Re: c include libreries
I think you mean the headre files that can be found at /usr/include. Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Mon, 25 May 1998, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am looking for the c and c++ include libraries to > so i can write and compile source code. i wondered where > i could get them and under what name. > I am also looking for the imake utility which some program > require in order to compile > thatnks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XDM autostart question
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > lines in it... > > xdm-start-server > start-xdm > > My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any > idea what file calls the xdm stuff at boot time? > As root, try this: /etc/init.d/xdm start The /etc/init.d/xdm can be checked for any irregularities or hints. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CONFIRM s052521174026177
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Re: XDM autostart question
Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: > > Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > > lines in it... > > > > xdm-start-server > > start-xdm > > > > My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any > > idea what file calls the xdm stuff at boot time? > > > As root, try this: > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > The /etc/init.d/xdm can be checked for any irregularities or hints. > > Bake > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same trouble some time back. Take a look at /etc/init.d/xdm. Mine was 0 bytes and xdm.dpkg-new hadn't properly replaced it. David A. Bandel -- MS free and proud to be! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ideal hardware for dual p2 linux server
I'm looking at setting up a dual pentium II linux server with debian. What hardware would all of you suggest that I buy? I need scsi -- thinking about Adaptec 3940UW and Seagate Cheetah. Will that adaptec work easily? What's the best stuff to choose that will be easily supported? Network, scsi, hd, video, etc. Thanks == | Asher Haig[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Pager/Voice Mail (972) 328-9247 | == "It was like a visit by Don Carleone. I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." -- Mark Andreessen regarding the visit from Microsoft. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ideal hardware for dual p2 linux server
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > I'm looking at setting up a dual pentium II linux server with debian. > > What hardware would all of you suggest that I buy? > > I need scsi -- thinking about Adaptec 3940UW and Seagate Cheetah. > Will that adaptec work easily? I've noticed that the motherboards with the new 7895 chip on them are pretty cheap. ~500$cdn will get you a Dual PII BX with onboard Intel 100mbit ethernet and a pair of onboard UW SCSI channels. The newest stable kernel (.34) supports it all, and it's all onboard so you don't wast any slots. Last I checked the 3940UW is a multichannel controller, rather a bit of overkill for a single device :> I usually get the 2940UW or some equiv. > What's the best stuff to choose that will be easily supported? > Network, scsi, hd, video, etc. Get a nice AGP Matrox card and you'll be set :> Jason > Thanks > > >== >| Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >| Pager/Voice Mail(972) 328-9247 | >== > "It was like a visit by Don Carleone. I expected to > find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." > -- Mark Andreessen regarding the visit from Microsoft. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cgi-scripts package
Has anyone had any luck in getting the html 'counter' working? I keep getting errors in the apache.log: [Mon May 25 19:32:38 1998] access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/count failed for localhost, reason: Premature end of script headers ..any clues appreciated.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status of an E(nlightenment) .deb?
What's the status on .deb packages to install E? == | Asher Haig[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Pager/Voice Mail (972) 328-9247 | == "It was like a visit by Don Carleone. I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." -- Mark Andreessen regarding the visit from Microsoft. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
Hello, I installed debian and it doesn't print. The printcap file is unchanged and looks allright. The machine prints with Red Hat, so it isn't hardware. The message I get is lpr: unable to get official name for local machine If I enter hostname I get the hostname (debian). When I cat printcap > /dev/lp1 it prints. When I do lpc status I get queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present When I do ps -aux | grep lpd I see the lpd as a process. Can anyone explain 1. what the error message means and why lpr doesn't work? 2. why does lpc report no daemon is present when lpd is running? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > My squake has recently started making A lot of static instead of sound... > > > > The only change I can remember making was FAT16 -> FAT32 on my win95 > > drive, (and up to 2.0.33 for FAT32 support) > > > > Oh, and a new motherboard... > > Well, that's a large change.. did your sound card change as well? Nope.. > Try squake -sndbits 8 , maybe play around with -sndspeed (try values like > 8000, 11025, 22051 and 44100). -sndbits 8 gave me a promising result, just a bit of clicking occasionally, I could live with it.. but.. Is there any other cure, or if not, where can I put the parameter as a default so I dont need to type it every time? > -- > see shy jo, quake maintainer > > Sorry for the delay, I'm on a lng trip. No Worries... Thanks for the help :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- 3 dreaded words: hard disk failure --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem w/ upgrade to hamm (+ mach64 x server....)
Hello all... I'm relatively new to the whole linux thing, but I've been running debian 1.3.1 for about 1 month now with no problems, EXCEPT that I haven't been able to get X running smoothly with my ATI 3d rage II +DVD video card... could only get 640x400 with very lame picture quality. I tried the new s.u.s.e. mach64 server and it worked better (great resolution and picture during configuration) , but not good enough (had i/o problem with mouse - server wouldn't run after exiting from the configuration program (where, by the way, the mouse worked perfectly)...) ...so, I figure I'll try to upgrade to hamm (?). Ran the autoup.sh program (seemed to work except for a reported error with "slang"), then tried to run dselect via ftp (which has worked great for me several times) updated using the frozen_main (etc) - worked fine, updated info on approx 1500 packages... "selected" ALL (1st line). When I tried to execute "install", it reports that it "can't find packages for dist/frozen/main" (+contrib & non-free) "(rerun Update) nothing to get" this leads to reports of "processing downloaded files, package file is non-debian file" it does this again even if I update again (note that it never even attempts to download the packages, because it thinks that the package files are not debian files. I am using the default answers for every prompt (just like I have done successfully updating bo in the past). Any ideas on either (or both) problems? Thanks in advance, Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: angband save problems
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 1998 16:48:33 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: > > >-rwxr-sr-x 1root games 494780 Mar 9 19:28 angband > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gamesusers 427012 Mar 29 07:09 angband > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 apc27 games34406 May24 14:18 1002.Apc27 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 gamesusers 38353 May 23 01:45 1000.Morpheus > -rw-r--r-- 1 gamesusers 42401 Mar 24 02:46 1000.PLAYER > -rw-r--r-- 1 gamesusers 35738 Mar 23 00:16 1001.PLAYER > > >(do I need to chown games angband? and is that how I do it?) > > Yes, that is how you do it. However, as to whether or not that would > help, or is advisable, I'm not sure. Your executable is set GUID. Hrm. But > the files are not set to group writable. Maybe that is the problem. > > >Permissions are the same as my save file (name 1000.mcv21 and mcv21 > >instead of apc27) You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? Check the Directory permissions too, I had to change _some_ to group write, and I think I had to change owners too.. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Contentsofsignaturemaysettleduringshipping. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)
Yup, try http://www.mirabilis.com There is a linux version there for X, you also need to get the JDK. use this method to install: (I got this from the list early this year, I have not tried it, coz I havent had time :) ) == With some trial and error, I've been able to setup ICQ for multiple users under Debian. The idea was to give each user an ~/.icq directory where she can keepher personal configuration. In my experience, if you use the installation directions which come with the program, things will not work like you might expect. What I did to get it working properly: 1) Install the Debian JDK. 2) Download the ICQ tar ball (http://www.icq.com/) AS ROOT DO THE FOLLOWING: 3) cd /usr/local 4) tar -xzvf icqtarball.tgz 5) chown -R root.root ICQJava 6) cd /usr/local/ICQJava 7) Edit "install" and change the following: 1) uncomment JAVA_HOME 2) JAVA_HOME = /usr/lib/jdk1.1 3) ICQ_HOME = /usr/local/ICQJava 8) ./install Note: This will create the file /usr/local/ICQJava/ICQ which is the script you will want to run after making a few more modifications. 9) Edit the "ICQ" file in (8) above by replacing the "-path" parameter with "-path $HOME/.icq" . This will tell ICQ to use the ~/.icq directory for all of its needs -- including the user's personal configuration. This and step 10 are the critical changes. AS THE USER DO THE FOLLOWING: 10) Now, you need to create the ~/.icq directory for each user: 1) mkdir ~/.icq 2) cd ~/.icq 3) mkdir conf 4) chmod 700 conf 5) ln -s /usr/local/ICQJava/Images 6) ln -s /usr/local/ICQJava/Sounds AS ROOT DO THE FOLLOWING: 11) cd /usr/local/bin 12) ln -s ../ICQJava/ICQ icq AS THE USER DO THE FOLLOWING: 13) run using "icq" = Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- "Bother," said Pooh, as the rip cord came away in his hand --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: angband save problems
