Wierd Questions
Hello Group, I have a few question on debian. 1, If I want to run Ip Masq. will I need to install the package ipmasq? In the past I have just selected it in the kernel. Whats the package for? 2, Im running frozen with kernel 2.2.15 and would like to use the raid mirror option in the kernel. I have selected it but cant seem to find any good help on setting it up. I just want to mirror my drive.How or where can I find info on this? 3, And the last is after installing frozen I have alot of services running at boot. Where can I shut them off so they dont start automacilly? Thanks Guys If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Re: SGML beginners question
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:18:27AM +, Tony wrote: > ^ > ^"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > ^ > ^> really slick and well formatted documents. And for writing something > ^> like a thesis, using BibTeX makes it easy to handle citations. > ^ > ^Yes. > ^ > ^Latex + bibtex + Emacs + AUCTeX + bib-cite + RefTeX + font-latex > ^ > ^Good stuff. > ^-- > > Yes, I basically agree with that, but getting the document into html as well > as ps I have found to be a bore. Lat time I tried latex2html on a 100,000 > word > tex document, it died miserably. Are there better alternatives for producing > html from complex latex sources? You can also look at tex4ht. It is a debian package. It works well on most of the documents I tried. But I had some trouble sometimes with \maketitle. In such cases I just commente it out when making the hmtl-file. Johann. -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082 898 1528(Johann) 082 255 2388(Hester) "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." I Corinthians 6:19,20
HELP! Netscape completely broken by tonight's upgrade!
Navigator-smotif-473 and friends stopped working completely after I unpacked today's versions. The first problem was a syntax error in the shell script /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape, but after I fixed that by hand all hell breaks loose. I had to remove the packages. Please help! -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
RE: dhcpcd and esound
Weird... is the only word for it. With the sound card in use... try pinging another machine on the network, then traceroute to it, etc I half-suspect theres an IRQ conflict. -- From: Destrius[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 June 2000 2:43 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:dhcpcd and esound I'm not entirely sure if this is the best forum to ask this question, but I figured I'd try here first before bringing up what may not be a bug to the respective developers. When I run esd, and pump an lot of data into the mixer (like playing MP3s thorugh XMMS, for example), and then run the DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd), the daemon sits there doing nothing (I'm monitoring my network traffic using wmifs, and no LEDs are flashing), till I stop sending data to esound. Once I press the pause button on XMMS, dhcpcd immediately starts intefacing with my ethernet card. Apparently dhcpcd freezes up after dhcpcd[4140]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER and only displays dhcpcd[4140]: broadcastAddr option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 202.166.111.255 after pausing XMMS. This does not happen when I'm playing directly to the sound card without going through esd, so it can't be an IRQ conflict between the ethernet card and the sound card. Changing the port esd uses doesn't help either. My guess is that somehow esd is blocking dhcpcd from calling some network function or something along that line. I don't know enough about either program to find out the answer, though. I'm running woody, with the latest versions of esd and dhcpcd. -- +--+ | Destrius | | http://web.hjc.edu.sg/~8223332f/ ++ +| He walks away, | | Remove spaces in email address | Leaving nothing| +| But a notion of his music. | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
REPOST: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory???
COme on guys, isn't there anyone who can help me with this? I sort of feel like an idiot that I can't setup a simple NIS server... :-( ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== >From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Debian GNU/Linux User Mailing List" >Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:00:07 +0200 >Subject: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory??? Hi there, I'm running "frozen", previously with kernel ver 2.3.99pre-7 and now 2.4test-1. Since I installed a NIS master server a few days ago my system often comes to a crawl by excessive memory use of the NIS server (ypserv.) I can (sort of) reproduce it by issuing "ypwhich -m" from the box itself or another machine in my LAN which is just a NIS client. Suddenly there are several copies of ypserv in the process list which consume ridiculous amounts of memory and cause the machine to start swapping excessively, bringing it to a crawl. Here are two "top" snapshots I was able to create: = 8x = PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 376 root 17 0 9272 4996 132 D 0 9.1 12.9 0:01 ypserv 377 root 20 0 9280 4936 136 R 0 8.9 12.8 0:01 ypserv 373 root 13 0 1372 1372 700 R 0 8.8 3.5 0:13 top 375 root 14 0 9260 4224 132 D 0 8.1 10.9 0:01 ypserv 380 root 7 0 9324 3256 1072 R 0 7.2 8.4 0:01 ypserv 379 root 6 0 9296 5420 128 R 0 6.7 14.0 0:01 ypserv 378 root 5 0 9292 5604 156 R 0 6.6 14.5 0:01 ypserv 381 root 6 0 548 548 472 D 0 6.5 1.4 0:00 shutdown 2 root 8 0 00 0 SW 0 3.9 0.0 0:02 kswapd 160 root 1 0 232 160 104 S 0 0.7 0.4 0:00 ypbind 286 root 0 0 588 572 276 S 0 0.7 1.4 0:00 bash 355 root 0 0 380 12076 S 0 0.3 0.3 0:01 sshd 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kupdate 147 root 1 0 9476 3308 3192 S 0 0.1 8.6 0:00 ypserv 1 root 0 0 100 5240 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:03 init 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd = 8x = 1:30pm up 9:24, 3 users, load average: 2.57, 1.31, 0.91 50 processes: 45 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.9% user, 43.9% system, 0.0% nice, 53.0% idle Mem: 38456K av, 29624K used, 8832K free, 0K shrd,148K buff Swap: 131064K av, 14108K used, 116956K free 1880K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 7706 root 14 0 8856 3072 152 D 0 4.8 7.9 0:00 ypserv 7711 root 13 0 8780 259640 R 0 4.4 6.7 0:00 ypserv 7708 root 11 0 8772 260844 D 0 4.3 6.7 0:00 ypserv 7710 root 12 0 8776 366848 R 0 4.3 9.5 0:00 ypserv 7709 root 11 0 8772 358848 R 0 4.2 9.3 0:00 ypserv 7707 root 16 0 8760 294436 R 0 4.1 7.6 0:00 ypserv 7704 root 12 0 1356 1356 700 R 0 2.4 3.5 0:05 top 7712 root 18 0 8856 1024 168 D 0 2.4 2.6 0:00 ypserv 150 root 8 0 8896 1244 280 S 0 1.6 3.2 0:22 ypserv 2 root 2 0 00 0 SW 0 0.8 0.0 2:59 kswapd 83 daemon 1 0 252 232 200 S 0 0.5 0.6 0:10 portmap 7653 root 1 0 392 160 100 S 0 0.2 0.4 0:02 sshd 1 root 0 0 100 5240 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:07 init 3 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd 4 root 0 0 00 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:02 kupdate 135 root 0 0 228 168 136 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:06 syslogd 137 root 0 0 660 168 140 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:01 klogd = 8x = I'm pretty sure my config is ok (I've set up NIS servers before, both under Linux and under Solaris.) Any idea what's going on and how I can debug the scenario? Thanks, Ralf ===END FORWARDED MESSAGE=== -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:08:02AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > Q: what's the 224.0.0.0 ip/netmask for? That's for multicast. I don't know much about multicast, maybe someone else can help there. > Q: what's the scheme behind ports '* -> *'? From any port to any port. > Jun 20 00:18:00 server kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 ICMP/10 172.146.51.93 > 224.0.0.2 L=28 S=0x00 I=50959 F=0x T=128 > Jun 20 00:18:03 server kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 ICMP/10 172.146.51.93 > 224.0.0.2 L=28 S=0x00 I=51215 F=0x T=128 > Jun 20 00:17:57 server kernel: IP fw-in deny eth0 ICMP/10 172.146.51.93 > 224.0.0.2 L=28 S=0x00 I=50191 F=0x T=128 > > there's that 224.0.0.* address, which may be unrelated. > > the other address is always a 172.*.*.* number; the addresses > change, but for each 172.*.*.* address there's always four > to twleve hits or so. The 172.146.51.93 resolves to AC92335D.ipt.aol.com and 224.0.0.2 resolves to ALL-ROUTERS.MCAST.NET, so it looks as though something at AOL is broadcasting something to all multicast routers. Cheers, Tom -- Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking? pgpfMwpKcDbPS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HELP! Netscape completely broken by tonight's upgrade!
