Re: What is state of package installed despite dependencies?

[Ross Boylan]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:04:22AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:28:49AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
[snip]
> > 2) like 1, with dselect.
> 
> Dselect will tell you what you will be doing before you do it.  Then it
> will do the apt-get thing anyway.
> 

apt-get also tells what it's about to do and then asks for a confirm.
For extra safety, apt-get -s will do a dry (no action) run.

> > 3) Use apt-get's new pin feature (-t) after editing sources list.  The 
> > problem is that if I want this on an ongoing basis I need to add unstable 
> > to sources list, leaving woody there (1+2 just replace it).  Then I need to 
> > set some option in apt.conf to pin woody, and then override it on the 
> > command line for sid.  Finally, because I have a longer sources list, every 
> > apt-get update over a modem would take longer.  If I restore my 
> > sources.list, this ends up being like 1+2, only more work.
> 
> I'm not familiar with it.  Surely if the feature is new then you will
> have to install packages from unstable to begin with.  Oh well.
It's only relatively new.  woody has it.
> 
> > 4) apt-get source and build/install.
> 
> That feature of apt-get I just love.  
For this particular package (gtoaster) some of the depends and build
depends seem problematic: apt-get build-dep gtoaster resulted in quite
a few packages being REmoved (if I had not bailed out when it asked
for a confirm).  So I think I'll just stick in the past.

Unfortunately, turning back the clock with gtoaster is problematic.
The upgrade rewrites the configuration files it ways it warns may
break backward compatibility.  I though purging the package would fix
this, but the offending file is in each user's space (.gtoasterrc) and
so doesn't get cleaned out.  

I tried rm the file, but it seems to have reverted back to the newer
version (that is, the unstable version).  I may have deleted the wrong
file (e.g., my personal one, though I run gtoaster as root), so that
rm might be sufficient.  Or maybe there's something more.

The code that fiddles with the configuration is in the program, not
the debian control scripts, by the way.

> 
> > So I thought I'd try just installing the deb.  As I said, I thought the 
> > version dependency checking happened at the dpkg level.
> 
> Yes, but dpkg looks only one step ahead.  Apt-get can look more steps
> ahead and walk dpkg around.  Dselect gives you an overview before you
> set off.

dpkg seemed to do more like half a step: it removed the old version,
unpacked the new version, and then at configuration discovered there
were missing dependencies and bailed out.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Joost

Thanks for the help.

Re: troubles with cmpci again

[zhaoway]

"Sergio E. Schvezov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, i'm writing this cause i'm having some trouble with one of those
> cmedia cards (again),

Just FYI, I have a CMIPCI card which works with ALSA like a charm.

/proc/pci incorrect

[Kevin C. Smith]

Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to 
show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it?

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The
   rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for
   themselves.  -- Will Rogers   

Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!

[Osamu Aoki]

Like others said, this is not Debian's fault.  Debian only supply
(almost) standard kernel.

But you have answer.  If other distros which have natsemi.o use 2.4
kernel, then you can upgrade to 2.4.  There is unofficial potato->2.4
upgrade instruction (kernel+binutils) showed up on this list.  Do web
search for it.  Or upgrade to woody carefully.

Also if you find a distribution which has this module and have 2.2
kernel, steal source and patches from srpm package. It's GPL anyway.

Good luck :-)


On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
> Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work

> Also, what driver am I supposed to use for the Netgear FA311? In other
> distros, it uses natsemi.o, which is not present in Debian 2.2r2.

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Re: wordperfect on linux

[USM Bish]

Script output (below) is for wp8:

#
aedes:/opt/wp8/wpbin$ ldd xwp
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4004f000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400f)
libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fe000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40107000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c5000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401ce000)

aedes:~$ dpkg -S libc5-compat
xlib6, libc5, xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat
[rest clipped]

#

You would need: a) xlib6  (oldlibs)
b) libc5  (oldlibs)
c) xpm4.7 (oldlibs) 

HTH

USM Bish

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:57:50PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:25:50PM -0400, Agner-Nichols wrote:
> > I am trying to install WordPerfect on Linux -- it is set up to use a 2.0.8
> > kernel, but I am running Potato 2.2.12, and I get a 'cannot open libXt.so.6'
> > message when I start WordPerfect.  In Potato, libXt.so.6 is in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib.  Anyone recall where the 2.0 kernel points for libXt.so.6.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Look at the thread "Mosaic: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'"
> and "Thanks" that hit the list today.  You have the same problem with a
> different program. 
> 
> If you have deleted them check
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/199/0/
> The "Mosaic..." thread is there already.
> 
> The "Thanks" thread basically said try -
> $ strace wordperfect &> strace_out
> or whatever^^^ executable wordperfect uses
> 
> $ grep libXt.so.6 strace_out
> 
> Look at where the library is pointing and then create a link there from
> where your libXt.so.6 actually resides.  Run -
> $ locate libXt.so.6
> if it isn't on your machine you will have to install xlib6g.
> hth,
> kent
> 

Re: DSelect

[patrick q]

--- Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   I've got a newbie problem with DSelect.   When I choose 'Select'
> browse
> the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed
> that are
> not currently installed, and I don't want.   When I try to press the
> '-' key
> to not select them, many of them give me crap about dependencies.  It
> would
> take me hours to go through them all.   My number one priority is to
> not
> screw up my system.   How can I clear the whole list to the machine's
> current install state so I can select only the one tiny package I
> want?
> 
>   In the end I used apt-get to get what I wanted.   But I won't be
> able to
> use DSelect until I figure this out.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Kevin Stokes
> Pie in the Sky Software
> www.pieskysoft.com
> 

If you are serious when you say "My number one priority is to not screw
up my system", then you should do yourself a huge favour and track
stable.

Patrick.


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Software RAID Trouble

[aqsalter]

OK,
 
I've used some disks I found on http://bazza.com/debian/reiserhack, 
but I am having a lot of trouble getting it to start up correctly.
1. LILO won't install in the boot 
sector.
2. I have a RAID swap file that it won't recognise 
in the install process.
 
I have two HD's of around 2 Gb each on separate 
IDE's, and the RAID seems to work fine after setup, but as above LILO won't 
work:
Configuration:
HD 1:
Heads: 128    Sectors/track: 
63    Cylinders: 620
hda1    boot    
primary    linux ext2    8.26Mb
hda5        
logical    linux raid autodetect    
136.25
hda6         logical 
linux raid autodetect    2415.33
 
HD 2:
Heads: 64     Sectors/track: 
63    Cylinders: 1023
hdc1    boot    
primary    linux raid autodetect    
136.25
hdc5        
    logical    linux raid 
autodetect    1975.62
 
Please help,
Thanks,
Adam Salter

Re: Software RAID Trouble

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

what does your /etc/raidtab and /etc/ftab and /etc/lilo.conf files
look like

c ya
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid .. raid stuff ...
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit/nmap.test.html
 -- nmap-based  port scan tests


On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> OK,
> 
> I've used some disks I found on http://bazza.com/debian/reiserhack,
> but I am having a lot of trouble getting it to start up correctly.
> 1. LILO won't install in the boot sector.
> 2. I have a RAID swap file that it won't recognise in the install process.
> 
> I have two HD's of around 2 Gb each on separate IDE's, and the RAID seems
> to work fine after setup, but as above LILO won't work:
> Configuration:
> HD 1:
> Heads: 128Sectors/track: 63Cylinders: 620
> hda1bootprimarylinux ext28.26Mb
> hda5logicallinux raid autodetect136.25
> hda6 logical linux raid autodetect2415.33
> 
> HD 2:
> Heads: 64 Sectors/track: 63Cylinders: 1023
> hdc1bootprimarylinux raid autodetect136.25
> hdc5logicallinux raid autodetect1975.62
> 
> Please help,
> Thanks,
> Adam Salter
> 

Re: thanks!

[USM Bish]

Script output:

#
aedes:~$ dpkg -S libXt.so.6
xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0
#

You need to install xlib6 from oldlibs.
xlib6g by itself would not suffice 
libXt.so.6 is a symlink to libXt.so.6.0
in the "libc5-compat" files provided by
xlib6.

Usually, if you  have  these three from
oldlibs installed, anthing that used to
run before will still run now :

a) xlib6b) libc5   c) xpm4.7

HTH

USM Bish

Script done on Sun Jun 24 12:52:07 2001

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:17:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Below is the result:
> 
> 
> bash-2.01$ grep libXt.so.6 strace_out
> uselib("/usr/lib/libXt.so.6")   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> uselib("/lib/libXt.so.6")   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> write(2, "Mosaic: can\'t find library \'li"..., 40Mosaic: can't find
> library
> 'libXt.so.6'
> bash-2.01$ su
> Password:
> debian:/home/zhou# cp /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
> debian:/home/zhou# exit
> bash-2.01$  Mosaic
> Mosaic: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6'
> Exec format error
> Mosaic: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'
> 
> 
> It seems that i have to compile it myself, but i met the following error
> msg:
> 
> --- Building libwww2
> cd libwww2; make CC=gcc RANLIB=ranlib CFLAGS="-g"
> make[1]: Entering directory sys_errlist'
> /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of 
> /home/zhou/Mosaic-src/libwww2'
> make: *** [libwww2] Error 2
> 
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> __
> ktb wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:07:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > thanks for your reply!
> > >
> > > i run the command. below is the result:
> > >
> > > bash-2.01$ ldd Mosaic
> > > libXt.so.6 (DLL Jump 6.0) => not found
> > > libX11.so.6 (DLL Jump 6.0) => not found
> > > libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => not found
> > > bash-2.01$
> > >
> > > Mosaic is for Linux 1.0, i guess.
> > 
> > Before you give up try -
> > $ strace Mosaic &> strace_out
> > 
> > Then -
> > $ grep libXt.so.6 strace_out
> > and see if you can find where Mosaic is looking for the library.
> > hth,
> > kent
> > 

recursive download of cgi based webpages ??

