slrn and attachments

[Debian Mail]

> slrn is very mutt-like (or is it the other way around?)
> It handles attachments well and I am using it right now to read these lists.

OK, I started it and had a look trough the documentation. If I
understood it right, I have to save an attachment to a posting first,
and then open the saved file manualy. Is there a way to do this
directly without creating a permanent file like one can do with mutt?

Stef

Re: changing irq of eth0

[Peter Berlau]

Hi,
[..]
> The card is already set to 10 but GNU/Linux seems to want it at 15. 
> So where do I say
> it's 10?
> 
you must change the entry in '/etc/conf.modules'
for a novell ne 2000 clone, (I have this one)
You need a entry like
options ne io=0x240 irq=10
You must io setting to Your needs.
if You use a 'newer' modutils 
(
 don't remember which version  change this, but if You use slink
 i assume it will be the newer version 
)

You will have a directory
'/etc/modutils'
make a file in this directory, e.g.
options
add the options line 
save it and run 'update-modules'
this will make the '/etc/conf.modules' file for You


-- 
Peter Berlau 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

leafnode and expiration of articles

[wax_man]

I there anyway to set the expiration time on read articles?  I have
texpire running every midnight, but it is not expiring many articles. 
I would like read articles to expire after a week or so.

TIA,

Chris

Re: partitions for sun sparc 10

[Phil Nitschke]

> "AW" == Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  AW> I would like to install debian on a sun sparc 10 with 64 megs and
  AW> 4 gigs of disk space.
  AW> How many partitions can I create? Are there primary and extended 
partitions?
  AW> There are following partitions on the system now.

  AW> /root 128.25 MB
  AW> /swap 128.25 MB
  AW> /var  128.25 MB
  AW> /opt  128.25 MB
  AW> /usr  128.25 MB
  AW> /usr/local1.13 GB
  AW> /home 2.26 GB

  AW> Can you give me some hints, please?

You can create as many partitions as you please, but I see no need to
do this.  As far as I know, the primary and extended partition
restrictions are DOS/Intel limitations.

Your existing partitions are fine: I'd leave them as is, except change
/usr and /usr/local around, i.e.

 /root  128.25 MB
 /swap  128.25 MB
 /var   128.25 MB
 /opt   128.25 MB
 /usr/local 128.25 MB
 /usr   1.13   GB
 /home  2.26   GB

You can change these assignments by simply editing the /etc/fstab file.

For a base Debian install, you won't _need_ the /opt or /usr/local
partitions, but you might install some KDE or StarOffice applns, and
then these partitions might be a convenient place to put them.

-- 
Phil

Re: Apache and public_html directories

[Paul Miller]

Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> 
> Is the file /home/mark/public_html readable by the user or group that
> Apache runs as?  I set the home directories of my users up to have
> permissions of 710 and membership in the group that Apache runs as
> ("wheel" on my main computer, "www-data" on every Debian installation I've
> ever seen) and the public_html directory has permissions of 775.
> 
> This means that Apache can get into everybody's public_html directory, but
> no users can.

This does not have to be set up this way. The permission on the users
home directory should be a minimum of 701. The public_html directory the
same. The files within the public_html directory need to be a minimum of
604. 

I personally do not feel comfortable giving users membership in the
wheel group as I have always believed it to be researved for those
granted some super-user rights. With the above file permissions, you can
leave home directories and such at the default group, or whatever
grouping scheme you wish to use.

-- 
Paul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IRC

[Dave McFadden]

At 02:03 PM 2/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I would like to give the on line irc at debian a try.  What software
>package would I use, and how to set it up to access the debian channel?
>

After trying some of the IRC packages, I have settled on BitchX.

If you are not familiar with IRC, BitchX comes with some basic IRC help as
well as its own docs. (there are 1000s of IRC help sites on the web too)

If you are familiar with IRC, you will have no trouble; it responds to all
the basic IRC commands.

Run it from some user other than root, and it will attempt to log onto
whatever the default net is. (it may not succeed) I get my help from this
mailing list and have never been to debian. Hopefully, if you choose
BitchX, by the time you get it downloaded someone else will reply and
correct any lame commands I give you:

To get on the Debian IRC net, type:

/server irc.debian.org  (hope I got THAT right at least)

/nick kenneth_newbie  ('kenneth' probably belongs to someone, but you are
free to pick any unused nick you like)

/list  (gives you a list of channels)

pick a likely looking channel and type:

/join #channelname  (replace 'channelname' with the one you chose)

If you chose a channel that can't help, someone will likely point you in
the right direction.





Effective immediately, use of department
funds to purchase Microsoft software will
be considered grounds for dismissal.

Installing nntp?

[Debian Mail]

I want to install nntp. It depends on cnews. When I want to install
cnews, it conflicts with inewsinn. But inewsinn is needed for my
newsreaders to work, isn't it?
What do I have to do?

Stef

Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:45:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote:

> >As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940
> >Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS
> >does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT does fine.

Try the new boot disks, 2.1.8, available from Incoming
(http://debian.midco.net/Incoming)

It sounds like you have access to another linux box.  Check (kernel source)
drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx;  you'll have to play a little with some of the
aic7xxx's options to find out the correct termination settings.


Marcelo

what happened to irc.debian.org?

[Paul Nathan Puri]

I've been trying to connect to irc.debian.org for some time now.

It appears to be down.  Does anyone have the lowdown on this?

I have a feeling the developers are busy getting slink ready.
-- 
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Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
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nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux.
I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my
network card on the Laptop to work.  The indicator is on but still, it is dead.

--
Andrew

need help about bind and dns

[Ramiel Givergis]

@ Home I have a 5 computer LAN so that I share files, internet etc. with my 
sibling and parents.
Currently to connect to the internet I use my Debian 2.1 using pon and then I 
run another script
I made called ipon which runs the ipfwadm stuff... then when I disconnect I use 
poff and then
ipoff which sets my network settings again so my network works after I 
disconnect... I also use
a server called dynamic IP (from dynip.com).

I run this dynipclient program and it will assign my current dynamic ip to 
something.dynip.com
and then I have a cname from my domain to point to that from 
something.mydomain.com

I really need to find a way to automate this so when I run pon/poff they will 
take care of my
ipfwadm setup and maybe my dynipcleint if possible.

The other thing is I really really want to find out how to make my computer 
believe it
is for example:   home.mydomain.com
since home.mydomain.com allready points to my IP

below I have including my pon, poff, ipon, ipoff, and /etc/init.d/network files 
if they help:

Thanks,
   Ramiel

---pon---
#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider}
-

---poff--
#!/bin/sh

# $Id: poff,v 1.4 1998/05/26 14:46:08 phil Exp $
# Written by Phil Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, distributed under the GNU GPL
SIG=TERM DONE=stopped;

getopts rdch FLAG
case $FLAG in
 "r") SIG=HUP  DONE=signalled; shift  ;;
 "d") SIG=USR1 DONE=signalled; shift ;;
 "c") SIG=USR2 DONE=signalled; shift ;;
 "h") cat ===~~~-- 
This mail is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and 
grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to 
be considered flaws or defects.

Re: what happened to irc.debian.org?