On Tue, 26 May 1998 18:08:58 +1200 (NZST), Michael Beattie wrote: >You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? >Check the Directory permissions too, I had to change _some_ to group >write, and I think I had to change owners too.. Wouldn't it just be easier to set the executable to GUID games and have all the game files owned by games? That way there is no need to keep adding people as they start playing the game. Or am I missing some fundimental security problem with that? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic - netscape
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al > to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are no > fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al because > it has no fonts > > but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an upstream issue. pgp1Dw2Dcxi1u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: angband save problems
On Mon, 25 May 1998 23:37:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >Wouldn't it just be easier to set the executable to GUID games and have >all the game files owned by games? That way there is no need to keep adding >people as they start playing the game. Or am I missing some fundimental >security problem with that? Blah, I mean SUID, not GUID, sorry. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 06:58:45AM -0400, Kenneth Sims wrote: > Will, > > I think Mr. Moffatt is on the right track. Won't `tty` actually be ttyp# if > you are connected via ethernet? Similarly, I think it will be different when > you are connected via serial port. > > I've used: x = `tty | grep 'tty[012345]'` to do exactly what you are > asking about. I've been trying to setup my dad's account to do just that, but since I know nothing of bash programming, could someone post an actual (and short) script to do this? pgpKmaoEkm6km.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: changing default screen manger in x
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > MF> I am tring to change my default screen manager under X. > MF> It s on a server and i am using it throuh a terminal (on a PC), > MF> so i need to change it only for me. > > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config, then create > the file .xsession in your homedir. It should be something like: > > xterm & # start a xterm > xterm & # start a second one > fvwm2# start the windowmanager. Note the missing & those should be exec'd, ie exec xterm &, etc. pgp9vMW0WeC5X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xwindows not working
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: [..] > Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I > downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup [..] You need 3.3.2 for the the Mystique 220. That means hamm or finding bo packages. pgpMTYWx4DE2K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to print on a Win3.x/Win95 machine ?
Hi, I was able to mount other Win3.x and Win95 drives with something like the line below. Thanks. This, after I've recompiled the kernel with samba support. I will see when I have time to work for connecting the printers, as these weeks we have to prepare a local conference and my colleagues don't work in Linux, but in Win95 8-(. > smbmount \\iunot\sharename /mnt/samba -P password -I 193.231.44.81 Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfig not exporting
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > When I try to export something from xfig I get the message: > > Error during EXPORT (check standard error output) > > How do I check "standard error output" to determine what is wrong? > Assuming that you started xfig from an xterm window you should see those messages in that window. To put it another way: start xfig from an xterm and look at the messages in that window. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfig not exporting
On Saturday 25 May 1998, at 15 h 33, the keyboard of Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to export something from xfig I get the message: Try with fig2dev, you may be have a better chance to see the messages: fig2dev -L ps file.fig file.ps ^^ Export to PostScript fig2dev is fine to export in batches, such as Makefiles. > Error during EXPORT (check standard error output) > > How do I check "standard error output" to determine what is wrong? If you launched xfig from a xdm session, see the messages in ~/.xession-errors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: angband save problems
> You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? > How do I check? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem w/ upgrade to hamm (+ mach64 x server....)
> ...so, I figure I'll try to upgrade to hamm (?). Ran the autoup.sh > program (seemed to work except for a reported error with "slang"), > then tried to run dselect via ftp (which has worked great for me > several times) updated using the frozen_main (etc) - worked fine, > updated info on approx 1500 packages... "selected" ALL (1st line). > When I tried to execute "install", it reports that it "can't find > packages for dist/frozen/main" (+contrib & non-free) "(rerun Update) > nothing to get" > > this leads to reports of "processing downloaded files, package file > is non-debian file" Hmmm - This makes me think the update hasn't worked properly. What was the reported error with slang? If that hasn't installed, you may need to install it by hand with dpkg. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISDN and Debian.
Telia (operator of telecom services in Sweden) is having a "drive" on ISDN equipment and I´m thinking of buying a "ISDN-box". But before I make my decision I need to know how Debian handles ISDN, if it manages "Bandwidth On Demand" and so on. I also need to know what adapters I could use and if the serial port ISDN-adapters can be handled efficiently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISDN and Debian.
On Tuesday 26 May 1998, at 10 h 6, the keyboard of "Johan Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But before I make my decision I need to know how > Debian handles ISDN, if it manages "Bandwidth On > Demand" and so on. Debian is Linux so just check the Linux documentation. The FAQ contains everything you need to know. http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui161ab/www/i4l-faq/eng-i4l-faq.html You'll probably have to recompile the kernel, I don't think Debian's kernel-images have ISDN. Also, there is a isdn4linux Debian package, so nothing else to recompile. --- Stéphane Connecting to the Internet with a Teles 16.3 ISA card on Debian 2.0 since march 1998 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:11:55PM -0700, King Lee wrote: > Can anyone explain > > 1. what the error message means and why lpr doesn't work? > 2. why does lpc report no daemon is present when lpd is running? Not sure I can explain #1, but re: #2 -- don't worry about it. It says that here too and printing works just fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to upgrade from smail to exim?
Hi all! If I try to install exim I get the following: exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends on it, what is the right way to upgrade? Thanks in advance, Ulisses - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: angband save problems
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 11:39:09PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 1998 23:37:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >Wouldn't it just be easier to set the executable to GUID games and have > >all the game files owned by games? That way there is no need to keep adding > >people as they start playing the game. Or am I missing some fundimental > >security problem with that? > > Blah, I mean SUID, not GUID, sorry. Is the game's code secure? Using the games group and setgid executables means that if the game does have holes, all you can do is trash the score files for the various games. The same is true using setuid games, but also means you could interfere with other people's games if you could a setuid games shell etc. Basically the existing systems works just fine as far as I can see. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel Redwood(?) motherboard
Hi, I need to buy a couple PCs featuring an Intel Redwood (I'm not sure this is the correct name) motherboard with onboard 100MB Ethernet and fast SCSI-2. However I need to be absolutely sure Linux will run on it. Does anybody have any experience with this motherboard? Thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why can't i compile things ???
Hi Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on a lib directory. Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080485e0 Can anyone please expalin me how to fix this. Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATM support
Gawdy, are there any ATM boards supported under Linux other than the Efficient networks? Thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...
Hello everyone! I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue how to get them to install into Linux. How can I mount the drives from dselect? I'm VERY new to this so any in-depth/detailed help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. James
Re: c include libreries
> I am looking for the c and c++ include libraries to > so i can write and compile source code. i wondered where > i could get them and under what name. > I am also looking for the imake utility which some program > require in order to compile You must obtain the -dev packagen in order to "dev"elop any program. For example, if you want to compile something in X get the xlib6g-dev package -- * /-\/--\ /| /\ ...Take me away * * /| ) | ' \ /|\ ' |/ | From the place * * | '\ | | |^| /\ | /| | | /^| |^ /\ | /^| | / I've been * * \/ | | | | | \/ \/ | |_| \_| | \/ | \_| | / | To another life * * /\___/-/\___/-/ | In another world... * *__* * Mario J. Barchein Molina - Granada (Spain) | IRC NICKNAME: el_pepo * * E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | CHANNELS: #metal #el_pepo * *Homepage: http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/x4295850/public_html/index.html * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?