[Balbir Thomas]

Hi,
How can one download a group of webpages hyperlinked by cgi scripts (rather than
simple hrefs) . Note - wget chokes on this, in the sense it downloads some of 
the cgi forms itself, instead of querrying the server and obtaining the page. 
Is 
there any other program like wget ?
bt

Re: MySQL

[Daniel Kleine-Albers]

On Sunday 24 June 2001 01:13, Juan spoke wisely:
> After install MySQL sever/client debian packages, is it ready for use? I
> mean, am I have to configure it?

It's immediately ready to use. But you should set at least a admin password 
with mysqladmin password , so that not everybody could do 
everything with your mysql-server.

-- 
Daniel Kleine-Albers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: troubles with cmpci again

[Joel Mayes]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:18:41PM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> "Sergio E. Schvezov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hi, i'm writing this cause i'm having some trouble with one of those
> > cmedia cards (again),
> 
> Just FYI, I have a CMIPCI card which works with ALSA like a charm.
> 
>
G'day Sergio,

Is there an advantange to using ALSA over the kernel modules ?
I tried ALSA briefly with little success back in my begining bay at linux
but gave it up and might give it a go again if thieres any advantage to it

Cheers

Joel

Re: Compaq Proliant?? Does not see SCSI-disks

[A. Wrasman]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:38:46AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Hai.
> 
> I've been trying to get Raid working...
> Now I've made a not that good decision in buying a CompraQ proliant 1000.
> 
> At first it was a hell to get the machine past the bios errors.
> Now I can get in the installation menu using rescue and root disks.
> But no disks are beeing recognized. Do I need some special bootdisks?
> It has a 1.05Gb disk on the onboard scsi-controller (together with a cdrom;
> doesn't see that one either)
> 
> I installed Dos 6.0 on it (like it was a regular desktop).
> Now I don't have a clue on how to move on.
> 
> Any hints and tips are welcome.
> 
> Regards
> Frans Schreuder

For the RAID try the COMPACT boot disk set. It will find the RAID array then.

> 
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Aquila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Aaron Traas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!
> 
> 
> > I don't know what could be wrong with your ethernet card, but it can't
> > be Debian's fault, coz the network driver modules are part of the linux
> > kernel. Perhaps you should just compile your own kernel.
> >
> > It could just be a loose cable or something :)
> >
> > I know that the natsemi.o module exists in the current kernel version
> > 2.4.5 (and probably in many other versions before that). You need
> > CONFIG_NATSEMI=m in your kernel config.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Aq.
> >
> > On 23 Jun 2001 11:42:19 -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
> > > Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work
> > > environment, and apt-get simply rules. However, I have yet to
> > > successfully install Debian on one of my home machines. Here is the
> > > situation:
> > >
> > > I have 5 different ethernet cards without a permanent home: 4 different
> > > Tulip variants, and a Netgear FA311. I'm trying to get these to work on
> > > Debian 2.2r2. I am unable to get 2.2r3 because A) my CDRW on my Windoze
> > > box just died, and B) I can't get this machine to work with any ethernet
> > > card I have, so installing over the network is not an option.
> > >
> > > I've tried absolutely everything on the Tulip variants... all versions
> > > of the driver included (ng_tulip, old_tulip, tulip) in various ways.
> > > Most recently, I got one of the variants of the tulip to work by
> > > installing a clean system, and entering the following commands:
> > >
> > > insmod tulip
> > > ifconfig eth0 inet 10.1.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255
> > > ifconfig eth0 up
> > > ping 10.1.1.1
> > >
> > > And everything worked fine! It was great! So I decided to re-install the
> > > system, and configure everything I wanted. I selected the tulip driver,
> > > and it loaded. I entered the same information above, along with a
> > > default gateway and DNS server address. The install finished, and I
> > > tried to ping the same address. It timed out.
> > >
> > > I tried various things, including rmmoding the driver, and insmoding it,
> > > and redoing everything with ifconfig, but nothing works.
> > >
> > > I'd like to know what is going on here. I know for the fact the card was
> > > working just a few minutes ago. I also know that all of the cards I have
> > > work well under both Red Hat and Mandrake, which I used prior to Debian
> > > and got sick of.
> > >
> > > Also, what driver am I supposed to use for the Netgear FA311? In other
> > > distros, it uses natsemi.o, which is not present in Debian 2.2r2.
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me what is going on? Debian is an incredibly robust OS,
> > > but if it can't work with the same ethernet cards that other distros use
> > > with ease, I'm going to have to switch back. I have 4 machines I want to
> > > install Debian on, all of which are currently running Mandrake and have
> > > Tulip cards in them (one of them has 4 such cards and is being used as a
> > > router), and I can't afford to just buy 7 new NICs.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a solution for me?
> > >
> > >
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Xconfig for ATI all-in-wonder radeon needed

[A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)]

hi,
who can provide me with an Xconfig-file for this card?
I'm running xfree86 4.0.3-4 as available in the unstable-tree (woody that
is).

If someone also cna tell me how to get the best out of the card under
linux, including video in/out etc, I'd appriciate it.

thanx,



---
Andor Demarteau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---

Re: wordperfect on linux

[Agner-Nichols]

thanks, will try it out

- Original Message -
From: "USM Bish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: wordperfect on linux


> Script output (below) is for wp8:
>
> #
> aedes:/opt/wp8/wpbin$ ldd xwp
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4004f000)
> libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400f)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fe000)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40107000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c5000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401ce000)
>
> aedes:~$ dpkg -S libc5-compat
> xlib6, libc5, xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> [rest clipped]
>
> #
>
> You would need: a) xlib6  (oldlibs)
> b) libc5  (oldlibs)
> c) xpm4.7 (oldlibs)
>
> HTH
>
> USM Bish
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:57:50PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:25:50PM -0400, Agner-Nichols wrote:
> > > I am trying to install WordPerfect on Linux -- it is set up to use a
2.0.8
> > > kernel, but I am running Potato 2.2.12, and I get a 'cannot open
libXt.so.6'
> > > message when I start WordPerfect.  In Potato, libXt.so.6 is in
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib.  Anyone recall where the 2.0 kernel points for
libXt.so.6.
> > >
> > > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Look at the thread "Mosaic: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'"
> > and "Thanks" that hit the list today.  You have the same problem with a
> > different program.
> >
> > If you have deleted them check
> > http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/199/0/
> > The "Mosaic..." thread is there already.
> >
> > The "Thanks" thread basically said try -
> > $ strace wordperfect &> strace_out
> > or whatever^^^ executable wordperfect uses
> >
> > $ grep libXt.so.6 strace_out
> >
> > Look at where the library is pointing and then create a link there from
> > where your libXt.so.6 actually resides.  Run -
> > $ locate libXt.so.6
> > if it isn't on your machine you will have to install xlib6g.
> > hth,
> > kent
> >
>
>
>
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Re: Logging Init output?

[will trillich]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:03PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> > I was actually being ironic when I mentioned my 'scant' knowledge. At
> 
> That's okay, because there are many subscribers to debian-user and some
> of them appreciate an answer that does more than reply to strictly the
> question asked.  That way, just by reading posts by others, I learnt a
> lot myself and I enjoyed it.  When I post, people can correct me if I'm 
> wrong about something, which is good because people tend to be a lot more
> forgiving than computers.
> 
> > least I am happy to report that I know how init works, but I am still a
> > little wary of fooling with shell scripting of any sort. Funny thing is
> > that I *do* understand moderately complex Perl a lot better. Am I weird or
> > not?
> 
> Yes, definately.  Just go and bash ahead at those shell scripts.  What can 
> go really wrong here?  Just don't do it on your company's database server.
> Wait, did you mention "weird"? ;-)



okay, here's another thought--

# apt-get install bsdutils

# cd /etc/init.d
# mv rc rc.real
# touch rc
# chmod +x rc
# vi rc

and in the new rc, put something like

#!/bin/sh
script /etc/init.d/rc.startup.LOG < 
:
Tired of SLOW BROWSING THROUGH THE ONLINE APACHE MANUAL? Get
your own local copy and never worry about bandwidth again:
apt-get install apache-doc
Then browse /usr/share/doc/apache/manual.html, quick like a
bunny.

