thanks,

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Re: xlib6 and xemacs19

[Elad Tsur]

>I just installed several parts of the new XFree86 3.3 packages
>including xlib6.  xemacs will no longer start up.  The versions of
>packages are
[...]
> Is anyone else encountering this problem or is it something peculiar
> to my system?  The gory details are shown below.  I wanted to find out
> if this was reproducible on other systems before reporting it to
> xemacs.org

Yes, I also have this problem... There are already three bugreports on
this in bugs.debian.org. However I don't know if sombody have already
reported this to xemacs.org.

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setup problems

[rick]

I seem to have screwed up my setup playing with PPP.  Welsh's Install
Guide got me going when I was running Slackware but the setup is
different under Debian, or maybe Linux has changed during that time.
I've read the NAG doc and NET-3 HOWTo, ifconfig and route manpages
but something is still screwy.

My hostname is emma and I get a uucp feed from panam.wimsey.com so my
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

This is my startup as I understand it:

/etc/init.d/boot runs /etc/init.d/network which contains the lines
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   emmalocalhost

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain  panam.wimsey.com

# cat /etc/networks
localnet127.0.0.0

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
localnet*   255.0.0.0   U 0  01 lo

# ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1

Does that all seem correct?  I can telnet/ftp to emma, localhost,
127.0.0.1 (and 127.0.0.0?) through loopback ok but I'm having some
Tin problems that I think are related.

Thanks.
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[tex] babel and 8-bit files - Report

[Stephan Tassart]

Hi,

> But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é,
> ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters). 
...

>From the different answers I got (thanks to everybody), It seems that 
the 8-bit input encoding is handled by:
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

(why not loading this package by default in a Debian distribution?)

People seem to say that for a multilanguage use, teTeX would be a 
good solution.

Anyway, the 'fontenc' package (\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}) is supposed 
to use some new fonts, but does not seem to work properly with the 
TFM related packages installed from the 1.2.10 Debian distribution.

ii  texpsfnt1.0-1
ii  textfm  1.0-3

Any comments.   

Thank you for your attentionStéf II


Example:

: example.tex
=

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

...


> latex example.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
(example.tex
LaTeX2e <1996/06/01>
Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english, french, loaded.
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1996/05/26 v1.3r Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/T1enc.def)kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM 
dcr1000.tfm 
Running MakeTeXPK dcr1000.tfm
mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input dcr1000 \ ...nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input dcr1000
  
Please type another input file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input dcr1000
  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
Metafont failed for some reason on dcr1000.tfm
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=dcr1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun
d.
 
   relax 
l.95 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
 
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Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:

> At 05:28 PM 11/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3.
> >It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer.
> >However, I just read the following from H.J. Lu regarding his new
> >release (5.4.33) of libc:
> 
> Yes, I do agree with you that Debian 1.3 broke NIS - but not the latest
> version of disks.  I decided to test the latest disk set 1997-05-30 (I
> can't remember the date of the last 1.3 disks) and NIS now works for me -
> you must make sure you say No to shadow passwords during the setup as well
> (I think it defaults to yes if you press enter).

My servers went from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3 using ftp to upgrade. The
last time I used the installations diskettes was when I installed 1.1.
During this process I don't recall having been asked for any shadow
options at all. Can you tell me what package is suppose to ask something
about shadow passwords? Even more, can someone explain how shadow
passwords relate to the NIS stuff? Probably here is where I have my
problems.

Thank you,

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10BT cables and lightning

[Walter L. Preuninger II]

I would like to setup my home-net using 10bt cables between my linux and
windoze boxen, but the only way I have to run the cables is to run it out
a window, under the house, and back in a window. Is there any method of
protecting the cables & cards from lightning damage? Several pc's and a 16
port concentrator died recently due to a very close lightning strike.

Would running the cable thru some metal conduit protect me? Are there
devices similar to surge suppresors for ethernet cables?

Thanks,

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Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

[Karl Ferguson]

At 09:57 AM 12/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
>My servers went from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3 using ftp to upgrade. The
>last time I used the installations diskettes was when I installed 1.1.
>During this process I don't recall having been asked for any shadow
>options at all. Can you tell me what package is suppose to ask something
>about shadow passwords? Even more, can someone explain how shadow
>passwords relate to the NIS stuff? Probably here is where I have my
>problems.

Well this won't affect you then - I was referring to a completely fresh
install of the 1.3 basedisks - during that setup it asks whether or not you
want to uyse shadow passwords.  Enabling shadow passwords in 1.3 is simply
a matter of doing a "shadowconfig on" at the prompt - however, I advise not
to do it, it may break NIS.  Basically, to find if your running a shadow
system, see if you've got the /etc/shadow file with all your passwords in
it or not.