> "itz" == Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: itz> Navigator-smotif-473 and friends stopped working completely after itz> I unpacked today's versions. The first problem was a syntax itz> error in the shell script /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape, but after I itz> fixed that by hand all hell breaks loose. I had to remove the itz> packages. Please help! Here's my temporary fix. I can't imagine what the maintainer was thinking here :-( *** /root/wrapper Fri Jun 23 00:09:38 2000 --- /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapperFri Jun 23 00:11:05 2000 *** *** 271,280 MOZILLA_HOME=$(dirname $netscape) for d in \ ! /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d \ ! /usr/lib/netscape/$VER \ ! /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN ;do ! for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do . $d/$f done done --- 271,278 MOZILLA_HOME=$(dirname $netscape) for d in \ ! /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d ;do ! for f in $(cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do . $d/$f done done -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
Re: X server error
Max Kamenetsky wrote: > > I just upgraded to the latest version of X in unstable and here's the > error I get when trying to run startx: > > X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > giving up. > > xinit then bombs out and tells me that it cannot connect to the X > server. This only started happening after upgrading to the latest > version of X, namely 3.3.6-8. Does anyone know of a quick fix? I've got the same Pb, I just remove files in /tmp (anything starting with \.[A-Z]), and it goes good. Tus
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apt-get upgrade
Hi all I have just run update & upgrade and am right now dl / upgrading 5megs worth of stuff. What I would like to see though is that apt-get shows me which packages it'll upgrade. Just like apt-get shows me what will be downloaded when doing apt-get install package. -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
installing cdrom under win 3.1
I am trying to install a cdrom into a system loaded with win 3.1 I cand figure out how can you please help the cdrom is a 6x but with no drivers thanks bill pankey
sasl login support
Does anyone have implemented libsasl-dev and build lib support for login support. I need this in order to get sendmail with smtp auth for lookout user as this doesn't suppot plain . tia, jaume
Re: apt-get upgrade
apt-get -s upgrade will tell you what it will do, without actually doing it. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > I have just run update & upgrade and am right now dl / upgrading 5megs > worth of stuff. What I would like to see though is that apt-get shows > me which packages it'll upgrade. Just like apt-get shows me what will be > downloaded when doing apt-get install package. > > -- > S. Burgener > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: DNS vs Sendmail/Exim
Hola,
en el named.conf borra la alusión al fichero root :
zone "." {
type hint;
file "db.root";
};
si las zonas no quieres que se prodigan hasta el secundario (si no
tienes dns secundario) añade la línea "notify no;" en cada definición
del named.conf
zone "midominio.com"{
type master;
notify no;
file "db.midominio.com";
};
con esto consigues tener un bind funcionando perfectamente para sólo
entorno intranet
salutti,
teixi.
Ismael Canales wrote:
> Gracias de antemano.
>
> Tengo dos máquinas conectadas, para que me funcione el correo entre ellas
> tengo que tener el dns funcionando ( pa' que pille el MX ). Pero tener el
> named andando es un latazo si no estoy en internet porque el named empieza a
> pedir peticiones a los servidores root y se queda esperando el timeout a cada
> petición...
>
> Yo lo resolví, con un script que cambia el fichero de raices por uno nulo
> cuando no estoy en inet y viceversa, ahora no lo tengo funcionando porque las
> últimas versiones del named se quejaba de que no había nada en el fichero de
> raices...
>
> ¿ Hay algun método "oficial" de resolver esto ?
> ¿ Tengo mal configurado el exim o el sendmail ?
> ¿ Hay algo parecido al registro MX para el resolv.conf ? ( burrada seguro )
>
> Alguna idea...
>
> --
>
> http: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Miembro de Linux Malaga.
> Trantor es un i686 con Gnu/Linux 2.2.14
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Re: apt-get upgrade
Hi Sven, just add the -u option to see which packages apt-get will upgrade. i.e. apt-get upgrade -u or better yet apt-get dist-upgrade - u hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 12:25 AM Subject: apt-get upgrade > Hi all > > I have just run update & upgrade and am right now dl / upgrading 5megs > worth of stuff. What I would like to see though is that apt-get shows > me which packages it'll upgrade. Just like apt-get shows me what will be > downloaded when doing apt-get install package. > > -- > S. Burgener > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: installing cdrom under win 3.1
Did I read that correctly or am I going blind? (because I'm already wearing glasses) "system loaded with win 3.1?" hmmm... I did'nt know the debian mailing list supported other operating systems here too...kewl. damn! I knew debian has the best support but I never expected it to be this good and it's free too! ;) - Original Message - From: Bill Pankey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 12:21 AM Subject: installing cdrom under win 3.1 > I am trying to install a cdrom into a system loaded with win 3.1 I cand > figure out how can you please help the cdrom is a 6x but with no drivers > thanks bill pankey > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken
I've just updated my system to the current frozen, and included in this update was the installation of netscape 4.73. When I now run netscape, it bombs out, complaining of: $ netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `(c' /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do' Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else know the fix? Thanks, Mark. P.S. Please cc a copy of any reply directly to me as I currently read the list only via the archives --- and I can't even do that now that netscape is not working. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
acroread
Hello everybody, I have a problem with acroread. I installed and in the beginning it works fine. After some time it does not seem to work anymore and I get the error message: acroread: ../../Source/ATM/Extra/Edge/FileCore.cpp:322:CTBool CTFile::Write(const void *, unsigned char): Assertion 'nWritten == n Count' failed I tried to remove it and re-install it, but this does not solve the problem. Anybody any ideas?? Greetings, Stefan Goeman
Re: dhcpcd and esound
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:40:06PM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > Weird... is the only word for it. -clip- I agree. :P -clip- > With the sound card in use... try pinging another machine on the network, >then traceroute to it, etc > > I half-suspect theres an IRQ conflict. -clip- Mine is the only machine on the network, unfortunately. :P I can connect without any problems when I play to the soundcard through /dev/dsp directly though. Hrm. But then I'm using ALSA, and using esd-alsa. Haven't tried sending data to the sound card through ALSA directly without going through the OSS compatibility layer, but I don't think it would make a difference would it? -- +--+ | Destrius | | http://web.hjc.edu.sg/~8223332f/ ++ +| He walks away, | | Remove spaces in email address | Leaving nothing| +| But a notion of his music. | ++
Suggest net trafic analyser pls!
Hi all I having problem with qmail mail server. I hold some incoming smtp connection for a long time without any messages received from them :-( I'd like to analyse this situation. For this I need some kind of sniffer. Can anyone suggest me a kind of such app which is able to sniff from ppp interface ? I've tried "sniffit" from slink. The problem is: it seams not able to analyse ppp trafic On my debian box I have 3 ethernet card and one modem acting as default internet connection When I try sniffit -i -F eth2 I see active sesions and etc. But if change eth2 to ppp1 (I find this using ifconfig) I don't see anything. But I'm sure that ppp1 interface is active and I have real traffic on it. TIA Alex
Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken
Yes I have this problem also. I assume we shall await a fix. And use Mozilla in the meantime :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > I've just updated my system to the current frozen, and included in > this update was the installation of netscape 4.73. > > When I now run netscape, it bombs out, complaining of: > > $ netscape > /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `(c' > /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | > sort); do' > > Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else know the fix? > > Thanks, > > Mark. > > P.S. Please cc a copy of any reply directly to me as I currently read > the list only via the archives --- and I can't even do that now that > netscape is not working. > > -- > _/\___/~~\ > /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips > /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ > /~~\__/~~\ > __ > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Modem Problem
Hi, I'm trying to connect with a modem RVS ISDN X.75T /V.120 It should connect with a analogic modem, please can you tell me the initialisation string? Many thanks for your help. Cristiana Bianchi
Re: Suggest net trafic analyser pls!
