IP-aliasing
I have a one gateway with a 3c905b (Boomerang) running 2.2.2 just fine. When I use ifconfig to alias an ip it works no problem. On a different machine, an HP Vectra, with a 3c905b? (Cyclone) and the IP-aliasing works only with 2.0 kernels. Weird. I have compiled 2.2.2 for this Vectra 6 times with variuos kernel configs to try and narrow the problem. No luck. Then I copied my .config from the Gateway and compiled, no go. I also just copied the kernel image to the Vectra, no go. Anyone have an idea why it would work on one machine and not another? I haven't swapped the NIC's because my box is the Gateway and I don't want to lose my stability. Selfish I guess. Anyways, does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance! -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
Subject: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly) Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:11:35PM -0500 In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping > > > someone could help me with. > > > > > > My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen > > > by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's > > > an ether problem. > > #1 RTFM samba-2.0.2/source/web/diagnose.c !!! > > This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be > compiled sometime. Shhh, boy did I screw up! It was supposed to say DIAGNOSE.TXT! Sorry!!! > > > Cay you ping the Linux box from Win95 using both the IP address and > > the machine name? If not check win95 hosts & lmhosts. Check Linux > > /etc/hosts. > > I did not have entries in the hosts/lmhosts for the respective machines, > and adding them fixed the problem of 'smbclient -L 192.168.1.30' dieing, > though I still don't understand why, since I was using an IP address, but > no matter as it works now. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbclient -N -L localhost > > I connect with > > smbclient '\\win\WINC' -N > > Yes, what I was attempting to do was list shares on the win95 box. The > similar command did not work before, either, though. > > > > Why is my samba box not the master? (I've got my smb.conf attached later) > > > btw, FRIGG isn't a printer, but I would like to have it serve a printer > > > which explains the Comment field. > > This is all explained in the docs! To have your Linux box be the > > master put this in [ global ] > >os level = 33 The docs say that an os level of 33 forces the Linux box to be the master. Well that USED to be the case anyway. I am using my old smb.conf. from 1.9.10 and it works the same in 2.0.2. Maybe I should RTFM on 2.0.2 myself. > Still does not work, I eventually got it to be master, but not with this > line which appeared to have no effect. I had been going through the > BROWSING.txt file and removing and adding many things from smb.conf as > experiments but to no avail, it just so happened that my os level = line > was commented out when I pasted non-comment lines into the message. I > always read docs before posting questions, and have been trying to figure > this out for over a week. Please give people the benefit of the doubt > before exclaiming that everything they need is in the docs. Sorry but it seems like a lot of people don't. I have never seen the smbclient done like you had it & thought THAT was the real problem. As it was so different, I thought you might not have read the docs. > > After reading the doc's let us know what you had to do to get it up, > > OK. > > I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts > suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the > bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box > at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there > should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears > to work. Yes that would bother me to. It looks like you are close now tho. A few more tweaks and you will have it. Good luck! Thanks for reporting back. And I apologize for the tone of my first reply. > > Thank you both very much. Your help is appreciated. > > -Dano > > Your very welcome. Wish I could have been of more help. Wayne -- You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN. -- Alan Perlis ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Debian Kills Disks
Subject: Re: Debian Kills Disks Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 03:57:44PM -0700 In reply to:Bob Nielsen Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Floppies are getting even worse. They are not reliable but we can't > > all get a zip or LS120. Debian doesn't overwork them, they just fail. > > I bought 100 new Fuji floppies and 15 out of 100 would not even > > format, on Win95 or Linux! > > I wonder what the track record for zip and LS120 disks is. > > > > > > > Even Debian is refusing to install properly on it, the last semi > > > successful install attempt resulted in a Read Only partial install that > > > won't boot from the hard disk and a floppy boot won't access the hard > > > disk. I believe that Debian has "signed" the boot partition in some way > > > to make the disk(s) unusable. In other words, a software flag or > > > partition id was written to the disk in a way that was not completely > > > correct. How can I correct this? Is there a Hex editor I could use to > > > clear the boot sector of the disk so a new install would work correctly? > > > > > > > I would go to http://toms.net/tomsrtbt and get his 1 floppy Linux system. > > With it you will be able to look at the HD and might be able to figure > > what went west. > > This requires a floppy formatted at 1.7 MB, which will challenge many > floppies which format successfully at 1.44 MB (Linux or DOS). I went > through five "good" floppies before I could install it. > > Bob It only took me 3 of the Fuji's Bob. But I have had no trouble using 'his' fdformat program. Now superformat is yet another story. Wayne -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: dselect Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be to > save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the selection on a > new system so I don't have to do it everytime. Maybe this feature is already > there and I don't know about it... > > Wayne > you want to use dpkg --get-selections > file , dpkg --set-selections < file frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;Birmingham;;;UK version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr x-mozilla-cpt:;-8160 fn:Frankie end:vcard
IRC and BitchX newbie -- where do I read about how to get started?
I've just installed BitchX because I want to join in on the Slink release IRC party thingy. Unfortunately I have never used IRC, let alone BitchX before, and I'm really not sure how to get started. I tried man bitchx, and also looked in /usr/doc/bitchx, but it seems this documentation is for people who already have a basic idea about what's going on. Can anyone point me to an introductory HOWTO or some similar such thing. Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
cpu used too much
My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com
Re: IP-aliasing
Subject: IP-aliasing Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:05:07PM -0600 In reply to:Ian Keith Setford Quoting Ian Keith Setford([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a one gateway with a 3c905b (Boomerang) running 2.2.2 just fine. > When I use ifconfig to alias an ip it works no problem. On a different > machine, an HP Vectra, with a 3c905b? (Cyclone) and the IP-aliasing works > only with 2.0 kernels. Weird. I have compiled 2.2.2 for this Vectra 6 > times with variuos kernel configs to try and narrow the problem. No luck. > Then I copied my .config from the Gateway and compiled, no go. I also > just copied the kernel image to the Vectra, no go. > Kernel 2.2.x no longer uses ipfwadm. It now uses ipchains. Check http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/firewall/ for some great info and also an interactive pgm to help you set up your filewall & forwarding. the ipchains homesite is, IIRC rustcorp.com.au. > Anyone have an idea why it would work on one machine and not another? I > haven't swapped the NIC's because my box is the Gateway and I don't want > to lose my stability. Selfish I guess. Anyways, does anyone have a > suggestion? > > Thanks in advance! > > -Ian HTH -- Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: OFFTopic: Insert eps file in a Tex document
> Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX. > Thanks,Paulo Henrique I'm afraid I only know how to do it in latex. Is there any reason why it must be in TeX rather than LaTeX? Sorry I can't be of more help, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Re: modem user
Subject: modem user Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:40:38PM -0600 In reply to:Fethi A. Okyar Quoting Fethi A. Okyar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi, > > The last thing I expected to have problems with during my > recent hamm installation (2.0.34) was with the modem, but > guess what? > > I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring > which jumper switches to use, my modem is using ttyS3. By > the way does anybody think it would be easier to use the > PnP mode, rather than hardwiring to COM3,IRQ4 ? > > The problem I'm having right now, is I can only run programs > such as minicom or seyon, when I have root privilages ! > I tried creating a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS3, called it > /dev/modem, and even when I used this ordinary users still > cannot access the modem. > Help will greatly be appreciated ! Did you check permissions on /dev/ttyS3... Whoa ttyS3 isn't COM 3 its COM4. COM 1 & 3 use IRQ 4 ( ttyS0 & ttyS2) COM 2 & 4 use IRQ 3 ( ttyS1 & ttyS3) > > Fet > > Research Assistant > MMAE Dept. IIT HTH -- Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: cpu used too much
> My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the > time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? Try top and see what is the process that eats up all the CPU. Naturally you should not see CPU working a lot, unless you are, for example, starting Netscape. For example, on my computer CPU load is 5-8% at most, when I'm not doing any compilations/etc. If a process eats up 95% of CPU it means it's crashed. Some processes just don't die quietly when they crash, but go into loop instead, therefor eating all the CPU. What are consequences of that? Anyone? I'd figure heat that builds up will eventually become a problem overheating your CPU, which will result in errors and crashes. So 'top' and see whats causing the problem. THen kill the process, if needed. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.
