Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

[Erik van der Meulen]

Some people responded to my question asking for more information
concerning this error. 
I'll give it a try.

I have purchased a Philips Vespa Pro Webcam, because it was reccomended
for support by the Linux community. Indeed, it has some very detailed
information on:

  http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

I run Debian 2.2 on a Dell notebook with kernel 2.2.17 so I had to do a
bit of work in order to get usb working. I choose the backport patch
over the upgrade to 2.4.0-test-something. Followed instructions on:

  http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/

This all seems to work pretty well, judging from /var/log/messages (i'll
list portion of the log below.
(Acctually quite nice that a non-programmer like me can find instructions
to do things like patching kernels and building modules.)
But now we come to the tragic bit: I have built a new module pwc.o for
my 2.2.17 kernel (pre-built only exists for 2.2.16 or 2.4.0-test6)
according to the instructions. Now I load and it gives me:

  Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 +
  PCVC675/680/690 webcam module version 5.05 PPro (UP) loaded.
  Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Also supports Askey VC010 cam.
  Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam
  Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Philips PCVC680K USB webcam detected.
  Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Registered as /dev/video0.

Which looks allright to me.
Any attempts to access /dev/video or /dev/video0 result in:

  /dev/video: Operation not permitted

Leaves me pretty clue less...
Anny suggestions much appreciated.

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gpm no longer function after upgrading

[ShunTim . Luk]

Dear all,

After a recent upgrading, gpm (1.19.3-4) no longer
functioned. I lost the mouse pointer in mc. It seems that /dev/gpmctl is lost
although the gpm server did start at boot. I was told that it may be a pipe but
"mknod /dev/gpmctl -p" did not work. Reinstalling gpm and libgmp1 also didn't
work. I can use the mouse in X, though (with /dev/psaux as device and and ps2 as
protocol). I'm using woody with kernel 2.2.17 if that matters.

Would be grateful to any pointers to the solution of this problem .

Regards,
ST
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Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > "Olaf" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Olaf> BTW, apt-move in potato can't handle multiple package
> Olaf> sources.  How do you get it to move packages from both
> Olaf> Debian and Helix?
> 
> Use the apt-move from woody... ;-).

I figured so much, but since the sources.list in the original message
was pointing to stable ...

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Re: MUTT + Procmail

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-10-04 16:25:50, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
> >  I store all mails from this list in ~/Mail/IN.debian-user. How can I go 
> > read those mails in Mutt ? I can't see anything in the man pages...
> 
> mutt -f ~/Mail/IN.debian-user
> 
> or when in mutt hit `c' then =IN.debian-user ENTER
> 
> or if you want mutt to inform you when new mail is dropped into that
> mailbox, add the following to your ~/.muttrc
> 
> mailboxes ! =IN.debian-user
> 
> you can add additional mailboxes to that list, they are seperated by spaces.

I use the following in $HOME/.muttrc to avoid having to maintain
mailing list info for both procmail and mutt:

# mailing lists
subscribe `find $HOME/var/mail/mailing_list -type f -printf '%f '; echo ''`

# mail boxes
mailboxes `find $HOME/var/mail -type f -not -name \*.cache -not -name \*.log 
-not -name sent\* -not -name archive -not -name trash -printf '%p '; echo ''`


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Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

[Andre Berger]

Richard Jeantheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new
> to the list and to Debian.

> I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx. 

Go to , you'll find the right kind of
people there :) (But of course also stay subscribed here!)

Installation on a Mac is usually hard -- the folks who complain
in articles on Linux installations on PeeCees should try _other
platforms_ before. But don't be discouraged, if your hardware supports
Linux (PMMU, FPU and so on), it's possible. 

Good luck!

-- Andre 

Re: Basic Debian firewall

[will trillich]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:38:13PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Is the "ipmasq" package what one needs to install to get a basic
> firewall up and running under Debian? I'm using PMFirewall now, and I
> don't have any complaints with it. It was VERY easy to get a decent
> firewall up and running with it, but now that I know a bit more about
> ipchains I'm leaning toward using a Debian-only solution just to keep
> my firewall PC as consistent as possible.

works like a champ for me. i've used it with slink and ipfwadm,
and now potato with ipchains.

only thing i'd add to the startup scripts is a logging/flush
directive such as

( date ; /sbin/ipchains -nxvL -Z ) >> /var/log/firewall

...my isp charges per megabyte, so this is how i keep'm honest.

without such a 'log packet / byte count' log directive, every time
you run ipmasq your counts are all reset to zero as the new
firewall instance is (re)built from scratch. if that matters,
you'll wanna add -nxvL > /var/log/*something* to the rule-set
in /etc/ipmasq/rules/A03flush.rul: copy the *.def file there
and prepend your own logging facility as needed, before the
rules are all flushed.

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R: Any knowledgeable Afio people out there?

[marco frattola]

i don't know if it HAS to be considered normal,
but that's what i used to get when using tob+afio to
do backups. usually a different tape fixed the problems
so i guess afio keeps on writing even after errors, and
get tons of other errors.

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Cubecom S.p.A.
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> -Messaggio originale-
> Da: Barry Samuels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Inviato: martedì 26 settembre 2000 15.49
> A: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Oggetto: Any knowledgeable Afio people out there?
> 
> 
> After Afio has created an archive it produces a message similar
> to:
> 
> 'afio: Final count: 7m+12k+0 bytes written'
> 
> Is the size given the size of the files before they were archived
> or is it the size of the compressed archive?
> 
> My next query is not produced by Afio but by the SCSI Tape module
>  when Afio was running.
> 
> I use Afio in my backup script and the last backupo failed
> because, I think, the tape was faulty.  I have since re-run the
> backup successfully with a different tape.
> 
> However during the failed backup the following messages were
> added to /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 26 09:07:55 DATAMAN1 kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info
> fld=0x3fff, Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error
> Sep 26 09:07:55 DATAMAN1 kernel: Additional sense indicates
> Medium format corrupted
> 
> This in itself is not surprising but there were about 20,000
> similar lines.  Could that be considered normal under the
> circumstances?
> 
> Barry Samuels
> 
> 
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Re: Big Problem !

[Pep Ciuraneta]

Hiya all !

These words are to thank all the people who has dedicated a little time
of their life thinking about my problem, related here a few days ago. I
have solved the problem by myself but thanks a lot anyway.

The problem was the qmail rc script, that was modified by me and it
seems that it didn't finish. i don't know why, yet. 

Thanks a lot !

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Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> 
> Installation on a Mac is usually hard -- the folks who complain
> in articles on Linux installations on PeeCees should try _other
> platforms_ before. But don't be discouraged, if your hardware supports
> Linux (PMMU, FPU and so on), it's possible. 

folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and
install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk).  

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/usr/share, why bother?

[Jeff Lessem]

I am very much in favor of the strongly adhered to filesystem layout
that Debian uses.  Having all of the configuration files in /etc,
means that when I got a new laptop the only part of the OS I saved
from the old to the new was /etc.  Stuff that changes is in /var, that
is great, right where it should be.  Architecture specific stuff not
on / goes in /usr.

This leaves all of the non architecture specific stuff (text, html,
perl scripts, emacs lisp, etc.) to go under /usr/share.  I use
/usr/local/share to have common TeX, etc. on completely different
architectures.  Makes things great for system management.  I only need
to install a new bibstyle in one place and my Linux and Tru64 boxes
all find it.  This is how it should be.

My problem though, is that Debian only seems to go halfway.  Just as I
cross mount /usr/local/share between all my computers, I want to also
cross mount /usr/share between all my Debian boxes.  In order for this
to make any sense though, there needs to be some sort of dpkg setting
to say, "don't install /usr/share on this machine, it is a client."

I know, this can lead to problems where a package is installed on a
client, but not on the master server.  That is my problem as the
administrator though, and shouldn't be anybody else's concern.

Am I just dense, and such a setting is fully documented and I just
need to rtfm?  I know, disk space is real cheap, so wasting a few
hundred meg per machine isn't a big deal, and there isn't really
anything in /usr/share that I, as the administrator, need to be
changing, but it is just the principle of the thing.  I guess what I
mean is, why call it share if it isn't meant to be shared?

Mailbox directory with Mutt

[Francois Fayard]

Hi,

I have a little problem with mutt.
When I want to change directory, everything is considered as if my mailbox
directory is my current directory. For example, I have to start mutt
in ~/Mail in order to change from a mailbox to another (Using: c + mailbox 
name).
I've added : set folder=/home/fayard/Mail in my .muttrc but nothing seems
to change.

What can I do for that ?

Thanks
Francois

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

[Rino Mardo]

in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes.  in my setup i have
/var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just
press "c" to change mailboxes.  i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i
remember it right it goes like this:

mailboxes /var/mail/ ~/Mail/


HTH


- Original Message -
From: "Francois Fayard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: Mailbox directory with Mutt


> Hi,
>
> I have a little problem with mutt.
> When I want to change directory, everything is considered as if my mailbox
> directory is my current directory. For example, I have to start mutt
> in ~/Mail in order to change from a mailbox to another (Using: c + mailbox
name).
> I've added : set folder=/home/fayard/Mail in my .muttrc but nothing seems
> to change.
>
> What can I do for that ?
>
> Thanks
> Francois
>
>
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Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[Peter Hugosson-Miller]

Randy Edwards wrote:

>Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at
> ?



>Anyone else have any thoughts on this article?

