Cups 1.0.5

[Alan Tam]

Hi dear Debian gurus,

I am a home user running slink (Debian 2.1).

I've installed the cups 1.0.5 deb package which overwrites my
original lprng package.
But when I try to do
lpr ~/.bashrc it says lpr: error -- no default destination
avaiable
then I go through the web for cups related docs and I found
http://cups.sourceforge.net.

Then I followed the steps
1. [bash] lpstat -o Enter ==> nothing comes out
2. [bash] cupsd& Enter ==> [1] 523 (I've tried a few times, some are
629, 1003)
3. [bash] lpstat -o Enter ==> [1]+   Exit 98cupsd(I've win98
on the same disk)
what is that mean ?

Issued the command again lpr ~/.bashrc same error message.

Then I try to add the printer by doing
[bash] lpadmin -dHewlett Packard Deskjet 660C -vparallel:/dev/lp1
-mdeskjet.ppd
it responds with:   Authentication required for root on localhoist...
UNIX Password:
then I entered my root login password. It then responds with:
lpadmin: set default failed: The requested
resource was not found on this server.
and jumped back to the command prompt.

How to get cups up and running ?

Thanks in advance.

Alan

Re: cron.daily isn't

[William T Wilson]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote:

> Correct. "at" is an addition to cron, that makes sure that cron jobs
> get run regardless of whether the machine was off during the time it
> was supposed to excute the given job. If your box is up 24/7, all you
> need is cron.

You're overlooking at's ability to be used as a one-time scheduler.  Cron
is really intended to be used for regular tasks.  at is the sort of thing
you can use to do things once, for example, "I am going to be on vacation
on the 23rd, so I'll use at to mail the report that people are accustomed
to seeing from me that day" or "Maintenance is shutting down the building
tonight, I need to remember to power down all the machines at 9:00."

Cron isn't really suited to this sort of thing.  Yes, you can use cron for
it, but why?  Just use at.

Re: Making choices with a script

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-02-29 01:48:12, Cameron Matheson wrote:

> How do I use dialog?

rtfm (`man dialog`, /usr/doc/dialog).


/Allan
-- 
Allan M. Wind   Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP)
P.O. Box 2022   Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Woburn, MA 01888-0022   ICQ: 44214251
USA Phone: 781.279.4513

Re: cron.daily isn't

[Joey Hess]

Ben Collins wrote:
> Correct. "at" is an addition to cron, that makes sure that cron jobs get
> run regardless of whether the machine was off during the time it was
> supposed to excute the given job. If your box is up 24/7, all you need is
> cron.

Er, I think you meant "anacron", not "at". At does nothing to ensure cron
jobs are run.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: Making choices with a script

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Matheson) wrote:
>I'm trying to make script that asks you what you want to do (and then
>echo's a list of choices), but I need to know what the command would be
>(like DOS's choice) to prompt the user, and how to use it.

If you want something more lightweight than the already suggested
dialog, then a closer analogue to DOS's 'choice' would be the bash
builtin 'read'. 'help read' (using 'help' as that gets you documentation
on shell builtin commands) will get you a brief description of its
function, or you can look in 'man bash'.

-- 
Colin Watson   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cron.daily isn't

[kmself]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:30:07PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:32:41PM -0800, Ernest Johanson wrote:
> > I had a similar experience recently on the alpha platform. If I added
> > something to the crontab file, it didn't run. I had to stop and start the
> > cron daemon to get the new entry to run. Reloading didn't do it. This is
> > on frozen.
> > 
> > Ernest Johanson
> > Web Systems Administrator
> > Fuller Theological Seminary
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:33:01 -0800
> > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com
> > > To: debian-user 
> > > Subject: cron.daily isn't
> > > 
> > > I seem to have a problem with my anacron.  In particular, cron.daily
> > > scripts don't appear to run when advertised, or more troubling, at all.
> > > 
> > > Both cron and at are doing fine.
> 
> If your system is up 24/7, I suggest removing at. It is only meant for
> machines that are up "sometimes, like dual boot setups, desktops that get
> shutdown at night, etc...
> 
> If it still occurs (or doesn't as the case may be), then perhaps at is at
> fault somehow. I've never heard of problems with cron.

s/at/anachron ?

'at' is a very useful one-time scheduler.  I use it frequently as an
alternative to backgrounding stuff, say:

   echo "apt-get update " | at now

...with results mailed to myself.  It's convenient.


Yes, I do have anacron on this machine.  Though in the case of both
cron and anacron, it's run-parts which is being invoked to run the
various cron.daily scripts.

As best I can tell, various of the scripts may be hanging or going
zombie on me.  anacron may not want to run a second process when the
first is still active.  Need to look into it.

-- 
Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Scope out Scoop:  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin:  http://www.kuro5hin.org/

Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato

[kmself]

I've got a similar problem, also one-way.

Is either of your machines on a dynamic IP dialup line?  One of mine is,
one isn't.

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I'm sure it's just yet another one line config change to get my box working
> the way it was before the "upgrade,"  but this time I haven't been able
> to find it.
> 
> Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I can't get
> anything from a remote machine to display.  Jobs on this machine
> can display remotely.  I've tried displaying on my own box with FreeBSD,
> and on a redhat box.  I get the same errors with each:
> 
> smithpts/0:hawk>xterm 
>   _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hawkins.cba.uni.edu:0.0
> 
> This happens after posting my xauth code to the other machine.  In this
> particular case, I used both xhost and a paste of the xauth string (ssh
> isn't installed at the other end on that machine).
> 
> I'm getting desparate, here . . .
> 
> rick
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 

-- 
Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Scope out Scoop:  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin:  http://www.kuro5hin.org/

Re: apt and kde

[kmself]

Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources file, then apt-get update:

deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty
deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty 

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:25:32PM -0400, Joe Gofton wrote:
> is there a way to get KDE installed using APT.  If so what would 
> the source line be?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joe (new user)
> 
> -
> Joe Gofton
> IT Group
> AIT Services
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 

-- 
Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Scope out Scoop:  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin:  http://www.kuro5hin.org/

Off topic: Free POP3 email

[Joe Bouchard]

Hi,

Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of
folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you.

I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is
doing pretty well.  Until now she hasn't had her own email, but I
guess it is time to set her up, so I'm looking for free email.  I don't
care for Hot-mail or other web based mail, rather I would prefer
something pop3 based, so she can use a regular Linux mail reader
off-line.

Furthermore, I would like to find an place where the likelihood of a
young girl getting inappropriate spam (porn, etc) is kept to a minimum.

Any ideas?  Since this is off topic, it might be appropriate if
responses came to me instead of bogging down the rest of the group.

-- 

Thank you,
Joe Bouchard

Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: pause page

[Oki DZ]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote:

> Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast
> > 
> > how do you pause the scrolling text?
> > 
> > the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond
> > i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody will get a good laugh!
> 
> For situations where you don't want to use pipes, you can of course
> use ^S and ^Q to stop and restart any output. If only your finger had
> slipped off the Pause/Break key, you might have discovered that
> ScrollLock toggles ^S ^Q in VCs.

What about left-shift-pgup/pgdown? They'll do the same purpose.

Oki

Base Install + SETI@Home

[Brian]

Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone setup a minimal Debian system (like the 
9 base floppies) just to run [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason I'm asking is that I've 
only got a ~450 MB hard disk that I got for free.


I've tried this before, but I didn't have the correct libs to run it. And, 
I couldn't figure out what I needed to get with apt, so I put it aside 
until I had more time (plus I was in an accident and couldn't).


Sooo... Now that I'm at it again,

Under the notes here  It says:

 "Previous users of the v1.3 binary i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1
  binary should now be using the i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static binary."

And, in available versions listing below it, I see:

i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1
i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static


Now, I have the base system installed (Just the 9 floppies; don't want to 
mess with dselect, I'd like to stick with apt to get what I need).


What libs (the package names) do I need to run this thing? I tried looking 
here , but, admittedly, I have 
no clue what I'm doing.


I'm guessing I either already have them and did something wrong, or it's 
because I have a bar bones system and they usually get installed as a 
'depends' with something larger.


Anyone? :-)

Brian


 

Re: Making choices with a script

[erik]

Hi, cameron, nice question; dialog is a really cool program - but rather
than tell you exactly how to run it, I recommend you look in 
file:/usr/doc/dialog-0.X/samples  (X being whichever version you
have)  --dialog runs from a script and this directory contains some
examples of how to call it...NOTE: you should have at least a rudimentary
grasp of shell scripting to use it...also, there are a few odd quirks: for
example, be careful about offering items on a menu that is called from
something like .bash_login - for reasons that are a little beyond me, this
sometimes causes hangs in other programs later on in the session,
particularly when starting, for example, mc ...which means that the shell
is essentially rendered useless for some things... better to offer it as a
command like "menu", then it seems to exit gracefully.
  anyway, the best way to learn how to use it is to just cp the example
to ~/ and change some stuff, then fire 'em up and see what you got ;-).
stycl, 
erik 
"perserverance furthers..-i ching"

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000,
Cameron Matheson wrote: > How do I use dialog? >  > Thanks, > Cameron
Matheson >  >  >  >  > "Allan M. Wind" wrote: > >  > > On 2000-02-29
00:36:11, Cameron Matheson wrote: > >  > > > I'm trying to make script
that asks you what you want to do (and then > > > echo's a list of
choices), but I need to know what the command would be > > > (like DOS's
choice) to prompt the user, and how to use it. > > 
> > dialog
> > 
> > /Allan
> > --
> > Allan M. Wind   Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP)
> > P.O. Box 2022   Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Woburn, MA 01888-0022   ICQ: 44214251
> > USA Phone: 781.279.4513
> > 
> > --
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Base Install + SETI@Home

[Mike Werner]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:49:39PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone setup a minimal Debian system (like the 
> 9 base floppies) just to run [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason I'm asking is that 
> I've 
> only got a ~450 MB hard disk that I got for free.
> 
> I've tried this before, but I didn't have the correct libs to run it. And, 
> I couldn't figure out what I needed to get with apt, so I put it aside 
> until I had more time (plus I was in an accident and couldn't).

> Now, I have the base system installed (Just the 9 floppies; don't want to 
> mess with dselect, I'd like to stick with apt to get what I need).
> 
> What libs (the package names) do I need to run this thing? I tried looking 
> here , but, admittedly, I have 
> no clue what I'm doing.

There are debs to install [EMAIL PROTECTED] for potato and woody.  The
package name is setiathome.  According to the description as
long as wget is also installed the setiathome installer will
get the appropriate tarball from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] site for you.
-- 
Mike Werner  KA8YSD   |  "Where do you want to go today?"
ICQ# 12934898 |  "As far from Redmond as possible!"
'91 GS500E|
Morgantown WV |  Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: Base Install + SETI@Home

[aphro]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Brian wrote:

brianj >I'm guessing I either already have them and did something wrong, or 
it's 
brianj >because I have a bar bones system and they usually get installed as a 
brianj >'depends' with something larger.

i am using the staticalluy linked i386 version on most of my slink
machines, i ran a ldd on it and sure enough it was static :) so looks like
all you'd need is the right libc, which if your using something other then
i686 (e.g k6 k6-2 k6-3 athlon pentMMX etc..) the libc5 libs and everything
they depend on (package libc5).  if your running i686 (ppro, p2 p3
etc) you would need glibc2.1(potato)..

that should be it, since its static everything else (library
wise) *should* be included in the binary itself.

nate

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
   Vice President Network Operations   http://www.firetrail.com/
  Firetrail Internet Services Limited  http://www.aphroland.org/
   Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
5:55pm up 194 days, 6:19, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 1.06, 1.01

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

[Frank Copeland]

John Bagdanoff wrote:
>The current potato wine package worked flawlessly for me, so I didn't
>save the previous version.  I got the latest one in woody, but still
>wine breaks.
>
>If you could, polly, upgrade to the latest libc6 (2.1.3-5).  If wine
>starts up for you, then I'll go to the wine news group to see if they
>can sort it out.  

wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to
implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6,
we'll see what comes of it.