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> I've been trying to connect to irc.debian.org for some time now.
> 
> It appears to be down.  Does anyone have the lowdown on this?
> 
> I have a feeling the developers are busy getting slink ready.

For some reason, irc.debian.org doesn't work thru an IPMASQ connection.
Try connecting instead to irc.openprojects.net, #debian.

-Mitch

fetchmail doesn't put email...

[Paul Nathan Puri]

Fetchmail downloads my email apparently.  But it does not, put the email
in a place where mutt can find it.  After running fetchmail, mail is
downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there.

What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail
in the right place?
-- 
NatePuri
Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ompages.com
Receive my PGP Public Key from http://www.pgp.com/

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

[Dale E. Martin]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am still looking for that package.  Do I install it after I finish
> installing the base system?

Yes.  It's in the "admin" section.

Later,
Dale
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Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Dale E. Martin]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux.
> I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my
> network card on the Laptop to work.  The indicator is on but still, it is 
> dead.

If you run "ifconfig" as root what does it say?

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smb.conf and preexec

[tony mollica]

Hi.  I'm running samba 1.9.18p8 on a Debian
2.0, 2.0.34 system connected to a winnt4sp3
network.  Most everything works nicely, but
I can't get the cdrom's (2 scsi) on the Linux
box to automount with "preexec = ".  The fstab
is set as follows and as recommended in the smb.conf
file:

/dev/scd0 /cd0 iso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0

The smb.conf entry is

[cd0]
comment = Samba Server's cdrom 0
writable = no
locking = no
path = /cd0
public = yes
preexec /bin/mount  /cd0
postexec /bin/umount /cd0

  /cd0 has 0755 permissions and 'mount /cd0' works from 
  from the terminal.  Everything appears to be working,
  except it seems the 'preexec' command doesn't get run.


I find no further information on this item in the docs.

Any suggestions?

thanks,
-- 

tony mollica
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD recorder problem

[Daniel J. Brosemer]

On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord.  Unless you have a special
reason to use cdwrite, I suggest 
  cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw
   ^
for testing so you don't kill a disc.

if that doesn't work, try as root, are you a member of the group that owns
/dev/sr0?  Have you logged out and back in since becoming a member of the
group?  If it works as root, you have permission problems, if not, post
again, and I will try and suggest other things.

> I have a CD recorder (Philips 2x2x6) and when I try
> to write a CD with
>cdwrite -v -D /dev/sr0 cdimage.raw
> I get
>   cdwrite 2.0
>   Track 01: data7 Mb 
>   opening scsi device: Read-only file system
> 
> At boot the CD recorder is detected:
> 
> Vendor: SCSI-CD   Model: ReWritable-2x2x6  Rev: 2.00
> Type:   CD-ROMNSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> 
> I have changed the permissions of /dev/scd0 (to which sr0 is
> symlinked) to 770; I get the same result;
> 
> I have surely missed something but what?
> (I dont think it's a hardware problem because the recorder
> works under Windows)

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> I am still looking for that package.  Do I install it after I finish
>> installing the base system?
> 
> Yes.  It's in the "admin" section.

You mean on the CDROM?  Yes I think I have seen it there, but if I cannot put
it on a disk and put it in the TP that way, it won't work.

thanks

--
Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on
>> OpenLinux.
>> I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my
>> network card on the Laptop to work.  The indicator is on but still, it is
>> dead.
> 
> If you run "ifconfig" as root what does it say?

It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying.

--
Andrew

RE: fetchmail doesn't put email...

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> Fetchmail downloads my email apparently.  But it does not, put the email
> in a place where mutt can find it.  After running fetchmail, mail is
> downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there.
> 
> What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail
> in the right place?

poll mail.yourisp.net with proto POP3
   user "your_account" there with password "password" is 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] here

 caution- wordwrap


That works for me

--
Andrew

/home/ftp directory question

[Pollywog]

I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no
pub, etc, bin or anything else).  Is this normal?

thanks

--
Andrew

keboaard prooblems :)

[Daniel J. Brosemer]

Hi, I've been having some keyboard problems on a newly installed hamm
system.

Often when typing some characters are repeated twice as in the subject
heading. Also sometime the shift key will act as if it's held down even
though it is physically up.

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this?

thanks in advance
-Dano

(the subject problems were actually completely accidental.)
(the other typos were just typos)

Re: CRASH: filesystem went read only

[Chuck Stickelman]

Frederick Page wrote:

> Hi Richard Harran,
>
> you wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +:
>
> >I just had a huge panic, when my file system 'spontaneously' turned read
> >only!
>
> man tune2fs
>

While this is a very useful manpage, I'm not sure it's addressing the real 
issue.
Richard's hard drive experienced some problem that has corrupted the file 
system.
Linux noted the problems and marked the file system readonly to prevent further 
data
loss and additional problems with the file system's integrity.

In short, Linux was being smart and making the problem noticeable.  The 
alternative
was
for it to allow you to continue using the file system, which would have 
certainly
added to the corruption.


>
> Your device has reached the time between two file-system checks. Wait
> until the checks are finished, it should become rw again after that.
>
>

With luck, fsck will correct the problem.  However, if the problem *is* the 
result of
some problem with the physical media, then fsck may or may not correct things.  
I've
had this same problem recently on my /usr.  I ran fsck on the partition, was 
told it
had corrected the problem but was left with all sorts of weird junk in
/usr/lost+found.  For me the solution was to run the diagnostics that came from 
the
drive's manufacturer - which relocated some bad sectors.  Then, on a whim, I 
re-ran
fsck to see if it could fix the file system.  It did, though it created even 
more
junk in /usr/lost+found.

I eventually had to run debugfs to fix the problem.  Then I purged and 
re-installed
the packages that had owned the directories that were effected.  Sure I could 
have
just wiped the partition clean and restored from a backup but I was in the mood 
for a
challenge and I ahd never worked with debugfs before.  The nice thing was that 
it was
*only* my /usr...;)


> Kind regards
>
> Frederick
>
> --
> Linux *is* user-friendly.
> It's just a little picky about it's friends.
>

Chuck

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9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625
Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA

Re: what happened to irc.debian.org?

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:

> > I've been trying to connect to irc.debian.org for some time now.
> > 
> > It appears to be down.  Does anyone have the lowdown on this?
> > 
> > I have a feeling the developers are busy getting slink ready.
> 
> For some reason, irc.debian.org doesn't work thru an IPMASQ connection.
> Try connecting instead to irc.openprojects.net, #debian.

Actually I think there may be a hostname resolution problem, try host
irc.debian.org, it is a cname to irc.openprojects.net which is a huge host
rotation (some of which may be down..)

Try using irc.us.debian.org (or any other country code)

Jason 

Re: where is telnetd?

[dyer]

Frankie wrote:

> Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
> >
> > Is telnetd part of the of the official debian 2.0 CD'S because I failed
> > to find it?
>
> yes it is - its in net.

[snip]

>
> actually, in 2.0 it's part of netstd package with ftpd etc... it was
> seperated out in slink.

dyer

fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

[Paul Nathan Puri]

I have sendmail set to forward mail to an smtp host (i.e., my.isp.net).