Thanks for the pointer, Randy! It was so refreshing to know that I'm not
alone in my
Debian installation blues. The article also pointed to a usenet news
group:
news://forum.linuxworld.com/linuxworld.forums.articles.2000-09-vcontrol_2
which was
full of comments from other people in my position.

I was so amused to read yet another posting from a Debian fan (no names
mentioned) who
claimed that the install was so easy that "A chicken could have done
it.  95% of the
time I was pecking at the Enter key". Trolls who go on like this really
aren't doing
Debian any favours, all they do is get people riled up, and start huge
flame wars!

But it got me thinking: I'd really like to see that chicken some time.
He probably
wears one of those t-shirts from http://www.thinkgeek.com/ with "got
root?" printed on
the back. Maybe an artistic-minded Debian fan could make a picture of
the chicken,
that could be used as an alternative to the penguin? He should be
standing in front of
a PC with the horrible dselect tree displayed on the screen, and should
be "pecking"
at the  key.

I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any
takers?

--
Best regards,

Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[will trillich]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:45:24AM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

there are exceptions.

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Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[George Bonser]

> things are more like they used to be than they are now.

Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here.

ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

[Mariusz . Przygodzki]

Do you have any other "serious" arguments which can confirm
your professional approach to discussion about Debian installation tools?

If not I suggest you send next e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is list for debian users.

Best Regards
Mariusz Przygodzki


-Oryginalna wiadomość-
Od: Peter Hugosson-Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wysłano: 5 października 2000 10:45
Do: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Temat: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)


Randy Edwards wrote:

>Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at
> ?



>Anyone else have any thoughts on this article?

Thanks for the pointer, Randy! It was so refreshing to know that I'm not
alone in my
Debian installation blues. The article also pointed to a usenet news
group:
news://forum.linuxworld.com/linuxworld.forums.articles.2000-09-vcontrol_2
which was
full of comments from other people in my position.

I was so amused to read yet another posting from a Debian fan (no names
mentioned) who
claimed that the install was so easy that "A chicken could have done
it.  95% of the
time I was pecking at the Enter key". Trolls who go on like this really
aren't doing
Debian any favours, all they do is get people riled up, and start huge
flame wars!

But it got me thinking: I'd really like to see that chicken some time.
He probably
wears one of those t-shirts from http://www.thinkgeek.com/ with "got
root?" printed on
the back. Maybe an artistic-minded Debian fan could make a picture of
the chicken,
that could be used as an alternative to the penguin? He should be
standing in front of
a PC with the horrible dselect tree displayed on the screen, and should
be "pecking"
at the  key.

I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any
takers?

--
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Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."


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Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

[George Bonser]

> 
> I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any
> takers?
> 

hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a
chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken,
wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool!

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

[Christen Welch]

I could see a person new to computers having some problems
with installing Debian. It isn't the best install in the
world. However, anyone who has a good understanding of
computers (by this I don't mean Start->Programs->MS Word)
should be able to install Debian with little trouble. 

I've installed 1.3 and 2.1 on my system. I upgraded from 1.3
to 2, then to 2.1, and then was the victim of a hard drive
death. 2.1 seems to be a lot easier, with the ability to 
choose different installation types. 

I digress. My point is, Debian isn't difficult, even relative
to the other 'main' Linux based distros out there, to install. 
It could be made better, but it isn't worth not using 
Debian over.
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Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[Peter Hugosson-Miller]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> This is list for debian users.

Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years,
and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but
I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain and
update. If only it were easy to install, then Billy boy (not to mention redhat
and others) would all be looking for new jobs by now.

FWIW, I've ordered the Debian 2.2 set of 6 CDs from  http://www.cheeplinux.com
and have arranged a wife-free week in November for my next attempt. Right now,
I am in the preparatory stage of collecting as many hints, and as much
encouragement as possible. You might think I should be looking at redhat, but
that's just your opinion. Most people on this list seem to think that Debian
is worth perservering with.

The purpose of my post was to thank Randy for pointing me at a good article,
and to make a serious suggestion about a t-shirt design. We geeks like cool
t-shirts, and the fact that the Debian chicken is such a long-lived animal
suggests to me that he deserves to be immortalized for posterity. If I could
draw, I wouldn't be asking for help here.

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Re: problems with gnome

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel.
> It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. 

Try to change to enlightenment and then immediately change back to
WindowMaker. This helped with WindowMaker and sawfish here, when I
wanted to run sawfish and after some major upgrading Gnome didn't
recognize any wm running at all.

Greetings,
joachim

Re: Dual NIC Problem

[Christen Welch]

Sorry for the tardiness of my reply...

Let me just give a run down of some stuff:

/etc/network/interfaces:
-
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address 172.16.12.42
network 172.16.12.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 172.16.12.255
gateway 172.16.12.1
-
and you have the same type info for eth1 in there too

/etc/init.d/network shouldn't have anything in it

If everything looks ok here, and /etc/hosts.deny and 
/etc/hosts.allow are set up properly, I'm really
out of ideas. Sorry about that. If I can think of
something else, I'll be sure to post it. 

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Re: gnome won't start now

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> *sigh* I'm back to using icewm now, not that there's anything wrong with
> that, but I'm confused as to why I can't get gnome to start. 
> Reading the gnome-session manpages, it would seem that gnome expects a
> default session file, default.session, but it doesn't seem to be present in
> the gnome-session package. 

Well, in *my* gnome-session package (1.2.2-1) there is a gnome-session
file in /etc/gnome ... Maybe it helps if you try a reinstall of
gnome-session?

Greetings,
joachim

Q: syslog-ng remote logging.

[Andreas Rabus]

Greetings, 

sitting in my box, checking my logs... 
and trying to log from Host A to Host B with tcp i always get some strange
"error" Messages when starting my syslog-ng with option "-d":

"Error Creating AF_INET socket (Operation now in progress)"

The log are setup up as in the demo configuratuion in the  doc dir.
src on host B allows tcp from host A, host A has destinations woth tcp.

Host A ist a woody, Host B a potato.

Is this a bug or am i that stupid?

Thanks in advance,

ar

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Re: Sound Blaster

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:41:24AM -0700, Tino Ionescu wrote:
> > Hi 
> > I'm trying to install the driver emu10k1 for Sound Blaster Live 
> > Driver's Makefile is complainig that it can't find "modversion.h" 
> > Can anybody tell me what should be done?
> 
> Are you sure it's not modversions.h? Plural? 
> 
> I had no problems compiling this. All I had to do was modify the include
> paths to include the kernel headers. 
> 
> ie. Add -I/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/include to CFLAGS in the
> Makefile. 

I had no problems compiling this, not even modify any include paths or
the like. All I had to do was `apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17',
then `cd /usr/src ; tar -xvIf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2 ; ln -s
kernel-source-2.2.17 linux; cd linux' and, supposed you are in a
rxvt/xterm: `make-kpkg xconfig' and choose the appropriate modules in
the sound driver menu, `make-kpkg clean ; make-kpkg
--revision=custom.1 kernel_image'. When the module doesn't load
automatically (here it doesn't), use modconf to load it upon boot.

Greetings,
joachim

Re: mozilla & netscape

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

John Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I
> > decided to check out one of the nightly builds of mozilla, and it did a
> > whole bunch of stuff on its first invocation, and from that point on,
> > netscape started mozilla. I'd run it as a normal user, so it couldn't have
> > altered anything beyond my personal files, but even after I deleted
> > .mozilla, and the nightly build, and uninstalled the mozilla deb package I
> > was running, typing netscape still started mozilla! I don't know how, but I
> > finally uninstalled netscape entirely and reinstalled it, which fixed the
> > problem. How could that have happened if it could only alter my personal
> > files??
> >
> > Mike
> 
> I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds 
> without incident.  I didn't do anything to install the nightly builds.  I 
> just made a menu entry for ~/mozilla/mozilla so they all get along fine :-).

With this line in your apt-get sources.list:

   deb http://galeon.sourceforge.net/nightly/debian galeoncvsm18/

you can download working M18 Debian packages with coexist perfectly
well with Netscape. There are even fresh galeon packages (see
 for further infos
and the deb-src line).

Greetings,
joachim

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

[Francois Fayard]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:48:29PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote:
> in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes.  in my setup i have
> /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just
> press "c" to change mailboxes.  i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i
> remember it right it goes like this:
> 
> mailboxes /var/mail/ ~/Mail/
>

I've already tried this.

Let me describe what I want:
  All my mailboxes are under the directory /home/fayard/Mail/
  When you type c, you have:
Open mailbox ('?' for list): ~/Mail/callig  (Your current mailbox)
  And when you start to type a name, it changes into:
Open mailbox: d (if d is the first letter you have 
typed)
  What I want is to type debian-user to switch to the 
/home/fayard/Mail/debian-user
  mailbox, and I want automatic completion over all the mailboxes in 
/home/fayard/Mail/.
  I'm quite sure I had that on an old distibution, and I can't find anything in 
the mutt
  documentation.

Thanks
Francois

Re: Q: syslog-ng remote logging.

[Mike Fedyk]

Andreas Rabus wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> sitting in my box, checking my logs...
> and trying to log from Host A to Host B with tcp i always get some strange
> "error" Messages when starting my syslog-ng with option "-d":
> 
> "Error Creating AF_INET socket (Operation now in progress)"
> 
> The log are setup up as in the demo configuratuion in the  doc dir.
> src on host B allows tcp from host A, host A has destinations woth tcp.
> 
> Host A ist a woody, Host B a potato.
> 
> Is this a bug or am i that stupid?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ar
> 
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Find this in your /etc/init.d/sysklogd and make it similar on your receiving
machine.