Here's a little snippit I've used... -- case $(tty) in /dev/tty[1-9]) setleds +num;; esac -- Probably overkill using a case statement for no more than that, but it works. On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 02:45:51AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 06:58:45AM -0400, Kenneth Sims wrote: > > Will, > > > > I think Mr. Moffatt is on the right track. Won't `tty` actually be ttyp# if > > you are connected via ethernet? Similarly, I think it will be different when > > you are connected via serial port. > > > > I've used: x = `tty | grep 'tty[012345]'` to do exactly what you are > > asking about. > > I've been trying to setup my dad's account to do just that, but since I know > nothing of bash programming, could someone post an actual (and short) script > to do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dead keys and X11 3.3.2 & svgalib and mouse I/O permissions...
Hi everybody: I have two problems I think I know the solution but I don't know how to apply it. First is the eternal problem of the dead keys under X11. I had it solved using Thomas Quinnot modified libX11.so.6.1, but as I have upgraded to hamm and to X11R6 3.3.2 it doesn't work anymore. I have tried to reinstall the modified library, but, as it is from version 3.3.1, it doesn't work. Anyone knows if there is any solution for version 3.3.2? I need my spanish accents!!! :-) The second problem is about the I/O permissions in svgalib. I have given suid bits to Lincity and some vga games and they now work with svgalib without problem (yes, I know... potential security hole... but I only use my computer at home for my and my brother, so...), but now they quarrel about ot getting the proper permissions for the mouse. I have configured /etc/vga/libvga.config to work with my PS2 mouse in psaux, but no way, though. I can run them as root without problem... so I guess I need a new suid bit somewhere... but where? Thanks in advance for the help... -- Nacho Más Ivars If you can keep your head when all mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] about you are losing theirs and Tfn: 970 79 31 94 blaming it on you... P.O.Box: 13106 28080 Madrid (Spain) (Rudyard Kipling) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...
"James A. Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with = > Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave = > to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive = > (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue how to get them to install into Linux. = > How can I mount the drives from dselect? I'm VERY new to this so any = > in-depth/detailed help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I don't use dselect, but here is how root can mount your C: drive: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt So at this point Linux will see your packages in the /mnt/debian directory. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EtherPowerII (SMC9432TX)
Hello, A friend of mine asked me how could he install this card with bo... He should get the drivers first and then? R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: c include libreries
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 05:46:37PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > I assume you are using hamm. Imake is in the xlib6g-dev package, as for > c/c++ headers, they are in libc6-dev (for c) and libg++272-dev (for c++). > I'm not sure about this last one, so someone correct me if I'm wrong. The preferred (and at the moment only) C++ compiler in hamm is "g++" from egcs ; "libstdc++2.8-dev" has the include files that should be used with this version (libg++272-dev is for use with the gcc 2.7.2.3 C++ compiler, which is not in hamm yet (it's in slink as "g++272"); that C++ compiler is only for backward compatibility). HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I burned hamm on NT and now all the files end with ~1.
Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You probably burned it as a Joliet filesystem... not supported under 2.0.x > kernels yes, but at least the current debian 2.0.33 kernel is already patched for joliet. > To burn it for use under Linux, you have to burn it as iso9660 with > RockRidge Extensions However, I don't know of any software on Win95/NT > that supports that. (Adaptec CD Creator Deluxe does not.) I suppose mkhybrid does :-) I don't know where I found them, but somewhere I found a port to NT. IIRC it's using Cygwin.dll. I never used it, but it IS available. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95
>> If you downloaded it not in .deb form, the patch for FAT32 support is not >> included... The .deb version does... I had to figure that out about 3 >> weeks ago.. >> >I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32 >support is because they are just the standard default bins. They are not >configured to run on your system. They therefore are not very high >performance. They usually take up way too much memory because they include >all kinds of things you probably dont even have. It is always good to >compile your own kernels. Try it, you'll find it makes a HUGE difference. Use the kernerl-source-2.0.33-9.deb (latest) as the kernel source package to recompile. The standard 2.0.33 source package (sunsite, tsx-11, etc) does NOT have the latest patches. I made the mistake of trying to add the patches to the debian source package (which already had them) and it REMOVED the patches (reverse patch). This is the default action of patch, and I didn't know what it (I) was doing at the time. I think the fat-32 option is in the internal code section (code page) of the menuconfig script as it is bundled with other stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp, chat finaly works but....
I finally got pon to start pppd and chat to connect to the internet via modem. The first time I typed pon it dialed out, but this was after playing with the commands manually from the command line. The next time I booted the system and tried it again nothing happened. I typed ps and saw that both pppd and chat were active, but nothing happening at the modem. After about a minute pppd and chat shut down, and then restarted. THEN the modem came to life. I am using a Motorola modem-surfer EXTERNAL 28.8 fax modem. The script(s) are set to use 115200 baud. My guess is that it takes two or three tries for chat and the modem to agree on the interlink speed. But how come windows 95 can bring up the modem on the first try (no wait at all)? Any ideas on how to speed this up? On the plus side Netscape 4.05 under linux seems faster than NS 3.x or NS 4.x under windows-95, so it's worth the wait. As soon as I get the windows machine up with an ethernet card, I'll move the modem to the linux machine. Right now they share the modem with a switch box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: why can't i compile things ???
On 26-May-98 Mario Filipe wrote: > Hi > > Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on > a > lib directory. > > Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : > > gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm > ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080485e0 > > Can anyone please expalin me how to fix this. Thanks > Fixed this. I mannualy re-installed lic5-dev and everything is ok now. Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why can't i compile things ???
Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on > a > lib directory. > > Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : > > gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm > ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080485e0 > > Can anyone please expalin me how to fix this. Thanks You need to re-install at the very least the ldso package. (Packages usually need to be re-installed with dpkg, not dselect - just say "dpkg -i /path/to/file/ldso-what.ever.deb") You should probably also re-install libc6 (assuming you have a hamm system; libc if you're still using bo, aka 1.3). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing default screen manger in x
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config, then create > > the file .xsession in your homedir. It should be something like: > > > > xterm & # start a xterm > > xterm & # start a second one > > fvwm2# start the windowmanager. Note the missing & > > those should be exec'd, ie exec xterm &, etc. WHAT? First off, not using the "exec" anywhere is _just_fine_. Some people don't like not using that because then there's an extra process floating around until you exit X. If, however, you do decide that you can't afford the (rather small) overhead, or you decide that it's messy to have extra processes just floating there, only the last line (the fvwm2 line) should have "exec" at the front. If you want to do any cleaning up after you exit X, you need that process hanging around and so can't use exec. "exec &" is a bit non-sensical. It does nothing different from " &" and just spreads confusion about what should be in an .xsession file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
starting point doc abut regexp and perl
Hi all I would like some URLs to get an starting point about perl(I searched in www.perl.com) and it's regular expressions. The manual pages are huge and not very didactic for a novice (except the perlbook manpage), also the /usr/doc/perl/examples are not quite simple in the regexps that use Thanks Ulisses - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dead keys and X11 3.3.2 & svgalib and mouse I/O permissions...
Ignacio Ms Ivars wrote: > I have two problems I think I know the solution but I don't know how to > apply it. First is the eternal problem of the dead keys under X11. I had > it solved using Thomas Quinnot modified libX11.so.6.1, but as I have > upgraded to hamm and to X11R6 3.3.2 it doesn't work anymore. I have > tried to reinstall the modified library, but, as it is from version > 3.3.1, it doesn't work. Anyone knows if there is any solution for > version 3.3.2? I need my spanish accents!!! :-) Well, you may switch off the deadkeys by inserting XkbVariant = "nodeadkeys" in the keyboard section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. I found that by some kind of empirical research ;-), and I'm still looking for documentation about it. Does this help with the spanish accents? I always thought that the real use of the deadkeys is to get all kinds of accents. So why do you want to turn it off? Greetings, Ulf -- #include -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-windows and PPPD
>From memory I think that ttyS0 (com1) and ttyS3 (com 4) share the same interrupt. That could be your problem. Go into your bios setup and insure that these comm ports do NOT share interrupts. Usually interrupt 5 or 7 can be used for the third comm port. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of an E(nlightenment) .deb?