Regards

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Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

[schulte]

Hi,

after updating my Debian box at work from 1.2 to 1.3 (with
no problems) I accidently managed to lock as well my root
as my user account.

To repair I got the newest 1.3 Rescue Disk (resq1440.bin) 
from my Debian mirror, rawrite2´ed it to a floppy, booted the
system using the floppy, mounted my partitions, got a shell 
and did some repair. All went well :-)

When I rebooted to linux I noticed several network error 
messages, and ping showed "Network is unreachable".
Apparently the rescue disk had confused my WD8013 ethernet
card. Then I booted do DOS -- and it complety hang after
probing the ethernet card: "WD80x3 adress PROM contents are
invalid". I did a hard reset, and, look, my ethernet card
automagically awoke from paralyzation -- what the hell had
happened?

I remember that I had similar problems with two cheapo NE2000
clones after installing Debian the first time. One (Debian 1.1,
Dec 96) came back to life after consulting the DOS 
configuration tool (grrr...). The second case (1.2, Apr 97)
was more severe: the card refused even to answer to that DOS
config tool. This card has changed its PROM state to a new
IRQ (3) und IO (0x300). I managed to get it work again -- but
that should not happen.

Am I the only one with such an expirience? I should add that I
never managed to get the standard kernel to work with my 
ethernet cards, and always had to built a custom kernel (which I
prefer anyway). The hardware is in no way fancy: elderly 486
boards (with and without PCI) but quite sufficient under linux.

No, this no flame against Debian. Debian has been proved to be 
a rock solid linux distribution for me -- and its upgradebilty
is outstanding. But the initial hardware test seems to be offensive
against the hardware under test -- and that should not be.

KWS


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Re: netscape

[Brian White]

> I have just upgraded my netscape and I seem to have a problem, which I
> hope you may help me resolve. I seemed to have a problem with my
> java_301 therefore I purged the old package. Downloaded new one and now
> I seem to have pa problem (I think it still relates to java problem). I
> get this report "canntot allocate cocormap entry for default background.
> Can you help?

There was a big thread on this just last week on debian-user.  Try
adding the options "-visual PseudoColor -install" and see if that helps.

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hostid

[Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH]

These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...

I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does 
it come from ?

Thanks a lot

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Re: XFree86 problems

[Robert Kerr]

Thanks, that was just the ticket.  It's going beautifully now.


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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Jason M. Daniels wrote:

> 
> 
> >I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since 
> >I mave a Matrox Mystique.  Everything was going well, until I ran startx, 
> >whereupon I received the following error message:
> >
> >fatal server error:
> >xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
> 
> 
> 
> The server is telling you the problem! Login, or su, to root, and cd to 
> /dev. Execute this command:
> 
> ./MAKEDEV tty0
> 
> I had the same problem, but running the above fixed things nicely.
> 
> Luck,
> Jason
> 
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xterm -ls not logging in utmp??

[Brian K Servis]

I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
not being recorded in utmp.  I have the *loginShell resource set
true.  So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:

Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged

If I do 'rxvt -ls' I don't get any error and the utmp file is updated.

What is causing the error and how do I fix it?

Thanks,

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How to change in.fingerd -w banner?

[Brian K Servis]

How do I change the banner that 'in.fingerd -w' gives?  Right now it gives

Welcome to Linux version 2.0.30 at 



I would like to get rid of the uptime info and add some Debian info.

Thanks,

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Re: How to change in.fingerd -w banner?

[Nathan E Norman]

Install cfingerd.  We use it and it's quite cool ... has a bunch of
other features as well, which I haven't even looked at yet :)

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:How do I change the banner that 'in.fingerd -w' gives?  Right now it gives
:
:Welcome to Linux version 2.0.30 at 
:
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:
:I would like to get rid of the uptime info and add some Debian info.
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:Brian 
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[Chad D. Zimmerman]

Got this top tem from another list ... and I know that it probably fits
most people here to a T ;)  Well, have fun with this one.

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8.  You make more than all of the MBAs you know who actually finished
college.

7.  You have enough computing power in your house or apartment to render
obscene pictures of upper management people.

6.  Your idea of a social event is going to a Non-Disclosure Discussion.

5.  The last time you wore a tie was your high school graduation.

4.  The last time you kissed someone was in high school.

3.  "What?  No raise?  No Backups, then!"

