Re: Linux Novice needs help with SPARC install
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Mark Mohrmann wrote: |Good Afternoon: | |Anyone care to help me with the install on a SPARCstation 5. |I've had exactly 6 days experience with Linux software and |SUN hardware. | |Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. It works well. I did this and installed Debian for the first time in my life on something different than x86 about 3-4 days ago. It took me about 4 hours to figure some things. Some part of the hardware is broken in my case, so it was more complicated. 1. When you partition you HAVE to create "Sun disk label". In fdisk you have to press s create a new empty Sun disklabel 2. SUN loader has some limitations in my case and I advise you to create /boot on separate partition. Make it 10-15 MB and put it in the first place Here is my: Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 141 heads, 62 sectors, 1014 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8742 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 6 26226 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 1003 1014 48081 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 1014 44321945 Whole disk /dev/sda4 6 1003 4357887 83 Linux native /dev/sda4 on / type ext2 (rw,grpquota,usrquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) 3. You must have "Whole disk" exactly on sda3 to keep the compatibility with SUN. 4. There is documentation about SUN loader on the SUN web. Find it and have a look at it. 5. As far as I can see for now, SILO is not exactly like LILO (x86 loader for Linux). I don't know much more, but keep this in mind. --JS
Where are manpages about libc?
I couldn't find out the package containing manpages for libc, I think. i.e. printf(3), scanf(3), etc Where are they? -- Chung, Ha-Nyung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
Well, I've noticed that Tomcat is not listed in the work-needing and prospective packages ( http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ) - so if you'd like to pick it up, I'd be happy to see that. :) I'm trying to figure out how to build debs right now, because I develop using jde (which needs a maintainer) for tomcat/cocoon. Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference > implementation now. > > Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is > anything coming? > I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard > implementation. >
Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800, thus spake Tim Wood: > Hello, > I'm running potato on a desktop and a laptop using > ice-wm/gnome in X. > > The laptop is set in the bios to blank the screen and that's fine. > > The desktop screen blanks in console but not in X. I'm trying to wean my > family off windoze - but with limited success. > To make it more familiar i have xdm set to give an X login. I have used > "xset dpms 1200 1200" in .xsession and "append'apm=on'" in lilo.conf but > to no avail. > > There is also a measure of disagreement, in general, over whether to use > a screensaver or have the monitor power-down. The suggestion is that > cycling the monitor ht will reduce it's life. > I cannot get the screensaver to work on either my laptop or desktop. > When I select "random" the preview panel works but will not work when I > select "try" and no other selection shows anything in the preview panel. > > I upgraded Gnome to 1.2.2 bu this behaviour was there before doing so. > > The other oddity is that a right click on the panel does nothing and the > offer of adding an applet does not appear on the menu. > > Suggestions as to what the cause is and how to fix it would be welcome. > > TIA, > Tim Tim, Somewhere in your home directory you have a file called .xsession? Stick a line like this in it. xscreensaver -timeout 2 -cycle 2 -no-splash & That should get xscreensaver going, if you have it installed. Hit man xscreensaver for the details HTH Glyn M -- * None can love freedom heartily but good men; * *the rest love not freedom but license * *John Milton *
Re: What documentation and what order
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:34:52PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > This sort of disconnected learning is only useful and fun if you are young and > have no other obligations. Once you have a wife, kids, and a yard to mow this > becomes a less viable option. > > This is a problem I have with Linux in general - not just Debian. To quote a > friend of mine (who I think was quoting someone else): "Linux is only free if > you set the value of your time at zero." > > I don't mind R'ingTFM. I just want to know where to find the manual. welcome to the club. (the membership dues are exorbitant, aren't they?) you'll find, as others have, that the more you beat your head on the where's-the-documentation wall, the more your head begins to look like a pancake. plus, almost slipping in under your conscious radar, you actually DO start to learn where things are, and how to look for what you want. i'm from a mac background(!) and for US it's the worst reality-check of all: no comprehensive interface, no top-down design from a centralized authority -- it's all a collection of thirty years' worth of "hey, how about like THIS..." the results are incredibly wide and varied, which allows for personal preference and a broad array of tastes, but which also makes it alarmingly difficult for the coddled newbie, like me, to find. at first. months later, i now know at least enough to feel productive: dpkg -L xyz dpkg -S xyz apt-cache search xyz apt-cache show xyz apropos xyz man xyz info xyz /usr/share/doc/xyz/* /usr/share/doc/xyz-doc/* http://packages.debian.org/xyz http://www.debian.org/doc (not necessarily in that order.) i too had the same attitude you exhibit. i was a mite gasted in the flabber regions that people could actually be actively USING such a monstrously random hobbling-together of obscure-ified and obtusioned documents and programs and packages and modules. how is it THEY can find the answers and I can't? i'd ask: "don't tell me the answer to this question, tell me instead how you'd go about finding it..." and i'm beginning to catch on. finally. you will, too. > I'd like to fill in the rest for Debian, I guess I'll have to blaze the trail. > > Please don't take this as a rant on you. This sort of answer is common among > the Linux community. apple may take a bite out of the pie with its osX. the folks at eazel are also working on it. as are many others. we can either 1) wait for others and follow their trail, or 2) blaze our own trail and risk the mosquitoes, wolves, ice-cold rain and even the occasional sunshine, on our own merit... p.s. there are others who have suffered complexity-shock upon entering the linux world, and who are trying their hand at improving the situation. we had* a mr.lamb character, i think, who was entirely affronted by how the email setups worked. after one of the most extensive flame wars i've seen on this list he mentioned he'd begun a project of his own at http://sourceforge.net/projects/aimsprototype/ . if you wanna see how frustrated people can get, browse http://lists.debian.org/search.html and search jul-sep for "linux mail client". glad to have you with us! [* we may still have him, but my procmail filters don't seem to like him for some reason... namely, i blocked his petulence from my mbox by hand. someday, i may relent.] -- self-reference, n: see self-reference. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