Re: OFFTopic: Insert eps file in a Tex document
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:06:43PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX. Look in the DVIPS manual - run "info dvips" or type "M-x info RET m dvips RET" in Emacs. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
cpu used too much...
Howdy Y'all I'm a VB Programmer trying to pick up on Linux & C++... When a program goes into a loop, like when a program crashes, the computer will act strange... Things will be extremely slow, or will not work, etc... If you check with 'top' & see what's eating up your cpu, like Andrei suggested, make sure you know what the process is that is eating up the cpu time... If you are not familiar with it, see what others may know Hope This Helps, Brant Wells
Re: cpu used too much
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:45:10PM -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: [Dead processes eating CPU] > What are consequences of that? Anyone? > I'd figure heat that builds up will eventually become a problem > overheating your CPU, which will result in errors and crashes. It's not going to overheat your CPU unless things are broken anyway - your CPU should be able to handle 100% utilisation quite happily. It will keep things warm, but hardworking processors (usually) run hot. What it does do is take resources away from processes that are actually doing useful work, and indcates that something down the line is broken. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: cpu used too much
OK. It was xosview eating up 87% of my cpu. Now, everthing is back to normal... Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the > > time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? > > Try top and see what is the process that eats up all the CPU. > Naturally you should not see CPU working a lot, unless you are, for > example, starting Netscape. For example, on my computer CPU load is 5-8% > at most, when I'm not doing any compilations/etc. > If a process eats up 95% of CPU it means it's crashed. Some processes just > don't die quietly when they crash, but go into loop instead, therefor > eating all the CPU. > > What are consequences of that? Anyone? > I'd figure heat that builds up will eventually become a problem > overheating your CPU, which will result in errors and crashes. > > So 'top' and see whats causing the problem. THen kill the process, if > needed. > > Andrew > --- > Andrei S. Ivanov > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UIN 12402354 > http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. > >
Re: Help..can't delete broken links, directories et all!!
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Roddie Rod wrote: > Anyway, now I a gig or more of broken symlinks, directories and files. > Most are in /usr/lost+found but some are in /usr/lib/* and /usr/man. > Problem is I can't delete them. I have tried to rm -f, delete using > midnight commander and renaming the files! Nothing works is tells me > operation not permitted. I've tried to chown and chmod nothing! Sounds like that partition has been mounted read-only, possibly because of errors that fsck can't fix automatically. What happens when you type "mount"? -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer > > Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be > > compiled sometime. > Shhh, boy did I screw up! It was supposed to say DIAGNOSE.TXT! > Sorry!!! LOL, it's okay, have a look at what I just found has been staring me in the face! man smbclient SYNOPSIS smbclient servicename ... [-L NetBIOS name] ... ^ Hmm... maybe I need to keep my eyes open more. > > > > Why is my samba box not the master? (I've got my smb.conf attached > > > > later) > > > > btw, FRIGG isn't a printer, but I would like to have it serve a printer > > > > which explains the Comment field. > > > This is all explained in the docs! To have your Linux box be the > > > master put this in [ global ] > > >os level = 33 > The docs say that an os level of 33 forces the Linux box to be the > master. Well that USED to be the case anyway. I am using my old > smb.conf. from 1.9.10 and it works the same in 2.0.2. Maybe I should > RTFM on 2.0.2 myself. Well, the docs still claim that this is the case, though from personal experience I can tell you that it's obviously not that simple. I'll be sure and post when I figure out exactly the problem. Maybe we could benefit from a "Samba Quick-Start and FAQ" if there isn't one. I'll look, and if not, I'll start one when I figure this thing out. > > Still does not work, I eventually got it to be master, but not with this > > line which appeared to have no effect. I had been going through the > > BROWSING.txt file and removing and adding many things from smb.conf as > > experiments but to no avail, it just so happened that my os level = line > > was commented out when I pasted non-comment lines into the message. I > > always read docs before posting questions, and have been trying to figure > > this out for over a week. Please give people the benefit of the doubt > > before exclaiming that everything they need is in the docs. > Sorry but it seems like a lot of people don't. I have never seen the > smbclient done like you had it & thought THAT was the real problem. > As it was so different, I thought you might not have read the docs. Well, it _was_ a little different. I'll clean the dust off my glasses next time. > > > After reading the doc's let us know what you had to do to get it up, > > > OK. > > I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts > > suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the > > bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box > > at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there > > should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears > > to work. > Yes that would bother me to. It looks like you are close now tho. A > few more tweaks and you will have it. > Good luck! Thanks for reporting back. And I apologize for the tone > of my first reply. No harm done, sorry if I misunderstood. Thanks again. -Dano
Re: DHCP client for 2.2.x/token-ring???
I gave it a try this morning... unfortunately, it exits with a message to the effect of "interface is not ethernet". There's a patch floating around for version 0.70 which (mostly) makes it work with token-ring, but it won't apply against later versions (and a quick browse through the source seems to indicate that it wouldn't be a straightforward conversion). Luckily, a gentleman on the linux-kernel list has sent me a patch for dhclient. I can probably try it out tomorrow - hopefully we'll be able to roll from there. Thanx for your suggestion! On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 12:19:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > Does a DHCP client exist which can handle token-ring on 2.2.x kernels? > > Neither dhcpcd not dhclient (ISC's client) can deal with it. > > Try using dhcpcd v1.3, earlier versions (not remember which versions > exactly) did not support 2.1/2.2 kernels. I use Ethernet. But I think > dhcpcd has no problems with Token Ring itself. > > I hope tihs helps
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've been able to get it to work with some sites (which use video) and not > others. Does anyone know if Real is going to have an upgrade soon? G2? The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: Diff
> I had to hack the vnc* source code (for it to use more displays > than it was...). Now, I am trying to "diff" the old one with the new one, > but I would like diff's output to be like debian's diffs. Is there any > standard to diff files when you are making *.deb packages? I think the best way is for you to do 'diff -Nur ' Pedro Guerreiro -- Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
Subject: Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly) Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:23:11PM -0500 In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer > > > > Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be > > > compiled sometime. > > Shhh, boy did I screw up! It was supposed to say DIAGNOSE.TXT! > > Sorry!!! > > LOL, it's okay, have a look at what I just found has been staring me in > the face! > > man smbclient > SYNOPSIS > smbclient servicename ... [-L NetBIOS name] ... > > Hmm, and I don't use that syntax but do connect. I think I do have to get back to reading all those TXT files! > > Well, the docs still claim that this is the case, though from personal > experience I can tell you that it's obviously not that simple. I'll be > sure and post when I figure out exactly the problem. Maybe we could > benefit from a "Samba Quick-Start and FAQ" if there isn't one. I'll look, > and if not, I'll start one when I figure this thing out. > I found the SMB-HOWTO but I doubt it is worth the bother. Dated 10 August 1996 > > No harm done, sorry if I misunderstood. Thanks again. > > -Dano > > Thanks Wayne -- Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
strange log entry
I found the following message in my syslog after another machine (running RedHat) connected to mine to send me mail. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Mar 1 04:26:22 lilypad kernel: MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 205.xxx.xxx.xxx! (I have replaced the actual IP address with "x"'s What does this mean? Is it a Hamm bug? thanks -- Andrew -- PGP Key ID 0x5EE61C37 PGP5.0 --
how to set up the delete key under X Window ?
Under X Window backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly the same way as backspace. How can I achieve the key delete working under X Window in all applications (e.g. xterm, emacs, mathematica, netscape, vim,..) in the standard way (erasing the sign after cursor not before, like backspace does) ? On the console (without X Window) delete works in the standard way (erases signs after cursor). I use Debian2.0. Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan
dselect dumps core on me :-(
Hi! After I upgraded my laptop from HAMM to SLINK (using apt-get) I can't run dselect anymore. *sniff* I can start it allright, but as soon as I hit enter on any of the menu items it gives me a core dump, nothing else. :-( Apt still works, btw. Anybody have any clue what might have happened? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\<,__`\<,__>(_) (_)/<_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Do dpkg and apt use the same database?