# Options for start/restart the daemons~
#   For remote UDP logging use SYSLOGD="-r"~
#~
SYSLOGD="-r"~

BTW, this is from a potato box.
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fonts scaling w/h xfstt

[Joel Dinel]

I've got xfstt up and running and serving me with nice TrueType fonts. Now, is 
there a way to scale those fonts ? Right now I can only seem to get one default 
size. I remember having scaled TTF under RedHat. I'm sure there's a way to do 
it in Debian, I just don't know how...

Thanks !

ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

[Mariusz . Przygodzki]

> Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5
years,
> and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist,
but
> I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain
and
> update. If only it were easy to install, then Billy boy (not to mention
redhat
> and others) would all be looking for new jobs by now.

I am under an impression but I am not going to put up to auction my Linux
years :-)
I spent a lot of time with different rpm distributions (now I know it was to
much)
and I decided to stay on Debian because I am *not* a masochist.
I expect from any Linux distribution (not just Linux as OS - you mixed up
distributions with systems) to be "easy to mantain and update" so Debian
it's my preffered choice.
And I can "pay" very small price for installation tools without
artistic-graphics-widgets.


> Most people on this list seem to think that Debian is worth perservering
with.

I don't think I you can represent "most people on this list" in this area.
Of course, I respect your opinion as your personal.


Regards
Mariusz

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

[Christian Pernegger]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and
> install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk).  

In my experience that's the only thing that more or less works?

Try an older disk with a few badblocks - uaarg!

Christian

ex/nvi keeps mailing me...

[Engelen]

Hi,

I have a pcmcia network card for which I have found a working kernel module,
but I cannot connect to the wireless internet here unless I change some
settings in the /proc/aironet/eth0 directory and run ifup. I have put together
a small script (my first one like this) to do this automatically, but it
doesn't really work perfectly. This is the script:

#!/bin/sh
ex -s /proc/aironet/eth0/Config >/dev/null < /proc/aironet/eth0/SSID
ifup eth0

Even though it is -rwsr-sr-x root root, it doesn't work unless executed with
'sudo' (??).
1) is there any script that is ran whenever it detects me putting the card in?
When I put it in, /var/log/syslog sais:
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: airo: MAC enabled eth0 0:40:96:38:da:4a
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: eth0: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f

2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots of email
messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the Config file, Nvi
saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why?


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nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

[Engelen]

Hi,

I have a pcmcia network card for which I have found a working kernel module,
but I cannot connect to the wireless internet here unless I change some
settings in the /proc/aironet/eth0 directory and run ifup. I have put together
a small script (my first one like this) to do this automatically, but it
doesn't really work perfectly. This is the script:

#!/bin/sh
ex -s /proc/aironet/eth0/Config >/dev/null < /proc/aironet/eth0/SSID
ifup eth0

Even though it is -rwsr-sr-x root root, it doesn't work unless executed with
'sudo' (??).
1) is there any script that is ran whenever it detects me putting the card in?
When I put it in, /var/log/syslog sais:
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: airo: MAC enabled eth0 0:40:96:38:da:4a
Oct  4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: eth0: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f

2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots of email
messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the Config file, Nvi
saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why?


-- 
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Debian GNU/Linux - when code matters, not commercials

Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

[Carl Fink]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I expect from any Linux distribution (not just Linux as OS - you
> mixed up distributions with systems) to be "easy to mantain and
> update" so Debian it's my preffered choice. And I can "pay" very
> small price for installation tools without
> artistic-graphics-widgets.

This is an unfair characterization.  The criticism isn't that the
Debian installer doesn't have graphics.  The criticism is that the
choices are both obscure and remarkably confusing in spots.

*I* don't have trouble with it either -- I've been using Debian for
several years and Linux for longer.  A first-time installer will be
(I say with complete confidence) mystified.

Now, is the first-time Linux user Debian's target?  Apparently not,
and that's okay.  Maybe Storm can cover that group.
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Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and
> > install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk).  
> 
> In my experience that's the only thing that more or less works?

in my latest experience an awful lot of MS install disks have a
distinct lack of fdisk.  (or anything else to create partitions with)

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Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

[Jürgen A. Erhard]

I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you
folks first...

I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I
come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure
I didn't log out.

The only thing in syslog is a

gnome-name-server[500]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting

that seems to be at about the time X shuts down.

Hmm, I can't say I checked gdm's log, or .gnome-errors when it last
happened...

I don't have any automatic logout daemons running.

System is a laptop (Vobis Highpaq Basic1 14), Celeron 566... compiled
my own kernel (2.2.17, slightly reduced from the Debian default, just
disabled some features I definitely don't need).

Anyone experienced the same?  Or have some hints where to look?  Any
pointers are appreciated...

Bye, J

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Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

[Jürgen A. Erhard]

Forgot to mention I've installed the latest Helix GNOME packages, and
the rest is woody (still libc 2.1.3).

Bye, J

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Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

[Peter Hugosson-Miller]

Carl Fink wrote:

> This is an unfair characterization.  The criticism isn't that the
> Debian installer doesn't have graphics.  The criticism is that the
> choices are both obscure and remarkably confusing in spots.

Actually, I'm done criticizing Debian - I now know it's only meant for Linux 
gurus, so
I've only myself to blame if I keep trying to install it, and keep finding it
difficult.

The thing is, over the years I've learned so much about Debian that I feel I 
will be
able to do it soon - maybe 2.2 will work for me. Here's why:

- I know the vital newbie stuff like the 'reset' command, virtual consoles, 
'pwd',
'ls', 'su' and 'shutdown -h now'.
- I know where most of the important directories are.
- I know 'vi' well enough to edit the stuff that needs editing.
- I can use 'man' and 'grep'.
- I know to avoid 'dselect' like the plague.

now, if I could only get hold of that chicken...

> *I* don't have trouble with it either -- I've been using Debian for
> several years and Linux for longer.  A first-time installer will be
> (I say with complete confidence) mystified.

Spot on!

> Now, is the first-time Linux user Debian's target?  Apparently not,
> and that's okay.  Maybe Storm can cover that group.

I'm not (never have been) a quitter. If I can't get to grips with 'potato', 
then I'll
try again with 'woody'. And 'bullseye', 'jessie' and 'stinky' if needs be ;-). 
Maybe
apt will get finished one day, and maybe someone will get round to writing a 
decent
installer so that newbies can use it too. Only time will tell.

Enough about this already! What about that t-shirt?

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Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

[Kerstin Hoef-Emden]

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, me wrote:

>   3) If the reviewer had been a newbie, the complaints might have
> been forgivable. Deb is not (yet) for newbies. It's getting there,
> though.

If the newbie is a fiddler, he or she can manage with a little help from
(Debian) friends. When I started installing Debian on my Atari TT, I had
never seen another Linux distri before, I just knew a handful of Unix
commands from my account at the University mainframes. It is necessary
to have some people around to help and a certain stubborness to go
through and things will work out.
  
> disaster. 8) I switched *to* Debian because it was easy to install online.
 
I tried Debian because there were no alternative distris for
m68k-machines and was successful because the m68k-people were quite
patient with me. So finally, when I got my second computer, this time
not m68k, I changed from the preinstalled RedHat back to Debian, because
I like it better.

Whether Debian is suitable to a newbie, is pretty much dependend in the
newbie and (I guess) in the experiences he or she makes when contacting
the Debian lists.




Regards,

Kerstin



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Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote:
> 
> I've already tried this.
> 
> Let me describe what I want:
>   All my mailboxes are under the directory /home/fayard/Mail/
>   When you type c, you have:
> Open mailbox ('?' for list): ~/Mail/callig  (Your current mailbox)
>   And when you start to type a name, it changes into:
> Open mailbox: d (if d is the first letter you 
> have typed)
>   What I want is to type debian-user to switch to the 
> /home/fayard/Mail/debian-user
>   mailbox, and I want automatic completion over all the mailboxes in 
> /home/fayard/Mail/.
>   I'm quite sure I had that on an old distibution, and I can't find anything 
> in the mutt
>   documentation.

ah thats easy:

Open mailbox: =d

notice the = that means automatically prefix it with ~/Mail

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Serial port tunnel...

[Max Lock]

 Hi folks,

 I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port over IP and
make it appear as a local device on a remote machine. Does anyone have
any ideas where it may be located. I've been through freshmeat and
there's software to forward to an IP socket, by not a device file.

 -Cheers Max.

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Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[Jason Quigley]

--On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years,
and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but



Trying to install an OS - any OS - for 5 years! I wouldn't call you a masochist 
- something else - but, not a masochist!

Re: problems with gnome

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:40:20AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> 
> Try to change to enlightenment and then immediately change back to
> WindowMaker. This helped with WindowMaker and sawfish here, when I
> wanted to run sawfish and after some major upgrading Gnome didn't
> recognize any wm running at all.

I'll give it a shot when I want to try gnome again. Currently I'm cruising
in IceWM, and it's so lean and quick I'm not sure I want to go back. ;-) But
hey, it's gnome-compliant, so...

Thanks for the response,

Mike

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Cloning Debian/GNU

[Denis J. Cirulis]

Hello ! 
I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile.
I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I
want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose packages on
each machine. If there is some kickstart install would you be so kind and point
me to the good documentation on how to implement this.