2.  You have a vanity plate on your car that names part of the Unix File
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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

[Zachary DeAquila]

That was it, thanks! (detail:  eth0 usin IRQ10, but it's an ISA card;
one of the PCI cards decided it too should usr IRQ10.  Soln:  Tell the
BIOS that PCI/PnP isn't allowed to use IRQ10)

 --Zachary

On Wednesday, Jun 11, 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq writes:
>I ran across this message when there was an IRQ conflict.
>Try changing the PCI slot of the network card.
>
>-- 
>Jean Pierre
>
>
>On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
>
>> I just installed debian 1.3 on a new machine.  Config is:
>> ppro 200 w/72MB RAM, ET6000 PCI vidcard, 3c509b ethernet
>> running default debian kernel with 3c509 module installed.
>> 
>> The network interface (eth0) gets configured okay... that is,
>> it gets the right IP, Broadcast, and Mask, but it won't come
>> up. 'ifconfig eth0 up' results in the message 
>> 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again'.   Anyone got any ideas?  is this
>> a known bug?  I thought the 3com drivers were pretty bug-free...
>
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Re: How to change in.fingerd -w banner?

[Heikki Vatiainen]

It looks like the banner has been hard coded in the in.fingerd source file.

In.fingerd is in the netstd package and if you view the 
source/net/netstd_2.13-1.diff.gz file and search for the string 'fingerd' in 
your pager you'll find where the banner is printed out.

I guess the easiest way to have a different banner is to change the finger 
daemon like somebody already suggested on the list.

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ntalk ??

[dpk]

Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the
web site and searched the ftp site with no luck... 

Thanks,
Dennis


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Re: web documentation

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> 
> :
> :> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi
> :> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I
> :> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better
> :> to hack together some kind of front end, or hack lynx into some
> :> kind of dedicated engine. The possibilities for accidents are
> :> too great if you run the scripts directly from lynx.
> :
> :That's true - but any time you allow logins into a system, you risk
> :making it insecure.  Debian provides all sorts of ways to log in to
> :a system "by default" - but it is easy to turn them all off.
> :
> :It might be useful to use a specialized web server that is not
> :very configurable, but has an extra emphasis on security.  This
> :could run on a non-standard port from /etc/inetd.conf, so it
> :wouldn't conflict with a web server on the same system which
> :was intended for normal uses.

You may want to consider the WN http server.  It has
extensive security features.  By default, it serves no
pages.  It is also small and efficient.  There is a daemon
that can be run from inetd.

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Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

Karl Ferguson wrote:
> Well this won't affect you then - I was referring to a completely
> fresh
> install of the 1.3 basedisks - during that setup it asks whether or
> not you
> want to uyse shadow passwords.  Enabling shadow passwords in 1.3 is
> simply
> a matter of doing a "shadowconfig on" at the prompt - however, I
> advise not
> to do it, it may break NIS.  Basically, to find if your running a
> shadow
> system, see if you've got the /etc/shadow file with all your passwords
> in
> it or not.
> 
> Regards
> 
I don't have any /etc/shadow file on my systems. So, I'm back to
nothing. My only hope is that the new libc is released soon and will
solve my problem. By the way, will it be released to the stable tree?

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Re: web documentation

[Heikki Vatiainen]

I'll throw in one web server too. Today I found the thttpd server written by 
Jef Poskanzer. I haven't tried it, only unpacked it and looked around a bit.

The url is http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ and here's the head of the 
README file from the source distribution:

 thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server
  version 1.90a of 15nov96

thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server.

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Re: 10BT cables and lightning

[Lee Bradshaw]

APC makes 10BT surge suppressors (Part no. P10BT.)  I don't know how
good they are, but I've been happy with their UPSes.
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response to kernal panic?

[CHUCK]

I am new to Linux/Debian/Unix. I have Debian 1.1, kernal 2.0.25, on a K5-90
dual boot pc with a 1.0 linux partition that is about 25% full. I boot from lil
o. I have been experimenting with backups. I have a parallel port zip-drive and
 a Colorado/hp 100 meg tape drive. At the panic time the zip drive was mounted
 as was the floppy, /dev/fd0/, at /floppyA.
 had just tar'd a directory to /floppyA, as su, from an xterm in fvwm (fwvm?).
I'm not sure what I did next. (sorry).
 think it was cd /floppyA, or else ls after a successful cd /floppyA.
Then the message appeared: message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  EXT2-fs panic (device
02:00):  ext2_writeinode: unable to read i-node block - inode=2, block=
858796085.

fvwm was still alive so I closed it. I could access the virtual consoles and
did a few cd's and ls's fro one of them. I then typed exit and the console
responded logout but did not return to a prompt. Keyboard entry appeared on the
screen but had no effect otherwise. I went to another ^alt f-key and found it w
orking but died upon logout as the other one did. I have not yet lost all of th
em so I can still get commands in.
Virtual console #7 shows the following messages: floppy0: probe failed  (many t
imes), followed by end_request: I/O error, dev 2:00, sector 0
 (ditto) sector 15
  (etc) 33,51,69,87,105,123
 EXT2-fs error (device 02:00):
ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #2
directory entry accross blocks - offset=0,
inode=808988208 rec_len=12336,
name_len=9760
^alt del has no effect. What can I do or should I do to get out of this?
Thanks.
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Re: why so many broken links when installing 1.3?