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

printing to a windows shared printer with smbprint

[Jeroen Valcke]

Hello,

I installed smbprint to be able to print to a printer attached to a
windows pc. However it doens't work
Anybody an idea what I did wrong.
I found some doc's on the net.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html and
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-10.html
First I installed the package printtool. Apparantly smbprint was installed
in the directory /usr/share/printtool/smbprint so I make a symbolic link
in /usr/bin.
Next I added these lines to the /etc/printcap file
# printer on Koersk windows pc via smbprint
lp:\
:cm=HP 895 Cxi on windows:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/usr/bin/smbprint:
I then shared the printer on the windows machine as 'HP895'
I made a file .config in the /var/spool/lpd/lp directory contents of the
file is:
server = Koersk
service = HP895
password = ""
I restarted the samba services en tried to print but nada.
Did I forget something
Where can I find errors? I checke /var/log/lp-errs and lpr.log but nothing
relevant.

Thanks
-Jeroen-

-- 
Jeroen Valcke   jeroen@valcke.com   
ICQ# 30116911   Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen

kdm-entries

[Andre Alexander Bell]

Hello!

I'm running woody and I do have KDE, enlightenment, GNOME and these things on 
my system. In kdm I can select what to start. (default, wmaker...)
How do I extend this to have one more entry. And where are the scripts that 
are called on starting the new entry?

Andre

Startx

[Rutgher Pruijm]

Hi,
I just installed 'Woody' on my system but when I try to start X with the 'startx' command, I get an error saying that the command can't be found. What do I have to do to fix this?
Sincerely,
Rutgher PruijmGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

E: Package courier-imap has no installation candidate

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

This message comes using this sources.list

,[ sources.list ]
| # $Id: sources.list,v 1.3 2001/05/24 16:45:07 juh Exp juh $   
| # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
| # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
| # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
| deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
| deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
| deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
| deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main
| deb-src http://security.debian.org potato/updates main
| 
`

Are there problems with the german mirror?

Ciao!
juh

-- 
Zuchtmeister Sloterdijk im Menschenpark
http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19990910.html

Re: [users] /proc/pci incorrect

[MaD dUCK]

also sprach Kevin C. Smith (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:39:40AM -0500):
> Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to 
> show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it?

what does it show? many NICs work atop one of the following chipsets,
so two different NICs may well use the same driver and/or signature:

  ne
  smc
  dec 2904x (tulip)
  intel ether express
  sis900

and others.

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
  \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- 
with searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
file not found.

Re: What is state of package installed despite dependencies?

[Joost Kooij]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:14:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> apt-get also tells what it's about to do and then asks for a confirm.
> For extra safety, apt-get -s will do a dry (no action) run.

That is true, but it is still not quite the same.  For one, apt-get
will make its own choice about what real package to pick if it has to
fullfill a depends: some virtual package name.  AFAIK anyway, maybe it
is time I reread the apt manpages once again.

 [gtoaster problems]

If there is an issue with the quality of the package, file a bug and
ask the maintainer to do something about it.  Upstreams does something
broken is not an excuse, but a reason to work around that in the package.

> > > So I thought I'd try just installing the deb.  As I said, I thought the 
> > > version dependency checking happened at the dpkg level.
> > 
> > Yes, but dpkg looks only one step ahead.  Apt-get can look more steps
> > ahead and walk dpkg around.  Dselect gives you an overview before you
> > set off.
> 
> dpkg seemed to do more like half a step: it removed the old version,
> unpacked the new version, and then at configuration discovered there
> were missing dependencies and bailed out.

So it only lets you shoot off half a foot at a time.  :-)

Cheers,


Joost

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

[Nick]

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I make /usr/src/linux as a symbolic link to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17...
Is that right ?
 
> I ran into that as well. You need to run 'make-kpkg modules_image' from
> /usr/src/linux instead of from the modules directory.
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cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

[Stephen Taylor]

What modules / parameters do I need to install a cd-rom
at io=0x1f0 and interrupt=14?

It's a samsung cd-rw sw-208. Debian Potato started up first thing from the
boot-disk, recognized one cd-rom, recognized the second, then said "there's
nothing at /mnt/cdrom". Loading cd-rom modules at the address and irq fails
with "resource busy" messages

Re: Startx

[Steve Kowalik]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:48:44PM +0200, Rutgher Pruijm uttered:



Don't post in HTML, it's evil and will probably make people ignore you.
You need to install xserver-common and xbase-clients.
That should get down everything you need to run X.

-- 
Steve
  "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
--Me


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Re: Startx

[Andrew Sione Taumoefolau]

> I just installed 'Woody' on my system but when I try to start X with
> the 'startx' command, I get an error saying that the command can't be
> found. What do I have to do to fix this?

# apt-get install xbase-clients

X is a bit notorious for not wholly surviving the dist-upgrade from
Potato to Woody, so you may have to reinstall or reconfigure many of the
packages in task-x-window-system.

Also, if you could make sure to send your e-mails in plain text in
future, that would be great.

Regards,

-- 

Andrew Sione Taumoefolau  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://users.pipeline.com.au


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Re: Installing from 2.3 floppy set

[Joost Kooij]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:29:10PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> I have made a disk set from the Woody tree in order to install on an old
> IBM Aptiva 486DX2. I manage to load the rescue/root/driver disks just
> fine. Next I install my network module without problem and I continue to
> the network installation for the base system.
> This starts off allright, but ends with an error:
> 
>   Failure trying to run: mount -t proc proc /proc
> 
> and after that:
> 
>   debootstrap exited with an error

Thanks for being brave and testing the new boot-floppies, which are
currently under heavy developent and really need lots of testing by as
many people as possible.  Please have a look at http://lists.debian.org
and browse the boot-floppies and testing mailing lists archives for
more information on the current state of things.

> Also, I am unable to write the bootstrap to the disk. I do not know what
> goes on here. I have tried to partition a 10MB /boot partition, but that
> does not help.
> 
> Any pointers much appreciated!

Try debian-boot@lists.debian.org and debian-testing@lists.debian.org

Cheers,


Joost

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than modules.dep ???

[Joost Kooij]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> hi,
> I keep getting the following error message at boot time:
> 
> modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than 
> /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep
> 
> On other occasions it is insmod that issues the message. I have had this 
> problem since kernel 2.2.17. I am presently running kernel 2.4.5 compiled by 
> myself 
> using the debian kernel package tools (make-kpkg). I have also tried things 
> like depmod -A . 

Try it again, with "depmod -a" and see if that changes it for the better.

Did you use update-modules to generate /etc/modules.conf from all the files
under /etc/modultils/ ?

> Any ideas what may be going wrong. Note - if I touch modules.dep to make it 
> more
> recent . On the next boot something reverses the situation again .

That sounds weird.  I don't understand it either, nor seen it before.

Cheers,


Joost

Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!

[Edward Kear]

Which kernel are you using.  I have a set of natsemi drivers compiled for 
2.2.19 that I can send if they will help.
Ed
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:07:04PM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
> I can't upgrade to the new kernel because I can't get the new kernel
> because I don't have a network connection. 
> 
> I tried downloading the network stuff from Scyld, but was unsuccessful
> in compiling them. I think I need the kernel-header package which is not
> included on my potato CD.
> 
> Does Woody ship with 2.4 kernel? If so, can I just download the install
> floppy and try that way? Otherwise, does anyone sell Woody CD's?
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> Edward Kear wrote:
> > 
> > natsemi is included in kernel 2.4.x. If you can upgrade to that, that would 
> > be best.
> > You can download the driver for kernel 2.2.x from
> > www.scyld.com/network/ethecard.html
> > read www.scyld.com/network/updates.html for compiling/installation 
> > instructions.
> > good luck
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
> > > Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work
> > > environment, and apt-get simply rules. However, I have yet to
> > > successfully install Debian on one of my home machines. Here is the
> > > situation:
> > >
> > > I have 5 different ethernet cards without a permanent home: 4 different
> > > Tulip variants, and a Netgear FA311. I'm trying to get these to work on
> > > Debian 2.2r2. I am unable to get 2.2r3 because A) my CDRW on my Windoze
> > > box just died, and B) I can't get this machine to work with any ethernet
> > > card I have, so installing over the network is not an option.
> > >
> > > I've tried absolutely everything on the Tulip variants... all versions
> > > of the driver included (ng_tulip, old_tulip, tulip) in various ways.
> > > Most recently, I got one of the variants of the tulip to work by
> > > installing a clean system, and entering the following commands:
> > >
> > > insmod tulip
> > > ifconfig eth0 inet 10.1.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255
> > > ifconfig eth0 up
> > > ping 10.1.1.1
> > >
> > > And everything worked fine! It was great! So I decided to re-install the
> > > system, and configure everything I wanted. I selected the tulip driver,
> > > and it loaded. I entered the same information above, along with a
> > > default gateway and DNS server address. The install finished, and I
> > > tried to ping the same address. It timed out.
> > >
> > > I tried various things, including rmmoding the driver, and insmoding it,
> > > and redoing everything with ifconfig, but nothing works.
> > >
> > > I'd like to know what is going on here. I know for the fact the card was
> > > working just a few minutes ago. I also know that all of the cards I have
> > > work well under both Red Hat and Mandrake, which I used prior to Debian
> > > and got sick of.
> > >
> > > Also, what driver am I supposed to use for the Netgear FA311? In other
> > > distros, it uses natsemi.o, which is not present in Debian 2.2r2.
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me what is going on? Debian is an incredibly robust OS,
> > > but if it can't work with the same ethernet cards that other distros use
> > > with ease, I'm going to have to switch back. I have 4 machines I want to
> > > install Debian on, all of which are currently running Mandrake and have
> > > Tulip cards in them (one of them has 4 such cards and is being used as a
> > > router), and I can't afford to just buy 7 new NICs.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a solution for me?
> > >
> > >
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Re: Serial Mouse problem

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:05:53PM +1000, Chris Everist wrote:
> I have tried all the possible device options I can think of
> (/dev/ttyS0-4, /dev/mouse) but nothing happens.