According to E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db. Are you sure? When I do a "apt-get update" followed by a "dpkg -l ..." I sometimes do not get the same as when I do "dselect, Update" first? I have the feeling that dselect does one more thing. What supports this feeling is that "apt-get update" says: Get [blabla] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok whereas Update in dselect gives me: Get [...] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 2779 package(s) was updated. Does anyone know how to do everything with apt-get only, so that dpkg still has the correct information? Is it as simple as copying /var/cache/apt/available to /var/lib/dpkg/available ? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\<,__`\<,__>(_) (_)/<_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
OFF TOPIC Re: PINE config
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, COfrog wrote: > Interesting glitch in Pine 4.10 > > My ISP requires that my mailer send my login ID and correct domain name. > Configuring Pine for that was no problem, however, I use a remailer > service for my primary email address, that way when I relo and switch > ISP's my email stays the same. > > I read through the archives and FAQ's and found the custom-headers > settings. Setting the Reply-To worked without a hitch. > > One problem - even though I have From: set in the custom-headers table, > the sent header only contains my local name and domain-name. > > Any thoughts on what might be causing the mix-up? Or how to force the > bugger? > > - BOHICA >>> Off Topic BOHICA??? Bend over, here it comes again? Used to keep a BOHICA file in my briefcase for government forms. Doesn't this refer to what the government has been doing to its sovereign's, "we the people"? At least until lately..., now it refers to what "Little Willie" is up to. >> On Topic << Pine 4.10 seem's a little buggy. Changing listnames I have to wait for my machine to log onto the net before it will switch lists. Can't you mung the headers? +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org | +--+
Re: how to set up the delete key under X Window ?
Subject: how to set up the delete key under X Window ? Date: Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 03:30:50AM +0100 In reply to:Jan Krupa Quoting Jan Krupa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Under X Window > backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly > the same way as backspace. > > How can I achieve the key delete working under > X Window in all applications (e.g. xterm, emacs, mathematica, netscape, > vim,..) in the standard way (erasing the sign after cursor not > before, like backspace does) ? Well I had a fix til I reread the above. I have a fix that works for me but sightly different . My delete erases the character the cursor is on. My Backspace erases the character before the cursor. Well anyway here is what I have im my ~/.Xmodmap keycode 22 = BackSpace keycode 107 = Delete HTH -- Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much. ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
problem sending mail...
Folks, Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get out of my ISP's domain. However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the follow header: mail failed, returning to sender From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jesse |- Failed addresses follow: -| [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist |- Message text follows: | Received: by debian via sendmail from stdin id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:41:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [To: address snipped] Subject: Re: visiting CA Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:35:01 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm 'jesse' on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this message ok, so what's up? -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Re: OFF TOPIC Re: PINE config
If I were you I would run 3.96 (if you are running debian). Go to http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html all licensing issues have been resolved NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, COfrog wrote: > > > Interesting glitch in Pine 4.10 > > > > My ISP requires that my mailer send my login ID and correct domain name. > > Configuring Pine for that was no problem, however, I use a remailer > > service for my primary email address, that way when I relo and switch > > ISP's my email stays the same. > > > > I read through the archives and FAQ's and found the custom-headers > > settings. Setting the Reply-To worked without a hitch. > > > > One problem - even though I have From: set in the custom-headers table, > > the sent header only contains my local name and domain-name. > > > > Any thoughts on what might be causing the mix-up? Or how to force the > > bugger? > > > > - BOHICA > > >>> Off Topic > > BOHICA??? > > Bend over, here it comes again? > > Used to keep a BOHICA file in my briefcase for government forms. > Doesn't this refer to what the government has been doing to its sovereign's, > "we the people"? At least until lately..., now it refers to what "Little > Willie" > is up to. > > >> On Topic << > > Pine 4.10 seem's a little buggy. > Changing listnames I have to wait for my machine to log onto the net before it > will switch lists. > > Can't you mung the headers? > > +--+ > | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org | > +--+ > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Shared PPP connection?
Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection where on computer dials an isp? I would love to be able to do this... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com
Re: startup forced to X login
MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MallarJ> In a message dated 3/1/99 3:28:07 PM Central Standard Time, MallarJ> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lls> For now, I would prefer to simply get a CLI login and do startx lls> when I want it. MallarJ> MallarJ> This kind of annoyed me to I actually went back into MallarJ> /etc/init.d/xdm and edited the script the way it used to work MallarJ> in hamm MallarJ> PS - Why was this feature taken out in slink? I couldn't MallarJ> find any other way of NOT starting X at boottime other than MallarJ> to add this script data back in. Because in slink xdm (and other login managers) are in their own packages. So if you don't want xdm, The Right Thing To Do (TM) is either to remove the xdm package if you don't want to use xdm at all, or if you only want it to serve remote displays, edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers appropriately. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?" "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
Re: problem sending mail...
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. > > For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's > retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based > addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get > out of my ISP's domain. > > However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the > follow header: > > mail failed, returning to sender > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: jesse > > > |- Failed addresses follow: -| > [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender > domain > must exist |- Message text follows: > | Received: by debian [rest of headers snipped, this is the good part] You are connecting to the SMTP daemon on the remote machine which is attempting to do a DNS lookup on your domain. Seeing that it doesn't exist, it just denies your attempt to send. I gather you are on a dialup, so my reccomendation would be to edit your conf files to send mail through a "smarthost". If you're running smail, you can do this easily by running smailconfig which will prompt you through the whole process. > (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake > of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm > 'jesse' > on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this > message ok, so what's up? Their domain might have helped so that I could test my theory, but then I probably would have been too lazy to do so, so it probably doesn't matter. :) HTH -Dano
Re: Shared PPP connection?
Yes, lookup IP Masquerading At 07:38 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection >where on computer dials an isp? > >I would love to be able to do this... > >NatePuri >Certified Law Student >& Debian GNU/Linux Monk >McGeorge School of Law >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://ompages.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null Ramiel Givergis, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.relm.net --~~~===<[^]>===~~~-- This mail is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.
Re: Shared PPP connection?
Paul Nathan Puri writes: > Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection > where on computer dials an isp? Sure. That's ip masquerading. Look up ipfwadm. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
stop machine before fvwm2
This seems like a dumb question, and I'm sure this is probably really easy, but I'm still learning here... I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in windows)? Any help is much appreciated! Ben Frame
Re: problem sending mail...
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. > > For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's > retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based > addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get > out of my ISP's domain. > > However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the > follow header: > > mail failed, returning to sender > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: jesse > > > |- Failed addresses follow: -| > [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender > domain > must exist |- Message text follows: > | Received: by debian > via sendmail from stdin > id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) > for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:41:07 -0800 (PST) > From: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [To: address snipped] > Subject: Re: visiting CA > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:35:01 -0800 > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] > Content-Type: text/plain > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-KMail-Mark: > > (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake > of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm > 'jesse' > on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this > message ok, so what's up? > > -- > 'til next we type... > HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse It looks like the recipient's mail server insists on legal sender's address on email envelope. For example, your envelope From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 1 23:47:45 1999 is rejected because '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is not legal internet address. I had similar problem, some time ago. My solution was to re-generate /etc/sendmail.cf from /usr/src/sendmail/cf/cf/linux.smtp.mc: include(`../m4/cf.m4') VERSIONID(`linux for smtp-only setup')dnl OSTYPE(linux) FEATURE(nouucp)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(better.net)dnl<-- my ISP FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl <-- my addition FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl It turned out the following section controls how sendmail writes an envelope: ### ### Ruleset 94 -- convert envelope names to masqueraded form ### ### S94 R$+ $@ $>93 $1 #R$* < @ *LOCAL* > $* $: $1 < @ $j . > $2 --William.
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
"Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote: > I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts > suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the > bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box > at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there > should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears > to work. Enabling WINS in Samba solved my problems as well. Win95 is broken -- It will not reference lmhosts if DNS is enabled. Because of this all my windoze clients were polling like crazy. Enabling WINS on the Samba server eliminated all polling traffic and really sped things up. YMMV. -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I've been able to get it to work with some sites (which use video) and not > > others. Does anyone know if Real is going to have an upgrade soon? G2? > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called > rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? Do you have a URL for this? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Shared PPP connection?