[Brian White]

> ./ns-install: line 289: 15565 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
>  15566 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
> -xf - )

This is a bug in the tar available in Bo.  It's supposedly been fixed
in the version in Hamm.


> I also found that netscape 4.0 installer have a similar problem and the
> netscape binary is not installed properly.

The communicator install script changed with beta5 and I haven't had a
chance to update the installer yet.

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Re: Locales Problem?

[Jason M. Daniels]

>W Paul Mills wrote:
>> Change your LANG variable to LANG="en_US". That should solve it.
>
>Hi, 
>
>I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us
>when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice.  What am I
>overlooking?
>
>Sorry for the delay in replying.  We have had company recently.

You need to export the variable so that the change takes effect. There 
should be a line in your .bash_profile where a whole bunch of variable 
get exported (the line starts with 'export PATH') so just add LANG to the 
end.

Luck,
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Re: ntalk ??

[Paul McDermott]

I don't know of ntalk, but there is a ytalk if that helps.  It is in the 
stable binary directory tree.
Paul

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:

> Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the
> web site and searched the ftp site with no luck... 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dennis
> 
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Re: debian meta-help?

[Alair Pereira do Lago]

IMO, if you try dwww, you are gonna live without it anymore.

David Pfitzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> (I don't have dwww since I don't have any other need for
> a local web server,

I've heard 'boa' is a ligth web server that can be sufficient for you. I have
also heard that lynx does not need a web-server to be the interface of dwww.   

> and setting one up just for dwww seemed like
> overkill - especially since dwww just(?) provides alternative
> access to docs I already know how to get to.)

Even for just reading manpages, it is better since you can follow crossed
references inside the manpage.  You also get a more complete info on a topic
you are looking for. Just an example, if I search info on mount I get


Search results

Documentation related to mount

Package: mount

Manual pages: nfs(5) fstab(5) swapoff(8) losetup(8) mount(8) swapon(8)
  umount(8)

Info files: none. 

Other documents: /usr/doc/mount /usr/doc/mount/examples 

Manual page search: amd(8) fdlist(1) fdmount(1) fdmountd(1) fdumount(1)
gitmount(1) mmount(1) mount(2) mount(8) mountd(8)
rpc.mountd(8) setup(2) showmount(8) smbmount(8) umount(2)


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Re: Locales Problem?

[W Paul Mills]

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:

> W Paul Mills wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain
> > > Debian packages such as xemacs for instance.  Everything seems to work
> > > OK.
> > >
> > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > > LANG = "us"
> > > are supported and installed on your system.
> > > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > >
> > > Should I be concerned about this message and how do I correct this
> > > situation?
> > 
> > Change your LANG variable to LANG="en_US". That should solve it.
> > 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us
> when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice.  What am I
> overlooking?
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying.  We have had company recently.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Victor

When you change something in .bash_profile ( providing
you are using bash ) you must either sign off and back on, 
or source the file. That is type:

source .bash_profile

This causes bash to reread the file. Also make sure you export
the LANG variable. It is also possible that you have the
LANG variable set in another location. Note that bash reads from
several files depending on what is available. See the bash man page.

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Search results from dww [was: Re: debian meta-help?}

[Rick Macdonald]

Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:

> Just an example, if I search info on mount I get
> 
> 
> Search results
> 
> Documentation related to mount
> 
> Package: mount
> 
> Manual pages: nfs(5) fstab(5) swapoff(8) losetup(8) mount(8) swapon(8)
>   umount(8)
> 
> Info files: none.
> 
> Other documents: /usr/doc/mount /usr/doc/mount/examples
> 
> Manual page search: amd(8) fdlist(1) fdmount(1) fdmountd(1) fdumount(1)
> gitmount(1) mmount(1) mount(2) mount(8) mountd(8)
> rpc.mountd(8) setup(2) showmount(8) smbmount(8) umount(2)


I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?