Frank

ppp: frame with bad fcs

[fairfax]

I am having trouble recieving files via PPP from certain sites.  I checked the 
debugging log, and I am repeatedly getting a two-line error message from those 
sites:

kernel: ppp: frame with bad fcs, length = 994
kernel: ppp: bad frame, count = 994

Can anyone tell me what this means?

It seems that my PPP connection receives a bad frame, and keeps requesting that 
same frame over and over again (I get the same message repeated throughout the 
log).

Thanks,

Steve Martin 

RE: Off topic: Free POP3 email

[Bryan Scaringe]

You could look into mailandnews.com

Bryan


On 01-Mar-2000 Joe Bouchard wrote:
> Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of
> folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you.
> 
> I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is
> doing pretty well.  Until now she hasn't had her own email, but I
> guess it is time to set her up, so I'm looking for free email.  I don't
> care for Hot-mail or other web based mail, rather I would prefer
> something pop3 based, so she can use a regular Linux mail reader
> off-line.
> 
> Furthermore, I would like to find an place where the likelihood of a
> young girl getting inappropriate spam (porn, etc) is kept to a minimum.
> 
> Any ideas?  Since this is off topic, it might be appropriate if
> responses came to me instead of bogging down the rest of the group.
> 

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

[Pollywog]

On 01-Mar-2000 Frank Copeland wrote:
> John Bagdanoff wrote:
>>The current potato wine package worked flawlessly for me, so I didn't
>>save the previous version.  I got the latest one in woody, but still
>>wine breaks.
>>
>>If you could, polly, upgrade to the latest libc6 (2.1.3-5).  If wine
>>starts up for you, then I'll go to the wine news group to see if they
>>can sort it out.  
> 
> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to
> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6,
> we'll see what comes of it.

In that case, I should put a "hold" on libc6 so I don't inadvertently upgrade.

--
Andrew

check if the email address is valid

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
I need to write a program to check if a given email address is
valid. I cannot simply send a message to the email address and
waiting for a bounce.

The only way I can think is to telnet to the mail server on port
25 and do a VFRY command. However, some mail servers are
configured not to allow such command.

Is there any other way to do this??

Thanks in advance.

Shao.

-- 

Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1  ___ _   _
Department of Communications/ __| |_  __ _ ___  |_  / |_  __ _ _ _  __ _ 
University of New South Wales   \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \  / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` |
Sydney, Australia   |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, |
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |___/ 
_

Re: check if the email address is valid

[Shao Zhang]

Howard Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Shao Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I need to write a program to check if a given email address is
> > valid. I cannot simply send a message to the email address and
> > waiting for a bounce.
> > 
> > The only way I can think is to telnet to the mail server on port
> > 25 and do a VFRY command. However, some mail servers are
> > configured not to allow such command.
> > 
> > Is there any other way to do this??
> 
> 
> Try the "vrfy" application, available as a .deb

Hi,

it seems that vrfy simplely calls VRFY after telneting to the mail
server, and it still does not really check the validity.

[14:31|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % vrfy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
send some mail, i'll try my best

[14:31|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % vrfy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VRFY not available

Thanks.

Shao.

-- 

Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1  ___ _   _
Department of Communications/ __| |_  __ _ ___  |_  / |_  __ _ _ _  __ _ 
University of New South Wales   \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \  / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` |
Sydney, Australia   |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, |
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |___/ 
_

test - please ignore!

[Bryan Scaringe]

testing my mail filters.

Bryan

Re: check if the email address is valid

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) wrote:
>   I need to write a program to check if a given email address is
>   valid. I cannot simply send a message to the email address and
>   waiting for a bounce.
>
>   The only way I can think is to telnet to the mail server on port
>   25 and do a VFRY command. However, some mail servers are
>   configured not to allow such command.
>
>   Is there any other way to do this??

I'm afraid the *only* reliable way to check if an e-mail address is
valid is to try to send mail to it. There are simply too many cases.
*Syntactically* valid, yes, you can do that, and even check that the
domain has a mail server sitting on it, although there are many wrong
ways to do it. For a good discussion of this, I strongly recommend
reading the entry in the Perl FAQ on this subject, which you can find by
typing:

  perldoc -q 'valid mail address'

-- 
Colin Watson   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Two Questions...

[Wim Kerkhoff]

On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP?

Nope, you shouldn't.  But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and
get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4).  There are debs there, as well as
self extracting & compiling source executables.

Enjoy XFmail!  By the way, XFMail is being ported to GTK! Check
http://archimedes.sourceforge.net.

>| Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>| Other email addresses may no longer be valid...   |

Why do you have your From: set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll be wanting to
change it, I am thinking.

Regards,

Wim Kerkhoff  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.canadianhomes.net/wim 

RE: Two Questions...

[Wim Kerkhoff]

On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP?

Nope, you shouldn't.  But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and
get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4).  There are debs there, as well as
self extracting & compiling source executables.

Enjoy XFmail!  By the way, XFMail is being ported to GTK! Check
http://archimedes.sourceforge.net.

>| Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>| Other email addresses may no longer be valid...   |

Why do you have your From: set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll be wanting to
change it, I am thinking.

Regards,

Wim Kerkhoff  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.canadianhomes.net/wim 



Regards,

Wim Kerkhoff  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.canadianhomes.net/wim 

Stop searching forever.  Happiness is unattainable.

RE: OpenSSH problem

[Bryan Scaringe]

Sorry for the delay.   I just found this in my old inbox.
I did solve this, by playing with hosts.allow and hosts.deny.

hosts.allow:
# Allow All Local Traffic
ALL : LOCAL
# SSH Server Access
#sshd : ALL  #uncomment to allowremote access

hosts.deny:
ALL: ALL


Bryan

On 17-Jan-2000 Dan Langille wrote:
> Bryan, last month you posted this message.  I have the same problem.  
>  Did you resolve this issue?
> 
> 
> I am trying to set up SSH on my system.  I have a normal
>  user account "lint".  I do a "ssh -l lint localhost", which results in: 
>   
>  > ssh -l lint lint 
>  ssh_exchange_identification: read: No such file or directory
> 
> cheers.
> --
> Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited [I'm looking for more work]
> The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/
> NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/
> The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm
> unix @ home   - http://www.unixathome.org/

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

[John Bagdanoff]

Frank Copeland wrote:
> 
> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to
> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6,
> we'll see what comes of it.
> 
> Frank

Thanks for the verification, Frank.  Guess I'll sit tight for a couple
of days.

John

RE: OpenSSH problem

[Dan Langille]

I have solved this problem.  It was user error.  I still had tcp_wrappers 
installed.  For details see:

http://www.freebsddiary.org/ssh_refused.html

But thanks for getting back to me.

On 1 Mar 00, at 0:30, Bryan Scaringe wrote:

> Sorry for the delay.   I just found this in my old inbox.
> I did solve this, by playing with hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
> 
> hosts.allow:
> # Allow All Local Traffic
> ALL : LOCAL
> # SSH Server Access
> #sshd : ALL  #uncomment to allowremote access
> 
> hosts.deny:
> ALL: ALL
> 
> 
> Bryan
> 
> On 17-Jan-2000 Dan Langille wrote:
> > Bryan, last month you posted this message.  I have the same problem.  
> >  Did you resolve this issue?
> > 
> > 
> > I am trying to set up SSH on my system.  I have a normal
> >  user account "lint".  I do a "ssh -l lint localhost", which results in: 
> >   
> >  > ssh -l lint lint 
> >  ssh_exchange_identification: read: No such file or directory
> > 
> > cheers.
> > --
> > Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited [I'm looking for more work]
> > The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/
> > NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/
> > The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix
> > @ home   - http://www.unixathome.org/
> 
> 


--
Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited [I'm looking for more work]
http://www.dvl-software.com/ |  http://www.unixathome.org/
http://www.racingsystem.com/ |  http://www.freebsddiary.org/

play program -- which package?

[Arcady Genkin]

What package is `play' program is in?

Thanks!
-- 
Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: play program -- which package?

[kmself]

# dpkg -S `which play`
sox: /usr/bin/play

You can also search packages at http://www.debian.org/

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:57:37AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> What package is `play' program is in?
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com
> Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 

-- 
Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Scope out Scoop:  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin:  http://www.kuro5hin.org/

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

[Frank Copeland]

John Bagdanoff wrote:
>Frank Copeland wrote:
>> 
>> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to
>> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6,
>> we'll see what comes of it.
>
>Thanks for the verification, Frank.  Guess I'll sit tight for a couple
>of days.

This issue is starting to get a mention on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
The suggested workaround is to set LC_ALL=en before running wine, and I can
confirm that this works for me. 

Frank

xfs-xtt

[Arcady Genkin]

Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt.

Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf
fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this.

I tried getting mkttfdir, which is part of perlftlib-1.2.tar.gz,
available from http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/#perlftlib, but it won't
compile... and mkttfdir.pl doesn't work, saying mkttfdir.pl doesn't
exist. ;^(

Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?

Thanks a lot for any input!
-- 
Arcady Genkin   
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: xfs-xtt

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:05:24AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt.
> 
> Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf
> fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this.

it probably does, in japenese ;-)

> I tried getting mkttfdir, which is part of perlftlib-1.2.tar.gz,
> available from http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/#perlftlib, but it won't
> compile... and mkttfdir.pl doesn't work, saying mkttfdir.pl doesn't
> exist. ;^(

there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  

> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?

i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool
on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up
and were usable in netscape.  but these were not enough fonts so i
nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which
generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of
them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts
:(

i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all
the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that
would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem
like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you
archive files...) 

-- 
Ethan Benson

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

[John Bagdanoff]

Yahoo!!, I'm back in business.
Thanks

John

Frank Copeland wrote:
> This issue is starting to get a mention on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
> The suggested workaround is to set LC_ALL=en before running wine, and I can
> confirm that this works for me.

mmencode not included in metamail?

[Hans Ekbrand]

Hi debian users!

I tried to install mime-compose.el to enhance Emacs20 in Slink, but in the 
comments it stated that it required mmencode and that mmencode is included in 
the metamail distribution. I did a "whereis mmencode" but it did not seem to be 
installed on my system. I do have metamail installed though.

mime-compose.el is an old script, dated back in 1992, so perhaps metamail is 
different nowadays?

Anyone using mime-compose.el on this list?

TIA

Hans Ekbrand

Re: pause page

[David Wright]

Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast
> > > 
> > > how do you pause the scrolling text?
> > > 
> > > the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond
> > > i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody will get a good laugh!
> > 
> > For situations where you don't want to use pipes, you can of course
> > use ^S and ^Q to stop and restart any output. If only your finger had
> > slipped off the Pause/Break key, you might have discovered that
> > ScrollLock toggles ^S ^Q in VCs.
> 
> What about left-shift-pgup/pgdown? They'll do the same purpose.

I can only assume you have redefined them, then, or you're referring to
some xterm-like display other than xterm.