-- 
My other computer is a 4000 node Beowulf cluster.

Re: Serial port tunnel...

[Robert Waldner]

I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-)

l2tp is the protocol you´re looking for, l2tpd is the only
 implementation for *n?x I´m aware of http://www.marko.net/l2tp/>, 
 although at the moment it seems to only support PPP as 
 layer-2-protocol.

hth,
&rw

On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 13:47:47 BST, Max Lock writes:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port over IP and
>make it appear as a local device on a remote machine. Does anyone have
>any ideas where it may be located. I've been through freshmeat and
>there's software to forward to an IP socket, by not a device file.
>
> -Cheers Max.


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Re: gnome won't start now

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:

> Well, in *my* gnome-session package (1.2.2-1) there is a gnome-session
> file in /etc/gnome ... Maybe it helps if you try a reinstall of
> gnome-session?

Ok, it's not where the manpage says it's supposed to be, but it's there.
Is that why gnome apparently isn't using it? It just sits there. No panel,
menus, nothing. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace back to xdm. 
I could copy it manually, but I shouldn't have to according to the docs,
and common sense.

Mike

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Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:48:29PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote:
> in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes.  in my setup i have
> /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just
> press "c" to change mailboxes.  i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i
> remember it right it goes like this:
> 
> mailboxes /var/mail/ ~/Mail/

Right. And then when you're looking to change boxes, hit 'c' to change,
followed by 'Tab', and it will list everything listed under mailboxes. Note
that your spool folder is pointed to by !, and your spool directory
($HOME/Mail usually) is pointed to by =. For example, my mailboxes line is
this:

mailboxes $MAIL =oclug =mutt =debian =pm-ottawa =gnome =latex =spambox =rootbox 
=gimp =icewm

...but I could change $MAIL to !. 

Also when you hit 'c', if there is new mail in any of these, it will
present the name of the next folder with new mail to allow you to cycle
through them. 

Mike

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote:

> Let me describe what I want:
>   All my mailboxes are under the directory /home/fayard/Mail/
>   When you type c, you have:
> Open mailbox ('?' for list): ~/Mail/callig  (Your current mailbox)
>   And when you start to type a name, it changes into:
> Open mailbox: d (if d is the first letter you 
> have typed)
>   What I want is to type debian-user to switch to the 
> /home/fayard/Mail/debian-user
>   mailbox, and I want automatic completion over all the mailboxes in 
> /home/fayard/Mail/.
>   I'm quite sure I had that on an old distibution, and I can't find anything 
> in the mutt
>   documentation.

Don't start with 'd'. Start with '='. Hit '=d', and then Tab to complete. 

This assumes that you've done a "set folder=/home/fayard/Mail" in your
.muttrc. 

Mike

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Re: Cloning Debian/GNU

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:53:14PM +0300, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:
> Hello ! 
> I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile.
> I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I
> want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose packages on
> each machine. If there is some kickstart install would you be so kind and 
> point
> me to the good documentation on how to implement this.

you cannot entirely automate the install, but you can skip the entire
package selection process (which is the biggest thing IMO) by doing
the following:

source machine$ dpkg --get-selections \* > package.selections

destination machine# dpkg --set-selections < package.selections
destination machine# apt-get dselect-upgrade

that will remove any packages from the destination you removed from
the source and install any packages you installed on the source.

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Re: Serial port tunnel...

[Max Lock]

Robert Waldner wrote:
> 
> I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-)

 Nope, I really want to tunnel the port, I want to have
/dev/virtual-ttyS1 and be able to open that device and read/write to it.
then have that data tunneled across a network to the real /dev/ttyS1 on
the remote machine.

 -Max

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neighbour table overflow

[Robert Lazzurs]

Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal,
nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim.

I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it
happens when I access remote sites, for instance, when I ping my self, or
mess about with my pop server (I had that setup yesterday, I have trashed
my machine once trying to fix this, long story)

I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it
might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but
it is not!

Any help would be vvvnice :)

(please cc, as I am not on the list)

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Re: problems with gnome

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-10-05 11:40:20, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel.
> > It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. 
> 
> Try to change to enlightenment and then immediately change back to
> WindowMaker. This helped with WindowMaker and sawfish here, when I
> wanted to run sawfish and after some major upgrading Gnome didn't
> recognize any wm running at all.

Try this (in .xsession for xdm, .gnomerc for gdm when using Gnome Session):

export WINDOW_MANAGER=/full/path/to/e
exec gnome-session


/Allan
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Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

[John Foster]

"Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> 
> I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you
> folks first...
> 
> I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I
> come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure
> I didn't log out.
> 
> The only thing in syslog is a
> 
> gnome-name-server[500]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting
> 
> that seems to be at about the time X shuts down.
> 
> Hmm, I can't say I checked gdm's log, or .gnome-errors when it last
> happened...
> 
> I don't have any automatic logout daemons running.
> 
> System is a laptop (Vobis Highpaq Basic1 14), Celeron 566... compiled
> my own kernel (2.2.17, slightly reduced from the Debian default, just
> disabled some features I definitely don't need).
> 
> Anyone experienced the same?  Or have some hints where to look?  Any
> pointers are appreciated...
> 
> Bye, J
-
I have noticed something similar a couple of times this week. If I have 
an x-window open, then switch to a console terminal, maybe walk away for
an hour or so; when I come back the x-window is closed and I have to log
back in. I have xdm with enlightenment and gnome running as my x-windows
system. I use a blend of Debian Potato, and Storm (ne Helix) Linux
packages. Wierd Huh!

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mysql location?

[balayo]

Hey list,sorry if this is a repeat. The original seems
to have bounced off of someones full mailbox. (wierd)I
have a couple of fairly easy ones, I think.I'm installing
php. I have tried to add mysql both withapt-get, and
by compiling it. I get a config error,"no curses/termcap
library found", and I clearly do have libncurses.when
I chose to just use the mysql client and server debs,
I couldn't pin down the directory where mysql was
installed.The php configure option,--with-mysql=/path/to/dir/just
plain stumped me. If I compile mysql, I can just stick
itin /usr/local/mysql...Either way, I don't care,
just so long as I know what to tell php. any ideas?thanks.
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base list ??

[Ted Wager]

Hi

 From a new Debian user...
I installed my Debian linux from a 3 cdset and all was uip and running ok..
I started with the base system and built it up gradually using dselect..
Today I thought I would put the Linux Gazettes on so I went to dselect
and it told me..: failed to create basetext pad ( I think basetext)
Cannot allocate memory...Could anyone tell me if this is posoble to overcome??
I am not too bothered as I can soon reinstall..
Also I have a d/load of Storm Linux with te Debian rain distro on...
Is it possible to install the Storm and upgrade from the Debian 2.2
cd's ??
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Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

[Francois Fayard]

Hi,

Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails,
info pages, etc... in LaTeX ?

Thank you.
Francois

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

[Nate Amsden]

what modules are loaded? run 'lsmod' and show the output.

i dont have that webcam but i have configured a few hauppauge tv cards,
for them you need the videodev module(among others) to get it to work.
do u have this module loaded?(show lsmod anyways just incase)

nate

Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> 
> Some people responded to my question asking for more information
> concerning this error.
> I'll give it a try.
> 
> I have purchased a Philips Vespa Pro Webcam, because it was reccomended
> for support by the Linux community. Indeed, it has some very detailed
> information on:
> 
>   http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
> 
> I run Debian 2.2 on a Dell notebook with kernel 2.2.17 so I had to do a
> bit of work in order to get usb working. I choose the backport patch
> over the upgrade to 2.4.0-test-something. Followed instructions on:
> 
>   http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
> 
> This all seems to work pretty well, judging from /var/log/messages (i'll
> list portion of the log below.
> (Acctually quite nice that a non-programmer like me can find instructions
> to do things like patching kernels and building modules.)
> But now we come to the tragic bit: I have built a new module pwc.o for
> my 2.2.17 kernel (pre-built only exists for 2.2.16 or 2.4.0-test6)
> according to the instructions. Now I load and it gives me:
> 
>   Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Philips PCA645/646 +
>   PCVC675/680/690 webcam module version 5.05 PPro (UP) loaded.
>   Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Also supports Askey VC010 cam.
>   Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam
>   Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Philips PCVC680K USB webcam detected.
>   Oct  3 16:11:37 eme_lap kernel: pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
> 
> Which looks allright to me.
> Any attempts to access /dev/video or /dev/video0 result in:
> 
>   /dev/video: Operation not permitted
> 
> Leaves me pretty clue less...
> Anny suggestions much appreciated.
> 
> --
>   Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Re: Basic Debian firewall

[Rogelio E. Castillo Haro]

About this,
In my linuxbox startup configuration, I don't know where are the initialization
scripts for ipchains, or where can I put my own scripts, someone knows
where is the right place?
 
--
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RE: Serial port tunnel...

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Max Lock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>  I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port 
> over IP and make it appear as a local device on a remote machine.