Those are not "device options", they're symbolic devices managed by
the kernel and that correspond to some physical peripheral.

You should try to find out to what plug your mouse connects.  If
it is a small round one, that corresponds to /dev/psaux.  If it is
a classic small rs232 style connector, it is a common serial port 
that corresponds to /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1.

> I have checked in the /dev/ directory and cannot find a symbolic link to
> the mouse driver /dev/mouse.

It is not needed for the system.  Just for humans, so they get less 
confused.  Well, you can see how well that works out already... :-P

> Do you have any idea what coule be causing this problem?

You are not setting the right "wire protocol" for your mouse.
Mice come in different tongues.  Some even speak with two tongues,
depending on which port it hangs off of.

Check out the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 manpage and some of the
gpm documentation for more information about mouse protocols.

Cheers,


Joost

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:48:59AM -0400, Stephen Taylor wrote:
> What modules / parameters do I need to install a cd-rom
> at io=0x1f0 and interrupt=14?

Nothing, because it can't.  The irq/io are in use by the ide driver.
It in turn will drive your cdrw, by talking atapi words to it (you don't
want to know).

So as a simple ide/atapi cdrom, it should work fine.  In that situation
it can be addressed as one of the /dev/hd* devices.

> It's a samsung cd-rw sw-208. Debian Potato started up first thing from the 
> boot-disk, recognized one cd-rom, recognized the second, then said "there's 
> nothing at /mnt/cdrom". Loading cd-rom modules at the address and irq fails 
> with "resource busy" messages

Maybe the disk is bad?  Did you doublecheck that it was in fact in the
drive (hey, that happens to me all the time too)?

Anyway, you do not need to load modules for an atapi cdrom.

What is interesting for you to know, is that if you want to use the cdrw
to burn disks, you cannot do that using the ide/atapi interface and have
to use the "scsi generic" interface.  In order to be able to do this,
you must bind the "ide-scsi" driver to the cdrw at boot time, before the
normal "ide-cd driver gets to sit on it.  This is done by putting append
"hdc=ide-scsi" in your /etc/lilo.conf.

After that, and rebooting to effectuate the change, you can tell your
cd writing app to look for /dev/sg0 (the first scsi generic device)
when it needs to find the cdrw.

Cheers,


Joost

helix gnome vs sid (apt problem)

[ocorrain]

I seem to have screwed up my system by changing apt-lines from
helix-gnome to sid, and partially de-installing gnome. Now, whenever I
try to apt-get install anything, I get the following. Can anyone help?

aurelius:/home/ocorrain# apt-get install kppp
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgnome32: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but
  1.2.11-ximian.1 is to be installed
  libgnomesupport0: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but
  1.2.11-ximian.1 is to be installed
  libgnomeui32: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but
  1.2.11-ximian.1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).

Trying... 

aurelius:/home/ocorrain# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gnome-libs-data
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 582 not
upgraded.
4 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/294kB of archives. After unpacking 511kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 94769 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace gnome-libs-data 1.2.11-ximian.1 (using
.../gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-8_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gnome-libs-data ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-8_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/idl/name-service.idl', which is also
 in package libgnorba27
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-8_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can anyone help?

Tiarnan

Re: nv driver available?

[Joel Mayes]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:41:53AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
> 
> I'd like to use the nv driver for X 3 (not ready to take the plunge and
> move to 4.x). I'm having trouble finding it - can anyone offer
> advice? (This is what was available for nvidia cards before X 4)
> 
> Thanks.

> 
G'day Andrew,

You to be able to get X 3.x drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/ but I quick 
check while I'm writing this didn't turn them up,

You can still use the "nv" driver which is built into X, but it's speed isn't 
the same as the "nvidia" driver you get from nVidia.


Cheers

Joel

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than modules.dep ???

[Duncan Findlay]

I remember I had a similar problem, but I don't think it was serious.

I think it was caused by the system clock being converted from GMT to local
time after modprobe checks the timestamps on those files.  I fixed my
problem by touching /etc/module.conf back a few hours.  I think your problem
will dissapear in a few hours.

Duncan Findlay

- Original Message -
From: "Joost Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Balbir Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than modules.dep ???


> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> > hi,
> > I keep getting the following error message at boot time:
> >
> > modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep
> >
> > On other occasions it is insmod that issues the message. I have had this
problem since kernel 2.2.17. I am presently running kernel 2.4.5 compiled by
myself
> > using the debian kernel package tools (make-kpkg). I have also tried
things
> > like depmod -A .
>
> Try it again, with "depmod -a" and see if that changes it for the better.
>
> Did you use update-modules to generate /etc/modules.conf from all the
files
> under /etc/modultils/ ?
>
> > Any ideas what may be going wrong. Note - if I touch modules.dep to make
it more
> > recent . On the next boot something reverses the situation again .
>
> That sounds weird.  I don't understand it either, nor seen it before.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hi,

Matthias Richter wrote:
> 
> Viktor Rosenfeld wrote on Wed Jun 20, 2001 at 01:00:18AM:
> > I looked at `apt-cache search java`, but I can't find the package I need
> > to install for a Java 1.2 VM.  `apt-cache search blackdown` didn't show
> > anything either.
> >
> > Is there such a package in unstable?
> 
> The woody package of jdk-1.3 works fine with unstable...
> deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian woody non-free

I just installed the package, and I noticed that Netscape is unable to
load the java 2 plugin.  I don't really need java in netscape, but I was
still wondering if this is a known bug, or I'm doing something wrong.

Ciao,
Viktor
-- 
Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Broken Debconf

[Rob Weir]

After doing my regular apt-get update;apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade against 
testing, I've managed to completely munge up my perl installation.  When apt 
gets to updating Debconf, I get the following error:
-
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine 
return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"
Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3.
...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm 
line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm 
line 7.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 
5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
) -- aborting
-

The two stupid things that I've done lately to my system was running CPAN and 
apt-getlocalepurge.  CPAN tried to update a bunch of stuff (for some reason 
it that overwriting the perl modules in /usr/ was a good idea, rather than 
writing to /usr/local/ like the perl packages normally do), while 
apt-localepurge, well, purged a bunch of locale files which means that many 
packages refuse to install now.  I'm involved in a rather large perl project, 
so I need to fix this, soon.  Is it time to grab my potato CD's and reinstall 
everything, or can this be fixed reasonably easily?

inetd

[Kim De Smaele]

Hi,

I 'm having a problem every time when I do a remote connection to a sun box.
Aslong as there is no idle time on my remote connection it works fine.
Once there is a idle time of a few minutes the connection hangs.
And surprice surprice, it's imposilble making an other connection without a
reboot.

any advise?

Regards,
Kim

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: Viktor Rosenfeld writes:

>> The woody package of jdk-1.3 works fine with unstable...
>> deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian woody non-free

> I just installed the package, and I noticed that Netscape is unable to
> load the java 2 plugin.  I don't really need java in netscape, but I was
> still wondering if this is a known bug, or I'm doing something wrong.

Same here. Actually, the problem started to happen some days ago --
the package worked ok with netscape before.

I'm not sure about what to do about it, though (because it's not an
official Debian package).

J.

-- 

ReiserFS and potato

[Rajkumar S.]

Hi,

I have a potato CD which I use to install Debian in my home macines.
Usually I pop in the CD boot off it, install and then use the apt-get
dist-upgrade to upgrade to woody.

Now I want to make one of my machine use ReiserFS. Which is the best way
to get that going. Is their any boot floopies which can be used with the
potato CD so that I can use the same CD to install Debian and then
upgrade to woody?

raj

Re: Broken Debconf

[Sebastiaan]

Hello,

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rob Weir wrote:

> After doing my regular apt-get update;apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade against 
I think it is wiser to run: apt-get update && apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade
Upgrading will only be done when updating was succesfull

> testing, I've managed to completely munge up my perl installation.  When apt 
> gets to updating Debconf, I get the following error:
> -
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine 
> return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3.
> ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm 
> line 5.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm 
> line 7.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 
> 5.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8.
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
> ) -- aborting
> -
> 
> The two stupid things that I've done lately to my system was running CPAN and 
> apt-getlocalepurge.  CPAN tried to update a bunch of stuff (for some reason 
> it that overwriting the perl modules in /usr/ was a good idea, rather than 
> writing to /usr/local/ like the perl packages normally do), while 
> apt-localepurge, well, purged a bunch of locale files which means that many 
> packages refuse to install now.  I'm involved in a rather large perl project, 
> so I need to fix this, soon.  Is it time to grab my potato CD's and reinstall 
> everything, or can this be fixed reasonably easily?
> 
You can try to deinstall and reinstall perl. To deinstall:
dpkg --purge perl

This will deinstall perl including configuration.
Then you can reinstall perl with apt-get.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan

How to set up a smart relay host with qmail?