RE: oracle8i ... and privacy
Hello, I just registered there ... and got a confirmation e-Mail back with my password in clear letters ... ... and the advice, to change the password as often as possible because: "This is one of the best methods of protecting your privacy." I think, they are serious !!! So, if anybody on the way around the world read my (as it seems: unencrypted) registration: should he/she feel free to use it, download the software a million times and then sell it - everything in the name of mine? Sorry for the bad english, but it seems to me not as bad as this job is done by one of the world's leading companies, isn't it? Bernd At 07:00 17.10.00 -0500, Jason Holland wrote: Juan, I've installed Oracle 8i on a woody box. I didn't use any documentation, I am not sure if there is any, but I just ran the installer off the cd. it worked perfectly. Jason > > Hi! > > I would like to know if there is a possibility to install oracle in > debian and if there is some > documents about it. > > regards > > /Juan Carlos > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
HELP - voodoo 3 trouble
dear all, when i try to run test3Dfx on my dual celery550 (debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.0-test9), it reports: test00: Clear screen to blue 2.60.00.0415 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault i insmoded 3dfx.o: % lsmod Module Size Used by 3dfx4920 -4 (unused) and have the relevant deb's installed (i think): % dpkg -l "device*" un device3dfx-mod (no description available) ii device3dfx-mod 2.3.4-2+custom Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.x un device3dfx-mod (no description available) ii device3dfx-sou 2.3.4-2Device driver source for 3Dfx boar and installed the dpkg: # dpkg -i device3dfx-module-2.4.0-test9_2.3.4-2+custom_i386.deb Preparing to replace device3dfx-module-2.4.0-test9 2.3.4-2+custom (using device3dfx-module-2.4.0-test9_2.3.4-2+custom_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement device3dfx-module-2.4.0-test9 ... Setting up device3dfx-module-2.4.0-test9 (2.3.4-2+custom) ... /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_cpu/msr=202: No such file or directory /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_cpu/cpuid=203: No such file or directory MAKEDEV made your /dev/3dfx entry # ll /dev/3dfx crw-rw1 root audio107, 0 Oct 17 23:50 /dev/3dfx i also have the proper glide debs installed too: # dpkg -l "*glide*" un glide-v2 (no description available) un glide-v3 (no description available) un glide-vg (no description available) ii glide2-base2.60-6Voodoo detection and texture utilities un glide2x-sdk(no description available) un libggi-target- (no description available) un libglide-dev (no description available) un libglide2 (no description available) ii libglide2-dev 2.60-6development files for libglide2 pn libglide2-v2 (no description available) ii libglide2-v3 2.60-6Graphics library for Voodoo Banshee and Vood pn libglide2-vg (no description available) ii mesag-glide2-d 3.1-17Development library for Mesa [libc6]. un mesag3-glide (no description available) ii mesag3-glide2 3.1-17A 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL everything seems to be in order. i'm at wits end. i just bought heretic2 and RAAALLLY want to play it. please -- can someone help me? i'm not exactly a newbie, but i feel lost! thanks! pete
Adding local gnome-applets
Hi, today I checked for some useful panel-applets for my GNOME desktop. I tried to compile zclock -- worked after some package installation. But I find no way to add them to the Panel-Menu (Panel->Add to Panel->Clocks). How do I make the gnome-panel notice the new applet under /usr/local/? I could not find an useful documentation hint. Starting from shell works. But after restarting my gnome-session it disappeares. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/
Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories
`find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type d' maybe?
or define a function `function lsd() { find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ; }'
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Prints only PostScript files
I am able to print PostScript files with: $ lpr file.ps to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. But I am unable to print plaintext files with: $ lpr file.txt What packages or configuration am I missing to convert plaintext files to PostScript and send them on to the printer. My previous Slackware, SuSE and Red Hat systems have all been configured out of the box to do this automatically. The strange thing to me is that I did have this working before I started working on the problem of why my printer was printing an extra page on every print. So maybe I glitched something with my configuration experiments. My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error when mounting CD-image with loop option
I want to make backup copies of my debian CD's. After copying CD's 2 and 3 to my hard disk with dd if=/dev/scd1 of=cdi3 I also did it with the option bs=2048 at another time I wanted to verify the copy by mounting it with the loop option and then the following happens: $mount /mnt/oue/home/jhspies/cd/cdi3 -r -t iso9660 -o loop /potato/cd3 Invalid session number or type of track --- This only happens with the binary cd's 2 and 3. I tried another dd with CD 3 and the same happened. Despite the error message it mounts the image and I have access to it's filesystem. What is causing the error? Is it save to write a CD from that image? Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Psalms 37:4
/etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...
after seven months, i still stumble into handy discoveries like this: using apt-get and sources.list to update your debian system: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/ch-upgrading.en.html [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?] -- self-reference, n: see self-reference. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:52AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally > looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can > get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?] If you are in the united states and west-coast, use sourceforge http://download.sourceforge.net/debian woody main non-free contrib I think debian has a list of mirrors on their website. Check it out. -- John__ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes icq: thales @ 17755648
Re: Prints only PostScript files
Answered my own question. The answer here appears to be the enscript package. Dwight On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt > > What packages or configuration am I missing to convert plaintext files to > PostScript and send them on to the printer. > > My previous Slackware, SuSE and Red Hat systems have all been configured > out of the box to do this automatically. > > The strange thing to me is that I did have this working before I started > working on the problem of why my printer was printing an extra page on > every print. So maybe I glitched something with my configuration > experiments. > > My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: > > lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > Thanks in advance, > Dwight > -- > Dwight Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Creative Live Value !!