===
Search results

Documentation related to mount

Manual page search: fdlist(1) fdmount(1) fdmountd(1) fdumount(1)
gitmount(1) mmount(1)
mount(2) mount(8) mountd(8) rpc.mountd(8) rpc.showmount(8) setup(2)
showmount(8) umount(2)
umount(8) 
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Re: response to kernal panic?

[Philippe Troin]

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:59:43 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Then the message appeared: message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  EXT2-fs panic 
> (device
> 02:00):  ext2_writeinode: unable to read i-node block - inode=2, block=
> 858796085.

Just a corrupted floppy.
Major block device 2 is floppy.
Just ignore it (and throw you floppy away).

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kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

[Chris Hanson]

   Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:07:04 -0700
   From: Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   While I'm on the subject, does anyone know the correct boot
   path to add to NT's boot.ini to boot Linux?

We've done this on our NT/Debian machines using the free program
"bootpart".  I don't know a download reference, but in the past I've
found it with a web search.


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tar boo-boo...

[Jim Pick]

This is somewhat embarassing, but I was replacing one of my hard drives
with a larger one this morning, so I backed up everything to my
SCSI DAT drive with "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga".

When the new drive was in, a meant to restore the files (tar xvf), but
I typed "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga/*" and it wrote a few files out
to the tape drive, over top of the data I meant to restore.

Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a
way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten?

Cheers,

 - Jim

(I still have the data on my old hard drive, so I'm not totally
hosed - but then I'd have to re-install it)






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kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

[Stephen Zander]

Sent this before but got no response so I'm trying again...


While attempting to install debian 1.3 on a IBM ThinkPad 760CD,
I've run into a small problem.

The inital install from the disk set went fine.  Not having a
Debian CD, however, I'm trying to do an FTP install.  My
problem is all my communications devices (modem, token-ring
card) are PCMCIA & the pcmcia-modules-2.0.29 package doesn't
like working with pcmcia-cs-2.9.5-3 and can't find the apm
callback routines in the default install kernel.

Has anyone got a copy of pcmcia-cs-2.9.5-2 (to silence dpkg)
or a 2.0.30 kernel with basic apm included so I can get
a little further??

While I'm on the subject, does anyone know the correct boot
path to add to NT's boot.ini to boot Linux?

Any other suggestions?


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Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:

> Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked 
> just fine.  Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the 
> file from an extention of ppm to jpg?  Thanks again for all your help.
> Paul

I think the answer is yes, but I don't know how.  My understanding is 
that xv has extensive command line options to allow its use in scripts.

Syrus.

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RE: xforms, offix: what are they?

[Paul Rightley]

I may be wrong, but the xforms package became the xforms0 package recently.
Purging the old xforms package and installing the 'new' xforms0 package
should get rid of and obsolete package and will work just as good. (I think - 
I am using the xforms-0.86 package from hamm so that I can use the most
recent release of xfmail...)

Paul

On 11-Jun-97 Randy Edwards wrote:
>   I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
>They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1.  Does anyone know what they are and
>whether it's safe to remove them?
>
>   I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also
>reports as obsolete.  Does anyone know what the status of this package is?
>
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Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

[Lee Bradshaw]

I had a similar problem with tcpdump.  After I saw it referenced in a
message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out.  The
info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I
couldn't connect to any other machines.  The light on my hub indicated
the card wasn't alive.  Rebooting in win95 :^( and then back into debian
fixed the problem.

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Re: fdos, and ncftp

[Daniel J. Mashao]

On 10 Jun 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> > There already is a package with ncftp. It is in the non-free tree on any 
> > decent debian-ftp-server. You won't find the non-free tree on most 
> > "Cheap"-CDs like Cheap-Bytes (I think) or Infomagic's (I know)
>
> You guessed wrong.
> Cheap-Bytes includes the whole contrib and selected files from non-free.
I know he is right. There are a lot of stuff missing from the Cheap-Bytes
CD. 

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Re: Search results from dww [was: Re: debian meta-help?}

[Alair Pereira do Lago]

Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
> I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?

[...]

I do not know why.  Indeed I am using Apache as my httpd but I do not think
this could be the problem.

One guess, do you have info2www installed?
I have the the following versions installed:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/octave/spline] dpkg --list  dwww info2www menu man-db
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  dwww1.4.1-1Read all on-line documentation via WWW
ii  info2www1.2.2.9-5  Read Info files with a WWW browser
ii  menu1.3-2  provides update-menus functions for some app
ii  man-db  2.3.10-38  Display the on-line manual.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/octave/spline] 


Indeed I do not understand the precise diff between 'Manual pages' and 'Manual
page search' fields in my results.  Anyway, I would also try to reinstall dwww
even if you are using the same version I am using.