 Closest I know of is what you probably found, in the Linux Modem
Sharing mini-howto. Allows you to connect to a remote modem via IP.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux-Modem-Sharing.html

 You might be able to set up a daemon on the local machine that
talks to the modemd on the other machine, and presents a fifo in
the /dev directory for devices to talk to. Not sure you could get
ioctl's that way, though.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
"The Most Significant Bit in any computer is the power switch."
 Anonymous

Re: Cloning Debian/GNU

[Paul Seelig]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:53:14PM +0300, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:

> I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile.
> I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I
> want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose packages on
> each machine. If there is some kickstart install would you be so kind and 
> point
> me to the good documentation on how to implement this.
> 
This might proof being useful for such a task:

-- snip -
[pseelig]~ > apt-cache show bootcd
Package: bootcd
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 53
Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1-5
Depends: cdrecord, mkisofs, cpio, makepatch, fdutils
Suggests: ssh
Architecture: i386
Size: 12094
MD5sum: 7336a8586b059d4eb87efafc33bad67c
Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/utils/bootcd_1-5.deb
Description: run your system from cd without need for disks.
 Copy your running Debian System on CD with the command bootcdwrite. When
 you run your system from CD you do not need any disks. All changes will
 be done in ram. To reuse this changes at next boottime you can save them
 on FLOPPY with the command bootcdflopcp. If booting from your CD-drive
 is not supported, booting from floppy is possible.
-- snip -

It can be used for cloning a complete system installing from CD-ROM.

 Good luck, P. *8^)
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   Johannes Gutenberg-University   -  Forum 6  -  55099 Mainz/Germany
   --- http://ntama.uni-mainz.de 

Unidentified subject!

[romeu]

Hi,
I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it.
So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get
it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my
login?

Another thing that is happening: When I send the AT commands to my modem,
it doesn't give me the answer immediately. It waits a few seconds (about
30!), to send me back OK. So, when I type pon, it delays about 90 seconds
to dial. This does not happen under windows. The dial-up is made
immediately. Could this be a serial port uart issue? You now, I already
tried setserial (...) uart 16450.


Thanks again,
Gaucho.

---
>It looks like either your modem is not sending a connect message (just
>a CR), or the chat script is timing out before it is sent.  Maybe fiddle
>with the "expect" after dialing (or change the timeout, assuming that
>can be done).

Yes. It can be done. I'll try it out, tonight. --> so I tried;


>What does "Ats109=2" do (aside from setting register s109 to 2 :)?
Does nothing. I just found this command somewhere in the net. The manual
does not even report it.

>Have you tried sending ATZ first, then all three of the AT command
>sequences the win prog sends before dialing?

I'll try that, too. Thanks! --> so I tried;

>Well, not a solution, but try to add "kdebug 1" to your ppp options
>file. I'm experiencing a similar situation, but had no time to
>continue work on it. In my case, it seems that my configuration is
>rejecting pap authentication, but I couldn't see why. Maybe such a log
>might help somebody else on this list to find the solution.

I tried that, to, in place of debug. The logs are the same.

--
Hi,
I'm sorry the long mail, but I would have no way of describing my problem
without it.

I'm trying to connect to my ISP, using my Lucent Venus Voice Modem, since
august, 2000.
I made these things:
-  ISA PnP issues, with pnpdump --> isapnp.conf
- setserial /dev/ttyS1 - the port whas detected as 16550A.

Well, now I have access to the modem. So I used pppconfig to set the chat
scripts.
But the connection with my ISP is not going on. The modem dials, makes the
modem noise, but I think there's no handshake with my ISP. I tried PAP,
CHAP (even  Chat, but my ISP is windows based).

So I tought: the modem is not yet configured. I'll try to do it with AT
commands. This is my modem log under windows:

09-11-2000 02:52:45.44 - Lucent Venus Voice Modem in use.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.45 - Modem type: Lucent Venus Voice Modem
09-11-2000 02:52:45.45 - Modem inf path: ASKVENUS.INF
09-11-2000 02:52:45.45 - Modem inf section: Modem_Venus_IN
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - 115200,N,8,1
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - 115200,N,8,1
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Initializing modem.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Send: AT
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: AT
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Send: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1w0
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Recv: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1w0
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Send: ATS7=60S30=0L0M1\N3%C1&K3B0B15N1X4
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Send: Ats109=2
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Dialing.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Send: ATDT;
09-11-2000 02:52:49.30 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:49.30 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:49.32 - Dialing.
09-11-2000 02:52:49.32 - Send: ATDT###
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Recv: CONNECT 115200 V42bis
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Interpreted response: Connect
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Connection established at 115200bps.
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Error-control on.
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Data compression on.

So I tried this, with my /etc/chatscripts/provider  :

# This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5.
# Please do not delete any of the comments.  Pppconfig needs them.
#
# ispauth PAP
# abortstring
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO
DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
# modeminit
'' 'AT &F0 E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1W0'
# ispnumber
OK-AT-OK ATDT6129220
# ispconnect
CONNECT CLIENT
# prelogin
# ispname
# isppassword
# postlogin
# end of pppconfig stuff


This is my pap-secrets file:

#
# /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
#
# This is a pap-secrets file to be used with the AUTO_PPP function of
# mgetty. mgetty-0.99 is preconfigured to startup pppd with the login
option
# which will cause pppd to consult /etc/passwd (and /etc/shadow in turn)
# after a user has passed this file. Don't be disturbed therfore by the
fact
# that this file defines logins with any password for users. /etc/passwd
# (again, /etc/shadow, too) will catch passwd mismatches.
#
# This file should block ALL users that should not be able to do AUTO_PPP.
# AUTO_PPP bypasses the u

Re: /proc/interrupts

[David Wright]

Quoting Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> 
> > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the
> > intr line in /proc/stat (first number is total).
> 
> Wow. How do I read that? Off to the proc manpage for me. 

$ cat /proc/interrupts /proc/stat
   CPU0   
  0:  112724548  XT-PIC  timer
  1: 311838  XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  5:237  XT-PIC  MS Sound System
  8:  1  XT-PIC  rtc
 11: 442192  XT-PIC  sym53c8xx
 12: 812604  XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse---
 13:  1  XT-PIC  fpu |
 14:237  XT-PIC  ide0|
 15:   91622967  XT-PIC  eth0|
NMI:  0  |
cpu  8084962 33447 2158543 102447596 |
disk 230890 199163 5334 0|
disk_rio 135425 188580 4507 0|
disk_wio 95465 10583 827 0   |
disk_rblk 476524 1498842 4532 0  |
disk_wblk 507274 62170 827 0 |
page 1119975 398228  |
swap 96760 35427 v
intr 205914628 112724548 311838 0 1 1 237 0 1 1 0 0 442192 812604 1 237 
91622967 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ctxt 261583839
btime 969624989
processes 29317

i.e.
intr Total IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3 IRQ4 etc. with none missing.

Cheers,

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Re: neighbour table overflow

[Marek Habersack]

** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled:
> Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal,
> nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim.
> 
> I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it
> happens when I access remote sites, for instance, when I ping my self, or
> mess about with my pop server (I had that setup yesterday, I have trashed
> my machine once trying to fix this, long story)
> 
> I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it
> might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but
> it is not!
> 
> Any help would be vvvnice :)
Check whether you have the lo network interface up. If not - start it. This
should cure your problem.

marek


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Message: read_ahead not set in /proc/mdstat

[Andre Strenger]

Hi all,

I am running 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and raidtools2 0.90.
/etc/raidtab is configured as shown in HOWTO and also the
devices was made. After a mkraid /dev/md0 I get the errormessage 
above. I didnt find any hints to this message
has somebody a good Idea ???
Thanks & have a nice day,

Greetings from Germany
Andre 
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Re: printing to a windows printer

[Philipp Lehman]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but 
>how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd?

Create a character special file with major number 1 and minor
number 3, like that:

mknod /dev/lpnull c 1 3

The name 'lpnull' is arbitrary, choose whatever you like. Hint:
if you do a 'ls -l /dev', you'll see that for character and
block specials, ls reports the major and minor numbers instead of
the file size. For /dev/null, the output looks like that:

#ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-1 root root   1,   3 Sep  1 11:03 /dev/null
   ^^^  ^^^
 major  minor

>should I just comment the /dev/null out then?

No, simply change it to

:lp=/dev/lpnull:

The whole point is to prevent that /dev/null gets looked, but you
do want to discard any output with a setup like this---ie. the
print job is piped to a magicfilter script which then pipes it
to the printer so that under normal conditions nothing should
ever end up at /dev/lpnull. If it does, somthing is wrong and you
don't want the failed print job to end up on your harddrive.

BTW: I've seem another post of yours concerning the setup of a
LaserJet 4L:

>Oct  3 19:29:10 ganymede lpd[969]: cannot execv
>/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter
>Oct  3 19:29:10 ganymede lpd[968]: lp0: job could not be printed 

Did you check the permissions of /var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter? Is it
executable?

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Re: can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

[Martin Maciaszek]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:03:19PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:22:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> > > > I want to make xdm get a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) from the
> > > > server. Right now I always have to run kinit and enter my
> > > > username and password, which is the same as the local username
> > > > and password. I'm tired of entering my username and password
> > > > twice.
> > > 
> > > Look for the pam_krb5.so module (somewhere on the net). I've compiled it
> > > and used it with no problems for ssh, login and xdm.
> > > 
> > But the problem is, that xdm is not linked against the pam
> > library. (At least not xdm from XFree 3.3.6) I hoped there was a
> > way without having to recompile xdm.
> 
> So you are using Debian, or is it that you are using a Debian version
> older than potato (2.2)?

Actually I'm using woody.

Regards
Martin
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"Time for you to leave."
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Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[Keith G. Murphy]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> >
> > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any
> > takers?
> >
> 
> hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a
> chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken,
> wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool!
> 
Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all.