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > What's the status on .deb packages to install E? The Enlightenment maintainer is waiting for v14 of E to package it, as v13 is reasonably FSSTND unfriendly. Most of the required libs for v13 are already packaged for hamm, it isn't too hard to compile yourself. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re DDS2 -tape backup
I may have the same tape drive as you. I find an IBM (made my archive corp) DDS2 scsi tape drive at a ham radio flea market for $10. It works fine thou it is slower than a QIC drive (but holds lots more). I am using tar. To put more than one backup on a tape use the /dev/nst0 device (no rewind when done). To move from one backup set to another use the mt commands EOF and EOT I think. The mt rewind and eject commands work with this drive. If you try to erase the tape, be prepared to wait about 2-3 hours I just use a video tape bulk tape eraser! I need to write some shell scripts to handle the tape drive, ie: making directories and such. If you put several backup sets on a tape and then had to use tar and mt to find a specific file, it would take quite some time to run DDS is slow. But how else can you get 4GB on a $5 tape cassette? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is killall
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > I have installed the new procps pakage and > the killall command is lost. > > I tried dpkg -S killall and I could not find it. > > Does any one knows where is it? killall is in the psmisc package. You could also take a look at the skill command, which is in the procps package and has very much the same functionality as the killall command (and even more than that). Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
`ATI Rage Pro AGP' and `SMART drive' in Dell Optiplex? Ok for Linux?
A collegue needs a new desktop computer for Linux. He's looking at a Dell OptiPlex GXa. http://www.dell.com/intl/ca/products/desktops/optiplex/gxa/gxa_specs.htm Two concerns I have are: - High-performance AGP-enabled video. Integrated ATI Rage Pro video controller with up to 4MB 100MHz SGRAM video memory Uses 1X Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) bus for faster graphics processing. I know the ATI Rage was supported under XFree, but is the AGP version? - Ultra DMA/33 SMART Hard Disk Drive. They don't mention a specific Ultra DMA controller, so I assume this is okay as well? (Man, the whole machine w/ PII-266, 64MB, 4.3GB, 4MB video, 17" monitor is CDN$2881. Boy, is hardware ever getting affordable!) Any comments? Any experience running Linux on this hardware? Thanks! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95
On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Use the kernerl-source-2.0.33-9.deb (latest) as the kernel source package > to recompile. The standard 2.0.33 source package (sunsite, tsx-11, etc) > does NOT have the latest patches. I made the mistake of trying to add the > patches to the debian source package (which already had them) and it > REMOVED the patches (reverse patch). This is the default action of patch, > and I didn't know what it (I) was doing at the time. I think the fat-32 > option is in the internal code section (code page) of the menuconfig script > as it is bundled with other stuff. > Conversely, if you want to try the 2.0.34prexx patches, it's probably best to not use the Debian kernel-source package, as some of that appears to be included (at least patch thinks so). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
call back for ppp
I am searching an implementation of PPP LCP Extension for debian (1.3.1) that allows call back fonctionality as in win95/winNT on MS Windows. OTOH Is www.debian.org still there? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!
Norbert Veber wrote: > > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 08:20:43AM +, Bart Maerten wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Admaster Communications) > > writes: > > |> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of > > |> > > |> > > |> tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt > > > > Change the 'c' with a 'x'. 'c' is to create a tar file. 'x' to extract. > > > > Look at "man tar". > > He is trying to create a tar file not extract as far as I can tell.. :) > > > |> The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!! What is the correct > > |> syntax??? > > Seems to be broken here too. > Ditto here. Note to previous thread respondant. The *order* of arguments makes *no* difference. This still fails: tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar My tar is GNU tar v1.12. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help: upgrade to Hamm not working!
Hi, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to hamm. I downloaded the upgrade script along with all the necessary packages and ran it. The first time I ran it, there were problems: dpkg: regarding dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.8 libstdc++2.8 is not installed. So I installed this manually and ran the script again. This time it seemed to work. Then I went into dselect to upgrade everything to hamm, but when I got to install, this is what happened: Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ... find: /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/doc/doc-linux-pl-html_1998.03.29-1.deb: No such file or directory find: /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/doc/doc-linux-pl_1998.03.29-1.deb: No such file or directory find: /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/doc/heise-register_98.03.deb: No such file or directory /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb Running dpkg -iB for dpkg-perl ... dpkg-deb: `/usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. And that's all! Looks like it's failed pretty badly. This means my system is in a no-mans-land state - which I'm not very comfortable about. What should I do? Thanks, Mark. __ _\/___\__/___Mark_Phillips___/ \__/_\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ \__/HE___\__/--APTAIN/ \__/_\__/--\__/__/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ \__/__\__/___/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."God___/ /__Jesus did.___/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting point doc abut regexp and perl
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:53:19PM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > I would like some URLs to get an starting point about perl(I searched > in www.perl.com) and it's regular expressions. The manual pages > are huge and not very didactic for a novice (except the perlbook manpage), > also the /usr/doc/perl/examples are not quite simple in the regexps that book://ora/camel? book://ora/llama? Sorry, I don't know about real URLs but the Llama (Learning Perl) and Camel (Programming Perl(?)) are excellent books to have. Then the perl manual pages make sense for an online reference. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling mod_jserv.c for Apache 1.3b6
I am attempting to get Java servlets running on Hamm. I have downloaded the most recent jserv and all Hamm Apache packages. According to the jserv README, I should copy mod_jserv.c into the Apache src/modules/extra/ directory, add the line AddModule modules/extra/mod_jserv.o to the Apache Configuration file run Configure then recompile Apache. However, the Debian distribution of Apache appears to indicate that only the mod_jserv.c be compilied and a LoadModule line added to httpd.conf. Is this correct? If so, can somemone let me know where I can find instructions for compiling mod_jserv.c. Tnx, Nick Gilliam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-windows and PPPD
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:15:13AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From memory I think that ttyS0 (com1) and ttyS3 (com 4) share the same > interrupt. That could be your problem. Go into your bios setup and insure > that these comm ports do NOT share interrupts. Usually interrupt 5 or 7 > can be used for the third comm port. ttyS0 and ttyS2 would normally share an interrupt, as do ttyS1 and ttyS3. You need to change one out of each pair if you have both. I have four serial ports in one machine, using IRQs 4, 3, 5 & 7. 2 is also available if necessary. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: angband save problems
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? > > > > How do I check? > > Matthew > The users can run 'groups' to see what groups they are in. See man adduser on how to add a user to a group, but being lazy, I just edit /etc/group using a text editor (as root). In my /etc/group: games:*:60:ed You add more users to the games group by adding a comma then the next user like: games:*:60:ed,joe,billybob -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED (partly) Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > |> tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt > > Seems to be broken here too. > > > > Ditto here. Note to previous thread respondant. The *order* of > arguments > makes *no* difference. This still fails: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar This fails: tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar * But this works: tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar ./ Go figure. -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?