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mirror error. What does this mean?

[Joey Hess]

I'm using mirror 2.8-9 to set up a mirror of ftp.debian.org. I'm just
starting the mirror, which means downloading hundreds of MB's overmy ISDN
line. Well, I've gotten this message several times:

bind: Address already in use at /usr/bin/../lib/mirror/ftp.pl line 1273.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar.

And then mirror exits. Id this a bug in mirror, or expected behavior, and
what does it mean?

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Re: Search results from dww [was: Re: debian meta-help?}

[Rick Macdonald]

Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> 
> Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
> > I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?
> 
> I do not know why.  Indeed I am using Apache as my httpd but I do not think
> this could be the problem.
> 
> One guess, do you have info2www installed?
> I have the the following versions installed:
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/octave/spline] dpkg --list  dwww info2www menu man-db
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ NameVersionDescription
> +++-===-==-
> ii  dwww1.4.1-1Read all on-line documentation via WWW
> ii  info2www1.2.2.9-5  Read Info files with a WWW browser
> ii  menu1.3-2  provides update-menus functions for some 
> app
> ii  man-db  2.3.10-38  Display the on-line manual.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/octave/spline]

I have similar versions installed. I guess I just have to play with it
some more.

timshel:~$ dpkg --list  dwww info2www menu man-db
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  dwww1.4.1-1Read all on-line documentation via
WWW
ii  info2www1.2.2.9-7  Read Info files with a WWW browser
ii  menu1.3-2  provides update-menus functions for
some app
ii  man-db  2.3.10-39  Display the on-line manual.


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debian-user-digest problems

[Lee Bradshaw]

I'm using debian 1.3 and having problems reading digest email with elm.
First I get the following status message when opening a
debian-user-digest email:

   Seems that message/rfc822 data was corrupted

The other problem is that elm will sometimes stop reading before the end
of the digest.  When this happens the last line shown is usually:

-- End of included mail

This line appears at the end of every? entry in the digest, but it only
confuses elm sometimes.  Any suggestions?  I've been reading mail with
"less /var/spool/mail/bradshaw", but that lacks a few mail features.

The last digest entry I received was #321 and it had both of these
problems.  Thanks for any help.

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Re: hostid

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
> 
> These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
> where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
> 
> I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does
> it come from ?

Linux doesn't have a hostid. Sun workstations have a hostid. It is a
32-bit number which is guaranteed to be unique on a Sun and is contained
in a EPROM on the mainboard. Sun uses this number for various things
(like using it to create a licensing key when a license is for a 
single-use, single-machine piece of software).

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Re: slrn help please

[Gary Gifford]

I am far from being knowledgable on Linux but I struggled with this
recently and this worked for me on debian 1.2 with the most recent deb
version of slrn.  Go to the appropriate line in your .slrnrc script file. 
Remove the % sign to uncomment the line.  You do need to use the quote
marks.  Maintain the spaces between the terms (my word, maybe not right). 
If you use double quote marks ( "" ) with nothing in between in place of
your username and/or password, you will be prompted to enter them, but
maintain the same spaces as shown in your sample line.  Now here is where I
am uncertain and I am not at my Linux box to check.  There is a separate
file -  /etc/news/server - I think!  If you have your ISP newsserver
specified there - news.gte.net in my case, then you may not need to use the
HOSTNAME term.  Try it both ways.  Also, when I initiate slrn I get a
message saying something like it is sending to news.gte.net and then I get
the username prompt which I enter.  I then get the password prompt but it
doesn't drop down to the next line, rather it writes on top of the username
prompt line.  This confused me at first but I just ignore the userprompt
line formation and write in the password on top of it and press enter.  It
is accepted and slrn connects to the server .  

Good Luck

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> I have been using the slrn_0.9.3.2-2 package as a news reader and
suddenly
> it isn't working any more.  It turns out my ISP's news server just
started 
> asking for my user name and password.  When slrn sees this, it doesn't
> know how to handle the request and also wipes out my .jnewsrc file.   
> 
> Looking at the slrn man page, I found that I needed the following:
> 
> %nnrpaccess HOSTNAME USERNAME PASSWORD
> 
> I have tried all sorts of combinations of this, with and without quotes,
> various forms of HOSTNAME (isp, news server, my local hostname, etc.) and
> I still can't get things to work.
> 
> The error message I get is:  Server failed LIST ACTIVE



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Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

[Michael Shaw]

Hello,

I'm planning to convert my home systems to Debian Linux from RedHat and was
wondering if there was anyone out there who had performed this task before?