[Bruno Boettcher]

Hello
title says it all, since now i was happy with my setup of qmail, but
more and more hosts are refusing my mails because of the NAT that is
performed somewhere on my subnetwork to add it to the great world of
internet.

the provider has a smart relay smtp host, but i didn't found how to get
qmail to use it

any hint welcome!

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Re: ReiserFS and potato

[Raghavendra Bhat]

[Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:53:57PM +0530] Rajkumar S. :

> Which is the best way to get that going ? Is their 
> any boot floppies which can be used with the potato 
> CD so that. [] 

Download the ReiserFS 'rescue' and 'boot' disks from
this link ie. the Zoltan boot disks.

 http://debianboot.digitaltux.com/

After you partition and format your new installation,
you can go ahead and install the base system from the
Potato CD.
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Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

[Mart van de Wege]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:19:51 -0500
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As far as /etc/fetchmailrc being chowned to root.  I would think that is
> the 
> way it should be.  With very few exceptions, in /etc,  most are
> root.root.  
> I suspect what you could do is cp /etc/fetchmailrc to ~/.fetchmailrc
> Set the owner and group to that of you're home directory and -
> $ chmod 600 .fetchmailrc
> hth,
> kent

Hmmm,

ok, so leaving 1 link in /etc/rc2.d would stop fetchmail being installed
as a systemwide daemon. That's good, but I think you missed my question on
the file permission on /etc/fetchmailrc. It *is* set to owner root.root,
but upgrading fetchmail changes it to fetchmail.root. As I said, ISTR this
is a policy violation, isn't it?

Mart

gdm and remote display logins

[Stefan Bellon]

Hi!

Since I went back from sid to potato (because I wanted to install the
Ximian Gnome Desktop) I have a problem that I can't get a display login
from another machine anymore.

I have set "Enable=true" in the [XDMCP] section of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
and I have entered the IP address of my other machine in
/etc/hosts.allow for the gdm group.

What else am I missing in order to make it work?

TIA.

Greetings,

Stefan.

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Re: MySQL

[Kent West]

Juan wrote:

After install MySQL sever/client debian packages, is it ready for use? 
I mean, am I have to configure it?


TIA

Juan José Velázquez Garcia
Web Development
www.htmlspider.com.br


It should be ready to go. You can find a decent little beginner's 
tutorial (if you need it) at: 
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Intro/


A couple of notes about the tutorial:

   Ignore Part 1, Step 1 on page 2; you don't need to telnet into a 
mySql server since you're already at the console (presumably).


   In Part 1, Step 2 where you're told to use the "devshed" database, 
you don't have a "devshed" database, but you should be able to use 
"test". (Don't confuse this database "test" with the table "test" that 
you create on about page 3).

Re: GRUB 5.96 for potato

[D-Man]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:15:57PM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote:
| That worked perfect, thanks!

Good.  You're welcome.

-D

Re: Broken Debconf

[Joey Hess]

Rob Weir wrote:
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine 
> return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"

Upgrade debconf. The version currently in testing should work.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

[Jimmy Richards]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:23:05PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:19:51 -0500
> ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > As far as /etc/fetchmailrc being chowned to root.  I would think that is
> > the 
> > way it should be.  With very few exceptions, in /etc,  most are
> > root.root.  
> > I suspect what you could do is cp /etc/fetchmailrc to ~/.fetchmailrc
> > Set the owner and group to that of you're home directory and -
> > $ chmod 600 .fetchmailrc
> > hth,
> > kent
> 
> Hmmm,
> 
> ok, so leaving 1 link in /etc/rc2.d would stop fetchmail being installed
> as a systemwide daemon. That's good, but I think you missed my question on
> the file permission on /etc/fetchmailrc. It *is* set to owner root.root,
> but upgrading fetchmail changes it to fetchmail.root. As I said, ISTR this
> is a policy violation, isn't it?
> 
> Mart
> 

Hi,

I might know what is happening here. The script that starts
may be chown'ing the file when it is started to make certain it has the
correct perrmisions and ownership/group settings before starting up the
daemon. I could tell you to look at the file
/usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz, but I would rather just go
ahead and include in my reply here. I think it is a 'recent' change to
fetchmail in that you can now choose to run it as 'root' or an
'unpriviledged user', and you should be getting prompted for this if you
are using debconf. It gives you a fairly stern warning about running
choosing to run it as root as opposed to an unpriviledged user. You
should be able to get the debconf configuration to come up by running
the command 'dpkg -reconfigure -plow fetchmail'.


The following is from >  /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz

Fetchmail and security:

Don't run fetchmail as root if you can help it. Fetchmail does a lot of
manipulation on untrustable data (e.g.: email headers) and has had
buffer
overflow security holes fixed in that area. Nobody knows how many of
those are
still left.

The safest way to run fetchmail is to run it as an unpriviledged user
(e.g.
using the system-wide fetchmail facility described below, and the
"fetchmail"
user), delivering through SMTP. This is Debian's default configuration.


Hope that helps!,

Jimmy Richards


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Re: video card problem.

[D-Man]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:41:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hey, i have many problems because linux does not support my video card.
| 
| it's an ATI RAGE LT PRO on the PCI of a Compaq Armada M300 at the
| compaq site, it says that this model does not support linux yet.
| but, i have a SuSE distribution that works just fine.  i have gotten
| this to work a few times, but it doesn't last.  all ATI cards seem
| to be supported except this one.

Well, if SuSE works fine, then "linux" (as you said above) supports
it.  I think you mean "Debian", not "linux" in the first sentence.

Anyways, I used to have a Compaq (Presario micro-tower) that had an
ATI Rage LT Pro built-in.  That card is based on the Mach64 chipset
and has been supported since XFree86 version 3.3.3 (I know because
RH5.2 (the first distro I had) had version 3.3.2 and it didn't work).
Use the Mach64 server and you should have no trouble.  It may also
help you to read through the /etc/X11/XF86Config file you have on the
SuSE partition and compare it to the one on the Debian partition.  I
found that the RH6.1 installer was able to configure the card
correctly with the resolution I wanted.  The RH7.0 installer couldn't
get it right no matter what I did.  I gave up on that and just copied
by backed up version from RH6.1 and it worked just fine.  (Since that
time I have switched to Debian and configured X by hand using my old
config file for reference.  I also have a new box with a diff. video
card.)

HTH,
-D

Re: Interbase

[Philippe Clérié]

No problems at all. I've been using this package for quite a while.

http://master.debian.org/~tille/interbase

Best regards,
Philippe Clérié (philippe[a]gcal.net)



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From: Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Saturday, 23 June, 2001 18:21
Subject: Interbase


> Hi,
>
> Does anyone installed Interbase with Debian? Can it be installed?
Any
> observation?
>
> TIA,
>
> Juan José Velázquez Garcia
> Web Development
> www.htmlspider.com.br
>
>
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Re: OT: Laptop modem and 10/100 ethernet card recommendations

[D-Man]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:24:48PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:

I haven't bought a laptop before but my inclination is to get the one
that you will use the most.  For example if you will mostly be
connected to an ethernet LAN and rarely using the modem directly then
get the ethernet card internal and have the modem separate.  Also
check the specs closely so you know whether they will work or not :-).
The other two things to consider are (a) price difference between
combo NIC+modem and buying the NIC and modem as separate devices and
(b) how much space is in the laptop and how much do you want hooked up
simultaneously.

HTH,
-D

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

[Jimmy Richards]

- Forwarded message from longshot -

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?


Hi,

should be able to get the debconf configuration to come up by running
the command 'dpkg -reconfigure -plow fetchmail'.




-- Sorry, I meant the command to be  'dpkg-reconfigure -plow fetchmail'





Hope that helps!,

Jimmy Richards


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Easy-going backup software

[Victor]

Hi Friends,

I've set up and tailored a wonderful debian 2.2r3 in 1.4 GB of my
laptop. It ticks wonderfully!!

Having a wide free 4GB linux partition on my desktop at home under
SuSE 7.1, to be on the safe side I'd like to back up my debian laptop
connecting the two boxes through ethernet and a crossed cable.

Therefore I don't need anything sophisticated and difficult to manage
but a light and friendly backup software for a total and incremental
backup.

Please suggestions

Ciao

Vittorio
   

locale error on potato

[Stefan Bellon]

Hi!

Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian Gnome
Desktop I often get the following warning message:

  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
  are supported and installed on your system.
  perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

The locale setting on potato seems to be different than that one sid.
So, how do I correct this?

TIA.