Ulisses Alonso wrote: > > Hi all! > > If I try to install exim I get the following: > > exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent > smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > > I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends > on it, what is the right way to upgrade? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ulisses IIRC, one way is to use dpkg first with: dpkg --purge --force-depends smail then immediately install exim (which will install w/ no problems now that smail is gone). If the above doesn't work run 'dpkg --help', because one of those options will do this for ya. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade From RH 5.0 to Debian 2.0
On Tue, 26 May 1998, David Lauder wrote: > Thanks to all for your excellent advice. I'm now running a Debian 2.0 > GNU/Linux system. The good news is the install went smoothly except Sorry, i have'nt read the debian mailing lists for a couple of weeks. Is there a HOWTO to convert a RH 5.0 to Debian 2.0? I have two RH 5.0 servers and I want to replace it with Debian 2.0. Thanks, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic - netscape
Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al > > to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are > > no > > fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al because > > it has no fonts > > > > but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! > > Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't > bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an > upstream issue. hmm really?I well...I never even thought to try that! I will look into ittho yea thats probably going to turn out to be an upstream issue The source code for xfstt is not...um...heavilly commented (im being polite :) when I showed the code to a co-worker he noted the lack of comments and asked if the author was russian) In fact I added a signal handler to the program as part of the code to handle making a pid file (so it will start on startup easily et al)...I think between 20 lines of code or so, I have as amny comments as the whole rest of the file -I try to comment liberally but not too much) in any case...I will look into it...I never even thought to try using a truetype font for fixed text...it seems kind of twisted to me (sort of "Why would you wanna go there?") -Steve > > >Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)
Nuno, There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!
Admaster Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of > > > tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt > > The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!! What is the correct > syntax??? The problem is that --exclude applies only to files tar finds by descending directories, not to files mentioned explicitly on the command line. When you use *, that's the same as typing every file name explicitly (since the shell does not pass tar the *, but instead passes it each file's name - try 'echo *' some time to see what the shell does); therefore, --exclude doesn't apply. The following appears to do what you want - be aware, however, that this tar archive contains ".", so when extracting it it will change the permissions of the current directory to the permissions of the directory when the tar archive was made: tar -czvf ../test.tar.gz --exclude='*exclude*pattern*' . (Note the ' marks and the final period - also note that test.tar.gz has to be in a different directory, or it will try to include itself - nasty recursion) Note that it's usually bad form to create a tar archive of files without a directory. That is, if the directory /home/martind/work/vander contains the files I want to make a tar archive out of, it's better to do: cd /home/martind/work/; tar czf vander.tar.gz vander than to do: cd /home/martind/work/vander; tar czf ../vander.tar.gz * The first method will mean that when one extracts the archive, all the extracted files go into a vander/ subdir. The second method means that all the newly extracted files go into the current directory, where there may already be much stuff. Note that if you use the first method, a --exclude will work as you might expect it should. If you really must have a tar archive with files in the current directory, and don't want to have "." in the archive, then try: (this should all be one long line) find * -prune \! -name '*exclude*pattern1*' -print | xargs tar czvf testtar.tar.gz --exclude='*exclude*pattern2*' The difference between '*exclude*pattern1*' and '*exclude*pattern2*' is that the first pattern excludes files in the current directory and the second excludes files in subdirs. of the current directory. For example, if I had the following files on my system: /tmp/tartest/ /tmp/tartest/bar /tmp/tartest/tbark /tmp/tartest/frog /tmp/tartest/sounds/ /tmp/tartest/sounds/frogcall.au /tmp/tartest/sounds/dogbark.au /tmp/tartest/sounds/catmeow.au /tmp/tartest/froglegs/ /tmp/tartest/froglegs/recipe1.txt /tmp/tartest/froglegs/recipe2.txt and then I did: cd /tmp/tartest find * -prune \! -name '*frog*' -print | \ xargs tar czvf mytar.tar.gz --exclude='*bar*' I would then get (as the output of 'tar tzf mytar.tar.gz'): bar tbark sounds/ sounds/frogcall.au sounds/catmeow.au Note that the '*frog*' excluded the 'frog' file in the top directory and the 'froglegs' directory. Also note that the '*bar*' didn't exclude the bar and tbark in the top directory (the way the long command is written causes tar to be called with the arguments 'bar', 'tbark', and 'sounds' - these are the output of the find command), but did exclude the 'dogbark.au' in the sounds directory - this is because tar was handed 'sounds' as an argument, and descended into the directory itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, 25 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Is there a /etc/hosts or DNS entry for your local machine? Just setting > the hostname is not enough, it must resolve because lpd is checking its > /etc/hosts.lpd file. > > That did it. Thanks! King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba
Greg Norris wrote: > Ok, with everyone's help I was able to get it working (thanx!). The main > problem turned out to be the "local master = yes" line under [global], > although there were a few other incidental changes which needed to be make > (such as the addition of a "mangle case" entry). > > Since then I've come up with another samba problem, tho. This morning I > was informed that I have been given dialup access to the NT lan at work > (about bloody time, but that's another story). I've configured ppp/chap to > connect, and am able to successfully telnet to various hosts. > Unfortunately, the wins setting seems to be a stumbling-block. > > In order for the local win95 machine to be able to connect to the linux > box, I had to set "wins support = yes". However, the remote network > requires a specific wins-server address, and samba won't allow me to also > specify "wins server = ???.???.???.???". So when I try to connect to a > share on the remote network, the request always fails. So far I've spent > most of this morning going through the samba docs (as well as searching > web-pages), and can't seem to find anything to address this problem (or > perhaps I'm just to blind to spot it...). If anyone has any information on > how to get around this (or pointers on where to look for it), I'd really > appreciate it. First of all, I don't think the version of samba you have supports the *use* of WINS servers. I know recent versions do because I'm on the samba list and follow its development. Anyway, if your version does, then don't use 'wins support = yes' as this makes your machine act as a wins *server* which is not what you want. You want to be a wins client. From what I gather from the smb.conf man page, the 'wins server = x.x.x.x' makes your machine register with a wins server, while it doesn't say anything about using this server for wins lookups. At any rate, you may not need the wins server. You may be able to overcome this by using the 'interfaces = ' option. WINS name lookup (unlike DNS lookups) defaults to using network broadcast. This is problematic with dialup lines since on a point-to-point like only the guy on the other side will see your broadcast. Broadcasts are not relayed by routers (unless they're directed broadcasts bound for an interface other than the one which they were received), but I digress. I think I'm missing what you're trying to do though. Let's get back to who's trying to connect to who. Perhaps you could draw a little ascii-art network representation. If I understand correctly, your Linux box dials up your NT network. Then you're trying to connect to a network share which is on the network you've dialed into, right? Is this a windows box you're trying to connect to? You 'local win95 machine' is local to where, your Linux box or the network you're dialing into? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XDM autostart question
David A. Bandel wrote: > Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: > > > > Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > > > lines in it... > > > > > > xdm-start-server > > > start-xdm > > > > > > My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any > > > idea what file calls the xdm stuff at boot time? > > > > > As root, try this: > > > > /etc/init.d/xdm start > > > > The /etc/init.d/xdm can be checked for any irregularities or hints. > > > > Bake > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I had the same trouble some time back. Take a look at /etc/init.d/xdm. > Mine was 0 bytes and xdm.dpkg-new hadn't properly replaced it. > > > David A. Bandel > -- > MS free and proud to be! > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will check this out tonight. If this is the case, how do I replaced it with the xdm.dpkg-new file? can I just rename/move it, or does it need to be processed in some way? Thanks, Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected
Trying adding the boot parameter "max_scsi_luns=1". If you're booting from LILO you can add the line to your image section: append = "max_scsi_luns=n" Or just to get booting you can hit Scroll-Lock when "LILO" appears and then you can type the parameter on the lilo boot line. Note that you'll need the name of the image too, so you'll type something like: Linux max_scsi_luns=1 Stefan Kunkel wrote: > Hi > I have a little Problem with my Debian-Kernel since i have connected > my Yamaha CDR-102 ! > When i boot from DOS, the Kernel finds all SCSI-Devices (including > the Recorder), but then he tries to find something on the ID of the > Recorder with the LUN of 1 and tries to reset the SCSI-Controller > (Tekram 390-U) > and then nothing happens !!! Everything stops !!! > What should i do ??? > Stefan > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED (partly) Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > This fails: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar * > > But this works: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar ./ > > Go figure. Have you compared absolute and relative path names? The shell expands * to a full path name. Also, listing the file in the list to the right (as you do with a *) may override the exclude flag. A test with ./* should explain things (sorry, I'm not at my box now). Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)
On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of > the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Or you could use ICQ for Java. I've used it with Solaris x86 and RedHat 5. It seems to be pretty stable. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I try to install exim I get the following: > > exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent > smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > > > I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends > on it, what is the right way to upgrade? I don't know if there is a _easy_ way with dselect. What worked for me was to use dpkg to remove smail with --force-depends, then install exim. Hopefully someone has a more correct suggestion. Scott -- Scott Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johmsweg 9, D-21266 Jesteburg, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disk server?