On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster.

Re: mozilla & netscape

[Rick Macdonald]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, John Travis wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I

> I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds 
> without incident.  I didn't do anything to install the nightly builds.  I 
> just made a menu entry for ~/mozilla/mozilla so they all get along fine :-).

I have both installed the same way, and they work, but how do you get
mozilla to use the plugins installed under netscape (such as rplayer)?

...RickM...

Re: machine lockups and kernel panic

[Rick Macdonald]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > 
> > Twice in the last week I've woken up to a locked-up dead potato machine
> > and had to hit the power switch.
> 
> I had the same symptoms, once or twice...
> 
> > Does anybody know what this means and why it would happen in the middle of
> > the night? The debian cron jobs don't start until after 6am.
> > 
> > I'm running kernel 2.2.17 built from potato debs.
> 
> Same 'ere.
> 
> > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed Oct  4 05:11:14 2000 ...
> > timshel kernel: Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted
> 
> I've no way of knowing if I got such a message. How'd you debug
> such a thing?

I don't have a clue. I need HELP!

...RickM...

ISP mode connection (Sorry - Unidentified subject!)

[romeu]

Hi,
I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it.
So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get
it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my
login?

Another thing that is happening: When I send the AT commands to my modem,
it doesn't give me the answer immediately. It waits a few seconds (about
30!), to send me back OK. So, when I type pon, it delays about 90 seconds
to dial. This does not happen under windows. The dial-up is made
immediately. Could this be a serial port uart issue? You now, I already
tried setserial (...) uart 16450.


Thanks again,
Gaucho.

---
>It looks like either your modem is not sending a connect message (just
>a CR), or the chat script is timing out before it is sent.  Maybe fiddle
>with the "expect" after dialing (or change the timeout, assuming that
>can be done).

Yes. It can be done. I'll try it out, tonight. --> so I tried;


>What does "Ats109=2" do (aside from setting register s109 to 2 :)?
Does nothing. I just found this command somewhere in the net. The manual
does not even report it.

>Have you tried sending ATZ first, then all three of the AT command
>sequences the win prog sends before dialing?

I'll try that, too. Thanks! --> so I tried;

>Well, not a solution, but try to add "kdebug 1" to your ppp options
>file. I'm experiencing a similar situation, but had no time to
>continue work on it. In my case, it seems that my configuration is
>rejecting pap authentication, but I couldn't see why. Maybe such a log
>might help somebody else on this list to find the solution.

I tried that, to, in place of debug. The logs are the same.

--
Hi,
I'm sorry the long mail, but I would have no way of describing my problem
without it.

I'm trying to connect to my ISP, using my Lucent Venus Voice Modem, since
august, 2000.
I made these things:
-  ISA PnP issues, with pnpdump --> isapnp.conf
- setserial /dev/ttyS1 - the port whas detected as 16550A.

Well, now I have access to the modem. So I used pppconfig to set the chat
scripts.
But the connection with my ISP is not going on. The modem dials, makes the
modem noise, but I think there's no handshake with my ISP. I tried PAP,
CHAP (even  Chat, but my ISP is windows based).

So I tought: the modem is not yet configured. I'll try to do it with AT
commands. This is my modem log under windows:

09-11-2000 02:52:45.44 - Lucent Venus Voice Modem in use.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.45 - Modem type: Lucent Venus Voice Modem
09-11-2000 02:52:45.45 - Modem inf path: ASKVENUS.INF
09-11-2000 02:52:45.45 - Modem inf section: Modem_Venus_IN
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - 115200,N,8,1
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - 115200,N,8,1
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Initializing modem.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Send: AT
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: AT
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Send: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1w0
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Recv: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1w0
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.75 - Send: ATS7=60S30=0L0M1\N3%C1&K3B0B15N1X4
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Send: Ats109=2
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Dialing.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.76 - Send: ATDT;
09-11-2000 02:52:49.30 - Recv: OK
09-11-2000 02:52:49.30 - Interpreted response: Ok
09-11-2000 02:52:49.32 - Dialing.
09-11-2000 02:52:49.32 - Send: ATDT###
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Recv: CONNECT 115200 V42bis
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Interpreted response: Connect
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Connection established at 115200bps.
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Error-control on.
09-11-2000 02:53:21.68 - Data compression on.

So I tried this, with my /etc/chatscripts/provider  :

# This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5.
# Please do not delete any of the comments.  Pppconfig needs them.
#
# ispauth PAP
# abortstring
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO
DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
# modeminit
'' 'AT &F0 E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1W0'
# ispnumber
OK-AT-OK ATDT6129220
# ispconnect
CONNECT CLIENT
# prelogin
# ispname
# isppassword
# postlogin
# end of pppconfig stuff


This is my pap-secrets file:

#
# /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
#
# This is a pap-secrets file to be used with the AUTO_PPP function of
# mgetty. mgetty-0.99 is preconfigured to startup pppd with the login
option
# which will cause pppd to consult /etc/passwd (and /etc/shadow in turn)
# after a user has passed this file. Don't be disturbed therfore by the
fact
# that this file defines logins with any password for users. /etc/passwd
# (again, /etc/shadow, too) will catch passwd mismatches.
#
# This file should block ALL users that should not be able to do AUTO_PPP.
# AUTO_PPP bypasses the

general linux questions

[robert_wilhelm_land]

Would someone kindly help in the following questions?


how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase
letters?
Something in the kind of:
find  -name "syncppp"
...but should be able to find "Syncpp" (even if it doesn't exist in
reality)



When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in the
order of their date 
something like "locate  | ", (does the database
include other parameters than just filenames?)


can I generaly launch "startx" out of 3 terminals and keep them all up
at the same time?
When loading X on terminal 1 and switching out of the X-session by
"ctrl+meta+Fx" to the next terminal where X has not been yet launched
- the first X11 session dies. 
Is this a common behaviour?


Then, has someone included java kernel support when compiling the
kernel? Is this a reliable feature? It seems to be a great thing
because clients do not have to install a jre or jdk when running Java
apps?


Last one - how can I save all in- and outputs (eq. sum of all text)
out of the
current session in the bash to a file?



Thanks for helping



Robert

how can I add disk space?

[c-3]

Hello!

I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very 
low, so I have to add new disk space.
I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home 
(where all my samba datas are being saved). But the problem is 
now all datas are only written on the new HD instead of useing the 
disk space of both HDs.
There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one?

how program can use more than 256 processes

[George Chavdarov]

Hello all,
i have following problem
maximum limit of processes is 256 for any user
kernel supports up to 1024 (kernel 2.2)
how i can make user to have more than 256 processes in fact i need it for
mysql
ulimit in shell and set it in /etc/limits.conf dont work.
any ideas

Best regards, George Chavdarov
System administrator, www.dir.bg

Re: general linux questions

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
> Would someone kindly help in the following questions?
> 
> 
> how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase
> letters?
> Something in the kind of:
> find  -name "syncppp"
> ...but should be able to find "Syncpp" (even if it doesn't exist in
> reality)

find  -iname "syncppp"

read the find man page, man find.

> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in the
> order of their date 
> something like "locate  | ", (does the database
> include other parameters than just filenames?)

not sure on this one.

> can I generaly launch "startx" out of 3 terminals and keep them all up
> at the same time?
> When loading X on terminal 1 and switching out of the X-session by
> "ctrl+meta+Fx" to the next terminal where X has not been yet launched
> - the first X11 session dies. 
> Is this a common behaviour?

startx -- :1 vt8
startx -- :2 vt9

will let you start multiple X sessions.  i don't usualy do things like
this though, i have wdm running and sometimes do things like:

X -query localhost :1 vt8

to get a second x based login screen, or more interesting:

X -query dogbert :1 vt8

to get a X based login from remote machine dogbert.  (your at the
mercy of your network security here though, the connection is NOT encrypted)

> 
> Then, has someone included java kernel support when compiling the
> kernel? Is this a reliable feature? It seems to be a great thing
> because clients do not have to install a jre or jdk when running Java
> apps?

i think the option you refer to is only binary file support, i think
you still need the java interpreter.  but i avoid java so i am not
sure on this.

> 
> Last one - how can I save all in- and outputs (eq. sum of all text)
> out of the
> current session in the bash to a file?

script session.log

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Message: ++read_ahead not set++ in /proc/mdstat

[Andre Strenger]

Hi all, 

I am running 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and raidtools2 0.90. 
/etc/raidtab is configured as shown in HOWTO and also the 
devices was made. After a mkraid /dev/md0 I get the errormessage 
above. I didnt find any hints to this message 
has somebody a good Idea ??? 
Thanks & have a nice day, 

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Re: New to Debian, boot problems

[David Wright]

Quoting Willy Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Now that I've got some time to think about this a bit (to tell the
> truth, I've been avoiding thinking about it, the whole thing scares me
> a bit), let me see if I'm understanding everything:

Just make sure you have a working boot floppy, or rescue disk.

> 1). I move the contents of /boot to a partition on /dev/hda, e.g.,
> /dev/hda5;

Yes. This partition might contain kernels for other linux distributions
that you have installed, so long as you only administer it from one
distribution (i.e. only run lilo in one distribution).

You need to do step (5) at the same time.

> 2). tell lilo to install itself to the mbr on hda (in lilo.conf:
> 'boot=/dev/hda');

Yes.

> 3). tell lilo to boot from /dev/hda5 ('root=/dev/hda5'); should this
> partition be otherwise empty?

