Fvwm2rc
Hello! How to tell Fvwm2 to run Netscape at startup? And how to tell it to restart Fvwm2, when Netscape is closed? Is there a way for xdm to login from a script. So I would give username and passwd in one file , so I will not have to type it in every time? Thanks! Bye, Ales
Re: Fvwm2rc
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:05:37AM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > How to tell Fvwm2 to run Netscape at startup? ~/.xinitrc > And how to tell it to restart Fvwm2, when Netscape is closed? cat < .xinitrc fvwm2 & netscape EOF > Is there a way for xdm to login from a script. So I would give > username and passwd in one file , so I will not have to type it in > every time? xdm isn't the tool you want. And what you want isn't recommended. You're encouraged to investigate X and the system initalization process, with security ramifications, to determine what you do or don't want to do. Are you perhaps designing or implementing a public-access kiosk? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgp6DePFuxMJ5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 21:52, Brian Lavender wrote: > In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a config file I need to modify? FWIW, these lines are from /home/pann/.slrnrc (potato) hostname "ourmanpann.com" set username "pann" set realname "Pann McCuaig" set replyto "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" You might want to look at /etc/news/slrn.rc and /usr/share/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
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Dear Sir, I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine. I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard disk. Now I don't want this Operating System. I have made Win FDISK and removed all partitions and formatted. After that I have rebooted the system. I am getting LILO and its booting linux. Could you please help me out what to do. I want to make my system to WIN. Thanking you Gouri Sankar
Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:52:25PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I would like it to put it as my real email address which is:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Is there a config file I need to modify?
From /usr/share/doc/slrn/FAQ.gz:
Subject: 12. How can I set my rom' line for my posts?
Use the .slrnrc settings:
set hostname "YOUR.HOST.NAME"
set username "USERNAME"
set realname "YOUR REAL NAME"
This will cause slrn to use a From line of the form:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YOUR REAL NAME)
Finally, if a slang function called
ake_from_string_hook'
exists, then it will be used to generate the rom' header, e.g.,
define make_from_string_hook ()
{
return "W. J. Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>";
}
compile probs with 2 diff progs
I get the below problem when trying to compile 2 KDE apps, can anyone help?? checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no kde headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix!
Netscape
Dear Debian Group, My question today is whether the complete Netscape Navigator and Communicator packages come on the official Debian 6 cd set or whether I have to download them from the non-free directory on the Debian ftp site. Thank you, Ry
Re: Debian for infants.
Hi, On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Kieren Diment wrote: > I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 > month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or > sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > > Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be > re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by > making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. > Is it not easy to write a simple C program? stdin and stdout are the main parts. Just wait for a keypress, then with a case statement you can fill the screen with blank (coloured) characters? Maybe not the trivial way, though. Greetz, Sebastiaan > Thanks in anticipation > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: getting rid of linux
Hi, you probably need to boot with your windoze bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr LILO is installed on your Master Boot Record, a piece of the harddisk that tells BIOS how to boot. After this your computer should be run as it did before. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, ambience wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine. > > I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, > my system is booting directly from the hard disk. > > Now I don't want this Operating System. I have made Win FDISK and removed > all partitions and formatted. After that I have rebooted the system. I am > getting LILO and its booting linux. > > Could you please help me out what to do. > > I want to make my system to WIN. > > Thanking you > > Gouri Sankar >
Re: your mail
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:07:45AM +0530, ambience ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux > Magazine. > > I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian > Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard disk. > > Now I don't want this Operating System. I have made Win FDISK and > removed all partitions and formatted. After that I have rebooted the > system. I am getting LILO and its booting linux. > > Could you please help me out what to do. > > I want to make my system to WIN. If you still have an active GNU/Linux installation on your system (it sounds as if you don't), you can run: $ lilo -u ...as root to uninstall lilo. Otherwise, insert a bootable DOS diskette and run: C:> FDISK /MBR ...which should restore your Legacy MS Windows MBR. If you need further directions or information, see the following: Linux Gazette "Answer Guy" http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue48/tag/4.html Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgp3Lc1vBq4bz.pgp Description: PGP signature
iptables help?
Hello, I thought that these iptables rules: snoopy:~# iptables -v -L ppp0-out Chain ppp0-out (1 references) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 LOGall -- anyany 192.168.0.0/16 anywhere LOG level warning 0 0 REJECT all -- anyany 192.168.0.0/16 anywhere reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 9 868 ACCEPT all -- anyany anywhere anywhere and: Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP 1 packets, 40 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 26 1994 ppp0-out all -- anyppp0anywhere anywhere would prevent packets with the source address 192.168.*.* from appearing on ppp0, however it doesn't. In fact, even if I run ping to an outside host from a 192.168.*.* computer (eth0), none of the counters for INPUT, FORWARD, or OUTPUT are incremented (if I turn on masquerading everything works as expected though). So, how can the packet get received by eth0, be forwarded to ppp0, and transmitted out ppp0 without any of the chain counters recording it? I know the packet is appearing on ppp0 by looking at tcpdump, ifconfig and the transmit light on the modem. I am confused... I can only guess that some sort of optimisation is occurring, but seems strange it only occurs without masquerading or SNAT. Am I doing something obvious wrong? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: your mail
* ambience <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010406 08:56 +0200: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I hope you have found out by now? (just kidding) > I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, > my system is booting directly from the hard disk. > > Now I don't want this Operating System. I have made Win FDISK and removed > all partitions and formatted. After that I have rebooted the system. I am > getting LILO and its booting linux. Boot a DOS floppy, issue "fdisk /mbr". This should erase LILO on your "C:" drive. I hope this helps. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has no one gotten LDAP authentication working?
* Mullins, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010405 17:09]: > Seriously, has no one setup the libpam-ldap in Debian? > > Just some working config files to enlighten me as to the little thing I > haven't gotten right would be splendid. You don't have to talk to me, you > don't have to be my friend...I won't come to your house and drink your beer > if you respond. Promise. > dd required packages: openldap libpam-ldap libnss-ldap libpam-cracklib nscd /etc/libnss-ldap.conf: === host funguz base o=Something, c=NL === etc/pam_ldap.conf: === host funguz base o=Something, c=NL # Use the V3 protocol to optimize searches ldap_version 2 # Filter to AND with uid=%s pam_filter objectclass=account # The user ID attribute (defaults to uid) pam_login_attribute uid #Group to enforce membership of #pam_groupdn cn=PAM,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=net # Group member attribute #pam_member_attribute uniquemember # Hash password locally; required for University of # Michigan LDAP server, and works with Netscape # Directory Server if you're using the UNIX-Crypt # hash mechanism and not using the NT Synchronization # service. pam_crypt local === /etc/pam.d/other: === auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth requiredpam_ldap.so use_first_pass account sufficient pam_unix.so account requiredpam_ldap.so password sufficient pam_unix.so password requiredpam_ldap.so try_first_pass session requiredpam_unix.so === you should modify all the files in /etc/pam.d/ as like my /etc/pam.d/other. Other example: /etc/pam.d/login: === auth requisite pam_securetty.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok auth required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass account sufficient pam_unix.so account requiredpam_ldap.so session requiredpam_unix.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard noenv password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 password sufficient pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok md5 shadow password required pam_ldap.so try_first_pass === Well, one other word to say: improvise! good luck! CBL.