I'm currently running RedHat 4.0 and want to install Debian 1.3.  I'm
wondering if there is a better way to do this cutover then nuking the root
disk and starting over from scratch?

TIA,

Mike

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Re: Search results from dww [was: Re: debian meta-help?}

[Jim Pick]

> I just tried a search on mount. I have dwww and boa installed.
> I only got the following. Any ideas why I don't get the rest?

The searching in dwww doesn't work very well.  I'm planning on
fixing it very soon.

Cheers,

 - Jim



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Re: Script help

[gvl]

kill -l for a list of the names attached to the numbers

man 7 signal for a more exhaustive explanation.

On 10 Jun 97,  Andy J. Smith wrote regarding:
__ Re: Script help __

> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> 
> [different types of signals]
> 
> > Do you know what -1 to -?? does? I've always wondered, since I've only
> > ever used -9 and -15.
> 
> There's a man page that lists them all.  "signals" I think it is called,
> but if not, a "man -k signal" would probably show it.
Gerald V. Livingston II

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Re: UPDATE(not fixed):xterm -ls not logging in utmp??

[Randy Stocking]

Brian K. Servis writes:
> Brian K Servis writes:
> >
> >
> >I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
> >not being recorded in utmp.  I have the *loginShell resource set
> >true.  So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
> >
> >Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> >
> >If I do 'rxvt -ls' I don't get any error and the utmp file is updated.
> >
> >What is causing the error and how do I fix it?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Brian 
> >
> 
> UPDATE:
> 
> It turns out that StarOffice's setup script was setting the LANG
> variable to 'us' I changed it to 'en_US' as suggested in other
> threads and the error went away. BUT the utmp is still not getting
> updated with xterm login shells.  Rlogin, rxvt, telnet all update
> utmp fine.  Anybody have any advice?
> 

Check xterm's +ut option and utmpInhibit resource (from the xterm man
page).

> Thanks,
> Brian
> 

Regards,
Randy


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Re: hostid

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
> 
> Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
> > 
> > These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
> > where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
> > 
> > I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does
> > it come from ?
> 
> Linux doesn't have a hostid. Sun workstations have a hostid. It is a
> 32-bit number which is guaranteed to be unique on a Sun and is contained
> in a EPROM on the mainboard. Sun uses this number for various things
> (like using it to create a licensing key when a license is for a 
> single-use, single-machine piece of software).


Umm

llug:~> uname -a
Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown
llug:~> hostid
0xc782f032
llug:~> 
 

Tim

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Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Paul" == Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday,
Paul> and it worked just fine.  Another question can you make a
Paul> script to use xv to save the file from an extention of ppm
Paul> to jpg?  Thanks again for all your help.  Paul

 There's a `convert' command in ImageMagick that should work very
well.  You'll probably want the one in non-free.

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Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Karl M. Hegbloom, you wrote:
> 
> > "Paul" == Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Paul> Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday,
> Paul> and it worked just fine.  Another question can you make a
> Paul> script to use xv to save the file from an extention of ppm
> Paul> to jpg?  Thanks again for all your help.  Paul
> 
>  There's a `convert' command in ImageMagick that should work very
> well.  You'll probably want the one in non-free.

If you're not stuck on jpg images, you can simply pipe it through
ppmtogif to get a useable web image.

Tim

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Re: UPDATE(not fixed):xterm -ls not logging in utmp??

[Brian K Servis]

Randy Stocking writes:
>
>Brian K. Servis writes:
>> Brian K Servis writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
>> >not being recorded in utmp.  I have the *loginShell resource set
>> >true.  So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
>> >
>> >Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
>> >
>> >If I do 'rxvt -ls' I don't get any error and the utmp file is updated.
>> >
>> >What is causing the error and how do I fix it?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Brian 
>> >
>> 
>> UPDATE:
>> 
>> It turns out that StarOffice's setup script was setting the LANG
>> variable to 'us' I changed it to 'en_US' as suggested in other
>> threads and the error went away. BUT the utmp is still not getting
>> updated with xterm login shells.  Rlogin, rxvt, telnet all update
>> utmp fine.  Anybody have any advice?
>> 
>
>Check xterm's +ut option and utmpInhibit resource (from the xterm man
>page).
>

Ok.  I tried both with no results.  The man page doesn't mention what is 
default so I tried every combination possible.  The man page also says
utmp is in /etc but it is in /var/run so I made a link from /etc/utmp to
/var/run/utmp but that did not help.  This is strange, no matter what,
'xterm -ls +ut' should update utmp but it does not.