"Alex V. Toropov" wrote: > Hi all > I having problem with qmail mail server. > I hold some incoming smtp connection for a long time without any messages > received from them :-( > I'd like to analyse this situation. > For this I need some kind of sniffer. > Can anyone suggest me a kind of such app which is able to sniff from ppp > interface ? > > I've tried "sniffit" from slink. The problem is: it seams not able to > analyse ppp trafic > > On my debian box I have 3 ethernet card and one modem acting as default > internet connection > When I try > > sniffit -i -F eth2 > > I see active sesions and etc. > But if change eth2 to ppp1 (I find this using ifconfig) > I don't see anything. But I'm sure that ppp1 interface is active and I have > real traffic on it. > I really like ethereal. Graphical, nice breakdown of packets and datagrams and you can follow packet streams. Are you sure it's not ppp0? do you have 2 ppp connections? dyer
Re: X server error
Yeah I also fixed this by deleting all . directories under /tmp. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, ARTUS Guillaume wrote: > Max Kamenetsky wrote: > > > > I just upgraded to the latest version of X in unstable and here's the > > error I get when trying to run startx: > > > > X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > giving up. > > > > xinit then bombs out and tells me that it cannot connect to the X > > server. This only started happening after upgrading to the latest > > version of X, namely 3.3.6-8. Does anyone know of a quick fix? > > I've got the same Pb, I just remove files in /tmp (anything starting > with \.[A-Z]), and it goes good. > > Tus > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
convert
Hello, I tried to convert an .eps picture to a .pdf picture using the command convert test.eps test.pdf I get an error message in the style of could not open file /tmp/imagick. (or something like this) Can anybody help me ? Greetings, Stefan Goeman
Re: Modem Problem
Hi Cristiana > Hi, I'm trying to connect with a modem > RVS ISDN X.75T /V.120 > It should connect with a analogic modem, please can you tell me the > initialisation string? At first, do you use Linux? RVS ISDN X.75T /V.120 looks more like a Windows device desciption... Secondly, am I right that you want to connect a (your?) modem to an ISDN-card? If so, it's unlikely you will succeed; in fact, it depends on the ISDN-card involved (passive or active ISDN-card I think), but see for yourself: http://www.isdn4linux.de/faq/i4lfaq-3.html#ss3.5 Good luck, Marc
SB 1024 Live not working, *sigh*!
Hello fellow coneheads. I have a soundblaster 1024 Live, and I cant seem to get it working. I tried Alsa, but no support was given (I have Potato 2.2, kernel 2.2.14), so I went to www.alsa.org downloaded the latest alsa drivers and programs, recompiled tried to install and I get a module dependency error and nothing happens. No further instructions on how to install (include modules, ...?) are given. What have I done wrong?. What is oss, esound, esd? are these alternatives to alsa or other complements to go with it? Ultimatley What do I need to get my sb working?, kernel modules? (would a kernel recompile be enough?) or do I need alsa, or something alike. if so, what?, and combined (or excluding) what? Thanks for your time, and happy birthday to anyone who it there birthday!. Bye, Mark. Mark Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unable to mount root file system, Kernel Picnic, try again later (after lunch maybe;) __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: SB 1024 Live not working, *sigh*!
have you tried the creative opensource site??? http://opensource.creative.com/ You will find the latest daily source snapshots for the SB Live card. I managed to get it working at home. Jason > > Hello fellow coneheads. > > I have a soundblaster 1024 Live, and I cant seem to get it > working. I tried > Alsa, but no support was given (I have Potato 2.2, kernel > 2.2.14), so I went > to www.alsa.org downloaded the latest alsa drivers and programs, > recompiled > tried to install and I get a module dependency error and nothing happens. > No further instructions on how to install (include modules, ...?) > are given. > > What have I done wrong?. > What is oss, esound, esd? are these alternatives to alsa or other > complements to go with it? > > Ultimatley What do I need to get my sb working?, kernel modules? (would a > kernel recompile be enough?) or do I need alsa, or something alike. if so, > what?, and combined (or excluding) what? > > Thanks for your time, and happy birthday to anyone who it there birthday!. > > Bye, Mark. > > Mark Sanchez > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unable to mount root file system, Kernel Picnic, try again later (after > lunch maybe;) > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Two nics arp problem
Hi, One week ago, I've installed potato on a digital as1000 4/266 (alpha) The purpose for this machine is to become the bastion host of our network. It's being prepared for the moment. It has two nics that are recognized as follows: eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 33 at 0x9800, 00:00:F8:10:71:D5, IRQ 16. eth1: Digital DC21040 Tulip rev 36 at 0xa000, 00:00:F8:20:15:8D, IRQ 20 This server is on a /27 subnet for the moment, and both nics are in this subnet. The problem is that, from time to time, the two nics seem to exchange their IP address, and then I can't ping anymore in any of them already known by my workstation except if I delete the entry of the arp table. Here is one excerpt of my freebsd daily security check: px20_115 kernel log messages: /snip/ > arp: 193.190.234.49 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.49 moved from 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 to 00:00:f8:20:15:8d on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.35 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.35 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.35 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.35 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.35 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 > arp: 193.190.234.35 moved from 00:00:f8:20:15:8d to 00:00:f8:10:71:d5 on de0 And the ifconfig result on the machine: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:10:71:D5 inet addr:193.190.234.35 Bcast:193.190.234.63 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:214601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8715 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:282 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:16 Base address:0x9800 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:20:15:8D inet addr:193.190.234.49 Bcast:193.190.234.63 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:312458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:108339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:1555 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:20 Base address:0xa000 The kernel is 2.2.16 Has someone an idea of where I should look at to find out what/where the real problem is. Thaks in advance -- Marc Dubrowski Kind of a Network Administrator K.B.I.N.I.R.Sc.N.B. 29 rue Vautier B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Re: installing cdrom under win 3.1
Bill Pankey wrote: > > I am trying to install a cdrom into a system loaded with win 3.1 I cand > figure out how can you please help the cdrom is a 6x but with no drivers > thanks bill pankey Hmmm, I just realized I've never done a cd-rom install, I'll have to do that sometime. But if you need drivers perhaps you could go to the web site of the manufacturer of your cd-rom and download them onto a floppy and install. I'm assuming your wanting to install in order to do a Debian cd-rom install;) hth, kent
PL doesnt working
Hi all, I'm trying to install an Private Line (PL) between my machine and an ISP. When I plug the modem (external US Robotics 56k), it connects automatically with the ISP. When the ISP tries to ping my modem, its RX lights on. There isnt any autenthication. I try to use pon and I receive and a local and remote IP. But when I try to ping any other IP other than mine local I receive the error connection refused. I cant ping! I'm using slink and 2.0.36. I can see ppp0 interface with ifconfig. What can be wrong? Thanks for any info,Paulo Henrique
Re: PL doesnt working
Hi Paulo! On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > When the ISP tries to ping my modem, its RX lights on. > I try to use pon and I receive and a local and remote IP. Does pinging the remote IP works? Do those local and remote IPs look right (valid)? Are your routing tables correct? Does the correct IPs point to the ppp device? Does your default route point to the ppp device? > I'm using slink and 2.0.36. I can see ppp0 interface with ifconfig. I assume it is listed as UP and RUNNING, and that TX and RX (in the ifconfig display, NOT the modem lights) show activity without errors... do them? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgpzVNY0Oi80X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug Tracking System: Much to many bugs
Since I've reported a bug myself I've looked a little bit throught the Bug Tracking System. In my view the list of bugs is much to large. Something has to be done to get rid of bugs, especially old ones. So I suggest the following: 1. Anyone who ever reported a bug should check if it still applies. I guess a substantial number of bug reports might just be removed. If a bug still applies make a corresponding note in the Bug Tracking System, possibly with information about the new check conditions. 2. Anyone who is interested to get rid of bugs might just pick any bug (preferable the older ones) to hunt down any new info about the bug. There are new tools/infos around to discover the reason for a bug. This certainly will help developers to fix bugs. Of course there has to be a corresponding note in the Bug Tracking System. 3. Anyone who is capable of solving bugs might just pick any bug and send a fixing patch directly to the maintainer. For would-be programmer bug hunting is by far the best technic to get used to software hacking. There's no way around making errors himself or learning from others errors. I do address the problematic of the Bug Tracking System to the user community since it's their responsibility to get rid of bugs. The developers responsibility is making bugs (haha, of course making programms) and to fixed them from time to time. So don't nerve any developer unless you provide a patch or at least some substantial new information. O. Wyss
Inconsistent error in ssh installation
Hello:
I have noticed a very strange installation problem with the ssh which was
just uploaded to the frozen distribution today (1.2.3-5). I upgraded it
on about 10 systems and 5 install fine but the other 5 give an error on
the post-installation script. I have checked the installed packages on
two identical systems, (one of which shows the error and the other not)
and there is no apparent difference in the lists.