Greetings,

Stefan.

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Re: locale error on potato

[Jimmy Richards]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:29:40PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian Gnome
> Desktop I often get the following warning message:
> 
>   perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>   perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>   LANGUAGE = (unset),
>   LC_ALL = (unset),
>   LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
>   are supported and installed on your system.
>   perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
> The locale setting on potato seems to be different than that one sid.
> So, how do I correct this?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan.

Hi,

I don't know if potato has this command or not, but you might try
running 'locale-gen' and see if that fixes it.



HTH,

Jimmy Richards

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potato on imac

[crombie]

hi,

need any and every direction installing potato on imac.
having trouble with configuring usb mouse, xterm (monitor 
resolution).. and god knows what next?  mostly, looking 
for solutions to configuring monitor right now.  it's 
one of the first imacs - 266mhz, 32 mb ram, 5 gb hd.

has anyone done this before? and have some reliable 
how-tos?  i've been all over the web - ydl.com, 
imaxlinux, linuxppc, etc.

thx, 
tc
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Re: locale error on potato

[Stefan Bellon]

Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:29:40PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian
> > Gnome Desktop I often get the following warning message:
> > 
> >   perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> >   perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LANGUAGE = (unset),
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
> >   are supported and installed on your system.
> >   perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > 
> > The locale setting on potato seems to be different than that one
> > sid. So, how do I correct this?

[snip]

>   I don't know if potato has this command or not, but you might try
> running 'locale-gen' and see if that fixes it.

Well, that's how I'd done it on sid as well. But potato doesn't have
this.

Greetings,

Stefan.

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man

[krst]

I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait
even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening?

Krst.

Re: locale error on potato

[Vector]

I have the same problem with locale on a perl module I was trying to
install.  I posted to this list twice, no response.  Someone else posted 
about a local problem and someone replied with the same 'locale-gen'
response.  locale-gen can not be found on my potato system, so if find the
answer please share!

vector


On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Jimmy Richards wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:29:40PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian Gnome
> > Desktop I often get the following warning message:
> > 
> >   perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> >   perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LANGUAGE = (unset),
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
> >   are supported and installed on your system.
> >   perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > 
> > The locale setting on potato seems to be different than that one sid.
> > So, how do I correct this?
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Stefan.
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   I don't know if potato has this command or not, but you might try
> running 'locale-gen' and see if that fixes it.
>   
> 
> 
>   HTH,
> 
>   Jimmy Richards
> 
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broken terminal 'a'

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hey people. 

Currently, in terminal mode without X running, the top half of all of my
'a' characters is missing. I'm confused. What could cause this??

Mike

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Re: recursive download of cgi based webpages ??

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:08:28AM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> How can one download a group of webpages hyperlinked by cgi scripts (rather 
> than
> simple hrefs) . Note - wget chokes on this, in the sense it downloads some of 
> the cgi forms itself, instead of querrying the server and obtaining the page. 
> Is 
> there any other program like wget ?

Learn some perl and use LWP.pm to roll your own.  Check out www.stonehenge.com 
for
some good tutorials on this subject.

Cheers,


Joost

Re: problem

[David L. Craig]

'Iggy' wrote:

> David> Boot from your rescue floppy, mount your / partition as /mnt,
> David> and change root's password to * (no password).
> 
> No: * means account disabled. Remove everything between the first and
> second colon to log in without a password.

Whoa!  Thanks for catching that.  Musta had a "senior moment"...

Re: A mouse Q..

[David L. Craig]

Joost wrote:

> I use vim as an editor to write mail.  Before I commit the message,
> I jump to the top of the first paragraph and type:
> 
>   !}fmt
> 
> Then a couple of times '}.' to do the same to the other paragraphs.
> Maybe you should try that too, it is easier to read for others IMHO.
> It should work with all viitors, I mean vi-like editors.

unless fmt is not in the PATH (of true enlightenment)--not
likely, as it's in textutils, a required package, and
in /usr/bin.

Also, use !Gfmt if you want to do it in one fell swoop
and/or !Gfmt -60 if you want shorter lines (often easier
to read and they quote better).

Re: man

[David L. Craig]

Krst wrote:

> I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait
> even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening?

If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the
1st man command happens...

Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Friday, June 22, Britton did write:

> 
> I know for example that meta x is described as "\M-x".  How is tab
> described, or how can I find out for a general key.  I'm not seeing it in
> the docs.

I'm a bit confused: are you asking how to represent a particular keypress
within elisp code (as within global-set-key, for instance)?  Or are you
trying to figure out which command is bound to a particular key, as the
other posters assumed?

If it's the former, then I'd recommend using the new representation (a
vector of lists).  In the info page for XEmacs 21.1, it's in the
`Keystrokes' section; I'd imagine that other emacsen have something
similar.

In any case: the keystroke Meta-X is written as (meta x) in this notation;
the key _sequence_ Meta-X is written [(meta x)]; the distinction appears to
be that a key _sequence_ is a complete keyboard command, which is made up
of one or more keystrokes.  So, the key sequence that is bound to find-file
by default is represented as [(control x) (control f)].

That'll get you for most of it, but you still need to figure out how to
represent things like tab, delete, and page up.  There's no list, so far as
I know (probably because this is affected by xmodmap settings and such).
The easiest way I know of to get this info is to fire up emacs, hit C-h c,
and hit the key sequence you want to represent.  It'll give you the
necessary info.

For instance, C-h c tab results in the following being written to the
minibuffer:

TAB runs the command indent-relative

So you'd rebind tab by doing something like
(global-set-key [TAB] 'self-insert-command)
or whatever.

HTH,

Richard

login......

[root]

I can not get into my 'user' account any longer only root password is
working..i just finished using the passwd command successfully but it
won't accept any password i use for this particular 'user'.

is there an "X" version of this for debian? not that it should matter
gui/manual but ...?

also I"m getting so really odd behavior from gui login

I login 'user' then it 'thinks' about it for few seconds and when the
password screen isn't right..at the top it has

Dsystem bootup in progress and and by password it says:
UPassword..
and my correct password isn't taken even for root..

after the password isn't accepted then i get the 'correct' response from
gui login where there is NO delay from user entry to password
entry..this to me says i have corrupt file somewhere thats
responsible for this part of login that OR its because i'm running
"testing" which my sourses.list file does NOT show at all...the link was
definitely to unstable..everything else was commented out..

thanks anyone
lee
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center speaker with emu10k1 and other soundquestions

[Sebastiaan]

Hello,

proudly I bought Creative's sound blaster platinum 5.1 (emu10k1) with
Digital desktop theatre DTT 2200. This combination should give me dolby
digital surround sound with five speakers and a bass. 

First question: which module is recommended to use? OSS module from 2.4.4,
the module from opensource.creative.com or alsa modules?

Every module I tried worked correct (sound from all speakers), except the
front center speaker. Whatever I tried, I can not get sound out of this. 

Second question: how do you enable the center speaker?

Third question: is there a sound utility with which you can test your
speakers (left, right, front, rear, etc.)?

Fourth question: what is the best way to intercept the system beep and
redirect it to the soundcard? I have read the sound-howto, but the
proposed patches seems to be too much in development yet. I remember that
it is possble in X with a tool, but I do not know which anymore.


Thanks in advance!
Sebastiaan


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  *real* 32-bit system.

re: no mouse movement

[root]

okay thanks much for info about mouse ie: /dev/psaux..

guaranteed I'll remember that one :) ..


lee
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Re: printing to a windows shared printer with smbprint

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote:
> I installed smbprint to be able to print to a printer attached to a
> windows pc. However it doens't work
> Anybody an idea what I did wrong.

Well I've said this before, the mistake is to have the printer attached
to the windows machine.  It just isn't any good as a server.  It may be
good enough for some purposes and in some context, eg. if you only have
two windows machines and one printer.  But if you have a linux system to 
your disposal, there is no excuse for putting network services on that
box, away from any windows machines.  IMHO, and experience.

>   :if=/usr/bin/smbprint:

If this is the only place where you're actually calling smbprint, you 
might as well put in the /usr/share path and you do not need the symlink.

> I restarted the samba services en tried to print but nada.

It does not relate to samba services.  Maybe the lpr services, reload it.

> Did I forget something Where can I find errors? I checked
> /var/log/lp-errs and lpr.log but nothing relevant.

The lpd does not log very verbosely by default.  You may have to tweak
its configuration a little.  It is worth studying the lpr docs thoroughly,
you'll get payback when you start adding all sorts of custom features
to the linux printserver.  

Unfortunately, microsoft smb implementation is not documented very well,
especially in the corner case area's.  Don't waste your time debugging it,
unless you are seriously planning to become samba hacker.

Cheers,


Joost

Re: man

[krst]

> > I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait
> > even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening?
> 
> If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the
> 1st man command happens...

Yes, but it occurs every time i run man... :(

Krst.

Re: login......

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:40:02AM -0700, root wrote:

 [snip "root can login, but why can user not?"]

