Blender menu problems
I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with the application 'blender'. On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no window decoration) and most importantly the menus are drawn (when selected) about quater of the screen down. I have not tried blender since using testing and the only thing I have added to testing is the new gnome2.2 debs from: ## Backport of Gnome2 for Woody deb http://mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ deb-src http://mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ Any clues?? John. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input
I have had this very same problem with Mozilla and have found two 'remedies', but no real answer 1) The anonying remedy: Minimise or shade the window that is not responding to text input and then unminimise / unshade that window. You should now be able to insert text. 2) The 'Okay so far' remedy: Upgrade Mozilla. I am now running testing + the Gnome 2.2 backport for woody (which includes Mozilla 1..2.1). I have been using this newer version of mozilla for about a week and have filled in many forms and typed in many URLs. If you want to upgrade to Gnome 2.2 (very worthwhile in my opinion) then check out Debian Planet ( http://www.debianplanet.com/ ) for the latest details of mirrors for these debs. Hope this helps a little. Johnny. I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start another to get it to accept typed input. Clicking on links still works normally. Does anyone have any ideas? I've thought that perhaps I'd remove a config file and let it reconfigure, but I don't see any obvious rc files - 'locate mozillarc' only gives /etc/mozilla/mozillarc, which has only one line. Nothing obvious pops out from my ~/.mozilla directory - there's a binary file in there called appreg, and two folders - /fonts, and /; the latter only has the rather mysteriously named folder /b3nzixf2.slt, which has lots of stuff relating to bookmarks, cookies, etc, but nothing seems to stand out as possibly corrupted. Nothing I've looked for in Google has turned up any clues, so I'm turning to the list... I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+, 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been bitten by the AMD-AGP issue, but this seems to be pretty much under control with the 2.4.20 kernel (it was a problem through 2.4.18). Please hold suggestions that I use a different browser; I know that (and I've used various), but I would like to get this Mozilla problem fixed because I like its many features (popups, cookie and login management, eg). Thanks for any ideas... __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907
Using dselect I searched for gimp and found this package that should meet your needs: gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Enjoy.. Johnny. Subject: GIF driver for Gimp ? From: dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:46:35 + To: Debian List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files related to GIF, and some legal stuff about not being able to compress images. Does anyone know which .deb to install to enable .GIF on Gimp, preferible in compress mode as well as de-compress. Dave __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907
You should look at the package: cron-apt This probably does everything you need, without doing any damage to you system by default I just use it to do an update and download (not install) any packages overnight). Once I read the changelogs in the morning, I then decide whether to let the install proceed... I have used cron-apt successfully before to automatically install packages, but this was on a pure 'stable' release of debian, about 4 months into the release. I did not have any third party sources, I used the automatic install solely for security updates, but things still could have gone wrong. I also stoped the automatic install well before the 'testing' release was to become the new stable. Johnny. Subject: Re: Auto apt-get upgrade From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:24:53 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +, Rus Foster wrote: I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble down the line? That's just begging for a cosmic ass-whooping, from my experiance when I tried it. Doing this is only for people who switched from Windows and really, really miss things randomly breaking for seemingly no reason. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dF8FJ5vLSqVpK2kRAljuAJ9Xgzqm/9REtdxrdIDG6TaoqEad5ACgwMUz VdXqjecsbrfVdw0NJaI9nUY= =5bCV -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3280
I am trying to mount a directory as nfs filesystem from other machine. I am getting RPC error on other machine and it says (Host linux box) is not responding. Though I can ping to the linux box from there and also I can telnet ot it. What is that I am missing. Any suggestion. Thanks These services are needed to be run on the server side: - NFS server - Portmap If you are using the 'testing' distribution and you havent updated for a few weeks, you might want to update your nfs server package. I had the same problems with nfs-kernel-server on 'testing' about 3-4 weeks ago, it just stopped working. I upgraded about a week ago and it started working again. John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada
i have a compaq armada with debian installed x runs fine, but i when i switch to a virtual terminal ctrl alt f1, ctrl alt f2, etc , i get colored stripes down the screen, its just a mess. is this anything to do with my X settings? surely not? is there any setting that changes how the virtual terminals are displayed? I have a compaq armada (M700) which works fine with virtual terminals. I installed debian from the Knoppix 3.3 cd onto the harddrive and everything seems to work with the default settings. The install uses the framebuffer for the virtual terminals, so perhaps you could check if you setup is using the framebuffer or vga/svga. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saving image from email in evolution
I am not able to save an image from an email, in this case my daily dilbert strip, when using evolution 1.2 as my email client. I can right click on the image and get a pop-up menu with a single menu item of save as.. but when I click this nothing happens. I cannont find any reported bugs against this on the evolution site, so I was wondering if I was the only person with this problem?? Cheers, Johnny. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot
If you have managed to set up all these servers, you could also try set up a CVS server. A CVS server can be used for managing versions of you files and is also a standard way to deploy web pages and code to a live web environment. AFAIK it is very secure assuming that you run the CVS server on a seperate machine other than the web server. Then you would allow the webserver (in the DMZ) to connect to the CVS server (on your local network), pulling any changes to the website that have been made. This is secure in the fact that you only have to run apache and ssh services on the webserver. The added bonus to using this system is that you get a version control system to help manage all the changes you make to you website. More information about CVS can be viewed at http://www.cvshome.org/ If you need more details, please let me know (I may knock up a mini-howto if there is enough interest on this subject...) Johnny. This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in /var/www. There's a firewall on it and it is set so that we can send and receive mail, access the mail list, bring up pages in a browser, ssh in as users, and ftp in as users. We set it up so that root cannot ftp or ssh in. A user can ftp in and work on pages in their own public_html, but those pages would appear in /~username. I want to be able to work on pages in /var/www, because those pages come up when the domain name is accessed via browser. /var/www is root.root Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, ssh and su to root and move them, to do this? I'm thinking maybe there is a way using groups. Or is there something wrong with my thinking about not allowing root ftp? Thanks. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java database application development
My goal is to use Debian linux as development platform for (classical – two tier) database (MySQL) applications. I thought that Java would be ideal for that purpose. Am I right? Is there better free tool (language) for development of such application that can run on both Linux and Windows? Are there any issues regarding Java's speed, printing or anything else that I should be aware of? All languages have pro's and con's. You should choose a language based on how comfortable you feel with it and how appropriate it is for the type of projects you are working on. IMHO you wont find anything 'significantly' better than java for cross-platform development where databases and networking (web & XML) are involved. (Unless you have a really old computer with less than 64MB RAM). I googled and ran through couple of books and sites to see how to start and now I'm facing problem: how to structure application? If it is a 'WebApplication' there is a good book from JavaSoft specifically covering this. Otherwise there are style guidelines and rules of thumb for specific aspects of Java which can guide you in the right direction. Ultimately though, it is for you the designer to made decisions on the design. I created a class named DataConn that reads connection parameters from XML file and than successfully connects to database. It's constructed as Singleton. I created object from that class on beginning of application. But now I don't know how to call that object (use created connection) from each new window (form) I open. My intention was to open connection to database at beginning of application and close it when application finishes. Is it good idea? I would recommend that you try and get an applicaton working first and not worry too much about creating a good design. Designing a good system is mainly down to experience (yours or other peoples that you reuse). Build something and then refactor it (change things) untill you are happy with the results. Then figure out what you learnt from it all. Next time you will get to a good design quicker... and so on. I appreciate any help or recommendation for site or book that will help me solve this problem! There are many sources of free information about developing database driven java applications. The main places I would recommend for you are: 1) JavaSoft: http://java.sun.com/ , look under the Tutorials section for JDBC tutorials and J2EE Blueprints. 2) Jakarta Apache: http://jakarta.apache.org/ , a whole range of java projects, look at Torque for Object-Relational mapping. 3) Hibernate: http://hibernate.bluemars.net/ , Relational persistence for Java You should probably have a look on amazon (or some other book emporium) for books on Java Design Patterns, there are several good ones out there. Other useful references: O'Reilly - OnJava: http://www.onjava.com/ JavaWorld: http://www.javaworld.com/ Netbeans (IDE): http://www.netbeans.org/ VSj JavaZone: http://www.vsj.co.uk/java/ The Server Side: http://www.theserverside.com/ Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird
OK, I've found what's happens. The mozilla-firebird launch mozilla if this one is running !!! François In my experience this is normal for debian packages of Netscape and Mozilla packages under debian. It can be useful, but it can also be a right pain. I would like to run Mozilla (for email) and Mozilla firebird (web browsing), but I cant and I did not recieve any solutions last time I posted this question. I am unsure if it is a debian thing or a Mozilla thing. Unless someone knows otherwise you have to use one or the other... or you could run two X servers, but that seems to defeat the object for me Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody
I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody might be interested. Regards Holger Are you going to provide us with any more details of what you did? Problems that you came accross and solved? It would be appreciated. Thanks Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin recommended packages
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:05 pm, Antonio Rodr wrote: What are the recommended packages for proper recognition and functioning of a WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin hard disk? Planning to install woody in it. Disks are more of a bios or kernel issue, most kernels by default are setup to handle atapi drives. That said I like to have hwtools & hdparm installed on IDE systems. The only things that will stop Linux from recognising your hard drive in full are: 1) The Bios 2) The IDE controller 3) Using older software versions You should be able to flash your bios if it does not support large drives, check the website for your motherboard. While you are there, check that your IDE controllers will support large drives. If your computer is over a year old, you may find that you can upgrade your bios, but cannot do anything about your IDE controller. In that case, upgrade your bios and use a seperate controller card that does support large drives. So long as you use a recent kernel (I suggest 2.4.20) then you should not have any problems seeing the full disk once the hardware is sorted out. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? You will probably have problems getting X to work if you just use woody, try Sarge (testing) which has a newer version of Xfree and a recent stable kernel 2.4.20 or higher. My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with Windows 2000. I need the Windows system, at least for now, for work purposes. I also may want to store images in a shareable location and I presently have 5Gigs of digital pictures on this Win 2K machine. Partitioning is always difficult to get right first time, one simple rule is to separate the OS and apps from your data (pictures, music, documents, etc). This can be done using a separate /home, this will allow you to change partitions for your OS without affecting your own data. So in your case a basic partitioning scheme would be: 10G win2k (fat32 is required if you ever want to safely write to this partition from Linux) 10G fat32 768M Swap 10G Linux (mounted as / ) ~10G Linux (mounted as /home ) Unless you start installing all of debian and external programs you shouldn't run out of room on /, you are more likely to fill up /home, at which point you can buy a second hard drive and create a big partition called /opt/archive and move your own data over to that, creating symbolic links where necessary. For the rest, however, I am uncertain. The machine has 256M DDR and I have 512M more coming so I plan to make a 768M swap partition. Beyond that, the web pages I have found discuss mostly minimums for / /usr /tmp and /home. I also read that more than 6Gig can create problems for ext2 partitions. So at this point, I'm between those minimums and 6Gig. :) For you web pages, you could place them in /var/www (default for apache) or place them in a folder called public_html in the root of your user directory (accessed by http://localhost/~username/ ) Hope this helps Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