My personal linux network has been up and running for a while, but it's getting to be a pain to have several computers with home directories on each ... so I'm debating building a disk server. Any ideas how one goes about this on a small scale (I don't need a huge raid stack...) Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reading mailing list with gnus, but regular mail with MH
I can see the advantage of reading this mailing list threaded with gnus, specially after a two-week absence (when threads are more useful). I currently use procmail to filter all Debian traffic into a spool file (/var/spool/mail/debian) and use mh-e to read it like I do my regular mail spool. (I hacked a few Emacs commands to read that alternate folder and delete threads with one keustroke.) Can anyone who also uses MH for regular and gnus for the Debian mailing list post their relevant Emacs configuration? I'd like to try it, but only if mh-e can also use the resultant file layout. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected
Stefan Kunkel writes: > > Hi > I have a little Problem with my Debian-Kernel since i have connected > my Yamaha CDR-102 ! > When i boot from DOS, the Kernel finds all SCSI-Devices (including > the Recorder), but then he tries to find something on the ID of the > Recorder with the LUN of 1 and tries to reset the SCSI-Controller > (Tekram 390-U) > and then nothing happens !!! Everything stops !!! > What should i do ??? > Stefan I have the same problem with "stock" kernels (ie. one built into the installation floppy set). It seems that someone compiles in the multi-LUN option into the SCSI driver. I run a mix of IDE and SCSI drives. When this occurs, I disconnect the SCSI controller and boot pure IDE. I then recompile the kernel to get rid of that (useless to me) option and install the modified kernel (complete with bootable floppy). After shutdown, I re-install my SCSI controller and boot from the modified kernel and all is well! It seems to me that if someone _insist_ on compiling in the multi-LUN option, the driver _should_ timeout and continue with the bootup process (rather than hang up the system). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot problem after installation
Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. If I boot from the 'Custom Boot Floppy' it works, but when I boot the harddrive I get the following prompt: '2FA:', and nothing happens. /Tomas Petersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NFS mount problem
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Gilliam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 4:09 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NFS mount problem > > > > When attempting to mount nfs I get the following error: > > mount qms1:/home /mnt > > mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered ---snip--- This error indicates that the RPC software on the remote host is not running (required for NFS servers) which probably means that the "server" is not set up to be an NFS server yet. Check the rc scripts (look in /etc/init.d) for one related to NFS and see if you can manually start the daemons. I am afraid I do not know the Debian rc setup that well yet, so I cannot be more specific. On a Solaris system, there are files called "nfs.client" and "nfs.server". The first is started by default, the second has to be set to start by telling the init program to go to run state 3, rather than run state 2, as its initdefault in /etc/inittab. I expect something similar on the Debian Linux side. I hope this helps you get NFS running. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic - netscape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 26 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >>On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al >> to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are >> no >> fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al because >> it has no fonts >> >> but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! > >Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't >bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an >upstream issue. > - Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: - I keep using xfs, this allows me to keep using the old fixed fonts. The only thing that is not so good is that there is that much software that I would like to make use tt fonts, that don't support anything but monospaced fonts - this makes such software ugly - but hey, I'm satisfied and with time there'll be improvement. - -- Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" - -- == Christian Zander * web: ishmael.ml.org/~zander * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNWsaaxZiJXs96Q11AQFTTAQAoW8cLdNKZKZL6jLQtZ7m3wK/aLOx12ml vqEu1fMQnHamJbE8IjNbaRvSgqQXpgZtG9olixQ0psA7LODH79na4JNjy1byKzbc p7s2i5IjKYcV9CcQ+JcxMXl48b511eoDckNlYUu79OdqcfLF7s/H/HSg+6ADIw2w zw3io+EfdKs= =+FYL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I burned hamm on NT and now all the files end with ~1.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 25 May 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: >>I downloaded hamm at work and burned it on CD. >>When I can home, and mounted the CD-ROM drive as iso9660, all the files >>that are longer than 8 characters, ends with ~1. >>I tried mounting the drive again as vfat (with or without -o loop) but it >>said that it was not a block device. >> >>Is there a way to use this CD? (It seemed okay on the NT station, so it is >>a "problem" on the Linux end.) > > >You probably burned it as a Joliet filesystem... not supported under 2.0.x >kernels > >To burn it for use under Linux, you have to burn it as iso9660 with >RockRidge Extensions However, I don't know of any software on Win95/NT >that supports that. (Adaptec CD Creator Deluxe does not.) > >Later, >Kevin > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a patch for the linux 2.0.x kernels that teaches the kernel to cope with joliet - it patches the sources, though - you'd have to recompile your kernel from them with Joliet enabled - this is usually not that much of a problem - look into the Debian readme on that topic. - -- Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" - -- == Christian Zander * web: ishmael.ml.org/~zander * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNWscaRZiJXs96Q11AQEYiAP6Au0WNhyrKE7woMMgDsbSYpUvIUYDNhWR IQQTHVSBYHf92GK1JTlUSeTD1O5SEET+PnrH5R/Fi1+yoT6jx417rzJEZmE/g0NX GXaWBCyu0U+r8HNZwkZ3ljk+Adin0VfM7d5l9N4dH3AR6YQ5LSNFkayh8iWpWH6U xsRe0br2T2I= =RIPZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 26 May 1998, James A. Bates wrote: >>Hello everyone! > > I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with Debian (no > packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave to the 4 GB. I > downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive (C:\Debian), but I haven't > a clue how to get them to install into Linux. How can I mount the drives from > dselect? I'm VERY new to this so any in-depth/detailed help would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks in advance. > >James The thing is that Linux is not arranging the different partitions you might have on your hdd as c: d: ... but has a hirarchical directory structure starting with / (root). This allows you to mount partitions in virtually any place in this structure . This is a great thing for upgrades - lets assume you created several linux partitions at install time and mounted them so that they would take their places as /, /usr/ and /var. Should you ever encounter that the partition mounted as /usr does no longer provide sufficient capacity, you could simply install another hdd, copy the contents of the /usr partition to it and then mount the new harddrive as /usr. Accomplished is this with "mount", which takes several options, allowing you to mount any filesystem supported by your kernel: mount -t -o , where is vfat in case of win95 (dos: fat) the partition you would like to mount - linux organizes them this way: there are a lot of options for mount and the different supported filesystems - see man mount, etc. In your case, you probably want to use "nonumtails", to display vfat's long filenames correctly. /dev/hda ---> primary IDE hdd /dev/hda1 ---> first partition on primary IDE hdd /dev/hda2 ---> second ... /dev/hdb ---> secondary IDE hdd /dev/sda ---> first SCSI for you this would mean you'd have to mount /dev/hda1, since you are using IDE ( I assume) and windows/dow always uses the first partition on the first hdd for c:. would be the directory in the hirarchical order that you would like to display the contents of c: (/dev/hda1). This can be any directory - /mnt is a standard directory for temporary mounting of devices. I use /win95 for my driveC. Mount is always started at boot time, getting its information from /etc/fstab. Thus all linux file-systems are mounted. You can edit /etc/fstab to meet your needs. I don't want to get into detail on this topic, there is a lot of information on this available. I'll atach a version of my /etc/fstab for you to look at if you want - contact if you need more info ;-). hope this helps a bit. - -- Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" - -- == Christian Zander * web: ishmael.ml.org/~zander * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNWskPxZiJXs96Q11AQEXIwQAuoKpfYTp2bO7vpO2KhOXdr45REt+6iRa 5HjuQsYn/3D3s8PgUnUYuoPSbPTBobAp/Zr4EMgyLbeAYc+0McZAyKMNfzQKAHbA ylZc9ZQU9fM1BElssSB6AsYQAtFmolQJgc+vIKwdbXitctKu8VQQzVNJ3c+fxyM5 fBg2UWoh41o= =+Yfc -END PGP SIGNATURE- # /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults0 1 /dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults0 2 /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults0 2 /dev/hda1 /win95 vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec /dev/hda7 /cdimage ext2 user,noauto /dev/hda8 /winmedia vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec /dev/hdb3 /wingames vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec /dev/hdb4 /windata vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 user,ro,nonumtail,noauto /dev/sr0/cdwriter iso9660 user,ro,nonumtail,noauto