Fetchmail, seems to be downloading my email from my mail.isp.net
account, and then sendmail sends it back to my isp which then their
postmaster sends me the "Delivery Failure" message.

How do I correct this so that I can still send email from mutt
but then have fetchmail put my email in the /var/spool/mail/me?

Here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file:

poll mail.myisp.net with proto POP3
user me there with password oshiat is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] here
keep
-- 
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Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
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Re: Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages

[Chuck Stickelman]

Randy Edwards wrote:

> > I am passing around a link to a new page
> > designed for the purpose of helping
> > LINUX move into the classroom.
>
>Sounds like a great idea.  Linux is a "natural" for education.

Yes!!  So much so that I've convinced the department head at the local technical
college -
North Central Technical College (NCTC) - here in Mansfield to use it on all of 
the
systems
to be used in the Unix course I've just agreed to teach.

Starting March 29th we will have at least 24 new Debian users!!  The plans are 
for us
to use the Debian Linux users manual (2nd edition?) as the course's text book.  
And
to send each and every student home with a CD-ROM set so they can also load it 
onto
their personal systems - and with luck pass it along!!!

Let's hear it for CIS-270!!!

>
>
>Besides consultant types, what else do you need?  I'm a technology
> coordinator in a public school district and have been beating the Linux drum
> in educational circles as loudly as I can.  For example, in March I'm doing
> two presentations on Linux in education, one at a state (NH) meeting of tech
> coords, and one at the national SchoolTechExpo in NYC.
>
>One can make many strong arguments for using Linux in educational settings,
> especially cash-strapped ones.  The main problem is that system administrators
> for public schools are often ill-trained (or non-trained) and overworked...the
> enthusiasm of students helps some in that regard, but only a little.
>

In Ohio it's even worse.  The state has sent out bids for managing the 
introduction
of technology into the public schools - the bid went to one or more regional
companies/consortiums, all of which favor NT...if the schools want the state 
funds,
then they have to do what the consortiums dictate.  It really sucks.  I was 
"this
close" to putting a Linux based solution in at the school where my children 
attend,
but was shot down at the last minute by the demand for NT.

>
> --
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>  .| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | world safe for computing
>  Randy| [EMAIL PROTECTED]  | illiteracy.  Coming soon
>   | http://www.golgotha.net  | to a brain near you...
>

Chuck


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Re: How to make Netscape use Debian mailcap ?

[Frozen Rose]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does anybody know why Netscape does not use /etc/mailcap and
>/etc/mimetypes ? It is rather annoying that Netscape won't startup
>gv for .ps files even though we have such a nice mime-type
>definition for every package.

That's simply an example of Netscape's "broken" (imho) approach to
things. It manages it's own MIME database under Windows, so it can do
it under UNIX too, dammit

I did write a plug-in (based on plugger) to make it read /etc/mailcap
and /etc/mime.types although I wasn't happy with it, and I haven't
worked on it for a while. I can put the source up for download if
anyone else is interested- I recommend looking at the plugger source
too, and probably reading the Netscape Plugin SDK documentation (which
I haven't done...)

SRH
-- 
Steve HaslamValidation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England
I will protect you from your visions to save you from illusions
I will protect you from ideals to save you from defeat[covenant]

xbiff for remote mail?

[Rob Mahurin]

Question:  I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my
desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server.  Is there an easy
way to do this?  The only ways I can think of are to set it up to
check through fetchmail (though I don't want to download my mail;
that's why I set up IMAP in the first place) or to set up some kind of
telnet script and start the xbiff on my shell account at school.
Could anybody help me get started in either/both of these directions?

I think I could also use fetchmail -c -d, but that wouldn't be
gooey, which is more what I'm looking for.

Thanks a lot,
Rob

-- 
If God had intended Men to Smoke, He would have put Chimneys in their Heads.

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

[Chuck Stickelman]

Paul Nathan Puri wrote:

> Fetchmail downloads my email apparently.  But it does not, put the email
> in a place where mutt can find it.  After running fetchmail, mail is
> downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there.
>
> What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail
> in the right place?
>

I had to add the following line to /root/.fetchmailrc in order to get the mail
delivered:

postconnect '/usr/bin/runq'

> --
> NatePuri
> Certified Law Student
> & Debian GNU/Linux Monk
> McGeorge School of Law
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://ompages.com
> Receive my PGP Public Key from http://www.pgp.com/
>

HTH.

Chuck

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Practical Network DesignVoice:  +1-419-529-3841
9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625
Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA

apt-get downloading packages question

[Preston Landers]

Hey there...

Finally got apt-get to download slink packages for me.  I don't know
exactly how I fixed it.  I did two things: download + install slink base
manually, and install apt-get 0.3.0.  

Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get
annonyingly gives up the whole process with a single bad transfer or
connection.  all I have to do is press enter about three times to get it
to start over, but for some reason, it's happening every few minutes and
I have to babysit it.  There's got to be a better way ... a way for
apt-get to keep retrying.  By the way, I'm using apt-get within dselect.

Any ideas?

many thanks in advance,
Preston

Junkbuster and Mail Problems

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

So I set the http proxy to localhost with a port of 5865 and the
security proxy to localhost with a port of 5865.  I am able to surf
around but now I cannot retrieve mail through Netscape unless I reset
the proxy back to Automatic detection.  What's up with this?  Anyone
know?

Lance

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

[Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam]

Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory...

Regards,
Vaidhy
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found.  Do I need a
> package?  I'm in su mode too.
> 
> Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > > When I have my cd-writer installed as secondary ide device,
> > > after my cd-rom drive, and have the kernel configure with
> > > ide cdrom unselected, and scsi emulation, and generic scsi
> > > selected, the system hangs on boot.  Where I have only the
> > > cd-writer connected as primary ide, the system boots fine,
> > > and 1 scsi host is detected, but I can't find a device to
> > > mount...
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
> > >
> > >
> > I do not know about the first situation.. but for the second one, turn off 
> > the scsi emulation and just leave the atapi cd rom and you can access the 
> > cd rom with /dev/hdb
> > 
> > or.. turn on the scsi emulation and turn off the atapi cd rom, turn on the 
> > scsicdrom and do a MAKEDEV sgall and MAKEDEV sr and you should be able to 
> > access your cd rom thru sr0..
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vaidhy
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Re: The usual reboot problems

[Laurent PICOULEAU]

On Mon, 22 Feb, 1999 à 01:30:25PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> 
> > 
> > That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that 
> > machine.
> > I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to a floppy, but when I
> > find it, I will try it.
> 
> Uhm, the floppy is a standard msdos disk:
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos
> 
> Then copy the kernel:
> 
> cp /vmlinuz /mnt/vmlinuz

I think that the kernel on the boot floppy has to be named linux not vmlinuz 
unless if slink differs from hamm on this point.