Hi All I am also using Live value !!(emu10k1). I have been using it with excellent quality in RH 6.1. When I changed to Debian, it gives very poor quality of sound with distortion etc. I tried both alsa and the driver from Creative site. Can you give some more details regarding the applications related to sound that you have installed, like mixer etc. I cannot increase the volume in xmms because of distortion Tnx and Rds, Deb --- "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I have in my modules config file for my > SB Live with ALSA: > > # This configures ALSA support for the > SoundBlaster LIVE! (emu10k1) > > alias char-major-116 snd > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 > > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 > options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=1 > snd_id="SBLive" > > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss > > HTH. > > -- > --- > Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Network Management Development > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a > professional." --Mad Scientist > --- >These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no > responsibility for them. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: What documentation and what order
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:34:52PM -0500, thus spake David A. Rogers: > > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Snowfox wrote: > > > > > David - > > > > You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig > > in and start doing things. > > This sort of disconnected learning is only useful and fun if you are young and > have no other obligations. Once you have a wife, kids, and a yard to mow this > becomes a less viable option. Still more fun than windoze though, eh? Take a look at the packages dhelp docbase info2www Install these (use dselect) and you will find a lot of the documentation mentioned by others is available via your browser - makes an overview easier to obtain and provides a more attractive interface for reading HTH Glyn M -- * None can love freedom heartily but good men; * *the rest love not freedom but license * *John Milton *
Re: Full Automatic Unattended install like RedHat "Kickstart"
> Is there a install format in Debian like Red Hat's "kickstart"; > a text file with all options, prompts, package selection, disk > partioning, root passwd, ... etc for a full installation with ANY > keyboard interaction. > >Thanks, > Terry Orlowski > Hi, you might have a look at FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ Cheers, Thomas
Locking propigation probelm samba to netatalk & netatalk to samba
Take a look at this output from lsof: smbd1149008u REG3,3 55296 1136647 Maintenanc.fp5 afpd3101002u REG3,3 3207 1136655 auction - envelope.rtf afpd3101005u REG3,3 4156 1136656 Word Work File L 1 afpd3101008u REG3,3 55296 1136647 Maintenanc.fp5 smbd3138609u REG3,3 4156 1136656 Word Work File L 1 This is showing a rtf file open in word on mac and windows, both writable. I am able to save on one while the other has the same file open. The information isn't transferring between samba and netatalk. Locking works within samba and within netatalk, meaning mac-mac locking conflicts are reported and smb-smb locking conflicts are too. But if you have the same file open in windows and mac, there isn't any warning! I've turned off oplocks, level 2 oplocks, kernel oplocks and turned on strict locking. Same difference. This is a Debian 2.2 box running 2.2.17 I am attaching my netatalk and samba configs. Please help! I'm getting corrupted files because of this. :( -- Mike Fedyk "They that can give up essential liberty Information Systems to obtain a little temporary safety Match Mail Productions Inc. deserve neither liberty nor safety." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Franklin config.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: Prints only PostScript files
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt ... > My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: > > lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\ ^ Did you try the ps600-filter instead? Did you change your psonly600-filter manually? There should be a default setting for text at the very end. HTH, Phil
Re: Prints only PostScript files
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Answered my own question. > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place? Phil
Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:52AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally > looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can > get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?] ' Debian FTP or HTTP mirror addresses can be found at http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist (look at the "Full list of mirrors" section).' Phil
links and w3m (was Galeon, gecko, etc.)
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:31:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > windows easily. w3m is my preferred choice. > > I like w3m, but am using links as my main browser now. Can spawn new > windows easily, background d/l'ding, good frames support, > Give it a try: > > http://links.browser.org My problem with both w3m and links is that I can not print to the printer as from lynx. Also I could not get links to use bookmarks. Is there a way to get both links and w3m to use mime-types like lynx? Johann. -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Psalms 37:4
howto reflect cfdisk changes
I've changed added free space to /home partition with cfdisk increased form 4Gb to 6Gb after rebooting, when I type df -h still doesnt' reflects changes, jaume.
Re: Prints only PostScript files
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > Answered my own question. > > > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. > > But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place? Because I am trying different configurations to try to understand why I get an extra page printed after every job I print from a remote box over the network, but no extra page when I print directly from my Debian box. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weird X Problem
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:54:36AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the > net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the > screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs > that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it... > > erik > Could be, I guess. The strange think is that it did not restore the normal screen when I pressed keys or moved the mouse. Maybe it crashed or was hung for some reason and stopped responding. I have that screensaver installed; it called webcollage. I tried to run it and it generates black screen with fragments of images in it. So, it could be that. Ciao - FB
Re: Prints only PostScript files
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt You can use a2ps for this. It converts ASCII text to formatted postscript. > My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: > > lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Hmm, I do not use magicfilter at all. Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup and rebuild strategy
Pann (pann @ourmanpann.com) wrote:-
> Mike,
>
> I've given this some thought. Attached is a text file of my musings on
> the subject.
>
> Since I wrote that file I've done one thing to make my life easier. I've
> started using rcs to track changes to config files, especially in /etc.
> As part of the backup I'll do a find -name "*,v" and save the rcs files.
> Should save lots of grief in /etc.
>
> Luck,
> Pann
{Snip my original post and Pann's long and detailed reply}
Thanks, that's exactly what I needed (well, almost exactly - I don't have
any database package installed, so I don't need to backup /var/mysql).
How could I have forgotten the other stuff in /var? Doh!
There's one thing I've added - a print of the disk partition table. It's
not strictly necessary at the moment, as everything is on one big
partition, but I may want to split things down into manageable chunks at
some time in the future.
Mike
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[OT] gcc-warning: more info
Hello there,
Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
is generated in my case:
I have the following (among some other function and structure
declarations) in my program-header-file 'bet.h':
#include
#include
struct provided_data{
double sample_weight;
struct datapoint *ppovolads;
int value_count;
};
struct provided_data *read_data(char *);
This function is in file 'scanner.c' and does the following:
#include "bet.h"
struct provided_data *read_data(char *input_file_name)
{
struct provided_data *prov_data_buffer;
Read in some data and put them into structure provided_data.
Then return pointer to structure provided data using the
following statement:
return(prov_data_buffer);
}
In file main.c I have the following:
#include "bet.h"
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
some code that reads commandline opts and so on.
Here I define input_data:
struct provided_data *input_data;
Now call read_data:
--->input_data=read_data(input_file_name);
}
line marked with ---> is the line, the compiler complains about.
I don't quite understand this, because I never declared function read_data
to return an int. Is something wrong with my function declaration?
Regards,
Daniel
Re: What if Debian crashes?
Andreas Palsson wrote: > Until now I have never experienced a crash, freeze, system-/disk-fault in > 3 years. I might be lucky, but I never experiment with unstable or > 'frozen' distributions or applications. > > What tools are there to check the system/disks/ram/installed packages? The disks will be checked on reboot (well, all the SCSI & some IDE) - keep an eye on the console as it boots and see what is being "fsck"ed and want isn't use umount /dev/blah; fsck /dev/blah; mount /dev/blah to check it. ** Root partition can be a bit dodgy for a File System ChecK - it can go pearshaped if too much is screwed ** -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Truth is what you believe it to be. I cannot force my facts on you, only make you believe my beliefs. - http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
X Font changed after woody dist-upgrade
This may be a simple thing, but I cna't track it down I recently upgraded from Potato+Helix-Gnome+kde+XFree4 to Woody+Helix-Gnome+kde+XFree4 My base font has changed dramatically - and is now *huge* I'm running E, with XFree 4 (1280x1024) The Gnome apps all pick up the correct fonts (as defined in the Gnome Control Panel), but things like GDM, NetScape, XEmacs & Gimp all use this huge font. Where is it defined, and how can I alter it back to a more useable size -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Truth is what you believe it to be. I cannot force my facts on you, only make you believe my beliefs. - http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody >can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow >is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong? No, that is correct. Shutdown wasn't really designed to be run setuid. It might have 1 or 2 buffer overruns as well so you *really* don't want to make it setuid root. >If I am wrong, then the documentation should be corrected for this >special case. No need to, the documentation is correct as well. Mike.
Re: howto reflect cfdisk changes
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:44:04AM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > I've changed added free space to /home partition with cfdisk > increased form 4Gb to 6Gb > > after rebooting, when I type > df -h > still doesnt' reflects changes, all you changed is the partition table, not the filesystem. the filesystem now has to be updated to reflect this, resize2fs or something like that will do this. GNU parted does a much better job on this, it changes the partition table and the filesystem at the same time, non-destructivly. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpVDQd4azRnz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver
--- Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800, thus spake > Tim Wood: >> > Somewhere in your home directory you have a file > called .xsession? Stick a > line like this in it. > > > > xscreensaver -timeout 2 -cycle 2 -no-splash & > > That should get xscreensaver going, if you have it > installed. Hit > > man xscreensaver for the details > > HTH > > Glyn M > Glyn, typed man xscreensaver and ..nothing. I did not realise that I would need an addition. Surprised it isn't included as standard. Did an apt-get - 1900kB, wow! Added the above line to /etc/X11/xsession and the previews are now there. Just one thing though, X freezes as soon as I select one. Sorry to be a pest but what now? I don't want to have to modify each users xsession if I can avoid it. TIA, Tim > > -- > > >* None can love freedom heartily > but good men; * >*the rest love not freedom > but license * >*John Milton > * > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [OT] gcc-warning: more info
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:08:23AM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
> information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
> main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> is generated in my case:
>
> I have the following (among some other function and structure
> declarations) in my program-header-file 'bet.h':
>
> #include
> #include
>
> struct provided_data{
> double sample_weight;
> struct datapoint *ppovolads;
> int value_count;
> };
>
> struct provided_data *read_data(char *);
>
>
> This function is in file 'scanner.c' and does the following:
>
> #include "bet.h"
>
> struct provided_data *read_data(char *input_file_name)
> {
> struct provided_data *prov_data_buffer;
>
> Read in some data and put them into structure provided_data.
> Then return pointer to structure provided data using the
> following statement:
>
> return(prov_data_buffer);
> }
>
>
> In file main.c I have the following:
>
> #include "bet.h"
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> some code that reads commandline opts and so on.
>
> Here I define input_data:
> struct provided_data *input_data;
>
> Now call read_data:
> ---> input_data=read_data(input_file_name);
> }
>
> line marked with ---> is the line, the compiler complains about.
> I don't quite understand this, because I never declared function read_data
> to return an int. Is something wrong with my function declaration?
sorry, I can't tell you what the problem is -- doesn't seem to be
in the syntax. My gcc (egcs-2.91.66) doesn't have any problems with
this code fragment.
--
Erdmut Pfeifer
science+computing gmbh
-- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
Re: Locking propigation probelm samba to netatalk & netatalk to samba
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Take a look at this output from lsof: > smbd1149008u REG3,3 55296 1136647 Maintenanc.fp5 > afpd3101002u REG3,3 3207 1136655 auction - envelope.rtf > afpd3101005u REG3,3 4156 1136656 Word Work File L 1 > afpd3101008u REG3,3 55296 1136647 Maintenanc.fp5 > smbd3138609u REG3,3 4156 1136656 Word Work File L 1 > > This is showing a rtf file open in word on mac and windows, both writable. I > am > able to save on one while the other has the same file open. The information > isn't transferring between samba and netatalk. Locking works within samba and > within netatalk, meaning mac-mac locking conflicts are reported and smb-smb > locking conflicts are too. But if you have the same file open in windows and > mac, there isn't any warning! As I understand it, Samba 2.0.7 implements oplocks for windows clients, but those locks do not propagate to the underlying Unix system. This can cause locking problems with Unix apps and windows apps accessing the same files, which is essentially what you are seeing. Neither Netatalk or Samba have any idea that the file is locked by the other. One of the new features of Samba 2.2 is the mapping of oplocks to POSIX locks. From the release notes:- Rewritten internal locking semantics for more robustness. This alpha supports full 64 bit locking semantics on all (even 32 bit) platforms. SMB locks are mapped onto POSIX locks (32 bit or 64 bit) as the underlying system allows. This should mean that, assuming your undelying system supports POSIX locks, then Samba will have done its bit with regard to this. You still need Netatalk to honour the POSIX locks, and also to map Mac locks to POSIX locks to be able to use this sort of setup with impunity. I have no idea what the state of this sort of thing is within Netatalk - maybe someone on the Netatalk list will know this... I'd suggest that you make Mac and Windows users use different shares for write access. Allow both groups read-only access to the others shares, and if they need to edit a file, they can make a copy. Otherwise, you're probably in for large amounts of pain HTH Mike.
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference > implementation now. Correct. > Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is > anything coming? It's not too difficult to change to Tomcat, after reading the servlet 2.2 / JSP 1.1 spec. One of the biggest differences is the support for 'web applications' which are grouped together resources (html, jsp, xml, etc files) which are managed together by a 'web application' specific config file. This is a great step forward from having single files all strung together by URL links. > I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard > implementation. Tomcat is a great implementation to work with. I've been using it on a Debian system for the past 7-8 months. I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP mail). Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( &&& \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 &&&: After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"
> >I have a 486DX4/100 (Overdrive) with 32MB of RAM that I run Debian on.. > > > >Up until yesterday it was running like a dream.. Now it does stuff like > >"Unknown vector 67 in CPU#0" and after that and something about idling says > >"hda interrupt lost" over and over and over again. > > I had these messages on a dying hard disk. How would one test a hard disk with ext2+swap fs to see if its dying? Ie. discern whether or not its motherboard/ide controller, HDD or corrupted files.. Also, the server in question is/was a 486DX4/100 PCI/ISA MB so it can't handle big disks (Probably has 8GB limit) - good place to get "smaller" HDDs? .. am wanting to get Linux server back up and running - as I'm currently using the EvilEmpire's Win98SE ICS to share net 'round my LAN, and it's just downright blackbox nasty :) Anthony
Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Leen Besselink wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > I thought it's clear. There are two computers - one in my home (debian, > > slow modem connection) and one where i study (RH, fast connection). > > Now, i can take my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, compress it (~100KB) and > > send it to RH. There i could choose what packages i want (using dselect), > > download them (apt-get -d dselect-upgrade), take them to my home and > > install. > > Why don't you just use masqurading firewalling ?? First you need to have > masquerading setup in your RH's kernel, then you add one rule to your > ipchains, ipfwadm or iptables (depending on your RH's kernel version) and > add it to the startup. Then just point your gateway on your Debian machine > at your RH machine. > > This seems like a lot easier way. And everytime you want the debian > machine to use his slow connection, change the Debian's default route over > the modem (PPP?) link. If i understand you properly, debian machine should use RH as proxy server ? This doesn't change anything, because there still be slow connection from debian to RH. -- Piotrek irc: #Debian.pl
Can anyone tell me how to config DNS when dialing with wvdial?