I've had ext2 running on massive partitions in the region of 60GB upwards. Only thing with ext2 is that if the system doesn't shutdown correctly it will scan the drives for errors on the re-boot which can take AGES with larger partitions. You can easily (and in my own experience safely) convert ext2 filesystem into an ext3 system with journaling. I have done this on a system with 3 hard drives that are all 100GB+ and it saves an emense amount of time in the rare occasion I have had a crash (dodgy USB equipment!!). The procedure I use is as follows (example is for the first partition on the second hard drive of IDE channel 1): 1) Unmount the partition you are going to convert umount /dev/hdb1 2) Use tune2fs to add a journaling tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 3) Turn of the automatic counting and checking for fsck tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hdb1 4) Edit /etc/fstab file to reflect the changes (use ext3 or auto for the fs type) /dev/hdb1/opt/archive ext3defaults02 5) Remount the partition mount /dev/hdb1 This procedure was discussed on debianplanet, but that is not available at present. I am sure there is a howto if you need more information. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fdisk cannot detect my harddisk
Sir , I use 20 GB seagate harddisk. Before installing the windows'98 , I enter into BIOS setup and gave "YES" for Boot sector virus enabled.When I install the OS , it says "Boot sector virus Found, do you overwrite ? , I answered "Yes" for this. After then the computer hanged . When I use Fdisk , It says there is no Fixed Disk. But when I setup the Windows XP by using another disk [one is primary master & other is primary slave ] , XP detect the disk and show the harddisk size.but it cannot setup on that disk. Try switching the off the Bios boot sector virus check. Generally these bios virus checks cause more problems than they allegedly solve. If they see something they dont understand, they tend to call it a virus (and they usually dont understand very much!!!). If you still have no success, try using your Debian CD as a rescue disk, or grab Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/ )if things have gone seriously wrong with your hard drive, you still may be able to rescue your data. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sid CD fails as apt source
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list file is to use the command: apt-cdrom add You should run this command as root. This will prompt you to put in a cdrom, do not mount the cdrom yourself as the apt-cdrom does all this for you. You should end up with a sources.list entry that starts with: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux . You may find that some or all of the existing entries are commented out by apt-cdrom. If you are concerned, you should make a backup copy of sources.list. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /home partition
The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there shows that there is a separate partition for /home. If there is no entry in /etc/fstab for a partition is will not be mounted (unless you use a manual mount command with all the necessary options). The command df will tell you what partitions you have mounted. Is it necessary to edit /etc/fstab and manually enter a line for hda2 to show that it is the /home directory? If so, what should this entry be? You should have an entry something like: /dev/hda2 /home ext2defaults0 2 You should check the partition format required (ext2, ext3, etc..) and might want to look at man mount or man fstab for some background info. If you are going to add this line, you should first backup your home directory. Alternatively you could select a different mount point such as: /dev/hda2 /opt/home ext2defaults 0 2 First you would need to create the directory /opt/home, then mount the partition and copy all the information from /home to /opt/home. Then move the home folder to a different name and create a symbolic link to replace it: ln -s /opt/home /home Be aware that you must do this all as root user, so be careful if you feel like deleting anything!! You may also want to consider running in single user mode, init 1. What's a possible reason why the /home partition didn't 'take' during the installation process? Is it always necessary to do some post-installation editing (/etc/fstab ??) after a partition is selected for a /directory? There is no reason that the home partition didn't take. Nothing is usually required post install... probably just an act of dog... Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #1796
You could try apt-listchanges package which will present you with a list of all updates to your system (not to sure about removed packages though). This can be viewed during the installation process and/or results mailed to a user. It might not be exactly what you want, but it should do some of it. Johnny. Subject: logging apt-get/dpkg activity From: John Habermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:06:05 +1000 To: Debian User Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi I am just wondering if anyone can tell me how I can set logging in apt-get or rather dpkg. I would like to keep track of what packages have been installed or removed but I can't seem to find any information on how to turn logging on in apt-get or dpkg. Is this possibe? I looked in syslog.conf but could see any mention of how this could be set up and there is nothing in the apt howto or the man pages of apt and dpkg and I couldn't find anything in google. Is there another easy way of doing this perhaps. Thanks for any help John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wheelmouse
Logitech wheelmice usually use a different protocol to PS/2. Try using MouseManPlusPS/2 as the protocol. Here is a snippet from my XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Please note that the above will only work if gpm (General Purpose Mouse) package is NOT installed. Johnny. Subject: Re: Wheelmouse From: Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:36:44 +0200 To: Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:48, sabato 21 giugno 2003, Piero ha scritto: I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" " 4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" EndSection Anything tu suggest? Thanks I had the same problem with the same mice. I've tryed a lot of configurations but problem goes away only when I've upgrade XFree to 4.3 version! - --==§==-- stefano (stefanoceci.it) openyourmindopenyoursource -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9q4WbWLalhiEs1QRArMoAJ0WTc6YU9DetvP6JF7xrCP2rZiMXgCffeYP UbW9ZVk8o05TnAFgzwjA0ME= =V5iD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing mouse
If you really get nowhere with your mouse, before you abandon debian you could try using Knoppix (a debian based distrobution) from http://www.knoppix.net/ especially if you are happy to download a CD image ~600MB. If not, you may as well ignore the rest of this email. You can run Knoppix completely from CD (i.e. it doesn't write anything to your hard drive) and it also has hardware detection so it should pick up most/all of your hardwar, particularly your mouse. If your mouse works under Knoppix it will work with Debian, just take a look at the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 when running Knoppix. Somewhere in there will be a 'Section InputDevice' line followed by some info about how your mouse is setup. For an example, here is a snippet from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Unless you have a logitec wheel mouse, you may have slightly different values for the Options, most noticably you need to know which protocol is being used. If you find several of these sections, look at the begining of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and it will tell you which one is actually being used. Hope this helps. Johnny. Subject: Re: installing mouse From: David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:46:32 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:27:17PM -0400, Leonard Stevens wrote: I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least at this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made the mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but without a mouse. I told it in setup that it was a bus ps/2 mouse but it could care less. I couldn't figure a way out so I reformatted the disk and started over. This time I made the mistake of installing the desktop and had the same result. I ounce more reformatted and am about to try a third time. How in gods name do I get it to install a mouse driver?? Thanks anyone who can help. Leonard Stevens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting Up ProFtp Server
Hello, I am trying to set up an ftp server to hold some non-free debian suff I dont have no cd. I am using proftpd and am able to ftp to the machine, but I cannot see any files or directories. I have read the docs for proftpd and only found info on how to hide directories (but they are already hidden without including these directives.) I have attached a copy of the proftpd.conf file incase I have missed something obvious... Anyone have any clues... John.# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to # 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server # and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group # "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon. ServerName "ProFTPD" ServerType standalone DeferWelcomeoff ShowSymlinkson DefaultServer on # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port21 # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files # from being group and world writable. Umask 022 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. Userftp Group nogroup # A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories. User ftp Group nogroup # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp" UserAlias anonymous ftp RequireValidShell off ## # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins MaxClients10 # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed # in each newly chdired directory. # DisplayLoginwelcome.msg # DisplayFirstChdir.message # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot # DenyAll # begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
not a plain file - apt install with dselect
Hello Debian Land, I am upgrading from Hamm and have come across a problem with using apt method of installing the new packages. I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? 264 packages upgraded, 65 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 754k/149M of archives. After unpacking 29.1M will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http [13.0k] Error ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: not a plain file - apt method with dselect
Looks like I have found the problem. It seems to have been the ftp site I was using. I eventually got through to another site and dont seem to have the same problems. Still strange though. I might try to just ftp the files by hand and see if there is a real problem -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: > > Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using > > the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions > > in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. > > > > I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt > > wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I > > can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a > > few of the files. See the error message below. > > > > Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? > > Any clues ?? > > This is what I sent to mcc.ac.uk back in August last year. > I got no reply. > > --8< > > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:26:13 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ftp.mcc.ac.uk oddities > > I've emailed this address because the file ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/.message > says that if I have problems, I should email %E [sic]. > > I use the ftp.mcc.ac.uk server to download from the > /pub/linux/distributions/Debian tree. Over recent weeks, I seem to > have problems with parts of the tree suddenly disappearing. My > client freezes up, and if I kill it and reconnect, chunks of the > tree are missing, but they usually return after a few minutes if > I keep re-listing the directory. Am I alone here? > > For example, just a few minutes ago, I could only see the READMEs > and /hamm in /pub/linux/distributions/Debian, but everything is > back now. > > --8< > > Cheers, > > -- > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 > Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA > Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify > official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
NeoMagic Card with Slink
Hello, Has anyone had any problems using Slink with a Neomagic video card. I am currently using Hamm with Precision Insights XFCom_NeoMaic Xserver. Now from what I have seen from slink is that a lot of changes happen when you upgrade to slink, especially with the fonts. My question is will the Precision Insights XFCom_NeoMaic Xserver still work if I upgrade to slink or am I going to have to find another solution. Any advise would be helpful.
Re: Screen Size in X
Before you start editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, try using the following key press combination: control Alt - control Alt + Pressing these three keys (Holding control and Alt then tapping either plus or minus) will change the resolution that your screen runs at. Using this method will allow you to quickly find out what resoultion your monitor and video card can run at, as well as letting you see which resolution works best on your eyes. You can run xterm (or what ever) to find out what resolution you like best, dragging the xterm to the bottom right of the screen should tell you the position of the cursor and therefore the screen size. Then edit your XF86Config file by placing the resolution you want to be first in the list. Warning: If your X server locks up or your monitor starts making funny noises (unlikely but possible) then you can use the key combination of control Alt Backspace to kill X. John. Stephen Lavelle wrote: > > How do I adjust the size of myscreen in X. Its too tall (vertical) and when > I open some apps (Emacs, MAKE xCONFIG) i cannot see some parts of them. > I think its currentlt set to 640x480 . also how do i get the output of the > Xserver? > Regards > Stephen > Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. > ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ > 110 Heales Road, > Lara, Geelong, Australia > 3212 > Tel:++(03)52742232 > Fax:++(03)52742350 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential > and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not > disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are > asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your > assistance is appreciated. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: strange messages at boot.