>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>> 
>
>Regards,
>Randy
>
>


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Re: ntalk ??

[mark powers]

> Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the
> web site and searched the ftp site with no luck... 

I don't think so but there's a ytalk deb.  I'd recommend ytalk anyhow..  if
I remember right ntalk is a fairly old Berkeley program and can't talk to
machines using a different byte order - ytalk is AFAIK compatible in all
other respects, and does know which endian is up.  :)

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Re: hostid

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jens> Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
>>  These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont
>> know where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
>> 
>> I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where
>> does it come from ?

Jens> Linux doesn't have a hostid. Sun workstations have a
Jens> hostid. It is a 32-bit number which is guaranteed to be
Jens> unique on a Sun and is contained in a EPROM on the
Jens> mainboard. Sun uses this number for various things (like
Jens> using it to create a licensing key when a license is for a
Jens> single-use, single-machine piece of software).

 So what is libuuid.so?

$ ls -l $(locate uuid)
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 Jun  3 04:56 /lib/libuuid.so.1 -> 
libuuid.so.1.1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 5716 Apr 29 14:31 /lib/libuuid.so.1.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  614 Apr 29 14:31 /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 9874 Apr 29 14:31 /usr/lib/libuuid.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   24 Jun  3 04:56 /usr/lib/libuuid.so -> 
../../lib/libuuid.so.1.1

/usr/include/uuid:
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  614 Apr 29 14:31 uuid.h

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Re: 10BT cables and lightning

[Bruce Perens]

From: "Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I would like to setup my home-net using 10bt cables between my linux and
> windoze boxen, but the only way I have to run the cables is to run it out
> a window, under the house, and back in a window. Is there any method of
> protecting the cables & cards from lightning damage? Several pc's and a 16
> port concentrator died recently due to a very close lightning strike.

There is a good deal you can do against lightning damage, but nothing
to protect from a really near strike unless you have a good engineer
and a whole lot of money. Check that all of your equipment is plugged
into grounded outlets and that the ground terminal of the outlet is
actually connected. Many of the surge suppressors on the market border
upon being "snake oil" (open some up and look inside). They might help,
but don't count on them. Instead of UTP wire, get the shielded stuff,
and ground the shield on _ONLY_ONE_END_. Leave the other end "floating"
to prevent ground loops. If you want to be expensive, use optical fiber
for your net, which will not get induced voltages due to lightning. Use
ferrite beads at the ends of all long wires (including the phone wire)
to reduce the possibility of induced common-mode current due to a
nearby strike.  I got some cheap ferrite donuts at the ham radio flea
market that I use for RF suppression, but they work for electromagnetic
impulse as well. I put as many turns of the wire through them as will
fit. Look for unintentional paths to long wires - such as from the
sound card to the hi-fi to the cable-TV wire. Maybe you don't need
that, or if you want to keep it, get an isolation transformer for the
cable-TV wire.

Even after all of this, you might get zapped again.

Bruce
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Re: debian-user-digest problems

[David Pfitzner]

I'm not sure if the problem is related, but I've also had
trouble with debian-user digests, in my case using Emacs/RMAIL
on a non-debian system.

In my case the problem appears to be that debian-user-digest
uses a row of dashes as message separator, but some messages
already include rows of dashes, which are not escaped in the digest.

(So can everyone stop using rows of dashes!! :-)

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Re: xforms, offix: what are they?

[Heiko Schlittermann]

On Jun 11, Randy Edwards wrote
:I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
: They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1.  Does anyone know what they are and
: whether it's safe to remove them?
:I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also
: reports as obsolete.  Does anyone know what the status of this package is?

Dselect ``obsoletes'' packages it can't find a package file for.

xforms has changed to xforms0 and later to xforms081, since there
are incompatibilites with older versions.

offix -- I don't know where it is ..


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UPDATE(not fixed):xterm -ls not logging in utmp??

[Brian K Servis]

Brian K Servis writes:
>
>
>I noticed that when I was logging in with xterms that my login's were
>not being recorded in utmp.  I have the *loginShell resource set
>true.  So I tried a command line 'xterm -ls' and got this warning:
>
>Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
>
>If I do 'rxvt -ls' I don't get any error and the utmp file is updated.
>
>What is causing the error and how do I fix it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brian 
>

UPDATE:

It turns out that StarOffice's setup script was setting the LANG variable
to 'us'  I changed it to 'en_US' as suggested in other threads and the error
went away. BUT the utmp is still not getting updated with xterm login shells.
Rlogin, rxvt, telnet all update utmp fine.  Anybody have any advice?

Thanks,
Brian


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