Re: Debian for infants.
Sounds like a really cool idea... perhaps you could assign events to key presses and mouse movements in your window manager, though redirecting to stdin is a more elegant idea. Could you make the program available when you've finished it? Cheers Tiarnan __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
install package from source
I'd like to install Sendmail on my 2.2.r2 system from source from sendmail.org. However, I don't know how to uninstall exim, because Debian is complaining that MTA must exist on system. So my question is: what to do if I'm accustomed to install latest versions of programs from their original source? Is this possible at all with Debian or we have to wait that corresponding package maintainer prepare new version for us? Thanks, Alex
Re: Debian for infants
XGrabKeyboard, according to its description, "actively grabs control of the keyboard and generates FocusIn and FocusOut events. Further key events are reported only to the grabbing client..." Might be some help Tiarnan __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: iptables help?
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I am confused... Sorry about my noise. I found it was due to two reasons: 1. IN/OUT rules are used unless the packet is delivered to the local computer (ie not used if the packet is being forwarded). This seems to be a differences between ipchains and iptables that I previously overlooked. 2. when the packet counts have a postfix of k, they don't change if the packet count only changes by 1. Arrgghh. Why didn't I realize that before? (no wonder the FORWARD rule didn't seem to be working...) So what I was trying to do may not be as easy as I originally thought. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cdrecord can't burn
Hi, to say it short kernel support for graphics card + Xfree86 4.0.2 = cdrecord does not burn anymore I can write cds if I stop X and write cds at the console or if use the kernel driver for nvidia chips "nv" comming with X. Using the driver from nvidia or compiling support for graphic cards into the kernel shows a strange behavior: cdrecord starts printing the usual messages and hangs immediatly before it should start writing. Pressing Ctrl-C stops cdrecord and gives me the shell again, but the cd-writer does not stop. I have to reboot to get the blank cd out ouf the drive. Trying to force cd drive to eject the cd with eject causes the whole system to hang. Any idea? Armin
RE: (OT) Donating old hardware...
Hmm, since linux runs on system beginning with 386 i'd suggest you donate those to a Museum :) -Original Message- From: Daniel Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 2:23 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Daniel Freedman Subject: (OT) Donating old hardware... Hi, I'm looking for suggestions (maybe things you've done in the same situation) on what to do with some old hardware that I'd like to donate or find a good linux home for. Worst case scenario, I'd probably just have to throw it out, but I'd rather reuse/recycle it (ahhh, the good old days of Mike Jacknis's [EMAIL PROTECTED]). So far: I posted a message two weeks ago to my local linux users group mailing list, asking if anyone locally would want the stuff (and even offerring to bring it somewhere), but got no responses. I don't think it's sensible to ship it somewhere, as the cost of shipping these heavy things is not worth the value of the stuff. Finally, I'm hesitant to donate it to someplace like a Goodwill/Thrift store, only since some of it might not be completely useable and I wouldn't want the thrift store to sell this donated stuff (even at low cost) to someone hard-up, whose money would go much further with a better system (say, pentium on auction for $50, or the like). I feel like I'm out of options and it might be time to just toss it. Any suggestions on this list are sort of my last hope. I appreciate any responses. Take care. Thanks so much, Daniel PS: Incidentally, we're talking about: Original CGA monitor by IBM (Model 8513: near fine condition) Original Compaq Deskpro 8088 (built like a tank; if I can find it, still :) ) AST Research 386sx/16 (BIOS issue) Assorted peripherals -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install package from source
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:04:50AM -0100, Aleksandar B. Samardzic wrote: > I'd like to install Sendmail on my 2.2.r2 system from source from > sendmail.org. However, I don't know how to uninstall exim, because Debian > is complaining that MTA must exist on system. So my question is: what to do > if I'm accustomed to install latest versions of programs from their original > source? Is this possible at all with Debian or we have to wait that > corresponding package maintainer prepare new version for us? The package 'equivs' can help with this; it builds and empty package that provides a particular dependency and can keep the packaging system happy. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware pgpxJ8sm1l9XA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Star Office + Unstable
hi I am looking at a reproducable StarOffice failure to open anything but itself. (window comes, any further action leads to a "crash" (it closes itself because of misbehaviour) I am using SID up to date (15 minutes ago). Does anybody else has this problem? Thank you for the information :) Ciao, mattHias -- __ _ __ * /\_/\ \ \_/ \_/ / * Matthias Wieser * / \ \ /* ICQ#: 12597522 * / /\_/\ \ \_/^\_/ *[EMAIL PROTECTED] * WW WW *
Re: partition
Hello Robin, Friday, April 06, 2001, 4:01:06 AM, you wrote: RG> Hello, RG> J have hard disk of 4Mb with two partitions: C (hdc1) of 2 Mb and RG> D (hdc5) of 2 Mb. On C there is windoz and D is free. RG> potato2.2r0 is on an other hard disk ( hda). RG> I want to install potato2.2r2 on the partition D of the 4Mb hard disk. Ok, I'm a novice in Linux, so maybe I'm wrong, but... When installing Linux on hdc5 say to lilo to sit into beginning of hdc5. Then add to Your lilo.conf on hda: other=/dev/hdc5 label=LinuxAgain So, You'll get the way to load hdc5 lilo from lilo on hda MBR choosing LinuxAgain. In hdc5 You can configure lilo as usual. For example You can set booting Linux as default and set delay before booting to zero (This will boot Your hdc5 Linux without extra promting). Or You can add to lilo.conf on hdc5 following lines: other=/dev/hda label=GoBack to be able to return to lilo of hda. You'll have situation as shown below: hda MBR lilo: Linux (Booting Linux) dos (Booting Windows) LinuxAgain(Loading lilo on hdc5) hdc5 lilo:Linux (Booting hdc5 Linux) GoBack(Loading hda lilo) Excuse my terrible english, plz. -- Best regards, dimmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Voodoo2 && Linux
Hello All! Is there any way to make my Voodoo2 works under Linux? I know that Xwindows && Linux kernel supports Voodoo3,Voodoo5,Voodoo Banshee... But I only have Voodoo2 G111 by 3Dfx Interactive. (It is software compatible to Voodoo Graphics && Voodoo Rush.) If there is no way to use my Voodoo2 under Linux, tell me please, which video card I must have to have no problems in Linux && have 3d acceleration near to Voodoo by features. Unfortunately I can't upgrade my Voodoo2 cause finance problems. So I only can downgrade it. :( I have 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo2 G111 with 12M RAM in couple with S3 Virge DX with 4M RAM. Thank You all. Excuse my terrible english, plz. -- Best regards, dim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