The keys you mention, by default, allow you to scroll up and down
the last few pages, just so long as you or the system doesn't write
to it. (You can configure the last conditions.)

Cheers,

-- 
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Tel: +44 1908 653 739  Fax: +44 1908 655 151
Snail:  David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA
Disclaimer:   These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify
official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

[Chirag]

Subject: Re: Movie Player for .dat files?


> www.mpegtv.com has a good videoCD player,(.dat) can run full screen and is
> multithreaded, runs great. kind of tricky to get fullscreen going though
> took me a while.
>

Thanks, but I am not able to get te fullscreen mode. When I switch it
on, the player
takes the entire screen, but the movie itself is limited to the central part
of the screen
and is actually smaller than in the normal mode. The Readme file says
requires
that an X server with DGA is required, What is this DGA? I am stuck with and
odd
card that does not properly get mode tuned with XFree86_SVGA. Since it
supports
VESA BIOS Extensioin 2.0 I am using Frame Buffer X Server XFree86_FBDev.
with the kernel frame buffer device turned on using video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr
kernel
param(Ref /usr/src/linux/Documetation/framebuffer.txt).
The problem with this is that it is unaccelerated. Still I am able to get
comparable
perfromance to playing in Windows.

Another utillity which makes other OSes to run on Linux, VMWare for Linux
also requires this DGA
stuff. It also warned me that full screen mode is not possible  since DGA is
not in the X Server.

If you have any info on this DGA please let me know


Thanking you

Previ

xfs-xtt configuration

[Arcady Genkin]

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  
Thanks!

My new question... After I successfully generated the fonts.dir file,
and added
   FontPath"unix/:7101"
   FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"

to XF86Config, X no longer starts, and I'm seeing error messages that
X cannot set default font path. 

Did I have to do some magic in /etc/X11/xfs/config? Here's what mine
looks like.

,[ config ]
| # /etc/X11/xfs/config
| #
| # X font server configuration file
| 
| # allow a maximum of 10 clients to connect to this font server
| client-limit = 10
| # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
| clone-self = on
| # log errors using syslog
| use-syslog = on
| # turn off TCP port listening (Unix domain connections are still permitted)
| no-listen = tcp
| # paths to search for fonts
| catalogue = 
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
| # in decipoints
| default-point-size = 120
| # x1,y1,x2,y2,...
| default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
| deferglyphs = all
| 
| # font cache control, specified in KB
| cache-hi-mark = 2048
| cache-low-mark = 1433
`

Thanks for any input!
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

RE: Problem with Linux PC getting at NT WINS server

[Moore, Paul]

From: Eric Hanchrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> > "Paul" == Moore, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Paul> 1. The box cannot "see" these netbios names for other
> Paul> machines on the LAN.  I can ping machines with static IP
> Paul> addresses by name, as (I guess) the names are resolved via
> Paul> DNS.  I can also ping dynamic IP machines via their
> Paul> DHCPPC-names.  But I can't ping using the netbios name
> Paul> (which I guess is resolved via the WINS server)
> 
> That's as I would expect.  In order for you to use NetBIOS names,
> you'd have to somehow tell your Linux box to use WINS for name
> resolution.  But as far as I know, Linux *in general* doesn't know how
> to do that.  (smbclient, however, does know how.)  Right now I think
> Linux only knows how to use DNS and /etc/hosts for host name
> resolution.

I've just done some further browsing, and have found some docs on
nsswitch.conf - which seems to allow for user-supplied resolution methods.
So I guess the question is whether such a method exists which dows NetBIOS
lookups...

Paul.

Re: gcc problem

[Jeff Layton]

> >But now I've downloaded some source code which I'm trying to compile, when
> >trying to compile it became clear to me that something was defenately
> >wrong: I got the error that gcc couldn't write any executables...
> 
> Usually this problem is due to the binutils package not being installed.
> 
> (Er, doesn't gcc depend on binutils?)
>
This could also be caused by not having permission to write to the
directory where you are trying to build your software. Check your
permissions as well.

-- Jeff

netscape -remote doesn't work...

[Pontus Lidman]

Hello,

I've wondered why my gnome mini-commander can't open URL's, and I have
tracked the problem to this point:

willynilly:~% netscape -remote openURL http://www.av.com
netscape-remote: not running on display :0.0

but I do have netscape up and running on this display. I start it using
the default icon in the gnome panel. I have also tried running the
"netscape" command in a shell.

What is the problem here? Please Cc me as this list is quite high-volume.

Regards,

Pontus

-- 
Pontus Lidman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Software Engineer
No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up.
Scene: www.dc-s.com | MUD: tyme.envy.com 6969 | irc: irc.quakenet.eu.org

Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato

[hawk]

Karsten called,
> I've got a similar problem, also one-way.

> Is either of your machines on a dynamic IP dialup line?  One of mine is,
> one isn't.

One of the three, but it's not the problem :)

The offending machine (this one) has a static IP, and a fixed name
(hawkins.cba.uni.edu).  It's the one that can't display output from
other machines, either the redhat machine (also with a static ip/name),
or the machine on the cable modem (after setting DISPLAY, xauth, etc.,
of course).

It is no problem displaying programs from this box *to* the box with
the dynamic IP.

At this point, I'm pretty much convinced that the problem is with
something in xdm configuration that changed going from slink to
potato.

And I *really* need to be able to access the remote machine--this
machine strains on starcalc3, which has a tendency to produce
erros in spreadsheets that cause it to crash on load.  The only 
known solution is to open and save the sheet in scalc3 format with
soffice5--and running *that* on this machine is utterly out of the 
question (until potato, I ran netscape from a machine 100 miles away. 
Now I've got lynx configured to launch new instances and have a light
background, so I don't need netscape more than a time or two a week).

Overall, though (hmm, I'm babbling . . .) potato seems to put a much
harsher load on my resources; the things that I used to be able to
do are no longer possible without several minutes of paging :(

rick

> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > I'm sure it's just yet another one line config change to get my box working
> > the way it was before the "upgrade,"  but this time I haven't been able
> > to find it.
> > 
> > Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I can't get
> > anything from a remote machine to display.  Jobs on this machine
> > can display remotely.  I've tried displaying on my own box with FreeBSD,
> > and on a redhat box.  I get the same errors with each:
> > 
> > smithpts/0:hawk>xterm  
>  _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113
> > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hawkins.cba.uni.edu:0.0
> > 
> > This happens after posting my xauth code to the other machine.  In this
> > particular case, I used both xhost and a paste of the xauth string (ssh
> > isn't installed at the other end on that machine).
> > 
> > I'm getting desparate, here . . .
> > 
> > rick
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /d
> ev/null
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
> What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
> 
> Scope out Scoop:  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
> Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin:  http://www.kuro5hin.org/

Downloading with fetchmail

[ulla . russell]

I am trying to configure my Linux box to send and receive
mail using:

mutt
fetchmail
procmail and 
exim

As yet I have not done anything about configuring mutt or
procmail.I have run eximconf and have the following .fetchmailrc file.

poll mail.inet.fi
proto POP3
auth password
user russir-1
pass afppu5pn
keep

However, when I ran fetchmail I received the following message:

11 messages for russir-1 at mail.inet.fi (25486 octets).
reading message 1 of 11 (3002 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't
like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
fetchmail: can't even send to irvine!
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.inet.fi
fetchmail: Query status=10

Can anyone help understand what the problem is and how I can put 
things right.

TIA

Irvine.

RE: Cups 1.0.5

[Lewis, James M.]

> Hi dear Debian gurus,
> 
> I am a home user running slink (Debian 2.1).
> 
> I've installed the cups 1.0.5 deb package which overwrites my
> original lprng package.
> But when I try to do
> lpr ~/.bashrc it says lpr: error -- no default destination
> avaiable
> 
I found that it would work if you put the printer name in
the options to lpr.  It would never work with the printer
defaulted.  I worked around it by changing some of the macros
in the a2ps config files to always use the printer name.  Not
a general fix, but it worked for me.

jim

   

fvwm95 and icons

[Jose Alberto Lobo]

Hi!,

I run Debian slink and use fvwm95 window manager --I know it's a little
primitive, but very robust and easy to handle. I have however a silly problem
with the icons in the button bar: there are certain applications --netscape,
xfig, xterm, etc.-- I launch by clicking on the corresponding button. While
the corresponding program is loaded the button looks pressed, but one expects
it to return to the original position on load finish. Some of the applications
do show this behaviour, such as xterms, but others don't, such as netscape, xfig
and others. With these the button remains in "pressed" state forever, even after
exiting the associated program. It can be clicked on again, and the application
restarts normally.

Not very serious, indeed, but a bit of a nuisance to look at...

Anybody any suggestions?
Alberto
-- 
J. Alberto Lobo
Departament de Fisica Fonamental
Diagonal 647
08028 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93402 1161
Fax: +34 93402 1149

Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

[Kenneth Scharf]

There are two questions to this issue:
1: Do you trust your distro?
2: Do you trust your distro's ftp site.

Question number two is really a matter of the site
having been hacked and a trojan (or a coo-coo) being
planted.

I use debian, and I DO trust them.  I would never have
a problem downloading a .deb file from the official
debian site or a trusted mirror.  In fact it is a
little different with .deb's.  RPM's are EVERYWHERE,
and ANY Tom, Dick, or Harry can create them.  DEB's
seem to be created mostly by Debian personal (though
there are some non-official ones).  The reason for
this is that the tools necessary to create DEB's are
not as well documented and understood, so only real
debian developers are using them.  Of course with
Corel and Stormix in the picture now, this might be
changing.

--- Tim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom Schaefer wrote:
> > 
> > I know this is a Linux list, but a friend of mine
> had this
> > exchange with one of the people from FreeBSD back
> in November,
> > regarding Linux vs. FreeBSD and I thought you
> folks might like
> > to read it ... it may prompt some of you to
> actually go make a
> > boot floppy and install straight from the net ...
> Keith, my
> > friend had written an article, to which Daniel
> Sobral,
> > (FreeBSD) responded, and this is only one of
> several of the
> > emails exchanged:
> > 
> > = cut here =
> 
> Wow, Tom, thanks for copying me on this exchange.  I
> found it
> VERY interesting.  This, plus Carlos's information
> that there ARE
> indeed multiple fallback sites built in for
> everything under
> /usr/ports, makes me want to explore FreeBSD so much
> more.  
> 
> One other thing that I noticed during my FreeBSD
> box's
> compilation, but forgot about until reminded by that
> article, was
> that the source packages' MD5 checksums are part of
> the process
> to help ensure that you're not downloading a trojan.
>  
> 
> This brings up a serious trust issue: It's only a
> matter of time
> (could have already happened, for all we know)
> before somebody at
> one of the RPM-based distro companies inadvertantly
> puts out a
> binary RPM that does something nasty and/or covert
> to our
> systems.  Or maybe it won't be so innocent: some
> scummy PHB will
> get the bright idea to have the coders slip in a
> piece of code to
> 'survey' which programs we use the most, or to
> 'sign' content you
> produce with your ethernet card's MAC address (MS
> does this with
> Word, they called it a bug, gimme a break!)  Yes,
> they provide
> SRPMS too, but how do you know the RPMS came
> directly from the
> SRPMS?  
> 
> The question comes down to:  Do you trust your
> distro provider to
> build all of your binaries cleanly?  In a couple
> years when
> pressure comes from Wall Street to turn a profit or
> lose that
> huge market capitalization, can we trust them to
> still play
> straight with us?
> 
> Don't get me wrong: I'm very pro-business!  I work
> for myself,
> and am doing pretty nicely, and hope to do even
> better - it's
> wonderful, I wish more people could enjoy it... but
> the misdeeds
> of the very largest companies (MS, AOL, Disney,
> Sony, Amazon,
> Real Networks, MPAA/DVD-CSS, GTE, Bellsouth, Network
> Solutions,
> you get the idea) have taught me to distrust the
> very largest
> players.  After money comes power, and in our world,
> these guys'
> idea of power includes intentional backdoors,
> sabotaging
> competing software, selective platform support,
> eyeballs, spam,
> restrictive contracts, and ads.  I don't see that
> Linux companies
> are inherently immune to these things.
> 
> I'm starting to think that building all your
> software only from
> trusted source *.tar.gz files is going to become
> standard
> practice among the paranoid (yes, I lean that way
> too, can you
> tell?).  FreeBSD does that right now, and we need to
> either add
> Linux to the /usr/ports system, or come up with
> something similar
> in order to guard against these potential abuses.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Tim
>
---
> Brought to you by the Florida Linux User Xchange,
> FLUX.
> Visit our webpage at:  http://www.flux.org
> Mailing list subscription issues:
> http://www.flux.org/members/list.html
> 

=
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!

http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze

Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .


__
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com

Re: xfs-xtt

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:05:24AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt.
> 
> Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf
> fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this.

There's supposed to be a mkttfdir in a deb package somewhere 
 
The documentation for xfs-xtt is ... well, I consider it a challenge
:)

> I tried getting mkttfdir, which is part of perlftlib-1.2.tar.gz,
> available from http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/#perlftlib, but it won't
> compile... and mkttfdir.pl doesn't work, saying mkttfdir.pl doesn't
> exist. ;^(

It compiles fine if you edit one include statement.  The debian
package installs the freetype.h file in /usr/include/freetype instead
of /usr/include, so change "#include " to "#include

 
mkttfdir.pl won't work until you compile the package since mkttfdir
uses FreeType Wrapper.

However, the "not found" message is easier than that ... take a look
at the first line of the script.  I'll bet it says "/usr/local/bin/perl"
rather than "/usr/bin/perl".  Unless you've created a
"/usr/local/bin/perl" link that script isn't going to work.

I found that I had to use the "-e" option to force ISO8859-1 encoding
for many of the fonts I pulled off one of those bigass font CDs.

> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?

You need to restart xfs-xtt.  If it's currently serving fonts via TCP
this may piss off any connected remote X servers.  It will definitely
piss off the local X server, especially if the local server is using a
domain socket.  I actally got my machine to hard boot once :(

I use login.app, so whenever I add a raft of fonts I shutdown X with
"init 2" from a console, restart xfs-xtt, and restart X with "init 3".
Obviously there are other ways to restart X :)

Hope this helps!

-- 
Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation"  Network Engineer
GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/
Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73  8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7


pgpvwgqIcHbHZ.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Re: xfs-xtt

[Bryan Scaringe]

Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase
file extention.  Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different
than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.

Bryan


> there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  
> 
>> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
>> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?
> 
> i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool
> on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up
> and were usable in netscape.  but these were not enough fonts so i
> nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which
> generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of
> them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts
>:(
> 
> i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all
> the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that
> would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem
> like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you
> archive files...) 
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
> /dev/null

Re: xfs-xtt

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase
> file extention.  Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different
> than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.

damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase
letters in bash or some other way?  i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF
this.tff 215 times

MS never ceases to inconvenience...

> Bryan
> 
> 
> > there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  
> > 
> >> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
> >> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?
> > 
> > i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool
> > on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up
> > and were usable in netscape.  but these were not enough fonts so i
> > nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which
> > generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of
> > them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts
> >:(
> > 
> > i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all
> > the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that
> > would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem
> > like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you
> > archive files...) 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ethan Benson
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
> > /dev/null
> 

-- 
Ethan Benson

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

[Kent West]

Frank Copeland wrote:

> John Bagdanoff wrote:
> >Frank Copeland wrote:
> >>
> >> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to
> >> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6,
> >> we'll see what comes of it.
> >
> >Thanks for the verification, Frank.  Guess I'll sit tight for a couple
> >of days.
>
> This issue is starting to get a mention on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
> The suggested workaround is to set LC_ALL=en before running wine, and I can
> confirm that this works for me.
>
> Frank
>

EXCELLENT! Worked for me also! Thanks!

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

[aphro]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Chirag wrote:

mannan >Thanks, but I am not able to get te fullscreen mode. When I switch 
it
mannan >on, the player
mannan >takes the entire screen, but the movie itself is limited to the central 
part
mannan >of the screen
mannan >and is actually smaller than in the normal mode. The Readme file says

that is normal when you do not have a modeline low enough. what mpegtv
(and other fullscreen apps do) is get the closest resolution that is
possible(defined in XF86Config) for full screen mode. some games won't
even run if there isn't a 640x480 modeline.

see

http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9911/msg01229.html

for the message about my modelines, and the ones that work on my
monitor. they may NOT work on yours, but it may be worth a try.

mannan >requires
mannan >that an X server with DGA is required, What is this DGA? I am stuck 
with and
mannan >odd
mannan >card that does not properly get mode tuned with XFree86_SVGA. Since it
mannan >supports
mannan >VESA BIOS Extensioin 2.0 I am using Frame Buffer X Server XFree86_FBDev.
mannan >with the kernel frame buffer device turned on using 
video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr
mannan >kernel
mannan >param(Ref /usr/src/linux/Documetation/framebuffer.txt).
mannan >The problem with this is that it is unaccelerated. Still I am able to 
get
mannan >comparable
mannan >perfromance to playing in Windows.

chances are it won't run in full screen then, DGA is sorta like XF86's
version of DirectVideo(DirectX) it provides direct graphics access
bypassing the network layer of the X server(I believe). mpegtv uses
SDL to run fullscreen which inpart uses DGA.

mannan >Another utillity which makes other OSes to run on Linux, VMWare for 
Linux
mannan >also requires this DGA
mannan >stuff. It also warned me that full screen mode is not possible  since 
DGA is
mannan >not in the X Server.

what video chipset is on your videocard?

mannan >If you have any info on this DGA please let me know

it's good to have, but its not a very safe way to access the hardware, the
system can crash very easily while using DGA(DGA2 may help fix some of
this i dunno) but only the best XF86 drivers support it.  i dont find
fullscreen mode in vmware very useful unless i want to try to trick
someone into thinking im running another OS:/

nate

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
   Vice President Network Operations   http://www.firetrail.com/
  Firetrail Internet Services Limited  http://www.aphroland.org/
   Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
7:06am up 194 days, 19:30, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.05, 1.13

Re: xfs-xtt

[Bryan Scaringe]

There was a discussion about this back on Jan 23-24.  
It's covered better than anything I could write.  Check the archives.
Look for a subject to the effect of: "Batch rename files"
 
Bryan

Below is the method I would choose (from 1 of the messages in that thread):

---

A low-tech bash-only way to do this is:

for n in foo-*-bar-*.txt; do nn=${n/-bar-/-}; mv $n ${nn/foo/blah}; done

I actually use this quite often when I need to replace only one part
of the name. Plus you get to preview your changes when you replace
`mv' by `echo' in a dry run.

This was for the `easiest way' part.

Complex replacements get tedious with this technique, though. If
you're feeling really brave and are the do-it-yourself kind of person,
you won't want to resort to mmv or something else that is designed for
the job. You use sed to assemble a stream of commands that you pipe
into a shell:

ls foo-*-bar-*.txt | sed 's/\(foo\(.*\)bar-\(.*\)\)/mv \1 blah\2\3;/' | sh

or so. For increased power/obfuscation, you could pipe the output of
find into sed. This enables you to rename files in a whole directory
tree, and move them through the filesystem in interesting ways
(flattening directory hierarchies, for instance). This makes for
beautiful sed patterns, because the `/'s need to be escaped in sed:

find -type f | sed -e h -e 's/\.\///' -e 'y/\//-/' -e x -e G \
-e 's/\n/ /' -e 's/\(.*\)/mv \1;/' | sh

would transform

foo.txt
for/bar.txt
a/very/very/long/path/and/then/some.more

into

foo.txt
for-bar.txt
a-very-very-long-path-and-then-some.more

leaving some empty directories behind.
Now if you choose not to quote the sed expressions, because you could
as well escape them, you get

find -type f | sed -e h -e s/\\.\\/// -e y/\\//-/ -e x -e G \
-e s/\\n/\ / -e s/\\\(.\*\\\)/mv\ \\1\;/ | sh

I think this has a certain ring to it. Of course, my sed expressions
might be overly complicated, as complete mastery of sed is not really
simple to attain for mere mortals.

---

On 01-Mar-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>> Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase
>> file extention.  Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different
>> than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.
> 
> damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase
> letters in bash or some other way?  i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF
> this.tff 215 times
> 
> MS never ceases to inconvenience...
> 
>> Bryan
>> 
>> 
>> > there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  
>> > 
>> >> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
>> >> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?
>> > 
>> > i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool
>> > on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up
>> > and were usable in netscape.  but these were not enough fonts so i
>> > nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which
>> > generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of
>> > them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts
>> >:(
>> > 
>> > i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all
>> > the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that
>> > would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem
>> > like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you
>> > archive files...) 
>> > 
>> > -- 
>> > Ethan Benson
>> > 
>> > 
>> > -- 
>> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
>> > /dev/null
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson

Problem with sendmail

[Roy Jr]

I need to configure the e-mail for receive e-mail 
under the domain. Ex my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i need to 
receive also under [EMAIL PROTECTED] . How can 
i do that?
 
Please answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
Thanks

samba

[Timothy C. Phan]

hi,

  I have just install samba on my potato box. Is there
  an addition setup that I need to do to browse my home
  directory on the potato box?

  Here is the sample setup:

  On potato box:
user login: usera
passwrd   : passwda
home dir  : /home/usera

  On NT box: I also have the same use and same password.

  Now, from the NT box, I'd like to map this home directory
  on the potato to a drive where I can read/write file.

  Anything in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file need to be modified
  to do this?  Currently, everytime I click on the workgroup
  on the NT explore, it kept asking me for a user/passwd and
  I kept getting invalid user/passwd.

  Thanks

---
tcp

RE: xfs-xtt configuration

[Paul Kallstrom]

First, you may want to change "unix/:7101" to "inet/127.0.0.1:7101", if you
don't have the unix ports module installed, or compiled in your kernel.