I have just had a similar problem with my laptop. It seems to have been caused by one of the following reasons: * Conficting Modules installed * Conflicting IRQ when trying to configure my sound card. I seem to have fixed these problems at the same time and now no longer get the messages as below. I never got this problem until I started to install my own kernel images, so it may be due to you doing something with the kernel If you have recompiled the kernel, make sure you removed any modules you initially installed (using modconf) if you are going to compile those modules into the kernel directly. Check your IRQs with windoze (if you are running dual boot), If you installed you hard drive on the second IDE then IRQ 15 will be used by the hard drive, but you shouldnt have anything else using this IRQ anyway. Hope this guides you in the right direction. John. Jim Lynch wrote: > > Any idea what is causing this? I put a new hard drive in and installed > hamm from scratch. I am booting a 2.0.34 kernel that used to work fine > on the old drive. I had to rdev the kernel to point to the new root > device. The system seems to be running fine, except that > /var/log/messages doesn't have anything much in it. Just a MARK every > once in a while. What happened to my boot messages that I used to see > in the syslog (messages) file? > > Thanks, > Jim. > > chinaberry:/var/log# dmesg > to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c28225da > current->tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 > *pde = 0009e067 > *pte = > Oops: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[<0010ab04>] > EFLAGS: 00010202 > eax: 0010 ebx: 019ba810 ecx: 028225da edx: ea60 > esi: edi: 01b7d000 ebp: 01b7cfbc esp: 01b7cf60 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 > Process insmod (pid: 36, process nr: 16, stackpage=01b7c000) > Stack: 002b 00022000 01b7cfbc 01b77018 0280 0300 > 0280 >01b70018 001114f6 001b471f 01b7cfbc 00111228 019b2f24 > 002b >01b55c98 0601 01d41e98 9602 0010a76c 01b7cfbc > 0100 > Call Trace: [<0280>] [<0300>] [<0280>] [<001114f6>] > [<00111228>] [<0010a76c>] [<02822548>] >[<028225da>] [<02822548>] > Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 54 24 10 52 68 > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c28225f1 > current->tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 > *pde = 0009e067 > *pte = > Oops: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[<028225f1>] > EFLAGS: 00010246 > eax: ebx: 0100 ecx: 02822548 edx: > esi: 019b2f24 edi: 002b ebp: 01b55c98 esp: 01b7fff8 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 > Process insmod (pid: 37, process nr: 17, stackpage=01b7f000) > Stack: 02822548 019ba810 > Call Trace: [<02822548>] > Code: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address > c28225f1 > current->tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 > *pde = 0009e067 > *pte = > Oops: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[<0010ab04>] > EFLAGS: 00010202 > eax: 0010 ebx: 019ba810 ecx: 028225f1 edx: ea60 > esi: edi: 01b8 ebp: 01b7ffbc esp: 01b7ff60 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 > Process insmod (pid: 37, process nr: 17, stackpage=01b7f000) > Stack: 002b 00022000 01b7ffbc 01b77810 0280 0300 > 0280 >01b70018 001114f6 001b471f 01b7ffbc 00111228 019b2f24 > 002b >01b55c98 f7aef200 01d41e98 000691bf 0010a76c 01b7ffbc > 0100 > Call Trace: [<0280>] [<0300>] [<0280>] [<001114f6>] > [<00111228>] [<0010a76c>] [<02822548>] >[<028225f1>] [<02822548>] > Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 54 24 10 52 68 > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c2822608 > current->tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 > *pde = 0009e067 > *pte = > Oops: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[<02822608>] > EFLAGS: 00010246 > eax: ebx: 0100 ecx: 02822548 edx: > esi: 019b2f24 edi: 002b ebp: 01b55c98 esp: 01b87ff8 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 > Process insmod (pid: 38, process nr: 18, stackpage=01b87000) > Stack: 02822548 019ba810 > Call Trace: [<02822548>] > Code: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address > c2822608 > current->tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 > *pde = 0009e067 > *pte = > Oops: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[<0010ab04>] > EFLAGS: 00010202 > eax: 0010 ebx: 019ba810 ecx: 02822608 edx: ea60 > esi: edi: 01b88000 ebp: 01b87fbc esp: 01b87f60 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 > Process insmod (pid: 38, process nr: 18, stackpage=01b87000) > Stack: 002b 00022000 01b87fbc 01b84018 0280 0300 > 0280 >01b80018 001114f6 001b471f 01b87fbc 00111228 019b2f24 > 002b >01b55c98 8b102444 01d4
Re: HP Web Jetadmin
I cheated to install the Jet Admin package. I created a symbolic link inside /etc called rc.d which linked to the above directory, which was etc. The install was then able to carry on with no problem. I think I was even able to remove the rc.d link when the install had finished. I have not actually tested it on our printer (still waiting for the network card to arrive) but it runs okay inside netscape (Hamm distribution + Netscape 4.5 downloaded and installed with the Netscape Installer package). John. Lawrence Walton wrote: > > I tried; I got it to run to a degree but the services/rc was more than a > small pain to fix. I gave up. > > *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 > *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 > *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ > -- > - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > Has anyone managed to get the HP Web Jetadmin for Redhat to work under > > Debian? I would appreciate any help you can give. > > > > > > -- > > Bruce Jackson > > Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!!! > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: keboaard prooblems :)
I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package (which used the keyboard leds to indicate events). This stoped my laptop keyboard working. If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the problem. John. "Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > > > Hi there Daniel, > > How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new > > keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I > > often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out. > > Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system. > > BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i > > tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem. > This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard > works fine there. I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need > to be tweaked? But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no > need. And I don't know where to look for such things. > > -Dano > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: ICQ for Linux
If you have slink installed then I suggest using GTKICQ which looks (more or less) identical to the mirabilis version for windoze Seems to work quite nicely for me to talk to people using mirabilis... bye John. Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the java version from Mirabilis or > > one > > of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also good ICQ > > clones for UNIX and Linux. > > Java version of ICQ is extremely buggy and extremely slow. Clones, on the > other hand, are much better. I use micq, it's as advanced as a text-based > clone with ncurses can go. > > Andrew > > --- > Andrei S. Ivanov > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UIN 12402354 > http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
[Slightly Off-Topic] Printing from Netscape - page address
Hello, Is there any way to get the Netscape Browser (in communicator 4.5) to include the address of the web page on the top corner of the printout. The same version of netscape but for M$ does this automatically, even when attached to a linux print server. Is there anything I can do to get this functionality. It is not that important (not worht using M$ for) but it would be nice. Thanks in advance. byeee John.
smb and 95
Hello,
I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I
am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able
to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer,
but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists.
Attached is my smb.conf file.;
; /etc/smb.conf
;
; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux
;
; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of
; every parameter.
;
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
; "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
; in this server for every user accessing the server.
; security = user
; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
workgroup = OA.NL
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my
; own tests.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT
; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems.
encrypt passwords = yes
; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server
; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter
; to "yes". Otherwise leave it as "no" and specify your WINS server
; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server).
; Read BROWSING.txt for more details.
wins support = no
; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment
; next line.
wins server = 172.16.1.10
; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according
; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented
; out.
; os level = 0
; domain master = no
; local master = no
; preferred master = no
; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
; to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
; Name mangling options
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix
; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
; /etc/smbpasswd file is changed.
unix password sync = false
; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
; parameters must be set (thanks to Culus for pointing this out):
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n
*Password\schanged.* .
; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &
; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this
; next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log
; files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000 KBytes.
; A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon
; reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this.
max log size = 1000
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
; parameter to "no" if you want to be able to write to them.
read only = no
; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0775
; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0775
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
path = /tmp
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 0700
; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
; writable = no
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; public = yes
;
; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
; an entry like this:
;
; /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
;
; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
;
; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
; is mounted on /cdrom
;
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
Re: smb and 95
To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just fine with two linux samba servers, but I have three win95 machines that refuse to connect, stating that the share name is incorrect. Anyone have any clues ?? The users now all have accounts on the linux server and I have used all three levels of access (server, user and share) but have not had any luck. I am assuming it is something obscure with the win95 machines, but in the system description they are all using the exact same version of win95 (4.00.950 B) which is the osr2 release I believe. I read through the samba docs and applied the plain password registration file on one of the non-working win95 boxes, but that did not help either. I have tried a number of different uses, but they all act in the same way. I really have no clue what is going on, and assume that it is something wacky with windoze, maybe to do with regional software, some is English(British) and some is English(International). But I am only guessing Last resort is to upgrade the machines to win98, which seems to work just fine on six machines that I have tried with the samba servers. Hope some one can help, John John Stevenson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I > am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able > to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer, > but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists. > > Attached is my smb.conf file. > > > ; > ; /etc/smb.conf > ; > ; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux > ; > ; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of > ; every parameter. > ; > > [global] >printing = bsd >printcap name = /etc/printcap >load printers = yes >guest account = nobody >invalid users = root > > ; "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account > ; in this server for every user accessing the server. > ; security = user > > ; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of >workgroup = OA.NL > >server string = %h server (Samba %v) > > ; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my > ; own tests. >socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 > > ; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT > ; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems. >encrypt passwords = yes > > ; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server > ; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter > ; to "yes". Otherwise leave it as "no" and specify your WINS server > ; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server). > ; Read BROWSING.txt for more details. >wins support = no > > ; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment > ; next line. >wins server = 172.16.1.10 > > ; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according > ; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented > ; out. > ; os level = 0 > ; domain master = no > ; local master = no > ; preferred master = no > > ; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names > ; to IP addresses >name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast > > ; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS. >dns proxy = no > > ; Name mangling options > >preserve case = yes >short preserve case = yes > > ; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix > ; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the > ; /etc/smbpasswd file is changed. >unix password sync = false > > ; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following > ; parameters must be set (thanks to Culus for pointing this out): >passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u >passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n > *Password\schanged.* . > > ; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package > ; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are > ; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba. > ; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' & > > ; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this > ; next parame
Re: smb and 95
To answer my own problem, it was a windoze config problem. We found a win98 doing the same thing and discovered that the subnet mask was incorrect on some of the client machines, doh. What a pain... John John Stevenson wrote: > > To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just > fine with two linux samba servers, but I have three win95 > machines that refuse to connect, stating that the share name is > incorrect. > > Anyone have any clues ??
Remote Unix printer - Permissions
Hello, I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble connecting to the printer from linux clients. I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers to the /etc/hosts.lpd file, but I have know idea what the structure of this file is supposed to be. I have tried this from debian and from the red hat printing tool, both configs are refused permission. So I assume that I need to enter details about which computers can print in the remote hosts /etc/hosts.lpd config file. Anyone have any examples of this file. Thanks in advance. John. Printing HOWTO snippet: To allow remote machines to print to your printer, you must list the machines in /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd. (Note that hosts.equiv has a host of other effects; be sure you know what you are doing if you list any machine there). You can allow only certain users on the other machines to print to your printer by usign the rs attribute; read the lpd man page for information on this.
Re: remote printing permissions [solved]
To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once I found out what I was doing). Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job requests: Find these following lines in the file: # reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Replace them with the following lines: # accept remote prints from arbitrary hosts ACCEPT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Most importantly of all you need to re-run the printer spooler. If you have lprng installed (instead of lpr) then you have to do the following: /etc/init.d/lprng restart You may also have to do: /etc/init.d/lpd restart and then everything should be working... It is not needed to edit /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv Hope this helps you all out. John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 14 Mar, Alec Smith wrote: > > You can use individual IP addresses -- Mine is > > > > 130.108.229.31 > > 130.108.229.32 > > > > You can also use something like 130.108.229 to indicate that an entire > > subnet has access. The general format is something similar, but not > > identical to hosts.allow/hosts.deny. > > > > Other than that, there really isn't all that much. > > > > Be sure and restart lpd after editing this file... In /etc/init.d do a > > ./lpd restart Without doing this, your changes will not take effect until > > the machine is rebooted.
Backing up a Linux Machine (and NT)
Hello, How do I back up our linux server (Debian slink) using a HP SureStore DAT8 tape drive. The Dat Drive is an external box attached to the linux server via an adapted scsi card. This is probably a simple questiong to answer, but I cant find the right info. Which packages should I use to backup the server, so that it can be left to automatically backup selected files overnight. It would be nice to also access a winNT machine to backup about 20Meg of files, from the same linux server. Any ideas how this could be done? I had thought about NFS, but was told by our windoze 'expert' that winNT did not have NFS by default !!! Any advice would be helpful, as I cant find any HOWTO's that talk about these issues. Thanks, John.
Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking & Sound Problems
Hello, I have to problems that I think may be related. 1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36. When I went to the /usr/src directory, I fount the tar file had not been extracted and therefore there was no linux symbolic link to the extracted tarball. This suggests that there is a bug in kernel_package somewhere, as this happened twice. I extracted the tarball and created the linux link to it (now this is where I may have missed some steps out in setting up all the neccessary links) I then when through the make menuconfig (loading a config file I had used for hamm to get the sound working as the defaults dont work for my laptop). I checked everything was still okay and when through the make-kpkg stuff, make modules, make modules_install. Everything works fine, or seems to from the boot messages, but this brings me onto problem two: 2) Sound does not work (even though it says so at boot up). >From looking round the filespace, none of the sound directories in /dev seem to exist, which explains why sound wont work. Is there anything I can do except try install the whole thing again?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John.begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..
I get the same problems with gnome. I have also got an even weirder problem that I dont even know how to report. I had been running Enlightenment 0.15 with some of the gnome apps from www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main Everything was working fine, although as below the gnome session took about 30 - 45 seconds to start up. But gmc worked very nicely along with the panel and a few other applets. Then I tried it out as root (dont know why) and all was working until it crashed swithching from X to the virtual terminal and back. I think this is a seperate bug due to the psaux mouse on my Dell Laptop (Pentium II 233, 80Mb, 64MB Swap). After this crash I am unable to run a gnome session as a normal user (i.e. anyone but root). I get an error complaining about permission denied for /tmp/orbit-username where username is the name of the user I ran X as. I have checked the permissions of /tmp and they seem to have changed group to sys, my other slink install (without gnome upgrades) is root group for /tmp. I also get a segmentation fault from when I try and run Eterm, which worked okay before the crash. Eterm works for root when running X though. I guess there must be something wrong with permission setting, but I definately didnt change anything myself. Should this be reported as a bug? If so, against which package?? SOLVED PROBLEM: I managed to change back the permissions on the /tmp directory and surprisingly enough things start to work agian, Nice. I do wonder what screwed /tmp up in the first place though. Everything seems to be working again, but I still have the errors mentioned below. I guess it is just life on the bleeding edge. John. William R Pentney wrote: > > My GNOME 1.0 runs all right, except that it takes an unusually long time > to load, and the Control Center/Midnight Commander panels are slow to > load. I thought little of this, until I noticed several recurring lines on > my xconsole, including: > > Priority 50: Registering ID = <...> > Unable to connect to server port 35091 > > > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL > > Methinks I left something out of my installation, and GNOME is not > performing as it might. Might I be missing a package? I don't think I have > all of the GNOME help system. > > Thanks - Bill > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: eth0: unknown interface
Ethernet dirvers are not included in default kernel (as far as I am aware) so unless you have re-compiled your kernel then you shouldn't have any in. If you want to check, well I guess you could just look at the screen output during boot time and see if there is any repeated info about setting up your network card (this is how I noticed last time). Not sure if 'dmesg' will give you all the info you need. If the boot message Alternatives include using 'modconf' which allows you to add and remove modules, or you can just have a look in the /etc/modules file (probably quicker). Either of these should tell you if you have a module installed for your network device. Hope this helps Rino Mardo wrote: > > How does one have a compiled AND module driver? Where can I look to find > out what other modules are being loaded? > > -Original Message-
Re: Still clueless
Hello, I may have missed the initial thread on this, but if you want to install a Network card based on Intel Ethernet chipset. If this is the case then do the following: * Login as root * On the command line type the command: modconf * Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the net section, then press enter * Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the entry that says: 3c59x - 3Com Vortex 3c59x then press enter. * Select Install module in the kernel * You are then asked for any parameters you want to add, you should not need any, so press enter. * The program will then attempt to load the module, it will tell you if it was successful or not. * If it was not successful, then you may have to provide some parameters, but I didnt have to when using this type of card inside a Dell Optiplex. If this is relevant to your problem but you still have no success, let me know. John. Paul \"Baloo\" Johnson wrote: > > Ok, if someone would kindly write up a step by step procedure for > configuring a Intel EtherExpress in newbie terms and make it as simply > worded as possible, it would help very much on my project at school right > now...(I can't figure out how to configure the thing...and no, this > wouldn't be cheating, we can ask for outside support) > > Baloo > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: ACER extensa 390
:> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing :> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by :> Xfree 3.3.2. :> :> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but that is not generally :> avaiable in distributions. : :xserver-neomagic is available as a Debian package :(dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/x11/xserver-neomagic_1.1.0-1-1.deb). Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > Hi > > I have an ACER Extensa 390 and I am having problems with the > configuration o X11. > > I have Debian 2.0.
Re: Help with Hard drive error messages
I have been experiencing the same problem with my hard drive. I
believe the problem is that is is simply reaching the end of its
life as I have had it running solid for the last year and have
had it for 3 years before that.
If anyone can give me a more optomistic diagnosis, I would be
very happy...
John.
Daniel Mashao wrote:
>
> What do the following errors mean:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763,
> sector=103023
> 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763,
> sector=103023
> 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230
>
> This occurs on two machines. Where, other than in the code, can I get
> information on these error messages? And what are the implications of the
> messages?
>
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Re: Help with Hard drive error messages
Daniel Mashao wrote:
>
> > What do the following errors mean:
> >
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763,
> > sector=103023
> > 0
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763,
> Both my hardrives are new as in 6 months old. I must start learning to use
> a back-up system.
What make of hard drives do you have, if they are both exactly
the same, then that could be a bad batch (not that likely
though).
My harddirve is a segate, not sure of the exact model.
Have you installed linux before and had it running, or using
hdparm to improve performance.
Maybe it could be a changed bios setting
Other than that I have no idea what those errors actually mean,
appart from trouble...
bye...
tleds on Dell Inspiron 3200
Hello Debian Land, I have a warning for anyone who is thinking of installing the tleds package on there Dell Inspiron 3200 Laptop. Dont !!! I have had all kinds of problems with caps lock and shift and even some of my applications would not work properly with the mouse. The worst problem was not being able to get lower case in my xterm window, so could not kill tleds. I have submitted a bug report today concerning this. If you have a Dell Laptop (may affect other laptops to) and are having problems with tleds, the way I got out of it was to drop out of X (pressing Control+Shift+F1) and after pressing caps lock a few times to get lowercase back, kill the tleds process. You should then be able to carry on as normal.
Update-menu with /usr/local apps
Hello... Is there a 'standard' way to add applications installed locally in /usr/local/bin to the update menus system. I have a number of applications that I would like to run from the window managers menu, but as they are not debian packages then some other way to add them is needed. Any ideas John
Re: ??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???
IN order to use audio CD's with debian you need to add yourself to two groups. First the audio group to get access to /dev/dsp etc so you can hear sound. Secondly you need to be part of the disk group to get access to disks other than the linux partions. So as root, use the following commands: adduser username audio adduser username disk where username is your login name. (sorry if I am making this too obvious) On the bit about sound, as far as I know you have to recompile the kernel. The only other possible way would be if you use the command: modconf and see if you install a sound module for your card. I dont think this is actually possible though, as sound is not able to be a module (as far as I know). John Rich Hartman wrote: > I just got my cdrom setup by modifying my fstab file (thanks for the > help!) so that it is user-mountable... Now I can mount it and read a > data-type cd... However, when I try to mount it when an audio cd is > in, it says it's not a proper filesystem (which I guess it's not...) > but if it's not mounted, how can i use a cdplayer program to listen > to the cd... when the drive is not mounted, i get a message saying > that the cdrom is unaccessable... > > On a similar note - I'm running hamm, and I have a Soundblaster Awe64 > (PnP) and a plug'n'play BIOS... during setup, I vaguely recall > picking a soundblaster driver (does this seem possible?)... If I just > want to listen to cds and .wav files or mpeg3 files, should I have to > recompile the kernel and all of that other harsh stuff described in > the sound HOWTO? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rich > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: X on DELL laptop hangs
I have a Dell Laptop to, but I got hold of the red hat package for the Neomagic X server and installed it using Alien. Works like a dream, I get 1028 by 756 (or whatever). It never has crashed yet, even though I give it some grief... I picked up the package from the followig site (but it is available in Debian Unstable): http://www.precisioninsight.com/products.html John Stevenson "David S. Zelinsky" wrote: > > A friend of mine installed hamm on a Dell laptop with Neomagic video. He got > X configured with the VGA16 server. The X server seemed to work fine, but the > machine would invariably hang, shortly after quitting X or switching to > another virtual console. By "hang", I mean that ugly state where the keyboard > and mouse don't respond, and a hard reboot is needed. > * The Debian was a 2.0 CD from Cheap Bytes -- not the "Official Debian", > but C.B.'s own, with their own installation program. I was struck by > some odities, such as the absence of all the stuff I'm used to in the > system logs (I'm running "official" hamm at home). Could there be > anything weird about this Cheap Bytes installation that's related to the > X problem? This could have been a problem, perhaps if you got network ability you could have updated the install from a debian mirror, hopefully resolving any errors in libs etc.. > * I didn't think of checking the BIOS settings, for things like APM. Could > a broken APM cause symptoms like this? Then again, isn't APM disabled in > kernel-images that ship with Debian? I didnt have any problems with the default kernel and APM, but then again I have turned off my APM settings, as it says in the debian install instructions So there are a number of possibilities why you did not have success, none of them can be attributed to the quality of debian. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)
Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence first. Go here to start with: http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 then agree to the licence and things should be okay... In for a few hours of reading while I wait for the download to finish now... by.. John "Person, Roderick" wrote: > > Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured > it was hard to find. > > http://www.download.com/PC/corel/download/ > <http://www.download.com/PC/corel/download/> > > Rod. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)
Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a number of other debian users) as to how good it is. John. John Stevenson wrote: > > Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence > first. Go here to start with: > > http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 > > then agree to the licence and things should be okay... > > In for a few hours of reading while I wait for the download to > finish now... > > by.. > John > > "Person, Roderick" wrote: > > > > Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured > > it was hard to find. > > > > http://www.download.com/PC/corel/download/ > > <http://www.download.com/PC/corel/download/> > > > > Rod. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: P/S 2 Mice
You probably have all the right stuff installed: * A Kernel (bit obvious this one) with ps/2 support though !! This is default in the Hamm distribution unless you roll your own kernel, then just make sure that you select it. * X (xbase package) needs to be configured by running xf86config and selecting ps/2 for mouse type. I have installed a few different types of ps/2 mice on Laptops and Desktops and have never found one that didnt work if the above two steps were done (theres always a first time though). John. Jeff Browning wrote: > > Hey all, > > My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It > wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S > 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? > TIA! -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: WP Question
There is a much easier way to get word perfect running that mentioned below. By using a little script which calles xwp and placing it in /usr/local/bin. The script then calles xwp from its installed directory and the program knows where to find everything. Newbie section: Log on as root Create a file called xwp and edit it to contain the following line: /usr/local/Apps/WordPerfect/wpbin/xwp save the file as /usr/local/bin/xwp Now you can launch word perfect by typing the command xwp from any location as any user (unless you have messed around with that users paths). I also managed to get wordperfect running using the X menu, using the local option of the menu system, Nice. Peter Kovacs wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > but then I did this: > > ln -s /usr/local/wp/wpbin/xwp /usr/local/bin/xwp > > > > and when I run it I got the following msg: > > Error: File not found -- admintxt.us > > Same thing happened to me. For some reason it assumes you're going to > install it directly into /usr/local. It's looking for a file called > /usr/local/shlib10/admintxt.us, so you need to link that directory > (shlib10) into /usr/local. To make it easier on myself, I just linked > every directory in /usr/local/wp/ into /usr/local/ and it works fine now. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Debian Hanging on Serial Port config
Hello Debian Land, Has anyone had a problem with debian hanging when trying to configure the serial ports? I was installing Debian 'Hamm' on a third Dell Inspiron Laptop (the fist two caused no problems) and came across the problem. I got as far as the initial install from Cd, but when I rebooted it got as far as configuring the serial ports an then just hung... Any ideas why the system would hang. This laptop was having problems with the pcmcia card dieing under windowsNT, so I am woundering if it could be a hardware problem...? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?
"Chang, FKK" wrote: > > Hello all, > > All the ranting about Corel's misleading strategies aside, before I download > it (paying by the minute, you know), I'd like to know: > > 1) does it load Word 95 (or 97) docs *correctly* ? I would say 95% of the time I have a perfect copy of the word document, even 97. > 2) does it write these *correctly* ? I have had no problems so far. I have edited documents and passed them to lesser informed collegues who still use M$ and none of them complained. I have also created documents in wordperfect format and then coverted them to 97 and thoes documents also worked with my collegues. One thing I dont like is the way it generates web pages, but this could be just a matter of configuration. It seems to put in an extra blank line as every other line in the page. > 3) can it cope with "fastsave" docs *correctly*? Yes, all the fastsave docs I have tried have had no problems. The only problem I have had is with master documents. These are not handled at all by the looks of things. > With `correctly', I mean "does it also understand some done-by-myself > meddling with normal.dot and strange objects like embedded .bmps > in such a fashion that what comes out of the printer does > look in some way like what I see on the screen etc, etc, ..." > (I had *quite* some problems in StarOffice with this) I would be surprised if wp8 (or even word 2000) would be able to handle this type of user input !! > I don't need the equation editor (LaTeX is my friend), but I'm perfectly > willing to sacrifice some megs on my HD for not having to reboot to NT > to read silly Word attachments to my e-mails... You could always encourage your friends to send you rich text format instead of word documents. If there was any understanding and control over a commond document standard then we would not have these problems... > Has someone encountered/discovered anything? I do actually like word perfect, it does have some nice features over word. I am actually tempted to buy the CD (especially as it is only $50) even if I have to still use word once every blue moon. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Samba
Has anyone got this going under debian. I followed all the instructions provided with smb2www but when I try an load the web page I get the following error. Not Found The requested URL /samba/smb2www.pl was not found on this server. Is there any undocumented tweaking needed?? "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > Ok, I went and found it for you. Look at: > http://samba.org/samba/smb2www/ > > "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > Somebody wrote a cgi which would give you a web interface to > > the network which I > > believe included the "network neighborhood" type of > > functionality. You may want to > > check out the samba web site to find out about this, it > > doesn't look like the .deb > > includes this contributed piece of software. > > > > Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > > I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the > > man-pages). > > > I might be missing something but I can't figure out how to > > get a list > > > of what Wimpdos calls "the entire network". Can this be > > done without > > > knowing > > > any server-names? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Communicator Installation
I had a weird experience when installing Netscape 4.5 using 'Hamm', in that I had to rename the netscape file that I downloaded before the install program would recognise it. When dselect trys to configure the netscape package it complained that it could not find the right file and gave a generic form of the file it expected. What I did was to just rename the downloaded netscape file to the exact name the config script told me. Then I selected 'configure packages' from the dselect menu and everything worked just fine. Hope this helps... John KTB wrote: > > OK, I ran dselect and ran the Netscape set up program and the program tells > me in > order to work it needs the Communicator file to be in the tmp directory. > While as > root I tried to move the file again to the /tmp directory. I tried different > variations I am entering, mv /root/communicator-'the rest of the file name' > /tmp > what I get is, "No such file or directory." I have used cd /tmp and verified > I have > such a directory and used, locate communicator and it lists the file as > /root/communicator-'the rest of the file name'. I have a book I am looking > at and I > think I am using the command mv correctly. I also tried to use cp thinking I > could > copy the file to the /tmp directory. I got the same result, "No such file or > directory." What is going on here? Help! > Thanks, > Kent > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Web mirroring software
A nice little web mirroring package is 'wget'. This is only a few hundred K and runs just from the command line. You basically tell it what site you want to copy and off it goes... It can follow recursive links to any level that you specify. P.s. I hope you dont break copyright John. Cagdas Ogut wrote: > > Hi all, > > Can anybody suggest me a tiny web mirroring software to run on debian, > preferebly in *.deb format? I don't expect much, only the basic > functionality. > > Thanks already, -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied
Hello Debian Land... I am trying to set up NFS between to Debian Linux 'Hamm' boxes. I have followed all the instructions in the NFS Howto, but always run into a permissions problem. Basic overview of steps taken: * edited /etc/exports file and added the following line: /nfs/export myclientname(rw) * rebooted the machine to make extra sure that portmap, nfsd and mountd would take notice of the changes (they all run from scripts in the init.d stuff) * tried to mount the exported path on my client machine as follows: mount -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 myserver:/nfs/export /mount/point In reply I got the following message: mount: myserver:/nfs/export failed, reason given by server: Permission denied * I tried this as root and as user 'js' (using an fstab entry and adding user to the options) but still had the same problem. On the server the directory permissions are as follows: drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 1024 Dec 20 16:12 nfs/ drwxrwxrwx 2 js js 1024 Dec 20 16:06 export/ Does any one have any clues as to what is wrong ???? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
SOLVED:Re: NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied
Thanks for the replys... It turned out to be a combination between not having the right IP address associate in the /etc/hosts file (I forgot I changed my client IP address and had not updated the server). Also another suggestion was the fact that I had ALL: PARANOID in the /etc/hosts.deny file. These are both fixed and now I can mount the file system from my normal user account. I am so happy, now I can enjoy christmas properly... by... John. Frank Smith wrote: > > One possibility is that the client is not named what you think. Try to > telnet from the client to the NFS server and do a 'who' and see what it > thinks the clients hostname is. You are exporting to myclientname but > the server may be seeing it as myclientname.domain.nam and that won't > match causing the 'permission denied' error. > > Good luck, > Frank > > --On Thursday, December 24, 1998, 3:24 PM +0100 John Stevenson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I am trying to set up NFS between to Debian Linux 'Hamm' boxes. > > I have followed all the instructions in the NFS Howto, but > > always run into a permissions problem. > > > > * edited /etc/exports file and added the following line: > > > > /nfs/export myclientname(rw) > > > > > > mount: myserver:/nfs/export failed, reason given by server: > > Permission denied > > > > > > Does any one have any clues as to what is wrong > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Network setup problems
Hello, I have a strange problem I cant seen to understand what to do about it. I am running Apache as a web server and everything runs fine when I am attached to my home LAN, using my own machine as the gateway. However, when I connect to the office to use the internet I have to assign our ISDN modem as the gateway. All of the network stuff works fine when I do this, except I cannot connect to my Apachie web server. I get the following message: A network error occured: Unable to connect to server (TCP Error: No route to host) The server may be down or unreachable. I did a trace route, but that didnot enlighten me: starfury: # traceroute 172.16.1.9 traceroute to 172.16.1.9 (172.16.1.9), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 172.16.0.9 (172.16.0.9) 0.168 ms !H 0.138 ms !H 0.1 ms !H starfury: # traceroute 172.16.1.9:80 traceroute: unknown host 172.16.1.9:80 I also tried a few other things after re-reading Net-3-Howto: starfury: # /bin/netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface localnet* 255.255.0.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo default gateway.oa.nl 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0 starfury: # /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 14 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG1 0 60 eth0 As far as I can see the only thing that changes is the gateway address. I am not using DNS at home so that doesnt change. I am using Debian 'Hamm' kernel 2.0.34 and pcmcia modules to match for the network. Do I need to add a route to my web server, or change my configs to represent it? Do I need to have DNS services running?? Can anyone help me ?? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Network setup problems
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > I've been looking at the info you provided and I don't think there is > enough to troubleshoot your problem. What are the IP addresses/netmasks > of your machine(s)? How is your network connected together (number of > ethernet segments, IP address/netmask assigned to each segment)? What > machine is apache running on? It would be better if you provided all of > your information in IP address form, so for routing tables do 'netstat > -rn'. Also an 'ifconfig' would be interesting to see what the network > interface configuration is also. I'm not that familiar with ISDN modems, > is it a separate hardware device for which there is a configured network > interface in a machine, or is it a network entity on one of your ethernet > segments? Here is the info you asked for: Our office network is fairly simplistic, basically we use the ISDN modem as a router / gateway to the internet. It has an internal IP address of 172.16.1.1 which I set on my laptop to be the address of the gateway. Then if I want anything from the internet it will go through the gateway. All the machines in the office connect to the ISDN modem via a hub, we all connect to the hub and then the hub is connected to the ISDN modem. So the ISDN modem is a unit all to itself and not part of a computer. All the IP addresses are internal, some translation is done somewhere between the ISDN modem and our ISP. At the moment our modem is only one way, so we can access the Internet, but we cant access our internal network from the outside. I am running apache on my Laptop: starfury with an IP address of 172.16.1.9 and I have been using the full name and the ip address to try connect, adding :80 to the end of each of course. starfury: ~js netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0 starfury: ~js ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:3F:E5:26 inet addr:172.16.0.9 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:45577 errors:2 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:1240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:1 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 Another problem I have found is that I cant ping myself either: starfury: ~js ping starfury.oa.nl PING starfury.oa.nl (172.16.1.9): 56 data bytes --- starfury.oa.nl ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss starfury: ~js traceroute starfury traceroute to starfury.oa.nl (172.16.1.9), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 172.16.0.9 (172.16.0.9) 0.166 ms !H 0.153 ms !H 0.099 ms !H Although I can ping other computers on our internal network: starfury: ~js ping schapen PING schapen.oa.nl (172.16.1.10): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=2.6 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=126 time=13.5 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.7 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=5.7 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.6 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=2.9 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=1.6 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=3.1 ms (DUP!) --- schapen.oa.nl ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, +4 duplicates, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.6/4.0/13.5 ms starfury: ~js traceroute schapen traceroute to schapen.oa.nl (172.16.1.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 schapen.oa.nl (172.16.1.10) 0.59 ms 0.441 ms 0.431 ms starfury: ~js ping darkstar PING darkstar.oa.nl (172.16.1.7): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 172.16.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.0 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.1.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.7 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.1.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.5 ms --- darkstar.oa.nl ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.5/1.7/2.0 ms starfury: ~js traceroute darkstar traceroute to darkstar.oa.nl (172.16.1.7), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 darkstar.oa.nl (172.16.1.7) 0.556 ms 0.438 ms 0.432 ms Can you see anything that helps understand the problem ??? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Network setup problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Stevenson writes: > > I am running Apache as a web server and everything runs fine > > when I am attached to my home LAN, using my own machine as the > > gateway. > > Why do you need a gateway at all for your home LAN? I have absoultely no idea, but it works... -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]
Tim Heuser wrote: > I've got Windows 98 running on an 840 meg drive (c:) and drive > d: as one big 6 gig drive to be divided up shortly. I had a > problem trying to load linux at the beginning of the d: drive > and gave up for now needing the computer for other things. I > am about ready to try installing Linux again. > > 1. 1. Has anyone gotten Linux and Win98 working on the same > machine? I have installed it on a number of machines, but alway with 98 first then Linux. > > 2. In the event something goes wrong, can I just > remove what I've done and have > Win98 still intact? So long as you dont do anything to the partition that win98 is on, then there is nothing that will affect it. The only thing you would do with the win98 patition is install the Linux boot manager LILO. This in itself will not harm win98, it just wont let you boot into win98 untill you tell LILO that win98 exists, edit the /etc/lilo.conf file to do so. > > 3. Will the earth explode at 12:00:01 jan 1st 2000? I hope so, I could do with a holiday -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: XWP - NOT!
This sounds like an X windows security problem. If you login and run X as one user, then open an Xterm and su to another user, that second user cannot run any graphical applications in X for security reasons. So if you loged in and ran X as your normal user account (as you should) then did su to change to root account to install Word Perfect (as your are told to do) then you have a permision problem. You can overide the security of X by using a command called xhost. If you type: xhost + then any user from anywhere in the universe is allowed to run graphical applications on your X windows, this can be fun (and also very dangerous if you dont have any other security measures and are connected to the internet). A slightly safer solution is to use the following command: xhost +yourcomputername this will allow anyone who is logged on to your computer to run graphical applications. Summary: Login as normal user and run X Use the xhost command Change to root Run the WordPerfect install Pray !!! Hope this helps. "James R. Lunsford" wrote: > > Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's > no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was > really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run > under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran in an xterm > window. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't run wordperfect on my > system? I saw a message about placing DISPLAY=":0.0" into my profile or > one of the bash files to eliminate some problems, but I don't know if > that will help. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Help
Edmund Adjei wrote: > > I am a foreign student in Germany, and have decided on buying the Debian > destribution of the Linux OS. I want to first know if there is a latest > version > of the Debian package, and whether my Graphik card SiS 6326 would be > supported. Can you give more details about your video card, like the full name of the card and manufacture, and the chipset it uses if you know it. >From the Debian Web site, Release info: Debian version 2.2 (Nickname: potato) estimated release - April 1999 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) PAM integration Apt (part 3), the new front end to the package management system (dpkg) first public release for powerpc architecture perl 5.005 and ncurses other goals to be decided Debian version 2.1 (Nickname: slink) estimated release - January 1999 Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect for easy net package retrieval Apt (part 2), the new commandline for intellegent upgrades/installs first public release for sparc and alpha architectures Debian version 2.0 (Nickname: hamm) released - 24 July 1998 based on libc6 (all libraries compiled using -D_REENTRANT) X 3.3.2.2 Linux kernel 2.0.34 Gimp 1.0 Apache 1.3.0 first public release for m68k architecture -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...
I have found that there is much more packages available for debian than there are for Red Hat, so if you did move to Red Hat then you would be missing out on a lot of Linux goodies. If there is an odd package that is only available in a .rpm, then just convert the .rpm to a .deb file (takes two minutes). I have three .rpm packages installed on my Debian 2.0 install. If I installed Red Hat I would be missing out on at least 20% of the packages I use daily... John. > > From: Jeff Miller[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 8:24 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Switch to Red Hat? > > > > Hello Debian users, > > > > I have been using the Debian distribution of Linux for many months now, > > but am starting to recognize deficiencies in available, up-to-date > > packages. For example, the latest GNOME files are 0.99.2 but I cannot > > find .deb files for it anywhere. The best I could find was 0.30. This > > wouldn't be an issue if I could actually make my own, but many times the > > packages simply won't build for me. The *other* major distribution, Red > > Hat, has .rpm files available for the GNOME project and they are pretty > > much up to date but I can't get them to install on my Debian system. I am > > torn because I like the fact that Debian packages are easy to find and > > download, but it seems that Red Hat is more up-to-date. Are there others > > that have found this as a problem? Can someone convince me not to *cross > > over*? I am tempted to just run out and purchase Red Hat 5.2 and wipe my > > Debian system and leave it all behind me. Is there an alternative? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jeff > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > john jabbed, > > > I have found that there is much more packages available for > > debian than there are for Red Hat, so if you did move to Red Hat > > then you would be missing out on a lot of Linux goodies. > > > Yes, I found that as well. In addition to being harder to install at > the moment (a *big* reversal from two years ago), redhat is missing > some basic stuff. The last time i looked was probably almost a year > ago, but they were missing some pretty basic stuff--a "vanilla" fvwm2 > (If 2 was even available; i couldn't quite tell), exmh 2.x (1.x was, > uhh, awkward at best, and button-heavy), and a couple of odds and ends. I did recently install Red Hat on my laptop. To me it was less intuative and the install instructions were a bit waffley. I had real problems installing pcmcia stuff and never managed to successfully install it. With debian pcmcia stuff was a doddle.. The main package that I miss is joe, I cant get by without it... much easier to work with than vi. > I also flirted with FreeBSD, which is easier to install than either RH > or debian, if it supports your equipment. BUt just try and get an > answer on their mailing lists; you need your own personal guru. I've managed to teach people to install debian, it took an afternoon to do and these people didn't know anything about Linux before they started. John. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: removing ^M from a text file
I found a useful way of converting a file, simply load it into Netscape browser and it will not display the ^M characters. Then you can print it off or copy (alt-c) and paste the text into an editor, or put it into netscape composer. John. "M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried > catdoc, word2x, and sed, but none of them will remove them. Can you > suggest anything, please? > > please cc me as I'm not on this list ATM. > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: printing to NT with smbclient
I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run "Printing over TCP/IP Services" on the NT machine. To be able to just use the lpr command instead of rlpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] all the time, change your /etc/printcap file to read as follows: # Entry for remote printing usng rlpr lp:lp=:rp=printername:rm=hostname.domain.com This will allow you to do lpr lpq lprm without having to type the priner details all the time. Obviously you need to change the printername and hostname.domain.com strings to what they are on your system. Hope this helps... John. P.s. I would like to get samba working with NT, but after spending a few days trying I gave up. If anyone knows how to get this working I and many other people would be interested. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > hi all > > I'm trying to print in a remote NT printer > > I can access other shares (disk) on that server with the same user, see > the output of the "qinfo" command but not the queue: > > smb: \> queue > ERRDOS - ERRbadfunc (Invalid function.) obtaining print queue > > also I can't use the print command: > > Domain=[ALUFIS] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0] > security=user > ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) opening printer for stdin > > the config seems ok, I've tried, several configs users, password > methods, etc... but I'm completly lost... > > The only thing I find very extrange is the following I see with -d 5 > > Domain=[ALUFIS] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0] > Server gave us a UID of 4099. We gave 1000 <--- LOOK this (what is this for?) > security=user > Connected with cnum=2055 max_xmit=4356 > dos_clean_name [stdin] > ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) opening printer for stdin > cli_send_logout > > It's also used when I use (successfully) the qinfo command, so I'm not > sure this is related to the problem > > any help to figure out what is hapening will be greatly appreciated > > Thanks in advance, > > Uilsses -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: Setting Prompt
I use the following prompt which gives the hostname first, followed by the name of the current directory. #prompt PS1=`hostname`': ~\W ' export PS1 You should probably just try to cut and paste it, rather than type it. You have to make sure you get the right apostrophies etc... John. "M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > > This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to > > show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that "\w" would > > list my working directory. So I tried the following: > > > > If I use, > > export PS1='\w:\\$ ' > > > > I get, > > ~:$ > ^ > This is your working directory - ~/ is short for your home directory. If > you did cd /etc/init.d, then the prompt would say > > /etc/init.d:$ > > Matthew > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society > Selwyn College Computer Support > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ > http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ > http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: printing to NT with smbclient
Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at the same time, with out any problems (apart from the usual ones with NT) John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > > > I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead > > of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run "Printing > > over TCP/IP Services" on the NT machine. > > Thank you for your tip, I forgot totally this option, in the other hand: I > hope there is no problem exporting an NT printer as "Windows printer" and > as an "LPR printer" concurrently > > thanks -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
Re: UML Software for Linux
Mamoun Alissali wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to know if there is any (free) software for UML under Linux. > For > the moment I'm using a commercial software under Windows. There is an application called Dia at the following web address: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html Here is a brief description from the web page: Welcome to Dia's homepage. Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw different kind of diagrams. In this first version there is support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams) and Network diagrams. It can currently load and save diagrams to a custom fileformat and export to postscript. This program is in an early state, but parts of it is usable. Please try it out and tell me what you think of it. Check out the code too, you might even want to contribute... -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
apache proxy configuration on slink
Hello Debian land, Does anyone know where I should put the configuration directives, in order to switch on proxy caching. I am following the guidelines in the O'Riely book on apache, and it says to place the directives in a file called .../site.proxy This file I created as /etc/apache/site.proxy The file contains the following directives: User www-data Group www-data ServerName draal.oa.nl AccessConfig /dev/null ResourceConfig /dev/null Port 8000 ProxyRequests on CacheRoot /var/www/site.proxy/cache CacheSize 1 CacheDirLevels 3 CacheDirLength 2 I have re-started apache and even re-booted the machine, so if apache was going to read this file it would have. I have a feeling thought that this information should go into one of the other config files in /etc/apache/ Anyone have any clues..? Thanks, John.begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: HP Web JetAdmin
I got HP Web JetAdmin to work okay on my Hamm distribution, after making a few sym-links to make up for the differences in filespace layout. However, I tried it again with slink and it refuses connection. I wonder if there are some access permissions that changed default from the two distros'. Either that or I changed something on Hamm that I didnt replicate on slink (slink was a clean install). If anyone gets this going I would like to hear about it, also if they can actually print successfuly using linux to a HP printer with a direct ethernet connection. John. Kevin Cheek wrote: > > I was wondering if it is possible to get the HP Web JetAdmin software > working with debian. I tried running the installer, but it seems to > depend on the layout of a Redhat system in order to work correctly > (the hp web page specifically mentions Redhat). I got several errors > while running the installer. It seemed to want "touch" to be in /bin > (it's in /usr/bin on my slink system) and it wanted to use init > scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d (as opposed to /etc/init.d). > > I worked around the 'touch' problem, installed the software in > /usr/local/hpwebjet and told it to use port 8010. The hpwebjetd daemon > seemed to be running after running the installation script, but I was > unable to connect to it using a web browser.begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: linuxconf
Last I heard about linuxconf was that it had a negative affect, as it does not follow the debian file structure properly. I guess that if the debs are in experimental then you should not install them on a machine that you arent prepared to trash. John. Oliver Thuns wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anyone use linuxconf with slink? > > Is it save to install linuxconf and use linuxconf? (I found a deb in > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/project/experimental/) > > Oliver > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Multiple gnome-panels are started by gnome-session and other problems
I have the same 'feature' running slink with the slink-staging-area gnome debs (these few do work quite nicely actually). In order to avoid the problem, I always log out of the gnome pannel before exiting from the window manager. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way around this though. John. "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been playing with gnome stuff in my debian box. I upgraded it to > potato, to have to most recent things, as the ones in slink don't work > very well. > > Well, it looks like every time I exit gnome (log out), the session > records the very gnome-panel as an application to be started when the > gnome-session begins, so the second time I log in, there will be 2 > panels, the third time three panels etc. Worse, I can't close any of > those panels... > > Another problem is that if I choose the lockscreen from the panel, a > screensaver is started, but it's not password protected. > > Any clues? > > -- > Luiz Otavio L. ZorzellaComputer Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?
There is a nice little command called xhost which allows you to specifiy from which machines users are allowed to run X applications. So this alters the Magic Cookie stuff. If you type: xhost +mymachine where mymachine is the hostname of the computer you are currently typing at, then no matter what user you su to, then you are able to run X applications. I do this when I want to install applications when they have X installs. First I login as username then run startx and work as normal. If I want to run an X applicaton as another user, say root to install a non-debianised X app, then I would type the above command first then su to root. I can now run all the X apps I so desire. I also use this mechanism to read my email stored on another machine, using netscape as my mail reader. I type: xhost +othermachinename rlogin othermachinename export DISPLAY=mymachine:0.0 netscape -mail & In order, this allows me to run and X application from another machine using xhost. Then I login to the other machine. Then tell the othermachine to put the X applications display on mymachine so I can control it. Then I run my X application. A word of warning though, if you do xhost + then you are allowing anyone to run an X app on your machine, which may be not what you desire. Hope this all helps. Pollywog wrote: > > On 07-Apr-99 Richard Harran wrote: > > Do you mean that you are trying to start a second X session while the > > first is still running, or are you having difficulty starting for a > > second time having exited the first session? > > > > If it is the first (and you get an error like: > > server is already active for display :0, or something) > > you can fix it with > > startx -- :1 > > to start the second X server on display 1. This will probably associate > > it with . > > > > If it is the second, I think you have a problem (X not exiting > > properly?) 'cos I don't think that should happen. > > I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and > this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff, > and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser. > I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth stuff, but I don't remember where. > > -- > Andrew > > [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: the ~ files
If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) alias rm='rm -i' This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter how your shell is set up. I guess you could try aliasing rm -f but I dont know if that is possilbe or feasable. John. Michael Beattie wrote: > > [snip] > > Using wildcards can dangerous when used with the rm command. From > > experience, I know it is all too easy to type > > rm -rf * ~ instead of rm -rf *~ > > I get jittery even thinking about typing that in email > >Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. > - >Windows: the world's first commercially successful virus! > - > Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in order to recompile my own kernel, especially the pcmcia module source package. It sounds like some of the other problems you are having may be due to an unsuitable kernel. Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to > unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get > a whole list of stuff like this: > depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root > > Then after something related to PCMCIA gets installed, I get a shorter list > of maybe eight /dev/tty* stuff not working with one of those being my mouse. > What's going on? I've upgraded from slink to potato before without problems > and with these last three times it's impossible. Now my network card, support > for mounting vfat systems, and a lot of other things (again, the /dev/tty part > where my mouse is) get disabled in the process. I *need* that network card > because I have to have it for my Road Runner cable connection. > > This is incredibly frustrating because I've posted a message about this > depmod... > stuff a few days ago and didn't get any responses. I've said this before and > I'll say it > again: on the Red Hat mailing lists, as far as I could tell, *every* message > gets at > least one response. Here several posts get skipped over every day. How can you actually tell this?? Considering the ammount of traffic on the debian mailing list(s), it is impossible to see if all emails are answered (never mind if they are answered usefully), unless of course you have days of spare time on your hands. Does Red Hat have so very little traffic on their maling lists ?? > Again, I haven't had problems with upgrading until the last three times that > I tried > it in the past week or so. Before that, the last time I had installed Debian > was > at least a month away from now. Probably closer to two months. I have upgraded 3 machines (all different hardware configs) from slink (various different levels of package installs) and have had very few problems. The only thing I had was a mild problem installing cron, as it detected a cron process still running that it could not kill. After killing this process cron (and all other dependancies) installed fine. If you keep on having problems, make a backup of your data, install a minimum slink from scratch (using the part of dinstall that asks you what kind of set up you require, I selected basic). Once this has installed, point apt (sources.list) at a suitable potato mirror and do: apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade Then install any other stuff that you need. Hope this helps Johnny.
Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment
I have taken a giant leap of faith and gone back to using gnome-session. In the earlier days of gnome, this used to cause load of interesting effects to happen, but now everything seems to work just fine. Try the following in your .xsession file (and dump your .xinitrc file) exec gnome-session Thats it !! This command will run the default window manager for you (so dont include a line for enlightenment), as well as all the gnome stuff you want. You will have to run them the first time so they are included in the session though. Gnome session will also remember the state you leave your (gnome) applications in when you log out, so they will be there when you come back (log back in). Hope this helps, John. Pedro Sanchez wrote: > I did what you suggested but it doesn't work across X sessions (I mean > login out and in again) for the gnome-panel which I'm calling from my > .xsession file. The suggestion by alisdair works fine though. > > Thank you, > > -- > Pedro > > Harlan Crystal wrote: > > > > I've never used gnome panel, but I use enlightenment all the time. > > > > To make a window in enlightenment show up on all desktops, make it "stick." > > > > To make a window stick, hold down "alt" and right click on the window > > (the panel) and a menu will pop up from which you can choose "stick." > > > > if you want enlightenment to always make this window sticky, > > alt-right-click it again and go to "remember" and tell it to > > remember that setting. > > > > - Harlan Crystal > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Pedro Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:16 AM > > > To: debian-user > > > Subject: Gnome panel and Enlightenment > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch > > > the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get the panel > > > to show up in every virtual desktop? > > > > > > I'm running the latest from potato. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > -- > > > Pedro > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: stopping x from starting automatically
Hello, I am not a developer or expert on policy, but as far as I know the intent of xdm is to start linux up X rather than on the terminal. Now as debians default init level is 2, it seems natural to me to make the appropriate links for xdm in that init level (otherwise it would seem to the uninitiate that xdm was not working). IMHO, if you dont want X to start up on boot, then why do you want to install xdm?? If it is not installed, it doesnt make the links John. Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Brian Servis wrote: > > > *- On 12 Nov, Adam C Powell IV wrote about "Re: stopping x from starting > > automatically" > > > > > > Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and > > > /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by > > > default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this > > > default would be real easy, and would make Debian that much more > > > standard.
Gnumeric fonts missing
Hello all, I have come across a problem with gnumeric, when I run it I get the following error: ~$ gnumeric Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font. Please verify your gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file (typically located in /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty or near empty. If you still have no luck, please file a proper bug report (see http://bugs.gnome.org) including the following extra items: 1. Values of LC_ALL and LANG environment variables. 2. Your fontmap file, see above. Thanks -- the Gnumeric Team I have checked the path to the fonts and it does not exist. Am I missing a package ?? I havent over-ridden any dependancies and I usually select things that are suggested. Any suggestions to fix this problem ??? John.
Re: JDK 1.2 debs for slink?
As far as I know there are no jdk1.2 debs for any debian distribution.. Using the jdk1.2 from blackdown is what most people do (www.blackdown.org). There are two versions availble differing on glibc. Get version 2.0 for slink. John. Rick Macdonald wrote: > Are there JDK 1.2 debs for slink available? > Preferably with native threads. > > ...RickM... > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...
To all in Debian Land, I have successful installed and run Star Office 5, the only problem I had was downloading it in the first place I am using a fairly standard 'Hamm' install and running an external Xserver for my Neomagic videocard in my laptop. I have not had any real problems yet, but have not Star Office for anything more than loading and editing a few (non-fast save) word97 documents. I also found the installation easy to do, just followed the instructions. However I had the feeling that the registration had not worked, until I realised that you have to register twice (a little strange but there you go). You need to register when you first install Star Office and then when you first run Star Office you can either register On-line or by printing and sending a registration form. I used the On-line registration and it worked first time... Hope this helps in some way. John. Jens Ritter wrote: > Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > has anyone else managed to get star office 5 to work? i've been eagerly > > awaiting the official release of star office 5 because everytime i ran the > > pre-release it would get to the welcome screen and then lock my entire X > > display and i had to reboot to get things back under control (i could > > telnet in and start x that way and i would work okay but as soon as i > > exited X it would go back to the original frozen display). > > > > has anyone else had this problem and solved it? i would love to run star > > office but am a little disappointed in the 'ease of install' :-) -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration
Hello All, Reading these emails has reminded me of something strange about the registration process. When registering On-line I was prompted for my customer number and my key. The problem was I was not aware of having a customer number, so simply entered my email address, then the key from the web page. This allowed me to continue the On-line registration and successfully compelete it. Then I was given my customer number both by the document and then later by email. Does anyone else find this a little 'counter-intuative' or as we say in England 'a bit silly' John David Lutz wrote: > Steve, > I am having the same problem registering StarOffice 5.0 that you > explained. When I try to do an online registration I get the HTML page > and email with my Customer Number and Registration Key, but there is a > failure. When I try to enter the Customer Number and Registration Key by > hand the Enable Key button is greyed out. If you manage to get past this > problem can forward on your solution. Thanks. > > D.L. > > / David Lutz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.pobox.com/~lutzd \ > | Those of you who think you know everything : KD6GNS Portland, OR | > \ are annoying those of us who really do.: '97 Toyota Tacoma SR5 / > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Permissions for vfat mounted drive
Hello Debian Land, I have a question about access permissions. I can access my vfat mounted windows98 partition as any user, however I can only get write access when I am root. My linux and win98 partitions are on the same harddrive. I used to be able to get the desired access by adding users to the dos group when I was using debian 1.3.1, but this dos group was not a default creation when I installed debian 2.0. I created a dos group and tried to assign the win98 partition as belonging to the dos group, but this did not work, only assigning the mount point to dos and not the file hierachy underneath that mount point. I even tried to chmod it, but no luck. Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. P.s. I realise that some people would consider none root access to the dos/win partion a security hole, but I am aware of this, thanks. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT
Hello, Dont Panic !!! There is nothing wrong with your laptop, except that it has the same feature as all the other toshiba laptops (and a few other brands). The Toshiba laptops require special rescue and drivers and these are located in the tecra folder in the boot disk directory. If you are installing using floppy, you will need to create alternative rescue and drivers disks using the files in the tecra directory. If you are installing from CD you might have to create a rescue disk in order to boot properly, I cant remember if this is neccessary. But when installing the kernel image and drivers you need to select alternative paths, not the default directories. You are offered the choice when running the install. Hope this helps to get you going. I am not sure what you have to do in order to compile the kernel youself, as you will still need to add something somewhere to ensure the toshiba patch is added to your own rolled kernel. John. Lahitte Paul wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm trying to install the Debian 2.0 on my laptop Toshiba satellite Pro > 440 CDT and when I boot either directly on the CDROM or on the floppy > with 1440tecra.bin I got the following messages: > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)
Hello On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the end of each line in the fstab descritpions I know that they are labelled and but what does that actually mean? What values should I be using ?? I have just coppied off others examples previously. Thanks. Rainer Clasen wrote: > Hi! > > John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 > > partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. > > I use this in my fstab: > /dev/sda1 /dos/c vfat umask=0002,gid=110,uid=0,showexec 0 2 > > gid 110 is called dosfs, but you may use dos's gid. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Repeating Package Installation
Hello Debian Land... I was wondering if there is any way to install debian with the same packages for a number of hardware identical machines. I want to install a base set of useful packages for all my fellow workers, based on the packages I have installed on my machine at the moment. I know that there is one way to do this, but I am not too keen on it. I could figure out all the packages I have on my machine and create a debian CD with all the packages, then all that would be needed to is install all of the packages on the CD. We have the technology to get this done, it just seems a lot of work sorting out all the packages. I remember back in my Slackware days that is was possible to define everything to be installed in a text file, then the install program would do the rest. I realise this would be easier on slackware as it didn't have any checking during installation. Any one have any good solutions out there??? Thanks. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Re: printing over smb
An overview answer: Run magicfilterconfig as normal to get a /etc/printcap entry for what ever printer you are finally going to print with. Then you need to set up a smbprint script that will be called by your /etc/printcap whenever printing is done. To see how to do this last step, install samba and go to /usr/doc/samba/doc/examples/ to find some example scripts. Also read through some of the information in the ../doc directory. I cant remember exact details as I am not (unfortunately) in Linux at the moment... John. Chris Frost wrote: > I've setup printers using magicfilterconfig before, but how do I set the > printer up to print using smb? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?
Hello Debian Land...
The best way to see all the messages is to not run any programs on tty1 (the
first
virtual terminal - also the default terminal). You can then scroll all the way
back
to the bios boot information using the shift+pageup key combination.
So long as you run no programs (or at least ones that dont take over the
screen) then
you can scroll up and down as many times as you want using the shift+pageup and
shift+page up.
If you always want access to this informaiton then login to Linux using any one
of the
other virtual consoles. As far as I know it using the other virtual terminals
will
allow you to always got back to the information on the first one.
One further point regarding linux logo. If you have this installed and
configured to
display then you can still see all the boot information.
P.s. You may or may not have to login to the machine to scroll ( I haven't
tested it
by not logging in.)
Hope this clears a few things up.
John.
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote:
> >
> > > In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on
> > > the
> > > console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys.
> > >
> > > Is there anything similar in Debian?
> > >
> >
> > Sure. Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown. At least, they work in xterms. I
> > *think* I've used the feature in console, but I can't be sure.
>
> Yes it does work in virtual consoles. However, once X has started, the
> vc tends to `forget' all the lines that scrolled off the screen. I
> don't know what to do about this. As some people have mentioned, you
> can get kernel boot messages with the dmesg command. However, it
> doesn't show everything. In particular some error messages are not
> there. If you want to see all of the boot messages, your best bet is
> not to start xdm at boot time, use exented vga (50+ lines on your
> screen), and see how far you can scroll back.
>
> HTH,
> Eric
>
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Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT
Hello, I guess that this brand of laptop does not share the same 'feature' as the other toshiba's. I seems that it mainly affects the newer toshiba's, but it is not just limited to toshiba's. I dont know the what,why,how of this feature, but perhaps it would be useful if someone organised a list of what laptops need the tecra boot and driver images and what laptops are fine. Any takers?? Perhaps this information is already on the Laptop linux site (sorry know reference !!). John. Peter Bartosch wrote: > Hi! > > }-> Dont Panic !!! > }-> > }-> There is nothing wrong with your laptop, except that it has the same > feature as all > }-> the other toshiba laptops (and a few other brands). > }-> > }-> The Toshiba laptops require special rescue and drivers and these are > located in the > }-> tecra folder in the boot disk directory. > > what are the differences? i´ve installed ma toshiba 210cs without any > special (tecra-) disks > > my way was installing a temporary dos-platform and then installing from > directly from the cd-rom (first time it was bo, but about 2 month back i > installed hamm completely new ;-) > > until next mail ;) > > Peter > > :~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~: > : student of technical computer science: > : university of applied sciences krefeld (germany) : >~~~~~~~~ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)
Hello Debian Land, I made an interesting purchase just recently of Red Hat 5.1, thinking I would try it out and see if it was any better. It had some advantages and disadvantages, but in the end I decided to come back to debian. The situation I am in now however, is that I have an applications CD (the third Cd in the set) from redhat 5.1, but I have no idea what these applications are. I would like to try these out but want to know what is what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? I believe that redhat uses a program called glide to read this application CD, is there an equivalent for debian ?? or should I try installing glide (which I doubt would work as I would need to include other parts of redhat) ?? Any one have comments on this... Thanks. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"
Re: eth0: unknown interface
One of the easiest ways to configure the network is to use the install program on the Rescue Disk / CDRom. You can mount an already initialised swap and linux partition and then move on to configure the network. This will create all the right files for you (/etc/networks /etc/resolv.conf). If you still have problems it may be due to the drivers, either compiled into the kernel or a module, be careful not to have the 3com driver compiled into the kernel and as a module, I did that once and had the problem as you describe. > Rino Mardo wrote: > > 486/66 with 8 MB RAM, 630 MB hard disk, 3C509B-combo NIC > > My problem is during initial installation I wasn't able to > setup the NIC so now here I am in the # prompt not knowing how > to add/configure it. I read thru all the HOWTOs and > mini-HOWTOs (relevant ones of course), recompiled the kernel > with 3C509 support but still it would give me: > > eth0: unknown interface > > as the error message. In SCO UNIX there's this netconfig > command to add a NIC and assign protocols and ip address > before recompiling the kernel. What's the equivalent > command/steps in Linux? > > TIA.
Re: Java IDE
You could try using the Blackdown JDK from www.blackdown.org, get the Release Candidate 4 (RC4), this uses native threads and has the sun JIT compiler in it. This make a noticable improvement of speed on my machine. It seems to work fine with all Java apps I have tried, with the exception of Together from Object International which doesnt like the JIT when running and doesnt like native threads when installing. Johnny. Martin Bishop wrote: > Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have you ever run Forte on Debian systems? I have looked at it on Sun's > > website. The doc says that to run it you'd need a powerful system (P. > > III). The IDE is distributed on .rpm format, the size is about 9M. I was > > wondering whether Forte would eat up so much CPU power; does it so? Any > > experience with it? Any hope to run it on P 133? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Oki > > Hi Oki, > > I've tried Forte on a Celeron 450 with 128MB using Sun's > JDK 1.2.2 and it is slooow. > > On WinXX it is much better, still a bit slow, but you can > work comfortably. > > If you must use a Java IDE in Linux, may I suggest JBuilder. > It's a bit faster than Forte. > > MB. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
ftp but no apt
Hello I have set up a partial mirror of debian on one of our machines. This was orignially on the same subnet x.x.1.x as all the laptops we use. Apt worked fine and we reduced d/l time emensly. Now we have moved the box to another subnet, x.x.3.x and now apt no longer works. It stalls at the first attempt to actually get a package list. It connects to the server okay, but fails to fetch any package list. I thought there must have been something denying ftp access, but straight ftp works fine. Is there a difference in port that apt uses against normal ftp?? I cant see this myself as the mirror is just set up as an anonymous ftp server. I guess that this must constitue a bug against apt, unless anyone has any suggestions. I have tried this accross 3 different subnets and had exactly the same effect. Very strange!! Johnny. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Gnome desktop
Alternitvely, you could use gnome-session which will run gmc and the gnome panel (an anything from previous sessions) for you. Create a .xinitrc file in your users home directory and include the following line: gnome-session Hope this helps. Johnny. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > "Sandy" == Sandy Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I installed Debian (slink) and the X Window system. My "manual" > > that came with the CD, "Learning Debian Gnu/Linux" has a section > > on using GNOME. > > > Most of the things they refer to are there, but two are missing: > > home directory icon and File Manager. I suspect they didn't get > > installed. I used dselect to check the CD Rom, but I can't find > > any Gnome related files that are uninstalled. > > > Are they listed under another name? Is there some other way to > > complete the installation? I kind of enjoy using Gnome, and I > > would like to find and install the rest of it. > > They are both the same think. You need the gmc package, and just run > gmc when you are in X windows. > > Marshal > > > Thanks, > > > Sandy Shapiro > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Potato Installation Bug ?
I have always had a problem with the boot disks occasionally dying. The things I can advise are: * check that floppy access has actually finished and then give it a few seconds * going too fast throught the install (and swapping disks) make it more likely the install will hang If it hangs at the point where everything is done, you dont need to do the install all over again, just reboot with the original rescue disk, but instead of initialising a Linux partition, just mount the ones you created last time. The next step will then take you to create boot disk or boot from hard drive. You can then keep on trying untill you get a successful boot disk!! Johnny. Dan Hutchinson wrote: > I get the same error when trying to create a boot floppy. Your floppy > disk may be bad? I usually skip this step and reboot the system. I > would recommend making a boot disk of your finished system anyway. It > is more valueable after your system is up and running. > > Dan > > I know this is just a work around > > " Shane " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am installing the Debian 2.2 over the network. > > Each time I select "Make a Boot Floppy" it > > fails with "Creation of a boot floppy failed..." > > I have tested this on two different machines and > > several floppy diskettes. This used to work > > few weeks ago. Has anyone seen this before? > > Is this a bug?. > > > > Thanks > > Shane > > > > > > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- > > Share what you know. Learn what you don't. > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > < /dev/null > > > > > > ___ > To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, > all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)
A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules /usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr' /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to one machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian distribution I hope this gives some small explianation... Johnny. Vitux wrote: > w trillich wrote: > > > > my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, > > and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with > > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches > > of stuff in /usr/share/doc. > > > > what's the functional or intellectual distinction: > > /lib > > /usr/lib > > /usr/local/lib > > /var/lib > > > > /usr/doc > > /usr/share/doc > > > > /bin > > /usr/bin > > /usr/local/bin > > /sbin > > /usr/sbin > > /usr/local/sbin > > > > this topic is covered briefly in one-o-them HOWTOs, which i can't > > find right off hand... (dhelp search for directories? paths? > > structure? besides, having just reinstalled everything, dsearch > > isn't finding squat anyway...) > > > > some of these are more obvious to me than others; i bet a couple > > of you newer debian-user subscribers (like me) are interested in > > this, too. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Gnome desktop
You shoud really just edit the .xsession file in your user directory, /home/username/.xsession You do not need to include a command to run the window manager (fvwm2), gnome-session will do that for you. Check that you dont have a .xinitrc file in your home directory as this will override the .xsession file and cause it not to be looked at. Johnny. Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I think I am already doing that, althought I may not have done it > correctly. I edited "Xsession" and added the lines: > > fvwm2 & > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session > > I also tried adding the line: > > gmc & > > but that didn't make any difference. > > Did I leave something out, or do I need to do this differently? > > Thanks, > Sandy > > >Alternitvely, you could use gnome-session which will run gmc and the > >gnome panel (an anything from previous sessions) for you. Create a > >.xinitrc file in your users home directory and include the following > >line: > > >gnome-session > > >Hope this helps. > >Johnny. > > >Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > >> > "Sandy" == Sandy Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > I installed Debian (slink) and the X Window system. My "manual" > >> > that came with the CD, "Learning Debian Gnu/Linux" has a section > >> > on using GNOME. > >> > >> > Most of the things they refer to are there, but two are missing: > >> > home directory icon and File Manager. I suspect they didn't get > >> > installed. I used dselect to check the CD Rom, but I can't find > >> > any Gnome related files that are uninstalled. > >> > >> > Are they listed under another name? Is there some other way to > >> > complete the installation? I kind of enjoy using Gnome, and I > >> > would like to find and install the rest of it. > >> > >> They are both the same think. You need the gmc package, and just run > >> gmc when you are in X windows. > >> > >> Marshal > >> > >> > Thanks, > >> > >> > Sandy Shapiro > >> > >> > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >begin:vcard > >n:Stevenson;John > >x-mozilla-html:TRUE > >org:Valtech Ltd > >adr:;; > >version:2.1 > >email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >title:Technical Consultant / Trainer > >x-mozilla-cpt:;0 > >fn:John Stevenson > >end:vcard begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