The error I am getting when I try to configure the package is below:
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rabi:/home/segre# dpkg --pending --configure
Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ...
dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
ssh
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When I poke around in the ssh.postinst script, I find that the error
occurs in the code fragment:
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# sort out whether we're installing ssh suid
RET=false
test -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule && {
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
db_version 2.0
db_get ssh/SUID_client
}
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I suspect that this is not a bug because it works on some systems but not
others, however, I am at a loss. I am typically getting the problem on
systems which have a relatively fresh frozen installation.
Any ideas?
Carlo
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more upgrade woes
So,
Besides the ssh funnies, there are other interesting problems in the
lastest potato updates to hit the mirrors...
What should the permissions and ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix be to make
the X server happy?
And what about netscape:
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in ( cd $d;ls -1 . | sort
); do'
Any others?
-Maitland
Re: installing cdrom under win 3.1
heck drivers detective site at http://www.drivershq.com/dd/dd.html ktb wrote: > Bill Pankey wrote: > > > > I am trying to install a cdrom into a system loaded with win 3.1 I cand > > figure out how can you please help the cdrom is a 6x but with no drivers > > thanks bill pankey > > Hmmm, I just realized I've never done a cd-rom install, I'll have to do > that sometime. But if you need drivers perhaps you could go to the web > site of the manufacturer of your cd-rom and download them onto a floppy > and install. I'm assuming your wanting to install in order to do a > Debian cd-rom install;) > hth, > kent > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
What happed in Netscape? Current upgrade fried application!
I just did an upgrade to Netscape and the application will not start. Fortunately I have Mozilla to fasll back very slowly on to. Anyone know when this will be fixed.. Thanks. John Foster
Need some help with procmail
Hi I'm trying to dump netscape mail reader, so i moved to balsa. The problem with balsa is that it doesn't have filters, so the solution is procmail. The first question that i have is if i can use procmail to go through all of my mail spool file and distribute the mails by the right folders? If yes how? The second question: what is wrong with this small .procmailrc? :0: * ^From.*nobody BigBrother Whenever i run procmail the only anwser that i get is: procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/mjnf/.procmailrc" procmail: Couldn't read "/home/mjnf/.procmailrc" Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
Postgresql documentation/behavior inconsistency
I've just installed the latest unstable release of postgresql (v 7.0.2) on my machine, and I'm a little confused with an inconsistency in the local documentation and the docs provided at Postgresql.org. On this page: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/tutorial/advanced.htm#AEN1494 it says that the "Select * from cities*" is old, deprecated behavior. However in my local copy the documentation reflects that as the current behavior. As far as I can tell 7.0.2 is the latest. Does anybody know the source of the inconsistency? I'd really rather prefer the behavior documented at the site (by default the query examines subclasses). Thanks, Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC Lead Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: acroread
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 05:18:45AM -0400, Goeman Stefan wrote: > acroread: ../../Source/ATM/Extra/Edge/FileCore.cpp:322:CTBool > CTFile::Write(const void *, unsigned char): Assertion 'nWritten == n Count' > failed > > > I tried to remove it and re-install it, but this does not solve the problem. > > Anybody any ideas?? It sounds like the disk writes are failing. Most likely cause is running out of hard drive space. Do "df" and watch for any partitions that are 100% full. My guess is that the /tmp or /var/tmp directory gets filled up; which partition they are on depends on your setup. They are probably on "/" (the root partition). -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V-- PS PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 !X-- R+ tv-- b+> DI+ G+ e>+++>(*) h--- r+++ y?
Re: PL doesnt working
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Quoting Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does pinging the remote IP works? > Hi Henrique. I cant ping the remote IP. Then you should activate debugging for ppp0, and verify if it is really connecting to the other side. > > > I'm using slink and 2.0.36. I can see ppp0 interface with > > > ifconfig. > > I assume it is listed as UP and RUNNING, and that TX and RX (in the ifconfig > > display, NOT the modem lights) show activity without errors... do them? > > > I meant modem RX light. If TX and RX (in ifconfig) won't increase, or if the interface isn't UP RUNNING, then the ppp link wasn't brought up correctly. > Thanks. Any other hints? Turn on debugging for the ppp driver in the options file (see /etc/ppp/) and verify what happens... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgpVsKf98s1mT.pgp Description: PGP signature
dpkg: error processing ssh
Trying to install ssh on my laptop and this is the output of the 2nd attempt (1st attempt was also unsuccessful): -- #apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: ssh 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/255kB of archives. After unpacking 513kB will be used. Configuring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package ssh. (Reading database ... 61773 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ... dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: ssh E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Any ideas why this isn't installing? Or how I can find out? Charles Lewis, Director of Adminstrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX 76059 (817) 556-4720 - phone (360) 397-7952 - fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard rate
Hi, I can't set my keyboard rate. I've read every web page out there on setting keyboard rates, and I still haven't figured it out yet. They kbdrate program gives me the standard message that it changed the rate, but it doesn't actually change anything. The same goes for the xset program. This problem only happens with Debian. When I run Suse, RedHat, or FreeBSD I can change the keyboard rate at will. I want the key repeat to be 30 characters a second. Debian 2.1 and 2.2 seem to both set it to 10 CPS at bootup and won't let me change it. Thanks in advance for your help. = Patrick Draper| Don't |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, Texas | Fear |Father Order runs at a http://pdrap.home.texas.net | The|good pace, but old Mother Be Microsoft Free - Use Linux |Penguin |Chaos is winning the race. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: PL doesnt working
Quoting Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Paulo! > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > When the ISP tries to ping my modem, its RX lights on. > > I try to use pon and I receive and a local and remote IP. > > Does pinging the remote IP works? Hi Henrique. I cant ping the remote IP. > > Do those local and remote IPs look right (valid)? I think so. The ISP setuped it. > > Are your routing tables correct? Does the correct IPs point to the ppp > device? Does your default route point to the ppp device? > I will check it. > > I'm using slink and 2.0.36. I can see ppp0 interface with ifconfig. > I assume it is listed as UP and RUNNING, and that TX and RX (in the ifconfig > display, NOT the modem lights) show activity without errors... do them? > I meant modem RX light. Thanks. Any other hints? > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh
Modem disconnect me.