On 01-Mar-2000, at 13:59:09, Arcady Genkin climbed upon the nearest soapbox,
and shouted: 
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  
> Thanks!
> 
> My new question... After I successfully generated the fonts.dir file,
> and added
>FontPath"unix/:7101"
>FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
> 
> to XF86Config, X no longer starts, and I'm seeing error messages that
> X cannot set default font path. 
> 
> Did I have to do some magic in /etc/X11/xfs/config? Here's what mine
> looks like.
> 
> ,[ config ]
>| # /etc/X11/xfs/config
>| #
>| # X font server configuration file
>| 
>| # allow a maximum of 10 clients to connect to this font server
>| client-limit = 10
>| # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
>| clone-self = on
>| # log errors using syslog
>| use-syslog = on
>| # turn off TCP port listening (Unix domain connections are still permitted)
>| no-listen = tcp
>| # paths to search for fonts
>| catalogue =
>| /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Spee
>| do/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X1
>| 1/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
>| # in decipoints
>| default-point-size = 120
>| # x1,y1,x2,y2,...
>| default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
>| deferglyphs = all
>| 
>| # font cache control, specified in KB
>| cache-hi-mark = 2048
>| cache-low-mark = 1433
> `
> 
> Thanks for any input!
> -- 
> Arcady Genkin
> Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
> /dev/null

-- 
--
E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01-Mar-2000
Time: 11:15:55

Debian GNU/Linux (Potato) & XFMail
--
Random Trekism: If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in
them.
-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.7

---
-BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Version: 2.6.3a

mQCNAziz+lIAAAEEAMFaz28Wb0tb53nl/sG7AvGQSMNvGuqhHS+0beHzjNWRFXKT
iRUZ2HjT+0WUfkOGOd9N0MoDKQ/TXCPvx4cUtm7lDnX9GNIBdeP5Wpy6FS5XDJfL
49kktHtWZbshC3L9E0HdvxP0NGrpGEh1JxY5PL22eWZ9VycWlp9RNX/8WadlAAUT
tChQYXVsIEthbGxzdHJvbSA8cGF1bEBzb2Z0cmFjYW1lcmljYS5jb20+iQCVAwUQ
OLP6Up9RNX/8WadlAQGjogP/bB0uiqGYWTkyo5/vGeG6dhwDhU2Ua2RF0Yn/pJbg
TG2o9WLfNzD4xlBP+dXh9bQ2LAR0zw2ZkFu8l78uqxU4YykiDhnADYJaIOWNXutB
lxTqN817w020tMQcEcChUBT40WrqscHFmStVV4kuPft744JWfUB4h5BIZCFaDZw+
zgA=
=er8j
-END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-

IBM NetFinity 7000

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

Hi all,
I have a client that bought two IBM NetFinity 7000 with a external
storage. He wants that the two computers access the HD as it was from each
computer. He says to me that NT has a solution for this: MCSS. How I can do
this with Linux?
Thanks.

-- 
Abraços,PH
Linux Solutions - Renovando Conceitos - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br
OLinux - O maior e melhor site de Linux do Brasil - http://www.olinux.com.br
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Information Technology Consultant

Administering large groups of Debian machines

[Stephen A. Witt]

I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some
others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
now as to the most effective way to manage these machines. 

We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far
so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set
of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in
the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.

My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who
has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.

Thanks...
Steve

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

fcs is Frame Check Sequence. PPP over an async link uses HDLC-like framing for 
each packet. The FCS is used to detect errors in packets which are received. 
Such an
error could happen on a link which is not error-corrected. On a link which is 
error-corrected this probably indicates something is munging bytes on the way 
through.
This could happen because of things like software flow-control, which inserts 
XON/XOFF bytes into the stream to tell the other side to stop sending data. 
Make sure your
modem is configured to only do hardware flow control.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I am having trouble recieving files via PPP from certain sites.  I checked 
> the debugging log, and I am repeatedly getting a two-line error message from 
> those sites:
>
> kernel: ppp: frame with bad fcs, length = 994
> kernel: ppp: bad frame, count = 994
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means?
>
> It seems that my PPP connection receives a bad frame, and keeps requesting 
> that same frame over and over again (I get the same message repeated 
> throughout the log).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Martin

--
Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel Compile

[Sean McIlwain]

I am attempting to compile the 2.0.38 kernel under debian using a
486
33MHz computer.
  I have tried kernel-package and make bzImage.  Both give the same
error as below.  I have included all the packages that are currently
installed on my system.  If you have any hints to what is going on,
please let me know

Thanks,
Sean


...
as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
ld86 -0 -s -o bootsect bootsect.o
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/arch/i386/boot/compre
ssed'
./xtract /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback >

piggy.o
Non-GCC header of 'system'
Compressed size 20.
ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0fe0
misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf':
misc.o(.text+0x1ebc): undefined reference to `input_data'
misc.o(.text+0x1ec1): undefined reference to `input_len'
misc.o(.text+0x1ed7): undefined reference to `input_data'
make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/arch/i386/boot/compres
sed'
make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zImage] Error 2



Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-

ii  adduser 3.8Add users and groups to the system.
ii  ae  962-21 Anthony's Editor -- a tiny
full-screen edito
ii  base-files  2.1.0  Debian Base System Miscellaneous
Files
ii  base-passwd 2.0.3.3Debian Base System Password/Group
Files
ii  bash2.01.1-4.1 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  bin86   0.14.3-1   16-bit assembler and loader
ii  binutils2.9.1.0.19a-2  The GNU assembler, linker and binary
utiliti
ii  binutils-dev2.9.1.0.19a-2  The GNU binary utilities (BFD
development fi
ii  bsdmainutils4.4.0.1More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
ii  bsdutils4.4.1.1Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
ii  cpp 2.7.2.3-7  The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  data-dumper 2.09-1 Store and retrieve perl data
structures
ii  debianutils 1.10   Miscellaneous utilities specific to
Debian.
ii  diff2.7-18 File comparison utilities
ii  doom1.10-16The classic, incredibly popular 3-d
shoot 'e
ii  dpkg1.4.0.23.2 Package maintenance system for Debian
Linux
ii  dpkg-dev1.4.0.35   Package building tools for Debian
Linux
ii  dpkg-ftp1.4.9.6Ftp method for dselect.
ii  dpkg-mountable  0.7Enhanced access method for dselect
ii  e2fsprogs   1.12-4 The EXT2 file system utilities and
libraries
ii  elvis-tiny  1.4-5  Tiny vi compatible editor for the
base syste
ii  emacs20 20.3-7 The GNU Emacs editor.
ii  emacsen-common  1.4.8  Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii  enscript1.6.1-1Converts ASCII texts to Postscript |
HTML |
ii  f2c 19971204-3 A Fortran77 to C/C++ translator, plus
static
ii  fdflush 1.0.0-12   A disk-flushing program.
ii  fileutils   3.16-5.3   GNU file management utilities.
ii  findutils   4.1-33 utilities for finding files--find,
xargs, an
ii  g++ 2.91.66-0slink The GNU (egcs) C++ compiler.
ii  gcc 2.7.2.3-7  The GNU C compiler.
ii  gcc-docs2.7.2.3-4.8Documentation for the gcc compilers
(gcc, g+
ii  grep2.2-1  GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
ii  groff   1.11a-2GNU troff text-formatting system.
ii  gs  5.10-1 Postscript interpreter with X11 and
svgalib
ii  gsfonts 5.10a-1Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter

ii  gzip1.2.4-28   The GNU compression utility.
ii  hostname2.04   A utility to set/show the host name
or domai
ii  isapnptools 1.16-4.1   ISA Plug-And-Play configuration
utilities.
iU  kbd 0.96a-14   Linux console font and keytable
utilities.
ii  kernel-headers- 2.0.34-4   Header files related to a specific
Linux ker
ii  kernel-package  6.05   Debian Linux kernel package build
scripts.
ii  kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4   Linux kernel source.
ii  kernel-source-2 2.0.38-0   Linux kernel source.
ii  ldso1.9.10-1   The Linux dynamic linker, library and
utilit
ii  libc6   2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libc6-dev   2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: Development libraries
and hea
ii  libdb2  2.3.16-7   The Berkeley database routines
(run-time fil
ii  libg++272   2.7.2.8-0.1The GNU C++ libraries 

Kitchen sink is an essential part!, Powered by....

[Chirag]

Dear GNU/Linux user,

Since the last discussion about whether the association with kitchen
sink is desirable or undesirable to Linux , I have paid a visit to the
kitchen  and found that by consuming all the
dirt it is the one that is actually safeguarding the house's hygiene. It may
look dirty but essential part of life and without it we are in trouble. And
those distributions which does not
include it is a security and safety risk.

After the visit to kitchen I retuned to the computer room and discovered
that it
was the ELECTRICITY that was powering the system and it had failed!

Previ

Re: Cups 1.0.5

[David Wright]

Quoting Alan Tam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Then I followed the steps
> 1. [bash] lpstat -o Enter ==> nothing comes out
> 2. [bash] cupsd& Enter

 ^
The & puts that job in the background. See man bash,
section called JOB CONTROL.

>==> [1] 523 (I've tried a few times, some are
> 629, 1003)

523 is the process id of the job (number 1) you just started.

> 3. [bash] lpstat -o Enter ==> [1]+   Exit 98cupsd

 job number 1 ---^
 return code/value/status ---^
program name ---^

e.g.
david 18:07 ~
$ false &
[1] 22099
david 18:07 ~
[1]+  Exit 1  false
$ true &
[1] 22105
david 18:07 ~
[1]+  Donetrue
$ 

> (I've win98 on the same disk)

Coincidental.

> Then I try to add the printer by doing
> [bash] lpadmin -dHewlett Packard Deskjet 660C -vparallel:/dev/lp1

   
Does that need quotes? (I have no idea, not running cups.)

Cheers,

-- 
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Tel: +44 1908 653 739  Fax: +44 1908 655 151
Snail:  David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA
Disclaimer:   These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify
official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

[Jeff Layton]

I highly recommend cfEngine:

http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/

It's a great tool for managing large heterogeneous networks. It takes a
little forethought for the setup, but is well worth it once in place.
-- Jeff


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

> I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
> seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
> Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
> heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
> admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some
> others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
> now as to the most effective way to manage these machines. 
> 
> We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
> Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far
> so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
> does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set
> of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
> provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
> which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
> machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
> all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in
> the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
> but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.
> 
> My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who
> has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.
> 
> Thanks...
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

[Oleg Krivosheev]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

> 
>   Hi all,
>   I have a client that bought two IBM NetFinity 7000 with a external
> storage. He wants that the two computers access the HD as it was from each
> computer. He says to me that NT has a solution for this: MCSS. How I can do
> this with Linux?

hmm...

probably with nbd?

just a guess

>   Thanks.

OK

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

What is nbd?
Quoting Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > I have a client that bought two IBM NetFinity 7000 with a external
> > storage. He wants that the two computers access the HD as it was from each
> > computer. He says to me that NT has a solution for this: MCSS. How I can do
> > this with Linux?
> 
> hmm...
> 
> probably with nbd?
> 
> just a guess
> 
> > Thanks.
> 
> OK
> 

-- 
Abraços,PH
Linux Solutions - Renovando Conceitos - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br
OLinux - O maior e melhor site de Linux do Brasil - http://www.olinux.com.br
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Information Technology Consultant

Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

[aphro]

i believe .deb's have checksums .. and at least as far as
"official" packages go, using apt anyways, that usually grabs the 'master'
package listing, does dpkg automatically check the checksum on
installation or no? if not it would be a nice feature.. i know rpms have
some form of checksum(pgp i think) but from what ive seen you gotta use
rpm manually to check it.

and while creating a native .deb probably is beyond the knowledge of most
people(either they never bothered to learn or some other reason) it is
quite easy to turn a rpm into a deb with alien, even though it won't be a
good deb package(with all the fancy scripts) it can give a false sense of
security if you think that just cuz its a .deb its safe.  from the reports
ive read in the past hacked ftp sites are usually caught pretty
quick(within hours?)