Try:

  rm /etc/nologin
  man 1 login

Cheers,


Joost

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

[Mart van de Wege]

Hmm,

Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply,
so apologies if this is a little disjointed.
Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor
change to just add a 'su fetchmail -c ' instead
of starting fetchmail as root outright? Does this return to a normal root
shell for the rest of the network script? AFAIK starting fetchmail is the
last thing I do in my pcmcia script, so it would not hurt either way, but
I'm just curious.
I *really* want fetchmail to run only when the pcmcia is plugged in,
otherwise it will overrun my syslog with whining about not finding
mailservers, and I have logcheck running, so those whines will clog up my
inbox (Thank $DEITY for filters).

Mart

Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

[Juan]

Hi,

Can I mount a remote Windows drive? How?
For example I have a machine running Windows IP number 192.168.66.2. Can I 
mount Windows drive D: via LAN?


TIA,

Juan José Velázquez Garcia
Web Development
www.htmlspider.com.br

An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[Jack Pryne]

Greetings all,

I'm totally new to the list, and I'm not even running Debian yet, but I have 
an idea that I'd like to bounce off the group:


Consider that one of the major reasons that people don't use any operating 
system besides windows is because they need to *install* it. Most machines 
are delivered with Windows already running. Installing a new operating 
system can be a major hurdle, even for someone with computer experience.


What if installation *and* maintainence could be managed by a single simple 
program, freeing the novice user from mountains of research, tweaking, and 
testing?


Imagine a P2P network of Debian users who *all* shared their system 
configuration information, thus comprising a consensus of proper 
configuration for various hardware compositions, (e.g. All users with the 
AsusV7 motherboard and Matrox G400 graphics card would share information to 
devise the best configuration for that hardware.)


Once a user-base is established from existing Debian users, new users could 
download this small P2P application. Upon running it for the first time, it 
would set about making a partition used expressly for Debian, and start 
downloading the Debian operating system. Once the basics were in place, 
hardware self-diagnostics would begin, and searches across the P2P network 
would reveal other users with similar hardware setups. Then, actual 
configuration would take place automatically. This new user would recieve 
'advice' (from other users with identical or similar hardware) about which 
drivers to download and where to place them. Properly planned, such an 
application might well automate the installation and maintainence process!


True, while many pieces of hardware may, as of yet, be unsupported by 
Debian, such a system would be able to report precisely *which* pieces of 
unsupported hardware were the *most* common amongst it's users, thus 
providing vital feedback to the Debian developer community about what 
drivers need to be developed in order to continue the impetus that is 
Debian.


Security Note: Of course, there will always be anti-social types who would 
seek to sabotage such a system by developing a rogue version of the P2P 
application which provides bogus information. This must be circumvented by 
requiring a *majority* agreement for configuration advice by the P2P 
network. It seems implausible that such a rogue version could outnumber the 
authentic article.


I envision Debian becoming an OS that is not only powerful, but also 
painless and simple, becoming much more than a mere thorn in the paw of the 
lion that is Windows. I feel very strongly about the free software movement, 
which is why I'm discussing this here first, not that I'm certain this an 
original, (or even feasible)idea. I'd like to hear any feedback you might 
have, be it positive or negative.


Is this:
(a) A bad idea that will never work.
(b) A good idea that probably won't work.
(c) A great idea! Let's get to work!

One last thing: I'm open to suggestions for naming such a P2P client. 
Something which expresses community support and freedom from technical 
issues...


Thanks for listening, and my apologies for being so verbose.

Jack Pryne




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Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

[Frans Schreuder]

Thanx; I edited raidtab according to yours.
cfdisked again to make the partitions logical.
Did not work. I shrunken them to 5Gb; that didn't do anything eiter.
Regards
Frans Schreuder.

- Original Message - 
From: "Thomas Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Frans Schreuder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

Fw: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

[Frans Schreuder]

> Thanx; I edited raidtab according to yours.
> cfdisked again to make the partitions logical.
> Did not work. I shrunken them to 5Gb; that didn't do anything eiter.
> Regards
> Frans Schreuder.
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Thomas Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Frans Schreuder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:14 AM
> Subject: Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?
> 
> 
> 
> 

Fw: Compaq Proliant?? Does not see SCSI-disks

[Frans Schreuder]

> Still doesn't
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "A. Wrasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Compaq Proliant?? Does not see SCSI-disks
> 
> 
> 
>>On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:38:46AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
>> Hai.
>> 
>> I've been trying to get Raid working...
>> Now I've made a not that good decision in buying a CompraQ proliant 1000.
>> 
>> At first it was a hell to get the machine past the bios errors.
>> Now I can get in the installation menu using rescue and root disks.
>> But no disks are beeing recognized. Do I need some special bootdisks?
>> It has a 1.05Gb disk on the onboard scsi-controller (together with a cdrom;
>> doesn't see that one either)
>> 
>> I installed Dos 6.0 on it (like it was a regular desktop).
>> Now I don't have a clue on how to move on.
>> 
>> Any hints and tips are welcome.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Frans Schreuder

>For the RAID try the COMPACT boot disk set. It will find the RAID array then.

Nope! it did not. Anything else I can try?
(I would like to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys.but having missed the 
"dos-age", I'm a danger to myself and my pc's).

Re: man

[Nathan E Norman]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:07:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 
> > > I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait
> > > even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening?
> > 
> > If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the
> > 1st man command happens...
> 
> Yes, but it occurs every time i run man... :(

Is man suid mandb?  If not it won't cache cat pages.

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Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote:
> One last thing: I'm open to suggestions for naming such a P2P client. 
> Something which expresses community support and freedom from technical 
> issues...

Since you're asking:

  Debian/GNU Bob

"Now you can put the stark fist of removal at work for YOU!"

Cheers,


Joost

Re: Hardware

[Marcus]

On 22.06.01 at 16:16 Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote:
>   Thank you very much for the hint, but it`s not what I want. I
>would like to read something how " Hardware is the phisical part of
the
>computer... BUS is the ... ISA is the x type of BUS... Chipset is a
>whole of chips on the mothermoard that does the ...".

O'Reilly has a hardware/"build your own PC" book. I don't know it, but
it's probably worth a look.

Does anybody know the book?

Marcus

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

[Bart Szyszka]

I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe 
system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my 
monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea why 
it keeps resetting? It never does that when I go back to Windows. Windows 
always sticks to the proper settings. 



Windows could be resetting your monitor.
(I've noticed that re-installing Windows 98 makes my monitor forget all
my Linux video mode settings.  As usual, Microsoft tries to take over
everything.)



Is there a way to stop this from happening? Maybe by adding something in

Linux to make it remember the settings after a Windows reset?


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Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[nico de haer]

This is horrible!!!
try this new slogan:

"Debian Install: Windows 9x required. Please contact Micrsoft and PAY 
to get your free software running"

NO WAY !!

- Original Message -
From: Jack Pryne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)


> Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had
> intended this system to be installed on a system already running some kind
> of OS. One of the major benefits of this system is that a windows user
> could, theoretically, download the P2P app, run it, and sit back while it
> tappe dinto the community and installed Debian on a new partition,
> configured it, and was soon all ready to go. Obviously this idea would be
> much less feasible for a brand new computer system. But think about it:
> one-button conversion from Windows to Debian!
>
> Jack Pryne
>
> >The idea is nice but it will be almost impossible to implement cuz you
need
> >to configure the system *before* you can connect to your p2p network so
you
> >need a working kernel, working modem/nic. next u need working internet
thus
> >working ppp and so on. youre more than half way home already. it will not
> >pay off.
> >
> >but keep thinking...
> >
> >yours,
> >Nico de Haer
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Re: telnet client

[Phil Brutsche]

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> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with:
>
> 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10)
> 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus)
> 3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice)
>
> Does anyone have a good idea? (prefferably in the form of an URL..)

Not many Windows email clients support SSL... but there are a number of
SSH clients.

SecureCRT (http://www.vandyke.com) is *very* good, but isn't free.
There's also PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/),
is also good, but I'm not sure about the function key support.

Some people like TerraTerm.

There's a large list of freeware/shareware telnet clients at
http://binary.tucows.com/term95.html (TerraTerm is listed there as well).

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Re: Hardware

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:51:34PM +0200, Marcus wrote:
> On 22.06.01 at 16:16 Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote:
> > Thank you very much for the hint, but it`s not what I want. I
> >would like to read something how " Hardware is the phisical part of
> the
> >computer... BUS is the ... ISA is the x type of BUS... Chipset is a
> >whole of chips on the mothermoard that does the ...".

If you want to know what a computer looks like below the belt, I would
recommend:

  tanenbaum:  structured computer origanization
  4th edition, prentice hall
  
> O'Reilly has a hardware/"build your own PC" book. I don't know it, but
> it's probably worth a look.

If there are any pictures in, ora books are always worth a look. I wonder
what engravings they chose for this one.

BTW, if you just want to build a pc, you don't need to know a lot about
hardware.  It's mostly a matter of plugging a into b and it is really
difficult to plug in anything the wrong way round.  The hard part is
getting the software working, starting from the firmware (the bios)
and ending with the applications (gnome-hello-orb). 