Hi! I can`t connect to my ISP using pon. /var/log/ppp.log: - CUT - Jun 23 18:34:44 g0dmode pppd[249]: Serial connection established. Jun 23 18:34:45 g0dmode pppd[249]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 23 18:34:45 g0dmode pppd[249]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem Jun 23 18:34:59 g0dmode pppd[249]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jun 23 18:34:59 g0dmode pppd[249]: Modem hangup Jun 23 18:34:59 g0dmode pppd[249]: Connection terminated. Jun 23 18:35:03 g0dmode pppd[249]: Terminating on signal 15. Jun 23 18:35:03 g0dmode pppd[249]: Exit. - CUT - I now that my modem hangup, but I don`t now why and how to "fix" it. I remember that some time ago when I was using minicom to connect I had the same problem. The solution was in configuration; the time when modem hangups was set to 60 sec. I don`t need to tell what happend after 60 seconds ;) . Can anybody help me finding option that hangups my modem? Big thanks, G0DModE .
a central script to choose what daemons to start
Hi, Is there any script out there that will let me to choose what services to start by default? For instance, I would like to have apache installed on my laptop, but I don't want to start it everytime I boot up. Editing /etc/init.d/* won't help me much because then I will have to change it everytime I upgrade the package. The ppp's init script uses the file /etc/ppp/ppp-on-boot, to detect whether to start pppd at boot time, wouldn't it be great if we have a some kind of similar file, like /etc/default-daemon, which all the init scripts will check that file to determine whether to start or not? Thanks for any help in advance. Regards, Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Troubles with compiling Oracle 8.0.5 on Potato
Look at http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle The install for Redhat 6.x is described there. There is five compat-... packages mentioned which should be installed. Convert them to .deb packages with alien. (no options needed). Install the deb-s. You need to chmod +x one file, I don't remember which, I think /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-2.0.7.so With these packages you can carry out the instruction mentioned at that file. Feel free to change the paths to different ones from the ones in that document. Regards, Robert Varga On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Matthias Klose wrote: > Debian does not provide a glibc-2.0, which is installable on potato. > What about Oracle 8.1.6, is it compiled for glibc-2.1? > > Greg writes: > > We need to install Oracle 8.0.5 on Potato but compiler reports > > some errors due to incompatibility glibc2.0 with glibc2.1 at > > the source level. On Slink everything was ok. > > > > My chief said, that there is a package for RedHat, solving > > that kind of trouble. (compat-glibc 5.2-2.0.7.2) > > > > Is there Debian package like that? > > Any advice? > > Can I install this .rpm package on Debian potato ? Is it safe ? > > I think it can be made simpler... > > > > p.s. > > please, forward this mail to anybody, who may help, > > because we need _fast_ solution... > > > > Gregory Belenky > > WebZavod programmer (http://www.webzavod.ru) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
netscape
Hello, I just upgraded from potato to woody and all seemed fine, that is until i attempted to run netscape/netscape messenger. i was wondering if anyone else was having similar problems and what I should do about it. i am a relatively new user, so i am not entirely sure what to do in this type of situation. any help is greatly apprecitated. thanks, jake
Re: postfix help
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > What about poor guys who don't have a valid hostname (dynamic IP) and, > moreover, have another username at the ISP as on their own computer? > (Solution for qmail: set the environment variable QMAILUSER to your > ISP username in your .bash_profile.) Cannonical mapping can probably do most of the work for you. Probably just a sender-only one which rewrites the user accounts to the externally visible version and anything else to some reasonable default (in case some system user sends mail). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpCJ0uGsCGfx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a central script to choose what daemons to start
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > For instance, I would like to have apache installed on my laptop, > but I don't want to start it everytime I boot up. Editing > /etc/init.d/* won't help me much because then I will have to change > it everytime I upgrade the package. That is not necessarily true. The files in /etc/init.d are listed as conf files, so when you upgrade the package you'll be asked if you want to replace the old file with the new one. What you might want to do here, though, is define a couple of different runlevels, maybe 3 and 4 that only differ in that 4 starts Apache while 3 does not. Have 3 be your default runlevel. You can specify via LILO at boottime which runlevel to go to. So if you are booting and want to go to runlevel 4, just pass 4 as a parameter to your kernel image. That doesn't seem like too much work to me. Certainly no more work than creating or deleting a file each time you reboot. noah PGP Public Key available at http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOVO4SIdCcpBjGWoFAQFUFgP/SISKprMG97TSqD8HSFH71hNaF365WFot wnH4Uh1RapQZArY5CR+QBwvearjFSMpSaxLLLKj4GhohHvP58lgqw2XbUrMh9oGX Y2YX7tHgAo5EM8hOVCAuJ2Jmd8u9e6SvqyqeoXWxaahwkO1uVgqlPUReh1eeqt3c QwskQP+VkeM= =h3ei -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: a central script to choose what daemons to start
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:30:41AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > For instance, I would like to have apache installed on my laptop, > but I don't want to start it everytime I boot up. Editing > /etc/init.d/* won't help me much because then I will have to change > it everytime I upgrade the package. If you've modified /etc/init.d/apache, dpkg shouldn't replace that file on upgrade without asking. Most /etc/init.d scripts are marked as conffiles. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpabDpJ5GAUd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a central script to choose what daemons to start
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any script out there that will let me to choose what > services to start by default? > > For instance, I would like to have apache installed on my laptop, > but I don't want to start it everytime I boot up. Editing > /etc/init.d/* won't help me much because then I will have to change > it everytime I upgrade the package. > > The ppp's init script uses the file /etc/ppp/ppp-on-boot, to detect > whether to start pppd at boot time, wouldn't it be great if we have > a some kind of similar file, like /etc/default-daemon, which all the > init scripts will check that file to determine whether to start or > not? > > Thanks for any help in advance. Well, you can use update-rc.d to accomplish this to some degree, eg., update-rc.d -f xdm remove would cause the removal of the links in /etc/rc?.d to the /etc/init.d/xdm script and so xdm wouldn't be automatically started at boot. Remember, the scripts in /etc/init.d have to be linked to from the appropriate runlevel directory. On Debian the default runlevel is 2 and so the scripts that actually get executed are in "/etc/rc2.d". Of course everything in there is just a link to a script in /etc/init.d/ But, unfortunately, you'll still be stuck redoing this after every upgrade because very few (none?) of the packages check to see if you've deleted the links, they just go ahead and put them in. The IRIX OS running on SGIs has something like you suggest. They too use the SYSV init style, with /etc/rc?.d directories, but they also have a utility called chkconfig that allows you to turn the scripts on and off. At the beginning of most scripts in /etc/init.d is a line like: IS_ON=/sbin/chkconfig then before any daemons are started there's a if $IS_ON ; then fi the chkconfig utility just keeps files in /var/config that have the word "on" or "off" in them and executing "chkconfig " returns 0 if that word is "on" or non-zero if the word is "off". It's nice but I don't know if it's everyone's cup of tea. Gary
Re: netscape
Jake Stowell wrote: > > Hello, > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and all seemed fine, that is until > i attempted to run netscape/netscape messenger. i was wondering if > anyone else was having similar problems and what I should do about it. > i am a relatively new user, so i am not entirely sure what to do in this > type of situation. any help is greatly apprecitated. It would be helpful if you were to give more details, such as quoting error messages, etc. The range of possibilities of software problems are so wide ranging that diagnosis without a symptom report is impossible.
ops I deleted /etc/default?deleted /etc/default?
