xterm bwoken in potato?

[CaT]

After a long while of frustration with lynx not dealing with the numeric
keypad properly (it would not give me numbers... the numlock key was
ignored but it worked fine in bash) I decided to investigate sooo...

I compiled lynx (latest unstable) and installed it. Problem remained.
I compiled ncurses (latest version) and installed it. Problem remained.

I purged packages belonging to both incase there was some residual stuff
and the problem remained.

I, just now, compiled xterm and installed it. Problem went away. Woohoo!

So... did I miss something in a config file somewhere or is the debian
supplied xterm truly broken?

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'He had position, but I was determined to score.'
-- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'

ugly boot

[cls-colo spgs]

debs,

i have a 5 minute,  ugly boot:

# dmesg

[snip]

SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic
channels, max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
PPP BSD Compression module registered
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 rpc.statd forgot to set
AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server
localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server
localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock
failed, error=-5
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server
localhost not responding, timed out
registered device ppp0

lots of error messages, eh?

...suggestions.

ia, t.

bentley taylor.

//

Re: console MP3 player

[Sergey Suleimanov]

> "Daniel" == Daniel P Katz writes:

Daniel> I use mpg123 with no problems.  Note, however, that it's in
Daniel> stable/non-free.  Anybody got a free alternative?

mpg123.freeamp from freeamp package.

-- 
  Sergey Suleimanov

debian - newcomer

[guran remberg]

Hi

I am new to this Potato and the installation went nice by Ethernet and
your programs.

I downloaded from INRIA the scilab 2.5 in the deb variety and a
xlib6g_3.3.6-10.deb. When installed , nothing was complained.

Gnome is new to me, most accustomed to KDE, so I have not learned how to
fix an icon to the desk, and launched it from a terminal. Here is what I
got:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scilab
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/lib/scilab-2.5/bin/scilex: error in loading
shared libraries: libtk8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory

then I did:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libtk8.0.so
/usr/lib/libtk8.0.so.1

What the fine hell is this, do you get a kick out of adding number to
very ordinary libraries. My intension was to compile LyX from source
with the addition of the needed XForm library. Seems to be a waste of
time.

In the seventies, communist groups were said to become more by internal
division and continous discussions about pure cause, is this your
ambition?

regards
guran

PHP joy at last!

[Steve Simons]

A really big thanks to everyone who took the time to assist me with my 
recent PHP and Apache troubles - I really appreciate the effort! :-)

I ended up doing what I probably should have done in the first place; 
installing it all from source.  It works just fine now.

Thanks again, chaps (and chapesses?)

Steve.

DNS lookup looks for AAAA records..

[Chris Niekel]

Hi,

When I do "telnet localhost" in debian, I get:
telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Temporary failure in name 
resolution

My /etc/hosts contains:
127.0.0.1   localhost

My nsswitch.conf contains:
hosts:  files dns

My resolv.conf:
search mimar.dyndns.org
nameserver 192.168.5.1

I straced telnet, and it contacts my nameserver, looks for an  record
(I only have A-records), and then it decides that there is a temporary
failure.
Doing "telnet localhost." makes it work, but then it still doesn't work 
for other hosts in my domain. On the nameserver (which runs on old Suse) it
works ok. It worked when I first installed potato. It went wrong when I
upgraded to somewhere in Woody.

Since my /etc/hosts also contains a ip6-localhost, I tried telnetting
there. Then it asks my nameserver for a A-record. I find it weird.

Well, if anyone can help, I'd love to hear it.

Greetings,
Chris Niekel

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Re: debian - newcomer

[Steve Juranich]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, guran remberg wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scilab
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/lib/scilab-2.5/bin/scilex: error in loading
> shared libraries: libtk8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> 
> then I did:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libtk8.0.so
> /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so.1
> 

Make sure that /usr/lib is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

--
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Re: error message

[Manuel Hendel]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:59:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Received: from hiob.ecrc.de (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [141.1.1.11])
>   by ns1.ecrc.de (8.9.2/8.9.2/$Revision: 1.6 $) with SMTP id TAA29627
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: error message
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Attribution: Colin
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> Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
> From: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 12 Oct 2000 12:59:05 -0400
> In-Reply-To: Manuel Hendel's message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:44:17 +0200"
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7
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> 
> Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Oct 12 21:45:11 cohiba postfix/master[356]: fatal: bind "(IP-Adress)" 
> > port 25: This Ip-Adress is already in use.
> 
> Please post the output of (in bash)
> 
> cat "/proc/`fuser -n tcp 25 | perl -ne 'print ((split)[1])'`/cmdline"

The result of this is:

auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz

Manuel

Re: Mutt's Editor

[YoonSuk Cho<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:21:53PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
> I'd want to use VIM as my primary text editor in Mutt. What line do I need to 
> add to my ~/.vimrc ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
If you want vim in mutt add the one line in ~$HOME/.muttrc.

set editor="/usr/bin/vim"  like this.

good luck...!!


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> 
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> 
> 
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Keyboard wierdness

[Damian Menscher]

Ok, this is *really* strange:

I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel.  I had everything
working fine.  I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried
it over to new location, and turn it back on.  When it comes up into XDM
I discover the keyboard does nothing.  I try a second keyboard, still
nothing.  Rebooting shows the keyboards work fine while the system is
booting, but when it gets into X they stop.  Finally, I just booted into
single user mode, and the keyboard is fine.

Ideas???

Damian Menscher
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Re: debian - newcomer

[Sergey Suleimanov]

> "Steve" == Steve Juranich writes:

Steve> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, guran remberg wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scilab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>> /usr/lib/scilab-2.5/bin/scilex: error in loading shared libraries:
>> libtk8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>> 
>> then I did:
>> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libtk8.0.so /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so.1
>> 

Steve> Make sure that /usr/lib is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Just a ln -sf libtk8.0.so.1 /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so, I think

-- 
  Sergey Suleimanov

Please advise

[Tino Ionescu]

Plese advise about the following,

1. Where exactly (or what is the package name) for "printool". I can't   
find it on the Potatoe CD's. Is there any other tool for installing a 
printer?


2. Can anybody direct me where to find the driver for printer  
   Deskjet 560C? Is it on Potatoe disk  ? I found "djtools" but no   
driver...
 

3.  An older problem - I followed your instructions and manage to install
the sound driver emu10k1 for SoundBlaster Live - but - when i try to 
"make install" it gives the following error and I am ...lost.


grey:/usr/local/emu10k1# make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc
install -c -m 664 emu10k1.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc
install -c -m 664 ac97_codec.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc
install -c -m 664 emu10k1-joy.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc
/sbin/depmod -a 2.2.17
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/nfsd.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/smbfs.o
...

I thank you for your participation.
Florentin.




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RE: debian - newcomer

[CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]]

What is this person trying to say here? (see italics below)

Patrick Cheong
Information Systems Assurance
Measat Broadcast Network Systems
e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my

> -Original Message-
> From: guran remberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:35 PM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  debian - newcomer
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am new to this Potato and the installation went nice by Ethernet and
> your programs.
> 
> I downloaded from INRIA the scilab 2.5 in the deb variety and a
> xlib6g_3.3.6-10.deb. When installed , nothing was complained.
> 
> Gnome is new to me, most accustomed to KDE, so I have not learned how to
> fix an icon to the desk, and launched it from a terminal. Here is what I
> got:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scilab
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/lib/scilab-2.5/bin/scilex: error in loading
> shared libraries: libtk8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> 
> then I did:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libtk8.0.so
> /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so.1
> 
[CHEONG, Shu Yang (Patrick)]What the fine hell is this, do you
get a kick out of adding number to
> very ordinary libraries. My intension was to compile LyX from source
> with the addition of the needed XForm library. Seems to be a waste of
> time.
> 
[CHEONG, Shu Yang (Patrick)]In the seventies, communist groups
were said to become more by internal
> division and continous discussions about pure cause, is this your
> ambition?
> 
> regards
> guran
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Debian book

[Ted Wager]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:02:54PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Could anyone tell me if there is a definitive Debain book
> > or recommend any book specific to Debian ??
> 
> I'd generally go with a few general GNU/Linux references (e.g.:
> _Runnining Linux_ and _Linux in a Nutshell_ from O'Reilly), and the
> Debian docs both online and at http://www.debian.org/.  There is an
> O'Reilly _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_ book, but I don't particularly
> recommend it.  
> 
> Surprisingly, Sams (a MacMillan imprint) has a rather good, slim,
> red-spined volume on Debian which covers basic installation and
> configuration.  It ships with Slink (dated), but is otherwise quite
> good.  I make a habit of avoiding Sams imprints at all costs, it's a
> revlation that they can actually produce a book worth the paper it's
> printed on -- and then some:
> 
> http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0672317451
> Thomas Down, _Installing Debian Gnu/GNU/Linux_, Sams, (c) 11/1999,
> 197 Pages, ISBN: 0672317451
> 
> List Price: $24.99
Hi..
Thanks for the info...I have d/loaded some of the Debian docs. I have
also read Dummies do a Debian issue so Will go to my bookstore tomorrow
and make a request...
Thanks for your time.. 
 
Regards
Ted
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PCMCIA configuration troubles

[Christian Lemer]

I used pcnetconfig to configure my PCMCIA network


  Specify the IP address... NN.MM.OO.17
  Enter the netmask 255.255.255.0
  Enter the network address:NN.MM.OO.0 (default)
  Enter the broadcast address:  NN.MM.OO.255   (default)
  Enter the gateway address:NN.MM.OO.254
  Enter the local domain name:  xxx.yy.xx

  ... 1st 2nd and 3rd nameservers...
  no nfs mount poins

With this configuration I have no route to the gateway...

I try different things and found that it works if I added the following
in /etc/network/interfaces


  iface eth0 inet static
address NN.MM.OO.17
network NN.MM.OO.0
netmask 255.255.255.0


and make

ifup eth0

It is working but I really don't understant why I shoud add this last.

Now I can connect to the network, but I would like to have a cleaner 
installation.

Chris.

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Da Book

[Wayde C Gutman]

Learning DEBIAN GNU/LINUX authored by Bill McCarty, published by
O'Reilly [different animals book folks...]

xscreensaver without gnome

[Christian Lemer]

I would like to run xscreensaver with enlightenment and gdm but without gnome.

I made different trials to run if from my .xsession... but could not
succeed to make it work...

Where should I put the command so that xscreensaver is always active
but in lock mode if logged in and in non-lock mode when gdm is active

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book

[Mike Harrison]

Hi all

We bought the book to investigate Linux and I gave it to an engineer.

He said

"I tried loading the Debian Linux, but the disk layout is not the same as
stated in the book (quel supris).
Anyway there was a readme file on the disk, so I read it. That was also
wrong. There should be some binary disk images on tehcd to enable you to
make some boot floppies. There are not. There should be an dos executable
(rawrite.exe) to wite the images. There is not.
I am a little dissappointed"


Michael Harrison

HM Computing Ltd.
Harmac House
Enigma Park
Malvern
Worcestershire
WR14 1GP
ddi.01684 581860
Tel.01684 581850
Fax.01684 581851
www.hmcomputing.net  

Re: Gimp

[Olivier Billet]

Hi, sorry for the delay.

I have all theese packages excepted the libgimp1.1-dev one. So it seems to 
confirm what
you said. But when I try to apt-get this package, apt wants to delete 
gimp1.1-perl...

That's what I got :

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S gimptool
gimp1.1: /usr/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l "*gimp*" | grep ii
ii  gimp-data-extr 1.0.0-1An extra set of brushes, palettes, and gradi
ii  gimp-manual1.0.0-4Manual for the GNU Image Manipulation Progra
ii  gimp1.11.1.17-3   Developers' release of the GNU Image Manipul
ii  gimp1.1-nonfre 1.1.17-3   GIF and TIFF support for the GNU Image Manip
ii  gimp1.1-perl   1.1.17-3   Perl support and plugins for The GIMP
ii  libgimp1.1.17  1.1.17-3   Developers' release of libraries necessary t
ii  sane-gimp1.1   1.0.1-1999-10- Scanner front-ends
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

(I'm with potato --2.2r0)

Sean wrote:

> I think part of your problem is that you're mixing gimp1.0 and gimp1.1 parts.
> Here is some console output from my machine -->
>
> sean:~$ dpkg -S gimptool
> gimp1.1: /usr/share/gimp/1.1/devel-docs/html/libgimp/libgimp-gimptools.html
> libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/share/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz
> libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/include/libgimp/gimptools_pdb.h
> libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/bin/gimptool
> sean:~$ dpkg -l "*gimp*" | grep ii
> ii  gimp-data-extras   1.1.26-helix1
> ii  gimp1.11.1.26-helix1
> ii  gimp1.1-nonfree1.1.26-helix1
> ii  gimp1.1-perl   1.1.26-helix1
> ii  libgimp1.1 1.1.26-helix1
> ii  libgimp1.1-dev 1.1.26-helix1
> ii  libgimp1.1.24  1.1.24-1
> ii  sane-gimp1.1   1.0.3-2
> sean:~$
>
> according to my info, gimptool lives in libgimp1.1-dev. Which really makes
> sense considering gimptool is there for adding plugins that didn't come with
> the program itself.
>
> Hope this is enlightening.
>
> Sean
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:57:52PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote:
> > It's not exactly the same problem but I can't find the gimptool.
> > I have installed
> >
> > gimp1.1
> > gimp-perl
> > gimp-nonfree
> >
> > and the inplied packages; gimp work well.
> > but I can't figure out where is the gimptool. I tried on the command 
> > line
> >
> >
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debian -newcomerII

[guran remberg]

Hi

Thanks for your efforts, I am old and probably to stupid. I have tried
ln -s &c and I have added the required library path for export both
locally and as su in etc, but to no use.

This procedure of Debian is discussed in the Debian weekly letter and
might be a problem even to the developer.

I can run scilab and LyX just fine from my other distribution which is
Mandrake 7.1. After testing to install it I found it to be fast and I
wanted to learn more about Gnome.

That is just now my primary problem: How the hell do I stop it from
making a graphic install. When I bail out from Xwindow, I am thrown
right into, what I think is xdm. I have tried to elliminate that from
rc3.d, but is totally stuck.

Please excuse my spelling, that is blanked from my static!? netscape.

regards
guran

Re: Pine

[Robert Varga]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:

> 
> What's wrong with
> 
> $ apt-get -b source pine
> 

Would it not want to get pine4-tar.gz, pine4-4.21-xdiff.gz and
pine4-4.21-?.dsc ergo the source files themselves from the source archive?
It is not that way with pine. The sources are put in two binary packages.
They must be installed and then you can extract and build them, but the
source and diff files themselves are not retrievable from the source
tree, I guess.

Regards,

Robert Varga

Re: book

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello there,

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mike Harrison wrote:
 
> We bought the book to investigate Linux and I gave it to an engineer.

Which book?
  
> "I tried loading the Debian Linux, but the disk layout is not the same as
> stated in the book (quel supris).
> Anyway there was a readme file on the disk, so I read it. That was also
> wrong. There should be some binary disk images on tehcd 

Which CD?

> to enable you to
> make some boot floppies. There are not. There should be an dos executable
> (rawrite.exe) to wite the images.

Right.
But the information you give above is a bit sparse to be of any help to
the list. Or did I miss something? If you could give the name of the book
and what you did, where you looked for the disk-images, e.g., then it
would be easier for someone on the list, to offer you some help or give a
comment.
Regards,
Daniel

Re: PCMCIA configuration troubles

[Olivier Billet]

Christian Lemer wrote:

> I used pcnetconfig to configure my PCMCIA network
>
>   Specify the IP address... NN.MM.OO.17
>   Enter the netmask 255.255.255.0
>   Enter the network address:NN.MM.OO.0 (default)
>   Enter the broadcast address:  NN.MM.OO.255   (default)
>   Enter the gateway address:NN.MM.OO.254
>   Enter the local domain name:  xxx.yy.xx
>
>   ... 1st 2nd and 3rd nameservers...
>   no nfs mount poins
>
> With this configuration I have no route to the gateway...
>

I've done the same thing and obtained the same result !

I've reinstalled Debian 2.2 (yes, I know, but it work so well ;-) and 
configured
the network at that time, and it works. So just like Christian, I'd like to 
know the
clean way to achieve the configuration...

Olivier.

Mutt's alias file

[Cancer Omega]

I have the following in my .muttrc :
set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases

and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases :
alias debian-user Debian User List 

Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it 
right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist.

What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks !
 
-- 

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

[Jonathan Gift]

Hi,

I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so noted
in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps. Any idea
how to change its config?

Much thanks.

Jonathan

Supressing the "front page"

[Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe]

Hi

In our department we have a HP LaseJet 4000T with a JetDirect board.

Our Windows colleagues send things to the printer and it only comes out
what they send. The linux guy's print things and there is always a "front
page" with the name of the user, host and file.

How can i supress this. I'm sending the present printcap entry so that you
can see it.

lp|lj|lj4000|HP Laserjet 4000:\
:\:\
:lp=:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/Lj4000:\
:\:\
:rm=pserver:\
:rp=L1:\
:\:\
:pw#80:\
:pl#72:\
:px#1440:\
:mx#0:\
:\:\
:ff='\f':\
:fq:\
:tr='\f'\:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\
:\:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:


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zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

[Johann Spies]

Another two programs that gave me a lot of pleasure on slink, do not
work on potato: zgv and dvisvga or tmview.

All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all.

I never had any problems before (on slink and I thin on hamm too) and
did not have to configure it after installation.

restorepalette reports:

svgalib: Using S3 driver (Trio64, 1024K).
svgalib: S3-GENDAC/SDAC: MCLK = 4.989 MHz
svgalib: Assuming 110MHz DAC.

Is there anyone with a hint on how to get it working again?

Johann
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xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

[Florian Friesdorf]

I'm trying to start xclients on my router (potato) through a ssh connection
and docking those to windowmaker dock.

I'm executing 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/wterm' in a terminal on my
machine. Then I dock the appearing icon.
Now the problem is, somehow my commandline is cutted off to
'/usr/bin/X11/wterm'. The ssh is missing in the settings of the docked app.

Same happens with 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/wmnet -W ippp0'.
I also tried 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] '/usr/bin/X11/wmnet -W ippp0'' with no 
success.

I'm using
windowmaker 0.62.1-0.1
ssh 2.2.0p1-1
wterm 6.2.6-10
wmnet 1.05-4

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a windowmaker bug?

regards
florian

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Re: debian -newcomerII

[Glyn Millington]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:44:36PM +0200, thus spake guran remberg:
 
> That is just now my primary problem: How the hell do I stop it from
> making a graphic install. When I bail out from Xwindow, I am thrown
> right into, what I think is xdm. I have tried to elliminate that from
> rc3.d, but is totally stuck.
> 
> Please excuse my spelling, that is blanked from my static!? netscape.
> 
> regards
> guran

Have a look in /etc/rc2.d - that would usually be the startup file if it
hasn't been changed.  There should be a link called

@s99xdm

Move it to somwhere safe or kill it.  That should do the trick

HTH

Glyn



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Re: neighbour table overflow

[Robert Lazzurs]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:

> ** On Oct 06, Robert Lazzurs scribbled:
> > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > 
> > > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled:
> > > 
> > > > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I 
> > > > > > thought it
> > > > > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian 
> > > > > > provides, but
> > > > > > it is not!
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Any help would be vvvnice :)
> > > > > Check whether you have the lo network interface up. If not - start 
> > > > > it. This
> > > > > should cure your problem.
> > > > > 
> > > > > marek
> > > > 
> > > > I have tried, but it does not appear to be setup, have you any ideas on
> > > > how I can do this?
> > > What Debian distro are you using?
> > > 
> > > marek
> >  
> > Potato, thanks again - Rab
> OK. there are two ways of doing it:
> 
> 1. Check out whether you have the /etc/networ/interfaces file. If it's
>there, just add the following line at the top of it:
> 
>iface lo inet loopback
> 
>After doing so, execute the following command line as root:
> 
>ifup -a
> 
> 2. If #1 isn't working for you for some reason, you can use the older
>approach:
> 
>Check whether you have the /etc/init.d/network script. If it's there
>try putting the following lines at the top (below the shebang):
> 
>ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
>route add -net 127.0.0.0
> 
>From now on on every startup the lo interface should be configured and
>running. You can type those commands without restarting the machine, of
>course.
> 
> 
> hope that helps
> 
> marek

(sorry for the late reply)

Yea, it did, everything is working fine now, thanks very much, you are
proof that the community does work when someone like me needs help.

Thanks again, take care - Rab

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Re: cron.daily problem

[Igor Mozetic]

> > I observed on one of our Debian 2.2 machines that daily cron still
> > didn't finish after 5+ hours:
> >
> > # ps aux
> > nobody   29273  0.0  0.4  1104  532 ?D06:25   0:01 find / ( 
> > -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype afs -o -fstype
> 
> -fstype NFS --> network file system
> 
> maybe it's "waiting" for some nonexistent network volume to become
> availble? if you have none, maybe you need to remove references to
> "imaginary" file systems...?

No, no, all these -fstype are PRUNED from updatedb (see
/etc/updatedb.conf).
The find line is much longer ...

-Igor Mozetic

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

[Felix Hagemann]

Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > My crontab looks like this:
> > > 
> > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww
> 
> so you might try
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww

The `user` field exists only in the systemwide /etc/crontab.  The
user-owned crontabs obviously don`t need the entry.  But I don`t have
the original article to check which one he referred to.

Bye,
Fx

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Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

[John Travis]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:44:35 -0500
> To: "Debian" 
> From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so
> noted
> in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps. Any
> idea
> how to change its config?
> 
> Much thanks.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
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> 

'man apt-cdrom'  
Can you just delete the sources.list entry and... put in the cd...
'apt-cdrom add' and set the correct location?  I haven't done it in a while
so I can't remember for sure but I think the correct path is the first
thing apt-cdrom asks for.

HTH,

jt

Re: Mutt's alias file

[Vee-Eye]

Sie schrieben:
> I have the following in my .muttrc :
> set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases

> and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases :
> alias debian-user Debian User List 
You have to source that file, too, IIRC:

source ~/.mail_aliases
> 
> Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it 
> right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist.
> 
MH
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Re: Mutt's alias file

[Chris Niekel]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400, Cancer Omega wrote:
> I have the following in my .muttrc :
> set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases
> 
> and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases :
> alias debian-user Debian User List 
> 
> Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it 
> right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist.
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?