Cheers,


Joost

Re: telnet client

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: nico de haer writes:

> Hi All,
> I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with:

> 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10)
> 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus)
> 3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice)

> Does anyone have a good idea? (prefferably in the form of an URL..)


I think putty does what you want.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

J.


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Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[Jack Pryne]

Do you mean pre-install Debian? That would be great! But it's still a ways 
off. Besides, we still need to convert the helpless masses of existing 
Win-doze users who are afraid to even *try* to install a new OS, even if it 
is more powerful and free.


Jack


From: "G.LeeJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jack Pryne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 06:57:03 -0700

Jack Pryne wrote:

> Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had
> intended this system to be installed on a system already running some 
kind

> of OS. One of the major benefits of this system is that a windows user
> could, theoretically, download the P2P app, run it, and sit back while 
it

> tappe dinto the community and installed Debian on a new partition,
> configured it, and was soon all ready to go. Obviously this idea would 
be

> much less feasible for a brand new computer system. But think about it:
> one-button conversion from Windows to Debian!
>

not if you got some vendors to pre-install :) 

lee
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Re: Monitor not remembering settings

[nico de haer]

Bart,

This was also one of my problems and i solved it (or i worked arround it) I
run Windows and XWindow in different resolutions. My monitor can 'remember'
14 different settings at the same time.

May-B this works for you 2. If all fails, remove Windows ;P

Yours,
Nico de Haer

- Original Message -
From: Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Monitor not remembering settings


> >>I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a
WindowsMe
> >>system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to
readjust my
> >>monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea
why
> >>it keeps resetting? It never does that when I go back to Windows.
Windows
> >>always sticks to the proper settings.
>
> > Windows could be resetting your monitor.
> > (I've noticed that re-installing Windows 98 makes my monitor forget all
> > my Linux video mode settings.  As usual, Microsoft tries to take over
> > everything.)
>
>
> Is there a way to stop this from happening? Maybe by adding something in
>
> Linux to make it remember the settings after a Windows reset?
>
>
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Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[Jack Pryne]

No, Windows was just an example of an OS that people might want to migrate 
*away* from. There's no reason why someone running Linux, indeed Debian, 
could not run the same application. Even existing users of Debian could 
benefit from this by getting support from the community. More vital is the 
contribution existing users would make by offering their smoothly running 
system information as a reference in guiding new users to stability and 
functionality under Debian!


Believe me, I'd never require anybody to be using MS products. ;)

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Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

[Michael Schmidt]

This can be done using mount. I am not sure how secure this is. It doesn't 
seem very secure since the username and password are listed, maybe there is a 
better way.

mount -t smbfs -o 
username=REMOTE_USERNAME,password=REMOTE_PASSWORD,uid=LOCAL_USERNAME,gid=LOCAL_GROUP,
 
workgroup=WINDOWS_WORKGROUP //REMOTE_COMPUTER_NAME/SHARE /mnt/d

On Sunday 24 June 2001 23:02, Sebastiaan wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Juan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can I mount a remote Windows drive? How?
> > For example I have a machine running Windows IP number 192.168.66.2. Can
> > I mount Windows drive D: via LAN?
>
> Hello,
>
> I have read that it is possible. Try SAMBA.
>
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan

dosemu

[Jeroen Valcke]

Hello again,

I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking)
So I installed the dosemu package.
Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an
executable 'dosemu'. I should be installed. I followed the notes from
'Running Linux' after running the setup, they say:
Now you are ready to start your Dosemu with:
dosemu -C
But euuh no dosemu for me.

Regards
-Jeroen-

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Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

[Jimmy Richards]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:17:11PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply,
> so apologies if this is a little disjointed.
> Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor
> change to just add a 'su fetchmail -c ' instead
> of starting fetchmail as root outright? Does this return to a normal root
> shell for the rest of the network script? AFAIK starting fetchmail is the
> last thing I do in my pcmcia script, so it would not hurt either way, but
> I'm just curious.
> I *really* want fetchmail to run only when the pcmcia is plugged in,
> otherwise it will overrun my syslog with whining about not finding
> mailservers, and I have logcheck running, so those whines will clog up my
> inbox (Thank $DEITY for filters).

Well, I don't think adding the 'su' command you mention would
change the shell's enviroment. I believe the shell would still be a 
normal root shell for the remainder of it's activities. There's 
probably a way to make certain fetchmail is started only when the 
pcmcia is plugged in with a little bash or perl scripting I imagine,
but I don't use a laptop myself.
As an aside, you should only make your reply's to the debian-user
mailing list, not to a person's private e-mail address and the mailing
list.

Good Luck,

Jimmy Richards

> Mart
> 
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Re: telnet client

[Sebastiaan]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with:
> 
> 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10)
> 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus)
> 3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice)
> 
Go putty. Lots of options.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[Jack Pryne]

Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had 
intended this system to be installed on a system already running some kind 
of OS. One of the major benefits of this system is that a windows user 
could, theoretically, download the P2P app, run it, and sit back while it 
tappe dinto the community and installed Debian on a new partition, 
configured it, and was soon all ready to go. Obviously this idea would be 
much less feasible for a brand new computer system. But think about it: 
one-button conversion from Windows to Debian!


Jack Pryne


The idea is nice but it will be almost impossible to implement cuz you need
to configure the system *before* you can connect to your p2p network so you
need a working kernel, working modem/nic. next u need working internet thus
working ppp and so on. youre more than half way home already. it will not
pay off.

but keep thinking...

yours,
Nico de Haer

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Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

[Jack Pryne]

Thanks for your feedback, Brad,

I'm glad you mention this. My theory is that this system could run 
self-diagnostics to determine, to whatever degree, what make/model of 
hardware it is working on. In cases where the exact model could not be 
determined, whatever info can be gleaned would comprise a new profile. For 
example, diagnostics reveal that the sound card is *not* a sound blaster, or 
a turtle beach. So it is called "soundcard X", and the system looks for 
other users in the community which have a soundcard that matches the test 
results of this card. If matches are found, the system transfers drivers and 
sound support files from the operational systems to the new user. If no 
matches are found, near matches arte found, and trials are tested to arrive 
at a workable solution. I know I'm getting a bit far-out here, but I feel 
sure that such a system has the potential to revolutionize computing.


Jack Pryne


From: "Brad Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jack Pryne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:12:33 -0500

Howdy,
One of the problems I see with this is that the average user, even yours
truly, doesn't know every piece of hardware on their computer. In fact, the
individual that buys the pre-packaged deal doesn't even typically know what
hardware comes with it, only what type of hardware. For instance, I know I
have a motherboard which supports 600 MHZ of processing speed with a PIII,
but that's about all I know about my motherboard. My monitor was more
difficult for me to configure, as I had to dig up the paperwork I'd luckily
saved for it, since it's a generic monitor. My NIC has been even more
difficult to configure, simply because I can't quite figure out what it is.
I think you see the point.

Great idea though. You should still go through with it, as it will still
help all who don't run into the problem I listed.

 - Brad

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Re: dosemu

[Alson van der Meulen]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:19:27PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking)
> So I installed the dosemu package.
> Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an
> executable 'dosemu'. I should be installed. I followed the notes from
> 'Running Linux' after running the setup, they say:
>   Now you are ready to start your Dosemu with:
>   dosemu -C
> But euuh no dosemu for me.
The command name is dos, not dosemu

dpkg -L dosemu might help ;)
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Re: dosemu

[Herbert Xu]

Jeroen Valcke  wrote:

> I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking)
> So I installed the dosemu package.
> Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an
> executable 'dosemu'. I should be installed. I followed the notes from
> 'Running Linux' after running the setup, they say:
>Now you are ready to start your Dosemu with:
>dosemu -C
> But euuh no dosemu for me.

The dosemu command is only available from version 1.0.2.  In previous
versions, the command is either dos or xdos.
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Re: login......

[G.LeeJ]

Joost Kooij wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:40:02AM -0700, root wrote:
>
>  [snip "root can login, but why can user not?"]
>
> Try:
>
>   rm /etc/nologin
>   man 1 login
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joost

whala and thanks much
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telnet client

[nico de haer]

Hi All,

I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with:

1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10)
2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus)
3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice)

Does anyone have a good idea? (prefferably in the form of an URL..)

Thanks!
Nico de Haer



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Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

[nico de haer]

Juan,

Share the drive under windows, and use samba (the smbmount part) to mount it
somewhere on your Linux system. One warning: un-mount the share *before* you
turn off your windows box or before it *crashes* Linux doesn't like mounts
to go without saying bye.
For syntax and stuff (i love this part 8]) R.T.F.M. of Samba.

Yours,
Nico de Haer

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From: Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:13 PM
Subject: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)


Hi,

Can I mount a remote Windows drive? How?
For example I have a machine running Windows IP number 192.168.66.2. Can I
mount Windows drive D: via LAN?

TIA,

Juan José Velázquez Garcia
Web Development
www.htmlspider.com.br


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Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

[Sebastiaan]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Juan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can I mount a remote Windows drive? How?
> For example I have a machine running Windows IP number 192.168.66.2. Can I 
> mount Windows drive D: via LAN?
> 
Hello,

I have read that it is possible. Try SAMBA.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan