netscape error :undefined symbol: _ _bzero

[john smith]

I have installed netscape communicator v2.2 and when I installed it it told 
me that it had error in loading shared libraries, it needed 
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, so I installed that now, when I try to still try 
to run netscape , it gives me a different error that I have no idea about.


./netscape:error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: _ _bzero
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Re: Accessing /dev/mem

[Ethan Benson]

On 12/1/2000 David Wright wrote:



Are you talking potato here? All my stable/slink systems show precisely:

crw-r-   1 root kmem   1,   2 Mar  3  1999 kmem
crw-rw   1 root kmem   1,   1 Mar  3  1999 mem

and that includes the dates. (I included kmem in case you'd misread
the line.)


I was talking potato, yes, i rechecked i have both files same major 
minor numbers but both are mode 640, in any event they should be 
owned by root and not some uid 8000+ something ;-)



(I have no idea what these devices do.)


I believe they give access to system memory, which is why its 
important that they be protected, i could be mistaken, and thinking 
of /proc/kcore but i don't think so.  (kcore represents all system 
memory too but is not accessable by anyone but root) group kmem is 
used by lsof which is setgid kmem presumably to access these devices.


I don't know whether its normal for write permission on the group 
under slink or not...


Ethan

Re: How to install new Window manager

[Ethan Benson]

On 12/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote:


But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can
someone tell me how to do this? All the explanations I've found go into
gorey detail about compiling it, then say something like "and then you
install it".


add a .xsession to your home directory wtih contents as follows:

#! /bin/sh

## name of your preferred windowmanager (afterstep may not be right name)
afterstep &

then chmod 700 .xsession

Ethan

Swapping dependencies

[Dave Sherohman]

On one of my machines, I initially installed ssmtp and I now want to replace
it with exim.  However...

dpkg -i exim...deb

fails because exim conflicts with ssmtp and

dpkg --purge ssmtp

fails because various other packages depend on mail-transport-agent...

I know I can use dpkg's 'force' options to override these complaints, but is
there a better way to perform this sort of replacement?

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Re: Swapping dependencies

[Joey Hess]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I know I can use dpkg's 'force' options to override these complaints, but is
> there a better way to perform this sort of replacement?

apt-get install exim

-- 
see shy jo

Re: dwww

[Bradley Bell]

dwww seems to need a _lot_ of work.  dhelp, on the other hand, will do
most of what you need.

-brad

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Moore wrote:

> is any1 else having a very hard time trying to get dwww to work on
> potato. Everything but the info pages will not work. After hacking the
> the scripts i was able to get the man pages to convert to html, but I am
> sure that it was a waste of time. any ideas where i have gone wrong?
> thanks
> 
> 
> evan
> 
> 
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Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > Did you try xanim-modules in potato (it's an online-installer for
> > non-free modules which are not part of the core xanim)?
> 
> Yes I tried xanim and xanim-modules, but it says: 
> 
> $ xanim sample.mov
> XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights
> Reserved
>   Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
>   Audio Codec: QDesign Music Codec (QDMC) not yet supported.
>   Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet supported.
> Usage:
>XAnim [options] anim [ [options] anim ... ]
>-h  lists some common options, but may be out of date.
>See xanim.readme or the man page for detailed help.

That means you're not going to view this movie without Windows or a Mac
anytime soon.  It uses the Sorenson video codec; it's authors have been
uncooperative wrt support outside of helping Apple with it.  Anything else
is 200% out of the question (iirc).

-- 
--
Phil Brutsche   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

setting up w/o interaction

[Peter-Paul Witta]

hi!
i am not on this list, so please cc replies to me as well!

we do set up quite a few debian boxes at once, so i was asking if there is
some non-interactive way to set up debian. how do i do this?
can i create response-files or definition files and still use the setup
program, or should i setup without configuration after booting from my own
diskettes? i could apply a generated set of /etc/* files later -- but is
there no "right" way to do this?

kind regards, +43-676-5411293
Peter-Paul Witta  +43-1-7189880-0
CUBiT system engineering  www.CUBiT.at 

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

[David J. Kanter]

Put these entries:

> > FontPath   "unix/:7101"
> > FontPath   "unix/:7100"

after these entries:

> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled"
> > FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/"

-- 
David J. Kanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies
and coincidences."
  -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University

Re: mutt ignoring [tags]

[David J. Kanter]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:32:51PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> If you're using exim, you might try using the .forward file filtering built
> into exim instead of trying to do it in mutt, if you're having trouble.  

My two-cents worth: the default exim config is set up so you don't need to
use a .forward file if you use procmail.

Here's how I have it:

~/.procmailrc:

PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists
PMDIR=$HOME/procmail   # procmail recipies are here
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/procmail.log# recommended
VERBOSE=yes# for debugging
LOGABSTRACT=all

INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc  # plug-in recipies start here!

~/procmail/lists.rc:

:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian/


-- 
David J. Kanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear
while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear."
  
  -- Dr. Francis D. Moore Sr., 
 Moseley professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School.

Re: How to install new Window manager

[David J. Kanter]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> I'm a newbie at this. I figured I'd get started learning to customise all
> this stuff by installing a new Window Manager. I like the look of AfterStep
> (one of its skins in particular), so I've downloaded all the relevant bits.
> 
> But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE.

I would just have my ~/.xsession contain the line:

exec afterstep

> I'm also interested in the meta-question: where would I look, on the net or
> in /usr/doc or whatever, to work out the answer to this question for myself?

/usr/doc is a good start.

-- 
David J. Kanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear
while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear."
  
  -- Dr. Francis D. Moore Sr., 
 Moseley professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School.

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Yeah I also saw that, but it failes to compile with: 
> 
> $ make
> gcc -c `./c_flags` atom.c
> In file included from codecs.h:10,
>  from private.h:9,
>  from quicktime.h:11,
>  from atom.c:2:
> jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory
> jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [atom.o] Error 1
> 
> I haven't figured out what package these might be in if any. 

You're missing the libpng2-dev and libjpeg62-dev libraries, according to
my slink system.

-- 
--
Phil Brutsche   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

LILO fails to load

[Glen S Mehn]

Hi:

When I boot my machine, I get
LI
at the lilo prompt. The lilo docs say this can be caused by "a geometry
mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer"

Neither of these are things that I'm quite sure of.

I just built a custom kernel with make zlilo, which is meant to do all the
lilo dependencies for you.

I'm running on a Penguin Computing 2U rackmount server with a SCSI bus (the
kernel is compiled for the AIX 7XXX card). Debian potato.

Please respond via private email as well as to the list (I only get the
digest)

Regards!

Glen S Mehn

limits in /etc/passwd, and maybe a bug in processing /etc/limits? :)

[Jim B]

OK.  As a continuation of my previous ramblings on resource limits, I'm
running into two more similar issues on my slink machine.

According to /etc/login.defs, I should be able to employ resource limits
by editing users' passwd entries.  I have "QUOTAS_ENAB" in login.defs:

# Enable setting of ulimit, umask, and niceness from passwd gecos field.
#
QUOTAS_ENAB yes


If I look at man 5 passwd, I see the following:


   The  comment  field  is  used by various system utilities,
   such as finger(1).  Three additional values may be present
   in the comment field.  They are

pri= - set initial value of nice
umask= - set initial value of umask
ulimit= - set initial value of ulimit

   These  fields  are  separated from each other and from any
   other comment field by a comma.


I tried to set the umask to 022 this way with a test account, and I can't
get it to do anything at all.

I have tried adding "extra" comment entries by adding commas in
/etc/passwd, and I've also tried using the pre-existing comment
entries.  None of it works.  I end up with the default umask of 002 no
matter what... and yes I have commented-out the umask field in
/etc/profile, and there is none in the test user's .bash_profile,
.profile, and .bashrc.  :)

Anyone know the right way to do it?