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Re: apt-get downloading packages question

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Preston Landers wrote:

> Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get
> annonyingly gives up the whole process with a single bad transfer or
> connection.  all I have to do is press enter about three times to get it

It should give up the file it is downloading but reconnect for the other
files.. Actually depending on what 0.3.0 bugfix varient you got you might
have various sorts of problems.. (including repeated getsockerr errors)

I have placed the latest CVS apt at

http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_19980223_i386.deb

you might want to use it.. (but not with gnome-apt)

Jason

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

[Paul Nathan Puri]

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory...
> 
> Regards,
> Vaidhy
> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found.  Do I need a
> > package?  I'm in su mode too.
> > 
> > Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > > > When I have my cd-writer installed as secondary ide device,
> > > > after my cd-rom drive, and have the kernel configure with
> > > > ide cdrom unselected, and scsi emulation, and generic scsi
> > > > selected, the system hangs on boot.  Where I have only the
> > > > cd-writer connected as primary ide, the system boots fine,
> > > > and 1 scsi host is detected, but I can't find a device to
> > > > mount...
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I do not know about the first situation.. but for the second one, turn 
> > > off the scsi emulation and just leave the atapi cd rom and you can access 
> > > the cd rom with /dev/hdb
> > > 
> > > or.. turn on the scsi emulation and turn off the atapi cd rom, turn on 
> > > the scsicdrom and do a MAKEDEV sgall and MAKEDEV sr and you should be 
> > > able to access your cd rom thru sr0..
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Vaidhy
> > > > --
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I did that but it said ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "sgall"
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Re: keboaard prooblems :)

[Daniel J. Brosemer]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:

> Hi there Daniel,
>   How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new
> keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I
> often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out.
>   Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system.
>   BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i
> tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem.
This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard
works fine there.  I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need
to be tweaked?  But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no
need.  And I don't know where to look for such things.

-Dano

Re: Web email packages question

[Jonathan Guthrie]

Quoting Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > What packages are available that would allow me to get
> > to my email from the web server on my system?

> Run -- don't walk! -- to http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian/ and grab
> Ivan Moore's IMP setup.  When I did an overview of all the web-based systems
> IMP stood out as at least one of the best, if not the best of the bunch.  Ivan
> has a really slick deb created of it.

As a result of your message, and at the request of one of my users who wanted
WWW access to his email account, I have installed IMP.  While it seems to work
okay for most application, it has problems with mailboxes that have large
numbers (somewhere between 500 and 700 messages) in them.  To be sure, those
problems seem to be with php3 rather than imp (I got segfaults on the Web server
process before reducing the size of my inbox) but that's something to be aware
of.

(BTW, I'm running it on a copy of Stronghold 2.4.1 that I patched so it could
use PHP-3.0.6.  The amazing part is that it all works.)

-
This mail sent through IMP: http://web.horde.org/imp/

Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

[Kevin Traas]

I want to connect an external ISDN 
to my system using the MB's standard serial ports.  However, everything's 
telling me I can only push 115K through these serial ports - far less than the 
theoretical max of an ISDN TA that does V.42bis.
 
Any comments/suggestions on 
"overclocking"  ;-)  built-in serial ports to 230 (or 460) 
Kbps?
 
Note:  I realize that HS serial 
ports/boards are available, but I don't want to shell out the money if I don't 
have to
Note2: If you can recommend a good external ISDN 
TA (North America) or an internal that supports DialD, I'd love to hear from 
you.
 
Thanks,
Kevin


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Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

[Nathan E Norman]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote:

 : I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble.
 : 
 : As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940
 : Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS
 : does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT does fine.

Non-Linux-like OSs seem to be "tolerant" of SCSI trouble that will bring
Linux (and FreeBSD for that matter) to its knees.

 : When I try to install Hamm, Slink, or Potato, with the standard images or
 : with the boot images from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/, I either
 : get an infinite loop of trying to reset channell 0 (or something similar)
 : or I get a total lock-up just after the point in the boot-up where 419
 : instructions are downloaded to the adapter.

Adaptec cards can be tough, particularly cards of this vintage.
However, I've struggled mightily with ST32155W drives, too.  Termination
is almost always "wrong" from the factory.

Some ideas:

Use a boot kernel with the aha7xxx driver as the only SCSI HBA driver -
all are compiled in by default and this can really piss off some
Adaptecs.  You should find, steal, or borrow such a kernel - your
chances of success without it are slim :/

Try getting just one drive to work; add more drives after success.  Use
different cables, if you have extras.

Make sure termination and cabling is absolutely correct!  I assume
you're using 68 pin connectors here.  Look for bent pins in the cable.
Make sure each drive uses active termination, with only the last drive
terminated.  Throw away any passive terminators.  If you're using 50 to
68 pin header converters (usually seen on CD-ROMS or non-UW devices),
throw those away too!  Connect 50 pin devices via the 50 pin HBA
connector (I see the "converters" used far too often).

Are you using delayed spin?  I prefer making the controller "start" each
drive during the scan.  Four UW drives spinning up at the same time
could cause problems.

Turn off drive translation in the controller.  Don't turn off parity -
if turning parity off gives better results then something is hosed
anyway :)

SCSI isn't magic; you just need the right phase of the moon, some
incantations, etc. :)

Hopefully this gives you some ideas ...

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Re: ROOT created chaos !

[Nathan E Norman]

On 23 Feb 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

 : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 : Nathan E Norman  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 : >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
 : >
 : > : As root, I typed the following:
 : > : 
 : > : "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh".
 : > : 
 : > : I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does 
not
 : > : exist, the system does not allow me to log in as root. I tried to log as 
su
 : > : but it does not work! There must be some way to change the things back!
 : >
 : >As your non-root user, type
 : >
 : >  su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/chsh
 : >
 : >You will be prompted for the root passwd, and then the chsh command will
 : >run.
 : 
 : I changed the root shell to /bin/bash/nope, and tried this:
 : 
 : % su -s /bin/sh -c /bin/sh  
 : Password:
 : /bin/su: using restricted shell /bin/bash/nope
 : /bin/su: cannot run /bin/bash/nope: Not a directory
 : 
 : .. so that doesn't work.

[ snip ]

Bummer.  I ran my test with a valid root shell, of course - a rather
poor test case.

Sorry for the bum lead (and thanks to Mike for a good solution)

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Re: GNOME 0.99.8 debs anywhere?

[servis]

*- On 22 Feb, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about "GNOME 0.99.8 debs anywhere?"
> The mirrors only have the new GNOME in the rpm format.  Does
> anyone know where I can find the new GNOME release in the
> favorite format (i.e., deb)?  Thanks...

Try ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/debian/pkgs/.  Jim is the maintainer for
lots of the Debian gnome related packages and these are his builds.
Jim also started the Debian ARM port on the Netwinders, he is a busy
guy!

