WindowMaker .60 .deb for Slink yet?!?!
Subj? Please build a WM .60 deb for Slink, please! I'd compile it myself, but I'm stuck with this libwraster incompatibility problem. :^( -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How do I change from user to root when Linux by default asks for my "user" > password on startup? You enter "root" for user, and root's password. Or, once you're logged in as a regular user, type "su" and you'll be prompted for the root password. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: xfstt
Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? > > Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. Here's an example: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7101" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
exim configuration: "Return-path" and "Sender" headers
I have both of these headers "wrong", i.e. they contain [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my user name at my local machine in my home (unregistered, of course) domain. As a result, some Majordomo's and some smtp servers discard my messages (take them as spam?). I'm using Slink+exim that came with it. How can I rectify this problem? I know that "Sender" headers are not to blame (read they are not supposed to cause any harm), but in our imperfect world they do. And "Return-path" should be fixed too. TIA! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: exim configuration: "Return-path" and "Sender" headers
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AG> How can I rectify this problem? I know that "Sender" headers are > AG> not to blame (read they are not supposed to cause any harm), but > AG> in our imperfect world they do. And "Return-path" should be fixed > AG> too. > > At the end of /etc/exim.conf is an example of header rewriting that > fixes the from and sender header. Don't know about Return-path though. Is it the one that refers to /etc/email-addresses file? What should be the format of this file? -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
remove files sensibly
Hi all: How would I enter a command (or write a simple script) that would do: FOR EACH FILE *.elc IF THERE IS CORRESPONDING *.el, DELETE IT Are there any good online resources about writing similar scripts? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > so do you own a soundblaster? which sort of? > > No. I don't have the documentation in front of me (it's an office > machine and I'm at home now); it's something like "ESS-blahblah", but I > "think" it's supposed to be SB-compatible. It's standard fare in a > Gateway2000 E3000 Pentium-class box. I'm not sure I chose the correct > settings during the "make menuconfig" portion of all this, but I figured > I'd make my best guesses and learn from the experience. You need to know what kind of card it is. Is it plug-and-pray? ISA or PCI? If you have Win installed on that computer, it would be very easy to go into the card properties and just copy out all of the settings for the card, such as IRQ, DMA channels used, ports used... Then you can use it for make menuconfig. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?
Hi all: I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available downloads (neither free, nor "Plus"). Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I poked around and found this link, > http://proforma.real.com/mario/player/player.html Hmmm... It worked just the same as the main web-site for me. It says "This platform is only supported in RealPlayer 5.0" When I choose "G2", "Linux - ELF" or "Linux-RedHat", "Pentium-class CPU" "English" for download options. Is there a 'magic' combination or am I totally missing something? ;^) > > I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for > > Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available > > downloads (neither free, nor "Plus"). > > > > Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion? -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
A little confused with Netscape .deb's
Hi all: Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package? As far as I found out, versions >=4.5 can be found in unstable, right? Can there be any problem because Slink has glibc-2.0, and potato -- 2.1? Also, is there a browser-only 4.6? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Nic went bye bye
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone had their nic stop working when changing from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10 > kernel? I have an isa linksys card that I just use the ne2000 driver > with, only for some reason at boot up, it can not find my nic even though > the io port has not changed. To make it worse, I can't just insmod the > module (I compiled it as a module) because I get errors for some reason. > Anyone had this problem before? Just a shot in the dark -- you didn't forget to do "make modules" and "make modules_install", right? Check that you have the module in /lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: xroastcd fails to verify
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Vendor_info: 'MATSHITA' > Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 ' > Revision : '4.10' Cdrecord's website (as well as cdrdao's) states that it won't work with the drive if it has firmware <4.14, because it isn't compliant with SCSI standards or smth to that effect. You have 4.10. If I were you, I'd upgrade the firmware to start with. OTOH, I have the same CDR with 4.17, and it doesn't work under Linux. I'm quite desperate at this point -- have been trying for 3 months, and no luck -- cdrecord (and cdrdao) both crap out at the very beginning of the burning process, saying threre's some SCSI retryable error. Have to boot into Win every time I want to burn a CD. :( So, my advice for you is to first try 4.14, and only if it doesn't work, then try the 4.17. AFAIK 4.17 doesn't have any significant improvements. See http://homepages.tig.com.au/~cdysan/cw-7502/ Oh well, I won't whine any more -- this doesn't help *your* problem. At least your drive starts recording. I'm considering downgrading firmware to 4.14 just to try -- maybe it will work... [sigh] -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: xroastcd fails to verify
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >OTOH, I have the same CDR with 4.17, and it doesn't work under > >Linux. I'm quite desperate at this point -- have been trying for 3 > >months, and no luck -- cdrecord (and cdrdao) both crap out at the very > >beginning of the burning process, saying threre's some SCSI retryable > >error. Have to boot into Win every time I want to burn a CD. :( > > I use to have the same problem... Well, maybe there is hope for me after all. ;^) > Either upgrading to the latest 2.2.3 (I think) or the latest cdrecord > helped me. > (I use the cdrecord and xcdroast from slink). I have fetched and compiled latest cdrecord and cdrdao from respective sites. > >So, my advice for you is to first try 4.14, and only if it doesn't > >work, then try the 4.17. AFAIK 4.17 doesn't have any significant > >improvements. See http://homepages.tig.com.au/~cdysan/cw-7502/ > > Thanks. I will probably try 4.17 first - if I have the same problem > as you, at least I should find out sooner ;-). Can you please let me know if you drive will work with 4.17? Also, which kernel are you running on? > >I'm considering downgrading firmware to 4.14 just to try -- maybe it > >will work... [sigh] > > Do you have the latest cdrecord? I don't know what fixed the > same problem for me - it just ... vanished ;-) Yes, as I said... I guess I should hope for magic. :^| I try new kernes just as soon as they come out, and I do the same with the cdrdao and cdrecord -- all in hope that my CDR will all of a sudden start working. I have 2.2.10 now. I even tried patching the scsi includes with the code from Joerg Shilling's (SP?) site, the author of cdrecord. And it didn't help. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes: > I tried to install vmware over the weekend and it wanted to compile a > kernel module for my 2.2.10 kernel. It complained because my linux > kernel header version was still 2.2.9. I looked and sure enough, > /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm were both real directories with > real files. > > Aren't these typically supposed to be symlinks to /usr/src/linux/...? With Debian it's different. There is an oppinion that the symlinks may not work in some cases, ans so Debian installs the headers in real directories. If you use Debian's way of building and installing a new kernel, then probably it would do this for you. I come from Slackware and I am used to upgrading the kernel old-fashioned way. I installed the symlinks ever since I installed Debian, and have had no problems with this all through kernels 2.0.36 - 2.2.10. > Also, how did the headers there get up to 2.2.9? I haven't done > anything fancy to copy headers into those directories, and I've been > downloading kernel patches from www.linuxhq.com etc, not the Debian > packages. Does the normal kernel build usually install these? I wonder > why it didn't for 2.2.10? This seems strange. How did you upgrade your kernel to 2.2.9? -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: xroastcd fails to verify
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, reading audio tracks in xcdroast no longer seems to work, I get the > error "Unsupported CD-ROM" and "Unsupported device, try to force > a specific read mode in setup". You might want to get a version of xcdroast that uses cdparanoia for reading audio (cdparanoia totally rocks). > What SCSI card do you have? This is mine: Well, I suspect that the SCSI driver might be to blame. It's a Qlogic SCSI-2 PCI card. The card works fine with the drive under Win. So it seems like the problem must be with the driver. scsi0 : QLogic ISP1020 SCSI on PCI bus 00 device 68 irq 5 base 0xec00 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-20TSRev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502Rev: 4.17 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total. Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray It looks kinda funny though that it's recognized as 8x/8x writer, whereas it's a 4x/8x. I tried setting manually recording speed with cdrecord for 1x,2x,4x and none of the modes worked. > (scsi0) found at PCI 9/0 > (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions downloaded > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4 > > scsi : 1 host. > Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502Rev: 4.17 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > (I think I have seen from the Linux mailing lists that this > isn't very well supported, at least for Linux 2.1.x, I am not sure > what it status is like for 2.2.x). AFAIK, 2.2.x is 2.1.x debugged, right? -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Help identify motherboard (486)
Hi all: I've inherited a i486 DX4 from a friend, that's supposed to run at 100MHz. However the computer seems very slow. There's no documentation to the motherboard, and I'm afraid I'm running it with "Turbo" turned off, and I don't know which pins are responsible for "Turbo" (they are only marked numerically). Neither can I connect internal speaker. The motherboard has a Socket 3, ALI M1429 A1 chipset, American Megatrends AMIBIOS with inscription "486DX ISA BIOS", 7 ISA slots, 8 slots for 39-pin RAM. The only marking on the board itself is "PAT 48 AV - 1.10". It came with an IDE controller card with no identification on it; it supports up to 2 IDE devices + floppy, and has chips with markings "UMC UM82C865F" on it. It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too, because I've never had a 486 before... I intend to use it as a firewall. TIA! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Help identify motherboard (486)
Matthias Murra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate > >any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to > >know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too, > >because I've never had a 486 before... > > You might want to try this site > > http://ping4.ping.be/bios/ Thanks a lot, I determined the motherboard manufacturer -- TMC (Taiwan MYCOMP), and apparently the m/b model is PAT 48AV. Unfortunately, none of the 486 m/b's are listed on the company's website... > for finding information, and the c't-BIOS utility could also help you in > determining exactly what type of motherboard you have, so that you > can have a look at the manufacturer's web site, although there may not > be any BIOS updates, manuals etc. available for a motherboard this old. Well, at least I know what I'm looking for... Thanks again. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Help identify motherboard (486)
Revenant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know it's obvious, but I have to ask: Does the BIOS tell you on > bootup? It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen, it also prints: "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz by 4? > > Thanks a lot, I determined the motherboard manufacturer -- TMC (Taiwan > > MYCOMP), and apparently the m/b model is PAT 48AV. Unfortunately, none > > of the 486 m/b's are listed on the company's website... -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Help identify motherboard (486)
Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen, > > it also prints: > > > > "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the > > system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz > > by 4? > > no. DX4 means it is capable of tripling the clock speed. > According to my hazy memory: there is usually one set of jumpers on the > motherboard to determine clock speed (25, 33, 40, or 50 MHz) then there's > another set of jumpers that determines whether that speed is multiplied by > 1, 2, or 3. if you have a DX, you multiply by 1. if you have a DX2, you > multiply by 2, and if you hava a DX4, you multiply by 3. This makes sense. It's supposed to be 100Mhz, so 32 x 3 makes sense. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Can windows remember keyboard layout under X?
Hi all: I'm using locale and xkbd. I wonder if there is a setting somewhere to make each window "remember" its state of keyboard layout... So that if I switch to another language in Licq, it would stay that way, and when I turn back to emacs, the layout woud be the one that I used when I left it. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Routing table question
Hi all: I'm reading "TCP/IP Administration" by O'Reily, and have a question on the routing table on my Debian box. It's quite simple: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 209.226.71.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 209.226.71.10.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth1 I have 2 nics in my computer. eth0 is connected to another computer (local net), and has IP 192.168.1.2, and another one is connected to the internet with DHCP. My question is: why is the local network bound to default gateway? Shouldn't 192.168.1.0 be bound to 192.168.1.2? I suspect that I misunderstand something, since the computers are able to comunicate. Any input highly appreciated, -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work
"Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday. I've always (since it was > > > available) built my kernels using "make menuconfig", nowhere in the > > > network > > > device section could I find an option for RTL8139 and I spent a long time > > > looking! Hi, Fraser, I too noticed that the driver dissappeared from the kernel configuration since 2.2.x I think. However, the driver is still supplied with the kernel sources -- you just have to compile it separately. The driver is in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/rtl8139.c The compiling instructions are found in the very bottom of the source code, or you can use the instructions Nuno posted below. > Actually it's simple to get it to work. > There's no need to select any option on kernel (neither select 10/100 Mbit > ethernet option from kernel ...). > What I did was: > > 1. obtain the rtl8139.o doing (the following line it's on the last line from > source code) : > >gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c `[ -f > /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS` > > 2. insert rtl8139 as module on kernel > > insmod rtl8139.o > > 3. configure all IP's, netmasks, etc -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Routing table question
"David H. Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm reading "TCP/IP Administration" by O'Reily, and have a question on > > the routing table on my Debian box. It's quite simple: > > > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt > > Iface > > 209.226.71.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > > eth1 > > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > > eth0 > > 0.0.0.0 209.226.71.10.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 > > eth1 > > > > I have 2 nics in my computer. eth0 is connected to > > another computer (local net), and has IP 192.168.1.2, and another one > > is connected to the internet with DHCP. > > > > My question is: why is the local network bound to default gateway? > > Shouldn't 192.168.1.0 be bound to 192.168.1.2? > > The default is for addresses whose routes are not specified by the > routing table. Packets destined for any computer with an IP in the > 192.168.1.0 network will be sent out eth0. Everything else will go > out the (default) eth1. David, thanks for your reply. I still don't understand something. Doesn't the line: 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 mean "send everything addressed to IP's 192.168.1.* through default gateway"? But this way the kernel will be sending communications for 192.168.1.1 through 209.226.71.1. So I must be wrong in translating the line above... -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: Routing table question
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I still don't understand something. Doesn't the line: > > > > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > > eth0 > ^^^ > Don't let those 0s confuse you. That means there is not gateway defined > for that route. Also look in the fourth column. In your default gateway > route you see 'UG'. the 'G' means gateway. Above there is only 'U'. > Which means the route is up. Paul, thanks a lot for your reply. I got confused by the following phrase in the book: "The default route is the other reserved network number mentioned earlier: 0.0.0.0." > The line actually says send all packets destined for 192.168.1.x out on > eth0. Thanks again. p.s. I apologize if I sent you this message twice. Hit the wrong shortcut. ;^[ -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You have to enable experimental drivers when you run "make menu-config" > then the realtek driver will show up as an available driver in the > network section. Hi, John: Where do I enable experimental drivers? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where do I enable experimental drivers? > __ > I normally use "make xconfig" but its the same in "make menuconfig" or > "make config" its the very first item offered on the menu along with the > choice of CPU to compile to. A lot of folks do nor really READ what the > screen is saying and skip these as they use a drop down menu instead of > a check box. They are both VERY important. Good luck! Hmm... I notoriously read *every* option each time when I compile a new kernel. It's just that the option you are refering to seems to be ambigously frased (under "Code maturity level options" "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"). I never even thought it would do what it did. In any case, thanks a lot -- it did show the Realtek8139 driver in config. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
libvw -- what+where is it?
Hi all: I've tried to compile AbiWord yesterday. It failed saying smth about LIBVW. Any ideas what this library is? Tried searching for it on deja and ftp search, all hopeless. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
xemacs in color in rxvt
Hi all: I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it? Midnight commander uses color by itself... -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: xemacs in color in rxvt
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it? > > What is $TERM set to? rxvt > Try "export TERM=xterm-debian", and then run xemacs. This worked. Thanks... However, taking this thread a bit off-topic... I have a shell account at my university, and the OS there is Solaris. I often work remotely using xemacs. So, the question is: besides "xterm-debian", is there a more universal TERM type, that xemacs recognizes? TIA, -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: wmaker configuration
Dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am hoping to switch from afterstep to wmaker, but I want to be able > to switch workspaces by moving my mouse to the edge of the workspace. > I thought this would correlate to EdgeResistance, but it doesn't > appear to work: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/GNUstep/Defaults] grep Edge WindowMaker > EdgeResistance = 0; You cannot do that in WMaker. The reason is that in WM workspaces are separate desktops, rather than pieces of a large desktop. I haven't tried that, but I think that you can set a Workspace's size to more than your monitor resolution, and move around that workspace with a mouse. All that said, there are many ways to switch workspaces in WM: 1. Alt-1, Alt-2 etc. 2. Ctrl-Alt-Right, Crtl-Alt-Left 3. With a mouse by clicking on Clip's corners, if you prefer to use mouse. HTH, -- Arcady Genkin "It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it." (S. Kierkegaard)
upgrading pppd to 2.3.10 (kernel reports 2.3.7)
Hi all: I've compiled and installed pppd-2.3.10. Before that I had 2.3.5, that came with Slink, but I uninstalled it. Why do I see the following in my logs: Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: registered device ppp0 Oct 3 17:34:32 main pppd[554]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Oct 3 17:34:32 main pppd[554]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 3 17:34:32 main pppd[554]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp3 2.3.7 was never installed on my system. Any comments? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin "It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it." (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: upgrading pppd to 2.3.10 (kernel reports 2.3.7)
Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) > > Any comments? > > Please recompile UR kernel after updating the kernel ppp sources. > Do this by doing a 'make kernel' inside pppd-2.3.10 top level dir. > Read the pppd source docs too... Well, I didn't update the kernel ppp sources. The README.linux, that came with pppd-2.3.10 said that if using kernel above 2.2.7, it's unnecessary. Will this have any impact on pppd's or the kernel module's performance? Thanks again, -- Arcady Genkin "It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it." (S. Kierkegaard)
libglib and libgtk 1.2
Hi all: I have tried to upgrade to these libraries on Debian 2.1, but instead of upgrading 1.12 dselect installed both versions, and now 1.2 appear at the top of the dselect's window under --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs --- *** Opt libs libglib1.2 1.2.1-1 *** Opt libs libgtk1.21.2.1-1 *** Opt libs libglib1.1 1.1.3-2 1.1.3-2 The GLib library of C *** Opt libs libgtk1 1.0.6-2 1.0.6-2 The GIMP Toolkit set of *** Opt libs libgtk1.11.1.2-2 1.1.2-2 The GIMP Toolkit set w Note that I also have version 1 of libgtk installed somehow. Is something wrong or I simply can't upgrade to libraries from a newer version of Debian? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt? StarWriter can read it. Also, if you have an access to a windows machine, Word can convert it into postscript. :) For that, install any postscript printer driver on Windows, and print from any application to it, chosing "Print to File". This is a neat trick IMHO. Cheers, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: ftp.debian.org
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is ftp.debian.org down? is there a mailing list for the ftp admins? > I do a mirror of slink and potato i386. Yes, it seems so. I've been unable to connect since last night. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
SCSI modules won't autoload
Hi all: I have Deb2.1, 2.2.5 kernel with QlogicISP SCSI adapter support compiled as modules. I use with it Panasonic CDR (the only device on the adapter). I was hoping that whenever I mount a CD-Rom with $ mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/scsi neccessary modules would load automatically. However, mount complains that mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) After I do "$ modpobe qlogicisp", everything starts working. I only use that devices once in a while, so I want the modules to autoload/unload as I need them. I also want that CD-ROM to be user-mountable. I have the followint in my /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide /dev/scd0 /mnt/scsi iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide So when I type "$ mount /mnt/scsi" as a regular user *after* the modules have been manually loaded, it mounts OK. However, I have to become root for that. Thanks for any input, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Current kernel configuration?
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it > is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this? I'm not sure. Look for file /usr/src/linux/.config. I'm not sure if it gets installed by Debian installer. > Furthermore, do I really need to? I just want to add SoundBlaster support. > Instead of upgrading the kernel, could I not just get the source for the > current version of my kernel and make the appropriate module? Don't be afraid - compiling a kernel is really easy. Just read the FAQ. It gives you advantage of getting rid of the support for devices/services that you don't use. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Current kernel configuration?
Bruno Goncalves Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would also like to know if there´s some other possibility. I tried to > compile my kernel, but had some problems, so I´d like to add SB support > temporarily and try to solve the problem later. Well, you can technocally just compile the modules for the soundcard that you have. Modules' sources are in directory Drivers if I'm not mistaken. What kind of problems have you had with compiling the kernel? Maybe it's easier to solve those? :) -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Adding stuff to init
Hi all: I've got to admit that I'm a bit intimidated by the Debian's startup scripts. I read through update-rc.d's man page, but the format of skelton scares me - I don't understand it yet. I need to add 2 things to startup sequence: 1. "aumix -L" to be started as soon as the sound modules initialize. Nothing to be done for it at shutdown. 2. "fetchmail" to be started as soon as the network is configured (assume that I have a permanent IP). Needs to be stopped with "fetchmail -q" at shutdown. Can some kind soul tell me how to set this up? Both programs must be run as 'root'. Thanks for any input, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Question about recompiling kernel ...
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm currently compiling the 2.2 kernel for my slink system (it's > relatively stable, right?), and I used "make bzImage" to create it. The > README says to copy zImage to the current kernel image, but should I copy > bzImage instead? (I just want to be sure before I do it ... the > documentation's a little vague on it.) That's why you should usually do "make zImage". "make bzImage" is needed if the zImage turns out to be too big, or if you want to put the image onto a floppy. In other words, bzImage is compressed more than zImage. So, AFAIK you can use bzImage just the same way as zImage. Don't forget to update your /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the right name. If this is your first kernel compile then you probably have an image named vmlinuz in your lilo.conf. Change that for zImage. Then *IMPORTANT* don't forget to run lilo before you restart - or you won't be able to boot. (Sorry if I am saying obvious things here, but it's a common mistake). -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Question about recompiling kernel ...
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, you COULD solve all of this with kernel-packages, which makes > the prospective kernel into a .deb file for easy installation. The > zImage/bzImage problem is solved by kernel-package: IIRC it uses the > Debian standard bzImage by preference, but either way, it works so well > that there's no need other than curiosity to know which image you're > using. Or unless you want to know how your OS actully works. :) I find it easier to avoid packages as much as possible. This way if there will be a problem with one of your kernel compiles in the future, you might be able to figure it out, instead of just saying "this damn package doesn't install!" -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Help! Kernel woes.
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried recompiling a 2.2 kernel, and now I have two problems: > > 1) The new kernel isn't recognizing my network card. I used the "PCI > NE2000" option; it worked before on a 2.0.34 kernel I compiled on a > floppy. Might I be missing an important option? Which card is it? > 2) I still can't use sound. I have a SoundBlaster 16 PnP, and a look at > /dev/sndstat reveals that the driver is there, but it doesn't recognize > any audio devices. Did you compile it in kernel or as modules. I also have a SB16, and found that it was a bit unobvious how to configure it in menuconfig... Did you get to the step of specifying the DMA, IRQ etc.etc.? Which driver did you chose? You should have chosen "OSS sound modules" AND "100% Sound Blastaer compatibles", and only then would you have been revealed the possibility to enter I/O, IRQ etc. Cheers, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Help! Kernel woes.
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > It is a Dayna PCI card, for 10baseT networks. I used the PCI NE2000 option > with success when I installed it. It also worked when I attempted to > install a 2.0.34 kernel (which unfortunately did not accept my > SoundBlaster 16 - it's a PnP, so I wanted to go for the 2.2 kernel that > has the PnP support.) Hmm. I am runnig 2.2.5 with NE2K PCI and Rtl8139 nics w/o problems. You mention 2.0.34... Which version of Debian do you have? Could it be that you need to upgrade some of the stuff on your system in order to use 2.2.x? Have you checked against the compatibility table? > Did all of that, and it was set up with correct IRQ and all, but I still > couldn't use /dev/audio. It is, as mentioned, a PnP. Should I use the > mysterious "isapnptools" package? Don't know. I usually turn off pnp feature on any piece of hardware that I buy. Sorry, never used the isapnptools. I had problems with /dev/audio and /dev/dsp untill I changed their ownership to root.audio and added myself to audio group. Do you hear the card initialize at the system startup? Does it produce a popping noise? (mine does :)) Do you see any warning messages at startup saying that there's trouble with initializing the sound card? Here's what you should be getting: Apr 15 00:51:04 main kernel: Sound initialization started Apr 15 00:51:04 main kernel: at 0x220 irq 7 dma 1,5 Apr 15 00:51:04 main kernel: at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0 Apr 15 00:51:04 main kernel: Sound initialization complete -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
fetchmail and shutdown
Hi all: I've used default skelton to create /etc/init.d/fetchmail script. All I edited were the varialbe assignments at the top. I then executed update-rc.d fetchmail defaults 99 Two questions: 1. Running fetchmail only makes sense in networking mode. So, will it get started if ever I have to boot into a single-user runlevel? 2. What will happen at shutdown? If fetchmail is in the middle of getting mail, will it shutdown properly? It has -q option to turn it off, but I have nowhere to specify that in the script. Should I have? Thanks for any input, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Scanner - parallel port
Can this be used at all with Linux? It's an AcerScan 310P. It's on the same parallel port with printer. In Windows it could be used with any application as TWAIN compatible. And it used SCSI emulation. Thanks for any iput, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Cyrillic setup
Mailed and posted Hi all: Is the Cyrillic-HOWTO still relevant? It was written more than 2 years ago? For one, it says that using xkb is not recommended. Is it still so? Why? I've installed xruskb package, and added path to cyrillic fonts to XF86config. Now Xterm shows russian symbols w/o any extra settings. BTW, I left all the Xkb settings as they were in /etc/X11/Xmodmap, and so far no problems with that. My biggest concern is Xemacs. I'm dying to make it use cyrillics. Do I need to install Mule for that? Or can it be done by just changing default fonts somewhere? Thanks for any input, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: support for multiple network cards?
Carlo Robazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me if there is a standard way that Debian handles > multiple network cards with respect to configuration files, network > scripts, etc.? All I had to do is enter all appropriate configuration commands for the second card to /etc/init.d/network Assuming that the second card is configured from the kernel's point of view. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?
Hi all: It happened for the second time - an email bounced because I happen to have invalid domain name (i.e. my local domain name) in some header. Please advise where do dig. :( My local [EMAIL PROTECTED] address (intranet): [EMAIL PROTECTED] My real email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Here's the mailer's complaint: -- A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2301: host anguish.transas.com [193.125.200.2]: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10Xwkt-vy-00; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:45:15 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My subject Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Apr 1999 20:45:15 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > > > Hi all: > > It happened for the second time - an email bounced because I happen to > > have invalid domain name (i.e. my local domain name) in some > > header. > > > > Please advise where do dig. :( > > > > My local [EMAIL PROTECTED] address (intranet): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My real email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Thanks! > > > > Here's the mailer's complaint: -- > > > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The > > following address(es) failed: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2301: > > host anguish.transas.com [193.125.200.2]: > > 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist > > > > Here is your problem: > > corsica# nslookup main.wgaf.net Thanks. I kinda understood that. However, I don't have a permanent IP, forget the domain name. wgaf.net - made up domain name for my home LAN. But I still want to have this address for the internal mail (from system services and other users). I don't understand it - why doesn't that mailer look at my From: header to determine and check the validity of my email address? I do have a valid address specified there. Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > But many mail servers will not accept mail from "made up" domains because > spammers tend to "make up" domain names too! Oh boy... So what do you think I should do? Stuff sympatico.ca instead of my local domain name and genkin instead of my local user name in the exim configuration file? That would completely screw up the local mail system then, right? I run fetchmail as root, and it uses local delivery system to distribute the mail between the users. Or should I change my user name too to adjust to my internet email address? Sounds like overkill. Is there a smarter solution? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: file system vfat
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get that now, 'without' vfat. Although I don't have vfat compiled > into the kernel, I am mounting my Win drives with the 'vfat' type option > (apparently quite sucessfully), which is why I asked the question. You probably have vfat as a module. When you mount an MSDOS system, what does your lsmod say? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: file system vfat
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's the one: > $lsmod > vfat4 2 > > I didn't have vfat as a module in the kernel either, but I guess it > doesn't need to be. So you *do* have it as module. Kerneld autoloads it automatically whenever you need it to mount a vfat system. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?
Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the > problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I > believe you both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the domain that > is sent in the MAIL FROM: line. Note that it doesn't care about you being > inside the sympatico.ca domain. Well, I personally don't think that *that* is the problem. My outgoing mail bounces from the foreign servers, not sympatico's. Most of my mail goes through w/o a glitch, and only on *some* occasions it bounces from the recipent's server. I have read in gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup that I should properly configure my SMTP gateway to masquerade "envelope". The poster gave an url for configuring such thing, but the link is for configuring sendmail. http://www.moongroup.com/unix/quicktips.html#envelope I am really new to all this and "masquerading envelope" sounds like mumble-jumble to me. Is anyone doing it with exim? Is there an appropriate FAQ for that? Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Debian vs. RedHat
"Jae W. Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, dselect isn't perfect. It doesn't have the most intuitive UI but... An ode to dselect/apt: I clean installed Slink via ftp with dselect/apt. Just rigged the whole thing for download and went to bed. In the morning I only had to press Enter a couple of times. :) I installed Debian for the first time, and didn't find it difficult at all. I can't understand why someone would complain about Debian's installation. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Having trouble with fetchmail...
Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> In the tradition of a long line of questions that are inherently obvious to
> someone with the most basic of skills, I figured I'd send my message
> directly to the experts, thus forgoing my first rule of thumb (never post
> until you read all the doc). Unfortunately, I have found that with *NIX
> mail, the doc is rather extensive and sooner or later I have to sleep. =)
>
> OK, simple enough network configuration, I have a slakware linux (2.0.36)
> box doing masquerading for a small network of computers all on the same
> local subdomain (192.168.2.*). None of the computers matter but my
> Debian/Linux box (Slink from CD), where I would like to receive my mail. I
> do internal DNS to use the domain name of JJLNet. (I'm not sure how relavant
> it is, but my outside address is [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> The facts
> ===
> 1. I have exim running as my MTA. (through inetd)
> 2. I want local delivery to all clients on my linux machines. (That is, I
> don't use aliasing for root, so I want to be able to deliver to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], or my "regular login" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This is
> currently working correctly!)
> 3. I want to be able to pull down mail from my ISP into the spool for jjlupa
> (which, again, is my normal user login on my debian box).
> 4. Just to make sure it wasn't a group permission problem, I added jjlupa to
> the "mail" group.
>
> I will attach my relavant files at the end of this, but here is the behavior
> I am seeing.
> -- When I run fetchmail (as jjlupa) it just sort of hangs there. I didn't
> see any messages to the terminal, to /var/log/messages or to
> /var/log/syslog.
> -- When I run `fetchmail -c` it correctly tells me how many messages are
> available for me to download.
> -- All internal mail (between users on my debian box or between different
> boxes on my local net) works just fine.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. To get mail I have to boot to windows
> *blech* and run outlook express *double blech*. I have a feeling I'm just
> doing something silly in one of the config files down below.
>
> -Jonathan Lupa
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> /ETC/EXIM.CONF
> ===
> local_domains = jamdata.net:JJLNet
> local_domains_include_host = true
> local_domains_include_host_literals = true
> sender_host_reject_relay = *
> trusted_users = mail
> smtp_verify = true
> gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
> gecos_name = $1
> received_header_text = "Received: \
> ${if def:sender_fullhost {from ${sender_fullhost} \
> ${if def:sender_ident {(${sender_ident})}}\n\t}\
> {${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} \
> by ${primary_hostname} \
> ${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \
> (Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\
> id ${message_id}"
> end
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> mode_fail_narrower = false
> file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
> address_pipe:
> driver = pipe
> return_output
> address_file:
> driver = appendfile
> address_directory:
> driver = appendfile
> no_from_hack
> prefix = ""
> suffix = ""
> address_reply:
> driver = autoreply
> remote_smtp:
> driver = smtp
> end
>
> real_local:
> prefix = real-
> driver = localuser
> transport = local_delivery
> system_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> file = /etc/aliases
> search_type = lsearch
> userforward:
> driver = forwardfile
> no_verify
> check_ancestor
> file = .forward
> modemask = 002
> filter
> localuser:
> driver = localuser
> transport = local_delivery
> end
>
> smarthost:
> driver = domainlist
> transport = remote_smtp
> route_list = "* mail.jamdata.net bydns_a"
> end
>
> # RETRY CONFIGURATION #
> # Domain Error Retries
> # -- - ---
> * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h
> end
> ===
>
> ~JJLUPA/.FETCHMAILRC
> ===
> set postmaster "jjlupa"
> set daemon 500
> poll mail.jamdata.net with proto POP3
>user "jjlupa" there with password "Efil!Sucks" is jjlupa here options
> fetchall
> ===
--
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim? REVISITED
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > George Bonser writes: > Of course send the mail through the ISP's mail server. When did I say > otherwise? Ahem... That's it! I think I've been sending it directly. Haven't even though of that. Well I surely don't remember ever entering my smtp server's info at any stage. 8-] As far as I unserstand, smart host is what I want to configure, right? I.e. specify my ISP's smtp server as a smart host. I've just read through exim's man-page, sample exim.conf, and even exim FAQ, and found info on smart hosts nowhere. My exim version is the one that came with Slink, 2.05 i.e. Please, tell me where to dig for info on how to configure delivery through ISP's smtp. Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Dayly cron job
Hi all: I've set up a dayly cron job to run at 11 pm. It's supposed to gzip some files on the system. It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never gets done. Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in case that it never got to run because it was off? Thanks! p.s. Output of my crontab -l: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.a01994 installed on Fri Apr 16 16:31:27 1999) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) 1 23 * * * gzip -r9 ~/Mail/mail/*/[0-9]* -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: [off topic] new apt ?
Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have no > > idea if they still resemble the current apt. > > More or less. Isn't apt a command-line tool though? If not, how does one run it with a GUI? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Printer problems (me too)
Hi guys, Sorry to annoy you with another printer post, but I am having a problem here. HP DeskJet 697C connected on /dev/lp0 with Slink + 2.2.5. I can't even ouput a text file to it. If I do echo "blah" > /dev/lp0 It awakes, loads paper, cleans heads, and stops there. Doesn't even eject the paper until I turn it off/on. I have run magicfilterconfig, choosing "deskjet" and "dj550c" as filters, but I guess that the problem is somewhere else... Thanks a lot for any thought! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Linear option in lilo.conf
Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I add the linear option to lilo.conf? A seperate line? An option on > one of the other lines? > > Here's how my lilo.conf file looks as is: > boot=/dev/hda1 > root-/dev/hda1 > install=boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 Here. > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > > Where does that linear option go? AFAIK it goes before the list of images. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: The case of the missing 64 meg...
Dan Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux won't recognize memory above 64 megs by itself. You need to add > 'mem=128m' in your lilo.conf file. (or rather append = 'mem=128m'). Check > out the lilo.conf man page for better details, I can't remember the exact > syntax at the moment. Just want to add that another option would be to switch to a 2.2.x kernel - they automatically recongize memory >64. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Upgrading kernel of the same tree
I have been using every 2.2.x kernel as soon as they came out. To fascilitate configuration I saved configuration into an "alternative file" in my home directory from 'menuconfig'. Then, when I get source from the new kernel, I would simply load that file into menuconfig. Is this a safe thing to do for kernels of the same tree? If there are any new features in the configuration of the next kernel, how would such practice affect it? It's simply a drag going through all the options each time... :-/ -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
xkilled app takes 100% of CPU
Hi all: I've experienced the following phenomenon today: While reading news from Emacs, I clicked on an URL, which opened a Netscape window. I browsed for some time, and then Netscape hung because of some Java applet, I think. I couldn't close it the regular way, so I had to xkill it. A couple of minutes later I noticed that my CPU load indicator shows continuous 100% utilization. I ran top, and sure enough, Netscape was still there consuming resources like hell. I killed it, and it turned zombie, but another process continued what it was doing - it looked like a call to Netscape that was executed from Emacs, containing the actual URL. So this call was PID 362, and Netscape (zombie now) 363. No matter what signals I sent to 362 and 363, I couldn't change anything. I tried kill and killall. I had to reboot because I felt sorry for my poor overworked overclocked Celeron. :) So, what do you generally do with unkillable apps? I know there must be a way to do it w/o rebooting. For what it matters, I run Debian2.1 with 2.2.6, XFree3.3.2, WindowMaker... Netscape is 4.5 Thanks for any suggestions, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Is ssh 2 incompatible with ssh 1?
Hi all: I've installed ssh 2.10 and tried to connect to my school via ssh (I know that they run ssh protocol) and got the following: bash-2.01$ ssh cdf.utoronto.ca Disconnected; protocol version not supported. They are using vershio 1, AFAIK. Does this mean that v.2 is incompatible with it or do I have smth misconfigured? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Sound
Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem with sound. I can't play any sounds. I have tried using > rplay and nmaker, both the same results. The annoying thing is that I > can play CDs with no probs!!! I am a member of the group audio and > sounds are compiled into the kernel. You might be a member of group audio, but do /dev/audio and /dev/dsp belong to group audio? Here's what I have: bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/audio /dev/dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 15 18:38 /dev/audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 15 18:38 /dev/dsp But on the out-of-the-box Debian they used to belong to root.root. Chown them to root.audio. Hope this helps, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Windowmaker .53 and wdm (libwraster1)
Hi all: I've compiled and installed WindowMaker 0.53. I refused to work until I removed libwraster1, but wdm was using that one... So I had to switch to Login.app, which I don't like as much as I liked wdm. :( Is there any way to get wdm working with WM 0.53? I'm running Slink. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
ipaccounting
What is it? Do I need it on my system (desktop)? I've been getting emails from cron every six minutes and finally got sick of it: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -f /etc/ipac.conf && test -f /usr/sbin/fetchipac && /usr/sbin/fetchipac To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sent: 21 hours, 56 minutes, 47 seconds ago X-From-Line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 24 03:48:00 1999 Received: from root by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10axAO-EV-00; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 03:48:00 -0400 X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 2 Xref: main.wgaf.net mail.System:1833 /usr/sbin/fetchipac: Cant read "/var/run/ip-accounting-rules" - ipacset not run? === If I run ipacset, as the thing suggests, I get the following: main:~# ipacset /usr/sbin/ipacset: cant read "/proc/net/ip_acct" - exit Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
adding to PATH
Hi all: I'm having a problem adding to a system-wide PATH variable... I've added the following in /etc/profile: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/java/bin" However, "echo $PATH" produces: ./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin My ~/.bashrc and ~/bash_profile do not contain anything to do with PATH variable. SO where is the system-wide PATH specified? Also, how do I dynamically add to the PATH variable in bash? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Cdrdao problems
Mailed and posted Hi all: I have a SCSI Panasonic 7502b CDR-drive. I've been fighting the whole day to burn a copy of an audio CD, and am ready to give up. :( The drive happily extracts audio at x8 and writes at x4 under Windows. I'm using Slink and uninstalled all cdr tools, that came with it, and compiled myself the newest versions. cdrdao won't work with "read-cd" command. It says: # cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sg0 cd.toc /dev/sg0: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.17 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x) Reading toc and audio data... ERROR: Sorry, this driver does not support reading audio data from CD. But I am able to read the disk into a .wav with cdparanoia. I then did the following: read the cd into data.wav with cdparanoia. Then read TOC with cdrdao with command "read-toc". So far so good. Then I tried to simulate write. As you can guess, it didn't work. Also, after the attempt, my CDR's "BUSY" LED stayed lit, and I can't eject the blank CDR or do anything with the drive. Below are the error messages that cdrdao produced. Can you please advise what I can do to get this thing working? I have seen a report of the same drive working with cdrdao, so I guess I am doing smth wrong. (FWIW, the SCSI adapter is QlogicISP, and the kernel is 2.2.6, with SCSI support compiled as modules, including support for generic SCSI devices). # cdrdao simulate --device /dev/sg0 --speed 4 --datafile data.wav cd.toc /dev/sg0: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.17 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x) Starting write simulation at speed 4... Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort. Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\). Using POSIX real time scheduling. cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 0D 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 30.145s timeout 180s ERROR: Write data failed. cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.065s timeout 180s Warning: Flush cache failed - ignored. Your disk will be OK. ERROR: Simulation failed. cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 1E 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.061s timeout 180s ERROR: Cannot prevent/allow medium removal. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Cliff Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. > Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? Excellent books. Very boiled-down and serious books. If you don't want a 1500 page book, go fo O"Reilly. "Running Linux" is a good starting point. "Linux in a Nutshell" is an excelent reference, that includes most Linux commands, covers bash, emacs, vi, system administration and lots of other stuff. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Request: /etc/init.d/wdm
Hi all: Can somebody post that scipt for Slink, please? When I installed Login.app, I had to turn off wdm from running at the runlevel change, and foolishly deleted the sript and the symlinks to it. :( Also, should I add it to init sequences with "defaults"? And what priority number should I specify? Thanks a lot! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
wdm + WindowMaker 0.53 sorrow
Hi all: WM 0.53 refused to run with old libwraster1 package present on my system. wdm depended on it, so I had to uninstall wdm. I replaced it for Login.app. I don't like the Login.app because of its lack of functionality. I want wdm back. I tried installing libwraster2 package from Potato, but wdm package won't install (and the one from Potato won't install either, because it needs glibc2.1). I can't compile wdm myself either, it complains that WINGs and wraster libs are not found. Is there a way out? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Repost: Request /etc/init.d/wdm
Hi all! Please please please someone send me an /etc/init.d/wdm from Slink! Also, under which sequence code number does it start? Could you include output of "ls /etc/rc?.d/???wdm" Thanks a lot! -- Arcady Genkin
Re: ipaccounting
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's from the ipac package. You probably don't need it on your desktop, > so just remove it (dpkg --remove ipac). > The version in potato doesn't do this any more. It's upset that you don't > have IP accounting compiled in to your kernel, which is obviously needed > to do anything useful with the ipac package. Thanks. I've removed this package. The email warnings stopped, but I see in the xconsole now the following line appear every several minutes Apr 27 06:36:00 main /USR/SBIN/CRON[742]: (root) CMD ( test -f /etc/ipac.conf && test -f /usr/sbin/fetchipac && /usr/sbin/fetchipac) Where is it coming from? Cron? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: LILO boots automatically
"Fethi A. Okyar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody have a working lilo.conf with a few > extra options such as offering two+ kernels a > boot time, thanks. Sure. The parameter you are looking for is called "delay", and it indicates the time LILO willl wait for you to chose which kernel to load in deciceconds. So delay 200 will cause it to wait for 20 seconds. When it waits, just hit TAB key to see a list of available kernels or press SHIFT to enter the name of the kernel w/o looking at the list. Below is the copy of my /etc/lilo.conf As a return favor, could you please send me contents of your /etc/init.d/wdm file, if you have it? I don't know why my request, sent to the list yesterday is being ignored by fellow Debian users. :( = boot=/dev/hda4 root=/dev/hda4 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=200 image = /zImage label = linux read-only image = /vmlinuz label = old read-only image = /memtest label = memtest -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Somebody's scanning my ports or what?
Hi all: To continue my new Linux user paranoia, I have just noticed in xconsole that someone's been trying to connect to every port from port 2 thru 1024. It looks like this: Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: tcpmux connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: port 2 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: port 3 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: port 4 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] ... ... Apr 27 20:08:13 main tcplogd: port 1024 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] This one was the last. Bellglobal is my ISP provider, and I'm connected via ADSL modem. In between these messages sometimes there are the following (I guess that's when existing service was found): Apr 27 20:03:46 main in.telnetd[7141]: connect from cpu.adsl.bellglobal.com Apr 27 20:04:34 main in.ftpd[7145]: connect from cpu.adsl.bellglobal.com Is this within frames of acceptable. I feel like complaining, but don't want to look like an idiot. :) Any comments highly appreciated! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Somebody's scanning my ports or what? REVISITED
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've checked my logs and discovered that exactly the same thing happened exactly a week ago at the same hour. The same IP too. The regularity for me implies that it could be a routine my ISP is running weekly. Also, the IP is in my ISP's domain. Is that practice accepted anywhere else, or is it just my ISP's invention (assuming I'm correct to say that it *is* the ISP and not some CrAcKeR dUdE)? FWIW I've posted enire extracts from the logs of April 27 and April 20 at http://www3.sympatico.ca/genkin/daemon.log I've also complained to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for any input. > To continue my new Linux user paranoia, I have just noticed in > xconsole that someone's been trying to connect to every port from port > 2 thru 1024. It looks like this: > Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: tcpmux connection attempt from [EMAIL > PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] > Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: port 2 connection attempt from [EMAIL > PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] > Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: port 3 connection attempt from [EMAIL > PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] > Apr 27 20:03:09 main tcplogd: port 4 connection attempt from [EMAIL > PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] > ... > ... > Apr 27 20:08:13 main tcplogd: port 1024 connection attempt from [EMAIL > PROTECTED] [206.47.37.4] -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: network card problem
"Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > > > > i'm installing two new pcs at work, one with solaris x86 and one with debian > > so that i can show my employer how much nicer debian is. unfortunately > > there is one major problem: the hamm cd i have is not successfully detecting > > the ne2k (well, encore enl832tx, which has a realtek chipset according to > > the tech support guy) pci 10/100 ethernet card on the machine. i've read the Which Realtek chip? I have two PCI cards with Realtek chips. One of them is Realtek 8029, and that requires ne2k driver. The other one is Realtek 8139, and it has a different driver called rtl8139. Make sure you're using the right driver. If it is 10/100, then it must be the 8139 IMHO, because 8029 is 10-baseT. Sorry if I've pointed out the obvious. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the > > partition table. Could someone give an opinion on turning on "Antivirus" feature in the motherboard BIOS? I recall hearing once that it should be avoided, but I can't remember the arguments. FWIW, I have an ABIT BX6 MB. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: LILO - System.map conflict
"Fethi A. Okyar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm sorry for not being able to provide an in-depth answer, but I also compile kernels by hand, and also have several images referenced from lilo.conf. However, I _never_ worried about system maps. All I need to do is copy the new kernel image to where I want it to be, update lilo.conf accordingly, run lilo, and that's it. This has worked in 100% of cases, and I have compiled a decent number of custom kernels until I reached satisfaction. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Network newbie
Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, is there any walk-through written on how to configure my home > network? I've got two machines, with NE2000-compatible network cards. > I've recompiled my kernel to give me module support of them, but now I'm > stuck. Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can find the > instructions? > > (FWIW I've read the NET-3 HowTo, and find it sadly lacking.) I hate to sound patronizing, but that's how I set up my home network - that HOWTO alone. Do you have any particular questions? What do you not understand there? Maybe you should read again. Read the sections dealing with IP assignments, and commands "ifconfigure" and "route". That's mostly what it takes to get a network running. Once you are able to ping the other machine, you are also able to telnet and ftp to it. The rest depends on what you want to do with your network. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: sendmail/fetchmail
add|ct|on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail > from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors > logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages > it just sits there on the first one and does nothing. > to test my setup, i tried getting mail from a different pop3 account, > on another server (friend's account), and it supposedly fetched (did not > hang that time at all, completed without errors or incident), BUT, > stranger still, i have no idea WHERE it put the mail if it really did > fetch it. i ran fetchmail as root, and root had no mail. i was unable to > locate this supposedly fetched mail anywhere on my system. If you posted your /root/.fetchmailrc this could probably clear the things up. > another odd tidbit is this: sendmail runs on boot, of course, but if i > check with ps x a while later its mysteriously GONE. i restart it, and > check, and its there, but again check later and its gone AGAIN. someone > please tell me why it keeps disappearing on me and i'll be very > thankful. In my understanding sendmail is not a daemon. It gets called whenever mail needs to be sent, but I may be wrong. I am using exim instead of sendmail, and it doesn't seem to run residently. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Forcing password change for a user
Searched info on usermod and passswd and couldn't figure it out. How do I force a user to change password the next time he logs in? Thanks a lot! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again
add|ct|on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: > > poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password > mypasswd Since you are running it as root, it will attempt to delive the mail from your ISP to "root" user. This is a bad practice. My .fetchmailrc looks like this: set daemon 300 poll "pop1.sympatico.ca" uidl proto pop3 user "blah" pass "blah" is local_blah here nokeep mda "/usr/sbin/exim -d %s" Notice that line "is local_blah here"? Change local_blah for your local machine's user name. For other options read "man fetchmail", it's really well-written. If you have any questions after that, don't hesitate to post. :) -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Forcing password change for a user
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man shadow Thanks. I still have a question though. Example: testdummy:mbjdfWfNf6Eto:10710:0:0:7::: implies that the user's password expires after 0 days. But in practice this means that the user will have to change his password every day (time?) he logs in. This is not what I needed. I wanted to set a one-time password expiry scheme, that would allow me to force a user change password _the first time_ he logs in. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Forcing password change for a user
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you create a user, touch a file in their directory called .newuser > In the .bash_profile or .profile or .cshrc or whatever have the script > check for the existance of this file. If found, it execs the passwd > command and then delete the .newuser file. > This has the advantage of allowing you to touch .newuser (and change the > ownership so the user can delete it without complaint) at any time to > force a password change ... or at least STRONGLY suggest a password > change. Thanks for your reply. A little terminology query: by "touch" did you mean "create"? :) I created .newuser file in a testdummy user's home directory. Then I have added the following to ~/.bash_profile: if test -e ~/.newuser; then echo "Change of password forced" /usr/bin/passwd rm ~/.newuser fi (please bear with me, this is the first shell script I have ever written :-/). This seems to do what I wanted, but I see a complication - a user can abort changing password by pressing CNTRL-C (just tried it). How can I make *absolutely* sure that the password gets changed the first time a user logs on? I think I could make a loop in the script, exit condition of which would be successful termination of passwd, right? But then, does CNTRL-C terminate execution of the script or only of the current command in the script? Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Forcing password change for a user