nate


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

schark >There are two questions to this issue:
schark >1: Do you trust your distro?
schark >2: Do you trust your distro's ftp site.
schark >
schark >Question number two is really a matter of the site
schark >having been hacked and a trojan (or a coo-coo) being
schark >planted.
schark >
schark >I use debian, and I DO trust them.  I would never have
schark >a problem downloading a .deb file from the official
schark >debian site or a trusted mirror.  In fact it is a
schark >little different with .deb's.  RPM's are EVERYWHERE,
schark >and ANY Tom, Dick, or Harry can create them.  DEB's
schark >seem to be created mostly by Debian personal (though
schark >there are some non-official ones).  The reason for
schark >this is that the tools necessary to create DEB's are
schark >not as well documented and understood, so only real
schark >debian developers are using them.  Of course with
schark >Corel and Stormix in the picture now, this might be
schark >changing.
schark >
schark >--- Tim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
schark >> Tom Schaefer wrote:
schark >> > 
schark >> > I know this is a Linux list, but a friend of mine
schark >> had this
schark >> > exchange with one of the people from FreeBSD back
schark >> in November,
schark >> > regarding Linux vs. FreeBSD and I thought you
schark >> folks might like
schark >> > to read it ... it may prompt some of you to
schark >> actually go make a
schark >> > boot floppy and install straight from the net ...
schark >> Keith, my
schark >> > friend had written an article, to which Daniel
schark >> Sobral,
schark >> > (FreeBSD) responded, and this is only one of
schark >> several of the
schark >> > emails exchanged:
schark >> > 
schark >> > = cut here =
schark >> 
schark >> Wow, Tom, thanks for copying me on this exchange.  I
schark >> found it
schark >> VERY interesting.  This, plus Carlos's information
schark >> that there ARE
schark >> indeed multiple fallback sites built in for
schark >> everything under
schark >> /usr/ports, makes me want to explore FreeBSD so much
schark >> more.  
schark >> 
schark >> One other thing that I noticed during my FreeBSD
schark >> box's
schark >> compilation, but forgot about until reminded by that
schark >> article, was
schark >> that the source packages' MD5 checksums are part of
schark >> the process
schark >> to help ensure that you're not downloading a trojan.
schark >>  
schark >> 
schark >> This brings up a serious trust issue: It's only a
schark >> matter of time
schark >> (could have already happened, for all we know)
schark >> before somebody at
schark >> one of the RPM-based distro companies inadvertantly
schark >> puts out a
schark >> binary RPM that does something nasty and/or covert
schark >> to our
schark >> systems.  Or maybe it won't be so innocent: some
schark >> scummy PHB will
schark >> get the bright idea to have the coders slip in a
schark >> piece of code to
schark >> 'survey' which programs we use the most, or to
schark >> 'sign' content you
schark >> produce with your ethernet card's MAC address (MS
schark >> does this with
schark >> Word, they called it a bug, gimme a break!)  Yes,
schark >> they provide
schark >> SRPMS too, but how do you know the RPMS came
schark >> directly from the
schark >> SRPMS?  
schark >> 
schark >> The question comes down to:  Do you trust your
schark >> distro provider to
schark >> build all of your binaries cleanly?  In a couple
schark >> years when
schark >> pressure comes from Wall Street to turn a profit or
schark >> lose that
schark >> huge market capitalization, can we trust them to
schark >> still play
schark >> straight with us?
schark >> 
schark >> Don't get me wrong: I'm very pro-business!  I work
schark >> for myself,
schark >> and am doing pretty nicely, and hope to do even
schark >> better - it's
schark >> wonderful, I wish more people could enjoy it... but
schark >> the misdeeds
schark >> of the very largest companies (MS, AOL, Disney,
schark >> Sony, Amazon,
schark >> Real Networks, MPAA/DVD-CSS, GTE, Bellsouth, Network
schark >> Solutions,
schark >> you get the idea) have taught me to distrust the
schark >> ve

RE: xfs-xtt configuration

[aphro]

while im sure inet/ works good i use tcp/  which also works.

nate

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paul Kallstrom wrote:

paul >First, you may want to change "unix/:7101" to "inet/127.0.0.1:7101", if 
you
paul >don't have the unix ports module installed, or compiled in your kernel.
paul >
paul >
paul >
paul >
paul >On 01-Mar-2000, at 13:59:09, Arcady Genkin climbed upon the nearest 
soapbox,
paul >and shouted: 
paul >> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
paul >> 
paul >>> there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  
paul >> Thanks!
paul >> 
paul >> My new question... After I successfully generated the fonts.dir file,
paul >> and added
paul >>FontPath"unix/:7101"
paul >>FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
paul >> 
paul >> to XF86Config, X no longer starts, and I'm seeing error messages that
paul >> X cannot set default font path. 
paul >> 
paul >> Did I have to do some magic in /etc/X11/xfs/config? Here's what mine
paul >> looks like.
paul >> 
paul >> ,[ config ]
paul >>| # /etc/X11/xfs/config
paul >>| #
paul >>| # X font server configuration file
paul >>| 
paul >>| # allow a maximum of 10 clients to connect to this font server
paul >>| client-limit = 10
paul >>| # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
paul >>| clone-self = on
paul >>| # log errors using syslog
paul >>| use-syslog = on
paul >>| # turn off TCP port listening (Unix domain connections are still 
permitted)
paul >>| no-listen = tcp
paul >>| # paths to search for fonts
paul >>| catalogue =
paul >>| 
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Spee
paul >>| 
do/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X1
paul >>| 1/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
paul >>| # in decipoints
paul >>| default-point-size = 120
paul >>| # x1,y1,x2,y2,...
paul >>| default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
paul >>| deferglyphs = all
paul >>| 
paul >>| # font cache control, specified in KB
paul >>| cache-hi-mark = 2048
paul >>| cache-low-mark = 1433
paul >> `
paul >> 
paul >> Thanks for any input!
paul >> -- 
paul >> Arcady Genkin
paul >> Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
paul >> 
paul >> 
paul >> -- 
paul >> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
paul >> /dev/null
paul >
paul >-- 
paul >--
paul >E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
paul >Date: 01-Mar-2000
paul >Time: 11:15:55
paul >
paul >Debian GNU/Linux (Potato) & XFMail
paul >--
paul >Random Trekism: If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to 
live in
paul >them.
paul >-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.7
paul >
paul >---
paul >-BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
paul >Version: 2.6.3a
paul >
paul >mQCNAziz+lIAAAEEAMFaz28Wb0tb53nl/sG7AvGQSMNvGuqhHS+0beHzjNWRFXKT
paul >iRUZ2HjT+0WUfkOGOd9N0MoDKQ/TXCPvx4cUtm7lDnX9GNIBdeP5Wpy6FS5XDJfL
paul >49kktHtWZbshC3L9E0HdvxP0NGrpGEh1JxY5PL22eWZ9VycWlp9RNX/8WadlAAUT
paul >tChQYXVsIEthbGxzdHJvbSA8cGF1bEBzb2Z0cmFjYW1lcmljYS5jb20+iQCVAwUQ
paul >OLP6Up9RNX/8WadlAQGjogP/bB0uiqGYWTkyo5/vGeG6dhwDhU2Ua2RF0Yn/pJbg
paul >TG2o9WLfNzD4xlBP+dXh9bQ2LAR0zw2ZkFu8l78uqxU4YykiDhnADYJaIOWNXutB
paul >lxTqN817w020tMQcEcChUBT40WrqscHFmStVV4kuPft744JWfUB4h5BIZCFaDZw+
paul >zgA=
paul >=er8j
paul >-END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
paul >
paul >
paul >
paul >-- 
paul >Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
paul >

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
   Vice President Network Operations   http://www.firetrail.com/
  Firetrail Internet Services Limited  http://www.aphroland.org/
   Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
10:49am up 194 days, 23:13, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 1.03, 1.00

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

[Chirag]

Subject: Re: Movie Player for .dat files?


> that is normal when you do not have a modeline low enough. what mpegtv
> (and other fullscreen apps do) is get the closest resolution that is
> possible(defined in XF86Config) for full screen mode. some games won't
> even run if there isn't a 640x480 modeline.

Yes In XFree86_FBDev no modeswitching is possible without rebooting the
system since the calls to VIDEO BIOS does not support protected mode
inteface
for mode swtiching. The mode is decided  at boot time by the kernel, but
this
is only true for VESA frame buffer devices
>
> see
>
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9911/msg01229.html
>
> for the message about my modelines, and the ones that work on my
> monitor. they may NOT work on yours, but it may be worth a try.
>
My monitor is an entry level 14 inch with 65MHz dot clock 30-55 kHz
Horizontal and
50-90 Hz vertical one.

> what video chipset is on your videocard?
>
I have a SiS 6326 AGP 8MB card which although is detected by the
XServers( 
both XFree86_SVGA and XFree86_FBDev) as 8MB, they  say that 'treating as
4MB card' . lspci utility lists 4MB prefetchable memory and 4MB nonprefetchable
memory at different addresses for the card. I think its Windows Driver is doing 
some not in the book trick to use the 8MB on the board. Its manual says that
Maximum linear frame buffer memory possible is 4MB
The card supports 175 MHz dot clock and 1024x768 @75Hz . I normally use 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in Windows In Linux I have no control over the refresh rate 
since it 
is decided by the Video BIOS. The fbset utility, part of the Frame Buffer kernel
support lists 72Hz refresh rate for 800x600 res.

Why is it that I can't size the display window? 

Although the player is good It still has lot grounds to cover. The media 
player
software which I got along with the card has many controls like  slow,search 
,step backward
step foward etc

  What do you think about its capability on your SMP system? On my 400 MHz
 k6-2 32 MB
machine, the top utility shows about 50% of cpu usage.

By the way despite SiS being an American Company why is it that SiS
cards
are not popular in USA? In India the SiS cards does have a very good market
for
entry level systems.

What is the difference between .dat(VCD) files and MPEG(1,2) files.
Aren't the
.dat files using the MPEG compression?

> 7:06am up 194 days, 19:30, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.05, 1.13

 194 days of running without rebooting ?!! CONGRATULATIONS !!
I have read somewhere in the docs that a 0.99 kernel machine had a
record of
600 days of continuous service. Is it still the highest?

previ

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

[aphro]

while i haven't tried this myself it may be worth a shot.

make your own packages for the programs you use in .deb format

point all the machines for apt to use http on the solaris box(or ftp, but
http is probably easier to maintain) then put the packages on the solaris
box.  create a packages / packages.gz and setup a cron script say everyday
at 1am the machines run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade.  or spread the
times apart to reduce load on the solaris box, since the cron script will
have to be manually set everywhere(most likely) it may be best to have 1
box run apt at 1:10 am another at 1:20am etc..

you could also download any 'official' updates you want to distribute to
the solaris box for installation on the debian systems.

as far as installation of packages it could be as simple as
tarring/gzipping up a program(compiled) with the full directory tree in
it, then use alien to convert it to .deb, i dont know how to create a
packages file but you could just follow the examples in the real file,
change whatever you need to suit your setup.

nate

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

sawitt >I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
sawitt >seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
sawitt >Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
sawitt >heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
sawitt >admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably 
some
sawitt >others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
sawitt >now as to the most effective way to manage these machines. 
sawitt >
sawitt >We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
sawitt >Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So 
far
sawitt >so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
sawitt >does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic 
set
sawitt >of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
sawitt >provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
sawitt >which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
sawitt >machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
sawitt >all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines 
in
sawitt >the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
sawitt >but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.
sawitt >
sawitt >My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, 
who
sawitt >has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.
sawitt >
sawitt >Thanks...
sawitt >Steve
sawitt >
sawitt >
sawitt >
sawitt >-- 
sawitt >Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
sawitt >

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
   Vice President Network Operations   http://www.firetrail.com/
  Firetrail Internet Services Limited  http://www.aphroland.org/
   Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
10:49am up 194 days, 23:13, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 1.03, 1.00