You should source ~/.mail_aliases as well.
The alias_file is to tell mutt where aliases are saved from mutt. The
source command tells mutt to load the aliases.

Greetings,
Chris Niekel

Re: Mutt's alias file

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400, Cancer Omega wrote:
> I have the following in my .muttrc :
> set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases
> 
> and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases :
> alias debian-user Debian User List 
> 
> Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it 
> right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist.
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?

You have to source your alias file in .muttrc, too.

set alias_file="~/.mutt_aliases"
source ~/.mutt_aliases


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Re: Ispell and Vim

[Jeff Howie]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:25:06AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote:
> I want to use ispell under vim. That is map a key to run ispell with the
> current file and save the result in this file. Do you know how I can do
> such a thing ?

In your .vimrc -

map  :!ispell %^M:e %^M

Works for me.

thks.jeff

Re: Mutt's Editor

[Jeff Howie]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Quoth Nate Bargmann, 
> > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line:
> > set editor=/usr/bin/vim
> 
> You may also want to include the contents of
> /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ·/.vimrc - it does cool things
> like colour signatures and quoted mail (different colours for different
> levels of quotes), and also lets you use the `qv' command to re-wrap
> quoted lines (very handy for replying to those inconsiderate people who
> don't know how to wrap their messages at 72 lines!).

(...pouting...)
How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or something?
;^>
What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5.

Can't get new IBM 15G ATA/100 drive to work!

[Mark Phillips]

I've just tried to hook up my new IBM drive, and when I try to use cfdisk
on it I get:

FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table
  Press any key to exit cfdisk

And on fdisk I get:

Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.

I tried writing this "new DOS disklabel" to disk but this didn't fix
things.

I wonder whether it is because these new IBM drives are ATA/100 rather
than ATA/66.  Could this be the problem?  I am running kernel version
2.4.0-test9 with ATA-2 support built in.  And I have util-linux version
2.10o-1 installed which is the latest I think.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark.

P.S. Could you please cc any replies directly to me as I currently cannot
subscribe to the mailing list.

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Re: Please advise

[Damon Muller]

Quoth Tino Ionescu, 
> 1. Where exactly (or what is the package name) for "printool". I can't   
> find it on the Potatoe CD's. Is there any other tool for installing a 
> printer?

Sorry, can't help you with that one. Try `apt-cache search printool' or
something similar.

> 2. Can anybody direct me where to find the driver for printer  
>Deskjet 560C? Is it on Potatoe disk  ? I found "djtools" but no   
> driver...

I am currently using a HP 695c, which I believe is similar. The way I
set it up is to install magicfilter and run magicfilter-config, which
sets up your printcap to use the correct printer and filters. It's very
easy, and the HP deskjets seem to be well supported.

cheers,

damon

BTW, wouldn't it be *extremely* painful to read such a high-traffic list
on a webmail service? Some people gluttons for punishment!

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Re: strange warning when starting netscape

[Moritz Schulte]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Müller) writes:

> when I start netscape. I got the warning
> 'ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/navigator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory'

It's not something to worry about. The wrapper.d script just doesn't
check, wether the dir exists, before doing an ls.
Yes, this is fixed in 4.75, but this version has some annoying
problems. Hey, but it's a security update, it fixes the bug, that it
was possible to let netscape act as a server.

If you don't want to upgrade, here's a patch:

--- wrapper.origTue Jul 11 00:40:30 2000
+++ wrapper Tue Jul 11 00:45:42 2000
@@ -274,9 +274,11 @@
 /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d \
 /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/wrapper.d \
 /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN/wrapper.d ;do
-   for f in $(ls -1 $d | sort); do
-   . $d/$f
-   done
+if [ -d "$d" ]; then
+   for f in $(ls -1 $d | sort); do
+   . $d/$f
+   done
+   fi
done
 
export MALLOC_CHECK_ NPX_PLUGIN_PATH NPX_NETHELP_PATH display 
MOZILLA_HOME CLASSPATH


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Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

[Moritz Schulte]

"Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Oct  8, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>  > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without
>  > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps
>  > pine can do this which is what I use now.
>  > 
>  > -walter

Hmm, Mutt and Gnus for example can display threads as threads.

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Re: request advice

[Moritz Schulte]

William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'd like to stick mainly with potato, but I also am running 2.4 series
> kernel.  The iptables deb pkg is only in woody so I dl that manually.
> When I try to install it it tells me that my libc is too old.  I would
> prefer not to go into woody at this time because when I did yesterday
> it broke c++ or more specifically c++ compiles using setw() no longer
> worked.  I'd appreciate any advice you guys might have on how I can
> get iptables installed without fully going to woody.

Yes, Woody now has a new GlibC, so, using Woody debs in Potato is not
a good idea.

Just compile iptables from source on your potato system.

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Re: Mutt's Editor

[Damon Muller]

Quoth Jeff Howie, 
> (...pouting...)
> How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or something?
> ;^>
> What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5.

+++-==-==-
ii  vim-rt 5.6.070-1  Vi IMproved - runtime support files

It's not actually in the vim package, but rather the vim-runtime
package, which is recommended (but not required) by vim. I've been using
it for ages with my mail, so I don't think it's a really new thing.

If you still can't find it, mail me off-list, and I'll send it to you
(no need to clutter up the list with this sort of thing).

cheers,

damon

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Borland C specific libraries in Linux

[Dan Pomohaci]

Hi,

Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C
specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be
better :-).
At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install
Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools
for programming than Borland IDE :-)

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Mutt's Editor

[David A. Rogers]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Howie wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> > Quoth Nate Bargmann, 
> > > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line:
> > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim
> > 
> > You may also want to include the contents of
> > /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ?/.vimrc - it does cool things
> > like colour signatures and quoted mail (different colours for different
> > levels of quotes), and also lets you use the `qv' command to re-wrap
> > quoted lines (very handy for replying to those inconsiderate people who
> > don't know how to wrap their messages at 72 lines!).
> 
> (...pouting...)
> How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or something?
> ;^>
> What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5.

Make sure you have installed both the vim _and_ the vimrt (or was that
vim-rt?) debs.  I would have thought that the maintainer would make vim
dependent on vim-rt, but that's not the way it is.

-- 
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Re: Mutt's Editor

[Juan Fuentes]

* Jeff Howie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or something?
> ;^>
> What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5.
> 
Hi Jeff, try looking in /usr/share/vim/vim*/syntax/mail.vim it should be
there if you have the runtime package installed, i'm not sure on the
path, i compiled vim myself and use this path, i use vim6.0h Beta.

Juan Fuentes 

xwindows-color-settings for kdm

[Gernot Bauer]

Hi, 

I just installed kdm (and the rest of the kde2-packages).

Now my display is only 8-bit (it was 16 bit with xdm). Where can I set
the color-depth?

Thanx, Gery
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Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

I don't know of any such package, but perhaps she'd better begin to
write portable programs, so she'd be able to compile them  with both
Turbo and gcc?  If the programs are simple, this wouldn't be
difficult...

If for some reason she needs to use some Turbo features in an
interface, maybe splitting the interface from the programs would be
nice? 

Not sure if this helps, but I thought it'd be a nice idea... 

HTH,
J.

:: Dan Pomohaci writes:

> Hi,
> Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C
> specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be
> better :-).
> At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install
> Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools
> for programming than Borland IDE :-)

> Thanks,
> Dan

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How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

[Tricky Rick]

I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive
How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include
unstable in my apt source list.  I installed Communicator 4.75 and
everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157
packages, and I would prefer to keep everything (except what is required
for Netscape 4.75) stable what should I do?

Rick

Re: Keyboard wierdness

[Gary Hennigan]

Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel.  I had everything
> working fine.  I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried
> it over to new location, and turn it back on.  When it comes up into XDM
> I discover the keyboard does nothing.  I try a second keyboard, still
> nothing.  Rebooting shows the keyboards work fine while the system is
> booting, but when it gets into X they stop.  Finally, I just booted into
> single user mode, and the keyboard is fine.
>
> Ideas???

Just a suggestion, don't start a new thread in the group by following
up to a message in a different thread. To anyone using a thread-aware
newsreader, eg., gnus, mutt, VM, your post looks like it belongs to
the thread entitled "DNS lookup looks for  records.." started by
Chris Niekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

Not only is it annoying to thread-using readers, it makes your post
less likely to be seen by someone that may be able to help with your
problem.

If you *HAVE* to start a new thread by following up to an old one make
*SURE* you delete the "References:" line!

Thanks,
Gary

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

Hi,

I use mutt, very happy with it especially the threading.

-Jon

Re: Mutt's Editor

[mcclosk]

|>  How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or
|>  something?  What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5.

Maybe it's because (like me until recently) you didn't realize that
vim actually comes in two packages---vim itself and vim-rt. The second
package contains the run time files, and you miss a lot of the vim
goodies (like, for instance, documentation, and sample config files
for syntax highlighting) if you fail to install vim-rt. Since the
package vim merely recommends vim-rt (it doesn't depend on it), it's
easy to miss installing the run-time files,

Jim

Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

[Gary Hennigan]

Tricky Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive
> How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include
> unstable in my apt source list.  I installed Communicator 4.75 and
> everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157
> packages, and I would prefer to keep everything (except what is required
> for Netscape 4.75) stable what should I do?

Personally, I'd go to www.netscape.com and get what I wanted and
install it in /usr/local. Then when I was ready to upgrade to woody
I'd remove the /usr/local version.

Just a thought.
Gary

Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

[Peter S Galbraith]

Tricky Rick wrote:

> I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive
> How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include
> unstable in my apt source list.  I installed Communicator 4.75 and
> everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157
> packages, and I would prefer to keep everything (except what is required
> for Netscape 4.75) stable what should I do?

What I do is edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable,
then

# apt-get update
# apt-get install navigator

I make sure it doesn't want to pull in a new libc6 for the
package I want from unstable (it doesn't for netscape) before I
approve and let it continue.  After the install, I edit
/etc/apt/sources.list again to point it back to potato and run
`apt-get update' again.

Peter

Re: Supressing the "front page"

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Supressing the "front page"
Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:29:30AM +0100

In reply to:Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe

Quoting Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi
> 
> In our department we have a HP LaseJet 4000T with a JetDirect board.
> 
> Our Windows colleagues send things to the printer and it only comes out
> what they send. The linux guy's print things and there is always a "front
> page" with the name of the user, host and file.
> 
> How can i supress this. I'm sending the present printcap entry so that you
> can see it.
> 
> lp|lj|lj4000|HP Laserjet 4000:\
> :\:\
> :lp=:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/Lj4000:\
> :\:\
> :rm=pserver:\
> :rp=L1:\
> :\:\
> :pw#80:\
> :pl#72:\
> :px#1440:\
> :mx#0:\
> :\:\
> :ff='\f':\
> :fq:\
> :tr='\f'\:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\
> :\:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

Reading the 'Printing-Usage' howto and man printcap give 2 solutions.
As you don't seem to have those docs (?)

Printing-Usage says to invoke the printer with the -h to suppress hte
'burst page' ie lpr -h thesis.txt

man printcap  says thæt :sh:  will suppress the burst header page.

Man, am I glad I run Linux.  Sooo much information available to solve
so many problems.  Of course you have to RTFM.

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Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Re: Problems with a bash script and cron
Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:34:30PM +0200

In reply to:Felix Hagemann

Quoting Felix Hagemann([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > > My crontab looks like this:
> > > > 
> > > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww
> > 
> > so you might try
> > 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww
> 
> The `user` field exists only in the systemwide /etc/crontab.  The
> user-owned crontabs obviously don`t need the entry.  But I don`t have
> the original article to check which one he referred to.

I had _not_ suggested he required the user field.  Let me try this
again;

m  h dom mon dow
0,15,30,45 *  *   *

0,15,30,45 *  *   *   *

He does not have an entry for the 'day of the week' field .  I had never
tried using cron with less thæn the suggested argument fields, so I
tested it.  A working example was changed to his, dow missing,
example.

(working example)
15,45 8-22 * * * root /usr/local/bin/play /usr/lib/sounds/ring.au

(Test without 'dow' field)
1-20 8-22 * *  root /usr/local/bin/play /usr/lib/sounds/ring.au 

The test did not work. As I read crontab(5) it shouldn't work.
"
   commands are executed by cron(8) when  the  minute,  hour,
   and  month of year fields match the current time, and when
   at least one of the two day fields (day of month,  or  day
   of  week)  match  the  current  time (see ``Note'' below).
   cron(8) examines cron entries once every minute.  The time
   and date fields are:

   [ snip field parameters]

   A  field  may  be an asterisk (*), which always stands for
   ``first-last''.

"
Adding the dow field to the above test example, did in fact, work.

I guess my original post
># m h dom mon dow user  command

>so you might try
>0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww
> ^

Was not clear enough (?).
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Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

[Brent Buchholz]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:37:45PM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C
> specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be
> better :-).
> At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install
> Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools
> for programming than Borland IDE :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
>

I've seen this asked elsewhere and the answer was no.  Mabey you could have
her write wrappers around "native" libraries (ie. conio around ncurses).

Brent

Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

[Brent Buchholz]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:47:05AM -0500, Tricky Rick wrote:
> 
> I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive
> How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include
> unstable in my apt source list.  I installed Communicator 4.75 and
> 
Just put "deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free" in sources.list.  4.75 *is* a security update. 8)

Brent

problem of boot

[elouafi bessem]

Hi freinds,

I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel
2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with the old kernel and the
file init.rd was not created and when I try to create it, I cant. 

When I try to lance a tool of configuration the system says "bad kernel
version".

What is the problem and how I can resolve it?

Best regards.

bessem 





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Re: Please advise

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:48:14AM -0700, Tino Ionescu wrote:
> 1. Where exactly (or what is the package name) for "printool". I can't   
> find it on the Potatoe CD's. Is there any other tool for installing a 
> printer?

It's printtool (2 "t"s).

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Re: Mutt's alias file

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Mutt's alias file
Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400

In reply to:Cancer Omega

Quoting Cancer Omega([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I have the following in my .muttrc :
> set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases
> 
> and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases :
> alias debian-user Debian User List 
> 
> Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it 
> right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist.
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?

>From the above, nothing, it looks correct.  Here is what your
header looks like on _this mail_

"
From: Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian List 
Subject: Re: debian -newcomerII
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
^^^
"

I don't see anything wrong with mutt.  Except that you should wrap your
test at about 72 characters.  I would look into whats going on with
exim.

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Re: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato
Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:05:31PM +0200

In reply to:Johann Spies

Quoting Johann Spies([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Another two programs that gave me a lot of pleasure on slink, do not
> work on potato: zgv and dvisvga or tmview.
> 
> All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all.

I have zgv Version: 3.3-2 installed on potato and it works the same as
it did on slink.

I do not use dvisvga or have it installed installed

apt-cache show tmview
and
dpkg -S tmview

don't show it being available.

How did you upgrade?

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Re: Supressing the "front page"

[Mário Filipe]

Jason Hammerschmidt wrote:


Try adding the following line
:sh='\t':\


Sorry, but it doesn't work :(


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Re: xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:54:05PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a windowmaker bug?

As far as I can tell, it's a windowmaker bug.  Fortunately, you can edit the
"Application path and arguments" by hand to make it work after putting it on
the dock.

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kde2 problem

[Andy Bastien]

I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck
getting it running.  What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a
signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on
"Restoring session").  What I do get is a placid blue screen with a
couple of icons on it.  It looks to me like I'm missing a library, but I
have no unresolved dependencies.  I've included  what seems to be the
relevant X output.  Does anybody have any ideas?

libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk
libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk
libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk
libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk
Could not dlopen library kdesktop.la: undefined symbol: prettyURL__C4KURL
Could not load library! Trying exec
KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kio_file')
Could not dlopen library artsd.la: file not found
Could not load library! Trying exec
Launched ok, pid = 5049
KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kmixctrl')
KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kxmlrpcd')
xrdb:  "Netscape*background" on line 507 overrides entry on line 333
xrdb:  "Netscape*foreground" on line 508 overrides entry on line 334
xrdb:  "Emacs*Background" on line 516 overrides entry on line 255
Could not dlopen library kicker.la: undefined symbol: prettyURL__C4KURL
Could not load library! Trying exec
KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = kicker path = 
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-5061' to 'kicker'
Could not dlopen library kwrited.la: undefined symbol: prettyURL__C4KURL
Could not load library! Trying exec
KSMServer: SetAProc_loc: conn 0, prot=local, file=/tmp/.ICE-unix/5072
QSocketNotifier: Multiple socket notifiers for same socket 6 and type read
KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kwin')

Re: Supressing the "front page"

[Mário Filipe]

Wayne Topa wrote:




Reading the 'Printing-Usage' howto and man printcap give 2 solutions.
As you don't seem to have those docs (?)


I have the docs. I miss the time :(

I only asked directly to the list (after reading the man page for 
printcap) because i thought "Hey, maybe someone knows the anwser to this."




Printing-Usage says to invoke the printer with the -h to suppress hte
'burst page' ie lpr -h thesis.txt


this works



man printcap  says thæt :sh:  will suppress the burst header page.


this doesn't



Man, am I glad I run Linux.  Sooo much information available to solve
so many problems.  Of course you have to RTFM.


I to am gald to run linux. I wish i had the time to RTFM, but for that 
to be possible the day would need 48 hours and I would still work 72 :)


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new kernel

[elouafi bessem]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:26:07 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote:


Hi freinds

I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel
2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with the old kernel and the
file init.rd was not created and when I try to create it, I cant. 

When I try to lance a tool of configuration the system says "bad kernel
version".

What is the problem and how I can resolve it?



Bessem






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I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

[Piotr Krukowiecki]

Hi


I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update && apt-get
-d install sth)

Now i'd like to have sth. like dselect, do choose packages in dselect and
then apt-get dselect-upgrade. Do i need install dpkg first ?
I tried to compile capt, but there were some errors:

c++ -c -MD -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_REENTRANT -I. -Iinit -fPIC -DPIC -g -O2 -o
func/apt.o func/apt.cc
In file included from func/apt.cc:5:
init/std.h:22: apt-pkg/configuration.h: No such file or directory
[many other missing files]
In file included from func/apt.cc:8:
interface/acquire_status.h:13: apt-pkg/acquire.h: No such file or
directory
In file included from /usr/include/g++-2/std/bastring.h:36,
 from /usr/include/g++-2/string:6,
 from interface/wrappers.h:5,
 from interface/dialogs.h:5,
 from func/apt.cc:9:
/usr/include/g++-2/std/straits.h:84: macro `move' used with too many
(3) args

and more...


TIA

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ypbind problem

[Douglas Eck]

Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that
eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot
of overhead. I'm running woody...

>From memstat: 
   4180k: PID  6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind)
   4180k: PID  6496 (/usr/sbin/ypbind)
   4180k: PID  6495 (/usr/sbin/ypbind)
   4180k: PID  6492 (/usr/sbin/ypbind)   

Regards,
Doug Eck

Re: Keyboard wierdness

[Steve Juranich]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Damian Menscher wrote:

> Ok, this is *really* strange:
> 
> I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel.  I had everything
> working fine.  I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried
> it over to new location, and turn it back on.  When it comes up into XDM
> I discover the keyboard does nothing.  I try a second keyboard, still
> nothing.  Rebooting shows the keyboards work fine while the system is
> booting, but when it gets into X they stop.  Finally, I just booted into
> single user mode, and the keyboard is fine.
> 

I experienced something similar a while ago.  My problem turned out to be a
faulty mouse cable.  In my case, I had to shut down the computer, unplug the
mouse, plug it back in and power up.  I know this is a very Redmond-like
solution, but it fixed my problem.

It's a long shot, but you might try using a different mouse.

HTH

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via82cxxx

[Olivier Billet]

Hi  all !

I've got a question about sound configuration.
I know I have a VIA  PCI audio controller :
I/O 220-22F
IRQ 5
and it seems to be sound blaster compatible.

What should I do to get it working ???

Many thanks in advance,
Olivier.




Here is the state of the loaded modules :


vony# lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
sound  57592   0  (unused)
soundlow 416   0  [sound]
soundcore   2628   3  [sound]
smbfs  23952   0  (autoclean)
pcnet_cs8500   1
83906104   0  [pcnet_cs]
lockd  31112   1  (autoclean)
sunrpc 52420   1  (autoclean) [lockd]
ds  6536   1  [pcnet_cs]
i82365 28516   1
pcmcia_core44416   0  [pcnet_cs ds i82365]
serial 19564   0  (autoclean)
unix   10212  10  (autoclean)
vony#
vony#


And what I get when I try to load via82cxxx

vony# insmod via82cxxx
Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o: unresolved symbol
probe_uart401_R6467f99b
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o: unresolved symbol
unload_uart401_Recfdd9c9
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o: unresolved symbol
sb_dsp_detect_R12d1163a
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o: unresolved symbol
sb_dsp_init_R0366d3f5
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o: unresolved symbol
sb_dsp_unload_Rc4884969
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/via82cxxx.o: unresolved symbol
attach_uart401_R45af1327

DVD-RAM support

[Setalaphruk Vachirasuk]

Hellow world,

I am thinking of buying a DVD-RAM drive. I just wonder if linux 
support UDF filesystem on DVD-RAM disk and if not, what filesystem
is used on DVD-RAM under linux. 


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Re: PHP joy at last!

[will trillich]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:33:26AM +, Steve Simons wrote:
> A really big thanks to everyone who took the time to assist me with my 
> recent PHP and Apache troubles - I really appreciate the effort! :-)
> 
> I ended up doing what I probably should have done in the first place; 
> installing it all from source.  It works just fine now.

hmm. from my vantage-point, sure seems like you oughtta be able
to apt-get install this-n-that and have it work out of the box.

source code should be (imNSho) for changing down-on-the-bare-metal
functionality or configuration.

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apt-get and customized kernel

[Jack]

Hi,

I always compile my own customized kernel.  However,  it brings one
thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade.  As you can see as
following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead.  

Can I shut it off?

thanks,


==

Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.2.17 Custom.1 (using
.../kernel-image-2.2.17_1%3a2.2.17-1_i386.deb) ...
You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.2.17)
However, the directory /lib/modules/2.2.17 still exists.
If you have deselected some modules, this could be bad.

This is your last chance to abort the installation of this
kernel image (nothing has been changed yet). 

I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.2.17 out of the way,
perhaps to /lib/modules/2.2.17.old or something,
and then try re-installing this image.