No. You don't need to tell lilo about this partition, but it
must be mounted as /boot when you run /sbin/lilo (the installer)
so that the installer can read/write the files therein.

When the machine boots, all the references to files in /dev/hda5
will be absolute disk addresses, which is why the BIOS must be able
to see it. At boot time, there's no such thing as a filesystem
or /boot because linux isn't running yet.

> 4). tell the kernel to look for /etc and everything else on /dev/hdb1
> ('append="root=/dev/hdb1 ro"').

Yes, but you don't need to put

append="root=/dev/hdb1 ro"

but just

root=/dev/hdb1
read-only

> 5). Once in, update /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda5 as /boot at
> startup.  Or, use symlinks.

Yes, but this step is part of step (1), i.e. you do this now, while
writing /etc/lilo.conf .

When you run lilo, it will read /etc/lilo.conf to see what to do.
If you look at the rest of this file, you'll see references to /boot,
e.g. map=/boot/map and these need to be available when you run lilo.
lilo will see where /boot/map is on the disk and plant references to
it in the MBR it writes.

When I said symlinks, I meant that you could leave /boot in hdb1 and,
if hda5 was a DOS partition mounted as /dosc, you could do, for example,
mkdir /dosc/debian
cd /boot
cp -i map /dosc/debian
mv -i map map.keep-a-copy-here
ln -s /dosc/debian/map map
repeating this for all the files required, and then run lilo.

Don't move the files (or defrag /dosc) after doing this, of course.

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RE: Serial port tunnel...

[romeu]

Cool How-to. Does anybody now how to get access to a modem in a windows box
from a linux machine? So I can use a f. winmodem on a windows machine.




  
"Ingles, Raymond"   
  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]Para:   'Max Lock' <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>, 
otics.com>  debian-user 
  
  
  
05/10/00 09:56  cc: 
  
Assunto: RE: Serial port 
tunnel...

  




> From: Max Lock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>  I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port
> over IP and make it appear as a local device on a remote machine.

 Closest I know of is what you probably found, in the Linux Modem
Sharing mini-howto. Allows you to connect to a remote modem via IP.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux-Modem-Sharing.html

 You might be able to set up a daemon on the local machine that
talks to the modemd on the other machine, and presents a fifo in
the /dev directory for devices to talk to. Not sure you could get
ioctl's that way, though.

 Sincerely,

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Printing problems

[Ho-Kuo Chan]

Hello,
I am running Debian potato and have set
up an SMB printer with Printtool
(3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer
is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was
working fine until recently, I think a
package update may have caused the
problem. The problem is that when I send
a print job, nothing is printed. When I
run lpq this is the output I get:
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Queue: no printable jobs in queue
 Status: removing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' -
ABORT at 17:11:35.596

This is the contents of my
/etc/printcap:
# /etc/printcap: printer capability
database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf,
cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See the printcap(5)
manual page for further 
# details.

# rlp|Remote printer entry
# :lp=
# :rm=remotehost
# :rp=remoteprinter
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote
# :mx#0
# :sh
##PRINTTOOL3## SMB POSTSCRIPT 300x300
letter {} PostScript Default {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:lp=/dev/null:


I noticed that there is no
/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter file. Could
this be the problem? I have tried
removing LPRng, Printtool and samba and
then re-installing the packages with no
success. I have also tried plain lpr
with no luck either? Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: neighbour table overflow

[Robert Lazzurs]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:

> ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled:
> > Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal,
> > nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim.
> > 
> > I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it
> > happens when I access remote sites, for instance, when I ping my self, or
> > mess about with my pop server (I had that setup yesterday, I have trashed
> > my machine once trying to fix this, long story)
> > 
> > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it
> > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but
> > it is not!
> > 
> > Any help would be vvvnice :)
> Check whether you have the lo network interface up. If not - start it. This
> should cure your problem.
> 
> marek

I have tried, but it does not appear to be setup, have you any ideas on
how I can do this?

Thanks again - Rab

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Re: neighbour table overflow

[Marek Habersack]

** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled:

> > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it
> > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but
> > > it is not!
> > > 
> > > Any help would be vvvnice :)
> > Check whether you have the lo network interface up. If not - start it. This
> > should cure your problem.
> > 
> > marek
> 
> I have tried, but it does not appear to be setup, have you any ideas on
> how I can do this?
What Debian distro are you using?

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Re: bind and address rewriting

[John L . Fjellstad]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:37:00PM +0200, Thomas Voss wrote:
 
> Does anybody has an idea about that?

Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why do you think you need to
MASQ these packages?  When a box from your internal network do a lookup,
it checks with BIND on your boundary/firewall box. BIND checks if it
has the address in the cache, and if not, make a NEW connection out
to the web to try to resolve it.  So, from the outside, if it comes
to it, will get the connection from the 'internet' box anyways.

Also, any reason why you are using BIND when all you're doing is
cache dns? It's kinda overkill. Use something like dnscache, which
was written specifically for the task (it's smaller, uses less memory,
and is more secure).

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Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[John Bagdanoff]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:51:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > things are more like they used to be than they are now.
> 
> Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here.
> 
>
Not to mention why we cross the road. 
> 
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Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

[Steve Simons]

On 5 Oct 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> Setting delete=yes in apt-move.conf will delete old .debs from your
> mirror (doesn't make much sense on a CDROM though), not from the apt
> cache.  That there are still .debs in that cache is probably due to
> the fact that there are newer versions on your mirror.

That's what I thought, but after an 'updatedb', 'locate xmms' reports only
the one occurance of xmms_1.2.3-helix1_i386.deb and
memprof_0.4.0-helix_i386.deb (for example) - in the archives folder.

The same as anyone else, I assume; I run it once with the debian mirror
info, and then again with the helixcode info.

Regards.

Re: general linux questions

[Colin Watson]

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
>> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in
>> the order of their date something like "locate  | ",
>> (does the database include other parameters than just filenames?)
>
>not sure on this one.

You could try something like:

  locate  | xargs ls -dl

... and then work out how to sort the resulting list by date.

>> Then, has someone included java kernel support when compiling the
>> kernel? Is this a reliable feature? It seems to be a great thing
>> because clients do not have to install a jre or jdk when running Java
>> apps?
>
>i think the option you refer to is only binary file support, i think
>you still need the java interpreter.  but i avoid java so i am not
>sure on this.

That's correct; anybody who tries to put a Java interpreter into the
kernel will get shot. :) You need the binfmt_misc module and the
javawrapper utility (linux/Documentation/java.txt, or
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian/ for a Debian package
that I haven't managed to make official yet - beware, I haven't tried it
with Java 1.2 either, so it may need updating).

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[OT] Win ftp clients speed strangeness

[Christian Pernegger]

My primary potato box is running the wu-ftpd in stable. I use it
to copy files (mostly backups) to/from the Win boxen on my 100mbit/s
LAN.

Today I needed to copy 3 ~1GB files to the Linux machine.

I started out with BulletProofFTP, which gave me a shocking 400KB/s.
Then WS-FTP LE: 3000KB/s
Then Win2k's horrid cli client: 11500KB/s, which is what it should be.

This difference is consistent, I tried multiple times and in different orders
of programs and files, different files even.  All clients were locked in
binary mode.

Where do these differences come from?
(Until now I've always used the cli clients of Win, they always give me
full speed)
How do I get rid of them?
What do you use as Win FTP client?

Thanks heaps

Christian

Re: Slashcode, Scoop

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:43:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Are there any (unofficial) debs for slashcode, scoop or similar?

Not that I'm aware of.  I've forwarded your question to Rusty Foster of
Scoop.

Installation is largely trivial though -- you untar into a directory.
It might be nice to have dependencies specified -- you'll obviously need
Apache and a database.  Scoop builds to MySQL, but has been run against
other DBMSs, including IIRC Oracle.

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Re: mysql location?

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:52:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hey list,sorry if this is a repeat. The original seems
> to have bounced off of someones full mailbox. 

This is a misconfigured mail transfer agent.  Your post made it to the
list.  It was refused by a broken mailer.  There's been a long line of
posts on this topic in recent weeks.

> (wierd)I
> have a couple of fairly easy ones, I think.I'm installing
   ^^^
You got something against adding a couple of spaces after a period?
Readability is good.

> php. I have tried to add mysql both withapt-get, and
> by compiling it. I get a config error,"no curses/termcap
> library found", and I clearly do have libncurses.when
> I chose to just use the mysql client and server debs,
> I couldn't pin down the directory where mysql was
> installed.

$ dpkg -L mysql-server | grey 'bin/mysqld'

...or check /etc/init.d/mysql, which is where services are usually
started.

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Re: Printing problems

[Timothy Ritchey]

Ho-Kuo Chan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am running Debian potato and have set
> up an SMB printer with Printtool
> (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer
> is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was
> working fine until recently, I think a
> package update may have caused the
> problem. The problem is that when I send
...
> I noticed that there is no
> /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter file. Could
> this be the problem? I have tried
>

i am having the exact same problem.

t

comments on dselect...not unreasonable

[Walter Tautz]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote:

> As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing
> about Debian was dselect.  It seemed to be a confusing
> morass.  Once I got a workable system it was great,
> and I was impressed by how easy it was to go from
> slink to potato, but getting started was a bear.
>   Allan

I would slightly concur with your assessment of dselect but
only in the sense that it lists simply too many packages. I 
am not sure, but perhaps it is possible to present the various
software types in a less verbose manner. Sort of like the slrn
news reader where one could collapse dependency trees depending
on the software. It would be nice to collapse certain dependency
trees while maintaining others..