xfree86 4.x and unstable
I have had to use unstable distribution as a couple of programs I need to run require lots of versions only available in unstable. now I have upgraded and all seems okay apart from my Xserver (took several apt-get update/upgrades to get all dependencies working correctly), but X doesn't work I run XF86Setup and it all configures fine run Xvidtune all okay save n exit and then try and run x and get a file not found error? Now I don't expect anyone to answer my question on how to get my x back up and running key by key (but it would be nice) but I looked at the xfree86 org website and they have not done a configuration help file yet does anyone know of a good place to start for newbie documentation on setting up the 4.x Xserver? cheers Dean <> This message has been checked for all known viruses, by Star Internet, delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit: http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp Dean Jackson (E-mail).vcf Description: Binary data
Pascal
Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. Thanks! Bye, Ales
Netscape messenger and cyrus IMAP
Hi, Does anybody have cyrus-imapd v 1.5.2 (potato Debian package) working with Netscape mailer or Mozilla? In my case I can get my mail if I configure the MUA to use POP protocol but not IMAP. Does anyone have an idea oof why is that? TIA, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | BRTN commentator +1 301.493.49.33 | L'Alpe d'Huez 1995 Tour de France
Re: Pascal
Hi, a seach with: apt-cache search pascal gave me the following interesting packets: gpc-doc - Documentation for the GNU Pascal compiler (gpc). gpc - The GNU Pascal compiler. fp-extra - Free Pascal Extra Packages fp-gtk - Free Pascal GTK Bindings fp-compiler - Free Pascal Compiler fp-rtl - Free Pascal Runtime Library fp-docs - Free Pascal Documentation fp-utils - Free Pascal Utils and there is more interesting. I guess you need at least gpc. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ales Jerman wrote: > Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. > Thanks! > Bye, > > Ales > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: (OT) Donating old hardware...
Quoting Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyway, as to my present situation, it seems that the concensus of > respondents is to dump the stuff (I'm in cold central New York, not > local to Silicon Valley; but thanks to the person who kindly offered > to find a school for them if I were). I feel bad but it seems that > that's it. > Daniel A. Freedman > Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics > Department of Physics > Cornell University Surely Cornell University has some policy for disposing of the (presumably tens/hundreds of) machines they replace each year. Or has the new administration already decreed that the costs of disposal must be borne by users, who are expected to throw them out of their car windows when on the freeway? :) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
virtual eth0
Hi! I´m trying to configure eth0:0 and eth0:1 with /etc/network/interfaces. iface eth0:0 inet static address 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 Should do it, but after 'ifup eth0' I get: 'Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0' I´m using current unstable with kernel 2.2.18. Manually configuring with ifconfig works ok. Can anyone help me? thanks marksu
Re: Star Office + Unstable
Hi, On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:32:44AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote: > Does anybody else has this problem? yep, we are running three Sid Boxes here having exactly the same problems since a couple of days. Currently trying to determine what causes this behaviour :-( Regards, Rainer
okay here's a more specific question to get me started on the alsa path
I'm really floundering getting alsa going. All the howto's, etc that I've read all recommend recompiling your kernel with soundsupport as the first step. I've got the 2.2.18pre21 kernel installed and working fine from Debian. Do I need to recompile, or can I just load soundcore as a module? If that's all that alsa is requiring, can I then just install and configure alsa? Is there some other reason to compile a kernel? It seems excessive to me that one would have to compile a kernel to install sound drivers. Shawn Garbett
Re:
Did you try running the windows fdisk 'fdisk /mbr'? ambience wrote: Dear Sir, I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine. I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the Debian Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard disk. Now I don't want this Operating System. I have made Win FDISK and removed all partitions and formatted. After that I have rebooted the system. I am getting LILO and its booting linux. Could you please help me out what to do. I want to make my system to WIN. Thanking you Gouri Sankar -- Griffin's Law Statistics are a logical and precise method for saying a half-truth inaccurately
Gigabit Fiber card 3C985B-SX: tests ?
Hello, Has anyone tested this card, or seen comparative tests somewhere ? Thanks -- --- Manuel Segura -
Re: compile probs with 2 diff progs
Lo, on Friday, April 6, Nathan did write: > I get the below problem when trying to compile 2 KDE apps, can anyone > help?? > > checking for KDE... configure: error: > in the prefix, you've chosen, are no kde headers installed. This will > fail. > So, check this please and use another prefix! > I have very little experience with KDE/Qt, but it looks like the compilation process (specifically, the configure script) is looking for various header file provided by KDE, perhaps the Qt interface. If you installed KDE from .debs, did you install the *dev packages? Otherwise, if you installed the KDE stuff manually, you'll need to go back and ensure you got the necessary parts of the system to allow building new apps from scratch. If you *do* have the KDE/Qt headers installed, then the configure script simply isn't looking in the right place. Run `configure --help' and look for an option which allows you to set the include path. HTH, Richard
Re: Voodoo2 && Linux
I have a Voodoo2 card, and although there are no accelerated xservers that will work for it AFAIK, the glide-v2 package (along with glide2-base, etc) will allow programs that use opengl to make use of your card (such as kde2, which requires it for some reason). On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:14:44PM +0500, dim wrote: > Hello All! > > Is there any way to make my Voodoo2 works under Linux? > > I know that Xwindows && Linux kernel supports Voodoo3,Voodoo5,Voodoo > Banshee... > > But I only have Voodoo2 G111 by 3Dfx Interactive. (It is software > compatible to Voodoo Graphics && Voodoo Rush.) > > If there is no way to use my Voodoo2 under Linux, tell me please, > which video card I must have to have no problems in Linux && have 3d > acceleration near to Voodoo by features. > Unfortunately I can't upgrade my Voodoo2 cause finance problems. So I > only can downgrade it. :( > > I have 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo2 G111 with 12M RAM in couple with > S3 Virge DX with 4M RAM. > > Thank You all. > Excuse my terrible english, plz. > -- > Best regards, > dim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my GnuPG public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - W. Somerset Maugham
Re: GMT problems.