Define IP-masquerading (plus a bit more, see the config help files and the HOWTO) in the kernel. It's easy to set up and works quite nicely for me with three computers. Bob On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection > where on computer dials an isp? > > I would love to be able to do this... > > NatePuri > Certified Law Student > & Debian GNU/Linux Monk > McGeorge School of Law > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ompages.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
RE: Installation via PCMCIA ethernet card
Get the drivers disk from 3Com and make the drivers as per their instructions. Then run 3c589.exe, or something similar to that, from there you can set the IRQ and the other setings of the card. On 28-Feb-99 Liam Healy wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi CD via the > network. This computer has a new hard disk, so I partitioned the disk > with cfdisk, then started to put Debian on the second partition, > leaving the first partition for Windows NT. I went through the > dbootstrap procedure of configuring the PCMCIA and the network. > Everything worked: I could NFS mount to get base2_1.tgz, and I could > ftp to a Debian mirror to get the packages. Then I stopped doing that > and went through a painful Windows NT installation. I finally got > winnt working, and went back to the Debian install. Now the network > is totally unreachable - I even wiped out the Debian partition and > started over, doing exactly the same thing in dbootstrap that I had > done before. No luck: I can't ping the machine from outside, and I > can't load anything in Debian. > > Is it possible that WinNT (with a Softex cardmanager) reconfigured > something that gets saved in the Etherlink III PCMCIA card? I did > change something in the BIOS, but it doesn't seem relevant (I disabled > the IR port). Other than these two possibilities, I don't see how the > WinNT setup could have affect Debian - or am I missing something? > > Thanks for any help. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > --- -- E-Mail: Mark Ciciretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 01-Mar-99 --
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called > > rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? > Do you have a URL for this? Oh, I have no idea where it came from. ISTR that I found it a couple of weeks (perhaps a month) ago using a DejaNews search. A quick check of the source (it's GPLed) shows that the author doesn't take credit for this work, so you can't get it that way. However, since it's only 8k long and since it's GPLed, I put it on my personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz There are no links to it or anything, you have to just know it's there. While you're at it, you can check out my 100 bottles of beer on the wall page at http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/beer.php3 -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: insert eps files in a TeX document
> Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX.
epsf.tex works in plain TeX, as far as I know. In the TeTeX
distribution, it's in /usr/lib/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex. It's
well documented there. Here are some excerpts from the file:
---
This file contains TeX macros to include an Encapsulated PostScript
graphic. It works by finding the bounding box comment, calculating
the correct scale values, and inserting a vbox of the appropriate size
at the current position in the TeX document.
To use, simply say
\input epsf % somewhere early on in your TeX file
then where you want to insert a vbox for a figure:
\epsfbox{filename.ps}
Alternatively, you can supply your own bounding box by
\epsfbox[0 0 30 50]{filename.ps}
This will not read in the file, and will instead use the bounding box
you specify.
The effect will be to typeset the figure as a TeX box, at the point of
your \epsfbox command. By default, the graphic will have its `natural'
width (namely the width of its bounding box, as described in
filename.ps). The TeX box will have depth zero.
You can enlarge or reduce the figure by saying:
\epsfxsize= \epsfbox{filename.ps}
or
\epsfysize= \epsfbox{filename.ps}
instead. Then the width of the TeX box will be \epsfxsize and its
height will be scaled proportionately (or the height will be
\epsfysize and its width will be scaled proportionately).
and much more .
Jim
Re: Shared PPP connection?
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:49:56PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > Yes, lookup IP Masquerading > > At 07:38 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > >Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection > >where on computer dials an isp? I have a similar question. Is IP Masquerading the same solution for networking say two, three, four computers (in a house or apartment), so that they can all share files and resources, as well as share a modem? Also, the computers will most likely be mixed animals, i.e. Windows and Linux. I'm looking into some type of multiple modem, ISDN, cable modem or something of the like connection, and having all computers in the house or apartment share this device, but also share files between all the computers, with NFS or samba or something similar. Is IP Masquerading the solution for this also? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"
PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....
Hello, I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds of boot-up errors I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit my FSTAB file - it gives me a "read-only" error... So how do I fix my FSTAB if "linux single" won't let me do it? Thanks to everyone in advance! Rich
Re: Shared PPP connection?
Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html It'll tell ya all you need to know about what to enable in the kernel and how to use ipfwadm etc. If you plan to use applications like ICQ or any servers on client computer on your network you'll need to use a Proxy aswell. >I have a similar question. Is IP Masquerading the same solution for >networking say two, three, four computers (in a house or apartment), >so that they can all share files and resources, as well as share a >modem? > >Also, the computers will most likely be mixed animals, i.e. Windows >and Linux. > >I'm looking into some type of multiple modem, ISDN, cable modem or >something of the like connection, and having all computers in the >house or apartment share this device, but also share files between all >the computers, with NFS or samba or something similar. > >Is IP Masquerading the solution for this also? > >MG > >-- >Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >"They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, > Lord, them delta women think the world of me." > -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man" > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null Ramiel Givergis, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.relm.net --~~~===<[^]>===~~~-- This mail is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.
Quake No longer running for users
Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven't yet tried the network settings, I'm moving soon and have the other machine packed already). Well to cut a long story short, I got the basic problems fixed, but now for some reason Quake (thats Quake 1) refuses to run as a user. I've checked all the settings I changed last time to get it to work but the update kept them intact. The exact error message I get is :- svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. Now, what has changed with the permissions on I/O between Hamm and slink that would account for this problem, and how can I "fix" it so I can run Quake again? Oh, before I forget I am running S-Quake, not X-Quake (for those who can't figure it out), and I don't really have the resources to run X-Quake properly, I use quake to do something while my machine is downloading lots of megabytes of the internet/compiling a kernel whatever, and I would rather _NOT_ run it as root. Thanx in advance, Peter Ludwig BTW - If anyone responded to my earlier message about proxying and such forth, could you email me your response direct, as I said I lost a few emails this morning .
IP Masq
I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255. What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after 'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com
Re: IP Masq
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking > stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. To get the IP Forwarding option you need to enable some weird options, I believe it's multicast something or other under 2.0.X or well, you can just select IP Masquarding under 2.2.1... > Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: > eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast > 192.168.1.255. > What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after > 'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? I'm not sure why you need all those values, all I have mine setup to (and it works) is: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 I added the gateway into the route of the machines that connect to this box to internet :) Works fine for me :)
Re: IP Masq
Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html before you ask any questions. At 10:49 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > >I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking >stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. > >Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: >eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast >192.168.1.255. > >What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after >'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? > >NatePuri >Certified Law Student >& Debian GNU/Linux Monk >McGeorge School of Law >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://ompages.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null Ramiel Givergis, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.relm.net --~~~===<[^]>===~~~-- This mail is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.
Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....
"Rich Hartman" wrote: >Hello, > >I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from >the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem >entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds >of boot-up errors > >I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit >my FSTAB file - it gives me a "read-only" error... > >So how do I fix my FSTAB if "linux single" won't let me do it? Boot from an installation floppy or CD; mount the root partition; go to a shell and edit /target/etc/fstab; reboot from hard disk. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth." Psalms 121:1,2
Re: IP Masq
I did read it... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html > before you ask any questions. > > > At 10:49 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > >I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > > > >I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking > >stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. > > > >Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: > >eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast > >192.168.1.255. > > > >What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after > >'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? > > > >NatePuri > >Certified Law Student > >& Debian GNU/Linux Monk > >McGeorge School of Law > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://ompages.com > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > >/dev/null > > > > > Ramiel Givergis, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.relm.net > --~~~===<[^]>===~~~-- > This mail is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and > grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to > be considered flaws or defects. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
Use rvplayer.deb installer. It has the wrapper built in. Problem solved, painlessly. Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > > > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called > > > rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? > > > Do you have a URL for this? > > Oh, I have no idea where it came from. ISTR that I found it a couple of > weeks (perhaps a month) ago using a DejaNews search. A quick check of the > source (it's GPLed) shows that the author doesn't take credit for this > work, so you can't get it that way. > > However, since it's only 8k long and since it's GPLed, I put it on my > personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz > There are no links to it or anything, you have to just know it's there. > > While you're at it, you can check out my 100 bottles of beer on the wall > page at http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/beer.php3 > -- > Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ > 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- see shy jo
Re: IP Masq
I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? Just wondering if my host and gateway are the same computer, whether I just need 192.168.1.1 or another as well? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > > I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking > > stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. > > To get the IP Forwarding option you need to enable some weird options, I > believe it's multicast something or other under 2.0.X or well, you can > just select IP Masquarding under 2.2.1... > > > Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: > > eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast > > 192.168.1.255. > > What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after > > 'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? > > I'm not sure why you need all those values, all I have mine setup to (and > it works) is: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > I added the gateway into the route of the machines that connect to this > box to internet :) Works fine for me :) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Help please
I have a 486SX whit 4MB i dont now what can do for intall debian. My problem is whit this partitions. Thaks for your atention. pachin 7.2 Low-Memory Systems If you system has less than 6MB RAM, a paragraph about low memory and a text menu with four choices can be displayed. This means that the system detected that you don't have enough memory for a normal installation, hence must follow a special low-memory installation procedure. Go through the menu selections in order: Use fdisk to create a Linux Swap partition (type 82). The swap partition is needed to provide virtual memory during the installation process, since that process will use more memory than you have in your system. Select the size for the amount of virtual memory you intend to use once your system is installed. 16 megabytes is probably the lowest amount that's practical, use 32 megabytes if you can spare the space, and 64 if your disk is large enough that you won't miss that much. In addition create a MINIX partition (type 81). This will hold the root filesystem in the early installation process. Its size should be at least 2 megabytes. This partition can be deleted when the installation is finished. Activate the swap partition. Copy the root filesystem to disk. You will need a DOS-formatted floppy disk with the root.bin file in it (for example, the rescue floppy disk). Exit. The normal installation system will be started.