My second problem... well, it looks like it may be a bug.  Note the
following text in /etc/limits:

# Valid flags are:
# A: max address space (KB)
# C: max core file size (KB)
# D: max data size (KB)

... and so on.


But any time I use the "A" limit, the whole line becomes useless.  See the
following in man 5 limits:

"A invalid limits string will be rejected (not considered) by the login
program."

If I take out the "A" limit, the rest of the line functions again.  So
there seems to be some kind of problem reading or enforcing this limit.


So a line like this:

* L2 D12288 M32768 R2048 S2048 U64 N256 F16384 T60 C0

works fine.


But one like this:

* A32768 L2 D12288 M32768 R2048 S2048 U64 N256 F16384 T60 C0

breaks the whole line and NO limits are enforced.


Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong (again)?  :)

Packet libz1 missing

[Gerhard Heid]

Hallo,
i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic   i386 -unstable,
but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not
listet at all.
How to solve this ?

Best  Regards

Gerhard

Re: mod_ssl

[Brad]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:31:21PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> 
>   Do you know how can I generate a certificate for a client? Is this
> possible with the mod-ssldebian package? Is there a way to generate such
> certificate without recurring to VerignSign or other CA? 

/usr/sbin/mod-ssl-makecert, it will also allow you to create your own CA
certificate if you choose the proper option.


-- 
  finger for GPG public key.
  8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added


pgpGl1DNnjcVg.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Re: mod_ssl

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or other CA 
but
without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first time they visit your 
site
about the certificate being signed by an unknown party. If they choose to keep 
the
certificate they won't be bothered again. I think the mod_ssl docs have an 
example on
how to generate the certificate.

Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do you know how can I generate a certificate for a client? Is this
> possible with the mod-ssldebian package? Is there a way to generate such
> certificate without recurring to VerignSign or other CA?
> This is intended for a private system (Intranet via Internet).
> I'm using potato.
> Thanks,
> []s,
> Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
> IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
> http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
>http://www.revistalinux.com.br
>
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samba copy permissions

[zdrysdal]

hiya

when using samba to copy one directory to another server it loses it
origional permission and owner settings.  i guess it's like when copying a
users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as
the owner of that file.

is there any setting in samba to tell it to keep it's origional
permission/ownership rights??  else i will have to use tar in order to
recreate this new server.

thanx

dpkg: extract specific file?

[Patrick Walsh]

Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb?

None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a 
candidate for this function.

[I've installed bash 2.03, 'info bash' now brings up the man page.
I'd like to reinstall the info file from the bash 2.02 .deb]

-- 
Patrick Walsh
Edmonton AB CA

Re: Packet libz1 missing

[Damir J. Naden]

Hi Gerhard Heid; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> Hallo,
> i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic   i386 -unstable,
> but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not
> listet at all.
> How to solve this ?
> 
> Best  Regards
> 
> Gerhard

The potato distribution has package zlib1g_*, which provides the libz1
dependancy. So, by installing the latest zlib1g your problem should be
solved.
HTH,
damir

Re: dpkg: extract specific file?

[Mike Werner]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:24:50PM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote:
> Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb?
> 
> None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a 
> candidate for this function.

Dunno about dpkg, but Midnight Commander can do it.  Just fire up
mc, find the deb in question, highlight it, and hit enter.  Give it
a second or two and mc will open the deb like it was a directory,
allowing you to copy out individual files.

Note: mc can do that with deb's, rpm's, tar's, gz's, tgz's, etc.
-- 
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ICQ# 12934898 |  "As far from Redmond as possible!"
'91 GS500E|
Morgantown WV |  Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: dpkg: extract specific file?

[Joey Hess]

Patrick Walsh wrote:
> Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb?
> 
> None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a 
> candidate for this function.

dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile file.deb | tar xvf - file

Note that "file" may need to be "./path/to/file" -- note the leading dot --
depending on what version of tar was used to generate the .deb file.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes -- More questions

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:34:02PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
> Thanks for replies, I haven't been able to do a "real-life" test as the
> computers didn't arrive yet. In the meantime I got some remarks here
> which result in more questions.
> 
> I got a reply the is not on the list from Steve Stancliff
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, he says:
> 
> > As others mentioned, NFS is the way to mount the 
> > homes from the fileserver.  I advise not using 
> > autofs for mounting the homes, just mount them 
> > in fstab.  Autofs is very flaky.
> 
> Could anyone comment on this and mention the pros and cons of both
> solutions?
> Why is autofs flaky?

autofs has minimal functionality to do simple/straight forwward
automounting... amd on the other hand has tons of features and options

good thing about autofs is it's part of the kernel...
and is simple to setup

http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html

for 20 machinesautofs might be a good/simple/small/fast/reliable
solution...

a few years ago...i swapped out amd and used autofs...been using
it ever since..

> If you there are HOWTOs, FAQs, manuals or other resources on the web
> that answer all these question, please tell me!

have fun linuxing
alvin

keymaps directory

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot?  Something odd
has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap 
than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other
keys change as well.  I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt but last 
time I found the file and replaced it with the default keymap.gz and that 
fixed the problem.  I have forgotten where I found that file.

Lance

rsh access

[zdrysdal]

hi

i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it
is not a cryptic question.  So, i will ask again.

To rsh a Unix host from Debian i have to put the Debain server address in
the .Rhosts file on the Unix Server and that works great.  I now want to
rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to
get it to work.  I have added the debian server address in the
hosts.allow/deny files... but that does not seem to work.

Is there a step that i am missing???

wireless suggestions

[Aaron Solochek]

A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then
split a DSL.  Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around
280ft, with line of sight.  We are looking to do this as cheaply as
possible.  Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products
I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer.  I know this isn't
really a debian question, but I figure we'll use debian routers on each
end, to make this post more relavent :)

-Aaron Solochek
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ppp connections between sco & linux

[Peter Ludwig]

Hi guys, just a quick one here, I'm trying to establish a connection between
a SCO box, and a linux machine.


However after the chat-script connects, I get the following messages from
the SCO machine :-
--- Log file Snip -
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Chat script succeeded
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending LCP Configure-Request, ID 110, state Starting (1)
1/13-18:15:38-1308  ^M
1/13-18:15:38-1308 ~
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received LCP Configure-Request, ID 110, state Req-Sent
(6)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 LCP: Replying with Configure-Ack
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending LCP Configure-Ack, ID 110, state Req-Sent (6)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received LCP Configure-Ack, ID 110, state Ack-Sent (8)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending IPCP Configure-Request, ID 102, state Starting
(1)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received IPCP Configure-Request, ID 102, state Req-Sent
(6)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 IPCP: Replying with Configure-Ack
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending IPCP Configure-Ack, ID 102, state Req-Sent (6)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received IPCP Configure-Ack, ID 102, state Ack-Sent (8)
1/13-18:15:38-1308 PPP connected to 192.168.1.204 on du2
1/13-18:15:38-1308 Missed ALLSTATIONS, flushing frame
1/13-18:16:38-1308 LQM: Too many Echo packets lost
1/13-18:16:38-1308 Disconnected from 192.168.1.204 (LQM failure)
1/13-18:16:38-1308 Sending LCP Terminate-Request, ID 117, state Opened (9)
1/13-18:16:38-1308 Hangup
--- Log file Snip -

This is the response of the logfile from the SCO box, on the linux box, the
messages are very similar.

I have tried almost everything, but I can't seem to get the systems to
connect to each other using ppp.

I can get a normal call from the SCO machine to the linux machine, and I see
no errors in the line (no line noise).

I'm wondering if there is a setting that could be causing this on Linux?

I can't remember the PPP version(s) at present.

Regards
Peter   Ludwig

BTW - Can you CC me directly, at this email address as I am not on the list
from this email account.

Re: rxvt/vim/term?

[Steve Stancliff]

Just FYI this same problem began for me under wterm after a 
recent upgrade of vim.  The solution mentioned (don't set term
type to linux) worked for me too.  

-Steve Stancliff

Re: APT with partial set of files

[John Pearson]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:42:46PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote
> I have downloaded a bunch of the .deb's for potato, preserving the
> directory structure.
> I also got the Packages files
> 
> I assumed when I did this that apt would not care if some .deb files were
> missing, and would simply look at other sources for them.  Is that correct?
> 

Unless it wants to install them, it shouldn't matter if they are in the
Packages file but not in the archive.

> I also assumed that with CD's it would prompt for inserting additional
> CD's.  Is that correct?  Or do I need packages files which indicate which
> CD has which files?  Is there a good way to generate those?
> 

If you have a CD containing (some portion of) the Debian archive, then
 # apt-cdrom add
will look for and use the Packages files on a CD to determine what
packages are available on it.  Run it once for each CD.  There's nothing
magical about CD packages files, but using apt-cdrom alerts apt to do 
things like check that the correct CD is mounted and prompt for the
required CD if not.


John P.
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark

Re: sawmill

[John Pearson]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:43:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote
> 
> |> I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile
> |> source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The
> |> process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on
> |> how can I compile sawmill in my machine?
> 
> You can get the tar-ball and compile it yourself. The instructions for
> doing this at the main sawmill site are fairly detailed.
> 
> http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/
> 
> There's also an unofficial deb for slink available at:
> 
> http://www.devin.com/sawmill/
> 
> I've not tried this (and the person who created the package has a
> disclaimer on the site  about how inexperienced he is in creating
> debian packages), but there it is,
> 
> Jim
> 

I don't recall whether it is sawmill itself or the rep-* packages
it requires (or both), but somewhere along the way you need to have 
$DISPLAY pointing to an accessible X server to build these packages.


John P.
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark

setserial, stty not working

[matthschulz]

I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady
stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows)

When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen,
can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0
writes the lines to the screen.

But I have planned to program some functions to this stream at least maximum,
minimum, average and others. 

So I tried to do the following in order to get rid of minicom:

>stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -parenb cs8 cstopb cread ixon isig ispeed 1200

to set the required 1200,8,N,2.

I couldn't change the setting of the port at all. stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a shows
the change, but cat /dev/ttyS0 shows nothing.

The permissions are: crw-rw   1 root dialout4,  64 Dec 28 21:00
/dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the
settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial.

Any ideas?

Matth

Re: rsh access

[Christopher S. Swingley]

> rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to
> get it to work.  

To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for
that matter):

* The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a 
  ~/.rhosts file with the address of the local machine.

* The remote machine must have the shell line in /etc/inetd.conf
  uncommented:

  shell  stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.rshd

* The /etc/hosts.allow file must allow in.rshd from your local 
  machine:

  in.rshd: local_machine

* You may also need to make sure the portmapper is running on the
  remote machine, and that your local machine has access to it.
  In Debian, this is also done with /etc/hosts.allow, but remember
  that the portmapper only understands IP addresses:

  portmap: 192.1.4.

  will allow 192.1.4.0 thru 192.1.4.255

Of course the server machine also has to have in.rshd installed and all
of that.  Also don't forget to restart the inetd daemon on the remote
server if you change your /etc/inetd.conf file.

Hope this works!

Chris
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RE: wireless suggestions

[Hagen Finley]

I've installed Breezecom for the San Francisco Zoo in several locations and
it has performed very well. Unfortunately, the Access Point is around $1250
wholesale and the Station adapter is around $650. Your 300 ft line of sight
is well within specs, and you would probably see around 3Mbs between your
computers. But for $2000 I would think it would make more sense to get your
own DSL. I am not familiar with any wireless systems that are substantially
cheaper, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist.

Kind regards,

Hagen Finley
Longs Drugs
Walnut Creek, CA

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aaron
Solochek
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 7:45 PM
To: debian- user
Subject: wireless suggestions


A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then
split a DSL.  Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around
280ft, with line of sight.  We are looking to do this as cheaply as
possible.  Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products
I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer.  I know this isn't
really a debian question, but I figure we'll use debian routers on each
end, to make this post more relavent :)

-Aaron Solochek
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Re: dpkg: [disregard] how to extract specific file

[Patrick Walsh]

Disregard, I've stumbled back on to the bash-doc .deb, and now
understand that dpkg-dev is needed to extract files :)

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RE: Handheld computers - what is available?

[John Gay]

I have a customer who runs a van distribution system.

He wants his drivers to use handheld computers or barcode readers
when they visit shops, to pick up the list of items needing to
be replenished.  He then wants to print a delivery note on the
spot for the customer and transmit the details by modem, for the
main office to print and despatch the invoice and update the
central database.

What Linux-capable handhelds are available that would be
suitable for this job?

The Palm family of hand-held devices has quite a few tools available for Linux,
I've just installed jpilot the I use with xcopilot and it seems to do quite a
lot. For Barcode capacity, I believe Symbol has packaged the Palm with a barcode
reader built-in. I remember an article about Safeway in the UK was going to give
some of these away to it's customers, but I never heard how that went. There are
also quite a few programming tools for Palms available in Linux as well.

Don't mind my E-Mail address, I am a test support tech, not a sales droid. I,
Personally find the Palm family to be very nice, and it seems that a majority of
hand-held users feel the same way. As I said, Symbol is selling them, IBM is
selling them and more people are signing on to licience the OS for there own
uses. The Visor from Handspring looks even better that Palm, but USB for Linux
won't work with it right now. Seems the USB driver won't reconise the Visor
until you activate the HotSync, but all the Palm tool expect to connect to the
device BEFORE you HotSync.

Other hand-held options are;
WinCE . . . I know nothing about Linux support for these. Does it exist?
Psion . . . I believe there is some support for Linux, I remember seeing a
package for it once.
Apple Newton . . . Has been completely dropped.

Could others please add to this list? I don't want to sound TOO biased.

This is what I know. I hope some other people out there can add their knowledge.

Cheers,

 John Gay

Re: TeX and PDF

[Johann Spies]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> 
> |>  i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it
> |> on my wall.  i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself,
> |> the problem is turning it into a pdf.
> 
> The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply running:
> 
>  pdftex foo
> 
> on the file `foo.tex' should produce foo.pdf.
> 
> Jim

And if that does not produce the desired result, do a 
latex foo
dvips foo
ps2pdf foo.ps

Johann.

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  lest he fall."I Corinthians 10:12 

Re: keymaps directory

[Johann Spies]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> 
> In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot?  Something odd
> has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap 
> than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other
> keys change as well.  I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt but last 
> time I found the file and replaced it with the default keymap.gz and that 
> fixed the problem.  I have forgotten where I found that file.
> 
> Lance

On Slink: /etc/kbd/default.map.gz

Johann
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RTL8139

[Tim Nicholas]

Hey there all, 

I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not
find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. 
They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the
source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make
config'. 
I am farly sure that i could use this card type in 2.2.12 and _know_
that it can be used with slinks default kernel (2.0.38?) so i should be
able to use it with this.

any help would be most apreciated... 

ps. what happened to the packages 'squake' and 'xquake'??


Thanks.

Tim

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together in shadow for the puppy's sad stare,
the forest and the death of the moon."

X doesn't start any more

[Guyren G Howe]

Hi all,

After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my
machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec
xdm, it just logs me out.

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks! 

Re: samba copy permissions

[Paul McAvoy]

If you are copying between two unix machines it might be easier to just use
NFS to mount the drives and copy the files over via cpio or something similar.
I think that since samba is based in windos without much in the way of
permissions, all the permissions get lost.

I personally run into problems with samaba when a user will create a dir and I
want to put/remove files into it and have problems.  I then have to telnet
into my linux box and fix the permissions.  Kindof a bummer, but at least the
unix box is visible from windows.

Hope this helps you out.

- Paul

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:20:18PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hiya
> 
> when using samba to copy one directory to another server it loses it
> origional permission and owner settings.  i guess it's like when copying a
> users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as
> the owner of that file.
> 
> is there any setting in samba to tell it to keep it's origional
> permission/ownership rights??  else i will have to use tar in order to
> recreate this new server.
> 
> thanx
> 
> 
> 
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Re: rsh access

[Paul McAvoy]

Don't know too much about rsh, but you would probably be better off with SSH
as it is (more) secure and offers the same functionality.

- Paul

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:07:10PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
> 
> i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it
> is not a cryptic question.  So, i will ask again.
> 
> To rsh a Unix host from Debian i have to put the Debain server address in
> the .Rhosts file on the Unix Server and that works great.  I now want to
> rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to
> get it to work.  I have added the debian server address in the
> hosts.allow/deny files... but that does not seem to work.
> 
> Is there a step that i am missing???
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: setserial, stty not working

[Bostjan JERKO]

On 13.01.2000 08:38:00 AM matthschulz wrote:


>The permissions are: crw-rw   1 root dialout4,  64 Dec 28 21:00
>/dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the
>settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial.
>

So you tried with setserial, too ?

B.

portmap question

[Mark Wagnon]

I can't seem to figure out how to keep portmap from starting when I
reboot. I've changed all references to portmap in the rc*.d
directories from the S##portmap form to a K##portmap form. That
doesn't seem to keep the portmapper from starting.

I have to kill it each time I reboot. Just in case I forget though,
I've added the following to my /etc/hosts/deny file:

  portmap: ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | mail root) &

and I've removed the various NFS-related packages.

I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they
range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in
/etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there
a way to keep it from starting in the first place?

Also, why is portmap included in the netbase package anyway?

tia...

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Re: setserial, stty not working

[Paul McAvoy]

Using 'cat' probably opens the port in buffered mode.. where the contents of
the buffer are not outputted until a \n is seen.  I may not be correct about
this, but I have played around with writing some serial apps and doing the
same thing you are doing.. hooking up my multimeter to the serial port.

If you are interested in some test programs, let me know and I will send them
to you.. it may help resolve your problem.

- Paul

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:50:57PM -0600, matthschulz wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady
> stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows)
> 
> When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen,
> can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0
> writes the lines to the screen.
> 
> But I have planned to program some functions to this stream at least maximum,
> minimum, average and others. 
> 
> So I tried to do the following in order to get rid of minicom:
> 
> >stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -parenb cs8 cstopb cread ixon isig ispeed 1200
> 
> to set the required 1200,8,N,2.
> 
> I couldn't change the setting of the port at all. stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a shows
> the change, but cat /dev/ttyS0 shows nothing.
> 
> The permissions are: crw-rw   1 root dialout4,  64 Dec 28 21:00
> /dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the
> settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Matth
> 
> 
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Re: keymaps directory

[Paul McAvoy]

The keymaps for loadkeys on my system (debian) are in /usr/share/keymays/i386/

You can also just do a 'loadkeys us' to reload the map if you are using the us
map.. or 'loadkeys dvorak' if you prefer a dvorak keyboard.  The path to the
loaded keymap will be displayed.

- Paul

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:00:27PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> 
> In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot?  Something odd
> has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap 
> than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other
> keys change as well.  I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt but last 
> time I found the file and replaced it with the default keymap.gz and that 
> fixed the problem.  I have forgotten where I found that file.
> 
> Lance
> 
> 
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Re: Packet libz1 missing

[Dänzer]

--- Gerhard Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic   i386 -unstable,
> but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not
> listet at all.

As someone else has already said, it's provided by zlib1g.

APT would have sorted this out automatically.


Michel


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Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

[Dänzer]

--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package?

Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald?
;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend.


> > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above
> > 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any suggestions?

But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up with
virtually no load...


Thanks,

Michel


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Hint: Finding packages with needed files

[Dänzer]

Let me comment on two different posts in one:


--- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can get libXpm.so.4?


--- Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory
> jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [atom.o] Error 1
> 
> I haven't figured out what package these might be in if any. 


There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called
Contents-i386.gz in the dists/ directory. It lists every single
file with the package that contains it.

So a 'zgrep "file I need" Contents-i386.gz' gives you the package(s) you have
to install.


Michel


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Re: RTL8139

[Arcady Genkin]

Tim Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not
> find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. 
> They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the
> source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make
> config'. 

If you do "make menuconfig", go to the very first option, "Code
maturity level options", and say "Y" to "Prompt for development
drivers". Then the driver will appear under "Network device support"
-> "Ethernet 10 or 100 Mbit".
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Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

[Bruce Sass]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> --- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package?
> 
> Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald?
> ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend.
> 
> > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above
> > > 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any suggestions?
> 
> But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up with
> virtually no load...

Try doing a large zmodem download with minicom, if you get CRC
errors when the HD is active then irqtune should fix it up.

I had an 8MHz box with 4M RAM (the HD was always active ;) and couldn't
transfer files at anything over 2400 bps, it died and I picked up a
25MHz box which showed the same problem at 9600 bps... running irqtune
fixed it so that I could connect at 14.4 kbps without any errors.  When
I plugged in a 28.8 kbps modem the problem returned until I told irqtune
to optimize for the IRQ used by the new modem.  At no time did I have
any IRQ conflicts, so it must be that the priority (what irqtune fiddles
with) mattered. 

It's worth a try and is very simple to do.  Install hwtools, edit
/etc/rc.boot/hwtools so that it optimizes for the IRQ your serial port
uses, then execute the script (no need to reboot). See if it worked by
going online and checking the transfer rate.


- Bruce

Re: portmap question

[Jim B]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:

> I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they
> range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in
> /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there
> a way to keep it from starting in the first place?

slink right?

I commented out the lines that start it in /etc/init.d/netbase.  I think
that's as close as you're going to get as a "best way" to do it, because
it unfortunately is crammed in there with the rest of the stuff.


> Also, why is portmap included in the netbase package anyway?

I'm not sure.  There was probably a reason for it I guess.  It's been
split up in potato, it now has its own script which makes it cleaner to
deal with.

Worked it out

[Guyren G Howe]

I worked out why X wouldn't start (had my XFree86 config wrong).
Thanks anyway. 

Completion/M-tab

[Blazej Sawionek]

What does that mean?

B.

gzipped logs loose format

[Blazej Sawionek]

Old log files get gzipped (/var/log/*.?.gz).
When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost their format. All 
end-of-lines are removed and the text is `justified' to approx. 80 columns. 
This makes the logs
very difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the files and 
view them in the same way (mc - F3) - the effect is the same.
If I edit an uncompressed file with vim, or view it using `Shift-F3' it looks 
OK.

Is there an easy way to see the gzipped file correctly and quickly?

Blazej

PS
An example: kern.log.1.gz is attached here

kern.log.1.gz
Description: Binary data

Re: Soft ejects

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my
> machine to be making decisions as to whether it is
> appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not.  I should be
> making those decisions because the machine is
> unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as the
> user, am the one who has to pay for my ignorance.
(and not the poor machine, I suppose ;) ... )
> Many windows users are uncomfortable with this idea,
> and that is perfectly sensical. (don't think that word
> exists, but hey, opposite of nonsensical, right?) They
> ought to just stick to windows, the inferior system
> that doesn't let you make mistakes (or intelligent
> decisions) and instead makes them for you.

Whow, all those super intelligent admins here ... I for all have many
times forgotten to unmount the floppy before taking it out, not to
talk about the users in our computer pool. (If you as an admin had to
come and help out the following user who can't use the drive then,
like me, you would maybe think a little bit more differently about
that.)

> Unlike many others, I don't share the view that "linux
> needs to be made more newbie friendly."  Doing that
> will kill everything that made it great, and turn it
> into another Windoze.

I can't see how desktops like Gnome or others have taken away the
console from you, so you CAN both put in user friendlyness in the
system and have all Unix power remaining at the same time.

>   I don't care if the entire
> world doesn't all use GNU systems, as long as I have
> them to get my work done.

But maybe without all this growing newbie user base GNU and Linux
wouldn't have developped as much as they do now.

>   If somebody doesn't
> understand, I will be helpful and try to explain, but
> if they don't want to tolerate a system with a
> learning curve then they don't have to use it, and
> probably don't deserve to.  Leave this domain to those
> of us who do care to learn.

I wonder if 'learning' really involves to care about remembering
whether a floppy is mounted or not -- shouldn't using a computer
involve that it remembers just such stupid things for you? (Sure you
are using some scripts and cron instead of remembering all those
commands and tasks you seldomly has to do, aren't you?)

>   There are times in Word when
> I need to use a lowercase letter /i/ as a word but it
> doesn't think I should.  This is precisely the reason
> we go to alternatives to M$, because M$ software
> always thinks it's smarter than we are and never is. 
> So don't go bringing M$isms to us and our
> alternatives, please.

(Talking about learning curves --) this is a user preference and can
be turned off (it's another question if it should be turned on by
default) -- you can have the same behaviour in emacs too.

I'm not pleading for 'more power to the machine, less for the user who
is knowing what she/he does', but I think my intelligence should be
allowed to concentrate on more meaningfull things as mounted or
unmounted floppies; but then there are things like autofs or other
'intelligent' programs which can take away those stupid tasks from me
-- let's work for making these tools (and their installation scripts)
more perfect, so these things don't bother us any more further on.

Greetings,
joachim

Re: mod_ssl

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or
> other CA but without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first
> time they visit your site about the certificate being signed by an
> unknown party. If they choose to keep the certificate they won't be
> bothered again. I think the mod_ssl docs have an example on how to
> generate the certificate. 

maybe I didn't make myself clear: what I'm looking for is a tool to
make a certificate for browser client so that only certificated clients
can access certain parts of my site. 
I know that this is possible as you can use some directives in
httpd.conf to enforce this. 
And if you go to the security section of your browser (netscape) there
is a section where you can acquire a personal certificate (this is what I
want to provide) either from Verisign or importing a previous generated
one. 
Do you know how to do this?
Thanks,

[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
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WinFast 3D L2300

[Phil]

I got a problem to setup x-window with video card 
"WinFast 3D L2300".
Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip 
should be choose for it?
 
Phil

ncurses upgrade to 5.0 left a dangling package behind

[Arcady Genkin]

Under potato, after dselect upgraded ncurses to 5.0-X, one of the
older ncurses packages was left behind (ncurses-base 4.2). It now
shows as obsolete, but I'm a bit uncertain as to whether I should just
go ahead and remove it by brutal force. Can something break if I do
so?

,[ Dselect buffer ]
|-- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --
| *** Req base ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 
`

If I try to purge it, I get a very scary warning:

,[ Scary warning ]
| The following packages will be REMOVED:
|   ncurses-base* 
| WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
| This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
|   ncurses-base 
| 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 76.8kB will be freed.
| You are about to do something potentially harmful
| To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad'
|  ?]
`

Thanks for any input!
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loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Adress magnager

[Joakim Svensson]

Hi list,

I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers
etc.
Something like Adress book in netscape.

Any suggestions what to use ?

Best regards
Joakim Svensson

Re: X doesn't start any more

[Ron Rademaker]

Try reconfiguring X...

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my
> machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec
> xdm, it just logs me out.
> 
> Any idea how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> 
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Re: Adress magnager

[Arcady Genkin]

Joakim Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers
> etc.
> Something like Adress book in netscape.
> 
> Any suggestions what to use ?

I've been using bbdb (available with [x]emacs) for a year, and am very
satisfied. The records have all necessary fields, custom fields are
supported, etc., is very easily searcheable, and integrates with
emacs-based emailers to automatically expand email addresses. You can
also snarf email addys from incoming messages by pressing just one
key.

HTH,
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Re: Soft ejects

[Sean Johnson]

I agree completely.

Sean

Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> 
> Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my
> > machine to be making decisions as to whether it is
> > appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not.  I should be
> > making those decisions because the machine is
> > unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as the
> > user, am the one who has to pay for my ignorance.
> (and not the poor machine, I suppose ;) ... )
> > Many windows users are uncomfortable with this idea,
> > and that is perfectly sensical. (don't think that word
> > exists, but hey, opposite of nonsensical, right?) They
> > ought to just stick to windows, the inferior system
> > that doesn't let you make mistakes (or intelligent
> > decisions) and instead makes them for you.
> 
> Whow, all those super intelligent admins here ... I for all have many
> times forgotten to unmount the floppy before taking it out, not to
> talk about the users in our computer pool. (If you as an admin had to
> come and help out the following user who can't use the drive then,
> like me, you would maybe think a little bit more differently about
> that.)
> 
> > Unlike many others, I don't share the view that "linux
> > needs to be made more newbie friendly."  Doing that
> > will kill everything that made it great, and turn it
> > into another Windoze.
> 
> I can't see how desktops like Gnome or others have taken away the
> console from you, so you CAN both put in user friendlyness in the
> system and have all Unix power remaining at the same time.
> 
> >   I don't care if the entire
> > world doesn't all use GNU systems, as long as I have
> > them to get my work done.
> 
> But maybe without all this growing newbie user base GNU and Linux
> wouldn't have developped as much as they do now.
> 
> >   If somebody doesn't
> > understand, I will be helpful and try to explain, but
> > if they don't want to tolerate a system with a
> > learning curve then they don't have to use it, and
> > probably don't deserve to.  Leave this domain to those
> > of us who do care to learn.
> 
> I wonder if 'learning' really involves to care about remembering
> whether a floppy is mounted or not -- shouldn't using a computer
> involve that it remembers just such stupid things for you? (Sure you
> are using some scripts and cron instead of remembering all those
> commands and tasks you seldomly has to do, aren't you?)
> 
> >   There are times in Word when
> > I need to use a lowercase letter /i/ as a word but it
> > doesn't think I should.  This is precisely the reason
> > we go to alternatives to M$, because M$ software
> > always thinks it's smarter than we are and never is.
> > So don't go bringing M$isms to us and our
> > alternatives, please.
> 
> (Talking about learning curves --) this is a user preference and can
> be turned off (it's another question if it should be turned on by
> default) -- you can have the same behaviour in emacs too.
> 
> I'm not pleading for 'more power to the machine, less for the user who
> is knowing what she/he does', but I think my intelligence should be
> allowed to concentrate on more meaningfull things as mounted or
> unmounted floppies; but then there are things like autofs or other
> 'intelligent' programs which can take away those stupid tasks from me
> -- let's work for making these tools (and their installation scripts)
> more perfect, so these things don't bother us any more further on.
> 
> Greetings,
> joachim
> 
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Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

[Martin Bishop]

Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> DeltaForce2 and winmine work on my machine with wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb
> & libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb, but not with wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb &
> libwine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb (the latest).
> 


Do you know where I can get wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb and 
libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb?

I've also upgraded to the latest wine and now it just crashed
with the same error messages as you.

I've searched on the debian sites for the older wine packages
but there's only the newer ones. I've also tried lycos ftp
search with no luck.

console characters display problem

[Marek Habersack]

Hi *,
  
  I have a problem with console fonts display. The scenario is as follows: I
load a font from /usr/share/consolefonts (namely iso02grf.psf which comes
with embedded SFM), load the appropriate keyboard map (pl02.map) and expect
to see the Polish diacritics on the screen. However, this is not the case.
Instead I see the old characters from the CP437. Now, using showcfont
reveals that the characters are where they should be! A simple experiment:

> showkey --keymap

I press some keys that should produce the Polish diacritics (e.g.
RtAlt-l should give me E with a hatch) and I see the hex keycode (in the
sample case it's 0xb3) and, instead of seeing the character I expected, the
display shows me a character that in the table produced by showcfont
corresponds to one at the position 0xc7. Funnily enough, the character on
position 0xb3 in the same table is exactly the one I wanted to see! This
happens not only when I type, but also when I try to read some text with
Polish diacritics.

The machine runs latest potato. The thing is that at home, with the same
potato, everything works just fine!

I tried all combinations of consolechars invocations - with and without ACMs
and SFMs and it still doesn't display as it should even though the keyboard
produces correct codes...

Anyone has any idea what it might be? :)

marek


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Re: mouse refuses to configure!

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:33:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in
> > Windows 95.
> >
> > + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with "gpm -k" and removed the startup
> > file from /etc/rc6.d.
> 
> Does the mouse work in GPM?  Did you try gpmconfig in a console?  That might 
> help
> identify the device and protocol
> 
> > + I tried /dev/ttyS0-ttyS4 and some other random devices.  /dev/mouse
> > is symlink'd to /dev/ttyS0.
> 
> Did you try /dev/psaux with mouse type PS2?

That was the problem.  As soon as I tried /dev/psaux, the mouse started
working.

Thanks!

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2.0.36 SMP

[Jack Morgan]

I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and 
possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1 
(slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -)

Prospective Newbie

[Charles O. Hartman]

(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.)

I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
(AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive,
and no net connection yet.

1) Is it reasonable to try to install a beginner's system on this
machine from floppies?

2) Is there a way to do so with only a Mac connection to the net for
downloading the disk images? (The problem: when a Mac writes or even
reads an "IBM" floppy, it puts on a couple of hidden files that, though
just 1k, make a file like "base14-1.bin" not fit.)

3) If the floppy idea is crazy, should I pay MEI-Micro $25 for an EIDE
controller and $40 for a CD drive?

Sorry for numskull questions; I promise to get smarter if I can get
Linux going.

Charles Hartman
Poet in Residence, Connecticut College
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Reinstalling Packages

[mike ber]

Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which Tasks or 
Profiles you want installed.

Thanks.


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Re: Reinstalling Packages

[Martin Bialasinski]

* "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which
mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed.  Thanks.

No, not in Debian 2.1
It will be possible in Debian 2.2

Ciao,
Martin

Re: gzipped logs loose format

[Martin Bialasinski]

* "Blazej" == Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Blazej> When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost
Blazej> their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is
Blazej> `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very
Blazej> difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the
Blazej> files and view them in the same way (mc - F3) - the effect is
Blazej> the same.

mc does syntax highlighting and preprocessing based on the
filename/extention.

kern.log.1 looks like a manpage for the parser. It pipes the file
through nroff (I think), which formats the text.

File a wishlist grade bug on mc if you like. Don't know if it is
possible to put in an exception to the bahaviuor, but I can check when 
I have some time (in an month or so).

Blazej> Is there an easy way to see the gzipped file correctly and
Blazej> quickly?

Put eval $(lesspipe) into /etc/profile or such some, then less will do 
on the fly decompression of files.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: Reinstalling Packages

[Dänzer]

--- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which
> mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed.  Thanks.
> 
> No, not in Debian 2.1
> It will be possible in Debian 2.2

And how is it possible in potato?


Michel


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ICE-WM middle mouse task list + gnome

[Neilen Marais]

Good day all

I am running a fairly recent potato, with Gnome and IceWM. When I
updated, the task list that the middle mouse button on the root window
used to bring up stopped appearing.  This seems to have something to do
with the Ice Gnome integration, because if I turn this off, I get the
middle menu back, but it interferes with too much of the rest of Gnome

So what I want to know, is if possible, how can I get the middle mouse
button menu back?

Thanks
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Re: wireless suggestions

[Alberto Brealey G.]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then
> split a DSL.  Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around

i've been using Lucent's WaveLAN products to setup a 'WISP' for a month now,
and even with many oopses, we're doing fine. right now i'm using a wireless
connection with Lucent stuff to get to a leased line 2 miles away, and we
get around 1.5Mbps. Also, i have done some tests with a laptop, walking
around the street near to the wireless POP, and works fine. The WaveLAN is
supported under Linux, so you should be fine.

> 280ft, with line of sight.  We are looking to do this as cheaply as
> possible.  Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products

i don't know how much is cheap, but i think these cards are around $150
each, and you need a PCMCIA adaptor (or a laptop), and that's another $100
or so.

Also, there is a similar line from Cabletron, cheaper, but i don't think
their products work under linux, i don't remember.

hope that helps you,

Alberto.

ps. i don't have nothing to do with Lucent, just use their products.

Re: Reinstalling Packages

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:48:10AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which
> > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed.  Thanks.
> > 
> > No, not in Debian 2.1
> > It will be possible in Debian 2.2
> 
> And how is it possible in potato?
> 
try recent base-config and tasksel packaae

Chanop
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Installing VMWare on Debian

[Alberto Brealey G.]

I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that
they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on
/usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails.
Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuff
under /usr? I'm using potato.

thanks,

alberto

Re: Reinstalling Packages

[Martin Bialasinski]

Task selection in Debian 2.2 will be done by 

$ apt-cache show tasksel
Package: tasksel
Version: 1.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: base
Maintainer: Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0)
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/tasksel_1.0-2.deb
Size: 13712
MD5sum: 67e68909e8770052c4e31622a232dade
Description: New task packages selector
 Interface for selecting task packages; used for boot-floppies, but can also
 be called independently
installed-size: 108

The task selection in Debian 2.1 uses dpkg --set-selection, therefore
it is not save to use it after installation (it is deletes itself).

The new system will use apt-get to install the task-* packages. Apt
will resolve dependancies (easier to handle wrt to task creation and
update), and unlike with dpkg --set-selection, one can not have a
state that two conflicting packages are marked for installation.

You can also install a task-* package with the usual means. It is just
a regular package.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: RTL8139

[aphro]

it is in there, i use it currently...enable support for i "PCI VLB and
onboard adapters" i think the option is and a new set of NICs will show
including the rtl8139.

nate

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Tim Nicholas wrote:

tim >Hey there all, 
tim >
tim >I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not
tim >find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. 
tim >They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the
tim >source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make
tim >config'. 
tim >I am farly sure that i could use this card type in 2.2.12 and _know_
tim >that it can be used with slinks default kernel (2.0.38?) so i should be
tim >able to use it with this.
tim >
tim >any help would be most apreciated... 
tim >
tim >ps. what happened to the packages 'squake' and 'xquake'??
tim >
tim >
tim >Thanks.
tim >
tim >Tim
tim >
tim >-- 
tim >
tim >Tim Nicholas
tim >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tim >
tim >"Let the frantic Goddess and delerious drunk cry
tim >together in shadow for the puppy's sad stare,
tim >the forest and the death of the moon."
tim >
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Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

[Rick Macdonald]

Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed
back to the wine project?

...RickM...

Re: 2.0.36 SMP

[aphro]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jack Morgan wrote:

yojack >I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and
yojack >possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU 
Debian 2.1
yojack >(slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -)
yojack >

I would STRONGLY suggest AGAINST the BP6 if you are making a machine to do
work that requires uptime, if its just a home machine and you dont mind
random lockups then BP6 is fine.  Overclocking a dual processor machine is
also dangerous, especially on the BP6 as it adds more stress to an already
overstressed board.  It can be done, i suggest if you go with the BP6
install it as quickly as possible and do VERY intense burnin tests (i
suggest using the 2.2.10 kernel to start, move to 2.2.14 lateron if you
like).

If you..

have 64MB of ram = run 6 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on different VTs (or in
screens)

have 128MB of ram = run 10 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on different VTs

use lm_sensors to monitor CPU temp, i also suggest against using the stock
intel fans go with FDP32s (or is it FEP32 i forget which) also put
heatsink grease and a fan on the i440BX chip on the board and deck the
machine out with high speed fans. for the test i also suggest not using
the DMA66 controller if you are IDE (my BP6 is full scsi) after the test
go ahead and use it.  The intel fans made my BP6 with 466Mhz cpus go to
50C, now my CPUs with FDP(or FEP?)32 fans are ~27-33C.  Although i havent
run [EMAIL PROTECTED] in a few months.

Let the machine run for 3 days, if it is still going (and processing the
seti data) then the machine can be declared "a hell of a lot more stable
then mine" :)  my machine would lockup in ~20 minutes.  i discovered this
well after my warranty expired, i spent over a month troubleshooting my
machine, some people have good boards, i suppose i could go buy a new BP6
and run more tests on it and return if needed, but i have little hope that
i would find a good one.

bottom line though is, run very intensive I/O and CPU tests on it for an
extended period before deciding that the board is good.

nate

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Re: Prospective Newbie

[aphro]

i think it would be worth while to ask a linux-ppc or mklinux mailing list
how they would make boot floppies from macos, im sure there is a way,
rawwrite for mac maybe? im not sure.

6MB of ram will be very tough to get linux installed on, running it won't
be too hard but actually installing it is a pain.  i had enough trouble
trying to install on an 8MB machine(never got it installed actually), i
wish you luck!

nate

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Charles O. Hartman wrote:

cohar >(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
cohar >10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.)
cohar >
cohar >I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
cohar >(AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive,
cohar >and no net connection yet.
cohar >
cohar >1) Is it reasonable to try to install a beginner's system on this
cohar >machine from floppies?
cohar >
cohar >2) Is there a way to do so with only a Mac connection to the net for
cohar >downloading the disk images? (The problem: when a Mac writes or even
cohar >reads an "IBM" floppy, it puts on a couple of hidden files that, though
cohar >just 1k, make a file like "base14-1.bin" not fit.)
cohar >
cohar >3) If the floppy idea is crazy, should I pay MEI-Micro $25 for an EIDE
cohar >controller and $40 for a CD drive?
cohar >
cohar >Sorry for numskull questions; I promise to get smarter if I can get
cohar >Linux going.
cohar >
cohar >Charles Hartman
cohar >Poet in Residence, Connecticut College
cohar >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cohar >
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Re: Installing VMWare on Debian

[aphro]

modify the perl install script(s) ?

i just let vmware go wherever it wants :)

nate

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alberto Brealey G. wrote:

albbre >
albbre >I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that
albbre >they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes 
on
albbre >/usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it 
fails.
albbre >Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting 
stuff
albbre >under /usr? I'm using potato.
albbre >
albbre >thanks,
albbre >
albbre >alberto
albbre >
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Re: Prospective Newbie

[Carl Fink]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:15:15AM -0500, Charles O. Hartman wrote:
> 
> I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
> (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive,
> and no net connection yet.
> 
> 1) Is it reasonable to try to install a beginner's system on this
> machine from floppies?

Yes, but see below.

> 2) Is there a way to do so with only a Mac connection to the net for
> downloading the disk images? (The problem: when a Mac writes or even
> reads an "IBM" floppy, it puts on a couple of hidden files that, though
> just 1k, make a file like "base14-1.bin" not fit.)

This probably won't work.  There might be a Mac equivalent of the DOS
rawrite.exe, but don't bother.  Instead, just use the 1.2 meg disk
images.  From a Mac, you probably can't make them bootable, but you
can copy them to 1.44 meg disks, then copy the images to the DOS
partition on your Zeos and install from there.  There's an excellent
Installation Guide on the Debian web site that will help you.  

Note that with a 120 meg hard drive, you will be *extremely* limited
in what you can install, particularly if you have to leave a DOS
partition in place to install from.  Can you network the Mac and PC
together so the 386 can use some of the Mac's drive space?

> 3) If the floppy idea is crazy, should I pay MEI-Micro $25 for an EIDE
> controller and $40 for a CD drive?

If you plan to use the system for anything beyond very basic tasks
(e.g. a router) I would advise not only the CD-ROM, but a bigger hard
drive.  As an alternative, again, you could network it to the Mac for
storage and installs and just use the HD for booting and maybe swap.
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[OT] Removal disks for backups

[Peter S Galbraith]

Hello all,

I'm currently backing up my workstation data to a spare internal
disk.  This is nice because a few cron tar scripts do the job
every night without my intervention.  A spare IDE disk is very
cheap, and I don't keep the partitions mounted so nothing happens
to them.  The downside is that I have no offsite backup (should a
fire arise or something like that).

I'm therefore thinking of buying a removal disk for offsite
backups.  My current backup needs are 1.9GB after full
compression, although this will likely grow (doesn't it always).
I have a PD drive but 650 MB is too limiting (splitting the
directories so the compressed tar file fits; not forgetting to
switch disk every night).

I am considering getting a Castlewood Systems (http://www.castlewood.com/)
ORB 2.2 GB external SCSI drive.  See a review at
http://www8.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,408937,00.html

It's pretty cheap (US$230 and US$35 for extra disks) and seems
very fast (11ms read/ write 12ms; 12.2 MB/sec max sustained
transfer rate?  Heck I don't get that from my Barracuda!)

Ideally, a 4GB cartridge would be better, but I suppose when my
needs outgrow 2.2 GB compressed I can swap disks on some night
before I leave work.

Any comments about this device?  Anything better on the market?

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Re: Installing VMWare on Debian

[John Gould]

You can teel vmware to install in /usr/local, there is no need to install
in /usr.

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alberto Brealey G. wrote:

> 
> I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that
> they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on
> /usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails.
> Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuff
> under /usr? I'm using potato.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> alberto
> 
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Re: WinFast 3D L2300

[Howard Mann]

> I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300".
> Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it?
> 
> Phil


This card uses the 3D Labs/Permedia II videochipset, which is supported via the 
XF86_3DLabs x-server.

_Exactly_ what problems are you having ? What have you tried ?

We need additional information in order to assist you.

Cheers,

Howard Mann.

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

[Joe Block]

Evan Moore wrote:
> 
> there is the problem, xanime can not play Sorenson Video because apple
> will not release any docs on it.

It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson
Vision (www.s-vision.com)

jpb
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Re: rsh access

[Joe Block]

"Christopher S. Swingley" wrote:
> 
> > rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to
> > get it to work.
> 
> To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for
> that matter):
> 
> * The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a
>   ~/.rhosts file with the address of the local machine.
> 
> * The remote machine must have the shell line in /etc/inetd.conf
>   uncommented:
> 
>   shell  stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.rshd
> 
> * The /etc/hosts.allow file must allow in.rshd from your local
>   machine:
> 
>   in.rshd: local_machine
> 
> * You may also need to make sure the portmapper is running on the
>   remote machine, and that your local machine has access to it.
>   In Debian, this is also done with /etc/hosts.allow, but remember
>   that the portmapper only understands IP addresses:
> 
>   portmap: 192.1.4.
> 
>   will allow 192.1.4.0 thru 192.1.4.255
> 
> Of course the server machine also has to have in.rshd installed and all
> of that.  Also don't forget to restart the inetd daemon on the remote
> server if you change your /etc/inetd.conf file.

One quick note - if the boxes in question are on the internet, you
really want to have them use ssh instead of rsh for security reasons.

jpb
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Re: Prospective Newbie

[Kent West]

"Charles O. Hartman" wrote:
> 
> (My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
> 10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.)
>
> I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
> (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive,
> and no net connection yet.

6MB RAM is a bit tight. 120MB is fairly tight also, but if all
you're putting on is a minimal system, it'll do to get your feet
wet.
 
> 1) Is it reasonable to try to install a beginner's system on this
> machine from floppies?

Yes.
 
> 2) Is there a way to do so with only a Mac connection to the net for
> downloading the disk images? (The problem: when a Mac writes or even
> reads an "IBM" floppy, it puts on a couple of hidden files that, though
> just 1k, make a file like "base14-1.bin" not fit.)