Networking with Novell and Win95
Hi I am in the process of setting up a Dabian Linux system. The root that I use to update the Dabian files is, download on Win95 to Novell server, boot Linux machine to Novell client move files to dos partition. reboot to Linux and use dselect. I have the Novell 2000 card activated now I would like to get the windows system to see the Linux system and the Linux system to see the Novell and Win95 system. I am getting closer from the docs but I find it confusing to say the least. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Libc6 is also a problem I can't seem to find it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Booting problem after install (Same as Tommas)
I 've installed debian on a p 166 with windows 95 on i split my HDD to make room for debian and i install lilo as it said in the installation menu.when i boot from my hdd win95 strart as default,when i press Tab to select i get 1FA: an the system waits.if i press down arrow or Tab again it displays 2FA: and then win95 boot my config of Hdd is :hda1 used by win95 :hda2 extented partition :hda3 primary partition for debian(flagged non bootable) :hda5 logical partition inside hda2 PS the floppy boot works fine __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem after installation
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:27:09PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: > Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything > went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. > If I boot from the 'Custom Boot Floppy' it works, > but when I boot the harddrive I get the following > prompt: '2FA:', and nothing happens. I had the same problem, the error is in /etc/lilo.conf, the problem is that the installation program puts (for my system): boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 change this to: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 or whatever your configuration happens to be, and then run lilo as root, it should boot now.. pgpWBMEortO9c.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?
actually, something like dpkg --remove smail dpkg --install exim*.deb --auto-deconfigure is more likely to work safely - force-depends really should only be a last resort, *and* should usually be accompanied by a bug report... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on COMPAQ ProLine 2500 ???
Hi, All i will get access to COMPAQ ProLine 2500 - two PPro/200, 64M, SCSI etc... Now it's running UnixWare 2.1, but i'm going to install Debian 2.0 (or at least RH 5.x if there is problems with Debian) Is this model supported in Debian? What about SMP kernel? Does it work with COMPAQ (mb, BIOS etc)? Is network card NetFlex 3 (?) supported? Any ideas/help is greatly appreciated... regards OK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enabling XDM on Debian Linux
Hi Igor, I've been trying in vain for days to enable xdm on my DEBIAN linux distribution and if today I'm contacting you ,it's because I'm in desperate need of some help.My problem is the following : I read the FAQOMATIC on about How to enable xdm and there it is said that I should uncomment a few lines in the file /usr/X11/config -- now this file is not there on my system and moreover it does not seem to play a major in the booting process .After reading the debian documentation , I understand that I should put all scripts to be executed at boottime in /etc/init.d and then create a symbolic link to it in the /etc/rcN.d directory where N is the default runlevel in the file /etc/inittab.I'm really confused here and I no longer know what to do.I tried placing xdm in the directory /etc/init.d and a symbolic link to it in /etc/rcN.d. At first it seems to work , but every time I put my login and password , it returns to the xlogin widget each time.This has driven me crazy and I just want someone to tell me how to do it the right way.It should be no secret you that I am quite new to Linux and managing my own system though I've been using HP-UX as a user at college.I'll be glad if you could email me to help me out .Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I find out who's using port # xxxxx
You can *also* do this with lsof: % sudo lsof -i tcp:25 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE NAME sendmail 239 root4u inet 0x005bc810 0t0 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) % using -i tcp:smtp works as well, "lsof -i :domain" is an example of finding either... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic - netscape
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > >> but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! > > > >Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't > >bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an > >upstream issue. > > I keep using xfs, this allows me to keep using the old fixed fonts. The only > thing that is not so good is that there is that much software that I would > like > to make use tt fonts, that don't support anything but monospaced fonts - this > makes such software ugly - but hey, I'm satisfied and with time there'll be > improvement. I have yet to find a decent font that scales well enough to be useful to me for an xterm. When you need a 12x20 or 12x22 font because you need to use 1024x768 on a 14" monitor with my vision, you'll have an appreciation for what I mean. =p This is part of the reason I (do not|can not effectively) use X. If I can save up my pennies for a nice 19-21" monitor I actually have a 20" monitor. I was hoping to be able to get it working. At the time I was using Other Operating Systems and they'd NEVER support reasonably the fixed freq 1024x768.. Now in Linux with svgatextmode and some X modelines, I probably could use it if I could somehow get the hsync on green--my Millennium supports fixed vsync monitors. The vsync is almost certainly 60Hz. The hsync could be averaged out. There's a little circuit that could be built to put the sync on green for me and I don't recall it costing much.. Otherwise paying for a similarly sized monitor is going to take awhile. I've tried telling X to use a virtual desktop, but that is just clumsy IMO very hard to use and defeats the whole point of having lots of non-text stuffs on the screen at once. I can see the icons fine thanks, it's the text that needs help. pgp27W5fQpygr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enabling XDM on Debian Linux
Yugesh Ramsaha wrote: > I read the FAQOMATIC on about How to enable >xdm and >there it is said that I should uncomment a few lines in the file >/usr/X11/config -- now this >file is not there on my system and moreover it does not seem to play a >major in the >booting process . That should be /etc/X11/config. If that does not exist, reinstall xbase. [Sounds as though that faq-o-matic needs editing...] > After reading the debian documentation , I understand >that I should put >all scripts to be executed at boottime in /etc/init.d and then create a >symbolic link to it in >the /etc/rcN.d directory where N is the default runlevel in the file >/etc/inittab.I'm really >confused here and I no longer know what to do. Too right! You *don't* need to do this; it is done automatically by the package installation scripts. Delete whatever you have put in there and definitely reinstall xbase. The documentation you have been reading correctly describes what happens; your mistake is in thinking that *you* have to do it. > I tried placing xdm in the >directory >/etc/init.d and a symbolic link to it in /etc/rcN.d. At first it seems >to work , but every time >I put my login and password , it returns to the xlogin widget each >time. You have put xdm itself in place of the script that should be controlling it. If you ever think you need to perform such convoluted exercises on any package, think again. Any such package would be so broken as to be unusable. A package ought to install straight off with no problems and very little interaction. >This has driven me >crazy and I just want someone to tell me how to do it the right way.It >should be no secret >you that I am quite new to Linux and managing my own system though I've >been using >HP-UX as a user at college.I'll be glad if you could email me to help me >out .Thanks a >lot. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." Philippians 2:3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk server?