Re: IP Masq
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? Yes. My Linux box serves the other machine I have here. (It used to serve a win95 machine, but they person who owned the machine got a little bit silly and kept turning off the network settings which I had setup for it). > Just wondering if my host and gateway are the same computer, whether I > just need 192.168.1.1 or another as well? Well, it works for me. If your main problem is that the other machine does not seem to be able to receive packets from the internet (i.e. it's a linux box or some such beastie), try setting up ip-forwarding. I installed dotfile-ipfwadm and after I'd setup my system, boy did things run great. I had a little problem originally with everything not being setup 100%, i.e. from the secondary machine (the one behind the linux box) I was able to request web pages, or ftp sites, but I couldn't receive them. Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: IP Masq
When you say 'set up ip forwarding,' do you mean on the gateway/host or the linux client? I've followed the mini howto very closely, and feel quit close. My machines ping each other no problem. But my linux client will not reach the outside world. I'm running 2.2.2 on both machines. I think I need to add a route on my linux client that says my gateway is 192.168.1.1, but "route add" doesn't work, but the howto is RH specific and I don't have the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? > > Yes. My Linux box serves the other machine I have here. (It used to > serve a win95 machine, but they person who owned the machine got a little > bit silly and kept turning off the network settings which I had setup for > it). > > > Just wondering if my host and gateway are the same computer, whether I > > just need 192.168.1.1 or another as well? > > Well, it works for me. If your main problem is that the other machine > does not seem to be able to receive packets from the internet (i.e. it's a > linux box or some such beastie), try setting up ip-forwarding. I > installed dotfile-ipfwadm and after I'd setup my system, boy did things > run great. I had a little problem originally with everything not being > setup 100%, i.e. from the secondary machine (the one behind the linux box) > I was able to request web pages, or ftp sites, but I couldn't receive > them. > > Regards, > Peter Ludwig > > >
Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:16:10PM +, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi! > > When I was new to debian, I made a hamm CD that is severely broken in > its directory structure. > > # ls /mnt/cdrom > binary-i386 disks-i386 upgrade-i386 > > # ls /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386 > Packages. Packages.gz devel hamradio net tex doc ... > > So, binary-i386 is complete. > > My /etc/apt/sources.list says > deb file:/mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/ / > > apt-get update works, but (for example) apt-get install joe tries to > install from > /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/joe_2.8-10.deb > which clearly does not exist. > > Which line do I need in sources.list for my broken cd? > First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: deb file://localhost/mnt stable main This way everything should work as expected. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) "The day Micro$oft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners"
Re: Help please
what size is your hard drive? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, pachin wrote: > I have a 486SX whit 4MB i dont now what can do for intall debian. My problem > is whit this partitions. > > Thaks for your atention. > > pachin > > > > > > > > 7.2 Low-Memory Systems > If you system has less than 6MB RAM, a paragraph about low memory and a text > menu with four choices can be displayed. This means that the system detected > that you don't have enough memory for a normal installation, hence must > follow a special low-memory installation procedure. Go through the menu > selections in order: > > > Use fdisk to create a Linux Swap partition (type 82). The swap partition is > needed to provide virtual memory during the installation process, since that > process will use more memory than you have in your system. Select the size > for the amount of virtual memory you intend to use once your system is > installed. 16 megabytes is probably the lowest amount that's practical, use > 32 megabytes if you can spare the space, and 64 if your disk is large enough > that you won't miss that much. > In addition create a MINIX partition (type 81). This will hold the root > filesystem in the early installation process. Its size should be at least 2 > megabytes. This partition can be deleted when the installation is finished. > > Activate the swap partition. > Copy the root filesystem to disk. You will need a DOS-formatted floppy disk > with the root.bin file in it (for example, the rescue floppy disk). > Exit. The normal installation system will be started. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: IP Masq
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > When you say 'set up ip forwarding,' do you mean on the gateway/host or > the linux client? On the client. Depending on how your Internet Connection is established (I use pon/poff myself) it may or may not setup a default route on the gateway.host machine. > I've followed the mini howto very closely, and feel quit close. My > machines ping each other no problem. But my linux client will not reach > the outside world. I'm running 2.2.2 on both machines. I think I need to > add a route on my linux client that says my gateway is 192.168.1.1, but > "route add" doesn't work, but the howto is RH specific and I don't have > the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Yeah, I had a problem with understanding how the ipforwarding worked when reading the howto's myself.. that's why I use dotfile-ipfwadm I can then just point and click (I hope that's a microsoft trademark, because if it is...). Anyhow, after allowing IP Masquerading I used dotfile-ipfwadm and well, the system worked fine. The Client machine needs to have it's default gateway set as your gateway/host machine. Oops... forgot an important detail before, you'll need to allow the IP number for your client machine as part of the allowed systems in your hosts.allow file for portmap: Example from my system :- # /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # # Example:ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup # ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu # # If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name "portmap" for the # daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword "ALL" and IP # addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz for further information. # portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 Also make sure (for security purposes, you don't want somebody playing with your system from outside, i.e. the internet) that you have the hosts.deny set similar to the file below # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # # Example:ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain # ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain # # If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name "portmap" for the # daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword "ALL" and IP # addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz for further information. # # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its # address. portmap: ALL These files are VERY important, without them setup correctly, no matter what I did I couldn't do anything. For your information portmap refers to the gateway/hosts DNS server, and the above files should be on the gateway/host. Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
Setup ethernet connection
Dear Debian Users, I need to setup an ethernet connection at work. I always use debian at home, but never use it over a large LAN. Could someone please tell me how to setup an enthernet connection? Is there a tool like Redhat's netcfg to do this? Or do I have to edit the file /etc/init.d/network by hand? Also, could you please tell me what packages I will need in order to use the ethernet connection? Thanks very much. This is my first job using linux, I really want to impress my boss. Regards, Shao. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|___/ _
Re: Setup ethernet connection
Ethernet is very easy: 1) make sure you have your kernel configured right (i.e., mod for your NIC). 2) add hosts to /etc/hosts 3) ifconfig 192.168.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.x.255 (a) do this on the host and the clients, 4) this should cover it. 5) read Ethernet-HOWTO.gz NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > I need to setup an ethernet connection at work. I always use > debian at home, but never use it over a large LAN. > > Could someone please tell me how to setup an enthernet connection? > Is there a tool like Redhat's netcfg to do this? Or do I have to edit the > file /etc/init.d/network by hand? > > Also, could you please tell me what packages I will need in order > to use the ethernet connection? > > Thanks very much. This is my first job using linux, I really want > to impress my boss. > > Regards, > > > Shao. > > > Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ > Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ > University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | > Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|___/ > _ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Hamm-->Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely
I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my mail box straight away. The rest of the messages sit around in the /var/spool/exim/input directory for about 5 minutes before eventually being delivered to my mail box. Under Hamm the messages would all go straight to my mail box. Why is it that under Slink, only the first 10 get there directly, and the rest take their time? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
non-anonymous ftp with MC?