I currently use GMT 3.3.6 and 3.4-beta (both compiled from original source) on Debian systems. My guess is that the problem you are seeing is an NFS issue, not a GMT issue. You may want to repost with an NFS related subject. I'm not an NFS expert, so I can't be much help, but there should be many people on this list who know these issues. If you believe that this really is a problem with the way GMT handles file locking, please let me know so I can work with the GMT developers to resolve this before 3.4 is released. John On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:54:11PM +0200, Karsten Bolding wrote: > Hi > > When I do: > psbasemap -JM5 -R0.5/2.0/58.9/59.8 -B0.25 -P -K > station.ps > > I get > psbasemap: Error returned by fcntl [F_WRLCK] > > It's the same with any other GMT program. > > My home directory is mounted from a DEC-alpha via nfs and I'm running > 2.4.1. > > Any help will be appriciated. > > Karsten
Re: Pascal
Ales> I use fp-compiledr and it's dependencies and it works ok! Best Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | Unix, MS-DOS, Windows. | Also known as The Good, The Bad | And the Ugly... --
screensaver strangeness....
Hi all, I'm running enlightenment on top of gnome. Yesterday evening my screensaver suddenly stopped working. It still appears when I give the command to lock the screen. Can't think what might have disabled it. Any ideas on what to do? Pad. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: /etc/network/interfaces
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have > my laptop at home so can't tell > exactly but that's the idea. > rcS.d is executed first,then rc(0-6).d .Actually rc.boot is really the > first one but that is deprecated and it shouldn't be used. > man init > will tell you more about the boot process. > That did the trick. Thanks! -- steve
Re: connecting adsl on startup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the pppoe 2.8 debian package and configured it with adsl-setup. > I can connect to my ISP with adsl-start. > Now I want to have the connection starting at boot time. There are two ways: > > 1. I put the following script in /etc/init.d > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/sbin/adsl-start > > and made a symlink to it in /etc/rc2.d. The script is executable. But the > connection isn't startet at boot time. Is the script wrong? Or is it the wrong > runlevel? Did I miss something else? I guess the first thing to do would be to make pppd print some debug information by using the 'debug' option in the appropriate /etc/ppp/options file. Then look at /var/log/ppp.log. At least that should give you a clue of whether it's really running. > > 2. I could rename /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot and edit. > But I can't even connect with pon. I did everything I'm supposed to do to > make it work (what /usr/doc/pppoe/README.Debian says). pon does not complain > about anything, it just quietly returns, but there's no connection. Maybe > adsl-setup changed something I don't know. > My best recollection is that pon does nothing useful after adsl-setup; that you have to run adsl-start to make good things actually happen.
Re: Pascal
Ales Jerman wrote: > > Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. > Thanks! If you are looking for something extremely powerful, but not "classic" Pascal, you *do* know about Borland's Kylix project, right?
RE: Pascal
Kylyx is not Free... that is the problem. anyway... www.borland.com Regards, Martin. > -Original Message- > From: Keith G. Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:15 AM > To: Debian List > Subject: Re: Pascal > > > Ales Jerman wrote: > > > > Does anybody know any good pascal compilers? Maybe also for X. > > Thanks! > > If you are looking for something extremely powerful, but not "classic" > Pascal, you *do* know about Borland's Kylix project, right? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Lunar lander game?
Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian system? I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Netscape messenger and cyrus IMAP
"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anybody have cyrus-imapd v 1.5.2 (potato Debian package) working > with Netscape mailer or Mozilla? > In my case I can get my mail if I configure the MUA to use POP > protocol but not IMAP. Does anyone have an idea oof why is that? TIA, > AFAIK, 1.5.19 is the current Potato version. I have it working fine with Netscape 4.72 under Win95, but don't know about Mozilla.
lilo + booting from raid1
I read in the software raid howto that lilo doesn't work if the boot partition resides on a raid1 device, but there is is a redhat patch for lilo. Does anybody know if there is a debian pkg for lilo which does the job? TIA, Werner
fast graphics in testing. please to help?
please to help: I would like fastest possible graphics, and I can use woody/testing but prefer not of the unstable. And I wish a system using no drivers but free/GNU ones in X4 from debian download. Who is the fastest card that would have driver in debian ftp for very fast opengl? --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/
Have I found a bug in slrnpull?
I find I have to put a link in my home directory to /etc/news/slrnpull.conf, otherwise slrnpull doesn't find it. Is this because there is something misconfigured in my setup or is it a bug? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone) For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 120 book reviews, go to http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/ The superior man is courteous but not pliable. The inferior man is pliable but not courteous. [Confucius]
Apache module
Do u know where I can find the ldap module for apache? I'm looking for something like mod_ldap.so or something like that. Thank you for your help Francois
How to install debian on a Mac G3
Hi Debianians: well I might get there that I could provide the Debianians with some Donations, but at the moment, well you all know. Well I am encoutering serveral problems when seeking to install Debian gnu/linux2.2 "potato" on my G3 233Mhz. I cannot see where the problem resides, but I run 9.1 and I do insert the miBoot floppy, and it collpses with severe Kernel panic, reboot after 180 seconds, and so forth. There might be a problem with the set-up, the hardware set-up that is. I do not have the "original" Mac Hard Drive installed, but the IBM DPTA-372050, whcih according to IBM's original web page http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/rma/famac4.html should work with Macintoshes. But effectively, do not seem to work. Thanking you in anticipation for any suggestions as to what I might do to finally get this to work without having to spend more bugs on Apple hardware. Cheers, Christian A. Hehn
Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse
Quoting Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > > > csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of > > > > a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains > > > > command sequences which I would like to touch up before running. > > > > > > > > I don't want to use an editor for this. Just the line editing > > > > functions of bash. Offhand the only (untested) solution I can > > > > think of is something like "cat file.txt >> .bash_history", > > > > subsequently invoking another bash session. Is this stupid > > > > (dangerous)? Does someone have a better solution? That looks OK to me, and no more dangerous than having a line like rm -f * sitting in your history because you used it in a different context from now. (I always keep lines like that out of my history by putting a space at the front.) > I think there's a disconnect here -- your request is either so simple > that I don't understand what the problem is, or is fundamentally at odds > with the GNU/Linux process/data/stream model. Are you familiar with the > fundamental concepts of streams, pipes, stdin, stdout, and input/output > redirection? As far as I can understand, you're simply looking for a > method to invoke bash on a command stream. > > Why don't you step back, take a breath, describe your situation, what > you hope to accomplish, and what specific options are ruled out. You can recall lines from the history buffer (saves typing them), but edit them before executing them, where the editing you do (and, indeed, whether you use the same sequence of commands) may depend on the output observed from some of those same commands. You can't do that with pipes and streams. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Saving some real radio file