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry to bug you again, but I am still looking for the password change solution... The .bash_profile solution works, but then if the user changes his default shell from bash to smth else, I won't be able to force password change anymore... Is there any file that gets called every time a user logs in? Irrespective of which shell he is using? I could put there a call for such a script, which would check for existance of .newuser file etc... Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FTP search for wine_0.0.990328 produced a screenful of results. Try it for yourself. ;^) > Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, > unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one > as a Debian package? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: LILO - System.map conflict
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have 4 different kernels, for Slink, in my lilo.conf, as well as 3 > for Slackware, 2 for hamm and 3 for Potato. Same system 2 harddrives. > I make a new kernel, copy the zImage/bzImage to /boot (on all 4 > distributions) as whatever the kernel is, ie slink2.2.3, potato2.2.5, > Slack2.2.6, etc. I have never copied/moved or otherwise done anything > with the system.map file. All distributions have the same lilo.conf > file, so that I can run lilo from any of them. > > I find the discussion about the system.map file interesting as I have > no problem with new kernels on any of the distributions. I wonder why? Exactly my thoughts, too. I have read kernel compilation and installation instructions, that came with the source, very carefully, but they say nothing about this file. I usually simply copy the image, run lilo, and that's it! Everything works. However, this is what I notieced today in the boot-up. I don't know how it has been escaping my attention all this time: Apr 29 15:02:55 main kernel: klogd 1.3-3#31, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Cannot find map file. Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Loaded 51 symbols from 4 modules. Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Linux version 2.2.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Apr 20 22:43:57 EDT 1999 Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Detected 451034956 Hz processor. ... See that "Cannot find map file" message? What does it mean and why does my system work reliably without this file? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Re: LILO - System.map conflict
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Cannot find map file. > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Loaded 51 symbols from 4 modules. > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Linux version 2.2.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > > version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Apr 20 22:43:57 EDT 1999 > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Detected 451034956 Hz processor. > I do see these messages in the /var/log/kern.log files. I have yet to > find a problem because of them. Thats what I am wondering about. I > have not lost any sleep over it, yet. I look forward to hearing more > discussion on this. Any Kernel mavens around? Here's how this changed after I copied the system map into the /boot directory Apr 30 08:43:45 main syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. Apr 30 08:43:45 main kernel: klogd 1.3-3#31, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Apr 30 08:43:46 main kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map Apr 30 08:43:46 main kernel: Loaded 5723 symbols from /boot/System.map. Apr 30 08:43:46 main kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.6. Apr 30 08:43:46 main kernel: Loaded 51 symbols from 4 modules. Apr 30 08:43:46 main kernel: Linux version 2.2.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Apr 20 22:43:57 EDT 1999 Apr 30 08:43:46 main kernel: Detected 451029794 Hz processor. So it looks like the kernel *does* need this file. What's the function and why did it work without it? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
Creating FatXX partition with fdisk
I was putting a new computer together today for a friend. I needed to partition a brand-new HD, and because I hate MSDOS's fdisk, I figured I'd use Linux's rescue disk with fdisk. Anyhow, I created the partitions alright, but can I create the file system on them? Can I format a fat32 partition from linux? I was stuck, and had to use DOS's format. :( Thanks for any recommendation! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
How harsh is switching Slink-Potato?
Hi all! I'm thinking of upgrading to Potato, because I want to use some of the newer stuff, (wine, for instance) that's compiled against glibc2.1. Should I expect some of my self-compiled programs not function correctly with glibc2.1? Just how exactly painful is it? TIA -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
dosfsck - "Root directory has zero size."
Hi all: I've tried today to check my fatXX partitions for errors. dosfsck worked fine on a FAT16 partition, but won't even start checking the FAT32, saying "Root directory has zero size." What does it mean? TIA! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
Re: dosfsck - "Root directory has zero size."
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I've tried today to check my fatXX partitions for errors. dosfsck > >worked fine on a FAT16 partition, but won't even start checking the > >FAT32, saying "Root directory has zero size." > >What does it mean? > > My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. It also doesn't refer to another program. In that case, are there other means of checking a fat32 partition? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
Re: dosfsck - "Root directory has zero size."
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. It also > >doesn't refer to another program. > > Which is either good or bad. The question is, do the docs give a date > when it was last updated? If it was updated before fat32 became > "commonplace" about a year or so ago, it definately doesn't support it. Well it says December 31 1997. Fat32 existed then AFAIK. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
Re: help me!!
Arjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have Debian 2.1 installed, now i'm trying to mount my cd-players (hdc and > hdd), and my zip-drive (hdb). but what i try, i cant mount them. I get the > message that i cant find hdd, hdc, hdb in /dev/mnt, or another file (sorry, > don't know the name any more. Does anybody know how i can mount them?? First, make subdirectories in /mnt to mount the drives in. For example : # mkdir /mnt/fat32 # mkdir /mnt/cdrom etc. then run # mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat32 # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom I don't know about zip-drive, but it shouldn't be awfully different. To automate the mounting at the boottime, add the following in your /etc/fstab /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat32 vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide This would mount your fat32 partition every time you boot into linux, and also allow you to mount your cdrom with a simple command # mount /mnt/cdrom and also you won't have to become root to mount your cdrom. > I also have trouble whit Dosemu. everytime i start it, it says i don't have > any dos partitions. i have a 8.4 GB harddisk from WD, devided in three > sepperate disks. On the first (2.1 Gb) i run win95, and on the second (3 Gb) > i have Debian installed. The third i use for saving downloaded files. The > first drive has a FAT-16 partitiontabel and the third a FAT-32. > How can i get on both disks!! (i have files on it that i want to use with > Debian) -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
anacron job for a user?
Hi all: I want to set up a job to daily compress my nnml directories in ~/Mail/; for that I need to run a command: find ~/Mail -type f -name "*[0-9]" -print | xargs gzip --best I can't use crontab, because the computer is not on constantly and I want to make sure the job is executed. As far as I understood from anacron and anacrontab man-pages, it is not ment to be run on a user-level, right? Is the only way to set up an anacron job is through editing /etc/anacrontab or adding script to /etc/cron.daily? TIA -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
Re: Email Sorting
Peter Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to arrange for my email to be sorted into different mail > folders. I'm using Gnus with Emacs, which has wonderful sorting capabilities. Plus to sorting by any field in the header, you can also autoexpire messages + view them as threads asif in the newsgroup. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
Re: unable to cd "/home/directory_name"
budi wibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when i boot into slink i must enter login name and password and then i got > this message "unable to cd /home/my_home_dir" > but if login ass root it doesn't happen and i can login normally Does that directory exist? -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
Re: Exim and fetchmail
Jake Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fetchmail's documentation has a special section on working wiht exim. It specifically mentions that you should add localhost to your exim's accepted domain names. Did you do that? Cheers! > I am having a problem getting exim and fetchmail to work.I just > installed Slink.I used option #2 in the > eximconfig menu. when I try to send a message with mutt it only goes to > /var/spool/mail/jak3b. > when I try to use fetchmail I get this message: 1 message for jak3b at -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYBE