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-
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 because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." 
   - unknown  

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Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

[Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam]

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vaidhy
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > > I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found.  Do I need a
> > > package?  I'm in su mode too.
> > > 
> > > Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > > > > When I have my cd-writer installed as secondary ide device,
> > > > > after my cd-rom drive, and have the kernel configure with
> > > > > ide cdrom unselected, and scsi emulation, and generic scsi
> > > > > selected, the system hangs on boot.  Where I have only the
> > > > > cd-writer connected as primary ide, the system boots fine,
> > > > > and 1 scsi host is detected, but I can't find a device to
> > > > > mount...
> > > > >
> > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > I do not know about the first situation.. but for the second one, turn 
> > > > off the scsi emulation and just leave the atapi cd rom and you can 
> > > > access the cd rom with /dev/hdb
> > > > 
> > > > or.. turn on the scsi emulation and turn off the atapi cd rom, turn on 
> > > > the scsicdrom and do a MAKEDEV sgall and MAKEDEV sr and you should be 
> > > > able to access your cd rom thru sr0..
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Vaidhy
> > > > > --
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> 
> I did that but it said ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "sgall"
> 
Oops,, I am sorry.. it is sg-all... you have to do a ./MAKEDEV sg-all

Regards,
Vaidhy

make-kpkg funny

[Bob Nielsen]

I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the
command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file

kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb

Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version?  Makefile shows:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 2
SUBLEVEL = 2
EXTRAVERSION =

I'm a bit afraid to install, as I get a message that it wants to put the
modules in /lib/modules/..

Any ideas as to what went wrong here?

Bob


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(Oops. Again with no HTML) Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

[Kevin Traas]

I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard
serial ports.  However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through
these serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that
does V.42bis.

Any comments/suggestions on "overclocking"  ;-)  built-in serial ports to
230 (or 460) Kbps?

Note:  I realize that HS serial ports/boards are available, but I don't want
to shell out the money if I don't have to
Note2: If you can recommend a good external ISDN TA (North America) or an
internal that supports DialD, I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks,
Kevin

Re: The usual reboot problems

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:

I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not working.
I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will
work.

--
Andrew

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

[Dimitri Patakidis]

Hi there Kevin :)
The best way to get the most bang for your ISDN buck  is to use an ISDN router. ISDN IN ---> ETHERNET OUT

No RS-232 translation in between.

Now if I could find someone to sell my external BitSurfer, I would probably go with that :)

Dimitri 




At 07:34 PM 02/23/1999 -0800, you wrote: 

I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard serial ports.  However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through these serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that does V.42bis.
  
Any comments/suggestions on "overclocking"  ;-)  built-in serial ports to 230 (or 460) Kbps?
  
Note:  I realize that HS serial ports/boards are available, but I don't want to shell out the money if I don't have to
Note2: If you can recommend a good external ISDN TA (North America) or an internal that supports DialD, I'd love to hear from you.
  
Thanks,
Kevin

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Plog

[Andrei Ivanov]

I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted
/var/log/ppp.log
SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I know that plog gets the
data from ppp.log, but whenever ppp is working, it no longer seems to
write to ppp.log (doesnt create it/write to it when its created). Syslog
shows nothing like failure to write a write-protected file or anything...
please help me out.
Andrew

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Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Dale E. Martin]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying.

Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
Why do think it's lying?

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Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying.
> 
> Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
> Why do think it's lying?

dmesg shows that the network card is not recognized even though the green
light is on.

ifconfig and route work but they still don't make things work.

--
Andrew

Re: The usual reboot problems

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
>> 
>> I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not
>> working.
>> I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will
>> work.
> 
> No you don't. There is nothing in Debian that is preventing it from
> working nor is there anything magic in OpenLinux that allows it to work.
> Debian works just fine with pcmcia network cards, people use it every day.

I know that it should work, but there really is something special about the
OpenLinux installer in this regard.  I cannot install the rest of Debian from
the laptop's mom if I cannot get the net card to work.  My net connection is
too slow.

--
Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying.
> 
> Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
> Why do think it's lying?

Also, I can ping localhost but that is all.

--
Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
> On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> 
>> Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
>> Why do think it's lying?
>> 
> 
> I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card.
> 
> 
I do not specifically recall seeing modconf.  I did not use modconf with my
other machine and the card works.

--
Andrew

Re: Plog

[Mark Phillips]

> I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted
> /var/log/ppp.log
> SInce then none of the plog messages appear.

I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this:

Do "touch ppp.log" to create the file, then use chown and chmod so
that the file has the right permissions and ownerships.  Ie, the
directory listing should look like:

-rw-r-   1 root adm  0 Feb 24 15:34 /var/log/ppp.log

Then have a go and see if this fixes the problem.

Cheers,

Mark.


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SGMLtools and the Debian tutorial

[Chuck Peters]

Hi,

I would like to put some documents in SGML and decided to try converting
the Debian tutorial at http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.sgml
as an example.  Well it did not go so well.

Going by the document at http://www.us.sgmltools.org/guide/guide-4.html, I
tried:

bash-2.01$ sgml2html debian-tutorial.sgml 
Processing file debian-tutorial.sgml
parse_data: no entity map for `'
parse_data: no entity map for `$'
parse_data: no entity map for `>'
parse_data: no entity map for `<'
parse_data: no entity map for `&'
/usr/bin/sgmlsasp: can't open
`/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dist/debiandoc/html/mapping': No such file or
directory
bash-2.01$ sgml2html example.sgml 
Processing file example.sgml
bash-2.01$ 

As you see the example file worked and the tutorial didn't.  I am running
the frozen dist.  What's wrong?

I have yet to see an SGML example that has images or tables, can someone
please point some out?

Any additional pointers suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chuck

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
>> On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
>>> Why do think it's lying?
>>> 
>> 
>> I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card.
>> 
>> 
> I do not specifically recall seeing modconf.  I did not use modconf with my
> other machine and the card works.

I just installed the correct pcmcia-modules package and it looks like things
are working now.

--
Andrew

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
>> On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
>>> Why do think it's lying?
>>> 
>> 
>> I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card.
>> 
>> 
> I do not specifically recall seeing modconf.  I did not use modconf with my
> other machine and the card works.

I just installed the correct pcmcia-modules package and it looks like things
are working now.

--
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networ card up on ThinkPad :)

[Pollywog]

Not so lucky.  I can ping the netcard on the laptop but not the other machine.
I think I have to set a gateway or something.  I don't know where the scripts
are in Debian.

--
Andrew

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

[Paul Nathan Puri]

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:50:44PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > > Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory...
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Vaidhy
> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > > > I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found.  Do I need a
> > > > package?  I'm in su mode too.
> > > > 
> > > > Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > > > > > When I have my cd-writer installed as secondary ide device,
> > > > > > after my cd-rom drive, and have the kernel configure with
> > > > > > ide cdrom unselected, and scsi emulation, and generic scsi
> > > > > > selected, the system hangs on boot.  Where I have only the
> > > > > > cd-writer connected as primary ide, the system boots fine,
> > > > > > and 1 scsi host is detected, but I can't find a device to
> > > > > > mount...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > I do not know about the first situation.. but for the second one, 
> > > > > turn off the scsi emulation and just leave the atapi cd rom and you 
> > > > > can access the cd rom with /dev/hdb
> > > > > 
> > > > > or.. turn on the scsi emulation and turn off the atapi cd rom, turn 
> > > > > on the scsicdrom and do a MAKEDEV sgall and MAKEDEV sr and you should 
> > > > > be able to access your cd rom thru sr0..
> > > > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Vaidhy
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> > 
> > I did that but it said ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "sgall"
> > 
> Oops,, I am sorry.. it is sg-all... you have to do a ./MAKEDEV sg-all
> 
> Regards,
> Vaidhy

Hey! Great! That worked.  Now what do I mount?  /dev/sg?


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Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Mark Ciciretti]

Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services
are started.  IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a
friend's laptop.


On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote:
>> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>>> It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying.
>> 
>> Can you ping a host on your network?  Does the light on the card blink?
>> Why do think it's lying?
> 
> dmesg shows that the network card is not recognized even though the
> green
> light is on.
> 
> ifconfig and route work but they still don't make things work.
> 
> --
> Andrew

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Date: 23-Feb-99
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ThinkPad problem continues

[Pollywog]

When I got to modconf in the installation, my network card was not one of the
choices.  I did set up PCMCIA and the card manager is installed, but things
are still not working correctly.

--
Andrew

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
> 
> Well, what is the problem exactly? WHat is not working?  Your network card
> might not be a module, it might be in the kernel or you might have to
> build the module.
That is what I am thinking, that I must build it, but that is a problem since
I need to install the development stuff first and not having the card working
prevents that.

I can do:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.11
route add 192.168.1.11 dev eth0

but that only lets me ping the machine by hostname or localhost.
I cannot ping the other machine.

--
Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote:
> Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services
> are started.  IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a
> friend's laptop.
> 

ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked.  I am pinging the laptop from
here now and it did not work before.  I think that did it.

thanks

--
Andrew

BTW the console messages on startup indicated that network services had
started.

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

[Kevin Traas]

My big thing is that I want/need 
Dial- & Bandwidth-on-Demand support - very big requirements.   I 
don't think these little ISDN routers provide the level of control that I 
want.  (If you know different, please let me know.)
 
Later,
Kevin
 

-Original Message-From: 
Dimitri Patakidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Kevin 
Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: 
debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Date: 
Tuesday, February 23, 1999 8:17 PMSubject: Re: Std. Serial 
ports beyond 115K?Hi there Kevin :)The best way to 
get the most bang for your ISDN buck is to use an ISDN router. ISDN IN 
---> ETHERNET OUTNo RS-232 translation in between.Now if 
I could find someone to sell my external BitSurfer, I would probably go with 
that :)Dimitri At 07:34 PM 02/23/1999 -0800, you 
wrote: 
I want to connect an 
external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard serial ports. 
However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through these 
serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that does 
V.42bis.Any 
comments/suggestions on "overclocking" ;-) built-in serial 
ports to 230 (or 460) Kbps?Note: I 
realize that HS serial ports/boards are available, but I don't want to 
shell out the money if I don't have toNote2: If you can 
recommend a good external ISDN TA (North America) or an internal that 
supports DialD, I'd love to hear from you.Thanks,KevinAttachment 
Converted: "c:\PACDIAL\MIRC\dimitri\attach\Kevin Traas1.vcf" 



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Description: Binary data

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> I can do:
>> 
>> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.11
>> route add 192.168.1.11 dev eth0
>> 
>> but that only lets me ping the machine by hostname or localhost.
>> I cannot ping the other machine.
> 
> THat is the problem! It only has a route to the one host! Try this:
> route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> 
> Then try to ping them.
> 
> You need to add a route for the net not just the one address.

I forgot to add a route for the net because I did not know it was necessary
here.  It is working now even without that.  I could not start NFS (I am
unfamiliar with how it is done in Debian because things are in different
places) so I am using FTP.

I wish I knew which network card module is working.  Probably ne2000 since
that is the first one I installed and I believe that is what I used with
Caldera. 


thanks

--
Andrew

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

[Mark Ciciretti]

To find out which module it is run lsmod.  Then run rmmod MOD_NAME to
remove each module one by one.  When the network stops working run insmod
to install the last module that you removed.  After you have found the
module, run modconf and select that module under the network section.  It
will then be available when you boot.


On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>> 
>>> I can do:
>>> 
>>> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.11
>>> route add 192.168.1.11 dev eth0
>>> 
>>> but that only lets me ping the machine by hostname or localhost.
>>> I cannot ping the other machine.
>> 
>> THat is the problem! It only has a route to the one host! Try this:
>> route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
>> 192.168.1.255
>> 
>> Then try to ping them.
>> 
>> You need to add a route for the net not just the one address.
> 
> I forgot to add a route for the net because I did not know it was
> necessary
> here.  It is working now even without that.  I could not start NFS (I am
> unfamiliar with how it is done in Debian because things are in different
> places) so I am using FTP.
> 
> I wish I knew which network card module is working.  Probably ne2000
> since
> that is the first one I installed and I believe that is what I used with
> Caldera. 
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> --
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Re: ThinkPad problem continues

[Pollywog]

On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote:
> To find out which module it is run lsmod.  Then run rmmod MOD_NAME to
> remove each module one by one.  When the network stops working run insmod
> to install the last module that you removed.  After you have found the
> module, run modconf and select that module under the network section.  It
> will then be available when you boot.

Why didn't I think of that.

Thanks

--
Andrew

pcnet_cs on ThinkPad

[Pollywog]

My network card module is pcnet_cs, just as I thought (same as OpenLinux
installed).

I believe I should have only installed the module that is marked as being
automatically loaded, i82365.  That probably is the module for
pcnet_cs and not the one I was guessing was the correct one (similar name).

Since modconf indicated it (i82365) was automatically loaded, I thought it
unecessary to select it.  Wrong!


--
Andrew

slrn

[ivan]

I have just started trying to use slrn - looks good and seems it will do
everything that I require BUT ...

Both when downloading the groups list and when decoding a file an error
appears

bsd_decomp0: bad sequence # 11, expected 77

The numbers 11 & 77 change but I get several of these errors.

What does this mean and is it a problem with me, slrn or the news server ?

TIA

Ivan.

Best partitionscheme 2 ?

[F. Frijns]

OK guys (girls maybe too)

Reading the mails I learned a lot about Debian (I'm just switching from RedHat 
5.1due to lack of support for MCA PC's. This RedHat version only runs with a 
Debian! kernel in DOS completed with LOADLIN. The Debian version however uses 
the MCA-architecture perfectly!)

Question:
What is the best partition scheme if you only have 500Mb to spare and want to 
develop in C (C++). I'm asking this because after several attempts I do have a 
running a Debian Linux system but every time I found out that a lot of packages 
are de-installed again (60-70, reported by dselect and not re-installable 
again). This de-installation includes 'info' and 'man'-pages, and man-pages 
will come at hand, now and then.

Thanx for your time and help in advance.
Frank.

Re: make-kpkg funny

[Ralf G. R. Bergs]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote:

>I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the
>command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file
>
>kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb
>
>Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version?  Makefile shows:
>
>VERSION = 2
>PATCHLEVEL = 2
>SUBLEVEL = 2
>EXTRAVERSION =
>
>I'm a bit afraid to install, as I get a message that it wants to put the
>modules in /lib/modules/..
>
>Any ideas as to what went wrong here?

NOTHING went wrong.

It was YOU yourself who told make-kpkg to use the Debian(!) version no. 
"custom.1.0". The part after "kernel-image-" in the filename should 
contain the Linux kernel version no.