Oops. Have you got a zip drive that'll attach to both machines?
Or can you somehow network the two machines together? Do you have
another DOS/Windows machine you can download the files to?
Probaby "no" on all of these, huh? If the Zeos has a SCSI card
(not likely) or the Mac has an IDE drive, perhaps you can
download the files to the Mac, then temporarily put the Mac drive
in the Zeos box to install from. Of course, the Zeos BIOS
probably won't recognize the Mac drive, assuming it's larger than
512M.

Another option, but a pain, is to create a DOS partition on the
Zeos box of about 15MB, then download the disk images to the Mac,
then use some sort of cross-platform Stuffit-like tool that can
compress the images into one file and then break that file into
DOS-floppy-sized bites. Copy the files to the DOS partition and
unzip them, and then do your install from the DOS partition
(you'll still have to hav e bootable floppy, so make sure you can
build that first). You'll lose the 15MB from your 120 total (but
can recover it later for a small Linux partition (pretty much
useless that small, however).

If you have VirtualPC, perhaps you can build the disk images from
there.
 
> 3) If the floppy idea is crazy, should I pay MEI-Micro $25 for an EIDE
> controller and $40 for a CD drive?

No, I'd go to a garage sale and pick up an entire 486-33 with a
larger hard drive for $40. 

> Sorry for numskull questions; I promise to get smarter if I can get
> Linux going.

Not numskull at all. 

However, here's perhaps your best bet. Don't install Linux on an
Intel box. Grab a copy of LinuxPPC or YellowDog Linux and install
it on your Mac. I've even heard rumours of a Debian distro for
Mac; hmm, think I'll go check on that now.

> Charles Hartman
> Poet in Residence, Connecticut College
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Re: Completion/M-tab

[Peter S Galbraith]

Blazej Sawionek wrote:

> What does that mean?

In Emacs, M-tab means pressing the [Meta] and [TAB] key
simultaneously on your keyboard.  The [Meta] key is often bound
to the [Alt] key.  If you don't have such a key and don't want to
create one (e.g. using xmodmap), then you may use [ESCAPE]-[TAB]
except that you first press the escape key and then the tab key.

This key sequence is usually bound to some completion command in
Emacs. 

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PC as serial terminal via telnet

[Philipp Braunbeck]

Hello folks,

I'd like to connect a PC running Debian ("zaphod")
to our server ("trillian") running Suse 6.0. Trillian
connects to an intelligent Specialix SIO multiserial
board. Zaphod should connect to this board via ttyS0/1
using telnet. I did actually read all those fine manuals
and HOWTO's but am still a little confused and could
need some more comprehensive explanation on how to con-
figure both client and server, namely port config, tel-
net config, termcap stuff, and the like.

I would appreciate any help as I'm no longer willing to
pay 1000 german marks for some ancient Wyse terminal when-
ever they draw their terminal (haha) breath, and this
happens frequently.

Please CC your answers as I'm not subscribed to the list
at the moment.

Thanks in advance,

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Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

[brian moore]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed
> back to the wine project?

>From the wording at http://www.winehq.com/who.html, I'd guess so:

Corel Developers

| Not much is known about the specialities of the Corel developers or
| the Macadamian developers, but we do know what patches they have
| submitted to the official Wine sources.  A hasty glance reveals this
| (dis)information. 

That does say they've submitted patches.  (Do recall that WineLib is how
Corel plans on porting the rest of their applications to Linux -- ie,
just recompiling and relinking instead of converting from Microsoft's
classes to Motif or some other toolkit.  It's very much in their best
interest to contribute to Wine.)

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DeskJet 690 -series

[Arcady Genkin]

I have an HP DJ 697c currently setup to use dj550c driver. It works,
but is very inky. Also, the color prints quality doesn't seem to be as
nice as under win.

I have heard that gv comes with more drivers for deskjets, including
one for dj-690 series. Is anyone using it, and where would I read
about utilizing this driver?

Thanks,
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loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Prospective Newbie

[Kent West]

Kent West wrote:
> However, here's perhaps your best bet. Don't install Linux on an
> Intel box. Grab a copy of LinuxPPC or YellowDog Linux and install
> it on your Mac. I've even heard rumours of a Debian distro for
> Mac; hmm, think I'll go check on that now.

Yes: for the M68K series of Mac (pre-PowerPC):
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
and for the PowerPC series: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

unsuscribe

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themes

[pplaw]

debs,

anyone have luck using themes from themes.org?

using icewm in my slink box,  i downloaded the theme"blueheart,"
gunzipped it, and moved it to the directory with the other icewm
themes.

how do i actually get the "theme" (blueheart) to come up?

thx.

bentley taylor.

//

Re: portmap question

[Mark Wagnon]

On 01/13/00 04:12AM, Jim B wrote:
> slink right?

sorry, potato.

> I commented out the lines that start it in /etc/init.d/netbase.  I think
> that's as close as you're going to get as a "best way" to do it, because
> it unfortunately is crammed in there with the rest of the stuff.

This will probably work for the portmap script too. That seems so
adhoc though.

> > Also, why is portmap included in the netbase package anyway?
> 
> I'm not sure.  There was probably a reason for it I guess.  It's been
> split up in potato, it now has its own script which makes it cleaner to
> deal with.

It seems to be still in the netbase package. I can't find a separate
portmap package. Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood you. Yeah, there are
different scripts that separate the networking stuff, but the
portmap binary still comes packaged in the netbase deb.

I'll take a look at the portmap script. I thought that the links in
the rc*.d directories ran the scripts in /etc/init.d at different
run-levels and that renaming one would stop that script from
executing. Right? Wrong?

thanks
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pppd trouble..

[aphro]

This is really odd.

I finally fixed my PPP server this morning(/etc/mgetty/login.defs had bad
permissions) and I wanted to change the IP address that the DNS is but
pppd kept saying "too few arguements" and would disconnect immediately, it
would only work with the original IP(which is on another network)

this is what i got goin now

/AutoPPP/ -a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem
ms-dns 208.222.179.31 lock proxyarp (my local ip):(remote ip assigned to
modem)

I want to change the 208.222.179.31 to the local ip, so i change it and it
gives "too few arguments":

Jan 13 09:23:01 kirk pppd[1526]: too few parameters for option ms-dns

the local IP is also a real ip, part of a registered network, and is eth0
on the same machine.


It would also be nice to setup WINS for win* clients although its by no
means a requirement, when i try that i get the same:

Jan 13 09:33:22 kirk pppd[1610]: too few parameters for option ms-dns

when i specify ms-wins 


also, the system is not detecting when the line hangs up, i logged off 8
minutes ago and it still shows the connection, i suspect its the modem im
gonna play with INIT strings or swap modems and see whats goin on,
wondering if i can use idled to terminate the connection after being idle
for XX minutes? or does that not work on serial lines? i figured it
would..

runnig debian 2.1r4 linux 2.2.10(self compiled) pppd 2.3.5 on a diamond
supramax(or is it supraexpress?) 56i sp modem(internal), using a creative
labs modem blaster(winmodem) 56k from win9x to test the connection with.

ideas?? thanks!

nate

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SANE / potato

[Christopher S. Swingley]

Hello.  Just set up a potato box to drive my HP6200C scanner.  I installed
the SANE package, but it seems as though the sane-hp driver isn't there,
and I can't seem to find a Debian package for it.  Am I just missing
it, or do I need to download it from SANE and put the *.a and *.so* files in
/usr/lib?  find-scanner finds the HP scanner, but all of the SANE programs
say "Failed to open device /dev/sg0, Invalid Argument".  At this point
I'm root, and have created /dev/sg0 using /MAKEDEV sg*.

Thanks.

Chris
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leafnode: mixed delaybody settings

[Dave Sherohman]

Can leafnode (well, fetchnews) be configured to retrieve message bodies
immediately in some groups, but not in others?

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