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:28:42PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > I want to listen to Art Bell and had no luck with getting RA v8 to work > > on stable. It has bunches of dependencies that don't belong on stable. > > The v7 installed fine but RA doesn't allow the old versions. There was a > > posted hack to the installer but beyond my desires for a contrib POS. > > Control thing I bet. > > Get the woody version of the installer, which is for version 8: > > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/r/realplayer/realplayer_8.0.2_i386.deb Tried this but it seemed to require a bunch of other packages associated with xfree86 4.0 and I'm running 3.3.6 so I got scared off. maxwell:~/deb# dpkg -i realplayer_8.0.2_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package realplayer. (Reading database ... 42095 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking realplayer (from realplayer_8.0.2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of realplayer: realplayer depends on xlibs; however: Package xlibs is not installed. dpkg: error processing realplayer (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: realplayer maxwell:~/deb# apt-get install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package xlibs has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package xlibs has no installation candidate So I looked at the packages and it is in testing but not stable. Eric :-)
Re: how do i chop wav files with sox
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > To me a track is (in the context of burning cd's) the entity that is > burned on a cd in TrackAtOnce (TAO) mode. The CD-standard prescribes > two second pauses in between those tracks. There are some writers > that can produce gaps of different length (even 0), but not many. Yes, but you are supposed to be able to eliminate the gaps by recording in DAO mode (disc-at-once), and I think the fiddle is that the track indicator is put into the previous track two seconds before the end. > When burning such a track it is quite feasable to combine several wave > files on the fly to fill that one track without any pause in between > those wav files. Normally, for each track an entry is added to the > TOC (table of contents, located at the beginning of the cd prior to > any track). But there is nothing stopping you from adding top-level > indices to the TOC that point inside those `real' tracks. You may be saying the same thing. > And then there is this notion of tracks when *playing* audio cd's. > Those tracks are the parts of the cd as decribed by the top-level > indices in the TOC. > > So when I advised to use indices I ment to add entries to the TOC > such that tracks (in the context of TAO-burning) got split up > in tracks (in the context of audio-cd playing). Fair enough. I thought you were talking about the second level of audio index points, within the audio tracks. BTW when splitting wav files, Jake, it's important to make sure they're broken at 2352-byte boundaries so you don't get gaps between them. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: How to install debian on a Mac G3
At 15:49 06.04.01 +0100, Christian A. Hehn wrote: Well I am encoutering serveral problems when seeking to install Debian gnu/linux2.2 "potato" on my G3 233Mhz. you might take a look at the debian-powerpc list archive and http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ _before_ starting. I cannot see where the problem resides, but I run 9.1 and I do insert the miBoot floppy, and it collpses with severe Kernel panic, reboot after 180 seconds, and so forth. I strongly recommend to use yaboot, ybin for newworld OF and quik for oldworlds, there are some quik.confs in the archive. If you try to install via FTP on an oldworld machine it's much easier to use BenH's BootX together with a precompiled PPC-vmlinux, and the debian boot-floppies (there's a ramdisk.image.gz, which you can pass through BootX and starts the debian installer)
Re: /etc/network/interfaces
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if > > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or > > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have > > my laptop at home so can't tell > > exactly but that's the idea. > > rcS.d is executed first,then rc(0-6).d .Actually rc.boot is really the > > first one but that is deprecated and it shouldn't be used. > > man init > > will tell you more about the boot process. > > > > That did the trick. Thanks! I have a similar problem running stable using pcmcia and DHCP. I have the following in relevent files in /etc/rcS.d. S35mountall.sh S39dns-clean S40hostname.sh S40networking S40pump In /etc/rc0.d S35networking In /etc/rc1.d S20single In /etc/rc2.d S11pcmcia S14ppp S20inetd S50netatalk Netatalk fails but pump must keep working as eventually eth0 comes up but usually after the boot is complete and I have GDM running. I thought I understood runlevels but now I'm not so sure. Any help for Debian runlevel explanation would be appreciated. In inittab I shows run level two as default so does it go S,1,2 and why is S35networking in rc0? Should I move dnsclean down towards 35 and insert pcmcia afterwords? If I move the pcmcia up to S then do I also need to make sure that the K scripts make sense as well. Is there a simple way to think of it. Thanks, Eric :-)
svgatextmode: should i file a bug report?
dear all, it looks like svgatext mode needs to have its dependency shifted from console-tools to console-common. should i file a bug report? pete # apt-get install svgatextmode Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: svgatextmode: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages # apt-get install console-tools Package console-tools has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list However the following packages replace it: console-common E: Package console-tools has no installation candidate
mp3 Lyra player
Hi everyone, I'm trying to use Linux as an everyday tool and one of my real problem is with my Mp3 player. I've got this Ltra player for thomson but it doesn't have the drives and program for it. Is there a program for my compactflash writer Is there a program to take care of Lyra player. For the moemnt I haven't found anything related. Thanks for your suggestion. Thierry - La messagerie itinérante sans abonnement NetCourrier - Web : www.netcourrier.com - Minitel : 3615 NETCOURRIER Téléphone : 08 36 69 00 21
Re: screensaver strangeness....
On Fri Apr 6 09:47:14 2001 Pad Bambury wrote... > >Hi all, >I'm running enlightenment on top of gnome. Yesterday >evening my screensaver suddenly stopped working. It >still appears when I give the command to lock the >screen. Can't think what might have disabled it. Any >ideas on what to do? >Pad. > Well the first thing to do is ask yourself what you were doing, before it stoped working. Under what circumstances does it not work now, that it did? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
XFree 4.0.2 and mouse on ibm X20
I am running testing and encountered a stange thing with the mouse. It just skips around the screen whenever I touch the trackpoint on my Ibm X20 laptop. Even though I don't touch the mouse buttons, menus pop up as if I had. I've tried lots of different settings, but it still won't work. In the end I tried XFree86 3.3.6 from stable instead. No problems what so ever. But I would really like to use XFree 4. Any suggestions? Is this a bug? >From the 4.0.3 changelog; -A problem with the ThinkingMousePS/2 protocol is fixed in the mouse driver. I dunno if this is it, but nevertheless I am using PS/2 protocol which is working in 3.3.6. Also a friend of mine has the ibm T21 and is also using PS/2 (strangely enough it is working under 4.0.2 for him). (linux 2.4.3) -- Ole Sebastian Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just potatoes.'' - Life, the universe and everything (Chapter 24), D. Adams
Debian GNU/Linux on DEC Alpha ...
Dear Debian-Team, Recently I learned about the availability of Debian GNU/Linux and its excellent performance on various systems. Further I was told that it is supposed to be more stable than Suse of RedHat Linux - is that true? Having read through some of the information pages provided on your homepage www.debian.org, however, I am now not sure whether Debian can be used on DEC Alpha workstations. Could you please help me on that matter? For rather recent video cards, such as a 32MB nVidia Geforce ..., I found that Debian does not yet support them. Is there a possibility to obtain drivers for such cards from your group and how long, approximately, one does have to wait for them? Many thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, Josef Synka
Re: XFree 4.0.2 and mouse on ibm X20
Ole, I'm using 4.0.2 on a Thinkpad T20 with a 2.4.2 kernel and both mice (the trackpoint and the USB mouse) work fine. Here are the InputDevice entries I use: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
Re: Debian GNU/Linux on DEC Alpha ...