Question. How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? I want to connect to SUN with user id and password. But I can not. The only thing that I can get from MC home page is type "cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This example doen't tell me how to input passwd. Best Regards. Chul-Yong, Shin -- bizz ! E-mail is not authorized in Business. But Fax or Letter. ! ! E-mail is just a question, when I use E-mail in Bizz.! ! If you need authorized letter, Say me "need Authority". ! ! Then I will Fax to you with pleasure.! http://www.dw.co.kr tel : 82+2+818-5741 fax : 82+2+818-5890 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- personal!! U touch me, I hit U. !! ! ( 6 6 ) \_^_/ !! I'm sorry, I have no fixed abode !! C.P : 016-332-0518 - wife+me(leave Mess.=Kor.+Eng.) tel : 032-551-1219 - In-chun(Home=Kor.+Eng.) tel : 0 2-849-0867 - Seoul (Mom =Kor.) mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ICQ no:12511235 -> now invalid http://wwp.mirabilis.com/12511235 -- When this is first mail from me, It's etiquette to return mail.
bash-2.02 breaks scp?!
Hi *, recently I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to get all the brand new potato-debs and after that I could no longer scp files between the machines, that were just upgraded. Instead I always got an 'fortune: command not found'. I downgraded to bash-2.01 and everything is fine again. Any hints? By Töns -- _o) /\\ pgp fingerprint: 9B AC A5 CB C8 CC FC DC 25 B5 26 9A 5D 28 C0 3D _\_V
Re: stop machine before fvwm2
Ben Frame wrote: >I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the >window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A >key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in >windows)? Presumably you mean `without starting X'? (since fvwm2 is just another X program). a) interrupt the LILO boot by pressing the Control key and type `linux single' in response to the boot prompt; that will put you in single-user mode and will not, therefore, start X. or b) edit g/etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm [not relevant to the most recent versions of X where xdm is a separate package and /etc/X11/config is no longer used.] or c) allow xdm to start and use ctrl-R to terminate it at the login screen If you are able to log in through xdm, you can also get to a console screen by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 [and -F2, -F3 up to -F6] after your X session is up and running. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth." Psalms 121:1,2
Remote printers: lpr vs. lprng. Which one should I use?
Hi all! Mi local printer works perfectly, but now I want to use one of the remote printers of the Department. I will read the docs of related packages in order to configure printcap to use it. But I have a doubt: Which package should I use? lpr or lprng? This is the situation: my computer has its own IP address (147.156.6.236) and the printer is a HP Laserjet 4000 with its own IP address (147.156.6.19). Then, should I need package cti-ifhp, or magicfilter is right for me? Thanks! -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385
Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: >First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links >dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: > >deb file://localhost/mnt stable main > >This way everything should work as expected. This way, I'd basically create a directory tree that does look like a non-broken CD. I see, this might be the only way to get apt-get to work on that CD. Thanks for your comments. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: stop machine before fvwm2
> > Ben Frame wrote: > >I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the > >window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A > >key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in > >windows)? > > Presumably you mean `without starting X'? (since fvwm2 is just another > X program). [ .. how to do that .. ] Wouldn't it be nice to have a run-level that doesn't start X by default in debian? It is one of the first things I do after installing debian on a machine. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: Quake No longer running for users
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to > slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying > that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything > going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven't yet tried the network settings, > I'm moving soon and have the other machine packed already). > > Well to cut a long story short, I got the basic problems fixed, but now > for some reason Quake (thats Quake 1) refuses to run as a user. I've > checked all the settings I changed last time to get it to work but the > update kept them intact. The exact error message I get is :- > > svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. Svgalib needs suid root permissions. To give the executable the proper permissions, execute `chmod u+s /usr/games/squake.real` The executable in the .deb is not like this for security reasons. > Now, what has changed with the permissions on I/O between Hamm and slink > that would account for this problem, and how can I "fix" it so I can run > Quake again? Oh, before I forget I am running S-Quake, not X-Quake (for > those who can't figure it out), and I don't really have the resources to > run X-Quake properly, I use quake to do something while my machine is > downloading lots of megabytes of the internet/compiling a kernel whatever, > and I would rather _NOT_ run it as root. xquake does not have this problem anyway. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. - Don't force it, use a bigger hammer. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
still have browser trouble
Installed Debian 2.0 from CD and everything worked. Decided to add space on hard disk but then several reinstalls all led to same browser problems.Browsers arena and gzilla, which worked before, now give error messages. Chimera2 still seems to work, but when used to download netscape communicator, something is wrong with the downloaded file. The file shows up in ls , gunzip says no such file or directory.Have downloaded netscape several times from different sites. Tried variations of XF86Setup, no help. Have new IBM Aptiva with pro rage card, not listed in XF86Setup, so used generic VGA card. Tried to remove and reinstall gzilla. dpkg -l says it is installed, but dpkg -purge says that it is not installed. I have tried both gunzip xxx.tar.gz and gunzip ./xxx.tar.gz, neither works. Have looked at file dependencies for gzilla and replaced several, not all, from ftp rather than CD, no help. As far as I can tell, except for browsers, everything else works as it should. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
link button (was: Debian 2.1 NOW! logo)
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the imminent release of Debian 2.1, and people asking how to make > Debian more visible, I've revamped a logo I created a while ago, and > put it on my web site. It's less than 2K as a GIF, but even so I > won't attach to an email to a public list. I'd just like to clarify this post. There's no way this is the official logo (and I designed it in my capacity as an enthusiastic Debian user, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED]); it's just a little button I threw together for people who want to put something on their web page. I'm looking forward to us getting a real logo soon. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "And so, New York has joined the fraternity of cities whose only admission requirement is to be overrun with evil zombies."http://www.sluggy.com/
Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:49:22AM +, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: > >First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links > >dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: > > > >deb file://localhost/mnt stable main > > > >This way everything should work as expected. > > This way, I'd basically create a directory tree that does look like a > non-broken CD. Yes, it was my intention. :-) Small errata: links dists, stable and frozen should point to actual directory (/mnt) not to main! Simply dists--->. , stable--->. , frozen--->. And apt looks into /mnt/dists/stable/main and it will look in fact into /mnt/main as it should in your case. Link "frozen" is sometimes needed by apt-get so you should also create it. > I see, this might be the only way to get apt-get to work on that CD. I think so. I've used it to get apt-get to work with my strange slink mirror. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) "The day Micro$oft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners"
Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Keith Saxon wrote: > I'm trying to install .deb files from a DOS partition. I did that installing linux on an old compaq laptop with dos 6.2 > That's where I rejoined the perl_5.004.04-6.deb file tht I'm trying to > install. Just rename the file to something like perl.deb and install it with dpkg -i /mnt/perl.deb. Johann. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth." Psalms 121:1,2
xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs
hi, i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E cdrom drive. it fails to open /dev/scd0. the FAQ suggests a test - dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/null bs=2k count=10. the test fails. according to the faq it indicates no support for iso-9660/high-sierra filesystem. i'm running version 2.0.34. i checked /lib/modules/2.0.34 and i see all kinds of nls_iso8859_?.o modules but no 9660. is there an os module for 2.0.34 i could compile? where would i find it? tia, -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |
Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?