Hi,all, I am using wvdial to dial to my isp ,after it starts pppd ,I can not lynx www.debian.org ,lynx can not locate www.debian.org . I think it is caused by my machine can not connect to a DNS server. doodler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail
So this is interesting. I've had fetchmail running as a daemon for about 2 weeks, and I wake up this morning and find that I have zero email waiting. I check the log, and I see entries like this: fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying mail.storm.ca (protocol POP3) at Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:20:01 -0400 (EDT) fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.storm.ca failed: temporary name server error. So I do an nslookup on storm's mail server, and it's there. So, I kill fetchmail and restart it, and find 400+ messages waiting. Anyone know what would cause this "temporary name server error?" Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
HL-1240 in 2.2
Hello everybody... Having my box put to potato some week ago, now I'm struggling to get a new piece of hardware to completely work with it: It took me quite some time to get the Brother HL-1240 laser printer to work with the system until I checked the linux printing page, now only problem that is left is that I'm not getting this machine to print at 600 dpi, everything I'm trying about this just makes the printer putting out a lot of empty papers until I power it down... Has anybody experiences with this machine on Debian linux? Can anyone help me how to *correctly* configure this printer? TIA, Kristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de [EMAIL PROTECTED], 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de
dpkg-architecture
Hi, i patched my gcc with pgcc for pentium processors. Now my build architecture is i586. To compile some debian packages with dpkg-buildpackage -B i made changes for correct working with dpkg. First i changed the archtable file in dpkg sourcedir and after recompiling i changed %archtable in /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture. There are two problems now they could have the same cause. 1. By typing dpkg --print-architecture there is this message: dpkg: warning , architecture ´i586´ not in mapping table 2. By using dpkg-buildpackage -B there is a warning that i586 does not match buildarchitecture falling back to native compilation. Do you have some idea what i can do to fix this? Greetings of Matthias
Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:13:21 -0700, Joe Emenaker said: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > > and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no > > > network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without > > > bringing in netbase and it's dependencies via floppy disk. > > > > So uh, why did you let it? > > I presume this would have been your response if I had reported that 'vi' had > deleted my kernel images, too? :) > > Why did I "let" it?!?! Because I was never asked. I asked apt to "install" > and I ended up without some critical packages. > > If I had said something like "remove" or "purge", I'd expect to have some > packages disappear without any further interaction on my part. However, when > the command from the user is *obviously* asking for *addition* of software, > if it requires the removal of anything, the user should be notified and be > given the option to cancel. > > Just today, I installed a couple of MS-Windows programs one some machines > and the first thing they did was warn me that the previous versions needed > to be removed and I was asked if that was okay. > > It seems so basic. When you say "apt-get install ..." the "plan" is clearly > the addition of software to the system. Removal is patently "not part of the > plan", unless explicitly acknowledged by the user. > > - Joe Your experience is the reason i always do apt-get -fus install. So i always know before time if i want to proceed with the install. -- gEEk||dOOd^Deb+ian&&XFce$everything goes(-_-)
Re: ftp.us.debian.org unavailable
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:59:23PM -0400, Dpk wrote: The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. ftp.us.debian.org is available once again: ftp: /debian/ http: /debian/ rsync: debian/ This site is connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex to a Gigabit Ethernet backbone that has multiple connections (OC-3, O-12) to Abeliene and a multiple connections to commodity Internet (T3, T3, OC3). We also provide GNU and EnCORE archives. Thanks to Ted Cabeen @ uchicago.edu and Nathan Norman @ midco.net for helping us speed up our rebuilding process. Thanks for your patience, Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: fetchmail
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:24:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So this is interesting. I've had fetchmail running as a daemon for about 2 > weeks, and I wake up this morning and find that I have zero email waiting. I > check the log, and I see entries like this: > > fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying mail.storm.ca (protocol POP3) at Wed, 18 Oct 2000 > 07:20:01 -0400 (EDT) > fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.storm.ca failed: temporary name > server error. > > So I do an nslookup on storm's mail server, and it's there. So, I kill > fetchmail and restart it, and find 400+ messages waiting. > > Anyone know what would cause this "temporary name server error?" > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX > PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html > it means either the name was not resolving at the exact time and date OR that it timedout while checking for mails. sounds crazy i know but that's my experience with fetchmail having used it for over two years now. anyway, i'm open to more reasonable explanation. -- Who's watching the watchmen? Key fingerprint = E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883
Re: dpkg-architecture
"Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, i patched my gcc with pgcc for pentium processors. Now my build >architecture is i586. [...] When I last asked about this, I was told to install the pentium-builder package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System.map problem
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:35:12AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Yes, it happend after I compiled the kernel, and yes, I see that size > of /boot/System.map-2.2.17 is different from that of > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/System.map Just curious people, but what purpose does the system map serve? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
Need help compiling gtk apps :-(
I just nuked my Storm install (intentionally, but it is a great distro :-), and did a full reiser-debian install and re-upgraded to Woody. In trying to get everything back the way it was I have run into a few problems. I can't seem to compile any gtk apps. A simple example In file included from /usr/include/xmms/plugin.h:27, from alarm.c:41: /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [alarm.lo] Error 1 But 'locate glibconfig.h' shows '/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h.' I do have xmms-dev installed by the way (this was just the easiest example ;-). As a matter of fact... ii gdk-imlib-dev 1.9.8.1-helix6 Header files needed for Gdk-Imlib developmen ii libgtk1.2-dev 1.2.8-helix2 Development files for the GIMP Toolkit ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.8-helix1 Development files for GLib library The later two both contain this file. Trying to compile Xtheater (I want my divx back!) ends with the same result... In file included from /usr/include/gmodule.h:36, from ui.h:2, from gtk-ui.c:29: /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [gtk-ui.lo] Error 1 Could someone PLEASE point out what I am missing here? I'm sure I'll slap myself when I see what package I am missing, but for right now I'm just not sure. TIA, jt
Re: Creative Live Value !!
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:06:02PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > > > I'm running the same card in potato but with a kernel 2.4.0-test7 and > the kernels own SBLive driver (seems to be the one Creative put > OpenSource some time ago), and... for what I tested by now, it *rocks*, I'm using Creative's module, built against 2.2.17, and it works perfectly. The dsp and mixer devices work anyway, which is all I've yet to care about. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
Re: Prints only PostScript files
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt I had that happen with printtool when I was still running RedHat. The problem was that the filter was adding newlines when it was not necessary. I just deselected a checkbox on printtool. Interestingly enough, I haven't had that problem with Debian and magicfilter. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
What's wrong with this address?
This message has failed twice. Do I have something misconfigured? Anyone shed any light please? Anthony --- >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Oct 18 12:43:25 2000 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail by acampbell.cix.co.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13lrcz-0006lT-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:43:25 +0100 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:43:25 +0100 Status: RO Content-Length: 15506 Lines: 430 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail2.siteamerica.com [209.67.50.14]: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from ac by acampbell.cix.co.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13lrcA-0006kz-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:42:34 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:42:33 +0100 From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Luck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Back pain book Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Sender: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb) Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
Re: What's wrong with this address?
Sorry about this stupid question; please ignore, I had the address misconfigured :-(( Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb) Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
apt-get question
How can I lists the available packages on my Debian CDs with apt-get? Supose I need to install XWindow, how should I know which packages I have to install? Thanks. -- :%s/Micros~1/GNU\/Linux/g^M :wq!
Re: Need help compiling gtk apps :-(
Once upon a time, I heard John Travis say > I just nuked my Storm install (intentionally, but it is a great distro :-), > and did a full reiser-debian install and re-upgraded to Woody. In trying to > get everything back the way it was I have run into a few problems. I can't > seem to compile any gtk apps. A simple example > > In file included from /usr/include/xmms/plugin.h:27, > from alarm.c:41: > /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory > make[2]: *** [alarm.lo] Error 1 > > But 'locate glibconfig.h' shows '/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h.' I do > have xmms-dev installed by the way (this was just the easiest example ;-). > As a matter of fact... Bassically you need -I/usr/lib/glib/include as gcc flag. The usual way for an application that use glib is gcc `glib-config --cflags` see glib-config --help fore more info. For gtk, it's the same use gcc `gtk-config --cflags` during compilation and gcc `gtk-config --libs` during linking > ii gdk-imlib-dev 1.9.8.1-helix6 Header files needed for Gdk-Imlib developmen > ii libgtk1.2-dev 1.2.8-helix2 Development files for the GIMP Toolkit > ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.8-helix1 Development files for GLib library > > The later two both contain this file. Yeh, that's enough I suspect how you do the compilation, package that use autoconf/automake tools should pick up these options automatically. > Trying to compile Xtheater (I want my divx back!) ends with the same result... > In file included from /usr/include/gmodule.h:36, > from ui.h:2, > from gtk-ui.c:29: > /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory > make[3]: *** [gtk-ui.lo] Error 1 > > > Could someone PLEASE point out what I am missing here? I'm sure I'll slap > myself when I see what package I am missing, but for right now I'm just not > sure. Chanop -- ,. | May Debian be with you ~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| `' pgpjmwgy1w1be.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail
On 18 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > it means either the name was not resolving at the exact time and date OR > that it timedout while checking for mails. > > sounds crazy i know but that's my experience with fetchmail having used it for > over two years now. anyway, i'm open to more reasonable explanation. > > -- > Who's watching the watchmen? I still get problems intermittently with fetchmail pausing for a long time while getting the first messsage. I thought I'd fixed it by editing /etc/hosts but it still happens sometimes. At other times it works perfectly. Anthing else worth checking? -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb) Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > if its a light gecko based browser your after i'd recommend checking out > skipstone.. tabbed mulitple browse panes are v. cool IMHO > > http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ I would have to second the idea of Skipstone. I discovered it about a week ago and am delighted! It has everything I was hoping for in Mozilla: light, fast, plus it doesn't need any Gnome or KDE components. Check it out! -Bryan
Re: apt-get question
Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I lists the available packages on my Debian CDs with apt-get? >Supose I need to install XWindow, how should I know which packages I >have to install? apt-cache search whatever I found that the investment of time in learning dselect was well worth it, as it's a lot easier to browse with than command-line apt. You could try something like console-apt instead. There are other tools: 'dpkg --help' lists various search functions, and if you install the grep-dctrl package you'll get the excellent tools grep-available and grep-status. For any of these, you should make sure you always use 'dselect update' instead of 'apt-get update'. When dselect is configured to use apt, as it is now by default, 'dselect update' calls 'apt-get update' and then *also* updates dpkg's notion of available packages, so it's always worth using it instead. Also note that on potato (2.2) systems you can run 'tasksel' to choose from the selection of common tasks you get at installation time. Note that it doesn't seem to check what tasks are already installed, but that's OK as if you already have the task then it won't reinstall it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] gcc-warning: SOLVED!