> Having read through some of the information pages provided > on your homepage www.debian.org, however, I am now not > sure whether Debian can be used on DEC Alpha workstations. > Could you please help me on that matter? Take a look here: http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/ Regards Hall
Re: your mail
You probably installed Debian Linux with LILO in the master boot record. To fix(?) this, boot from a Windows rescue disk and run fdisk /mbr On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:07:45AM +0530, ambience wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am Gouri Sankar here? I have got Debian Linux from the Linux Magazine. > > I have loaded in my computer. The problem is after loading the > Debian Linum, my system is booting directly from the hard disk. > > Now I don't want this Operating System. I have made Win FDISK and > removed all partitions and formatted. After that I have rebooted the > system. I am getting LILO and its booting linux. > > Could you please help me out what to do. > > I want to make my system to WIN.
windows password
hello all, Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and refuses any offered. We have pored over the smb.conf line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. Any suggestions please? We greatly appreciate this help and try not to use it unless we're completely stumped. Thanks, Hans & Galen Elfert
Re: /etc/network/interfaces
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:09:49AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | | I thought I understood runlevels but now I'm not so sure. Any help for | Debian runlevel explanation would be appreciated. In inittab I shows run | level two as default so does it go S,1,2 and why is S35networking in | rc0? On a Linux system, it only runs the runlevel you specify. That would be S,2 for boot. If you are already in a runlevel and you switch it runs the K* stuff in the current level then the S* in the destination level. rc0 is for reboot I think. rc6 is for shutdown. (or maybe vice-versa). I learned, not too long ago, that a Sun Solaris system does walk through the runlevels until it reaches the destination level. -D
Re: Lunar lander game?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 April 2001 10:18, Stan Brown wrote: > Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian > system? > > I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem > to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine. What's wrong with good old xlander? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6zfuYRioLhcc1F0gRAu/uAJ9dv1DqfAZimQKD6m3v4rWH2vzy1ACcC7CJ PXPSuORAfNtFooAjSq9aDxE= =ZBbe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: cdrecord can't burn
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:21:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > to say it short > > kernel support for graphics card + Xfree86 4.0.2 = cdrecord > does not burn anymore > > I can write cds if I stop X and write cds at the console or if use > the kernel driver for nvidia chips "nv" comming with X. Using the > driver from nvidia or compiling support for graphic cards into the > kernel shows a strange behavior: > > cdrecord starts printing the usual messages and hangs immediatly > before it should start writing. Pressing Ctrl-C stops cdrecord and > gives me the shell again, but the cd-writer does not stop. I have to > reboot to get the blank cd out ouf the drive. Trying to force cd > drive to eject the cd with eject causes the whole system to hang. > > Any idea? I am running woody with Xfree 4.0.2, the NVidia driver and the nvidia kernel module (installed using the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages) and am not experiencing any problems with cdrecord. Bob Nielsen
Running the Netscape installer.
Dear Debian Group, I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer on my system configured correctly with the archive file from the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp location). The Netscape icons came up as part of the menu and main start bar but whenever I click on them nothing happens (I was told that the installer program downloads Netscape from the Netscape ftp site). I have run the Gtop program and it is not running in the background. What am I doing wrong and how should I fix it to get it working. Thank you for your time and energy, Ry
Re: svgatextmode: should i file a bug report?
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># apt-get install svgatextmode > >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > svgatextmode: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable >E: Sorry, broken packages > > ># apt-get install console-tools >Package console-tools has no available version, but exists in the database. >This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and >never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents >of sources.list >However the following packages replace it: > console-common >E: Package console-tools has no installation candidate For some reason it's not in testing at the moment (console-common actually just replaces some old versions of console-tools): console-tools | 1:0.2.3-10.3 |stable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc, source console-tools | 1:0.2.3-16 | unstable | ia64 console-tools | 1:0.2.3-21 | unstable | mips console-tools | 1:0.2.3-22 | unstable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc, source There isn't anything the maintainer can do about this except wait for a few days and see what the testing scripts do, so I'd say there isn't much point in filing a bug report. You could try grabbing it from unstable if it's urgent. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows password
> Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian > machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and > refuses any offered. We have pored over the smb.conf > line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. Make sure "encrypted passwords" is enabled in your smb.conf file because Win98 uses them by default. Also, the username you use to log into in Windows has to be the same as an account that exists on your linux box. Same with the password... Hall
Re: Running the Netscape installer.
Why not use apt-get install communicator ? That will install Netscape 4.76 all required files. --- Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian Group, > > I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the > installer on my system > configured correctly with the archive file from the > Netscape ftp site (it > extracted correctly from the /tmp location). The > Netscape icons came up as > part of the menu and main start bar but whenever I > click on them nothing > happens (I was told that the installer program > downloads Netscape from the > Netscape ftp site). I have run the Gtop program and > it is not running in the > background. What am I doing wrong and how should I > fix it to get it working. > > Thank you for your time and energy, > Ry > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: windows password
You're probably asked for an IPC$ password of some sort ? This means that you're machine was not added correctly to the domain. Check this first if that's the case. regards, joris -]-Original Message- -]From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -]Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 19:41 -]To: Elfert; Debian -]Subject: Re: windows password -] -] -]> Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian -]> machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and -]> refuses any offered. We have pored over the smb.conf -]> line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. -] -]Make sure "encrypted passwords" is enabled in your smb.conf -]file because -]Win98 uses them by default. Also, the username you use to log into in -]Windows has to be the same as an account that exists on your -]linux box. -]Same with the password... -] -]Hall -] -] -]-- -]To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -]
Re: Running the Netscape installer.