> I read somewhere that dpkg can handle "mangled" filenames because it looks > inside the package to determine if it is the correct version. Is dpkg what > I need to be learning to use? > It is certainly worth knowing how to use dpkg directly for one-off operations. > > CD-ROM is not an option. Modem is not an option. Are files in my > /hda3/debian (which is my Windows 3.1 c:\debian directory) an option? > That's where I rejoined the perl_5.004.04-6.deb file tht I'm trying to > install. > > Thanks for the on-list and off-list suggestions I've already received. The > idea about changing my ms-dos partition to a vfat partition which would > support long filenames is a good idea, but I don't know if that will help > me since I have Windows 3.1. Thanks for your patience. I'm trying to leap > from Windows 3.1 to Linux instead of following the path from Windows > 3.1...to Windows 95to Windows 98to an old Windows NTto a new > Windows NTto who-knows-what. The get-the-CD suggestion was also a good > suggestion but right now I'm trying to introduce myself to Linux on my > computer which has no CD before I make big changes to my other computer > which my family uses every day (it has Windows 3.1, also). > > It may be worth investigating the UMSDOS file system - this provides a Unix file system (with long file names) over an MSDOS filesystem. The Unix files live in an MSDOS directory, with a DOS file called something like linux.--- which holds the long filename and protection/ownership info etc; all the things that Unix likes which DOS does not have. The files themselves look to the DOS side of things like a truncated form of their long names. It is useful for people running in a mixed environment because it allows you to pinch space from your DOS partition and use it as real Unix space John Lines p.s. Slackware had support for a UMSDOS boot disk - you could run with no 'real' Linux partition at all. It would be very handy to have that in Debian at some stage.
Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:26:08PM +0900, chul-yong,shin wrote: > Question. > > How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? > > I want to connect to SUN with user id and password. > > But I can not. > > The only thing that I can get from MC home page is > > type "cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This example doen't tell me > > how to input passwd. > Try ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That's what I use with netscape, and it works fine. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards. > Chul-Yong, Shin > > -- > bizz > ! E-mail is not authorized in Business. But Fax or Letter. ! > ! E-mail is just a question, when I use E-mail in Bizz.! > ! If you need authorized letter, Say me "need Authority". ! > ! Then I will Fax to you with pleasure.! > http://www.dw.co.kr > tel : 82+2+818-5741 > fax : 82+2+818-5890 > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > personal !! U touch me, I hit U. !! > > ! > ( 6 6 ) > \_^_/ > > !! I'm sorry, I have no fixed abode !! > C.P : 016-332-0518 - wife+me (leave Mess.=Kor.+Eng.) > tel : 032-551-1219 - In-chun (Home=Kor.+Eng.) > tel : 0 2-849-0867 - Seoul(Mom =Kor.) > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > ICQ no:12511235 -> now invalid > http://wwp.mirabilis.com/12511235 > -- > When this is first mail from me, It's etiquette to return mail. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: IRC and BitchX newbie -- how to get started?
Mark Phillips dixit: > > I've just installed BitchX because I want to join in on the Slink > release IRC party thingy. Unfortunately I have never used IRC, let > alone BitchX before, and I'm really not sure how to get started. I > tried man bitchx, and also looked in /usr/doc/bitchx, but it seems > this documentation is for people who already have a basic idea about > what's going on. > > Can anyone point me to an introductory HOWTO or some similar such > thing. If you get any answer in private, could you let me know, please? I used irc long ago with doze and telnet, but bitchx (or xbitchx) doesn't look like that at all. TIA Horacio.
Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?
"chul-yong,shin" wrote: > > Question. > > How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? > Press ESC then c, in the window type : ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] then Enter -- Bye Tim&HisTeam
Where does my mail go?
Hi, I have changed from using fetchmail/elm to using fetchmail/mutt, but now can not find the messages fetchmail receives. When I start Mutt, it goes to the /var/spool/mail/username box. Mutt claims this box is empty. When I change to ~/Mail/inbox, mutt also can not find any messages. The only messages mutt can find are in ~/Mail/received. These messages where put there by Elm. What I wrong here? Thanks, Robert-Jan
www.debian.org/2.0/install
By choosing the link installation guide on the debian homepage I am downloading the file install containing the line: loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin Thats really easy, but why do I need DOS to install debian? Werner
Re: Hamm-->Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely
On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote: > I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the > same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my > mail box straight away. I've got the same problem. Strange, isn't it. -- Graham
Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:07:31AM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi Aaron, > > i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E cdrom drive. it > fails to open /dev/scd0. you must : make menuconfig, or equal, than select # # Filesystems # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m cu -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE config
there is a secion in the code that contains this paragraph: # Define this if you want to be sure to not allow users to change their # From header line when they send out mail. Even if you don't define # this the default is to not allow From to be changed. The user would have # to edit (by hand) "allow-changing-from" into their .pinerc feature list # or the sys-admin would have to include it in the default feature-list. # Even after that, the user still has to include it in either their # default-composer-hdrs or customized-hdrs to get at it. Instead of # defining NEVER_ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM, an easier way of preventing From # changing is to put the feature "no-allow-changing-from" in the # /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed file. #/* #define NEVER_ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM /* probably not needed */ so in the feature-list section I added: allow-changing-from at the bottom in .pinerc (note that you have to do this by hand, there isn't a config option to allow it) and then in the setup -> config section I did this: customized-hdrs=From: Kevin Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reply-To: Kevin Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> try that and see if it's what you're looking for. On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, COfrog wrote: > Interesting glitch in Pine 4.10 > > My ISP requires that my mailer send my login ID and correct domain name. > Configuring Pine for that was no problem, however, I use a remailer > service for my primary email address, that way when I relo and switch > ISP's my email stays the same. > > I read through the archives and FAQ's and found the custom-headers > settings. Setting the Reply-To worked without a hitch. > > One problem - even though I have From: set in the custom-headers table, > the sent header only contains my local name and domain-name. > > Any thoughts on what might be causing the mix-up? Or how to force the > bugger? > > - BOHICA > -- kc Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to mount my bernouli rw for world on samba
I moved my bernouli drive out of my windows nt desktop to make room for a larger HD (only two drive bays). So I shoved it into the linux machine sitting under the table. The linux machine is running smb so I can have it share it's disk space and printer with the nt box (so far this has worked fine). While I was able to set up a directory on one of the fixed disks to be rw to the nt machine, I can't seem to get this to work with the bernouli. If I set the mount point on the bernouli to be a+w,a+x,a+r it changes when the drive is mounted (by root)so users can't write to it. Any ideas on how to set permissions, fstab options, mount command options, smb.conf so I can attach to the bernoulli (or any removable drive for that matter) from the windows network via samba for rw access on the bernouli? My current directory structure looks something like this: /dev/hda1--->/ /dev/sda1--->/usr /dev/hdb1--->/usr/local || | /push | /iomega The directory /usr/local/push is sharable as rw by windows nt on the network. I want to do the same with a bernouli mounted at /iomega. Thanks for any help! == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....
This is a good application for the rescue disk (of the installation floppy set). You can alt-F2 to get a console screen, mount the root partition to /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/fstab with ae. Bob On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Hartman wrote: > Hello, > > I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from > the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem > entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds > of boot-up errors > > I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit > my FSTAB file - it gives me a "read-only" error... > > So how do I fix my FSTAB if "linux single" won't let me do it? > > Thanks to everyone in advance! > > Rich > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Shared PPP connection?
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html > It'll tell ya all you need to know about what to enable in the kernel > and how to use ipfwadm etc. > > If you plan to use applications like ICQ or any servers on client computer > on your network you'll need to use a Proxy aswell. No proxy needed, the ip_masq_irc.o and others will handle this for many cases (irc, ftp, real audio, cuseeme, quake, vdolive). Bob > > > > >I have a similar question. Is IP Masquerading the same solution for > >networking say two, three, four computers (in a house or apartment), > >so that they can all share files and resources, as well as share a > >modem? > > > >Also, the computers will most likely be mixed animals, i.e. Windows > >and Linux. > > > >I'm looking into some type of multiple modem, ISDN, cable modem or > >something of the like connection, and having all computers in the > >house or apartment share this device, but also share files between all > >the computers, with NFS or samba or something similar. > > > >Is IP Masquerading the solution for this also? > > > >MG Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
I've been using the rvplayer debian package all along. As I mentioned, since 2.2, it does work some of the time, but some sites just won't play at all (they work with 2.0.36 however). Bob On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Use rvplayer.deb installer. It has the wrapper built in. Problem solved, > painlessly. > > Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > > > > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called > > > > rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? > > > > > Do you have a URL for this? > > > > Oh, I have no idea where it came from. ISTR that I found it a couple of > > weeks (perhaps a month) ago using a DejaNews search. A quick check of the > > source (it's GPLed) shows that the author doesn't take credit for this > > work, so you can't get it that way. > > > > However, since it's only 8k long and since it's GPLed, I put it on my > > personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz > > There are no links to it or anything, you have to just know it's there. > > > > While you're at it, you can check out my 100 bottles of beer on the wall > > page at http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/beer.php3 > > -- > > Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ > > 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > see shy jo > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Shared PPP connection?