Aside: Is there a way to display the whole dependency graph of
all know debian packages?

dselect is a very powerful tool provided one repeatly goes into
the help section and to read EVERY little message that comes up.
I made an explicit point of NOT reading the manpages or intros just to
see whether it is possible to use the tool and it turns out
to be possible. I am, however, grateful for the apt interface
to package management. The ONLINE install method is simply one
of the sweetess setups I have ever seen. Simply put it is brilliant.
Having used  Slackware for many years I look forward to the adventure.

If such a user is willing to suspend his/her
 anxiety and to forge ahead he will be amply rewarded not just by using
dselect or apt but more importantly with becoming involved with the 
community of users behind linux. Geez I am getting poetic, better shutup.

-walter tautz


ps. I would like some constructive  assessments of Debian versus Redhat, 
particular with respect to the initial install. Also
comparisons between dpkg vs. rpm? Feel free to mail
me privately so that the list is not cluttered by this topic and
perhaps I will post a summary of responses I get. Anyone
have any webpages on these topics?

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

<...>

> 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots
> of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the
> Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why?

You were editing a file.  You exited, killed the editor, it crashed, or
your system crashed, without properly closing the editing session.  Your
changes still exist and may be recovered.

'vi -r' should recover the file and give you the option to restore or
cancel restoration of your lost changes.

This is a feature, not a bug.

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Re: base list ??

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I installed my Debian linux from a 3 cdset and all was uip and running ok..
> I started with the base system and built it up gradually using dselect..

> Today I thought I would put the Linux Gazettes on so I went to dselect
> and it told me..: failed to create basetext pad ( I think basetext)
> Cannot allocate memory...Could anyone tell me if this is posoble to overcome??

Run:

$ apt-get install  2>&1|tee apt.log

...which should save output and error messages to the file apt.log.
Please post the exact error message(s). 

You may also want to run and post output of:

   $ free 
   $ cat /proc/meminfo
   $ cat /proc/swaps

> I am not too bothered as I can soon reinstall..

Almost certainly unnecessary.

> Also I have a d/load of Storm Linux with te Debian rain distro on...
>   Is it possible to install the Storm and upgrade from the Debian 2.2
> cd's ??

Yes, from what I'm told.

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Re: Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:57:54PM +0200, Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails,
> info pages, etc... in LaTeX ?

What exactly are you hoping to accomplish?

  - man can directly output to any listed groff device, including  ps, dvi,
X75, X100, ascii, ascii8, latin1, nippon, lj4, and html.  AFAIK, these
objects can be embedded into a LaTeX document. 

  - 'Email' covers a lot of ground, and can be anything from raw ascii to
multiple embedded MIME formats.  There are various conversion tools to
produce formatted output from several common formats, including text,
HTML, RTF, and a number of proprietary and/or binary file formats.

  - texinfo is already TeX, a superset of LaTeX.

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binding f4 to middle mouse

[Michael O'Brien]

Hola~

On sgi, F4 performs the same action as middle mouse (namely, it pastes what's
in the selection buffer). I've tried weeding thru the sgi xdefault files, but
can't find how this is done.

How does one bind f4 to paste the selection buffer?

MO


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Re: how can I add disk space?

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:45:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very 
> low, so I have to add new disk space.
> I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home 
> (where all my samba datas are being saved). But the problem is 
> now all datas are only written on the new HD instead of useing the 
> disk space of both HDs.
> There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one?

Post output from:

   $ df
   $ mount
   $ cat /etc/fstab

Unless you've combined multiple hard drives in some fashion (RAID,
striping, mirroring, LVM), a given file is written to only one location.

Did you transfer your old /home tree to the new drive?

What are you hoping to accomplish?

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Re: Manual for apt

[kmself]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so
> there's no apt  on my machine.

apt isn't a particular command, it's a set of tools:

$ apropos apt
apt (8)  - Advanced Package Tool
apt-cache (8)- APT package handling utility - cache manipulator 
apt-cdrom (8)- APT CDROM managment utility 
apt-config (8)   - APT Configuration Query program 
apt-find (1) - console ncurses based ui for APT
apt-get (8)  - APT package handling utility - command-line
   interface
apt-move (8) - move cache of Debian packages into a mirror
   hierarchy.
apt-zip (8)  - Use apt with removable media
apt-zip-inst (8) - Use apt with removable media
apt-zip-list (8) - Use apt with removable media
apt.conf (5) - configuration file for APT 
capt (1) - console ncurses based ui for APT
captoinfo (1)- convert a termcap description into a terminfo
   description 
console-apt (1)  - console ncurses based ui for APT
import (1)   - capture some or all of an X server screen
   and save the image to a file.
ldaptemplates.conf (5) - configuration file for LDAP display template
   routines
sources.list (5) - package resource list for APT 
micod (8)- MICO object adapter daemon

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Re: Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

[David Z. Maze]

Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FF> Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails,
FF> info pages, etc... in LaTeX ?

Each of those is a little different; the basic answer to each is "no,
not to my knowledge".  But:

-- Manual pages are formatted using 'roff.  Running 'man -t foo' will
   produce a PostScript version of the man page; you can also directly 
   run 'groff -man -Tps foo.1' on the manual page file.  This isn't
   LaTeX at all, but it is a nicer printed format than plain text. [1]

-- Formatted Info pages only exist in plain text, with a little binary 
   markup.  But if you snag the source, you should be able to run
   'tex' on the main driver file.  This is how the printed FSF
   documentation works.  It's not technically LaTeX, it's TeXInfo, but 
   it's the same driver in the end.

-- I'm not sure what you'd actually want to do with your email.  You
   could snarf it into a LaTeX verbatim environment, or print it out
   of Emacs (possibly getting some highlighting of headers in the
   process).

[1] It looks like current versions of Solaris distribute their man
pages using a subset of DocBook.  Now that's just cool.

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URGENT Network Config Pb

[Olivier Billet]

Hi everybody !!!

Here's the problem : I have an Ethernet card and it seems like I
configure it correctly -- all ping in the first network work.
But the problem is when I try to do a ftp on some 'far' machines.

So I guess the mask and/or the gateways are not set correctly.
But where have I to do this configuration ???



PS:  question subsidiaire (maybe OFF TOPIC)
What should I do to get a quite secure system (close which port, how,
usw...)

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

Am I a newbie? I dont know.

Since 1992 I have been using NEXTSTEP, then since 1998 Linux. The
first install made a friend of mine. It was OpenLinux. When I wanted
to upgrade I tried to install a new OpenLinux by myself. All went
smooth -- but I never managed to install ISDN. So I wiped it out and
tried Slink.

Dselect is reaaly not very userfriendly but the real problem is not
dselect. The problem is to configure your system. You have to know
what kind of informations you need to configure ISDN, Network,
Printers, Fax-modems etc.

I had all written down from my old installation, which I left
bootable, to have a fallback-system, if I ran into troubles. So the
only thing I had to do, was to search for the right config-files,
where I filled in the all the things I had in my old config-files.

So I had no problems. But if someone never saw his Linux-guru-friend
writing the line "S3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 3 ttyS3" into
inittab to get the fax running, how can he ever configure it?

Generally I think that noone would ever ask how difficult or easy a
linux-installation is, when you buy computers with preinstalled
linux. Did you ever read an article about how to install windows?


Ciao!
juh

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[OT?]RE:Installing Debian on W2K

[Ken Januski]

Thanks to all who responded on my problems with 
installing Debian on W2K. I've learned a lot since then so am including that 
just in case it might prove useful to other newbies. First my installation on 95 
was much easier because drive was already in 4 partitions. I just shrunk 95 as 
much as possible via fips and then used fdisk to prepare for Debian 
installation. My new PC, however, has only one partition, and no fdisk.exe. I 
guess that doesn't ship with NT. Someone has suggested using Disk Manager but I 
think that with only one partition that won't be of much help. So I guess 
there's no easy way to keep W2K, create more partitions, and then install Debian 
on them. It looks like I need to buy Partition Magic (which actually needs a web 
download to partition W2K).
 
I really bought this PC primarily for Debian but I 
use W2K at work and so it seemed best to get a PC with that installed and then 
add Debian, just as I did with 95. Easier said than done.
 
Thanks again for everyone who's responded. 

 
Ken
 
>> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Ken Januski 
wrote:>> > Hi> >> > I've successfully 
installed Debian on a pc at work but now have a newhome pc with Windows2000. 
So I thought I'd follow the same setup I did atwork on a 95 pc, run fdisk at 
dos prompt. But W2K doesn't seem to have sucha thing. I know this is a very 
elementary question, and really more relatedto Windows that Debian, but I 
have checked FAQ and don't see anythingregarding fdisk and W2K.> 
>> > Can someone give me a clue about preparing W2K for a linux 
install? Do Ineed to get Partition Magic?> >> > Thanks 
much for any help.> >> > Ken> 
>

diald with isdn modem

[Eric van Buggenhaut]

Hi,

Has anyone ever used diald with a ISDN phone line ? What are the gotchas ?

Can you Cc me please.

Thanks

bash shell

[XEN O]

I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to 
debian (as reports speak highly of it).  However, it seems from looking at the 
list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell - it 
this right ??

If this is not the correct place to ask this question - where is ??

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