> I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the installer > on my system configured correctly with the archive file from > the Netscape ftp site (it extracted correctly from the /tmp > location). Assuming you've download and extracted a tar.gz file from Netscape, you need to change to the directory that you've extracted it. Once there, type "./ns-install" and follow the prompts. Simply extracting it does not install the app. Good luck Hall
Re: Fvwm2rc
Please respond to list mail on-list. List reinstated. Reply-to set to list. on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:33:00PM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:05:37AM +0200, Ales Jerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hello! > > > How to tell Fvwm2 to run Netscape at startup? > > > > ~/.xinitrc > > > > > And how to tell it to restart Fvwm2, when Netscape is closed? > > > > cat < .xinitrc > > fvwm2 & > > netscape > > EOF > > But this doesn't work trought remote XDM access. And on local machine > it doesn't restart fvwm2 but it kills it. Interesting. > > > > > > Are you perhaps designing or implementing a public-access kiosk? > > Yes, I do. I'm working on to set X-terminal on our school. Take a look at the Kiosk HOWTO, which you should find (if you've installed HOWTOs) at: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Kiosk-HOWTO.txt.gz /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Kiosk-HOWTO.html or online at http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kiosk-HOWTO.html Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpyNcywHI14x.pgp Description: PGP signature
XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse
Hi! I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it...I could only dig up "look it up in the documentation of the InputDevice-Module. Ok, this is mouse_drv.o, but I can´t find documentation for it, so I have to ask: What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? TIA, &rw -- -- Light travels faster than sound. This is why some -- people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Re: Debian for infants
>I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18
>month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or
>sometimes playing with the trackball mouse.
>
>Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be
>re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by
>making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses.
>
>Thanks in anticipation
Good idea.
Here's two approaches I can think of...
1. Use curses to read each character without hitting ENTER. Then, run a
system("xsetroot ") to switch the root windows color.
2. A much better method would be to use SDL (http://www.libsdl.org). Start the
program in fullscreen and key presses will change the screen color. It should
run much faster with this method and that's all your little girl will see is one
color on the monitor (no window manager stuff). You could even display images
depending on the character input (ex: A=apple, ant) or play sounds. Of course
what would you use for non-character keys (space bar, enter, brackets)?!?
Hey, I really like this idea; so much, that I'm going to write it myself!
Scott
MTA security
>From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about postfix? It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network with several sendmail installations. I wouldn't consider arbitrarily changing MTAs just for the sake of changing them, but I'm going to be moving the servers onto new hardware, which brings up the question of whether to reinstall sendmail on the new boxes or put in something else. I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced that it would be a good choice for functionality and security. -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks. - IBM, "Peace, Love, and Linux" Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: windows password
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Elfert wrote: > hello all, > > Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian machine nicely but insists > on a password to browse and refuses any offered. We have pored over the > smb.conf line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. > Any suggestions please? See http://www.exitwound.org/site.php?file=samba.english - it'll get you up and going. -- steve
Installing communicator.
Hello, My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back the response: "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. This typically means the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package communicator has no istallation candidate" I have the Debian official 6 cd set and have all of them included in dselect (or apt or whatever the base is) from the istallation of Debian when it asked for cds to scan. I'm pretty sure that communicator is not included on any of those cds and so am thinking that I have to download it first via ftp from the Debian ftp archives. Which package would I actually download from there (for "communicator") and then how do I get it included in the "sources.list". Thank you for your time and energy, Ry P.S. I included the origional message for referance: - Original Message - From: "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Simmons-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian/Gnu Linux" Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: Re: Running the Netscape installer. > Why not use apt-get install communicator ? That will > install Netscape 4.76 all required files. > --- Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Debian Group, > > > > I am trying to get Netscape on my system. I have the > > installer on my system > > configured correctly with the archive file from the > > Netscape ftp site (it > > extracted correctly from the /tmp location). The > > Netscape icons came up as > > part of the menu and main start bar but whenever I > > click on them nothing > > happens (I was told that the installer program > > downloads Netscape from the > > Netscape ftp site). I have run the Gtop program and > > it is not running in the > > background. What am I doing wrong and how should I > > fix it to get it working. > > > > Thank you for your time and energy, > > Ry > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > >
Re: MTA security
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:32:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about > postfix? > > It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it > before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network > with several sendmail installations. I wouldn't consider arbitrarily > changing MTAs just for the sake of changing them, but I'm going to be > moving the servers onto new hardware, which brings up the question of > whether to reinstall sendmail on the new boxes or put in something else. > I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced that it would > be a good choice for functionality and security. I never used exim so I can't comment on that. Postfix was written by Wietse Venema (also by WV: tcp-wrappers, portmapper(s), satan) and is/was also known as IBM Secure Mailer at one point. From security standpoint, this puts postfix to the top of the list (IMO, YMMV and all that). And it's very easy to configure. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration.-- MegaHal
Routing problems
I have a debian machine on a network, and has a modem. Both of theses links could be up at anytime. when the ppp link is down i wan't to use a gatway on the network to access. but when the ppp is up I wan't it to access the ppp first before it trys the network. I thought about seting up my routeing table somthing like this. Destination Iface metric default ppp0 0 default eth0 1 But the MAN page confirms my Tests. Metric The 'distance' to the targed (usually counted in hops). It is not used by recent kernels, only rout- ing daemons may use it. I'm using an old kernel, but would a routing protocal work ? And how would it work ? Adding and removing a default route at ,ppp dial up, is not an option. I wan't to know if there is another way. with out modifing the routing table after bringing the ppp link up or down. ---This has been a Communiqué fromhis Imperial Majesty Admiral Thrawn.---[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows password
Title: Re: windows password Hi, the problem is the Debian machine's shares security is setup as USER. The machine trying to browse the Linux machine must have a user with a password that is the same as a user and password on the Linux machine. Check the smb.conf man file. You could also load the swat package to easily change the smb.conf file. HTH Bill Original Message dated 06/04/2001, 1:17:12 PM Author: Elfert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: windows password: hello all, Our windows 98 OS2 machine sees our Progeny/Debian machine nicely but insists on a password to browse and refuses any offered. We have pored over the smb.conf line by line for hours and cannot figure out what's wrong. Any suggestions please? We greatly appreciate this help and try not to use it unless we're completely stumped. Thanks, Hans & Galen Elfert
Re: Installing communicator.
Simmons-Davis wrote: > > Hello, > > My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run > "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back > the response: > > "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. > This typically means the package was mentioned in a dependency and never > uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of > sources.list > E: Package communicator has no istallation candidate" > > I have the Debian official 6 cd set and have all of them included in dselect > (or apt or whatever the base is) from the istallation of Debian when it > asked for cds to scan. I'm pretty sure that communicator is not included on > any of those cds and so am thinking that I have to download it first via ftp > from the Debian ftp archives. Which package would I actually download from > there (for "communicator") and then how do I get it included in the > "sources.list". Add these after the CD entries as it will look at the CD first. # standard - install generated deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free # security deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free Eric :-)
Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse
> What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? Add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in section "InputDevice" (the one for the mouse, not the keyboard): Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" It's documented in info XF86Config
command for system beep?
I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? Btw, my system speaker seems too loud. Is there a way to control the volume in software (I haven't found it in the BIOS setup)?
Diverting browser output
Basically I want to capture (log?) what my browser sends out when I click a link (stuff like what the POST request actually posts). I can probably figure some of this out by saving and digging thru the source (say, replacing the POST with a GET) but I want something more thorough and paranoid.