Re: Kernel Compile

[aphro]

can you attach/include a copy of your .config (kernel
configuration)  verify that the processor type in the kernel config is
i486 or lower..

nate

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sean McIlwain wrote:

mcilwa >I am attempting to compile the 2.0.38 kernel under debian using a
mcilwa >486
mcilwa >33MHz computer.
mcilwa >  I have tried kernel-package and make bzImage.  Both give the same
mcilwa >error as below.  I have included all the packages that are currently
mcilwa >installed on my system.  If you have any hints to what is going on,
mcilwa >please let me know
mcilwa >
mcilwa >Thanks,
mcilwa >Sean
mcilwa >
mcilwa >
mcilwa >...
mcilwa >as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
mcilwa >ld86 -0 -s -o bootsect bootsect.o
mcilwa >make[2]: Entering directory
mcilwa >`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/arch/i386/boot/compre
mcilwa >ssed'
mcilwa >./xtract /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback >
mcilwa >
mcilwa >piggy.o
mcilwa >Non-GCC header of 'system'
mcilwa >Compressed size 20.
mcilwa >ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
mcilwa >ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0fe0
mcilwa >misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf':
mcilwa >misc.o(.text+0x1ebc): undefined reference to `input_data'
mcilwa >misc.o(.text+0x1ec1): undefined reference to `input_len'
mcilwa >misc.o(.text+0x1ed7): undefined reference to `input_data'
mcilwa >make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
mcilwa >make[2]: Leaving directory
mcilwa >`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/arch/i386/boot/compres
mcilwa >sed'
mcilwa >make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
mcilwa >make[1]: Leaving directory
mcilwa >`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.38/arch/i386/boot'
mcilwa >make: *** [zImage] Error 2
mcilwa >
mcilwa >
mcilwa >
mcilwa >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
mcilwa >|
mcilwa >Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
mcilwa >|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
mcilwa >uppercase=bad)
mcilwa >||/ NameVersionDescription
mcilwa 
>+++-===-==-
mcilwa >
mcilwa >ii  adduser 3.8Add users and groups to the system.
mcilwa >ii  ae  962-21 Anthony's Editor -- a tiny
mcilwa >full-screen edito
mcilwa >ii  base-files  2.1.0  Debian Base System Miscellaneous
mcilwa >Files
mcilwa >ii  base-passwd 2.0.3.3Debian Base System Password/Group
mcilwa >Files
mcilwa >ii  bash2.01.1-4.1 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
mcilwa >ii  bin86   0.14.3-1   16-bit assembler and loader
mcilwa >ii  binutils2.9.1.0.19a-2  The GNU assembler, linker and binary
mcilwa >utiliti
mcilwa >ii  binutils-dev2.9.1.0.19a-2  The GNU binary utilities (BFD
mcilwa >development fi
mcilwa >ii  bsdmainutils4.4.0.1More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
mcilwa >ii  bsdutils4.4.1.1Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
mcilwa >ii  cpp 2.7.2.3-7  The GNU C preprocessor.
mcilwa >ii  data-dumper 2.09-1 Store and retrieve perl data
mcilwa >structures
mcilwa >ii  debianutils 1.10   Miscellaneous utilities specific to
mcilwa >Debian.
mcilwa >ii  diff2.7-18 File comparison utilities
mcilwa >ii  doom1.10-16The classic, incredibly popular 3-d
mcilwa >shoot 'e
mcilwa >ii  dpkg1.4.0.23.2 Package maintenance system for Debian
mcilwa >Linux
mcilwa >ii  dpkg-dev1.4.0.35   Package building tools for Debian
mcilwa >Linux
mcilwa >ii  dpkg-ftp1.4.9.6Ftp method for dselect.
mcilwa >ii  dpkg-mountable  0.7Enhanced access method for dselect
mcilwa >ii  e2fsprogs   1.12-4 The EXT2 file system utilities and
mcilwa >libraries
mcilwa >ii  elvis-tiny  1.4-5  Tiny vi compatible editor for the
mcilwa >base syste
mcilwa >ii  emacs20 20.3-7 The GNU Emacs editor.
mcilwa >ii  emacsen-common  1.4.8  Common facilities for all emacsen.
mcilwa >ii  enscript1.6.1-1Converts ASCII texts to Postscript |
mcilwa >HTML |
mcilwa >ii  f2c 19971204-3 A Fortran77 to C/C++ translator, plus
mcilwa >static
mcilwa >ii  fdflush 1.0.0-12   A disk-flushing program.
mcilwa >ii  fileutils   3.16-5.3   GNU file management utilities.
mcilwa >ii  findutils   4.1-33 utilities for finding files--find,
mcilwa >xargs, an
mcilwa >ii  g++ 2.91.66-0slink The GNU (egcs) C++ compiler.
mcilwa >ii  gcc 2.7.2.3-7  The GNU C compiler.
mcilwa >ii  gcc-docs2.7.2.3-4.8Documentation for the gcc compilers
mcilwa >(gcc, g+
mcilwa >ii  grep2.2-1  GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
mcilwa >ii  groff   1.11a-2GNU troff text-formatting system.
mcilwa >ii  gs  5.10-1 Postscript interpreter with X11 and
mcilwa >svgalib
mcilwa >ii  gsfonts  

Quick & Dirty Guide to making your own apt source directories (was Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines)

[Joe Block]

"Stephen A. Witt" wrote:
> 
> I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
> seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
> Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
> heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
> admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some
> others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
> now as to the most effective way to manage these machines.
> 
> We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
> Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far
> so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
> does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set
> of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
> provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
> which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
> machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
> all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in
> the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
> but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.
> 
> My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who
> has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.

You'd probably be better off rolling your own deb files for the apps
that aren't already in debian and then adding a source entry to
/etc/apt/sources.list.

If you make a task package that depends on all your locally created
packages, then installing a client is as simple as apt-get install
ourtaskpackage after you've done the base install, and upgrading the
clients later is as simple as 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' in cron
on the clients, though I'm personally paranoid enough that I prefer to
do it from the command line so I can see what is getting upgraded.

deb files are very easy to make - you essentially just need working
clean & install targets in the top level Makefile.  The online
documentation is pretty good, and you can take a look at the source of
an existing package to clarify things.

Once you've figured out how to make deb files, making a directory
suitable for apt is also pretty easy - I just created a fake user, made
~user/public_html/dists/local/jpb/binary-i386, then added 

deb http://name.of.server/~user/ local example

to my /etc/apt/sources.list

Then I added a Makefile to
~user/public_html/dists/local/example/binary-i386 with the following
contents:

#
Packages.gz: Packages
-rm Packages.gz
gzip -9 Packages

Packages:
dpkg-scanpackages . override dists/local/example/binary-i386 > Packages
# end Makefile

override contains lines like so
ourscripts Important example/admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ourapps Optional example/misc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nothing bad happens if you don't list one of your packages in override,
other than that you don't control where they show up in dselect's
listing.

When you make a new deb, copy it to the binary-i386 directory, cd there
and run make.

jpb
-- 
Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CREOL System Administrator

Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

[aphro]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Chirag wrote:

mannan >Yes In XFree86_FBDev no modeswitching is possible without rebooting the
mannan >system since the calls to VIDEO BIOS does not support protected mode
mannan >inteface
mannan >for mode swtiching. The mode is decided  at boot time by the kernel, but
mannan >this
mannan >is only true for VESA frame buffer devices

ok, then the problem is that.. to run 'full screen' you have to run your X
in 320x240..(ugh) ..i suggest a new video card at this point i have used
many of those onboard SIS530(and other similar boards) and were very
dissapointed.  3dfx, and nvidia (TNT, riva etc) are quite cheap these
days(as low as say $40) it would be worth it to invest in a new card.

mannan >Why is it that I can't size the display window? 

if you mean why can't you have the video color the full screen its because
the system cannot change modelines.

mannan >Although the player is good It still has lot grounds to cover. The 
media player
mannan >software which I got along with the card has many controls like  
slow,search ,step backward
mannan >step foward etc

that is least important to me, what i'd like is hardware
accelerated/assisted playback, as it is a full screen videocd runs
(slightly) slower on my dual celeron 466 with 256MB ram then my older
p200mmx 64MB did .. hardware accel/assist is comming soon though, ATI
released a developers kit to provide this on their cards..others will
follow i hope.

mannan >  What do you think about its capability on your SMP system? On my 400 
MHz
mannan > k6-2 32 MB
mannan >machine, the top utility shows about 50% of cpu usage.

doing full screen it can easily take 120-130% of the cpu (100% of cpu1
20-30% of cpu2) but it depends what else is going on. this is not the
fault of Mpegtv though it's the lack of hardware assist driver level
support.

mannan >By the way despite SiS being an American Company why is it that SiS
mannan >cards
mannan >are not popular in USA? In India the SiS cards does have a very good 
market
mannan >for
mannan >entry level systems.

SIS's main website i believe is in taiwan you sure they are an american
company? i never checked where they are from. they are indeed very popular
here among low end systems(Say $300 and less) but for any real work a
dedicated videocard is needed.  we work with a company that uses those
SIS530 boards in almost all their stuff, the boards with onboard
everything run about $60.  i really don't like em.

mannan >What is the difference between .dat(VCD) files and MPEG(1,2) files.
mannan >Aren't the
mannan >.dat files using the MPEG compression?

in terms of compression they are exactly the same, however VCD is not
stored in an iso9660 file system(standard cdrom) but stored in another
format(code named whitebook or greenbook, i forgot what the official name
is)  whitebook has been the standard for a few years, and its about all
that is available now. greebook vcds are very unsupported, the only way i
could get one working was by using dos mode mscdex and win3.1.. win9x, NT,
linux do not support greenbook.

mannan >> 7:06am up 194 days, 19:30, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.05, 1.13
mannan >
mannan > 194 days of running without rebooting ?!! CONGRATULATIONS !!
mannan >I have read somewhere in the docs that a 0.99 kernel machine had a
mannan >record of
mannan >600 days of continuous service. Is it still the highest?

yep 194 days :) my record. as for a world record there is a site out there
that keeps track of many system's uptimes.. at one time there was a linux
box that had about 700-800 days and some flavor of BSD that had about 1400
days..i forgot the name of the site tho.. there were quite a few NT and
netware machines i dont think any of them were even near 150 days.  i
remember reading an article about a company in israel(.il i can never
spell it)..they had some form of unix there, the machine was going for 3
years, the older admin had moved on, and it came time for a memory
upgrade, they upgraded the machine, but it no longer booted, turns out the
startup scripts were not up-to-date and it took em a couple days to fix
it..doh!  funny how rebooting a win* box solves most problems and
rebooting a *nix box causes more :) wonder why that is.

nate



[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
   Vice President Network Operations   http://www.firetrail.com/
  Firetrail Internet Services Limited  http://www.aphroland.org/
   Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
10:49am up 194 days, 23:13, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 1.03, 1.00

Re: Configuration management

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On 28 Feb 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> However, I'm not really happy with this way of doing things.  I'd like
> to hear about some other ways.  I've toyed with the idea of using CVS,
> archiving /etc and making a local package.  Slightly related, I'm also
> looking for ways to quickly clone a system.

We're using CVS for just that purpose.  Right now we're source
controlling the full /etc directory for each machine.  We've also
explored just a little the possiblity of sharing configuration
information for different machines using the module facility of cvs.

Overall, I'm pleased with what we have so far.  The big win is we
can track all changes to our configuration, we can audit who changed
what when, and roll back to known good configuration.