Do you want to stop now? [Y/n] 
Ok, Aborting
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.2.17_1%3a2.2.17-1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Re: xscreensaver without gnome

[kmself]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Christian Lemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> 
> I would like to run xscreensaver with enlightenment and gdm but without gnome.
> 
> I made different trials to run if from my .xsession... but could not
> succeed to make it work...
> 
> Where should I put the command so that xscreensaver is always active
> but in lock mode if logged in and in non-lock mode when gdm is active

In /etc/X11/Xsession:

xscreensaver -nosplash &

...though I don't typically use an X display manager, I believe this
will work for you.

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Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

[kmself]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:57:00AM -0500, John Travis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:44:35 -0500
> > To: "Debian" 
> > From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so
> > noted
> > in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps. Any
> > idea
> > how to change its config?

> 'man apt-cdrom'  
> Can you just delete the sources.list entry and... put in the cd...
> 'apt-cdrom add' and set the correct location?  I haven't done it in a while
> so I can't remember for sure but I think the correct path is the first
> thing apt-cdrom asks for.

I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be
hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint.  There must be a /cdrom
directory, and an /etc/fstab entry for the CD-ROM to mount on /cdrom.  I
didn't explore deeply but noted this at the time.  IMO it's a bug,
should probably be filed as such (or checked).

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Re: debian-user: exim, unknown user.

[will trillich]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I have setup a mail server using exim.  I have it working pretty well,
> but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real
> user.  eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all mail sent to
> this address to be forwarded to another account (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]).  I'd
> appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

if you have /etc/aliases, just have the last 'alias' be something
like
*: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

so that mail that doesn't go to anyone else in particular will wind
up going to user 'fail-safe'...

this works via exim's alias director facility which looks something
like this:

system_aliases:
  driver = aliasfile
  file_transport = address_file
  pipe_transport = address_pipe
  file = /etc/aliases
  search_type = lsearch

to have virtual domains on your box (where several domain names are
attached to your solo IP number, as is the case with me) you can have
per-domain aliases, like this:

virtual_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
domains = "partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS"
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/exim/${domain_data}
search_type = "lsearch*"

here, the /etc/exim/DOMAINS file is a list of domain/filename pairs:

*.dontuthink.com:   dontuthink
*.bucks2browse.com: bucks2browse
*.buckstobrowse.com:bucks2browse

if the domain-part of a message (@somewhere.org) matches a pattern on
the left, the result on the right is returned into the $domain_data
variable. note that several 'domains' can share a file, as is shown
here (bucks2browse, with a digit, and bucksTObrowse, without).

then, the line

file = /etc/exim/${domain_data}

tells exim to look in the file /etc/exim/bucks2browse (for example)
for user-level aliases, as in

b2b:wdt
gotrox: will
kat*:   kat
*:  rdt

so email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
will both get to user 'kat', for example, and anything that doesn't
go to anyone else in particular will go to user 'rdt'.

if you put this virtual-alias director BEFORE the system alias director,
then the virtual aliases will override the system aliases (sequence matters).
if you want system aliases to override domain-specific aliases, put the
virtual section AFTER the system alias section.

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Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

[will trillich]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Quoth Nate Bargmann, 
> > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line:
> > 
> > set editor=/usr/bin/vim
> 
> You may also want to include the contents of
> /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ·/.vimrc - it does cool things
> like colour signatures and quoted mail (different colours for different
> levels of quotes), and also lets you use the `qv' command to re-wrap
> quoted lines (very handy for replying to those inconsiderate people who
> don't know how to wrap their messages at 72 lines!).

emacs fans, please turn the other cheek--

how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog?
which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth
whiter?

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g++ problem

[Giles Constant]

Hi there,

Attached is a tarball with a very short program that doesn't work on
recent upgrades of woody (around here - i386), but works everywhere else,
including potato.

It appears to occur when linking shared object files against the C++ libs.

to run :

tar zxvf broken.tgz
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
./compile.sh
./runme

Anyone else having this problem?  It's been in woody since about wednesday
when I did an apt-get upgrade.  I've mailed the package maintainer for g++
but I think it may be a problem in libstdc++-dev.

Please CC replies back to me, since I'm not subscribed to debian-user.

Cheers,

Giles

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http port open?? how can that be?

[William Jensen]

Greetings,

I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open,
however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being
open.  Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open.  Thing is I just don't
see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables and the default
policy is drop.  Anyone have any ideas what could be sneaking and letting port
80 open?

Bill

Re: via82cxxx

[ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA]

hi ...

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Olivier Billet wrote:

> Hi  all !
> 
> I've got a question about sound configuration.
> I know I have a VIA  PCI audio controller :
> I/O 220-22F
> IRQ 5
> and it seems to be sound blaster compatible.
i have one of this on my laptop ... AFAIK it is compatible, but i 
couldn't make it work as a sound blaster.

> What should I do to get it working ???
after one try, another try, and another ... etc... i installed ALSA ...
and it works vry good :)

you need to download one of the lasts version, b'cos the via82x 
chipset is supported from version 0.5.x ... but AFAIK it's _not_ 
supported on the .deb package that comes with potato ... but i'm not sure 
about it ...

the only problem is that the hardware volume control and the software 
mixer are not related, so if you turn down the volume with the SW mixer 
and later you modify the volume with the HW control, you obtain a noisy 
memory of the way you modify the volume the last time ...

> Many thanks in advance,
> Olivier.

oki ... bye,
esteban

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

[will trillich]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open,
> however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being
> open.  Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open.  Thing is I just don't
> see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables and the default
> policy is drop.  Anyone have any ideas what could be sneaking and letting port
> 80 open?

just guessing...

inetd (or xinetd) may be listening to various ports whether you have
services to run on them or not. check your /etc/*inetd.conf setup
and /etc/init.d/*inetd reload after tweaking (if this is the problem)...

hth

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disabling xdm (was Re: debian -newcomerII)

[kmself]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:44:36PM +0200, guran remberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

> That is just now my primary problem: How the hell do I stop it from
> making a graphic install. When I bail out from Xwindow, I am thrown
> right into, what I think is xdm. I have tried to elliminate that from
> rc3.d, but is totally stuck.

You don't want to run an XDM login session?

To disable xdm for the current system boot:

$ /etc/init.d/rc.d/xdm stop

To disable xdm startups for *all* system boots:

$ /usr/bin/update-rc.d -f xdm remove

To allow *remote* xdm control but disable local control:  comment out
the localhost display in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

To remove xdm from your system:

$ apt-get remove xdm

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Re: new kernel

[kmself]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 08:36:54AM -0700, elouafi bessem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:26:07 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi freinds
> 
> I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel
> 2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with the old kernel and the
> file init.rd was not created and when I try to create it, I cant. 
> 
> When I try to lance a tool of configuration the system says "bad kernel
> version".

man lilo

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Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

[kmself]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update && apt-get
> -d install sth)

Using two different package management systems on a single system is a
***BAD*** idea.  You are violating the fundamental advantage of either
system:  single-point, centralized coordination of packages and
dependencies on the system.

Use alien instead.

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Strange screen blanking on 2.2 boot

[Dwight Johnson]

At the end of booting my new potato 2.2 installation (my first for debian),
the console screen goes blank and then reappears four times before finally
settling on the login prompt.

What's going on?

Thanks in advance,
Dwight
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Re: ugly boot

[kmself]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> debs,
> 
> i have a 5 minute,  ugly boot:
> 
> # dmesg
> 
> [snip]
> 
> SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic
> channels, max=256).
> SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
> PPP BSD Compression module registered
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 rpc.statd forgot to set
> AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server
> localhost not responding, timed out
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server
> localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock
> failed, error=-5
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server
> localhost not responding, timed out
> registered device ppp0
> 
> lots of error messages, eh?
> 
> ...suggestions.