Stupid me I deleted the /etc/default? directory. I have no idea what was in that directory. Seems it contained some rather importanted stuff. If someone could tar up their /etc/default directory it would be great. Then I could use that /etc/default tar ball as guidance so that I can recreat mine. I am still able to bring the machine online, with a hand job, but its just barely. -Thanks guys. I need this today if possible. -Tim. P.S. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Love debian
Re: Postgresql documentation/behavior inconsistency
Peter Kovacs wrote: >I've just installed the latest unstable release of postgresql (v 7.0.2) on >my machine, and I'm a little confused with an inconsistency in the local >documentation and the docs provided at Postgresql.org. > >On this page: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/tutorial/advanced.htm#AEN1494 >it says that the "Select * from cities*" is old, deprecated >behavior. However in my local copy the documentation reflects that as the >current behavior. > >As far as I can tell 7.0.2 is the latest. Does anybody know the source of >the inconsistency? I'd really rather prefer the behavior documented at >the site (by default the query examines subclasses). 7.0.2 uses the behaviour from your local documentation (SELECT * FROM cities*) The behaviour documented at www.postgresql.org will be that of release 7.1, but seems to have made its way prematurely into public view. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."Proverbs 22:6
Re: netscape
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:57:40PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > Jake Stowell wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and all seemed fine, that is until > > i attempted to run netscape/netscape messenger. i was wondering if > > anyone else was having similar problems and what I should do about it. > > i am a relatively new user, so i am not entirely sure what to do in this > > type of situation. any help is greatly apprecitated. > > It would be helpful if you were to give more details, > such as quoting error messages, etc. The range of > possibilities of software problems are so wide ranging > that diagnosis without a symptom report is impossible. > I think there is a problem with the "netscape" startup script. Please see the for loop around line 277. It contains a syntax error, which is easy to fix. But sourcing all those files it wants to doesn't make any sence. It's trying to source directories and a README file. I will send you a patch as soon as my linux host is back. Stupid me I removed the /etc/default? directory. Send me a tar ball of that directory so I can put it back you. I will give you my netscape patch. -Thanks -Tim.
kernel panic
debs, successfully, i've done a compile of source kernel 2.2.16 for my potato deskbox; but trying to do the same thing (approximately 5 times) on my slink lapbox leads to the infamous "kernel panic." the first re-boot (via floppy) after the compile is fine. it's the next re-boot after that, that things get weird. ...the last line before hanging: kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount fs on 03:01 here's my partition scheme: / on hda1 (1.5gb) swap on hda5 (66mb) hda3 (500mb) (for storing large files (e.g. kernel sources, netscape, wordperfect...) that i don't want to re-download after i re-install slink). before the compile, slink was using kernel 2.0.36 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36). (after the compile, i moved the old kernel to /boot/oldvmlinuz-2.0.36, as i thought, perhaps needlessly, that the new kernel (/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16)) needed its own "vmlinuz" "identity." in case the compile is at issue, here's what i did from "bt:/usr/src/linux#": make menuconfig make dep make install make modules make modules_install there isn't, nor will there be, another os on the lapbox, just "dlinux." the rescue disk won't even let me "backdoor" the system: "mount failed: invalid argument" (when i tried to mount hda1). anyway, ...suggestions/options? ia, t. bentley taylor. //
netscape-amended
hello,
sorry for the lack of specificity in my last message. it now looks like
at least one other person posted a similar concern. when i try to open
netscape i get the following message:
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in ( cd $d;ls -1 .
| sort ); do'
again, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
thank you,
jake
Re: netscape]
- Forwarded message from Tim Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:28:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:26:24 -0400 From: Tim Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jake Stowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian Subject: Re: netscape Reply-To: "Timothy D. Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:57:40PM -0500 Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/97267 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:57:40PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > Jake Stowell wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and all seemed fine, that is until > > i attempted to run netscape/netscape messenger. i was wondering if > > anyone else was having similar problems and what I should do about it. > > i am a relatively new user, so i am not entirely sure what to do in this > > type of situation. any help is greatly apprecitated. > > It would be helpful if you were to give more details, > such as quoting error messages, etc. The range of > possibilities of software problems are so wide ranging > that diagnosis without a symptom report is impossible. > I think there is a problem with the "netscape" startup script. Please see the for loop around line 277. It contains a syntax error, which is easy to fix. But sourcing all those files it wants to doesn't make any sence. It's trying to source directories and a README file. I will send you a patch as soon as my linux host is back. Stupid me I removed the /etc/default? directory. Send me a tar ball of that directory so I can put it back you. I will give you my netscape patch. -Thanks -Tim. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null - End forwarded message -
Re: postfix help
>One to look into is ddts.org. humm. I saw a caterpillar and a bug..no links no nothing. what? http://ddts.org C.K.
Re: ops I deleted /etc/default?deleted /etc/default?
Tim Webster wrote: > > Stupid me I deleted the /etc/default? directory. > > I have no idea what was in that directory. > Seems it contained some rather importanted stuff. > If someone could tar up their /etc/default directory it would be great. > Then I could use that /etc/default tar ball as guidance so that I can > recreat mine. > > I am still able to bring the machine online, with a hand job, but its just > barely. > > -Thanks guys. > I need this today if possible. I'll send what I have in another reply, not to the list, but I have doubt that it'll do you much good, since it seems to be installation-dependent, having files needed by the particular software configuration installed (IOW installation set). It is apparently not like /etc/skel... I'll attach a .tar.gz, and also paste in a uuencode...
Re: Need some help with procmail
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 05:18:23PM +0100, Mário Filipe wrote: > procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/mjnf/.procmailrc" > procmail: Couldn't read "/home/mjnf/.procmailrc" Sounds like a permissions problem. Check with ls -l. HTH -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Re: netscape-amended
* Jacob Stowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in ( cd $d;ls -1 .
> | sort ); do'
A patch was posted on this list a short time ago (today or
yesterday). Look in the archives.
make menuconfig burp
I'm trying to build a kernel and "make menuconfig" gives the following error: debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog' find: /usr/local/lib/: No such file or directory gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="" -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 do I need to make /usr/local/lib manually ? or did I miss something else? TIA Dave
Re: make menuconfig burp
* Dave Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to build a kernel and "make menuconfig" gives the > following error: > > debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15# make menuconfig 2.2.15 has had some ugly bugs - you may want to upgrade to 2.2.17pre1. > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ dpkg -S curses.h libncurses4-dev: /usr/include/curses.h [...] -> You need to install libncurses4-dev
iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM
I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 unrecognized Client Program Format. my boot-device line reads: boot-device cd: hd:,\\tbxi I don't know if there's something wrong about this hd:,\\tbxi that remains. I can hear the cd-rom turning after typing boot cdrom, so something's happenin'.. What's wrong? is it that I can't use the slink version on an iMac? (can I get the potatoe on a cd-rom?) thanks a bunch, Philip
Debian CD ROMs
Why do I keep hearing about multiple CDs? I only got ONE CD in my package. Am I missing a CD or two? Could this be why I can't install anything WTF!?!?? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Creative Riva TNT2, xserver?
which xserver should i use with the 3D SoundBlaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32mb video card?
Re: Debian CD ROMs
I belive slink was the first multicd release, if you have 2.0 it is probably one cd. On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 07:13:04PM -0400, Mark Marburger wrote: > Why do I keep hearing about multiple CDs? I only got ONE CD in my package. > Am I missing a CD or two? Could this be why I can't install anything > WTF!?!?? > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu
boot floppies
Hi debs I've been booting this system with a boot floppy for some time now. Say I wanted to create new boot disks for any potato machine, how would I most easily do this? Anyone had experience with the package boot-floppies? TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
question on sysvinit
Hi all I wanted to know why that when changing runlevels from say 2 to 3, the KILL links of _3_ and not 2 get executed before starting the START links of 3...? I mean, at that point you're leaving runlevel 2 and it would only make sense to stop those runlevel's services and not the new runlevel's, right? Am I missing something here? If that's the case, please tell me. :) TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM
Philippe wrote: > > I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian > on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently > boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: > load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 > unrecognized Client Program Format. > > my boot-device line reads: > boot-device cd: hd:,\\tbxi > I don't know if there's something wrong about this hd:,\\tbxi that > remains. I can hear the cd-rom turning after typing boot cdrom, so > something's happenin'.. > What's wrong? is it that I can't use the slink version on an iMac? (can I > get the potatoe on a cd-rom?) > thanks a bunch, > Philip There is a debian mac specific email list if you didn't know. I've never installed on a mac before but are you using the mac version of slink? hth, kent
Re: more upgrade woes
[please CC: any replies to -user]
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:24:10PM -0400, Maitland Bottoms wrote:
> What should the permissions and ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix be to make
> the X server happy?
drwxrwxrwt2 root usersgroup 1024 Jun 24 01:44 /tmp/.X11-unix
I'm not sure if the latest X packages changed that, though.