Re: XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse
On 06 Apr 2001 20:12:13 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it... I think it is not, I've searched an hour or so yesterday. I don't have my laptop with me right now, but IIRC something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" Option "NumberButtons" "2" # Or maybe NumButtons? EndSection Good luck -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
matlab - scilab
hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like mathlab i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it said it was in a way, not there anymore thank u all in advance
Re: Diverting browser output
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, csj wrote: > Basically I want to capture (log?) what my browser sends out > when I click a link (stuff like what the POST request actually > posts). I can probably figure some of this out by saving and digging > thru the source (say, replacing the POST with a GET) but I want > something more thorough and paranoid. Try hacking code into Squid or Apache's mod_proxy, then configure your browser to go through the proxy. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 20 years.
installing debian and bootloaders
I'm about to start installing Debian 2.2r2. How does debian deal with bootloaders? Will it allow me to install lilo or other on a floppy so that I don't have to deal with bootloaders on my harddrive or entries in my mbr. I run windows as my primary and linux as the secondary. Mandrake let me do it that way and it worked fine. Redhat was a disaster doing it that way. this time I'm asking first. Thanks, Jasper http://www.jasper.f2s.com/ - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/
How to get gnome 1.4 out of woody "pool"
I see the new gnome 1.4 debs in the Pool directoroes, but this line in sources.list still only gets me the old debs. What do I need to do? deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main non-free contrib ...RickM...
Re: command for system beep?
Robert Voigt wrote: > > I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the > output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do printf "ring a bell\a\n" it should work with both c printf function and printf program. > something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or > longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? > Btw, my system speaker seems too loud. Is there a way to control the volume > in software (I haven't found it in the BIOS setup)? not really but there are some speaker audio drivers that do some black magic so that it is possible to play audio files over system speaker (it's not exactly CD quality, it has about 4 bits, maybe even less). I don't think you want to go there:-) erik
Re: okay here's a more specific question to get me started on the alsa path
on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:30:41AM -0400, Shawn Garbett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm really floundering getting alsa going. All the howto's, etc that > I've read all recommend recompiling your kernel with soundsupport as the > first step. Building your own kernel is recommended. While default kernels often come with a bunch of default (or modular) functionality, rolling your own both gives you yet more control over your system, reduces kernel size (not as critical these days, but the kernel is non-swappable, and remains in memory), and can avoid security issues imposed by modules which are available but not used. Less is more. As intimidating as "compiling the kernel" sounds, it's a pretty streamlined process. Yes, you can get it wrong, but you'll most likely recover pretty easily (hint: old, known-good kernels, and boot disks, are your friends). The Debian kernel build process is really slick: kernel, modules, installation, LILO, all in one swell foop. Besides, it's fun. Really! > I've got the 2.2.18pre21 kernel installed and working fine from Debian. > Do I need to recompile, or can I just load soundcore as a module? > > If that's all that alsa is requiring, can I then just install and > configure alsa? Is there some other reason to compile a kernel? It seems > excessive to me that one would have to compile a kernel to install sound > drivers. If the modules are available and load, and sound works, then yes, that's probably sufficient. If not, see above. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpf2ki8wRzxN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: command for system beep?
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the >output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do >something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or >longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? >Btw, my system speaker seems too loud. Is there a way to control the volume >in software (I haven't found it in the BIOS setup)? I'm using a small app called, well, "beep", to do that. I don't have any URL at hand, but I'm sure it's listed on Freshmeat. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: command for system beep?
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:07:59PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I want to write a shell script that beeps on a certain event. I don' want the > output from the soundcard but from the system speaker, like when I do > something wrong. But it would be nice if I could make the sound shorter or > longer than that, or two short sounds. What's the command for that? > Btw, my system speaker seems too loud. Is there a way to control the volume > in software (I haven't found it in the BIOS setup)? > See 'man bash' for the shell script variable -- \a alert (bell) Also see 'man xset' to control volume. I'm not sure there is a way to control the volume for console. You can physically mute the speaker itself with tape or some such material if you wanted. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Moving to a new hd
A while ago a bought a new IDE hd for one of my Debian boxes, hooked it up as hdb, moved /home, /usr, and /var there, but left the root file system on hda1 (on the old drive). Now I want to get rid of the old hd altogether (it's slow and noisy). So, after performing some extensive surgery on a living Debian system, I managed to repartition hdb from scratch (leaving /dev/hdb1 unused) and got everything set up and working again. But I have yet to move the root filesystem from hda1 to hdb1 and hook up hdb as hda. What's the usual procedure to do that without reinstalling? Some step-by-step instructions would be very much appreciated. What is puzzling me is how to move the specials in /dev/* (I guess cp -a doesn't cut it, does it?) and how do I deal with LILO when exchanging the drives. TIA -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: matlab - scilab
Hi, depends on your needs. Matlab works fine for matrix operations and simulations. If you need more analitical math I recommend Maple. It gives you the ability to calculate with complex formulas without loosing precision (exact). For statistical math you can try SPLUS. Most standard and not standard distributions and probability models and methods are implemented. These packages are more than enough for my needs, I can do anything I want. Unfortunately Matlab is very expensive. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: > hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like > mathlab > > i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i > need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it said it was in a way, not there anymore > > thank u all in advance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
ftpd security fixes?
anyone hear about any security fixes for ftpds that were found a few weeks ago ? haven't seen any news on security.debian.org. seems the ftp bugs are much more serious then the ntp bugs :) (e.g. 100x more people running ftpds then ntpds ..) last time i tried to exploit it on my desktop system memory was comsumed at about 15MB per second. the bug im referrin to is when u login to a ftpd (wuftpd excluded it wasn't affected) and do this: ls */../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../* you can pretty much kill the system. proftpd has a workaround and also a patch, but my systems are running the openbsd ftpd ..which traditionally has seemed to be mroe secure then proftpd or wuftpd but it was also affected. haven't noticed other updates from other linux vendors so im curious . thanks for any info .. nate
char-major-10-135
I'm getting modprobe complaints about char-major-10-135 not being found. modules.conf defines an alias pointing to "rtc", is that for "real time clock"? Do I need kernel support for that? Or can I safely change the alias to "off"? I don't seem to miss anything in the current situation. TIA -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Freefonts -> LaTeX
Hi, Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. It seems technically possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the Web) but bit tedious to do -- especially considering somebody else probably got the same idea... :-) Any help will be greatly appreciated, ChriS
Missing header files
What do I need to download and install in order to get the following: gtk.h gdk.h gdkkeysyms.h Xlib.h time.h types.h stat.h un.h uninstd.h errno.h xmmsctrl.h configfile.h and the list goes on and on. I'm apparently missing a few development packages? -- steve