And what's wrong about /lib/modules? This is the place where the modules 
belong, after all. :-)


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Re: Best partitionscheme 2 ?

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

> 
> OK guys (girls maybe too)
> 
> Reading the mails I learned a lot about Debian (I'm just switching from =
> RedHat 5.1due to lack of support for MCA PC's. This RedHat version only =
> runs with a Debian! kernel in DOS completed with LOADLIN. The Debian =
> version however uses the MCA-architecture perfectly!)
> 
> Question:
> What is the best partition scheme if you only have 500Mb to spare and want =
> to develop in C (C++). I'm asking this because after several attempts I do =
> have a running a Debian Linux system but every time I found out that a lot =
> of packages are de-installed again (60-70, reported by dselect and not =
> re-installable again). This de-installation includes 'info' and 'man'-pages=
> , and man-pages will come at hand, now and then.

The best partition scheme if you are short on space is
1) a swap partition (depends a bit on your main memory, since you're
   short on disk, I'd say 32-64 MB)
2) a '/' partition

That's it.  This offers you the most flexibility to divide your disk
between data and programs.  Personally I only start thinking about more
partions if I have considerably more than 2 GB.

HTH,
Eric

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Re: make-kpkg funny

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

> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the
> >command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file
> >
> >kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb
> >
> >Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version?  Makefile shows:
> >
> >VERSION = 2
> >PATCHLEVEL = 2
> >SUBLEVEL = 2
> >EXTRAVERSION =
> >
> >I'm a bit afraid to install, as I get a message that it wants to put the
> >modules in /lib/modules/..
> >
> >Any ideas as to what went wrong here?
> 
> NOTHING went wrong.
> 
Read the mail again.  Instead of 2.2.2 for the kernel-version, he gets
`..'.  This is no good.

Eric

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Re: CD recorder problem

[hubert . fauque]

"Daniel J. Brosemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord.  Unless you have a special
> reason to use cdwrite, I suggest 
>   cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw
>^
> for testing so you don't kill a disc.
> 
thanks for your answer, which has helped me to find the problem:
cdrecord sent the message
debian modprobe: can't locate module char-major-21
and I have found that I had forgotten to configure
the scsi generic driver in kernel conf;
now it works.

I am nom looking for technical info about CD writing, do you know
where I could find it?

thanks again
Hubert

Re: pdflatex problem

[Wojciech Zabolotny]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Johann Spies wrote:

> When I run pdflatex on a document that compiles without a problem in
> normal Latex, I get the following error (and it has happened on all the
> latex documents I have tried so far - however not always referring to the
> same font).
> 
> ! Error: pdflatex:
> Font ptmro8r not found in map files

Try to use font packages from /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss directory:

\usepackage{times} (if you use Times Roman font)
or
\usepackage{mathptm} (if you use Times Roman and math)
or
\usepackage{helvet} (if you use sans serif font)

Hope this helps
Wojtek Zabolotny
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

lpr not installed

[Bal K. Paudyal]

Hello friends,

It looks like my old pc with Debian does not have lpr installed. What
package it is in? Any idea?

Thanks

Re: Where is pine?

[Ian Stuart]

Debian Mail wrote:
> 
> I did a
> zgrep pine Contents-i386.gz | grep bin
> which shows no result (the Contents-i386.gz is from potato).
> Where is pine?
Stef,

There isn't a .deb binary for pine (something about licencing or
distributing binaries or something that Washinton Uni. put in.)

What you get are (1) the pine source and (2) the Debian patch

Patch the main source and compile - install.

It's actually quite easy and well explained in the disrtibution files...

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Re: [Debian] booting from CD

[Patrik Hagglund]

You put a bootable floppy disk on it. See the CD-Writing HOWTO
section 4.11: http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/

--
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Re: CD recorder problem

[Patrik Hagglund]

> I am nom looking for technical info about CD writing, do you
> know where I could find it?

Have a look at the CD-Writing HOWTO:
http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/

--
Patrik Hägglund

Re: make-kpkg funny

[Ralf G. R. Bergs]

E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Read the mail again.  Instead of 2.2.2 for the kernel-version, he gets
> `..'.  This is no good.

Sorry, I misunderstood him. I thought he used ".." as an ellipsis to
indicate that he left something out.

Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

[Jens K. Olsen]

Please I need some help.
I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry
around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the different
offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with the rest of
the world.
When I installed Linux I set up the network to work in my main office.
It works like a dream. Now I am down in another office, and I can't get
the network to work right. I have changed the following files to fit the
new network:
/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/networks  (Did not make any difference at all. Is still looking
at the network in the main office.)
/etc/resolv.conf
Since it did not work I deleted the IP address and default router using
route and added a new IP address and default route. After this I was able
to ping all the machines in the office, but not the router nor any machines
outside the office. Based on this, I am getting the impression that the
problem lies in the set up of my default router.
Can anyone please help me !

Re: fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

[Jim Foltz]

Paul,

fetchmail doesn't put email anywhere. It connects to port 25, which is
the port that your Mail Transfer Agent uses. Fetchmail connects to your
mail server and downloads messages, and delivers them to port 25 where
either smail or exim is listening. Then exim or smail is responsible
for delivering the messages to local users.

Here is my .fetchmailrc

poll mail.acorn.net
proto pop3
user aa204
password xx

poll pop.raex.com
proto pop3
user jfoltz
password 

poll pop.kent.edu
proto pop3
user jfoltz
password xx

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Any good & free SSL enabled WWW browser for debian?

[Wojciech Zabolotny]

Hi all!

I'm looking for any good (at least 128b session key - the 40b in export
version Netscape is just a joke) & free web browser for debian.
I'd like to use it for students' scores database at my university.
I don't know if mozilla supports SSL, or there is any simple method to
add SSL support to it?

TIA
Wojtek Zabolotny
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Please I need some help.
> 
> I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry
> around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the
> different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with
> the rest of the world.
> 
> When I installed Linux I set up the network to work in my main office.
> It works like a dream. Now I am down in another office, and I can't get
> the network to work right. I have changed the following files to fit the
> new network:
> 
> /etc/hostname
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/networks  (Did not make any difference at all. Is still looking at
> the network in the main office.)
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Since it did not work I deleted the IP address and default router using
> route and added a new IP address and default route. After this I was
> able to ping all the machines in the office, but not the router nor any
> machines outside the office. Based on this, I am getting the impression
> that the problem lies in the set up of my default router.

Look in /etc/init.d/network

Also, check your mailer.  It seems to be sending html.

-Mitch

Re: fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

[Paul Nathan Puri]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:50:20AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> fetchmail doesn't put email anywhere. It connects to port 25, which is
> the port that your Mail Transfer Agent uses. Fetchmail connects to your
> mail server and downloads messages, and delivers them to port 25 where
> either smail or exim is listening. Then exim or smail is responsible
> for delivering the messages to local users.
> 
> Here is my .fetchmailrc
> 
> poll mail.acorn.net
> proto pop3
> user aa204
> password xx
> 
> poll pop.raex.com
> proto pop3
> user jfoltz
> password 
> 
> poll pop.kent.edu
> proto pop3
> user jfoltz
> password xx
> 
> -- 
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> ACORN techie   
>   AOL/IM   jim_foltz
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 

I switched from sendmail to exim, and haven't had any problems with fetchmail

thanks a bunch
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Re: pcnet_cs on ThinkPad

[wb2oyc]

>automatically loaded, i82365.  That probably is the module for
>pcnet_cs and not the one I was guessing was the correct one (similar name).