> And what about netscape:
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: `for f in ( cd $d;ls -1 . | sort
> ); do'
The bugs for this have been filed (and fixed)...
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Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)
Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes I have this problem also. I assume we shall await a fix. And use > Mozilla in the meantime :) Or we could try to fix it... the error is with the code: for d in \ /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d \ /usr/lib/netscape/$VER \ /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN ;do for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do . $d/$f done done And the problem seems to be with a syntax error at the line for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do According to "man bash", the "(cd $d;ls -1 . | sort)" is a compound command where the stuff in brackets is executed in its own shell. So what this line seems to be trying to do, is to go to a certain directory, get a sorted listing of the files there and then go through them one by one, executing ". $d/$f" for each of them. What is the "." command??? I thought it was the current directory? Anyway, the reason for the syntax error is with the definition of a for loop in bash. From "man bash": for name [ in word ] ; do list ; done Now "word" is a list of blank separated words I believe, so it does not allow the "(cd $d;ls -1 . | sort)" construction to be used here. So somehow we need to find an alternative. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark. P.S. For any replies, please cc a copy directly to me. > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I've just updated my system to the current frozen, and included in > > this update was the installation of netscape 4.73. > > > > When I now run netscape, it bombs out, complaining of: > > > > $ netscape > > /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `(c' > > /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: ` for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | > > sort); do' > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else know the fix? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark. > > > > P.S. Please cc a copy of any reply directly to me as I currently read > > the list only via the archives --- and I can't even do that now that > > netscape is not working. > > > > -- > > _/\___/~~\ > > /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips > > /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ > > /~~\__/~~\ > > __ > > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Creative Riva TNT2, xserver?
which xserver should i use with the 3D SoundBlaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32mb video card?
Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > for d in \ > /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d \ > /usr/lib/netscape/$VER \ > /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN ;do > for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do > . $d/$f > done > done I'm sure that a fix has already been posted, but this works for me (replace the code above with this): for d in /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d ; do cd $d; for f in `find -maxdepth 1 -type f`; do . $d/$f done done Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC Lead Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: new autofs 3.1.4-7, testers wanted
hi adam please keep me posted tooo on any status...bugs..etcetc.. i also believe autofs-4.x-pre is outwith ldap features.. am falling too far behind the times have fun linuxing alvin http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Adam Heath wrote: > I am looking for testers for autofs. You can fetch the latest version at: > > http://incoming.debian.org/autofs_3.1.4-7_i386.deb > > I am not on debian-user, so please cc me. >
Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)
Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > > I'm sure that a fix has already been posted, but this works for me > > (replace the code above with this): > > > > for d in /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d ; do > > cd $d; > > for f in `find -maxdepth 1 -type f`; do > > . $d/$f > > done > > done > > Wow. I just realized how incredibly incorrect the code is. Well, it > works for me. YMMV though. I'd wait for an official fix, or fix it > yourself if the above doesn't work. What does "YMMV" stand for? An official fix has come through, and what it does is replace for f in (cd. by for f in $(cd It seems to work sort of, but I don't understand why! And what is the ". $d/$f" supposed to do?? Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > What does "YMMV" stand for? YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary > An official fix has come through, and what it does is replace > > for f in (cd. > > by > > for f in $(cd From man 1 bash: Command Substitution Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command name. There are two forms: $(command) or `command` That's why I had the backticks in there. I've never seen the $() construct either. > And what is the ". $d/$f" supposed to do?? > Again, from man 1 bash: . filename [arguments] source filename [arguments] Read and execute commands from filename in the cur rent shell environment and return the exit status of the last command executed from filename... It simply executes those files as a shell script. Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC Lead Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Suggestion: more frequent list archive updates
Hi, I am currently not subscribed to debian-user simply because I don't have the disk space to handle all the messages. So what I do is read it via the archives. The problem is that there is a day or two lag between a message being sent and it appearing in the archive. This delay makes interactive use of the list difficult. The thought I had was: why not make the archive much more responsive? Why not update it every few minutes? Now perhaps there are good reasons why this is not possible But I would have thought it wouldn't be too hard. Surely a web based interface to the list is a more efficient way to go in any case? Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Re: boot floppies
Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi debs > > I've been booting this system with a boot floppy for some time now. Say > I wanted to create new boot disks for any potato machine, how would I > most easily do this? If you've compiled you own kernel, the easiest way to go to the directory you compiled from. In my case that's /usr/src/linux and do a 'make zdisk' or 'make bzdisk' if you made a bzImage. If you haven't compiled your own kernel, you might want to. Then you can make a disk during the compiling. John > > Anyone had experience with the package boot-floppies? > Nope! John -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: make menuconfig burp
root wrote: > apt-get install libncurses5-dev > Just like magic! thanks !! Dave
archives
i was wondering if someone would give me some fundamental advice.i have never used the archives before. where are they located, and how might i be able to look at them? thanks. jake
Re: archives
Jacob Stowell wrote: > > i was wondering if someone would give me some fundamental advice.i have > never used the archives before. where are they located, and how might i > be able to look at them? thanks. > jake Go to -- http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Scroll down to the bottom of the page it's pretty much self explanatory once you get there. hth, kent
Re: a central script to choose what daemons to start
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:50:39PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Well, you can use update-rc.d to accomplish this to some degree, eg.,
>
> update-rc.d -f xdm remove
>
> would cause the removal of the links in /etc/rc?.d to the
> /etc/init.d/xdm script and so xdm wouldn't be automatically started at
> boot. Remember, the scripts in /etc/init.d have to be linked to from
> the appropriate runlevel directory. On Debian the default runlevel is
> 2 and so the scripts that actually get executed are in
> "/etc/rc2.d". Of course everything in there is just a link to a script
> in /etc/init.d/
>
> But, unfortunately, you'll still be stuck redoing this after every
> upgrade because very few (none?) of the packages check to see if
> you've deleted the links, they just go ahead and put them in.
The solution is to leave 1 or more links behind (such as a kill link in
rc6.d). The default links will *not* be modified, provided there is at
least one existing link in place during an update/upgrade. This is how
update-rc.d can tell if a fresh install is taking place, or just an
upgrade. From man (8) update-rc.d:
If any files /etc/rcrunlevel.d/[SK]??name already exist
then update-rc.d does nothing. This is so that the system
administrator can rearrange the links, provided that they
leave at least one link remaining, without having their
configuration overwritten.
>
> The IRIX OS running on SGIs has something like you suggest. They too
> use the SYSV init style, with /etc/rc?.d directories, but they also
> have a utility called chkconfig that allows you to turn the scripts on
> and off. At the beginning of most scripts in /etc/init.d is a line
> like:
>
> IS_ON=/sbin/chkconfig
>
> then before any daemons are started there's a
>
> if $IS_ON ; then
>
> fi
>
> the chkconfig utility just keeps files in /var/config that have the
> word "on" or "off" in them and executing "chkconfig service>" returns 0 if that word is "on" or non-zero if the word is
> "off".
>
> It's nice but I don't know if it's everyone's cup of tea.
Ahh, remembers the last "state" before a shutdown. Kind of obviates the
utility of runlevels. Not sure if it's a good thing or not...