I have a similar setup at home except instead of a dedicated disk server I just picked a machine that wasn't too busy and had some free space and exported /home and /var/spool/mail to my other two machines. I quickly realized I needed nis as well to keep uids/gids in sync. I just went by the NFS/NIS howtos and the redhat/debian yp*/nis packages and had no real problems. One interesting side effect is that netscape and afterstep (and other things I imagine) stores state information in a users home directory that causes a few oddities when running X sessions on two machines at the same time on different boxes. as a temporary kludge I just linked ~khill/.netscape to /opt/local/khill/.netscape on each machine I use it... there should be a better approach, though... -kevin On Tue, 26 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > My personal linux network has been up and running for a while, but it's > getting to be a pain to have several computers with home directories on > each ... so I'm debating building a disk server. Any ideas how one goes > about this on a small scale (I don't need a huge raid stack...) > > Will > > > -- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| > -- > | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | > | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | > | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?
Hallo, Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. Johann. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." Philippians 2:3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scsi tape devices?
Can someone tell me what the *a, *l, and *m devices are/do for for my scsi tape drive? The Linux Device List was not very enlighting. 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 128 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 224 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0a 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 160 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0l 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 192 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0m 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 0 May 28 1997 /dev/st0 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 96 May 28 1997 /dev/st0a 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 32 May 28 1997 /dev/st0l 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 64 May 28 1997 /dev/st0m Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic - netscape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >I have yet to find a decent font that scales well enough to be useful to me >for an xterm. When you need a 12x20 or 12x22 font because you need to use >1024x768 on a 14" monitor with my vision, you'll have an appreciation for >what I mean. =p > >This is part of the reason I (do not|can not effectively) use X. If I can >save up my pennies for a nice 19-21" monitor > > >I actually have a 20" monitor. I was hoping to be able to get it working. >At the time I was using Other Operating Systems and they'd NEVER support >reasonably the fixed freq 1024x768.. > >Now in Linux with svgatextmode and some X modelines, I probably could use it >if I could somehow get the hsync on green--my Millennium supports fixed >vsync monitors. The vsync is almost certainly 60Hz. The hsync could be >averaged out. There's a little circuit that could be built to put the sync >on green for me and I don't recall it costing much.. > >Otherwise paying for a similarly sized monitor is going to take awhile. >I've tried telling X to use a virtual desktop, but that is just clumsy IMO >very hard to use and defeats the whole point of having lots of non-text >stuffs on the screen at once. I can see the icons fine thanks, it's the >text that needs help. Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 with a 14" monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would fatigue too early, which forced me to lower the res to 800x600, which was ok for my windows apps. When I started calculating modelines and experimenting with X I discovered that most people that had contributed modelines were using BIG monitors - most of the X software seemed to be developed for big displays as well. You mention xterm - i think it is a good example. Working with the virtual desktops was fun at first (I'd never done anything remotely similar before and it was a way of making up the missing space, however Netscape Mail was just to big to fit one of the virtual desktops which resulted in a permanent desktop switching to reach the several send/receive buttons (I didn't know about Xresources then). I finally decided it was no use running X and its software below 1024x768 (at least my tired eyes did) and I bought a 17" monitor - I regret the purchase of many things related to my computer, but this was a good investment. Maybe you should consider getting a 17" one instead of 19" - they aren't that bad. I was surprised when I got mine: it allows 1152x864 @100Hz. How old is your 20" monitor? Do you think its necessary to modify it in order to make it run? -- Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" - -- == Christian Zander * web: ishmael.ml.org/~zander * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNWtaVRZiJXs96Q11AQGaewP/fDccDbVsAFGkFJs7K7zt8OvA46owdduP zHxaIh2cl54aJi9yBkg0LjS4E+YriRQJlxZnUhy++z1DT9zo6hcbxOZikTA0lKvJ g/SpjvqxR3BrTrVNi7P5XlDbodP1NL0KBFix3ETNakL89okc8f513x+v7Vd2cTd3 hgtYiDR5svY= =KHLy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...
Chris, Where do you find the options, ie. nonumtail, user, rw, exec, for the fstab file? I have looked in (man)fstab, mount, mfstab, etc, but have been unable to find anything. What I am really interested in is the "nonumtail" meaning. I think I can figure out the user, read/write/exec, but could not find what the meaning is for that option, nonumtail. Let me know what it means or where I can find the meaning. Thanks in advance. Harry Tuttle On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:56:22PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > # > > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults0 1 > /dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0 > > proc/proc proc defaults0 0 > > /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults0 2 > /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults0 2 > > /dev/hda1 /win95 vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec > /dev/hda7 /cdimage ext2 user,noauto > /dev/hda8 /winmedia vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec > > /dev/hdb3 /wingames vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec > /dev/hdb4 /windata vfat nonumtail,user,rw,exec > > /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 user,ro,nonumtail,noauto > /dev/sr0/cdwriter iso9660 user,ro,nonumtail,noauto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?
How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?
You download the jdk1.1-runtime debian package (And jdk1.1-dev if you want to do development) from non-free/devel. Then use dpkg as usual. Timothy >How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-May-98 Time: 18:54:53 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic - netscape
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort > of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 > with a 14" monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would > fatigue too early, which forced me to lower the res to 800x600, which was > ok for my windows apps. When I started calculating modelines and > experimenting with X I discovered that most people that had contributed > modelines were using BIG monitors - most of the X software seemed to be > developed for big displays as well. You mention xterm - i think it is a > good example. Working with the virtual desktops was fun at first (I'd > never done anything remotely similar before and it was a way of making up > the missing space, however Netscape Mail was just to big to fit one of the > virtual desktops which resulted in a permanent desktop switching to reach > the several send/receive buttons (I didn't know about Xresources then). I'm talking about the panning around the desktop.. ie a 1024x768 desktop with a 640x480 window for example. DOS programs that do this range from $50 (MAGic) to $500 (ZoomText) and those didn't AFAIK do windoze, though I am sure ZoomText does by now. X server will do it free, if that's what you want. It's not what I want though. I want just the TEXT bigger, or a monitor that makes EVERYTHING bigger. > I finally decided it was no use running X and its software below 1024x768 > (at least my tired eyes did) and I bought a 17" monitor - I regret the > purchase of many things related to my computer, but this was a good > investment. Maybe you should consider getting a 17" one instead of 19" - > they aren't that bad. I was surprised when I got mine: it allows 1152x864 > @100Hz. Yes, but you see without large fonts I have trouble in 800x600 on my 14", I really should be using 640x480. I have VERY bad eyesight. =p > How old is your 20" monitor? Do you think its necessary to modify it in > order to make it run? Old enough that it requires a sync on green and for 20" is a 60Hz monitor with 1024x768 _ONLY_, ie no VGA. Before I got this thing, the Commission for the Blind of Oregon (I am considered legally blind and this state funded organization helps find people like me reasonable jobs and helps pay for or often outright buys adaptive equipment that makes the task easier) offered to try and buy the 21" monitor that my counsellor at the Commission agreed would help me LOTS more than any software solution which tended to slow me down and had compatibility problems anyway.. The end result was that they could buy the $500 software, a $2500 speech synthesizer and DOS speech software (summer of 95, all win95 was at the time was hype) but not the $1200 monitor. Not specifically adaptive equipment so they couldn't do it. I found one here[1] that looked promising, but that's still gonna be $650 by the time I could get it shipped It's only 19" but it should do for 1024x768 and possibly an occasional trek into 1280x1024 for viewing of very hi-res graphics. It's only a .28mm but it'll still go up to 1600x1200 which is more than I can use for ANYTHING practical. It's a 202MHz monitor with freqs of 30-95kHz, 50-160Hz so it'll do thos nice, big, high refresh rate modes for graphics and text.. => Of course I'm not using a free OS because I have loads of cash laying around. that's a little outside my budget now and I think a hard drive is more essential just now. --- [1] http://www.adiusa.com/6p.html pgpKx2B9bkJkZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