Andrew,

I think thats the controller for the PCMCIA slots (the i82365).  The 
module used to drive the detected card is determined by the card id
string that card services finds when it probes the slots.  I may have
missed some of the thread, sorry about that if this has been discussed.
Check your /etc/pcmcia/config to find the mapping between detected cards
and the drivers invoked when they are found.

Paul

Re: apt-get downloading packages question

[Stuart Miles]

> you might want to use it.. (but not with gnome-apt)
> 

Dare I ask why not with gnome-apt?


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Re: Any good & free SSL enabled WWW browser for debian?

[J.H.M. Dassen]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:58:06 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> I'm looking for any good (at least 128b session key - the 40b in export
> version Netscape is just a joke) & free web browser for debian.

You can use the fortify packages on non-US to upgrade it to 128bit.

> I don't know if mozilla supports SSL, or there is any simple method to
> add SSL support to it?

Plain mozilla doesn't. There was a project to add SSL support
(http://www.cryptozilla.org), but I've seen no signs of activity of it
recently.

There's also an SSL patch for lynx (available e.g. from ftp.replay.com). I
vaguely recall someone posting an intent to package it recently.

HTH,
Ray
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on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go
where no data has gone before. 

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

[John Stevenson]

I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package
(which used the keyboard leds to indicate events).  This stoped
my laptop keyboard working.

If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the
problem.

John.

"Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
> 
> > Hi there Daniel,
> >   How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new
> > keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I
> > often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out.
> >   Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system.
> >   BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i
> > tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem.
> This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard
> works fine there.  I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need
> to be tweaked?  But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no
> need.  And I don't know where to look for such things.
> 
> -Dano
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Re: Disk Partioning (FDISK)

[Richard Lyon]

superformat -Da: --dosverify /dev/fd0

> Using Fdisk on a Disk that has a working copy of Win 98 which i wanted to
> put Debian on i get this error:
> Checking Boot sector
> Error: Number of Sectors
> (long) does not match partition info
> 2411873 instead of 3322305
> Please help!

StarOffice 5

[Frankie]

Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian?

there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for
SO3)?

should I just use setup as per the Staroffice instructions, and if so, I
don't want to have to install it once for every user, so would I use the
network installation as root?

cheers,
frankie

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sun sparc 10 /sda3 whole disk

[Armin Wegner]

Hi,

I'm trying to install debian on a sun sparc 10. When I klick on
"Initialize a Linux Partition", I'm set back to choose the color.
I think that it has something to do with the third partition wich is
of type "whole disk". 
I removed this partition to look what happens. Now I can initialize 
linux partition starting with partition 4. But I would like to start
with partition 1 which is root. Partition 2 is swap.

Any ideas?

Armin

Re: [SuSE Linux] 2 modems ?

[Kester Clegg]

Yes, I think it's called FRAD?  It's in the documentation for kernal modules
I believe...
k.

: Is it possible to set up two modems under Linux and use the bandwidth
:as one entity... 2 x 56k modems  to give 112k speed?
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:(www.linuxsystems.co.uk) for FREE as part of a loyalty type bonus with a
:Web Space /Domain registration company  I have been using for a few
:years...
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:I think this 'package' also includes 15 email addresses which I can use
:to forward to your personal account i.e.
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Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

[Dale E. Martin]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote:
> > Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services
> > are started.  IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a
> > friend's laptop.
> > 
> 
> ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked.  I am pinging the laptop from
> here now and it did not work before.  I think that did it.

The "proper" way to do this, by the way, is to put all of the info for your 
network into /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.  The advantage of doing it that way
is the network will automatically get started when you plug the card in and 
stopped when you pop it out.

Later,
Dale
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2 questions

[Ian Setford]

Two things.

1) I keep fairly current and after dselect ran last week one time, no one
except root can run ping.  Was this done on purpose.  If so, why?

2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by
itself.  I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has
demand dialing. I do not want this.  I want it to go up and come down when
I tell it.

How can I fix these problems?  Is there anywhere I can look to find out
what else on my system will be changed without my knowing (i.e. who makes
these decisions and are they documented?)


TIA.

-Ian
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KDE Configuration

[Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven]

I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't
configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the
qt1g file in the package file.

Where can I get this file?

TIA,

Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Re: /home/ftp directory question

[Thomas Adams]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:37:07AM -, Pollywog wrote:

> I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no
> pub, etc, bin or anything else).  Is this normal?

It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow
the ftpd manpage you can setup anonymous ftp access to your machine. Why it
isn't setup for you so that you can just drop files into ~ftp/pub is beyond
me 'though.

Re: CD recorder problem

[Daniel J. Brosemer]

On 24 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> "Daniel J. Brosemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord.  Unless you have a special
> > reason to use cdwrite, I suggest 
> >   cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw
> >^
> > for testing so you don't kill a disc.
> > 
> thanks for your answer, which has helped me to find the problem:
> cdrecord sent the message
> debian modprobe: can't locate module char-major-21
> and I have found that I had forgotten to configure
> the scsi generic driver in kernel conf;
> now it works.
> 
> I am nom looking for technical info about CD writing, do you know
> where I could find it?

Well, there's always the red book, orange book, white book, etc. but that
can get expensive.  Are you looking for info on the hardware side (ie how
the data gets on there) or data on the iso9660 filesystem?

An old book "Mastering CD-ROM Technology" has answered all the questions I
had.

Mastering CD-ROM Technology
by Larry Boden
ISBN 0-471-12174-6
publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1995

I especially found the info on the iso9600 filesystem useful.

HTH
-Dano

Re: StarOffice 5

[Peter Berlau]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:19:17PM +, Frankie wrote:
> Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian?
first You must get a copy of so5.
one way ist to download it from stardivision
than You have to follow a obscure password-identification, however,
this means You must be registred , became a password from stardivision
and after that Your "trial-version" changes to full-version.
After all that it runs very slow and is mostly stable, sometimes
my s05 is "core dumped-blown away "
> 
> there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for
> SO3)?
I don't know but I think there will be no debian - package, becauce the
star-devision have a very strange licencing-policy
> 
> should I just use setup as per the Staroffice instructions, and if so, I
> don't want to have to install it once for every user, so would I use the
> network installation as root?
afaik there is only a personal edition for freely using, 
a network version must be payed, but if so and You should 
have a look to koffice. I've read it comes up in short time and is
very usefull.

cu
  Peter

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Re: leafnode and expiration of articles

[Randy Belk]

Texpire does not expire by time but by threads. Do a search for "pexpire" on 
HotBot, it is a dropin replacement for texpire that expires by time.

>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/23/99 06:08PM >>>
I there anyway to set the expiration time on read articles?  I have
texpire running every midnight, but it is not expiring many articles. 
I would like read articles to expire after a week or so.

TIA,

Chris


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