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#! /bin/sh
echo 'Linux Must Die!' | wall
dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \
count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'`
shutdown -r now
Mounting Floppy
Hello Group, When I try to mount my floppy I use '/dev/fd0 /floppy' and receive 'you must specify filesystem type'. I am running Potato with kernel 2.2.15. When I was running Slink I never got that. Is this from upgrading to Potato or upgrading my kernel? How do I mount the floppy now? Thanks for you help... -- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > What does "YMMV" stand for? > > YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary > > > An official fix has come through, and what it does is replace > > > > for f in (cd. > > > > by > > > > for f in $(cd > > From man 1 bash: >Command Substitution >Command substitution allows the output of a command to >replace the command name. There are two forms: > > $(command) >or > `command` > > That's why I had the backticks in there. I've never seen the > $() construct either. > > > And what is the ". $d/$f" supposed to do?? > > > > Again, from man 1 bash: > . filename [arguments] >source filename [arguments] > Read and execute commands from filename in the cur > rent shell environment and return the exit status > of the last command executed from filename... > > It simply executes those files as a shell script. > To be more accurate, it executes the contents of those files as if they had been included in the current script. No new shell, all the current parameters accessible, any parameters or functions defined in those files available in the current context. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
Re: postfix help
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 04:04:00PM -0500, Charlie Kroeger wrote: > >One to look into is ddts.org. > > humm. I saw a caterpillar and a bug..no links no nothing. what? > > http://ddts.org Hmmm... odd. Use http://www.ddts.org then, apparently there's an odd virtual hosting setup. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpIgyScKP4B9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Inconsistent error in ssh installation
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:57:04PM -0500, "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > I suspect that this is not a bug because it works on some systems but not > others, however, I am at a loss. I am typically getting the problem on > systems which have a relatively fresh frozen installation. > > Any ideas? On a hunch, when this happened to me, I looked at the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.template and found an incongruity: the last two records aren't separated by a blank line. I assume that this means that debconf believes that they're a single record, and thus chokes and dies. Adding the line back in made the upgrade work again. Daniel -- /- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -\ | | "(You see, the best way to solve a problem is to | | The sigfile hits! |rigorously define it in terms of other people's | | You feel confused. |problems and then run away quickly.)" | | | -- Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \ Be like the kid in the movie! Play chess! -- http://www.uschess.org ---/
Re: HELP! Netscape completely broken by tonight's upgrade!
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:17:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Here's my temporary fix. I can't imagine what the maintainer was > thinking here :-( Every once in a while, i guess they forget to test the changes they make... > ! /usr/lib/netscape/$VER \ > ! /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN ;do Instead of deleting the above two lines, i believe their purpose is like this: ! /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/wrapper.d \ ! /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN/wrapper.d ;do They seem to have been added as part of a patch to allow sourcing of extra files particular to the version or binary (nav/comm) in the startup script. To prevent errors if these are nonexistant (old versions?) or empty, i also changed line 277 like this: ! for f in $((cd $d && ls -1 . | sort)2>/dev/null); do HTH -- finger for GPG public key. pgpF7P95IveC5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mounting Floppy
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:41:49PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hello Group,
> When I try to mount my floppy I use '/dev/fd0 /floppy' and receive
> 'you must specify filesystem type'. I am running Potato with kernel
> 2.2.15. When I was running Slink I never got that. Is this from
> upgrading to Potato or upgrading my kernel? How do I mount the
> floppy now?
> Thanks for you help...
Add to /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,noauto,rw,user,unhide 0 0
Then:
$ mount /floppy
should be sufficient. Also there's the "auto" type, which need a file
named /etc/filesystems with a list of filesystem types to try.
See man mount
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#! /bin/sh
echo 'Linux Must Die!' | wall
dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \
count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'`
shutdown -r now
server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting.
Or rather: # X(or startx, initx, etc.) X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. I suddenly got the above error message last night. I don't recall doing anything to my X installation at all. I moved the /usr/X11R6/bin/X binary to a backup file and symlinked XF86_SVGA to X, and I can run X fine now. Anybody know what's wrong? I have no idea where the server socket directory is. -- +--+ | Destrius | | http://web.hjc.edu.sg/~8223332f/ ++ +| He walks away, | | Remove spaces in email address | Leaving nothing| +| But a notion of his music. | ++
Multicast Tunnel
hi all i've just finished reading the Multicast HOWTO. my question deals with the mrouted tunnel i need to create. my ISP does not support multicast so i can't to tunnel to them. am i just out of luck with multicast or is there a place that sets up multicast tunnels for a small fee (preferably for free). i really would like to have multicast so i can run sdr.
Re: Multicast Tunnel
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > i've just finished reading the Multicast HOWTO. my question deals > with the mrouted tunnel i need to create. my ISP does not support > multicast so i can't to tunnel to them. am i just out of luck with > multicast or is there a place that sets up multicast tunnels for a > small fee (preferably for free). i really would like to have > multicast so i can run sdr. I am also interested in the answer to this question.. If you find one please let me know.. Is there anything at www.mbone.net? Jason
Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:02:42PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > I want to boot from a most recent official release of Debian > on a new iMac G3. In Open Firmware, I type boot cdrom or equivalently > boot cd:,\\:tbxi and I get the error message: > load-size=1000 adler32=edd16114 > unrecognized Client Program Format. > > my boot-device line reads: > boot-device cd: hd:,\\tbxi > I don't know if there's something wrong about this hd:,\\tbxi that > remains. I can hear the cd-rom turning after typing boot cdrom, so > something's happenin'.. > What's wrong? is it that I can't use the slink version on an iMac? (can I > get the potatoe on a cd-rom?) > thanks a bunch, > Philip if it is a mac bootable CD you don't need to fiddle with OpenFirmware, just reboot, and hold down the `c' key on the keyboard it should boot from the CD that way. see my web page for more info on yaboot/ybin (powerpc bootloader) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphNuznzSRcT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Compiling the Kernel.
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:21:40PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > At 14:21 19.06.00, you wrote: > > >Better yet: > > > >apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-package > >make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) > >make-kpkg clean > >make-kpkg --revision=local. kernel_image > >dpkg -i ../kernel-image-_local._i386.deb > > > I did it. I made a new kernel with settings for my system. But now, > whenever I want to install a new package it wants to update the > kernel-image as well. I thought it will recognize the installed as a newer > version? Apparently a recent kernel-image package used an epoch. To combat this you need use an epoch in your version also. I believe you would do that like this: make-kpkg --revision=5:local. kernel_image HTH, -- 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 pgpm4Fo8xTkTA.pgp Description: PGP signature
FW: [Q] 2.4.X kernels
Hello, I appologize if this is a re-send. But I did not find my original question in the mailing list archives, so I assume I did not send it correctly to the list. If anyone could help resolving the question below I would really appreciate. Vladislav -FW: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:03:06 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [Q] 2.4.X kernels Hello, I have debian unstable (as of about June 10) running on dual PII. I want to try the latest kernes but as of 2.3.9x kernes I cannot get they computer to ping anywhere. I am not sure if the problem with the network setup of the config files in /etc or the Express100B device driver (it was modified in latest kernels). But I do not get anything in /var/log/debug or /var/log/kernel so I am kind of lost at how to debug this problem. I do not have forwarding enabled (and I tried to compile with and without it). I also installed iptables software (but as always with linux or FreeBSD -- you have to be an idiot-savant in networking to figure out how to get that stuff to work) Anyways, with/or without forwarding compiled into the kernel the results are the same. If I have to RTFM somewhere, please do not hesitate to point out where :-) Thanks in advance, Vladislav -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null --End of forwarded message-
Video Woes
I have a 4MB video card running the S3Trio 3D/2x chipset and am having trouble getting it working properly with Debian Linux 2.1. I have a K6-2 500 w/ 64 MB SDRAM. Help! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
cdrdao help
I'm wondering if someone could shed some light on why cdrdao is choking... I'm running Potato on a Celeron, Adaptec 2940UW and an HP9200i writer. I use the generic-mmc driver, and it says: Starting write ERROR: Requested mode page exceeds provided buffer size. ERROR: Cannot retrieve CD capabilities mode page. For what it's worth, cdrecord works perfectly. Thanks much for any suggestions! oge