The main limitation we've run into are:

  * CVS (the remote protocol) doesn't track file permissions,
ownership and symbolic links.

All of these are important for configuration files.


  * CVS component model is directory based.

To share configuration across machines the configuration files
for a particular package must be isolated in a separate
directory.  Many Debian packages are not organized like this.


  * Machine specific changes are hard to isolated.

Debian packages make this somewhat difficult.  Something like
cfengine can handle this but it doesn't integrate well with CVS.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Jean Pierre

Re: Is it possible to have isolatin on the shell?

[Riku Saikkonen]

Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>this appeared when exchanging files with windows-users. they are able to
>use the full isolatin charset when creating filenames, i can't... quite
>frustrating, i looked at the bash manpage, but could find nothing about the
>ability to use the iso-latin charset on the shell in general
>it is surely a faq, but i didn't found correct pointers on the solution...

Add the following two lines to /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc:
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

Adding these might help too, though I haven't needed them:
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off

Read /etc/inputrc and "man readline" or "info readline" for details.

Just setting your locale ("export LANG=fr") might also be enough, I'm
not sure.

-- 
-=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfs-xtt

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:17:24AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> > Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase
> > file extention.  Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different
> > than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.
> 
> damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase
> letters in bash or some other way?  i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF
> this.tff 215 times

for file in `/bin/ls *[A-Z]*`; do
  mv $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z`
done

-- 
Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation"  Network Engineer
GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/
Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73  8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7


pgpxwPTYzrFlD.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Applixware 5

[Dr. Yasha Karant]

I have downloaded the RPMs for Applixware 5 and
converted these to .deb packages via alien.  Unfortunately,
Applix 5 does not run  properly (Applix 4 is fine).   I have
been in email correspondence with Applix, and purportedly
will get some information on a "fix".  Meanwhile, I have
heard that there are Debian current users out there who
have a working Applixware 5 beta.   If you do, please let
me know what you did, and how you configured either
Applixware and/or Debian (e.g., additional .deb files,
changes to PATH, etc.).

Thanks.

Yasha Karant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

*wham* there went ncpfs . . .

[hawk]

Potato seems determined to kill off my system piece by
piece.

Now it's ncpfs, which simply hangs.  Has anyonw found
the cuase of this yet?

rick

ps2-mouse problem

[Johann Spies]

I want to replace my serial mouse with a ps2 mouse in order to make a
second serial port available (I could solve the problems when I tried to
use a second serial card to provide two extra serial ports).

The ps2 mouse is recognized by the MSDOS-software.  On Linux, I started by
configuring gpm to refer to /dev/psmouse.  After that, as soon as I move
the mouse, the keyboard stops working and I have to reset the computer.  I
did not even have the chance to try the mouse in XF86Config.

Do I have to recompile the kernel to use a ps2 mouse?  How can the mouse
disable my keyboard?

I have a  mixed slink/potato system.

Any hints will be welcome.
-- 
Johann Spies,Windsorlaan 19, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa
Tel/Faks 033-346-1310 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388
 "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh 
  me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside
  the still waters, he restoreth my soul...Surely
  goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
  life; and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for
  ever."Psalms 23:1,2,6 

3COM Drivers-

[Tom Warfield]

Anyone know where i can find a driver for the 3COM 575BT card?  I called
3COM and they said to try a site that wasnt maintained by them.
Unfortuanetly i didnt see any drivers at the site for this card.  Anyone
have any ideas?  Its a PCMCIA card and is a failry common card, so im sure
that it probably out there somewhere.

Thanks,
Tom

Re: xfs-xtt

[Arcady Genkin]

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase
> letters in bash or some other way?  i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF
> this.tff 215 times

You can use mmv utility:

mmv '*.TTF' #1.ttf

should do the trick. Note: it will only change the extensions,
i.e. THIS.TTF will become THIS.ttf.
-- 
Arcady Genkin  
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: OFF TOPIC: Audio/Modem Riser (AMR)?

[dan]

I think last time I saw those kinds of slots, they were proprietary
slots for onboard winmodem/audio that hold a winmodem/audio bracket.
The rest is self-explanatatory.

-- 
Windows NT: n.
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,  written
by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.

Optic fiber to ethernet.

[Felipe Alvarez Harnecker]

Hi,

I'm a networking neophit. Excuse me.

What device do i need to link a optic fiber to an ethernet ??

Thanks.

-- 
__

Felipe Alvarez Harnecker.  QlSoftware.

Tel. 09.874.60.17  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Potenciado por Ql/Linux  http://www.qlsoft.cl
__

how to change window-managers?

[john smith]

hi,

 before I used gnome I was using icewm and in the system menu I could 
choose whatever window-manager I like from fvwm,icewm,sawmill, etc now when 
I installed gnome, I had to edit my Xsession file to include one window 
manager or else there would be none. I was wondering if I could somehow get 
the window-manager choices again thru gnome.

__
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

[dan]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 07:27:04PM -0500, addiction generated a stream of 1s 
and 0s:
> Hello..
> 
> Rather silly question but here goes:
> 
> I don't have access to Windows or DOS and I need to extract the contents
> of some .cab files. I was wondering if there is any tool I can use to do
> this, since this is a Microsoft free Debian machine.

If you want the quickest way, then boot with any MSDOS compatible floppy
with command.com and extract.exe. Use extract.exe to extract cabs onto a
floppy if possible. Or use dosemu to run extract.exe.

Re: How do I give a 'clear' command when leaving kdm/X?

[dan]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:47:37PM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 
1s and 0s:
> How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave   
> kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this
> to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'clear'.
>   

Here's a very elegant way that appeared in one of LG issues. Put this in
your .bash_profile 'trap /usr/bin/clear EXIT'. Put this in your .bashrc if
desired also. trap is a very interesting internal bash command.

-- 
Windows NT: n.
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,  written
by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.

svgalib and ATI Rage 128

[José Luis Gómez Dans]

Hi!
I have so far been experiencing erratic svgalib behaviour.
Basically, if I call something like zgv, I get the following message:
c172d
Int 0x10 is not in rom (:)
No VESA bios detected!
Try running vga_reset.
and zgv (or whatever) runs in VGA mode, instead of SVGA mode. 

So I tried downloading the latest svgalib available, and
compiled it. This comes with a little program called vgatest which tests
your card + monitor. I used it, and again, I get the above message,
which allows me to choose only from the VGA modes. However, if I change
my /etc/vga/libvga.config and add
chipset VESA
to it, new modes spring up (a couple of screenfuls), and I can test them
fine. The only problem comes when I go back to the console: the monitor
starts flickering and I can't use either the console or X.

I have had some trouble with setting up X (it won't go above
800x600, and I have the right timings, the thing is, fonts look
arbitrarily bad at higher resolutions, eg 1024x768: in some windows 
they look good, in some they don't). I'm quite happy with 800x600, but I
can't even get that with svgalib.

Does anyone have any clues?
Thanks
José

-- 
José L Gómez Dans   PhD student
Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

Re: ATI Video Card Support

[dan]

Simply don't get any ATI cards unless you have to. They're overpriced
for their performance. They're slow in X compared to others. If you are
going to be doing just 2D and want great performance and great 2D
quality IMO Millenium G400 is the best choice right now. Strangely, but
support for 3D accelleration is there for ATI RagePro based cards and works 
quite
well for my 4M XL card. I am going to upgrade to G400 MAX since prices
on those are falling quite rapidly. G400 utah-glx support is nice 
also, but since it's alpha I'd wait for XF86 4.0 before doing anything
serious with 3D.




-- 
Windows NT: n.
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,  written
by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.

Re: ps2-mouse problem

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-03-01 22:36:11, Johann Spies wrote:

> I want to replace my serial mouse with a ps2 mouse in order to make a
> second serial port available (I could solve the problems when I tried to
> use a second serial card to provide two extra serial ports).

Ok.

> The ps2 mouse is recognized by the MSDOS-software.  On Linux, I started by
> configuring gpm to refer to /dev/psmouse.  After that, as soon as I move
> the mouse, the keyboard stops working and I have to reset the computer.  I
> did not even have the chance to try the mouse in XF86Config.

Did you mean /dev/psaux?  Your kernel needs to be compiled with PS/2
support.  If so, could be an interrupt conflict between your PS/2 port
and another device.


/Allan
-- 
Allan M. Wind   Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP)
P.O. Box 2022   Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Woburn, MA 01888-0022   ICQ: 44214251
USA Phone: 781.279.4513

The perfect X text editor

[Mark Phillips]

Hi,

What the world needs is a text editor which has the following:

1. Designed from the start to run under X, preferably using gnome
widgets.

2. Designed to be somewhat compatible with emacs --- where this
doesn't impinge on utility.

3. Designed to be quick to start.  It should do this by only loading
in extra functionality when needed (at run time).



Does anyone know whether 
A) this editor already exists, or
B) there are people working on it?


Please email any responses to me directly as I am currently not
subscribed to the list.


In particular I am looking for an emacs replacement for email
composition.  I use emacs in conjunction with exmh which is quite nice
in terms of editing power.  In particular I like the way it can
reformat paragraphs, and even does this reformatting correctly when
the paragraph is indented using ">" characters or whatever.  The main
problem is that it takes forever to load, even when you only want to
write a simple email.  Can anyone recommend a replacement?

Cheers,

Mark.



_/\___/~~\
/~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips
/~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_
/~~\__/~~\
__
"They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" 

potato install issues

[Kevin Conover]

I'm trying to install potato to a new machine to be used as a squid
box.  (I know potato is beta/frozen).  I'm having the following issues:

1) during the install, after the first reboot, I'm getting an error with
init.  Specifically, the install process puts a line in inittab that says
to respawn /root/.bash_profile (or was it rc, I forget, I'm home now) at
run level 1.  The file doesn't exist so the respawn gets cranky.  Who is
supposed to put down this file?  I've tried touching the file and/or
commenting out the line (using another virtual console).  Anyone know what
is supposed to be the contents of this file or why I'm not getting it?

2) I'm not getting the dselect section that lets me select
"workstation" or "server" or ...  I'm trying to be lazy and just select
server but I'm not getting this dialog.  Where does this dialog come
from?  Is this supposed to be what's in /root/.bash_profile?

3) I have 1 SCSI drive and 4 ide drives and the lilo docs are unclear as
to how to set up /etc/lilo.conf for this arrangement so that I can boot
from the scsi drive and use the 4 ide drives for raiding for the cache.  
I've tried what the docs imply:

disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x81 (I've also tried 0x30, which is what lilo -v -v -v tells me)

but I'm still dying at "LI".  According to the manual for lilo, this is a
geometry mismatch, lilo can't find the data it needs, it's getting
confused by the multiple hard drives.  

thanks.

-- 
kc

Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

transfering to new HDD

[Mary Honeycutt]

Hi,

I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want
to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, 
symlinks, etc).

I thought I saw a thread about this, but couldn't find it.

Can anyone tell me what FM to read to get this going?

TIA

MaryK

module problem

[Dale Morris]

I've been trying to install debian 2.1. When I configure network modules
and try to add the module 3c59x I get a fail message, ...init module,
device or resource busy..
I'm using a cable modem to connect to my local Cox ISP. I have been able
to install this module in both Mandrake and Redhat on my HP Vectra
box. Currently I'm running redhat. lsmod lists the 3c59x module installed
on redhat. Is there a command line parameter I need to add? I'm pretty new
to all this and I appreciate any help. 
Thanks

-- dale

"How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward"
-Spanish Proverb