DNS resolution errors?  Is your network setup configuration correct?

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setserial

[Jan Zegan]

Hello
When I issue
setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 3 spd_hi
it goes back to the original settings after I reboot the system. How can I
make it stay?

Thanks in advance

Exim and multiple domains

[Matt Kopishke]

Hi, I have a machine that is serving multiple domains.  What I need to
have is some sort of separate configuration for each domain.  Or what I
am really getting at is that I need a separate aliases file
(/etc/aliases) for each domain, and some sort of control over who gets 
mail from a given domain. (I hope this is not to confusing...)

Thanks,

-Matt-

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@a=(Lbzjoftt,Inqbujfodf, |
Hvcsjt); $b="Lbssz Wbmm" |
;$b =~ y/b-z/a-z/ ; $c = |
" Tif ". @a ." hsfbu wj" |
."suvft pg b qsphsbnnfs" |
.":\n";$c =~y/b-y/a-z/;  |
print"\n\n$c ";for($i=0; |
$i<@a; $i++) { $a[$i] =~ |
y/b-y/a-z/;if($a[$i]eq$a |
[-1]){print"and $a[$i]." |
;}else{ print"$a[$i], "; |
}}print"\n\t\t--$b\n\n"  |
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Re: error message

[brian moore]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Manuel Hendel wrote:

 > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Oct 12 21:45:11 cohiba postfix/master[356]: fatal: bind "(IP-Adress)" 
> > > port 25: This Ip-Adress is already in use.
> > 
> > Please post the output of (in bash)
> > 
> > cat "/proc/`fuser -n tcp 25 | perl -ne 'print ((split)[1])'`/cmdline"
> 
> The result of this is:
> 
> auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz

Try it as root.

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

[William Jensen]

Already checked that.  inetd.conf shows nothing about http
and I do not have a xinetd.  Any other guesses?

Bill

- Forwarded message from will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:07:30 -0500
From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: http port open?? how can that be?
User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open,
> however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being
> open.  Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open.  Thing is I just don't
> see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables and the default
> policy is drop.  Anyone have any ideas what could be sneaking and letting port
> 80 open?

just guessing...

inetd (or xinetd) may be listening to various ports whether you have
services to run on them or not. check your /etc/*inetd.conf setup
and /etc/init.d/*inetd reload after tweaking (if this is the problem)...

hth

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Re: Exim and multiple domains

[will trillich]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:16:08PM -0400, Matt Kopishke wrote:
> Hi, I have a machine that is serving multiple domains.  What I need to
> have is some sort of separate configuration for each domain.  Or what I
> am really getting at is that I need a separate aliases file
> (/etc/aliases) for each domain, and some sort of control over who gets 
> mail from a given domain. (I hope this is not to confusing...)

not nearly as much as your perl snippet.

search the list archives for 'exim newbie' or even check your
mbox for messages earlier today with subject

debian-user: exim, unknown user

we don't mind helping, really, but we'd like to think you at least did
a bit of research. (and we're easy to convince, usually.)

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A conio for Borland C under Linux

[David Teague]

Dan

I promised to try to find Linux conio for Borland. I found it in my
archives. It is a 1996 reimplementation of conio for Linux, for
Borland C of that date, but you might be able to make it work.  If
you do, please send me your hacks, or let me know if it does work
for you. 

It is redistributable under gpl2. It isn't a debian package. It is a
gzipped tar file that extracts ok. 

CAVEATS: I have NOT tried to use this and I have NOT compiled it. 
(Not recently enough that I remember it, anyways.) 

Lots of luck with this.

David


On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dan Pomohaci wrote:

> Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C
> specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be
> better :-).
> At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install
> Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools
> for programming than Borland IDE :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> 
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Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

[Pann McCuaig]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59, will trillich wrote:

> emacs fans, please turn the other cheek--
> 
> how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog?
> which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth
> whiter?

FWIW, I was an early (early 90's) user of elvis. I switched to vim
several years ago and haven't looked back.

I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and
it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it.  ;->

Luck,
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Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

[David Z. Maze]

Karsten M Self  writes:
KMS> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
 PK> I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update
 PK> && apt-get -d install sth)
KMS> 
KMS> Using two different package management systems on a single system
KMS> is a ***BAD*** idea.  You are violating the fundamental advantage
KMS> of either system: single-point, centralized coordination of
KMS> packages and dependencies on the system.

It sounds like what he's actually trying to do is to install APT on a
machine with good connectivity, and using APT in download-only mode to 
download packages to local disk.  He then copies the files to some
other medium, uses SneakerNet to bring them over to his machine
without connectivity, and installs them locally.

This is all well and good and reasonable, but I don't know how to
answer his question.  :-)

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Re: Supressing the "front page"

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Re: Supressing the "front page"
Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:29:55PM +0100

In reply to:Mário Filipe

Quoting Mário Filipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Reading the 'Printing-Usage' howto and man printcap give 2 solutions.
> > As you don't seem to have those docs (?)
> 
> I have the docs. I miss the time :(
> 
> I only asked directly to the list (after reading the man page for 
> printcap) because i thought "Hey, maybe someone knows the anwser to this."
> 
  man lpr also shows the -h option.
>  
> > Printing-Usage says to invoke the printer with the -h to suppress hte
> > 'burst page' ie lpr -h thesis.txt
> 
> this works
> 
>  
> > man printcap  says thæt :sh:  will suppress the burst header page.
> 
> this doesn't
> 
Odd, I do not use the -h when I call lpr and have this in my printcap

:sh:pw#80:pl#60:px#1440:mx#0:\

And do _not_ get a burst page.  My print is down (ran out of ink) so I
can't check that right now.  Wish my laser hadn't broke down. :(

>  
> > Man, am I glad I run Linux.  Sooo much information available to solve
> > so many problems.  Of course you have to RTFM.
> 
> I to am gald to run linux. I wish i had the time to RTFM, but for that 
> to be possible the day would need 48 hours and I would still work 72 :)
> 
  Understand that.  I put my project off to find the answer to your problem.
  Guess our/my time is worth less then yours?  ;_)
  
  Oh, BTW, your welcome
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Re: setserial

[Larry Shields]

- Original Message -
From: "Jan Zegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: setserial

Not sure which kernel version, but if you have #AUTOSAVE at the top of your
serial.conf script, REMOVE it...Then reboot, it, your new settings should
take effect for your /dev/ttyS0 etc...Then add the #AUTOSAVE line back in...

Hope this helps...

Larry Shields WD9ESU
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> Hello
> When I issue
> setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 3 spd_hi
> it goes back to the original settings after I reboot the system. How can I
> make it stay?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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Apache- CGI

[Eileen Orbell]

Hi,

I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get.
I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down.  Anyway's I edited 
the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all.  In RH The lines 
were already in the conf file I just needed to edit them to my needs.  Also 
1 more debian questions and that is file permissions.  Can i chmod a whole 
directory and its contents?  I have a images directory but chmod 777 images 
or whatever does not change the files within the directory.  Thanks for any 
help.


Eileen


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Re: Apache- CGI

[Gary Hennigan]

Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get.
> I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down.  Anyway's I
> edited the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all.  In RH
> The lines were already in the conf file I just needed to edit them to
> my needs.  Also 1 more debian questions and that is file permissions.
> Can i chmod a whole directory and its contents?  I have a images
> directory but chmod 777 images or whatever does not change the files
> within the directory.  Thanks for any help.

Can't help with the CGI, but you can apply chown recursively using the
"-R" flag, eg., "chown -R 777 images" should do the trick, assuming
images is a directory.

Suggest: man chmod

Gary