> I have a similar question. Is IP Masquerading the same solution for > networking say two, three, four computers (in a house or apartment), so > that they can all share files and resources,... That's just ordinary networking. > as well as share a modem? IP masquerading lets them all share the single IP your ISP gives you. > Also, the computers will most likely be mixed animals, i.e. Windows and > Linux. To share files with Windows you will want Samba. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
rouge package
hi all, first time I've posted here, so please help me out: I had an old .deb module from bo, nfsroot. I didn't know why it was dropped so went back and found it and installed it again (I wanted probenet). It appears to have wiped my (normally very full) /etc/init.d directory. This is a Bad Thing. It has also created more dangling symlinks than I can shake a stik at. Anyone have any suggestions or is it re-install? (recent installation - no /etc backup yet). Cheers, yours etc. [aibs.pem.cam.ac.uk] 01223 523183 David.(direct line/v-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs
hi Aaron, > > i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E cdrom drive. it > fails to open /dev/scd0. you must : make menuconfig, or equal, than select # # Filesystems # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m cu thanks, this will get me started. i couldn't see it using make menuconfig but make xconfig showed it grayed out. it looks i'm still missing something. a package? -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
Upgrade to frozen., Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've been using the rvplayer debian package all along. As I mentioned, > since 2.2, it does work some of the time, but some sites just won't play > at all (they work with 2.0.36 however). > > Bob > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Use rvplayer.deb installer. It has the wrapper built in. Problem solved, > > painlessly. > > > > Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > > > > > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called > > > > > rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? > > > > > > > Do you have a URL for this? > > > > > > Oh, I have no idea where it came from. ISTR that I found it a couple of > > > weeks (perhaps a month) ago using a DejaNews search. A quick check of the > > > source (it's GPLed) shows that the author doesn't take credit for this > > > work, so you can't get it that way. > > > > > > However, since it's only 8k long and since it's GPLed, I put it on my > > > personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz > > > There are no links to it or anything, you have to just know it's there. > > > > > > While you're at it, you can check out my 100 bottles of beer on the wall > > > page at http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/beer.php3 > > > -- > > > Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ > > > 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > > see shy jo > > > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- see shy jo
Re: still have browser trouble
> Installed Debian 2.0 from CD and everything worked. Decided to add > space on hard disk but then several reinstalls all led to same browser > problems.Browsers arena and gzilla, which worked before, now give > error messages. Chimera2 still seems to work, but when used to > download netscape communicator, something is wrong with the downloaded > file. The file shows up in ls , gunzip says no such file or > directory.Have downloaded netscape several times from different sites. Sorry, I may have missed the early post. What error messages you get? As for netscape-communicator-*.tar.g make sure you are typing the right file name, file is not a symbolic link, etc. These things might happen. > > Tried variations of XF86Setup, no help. Have new IBM Aptiva with pro > rage card, not listed in XF86Setup, so used generic VGA card. You might want to look up earlier versions of ProRage, see if they are in the card library. This might help you to get more out of the X in terms of resolution and color depth. Also, use SVGA xserver, at least. > I have tried both gunzip xxx.tar.gz and gunzip ./xxx.tar.gz, neither > works. Ok, try this instead. In the dir. where you have netscape-communicator file (make sure it's not /tmp yet, or you might lose the file whenever you logout), type gunzip and then first 3-4 characters of the file name. Then hit TAB. If you don't have any other file names starting with those characters, it will display the ful file name. Easy way to avoid typos. HTH, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.
VNC <-------------
Hello, Im trying to run vnc, but i have some troubles. I want run vncserver as me (filsin). When i do it i get, inside the log file, this: _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/,unix/:7101' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I get nothing similar with starting a X session. I have try to re-install xfont-base and vncserver but i get the same. Only root can run vncserver ok, so i think its a permition problem. What could i try to do? Thanks in advance, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs
perhaps i'm on the wrong trail. it dawned on me to look in /proc/filesystems and i see there nodev proc iso9660 does it mean i have iso9660 support built in? if so, why when i try to dd from /dev/scd0 i get dd: /dev/scd0: Operation not supported by device -a Aaron Stromas wrote: hi Aaron, > > i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E cdrom drive. it > fails to open /dev/scd0. you must : make menuconfig, or equal, than select # # Filesystems # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m cu thanks, this will get me started. i couldn't see it using make menuconfig but make xconfig showed it grayed out. it looks i'm still missing something. a package? -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 | -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |
Re: IRC and BitchX newbie -- how to get started?
http://www.irchelp.org/ Everything you could possibly need to know about IRC. If you don't feel like reading this here's a few quick commands which should get you through the Debian party: /server SERVER connect to SERVER /join CHANNEL join CHANNEL (channel names begin with #, like #debian) /part CHANNEL leave CHANNEL /quit quit IRC /msg Bob MESSAGE... Send private message to Bob Anything you type that doesn't begin with a / is sent to the channel as a message. Anything you read in those documents that mentions ircII also applies to BitchX, as it is just an improved version. -- /---\ | Eric Gillespie, Jr.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |<*>| | "Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and| | depriving him of his life there exists only a difference | | of degree." | | --Emperor Paul Muad'dib (Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah) | \---/
Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?
Thanks everybody. The on and off-list suggestions have *all* been helpful. I learned something from each. Now I have PERL, a Bible, and a game installed. I used dpkg. It's working no matter what I name the files. Now I know how to install some Linux documentation to use while I try the suggestions you gave about getting dselect to work. Great list! Keith
Connection timed out & Incorrect MD5Sum
When using apt-get at: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ why do I get the following errors repeatedly on the same packages? 1) Connection timed out 2) Incorrect MD5Sum What is the proper thing to do about a situation like this? Should I report it and if so, where? Should I use an alternate http site. The list of mirror sites does not list any alternate http sites. I tried a couple ftp sites and kept getting "Couldn't locate an archive source for package ...". Thanks for the help.
Re: startup forced to X login
In a message dated 3/1/99 9:34:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Because in slink xdm (and other login managers) are in their own > packages. So if you don't want xdm, The Right Thing To Do (TM) is > either to remove the xdm package if you don't want to use xdm at all, > or if you only want it to serve remote displays, edit > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers appropriately. > That makes sense. But what if I only want to disable xdm temporarily - for example, while I'm testing my new video card, or new monitor? -Jay
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: [ snip ] : personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz Your server is sending a MIME type of [text/plain] for this ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: startup forced to X login
> > In a message dated 3/1/99 9:34:38 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Because in slink xdm (and other login managers) are in their own > > packages. So if you don't want xdm, The Right Thing To Do (TM) is > > either to remove the xdm package if you don't want to use xdm at all, > > or if you only want it to serve remote displays, edit > > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers appropriately. > > > > That makes sense. But what if I only want to disable xdm temporarily - for > example, while I'm testing my new video card, or new monitor? You could make a run-level that does stop xdm (or does not start it). E.g., go to /etc/rc5.d, then mv S99xdm K01xdm Then if you start linux and add `5' to the command line of loadlin, or give it as an argument to the kernel with LILO (dunno how, didn't use it for a long time), xdm will not start. If you are already running, you can type telinit 5 to go to run-level 5 and stop xdm. Then do what you have to do and return to run-level 2 (the default) with telinit 2 I keep wondering why there is no run-level in debian that doesn't start xdm by default. It makes life much easier if you have to reconfigure/debug X for some reason. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: stop machine before fvwm2
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > [ .. how to do that .. ] > > Wouldn't it be nice to have a run-level that doesn't start X by default > in debian? It is one of the first things I do after installing debian > on a machine. Eric and Paul At the very least, the X (or xdm) package should let you get X working before activating xdm. I had a really bad turn with my new machine that has an SiS 6326, and Slink (frozen). X didn't work, but xdm did. My X now works, but not without using single user to kill xdm, and some playing with XF86Config and lots of RTFM, several of them, Readmes and HOWTOs too. Thanks for this. May it be plastered on the walls of the X developers. David David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software stability should be expected.