Hello all there,
In fact, the shortened code I gave you was correct. What was missing in
the original code was #include "bet.h" in main.c, so the prototype for
this function was indeed missing for main, as many of you said.
I might have come across it in the further development of the program, but
with your help, I could solve the problem really fast, so thanks very much
to all who answered.
Regards,
Daniel
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
> information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
> main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> is generated in my case:
>
> I have the following (among some other function and structure
> declarations) in my program-header-file 'bet.h':
>
> #include
> #include
>
> struct provided_data{
> double sample_weight;
> struct datapoint *ppovolads;
> int value_count;
> };
>
> struct provided_data *read_data(char *);
>
>
> This function is in file 'scanner.c' and does the following:
>
> #include "bet.h"
>
> struct provided_data *read_data(char *input_file_name)
> {
> struct provided_data *prov_data_buffer;
>
> Read in some data and put them into structure provided_data.
> Then return pointer to structure provided data using the
> following statement:
>
> return(prov_data_buffer);
> }
>
>
> In file main.c I have the following:
>
> #include "bet.h"
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> some code that reads commandline opts and so on.
>
> Here I define input_data:
> struct provided_data *input_data;
>
> Now call read_data:
> ---> input_data=read_data(input_file_name);
> }
>
> line marked with ---> is the line, the compiler complains about.
> I don't quite understand this, because I never declared function read_data
> to return an int. Is something wrong with my function declaration?
> Regards,
> Daniel
Filesystem problem
Hi, I have a 20 GB HD, partitioned in several smaller parts, some vfat: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 1035628677468305552 69% / /dev/hda11 909112693236169692 81% /home /dev/hda6 2063504 1247640711044 64% /usr /dev/hda12 1296528 1099708130956 90% /hana /dev/hda1 2096160 2026496 69664 97% /wailea /dev/hda7 2096160 1899840196320 91% /paia /dev/hda8 5114684 4285368829316 84% /makena /dev/hda9 5114684 4909000205684 96% /lahaina /dev/hda5 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 01 /dev/hda10 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults00 /dev/hda1 /wailea vfat defaults,uid=1000 0 0 /dev/hda7 /paia vfat defaults,uid=1000 0 0 /dev/hda8 /makena vfat defaults,uid=1000 0 0 /dev/hda9 /lahaina vfat defaults,uid=1000 0 0 /dev/hda11 /home ext2 rw0 2 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 rw 0 2 /dev/hda12 /hana ext2 rw 0 2 Problem is: on /wailea, according to df, I only have a little space left, although there should be almost half a GB free. This is a recurring problem on that partition: df only shows the right amount of free space after a while (it may take several hours). I don't know what's causing this delay, and I haven't noticed it on any other partition. I am using Woody, kernel 2.2.17 with ide backport installed. I've tried sync, but that doesn't change anything. Anyone an idea what might be going on, and how I should fix this problem? I don't think my system has been compromised, 'cause the free space was only created (by deleting a large file) seconds before I did df, so it's not like someone is eating my free space that fast ;) Thanks for any advice, Frederik -- "Here at the Phone Company, we serve all kinds of people; from Presidents and Kings to the scum of the earth ..."
Re: X Font changed after woody dist-upgrade
guran remberg wrote: > > Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > > > My base font has changed dramatically - and is now *huge* > > When this happened in Mandrake 7.2beta, they were adviced to reinstall > the XF86 100 points font. Hm. This seems to be a bigger problem than just fonts I've now noticed that the keyboard is in US mode, not UK.. Here is the relevent chunks from my XF86Config file: <... snip> Section "Files" # FontPath"unix:/7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" EndSection <... snip > Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc102" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Can anyone spot the problem? (All the files exist ;) -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Truth is what you believe it to be. I cannot force my facts on you, only make you believe my beliefs. - http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
I saw it listed in the Debian/Java FAQ page as something which might be soon included (March 2000). Greg At 10:58 PM 10/17/2000 -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: Well, I've noticed that Tomcat is not listed in the work-needing and prospective packages ( http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ) - so if you'd like to pick it up, I'd be happy to see that. :) I'm trying to figure out how to build debs right now, because I develop using jde (which needs a maintainer) for tomcat/cocoon. yes, be nice to be able to track Java development tools better. Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference > implementation now. > > Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is > anything coming? > I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard > implementation. > Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (641)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department School of Computing and Information Science Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
Re: Need help compiling gtk apps :-(
Thanks for the quick reply but... both of these examples were using autoconf/automake. That's what I don't understand. checking for glib-config... (cached) /usr/bin/glib-config checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... yes checking for gtk-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.2... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for working const... (cached) yes checking for inline... (cached) inline It finds gtk/glib in the configure, then craps out during the make. Once again, any help would be greatly appreciated. jt
Re: gcc-warning: more info
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DR> Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
DR> information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
DR> main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
DR> is generated in my case:
DR>
DR> I have the following (among some other function and structure
DR> declarations) in my program-header-file 'bet.h':
DR>
DR> #include
DR> #include
DR>
DR> struct provided_data{
DR> };
DR>
DR> struct provided_data *read_data(char *);
DR>
DR>
DR> This function is in file 'scanner.c' and does the following:
DR>
DR> #include "bet.h"
DR>
DR> struct provided_data *read_data(char *input_file_name)
DR> {
DR> }
DR>
DR>
DR> In file main.c I have the following:
DR>
DR> #include "bet.h"
DR>
DR> int main(int argc, char **argv)
DR> {
DR> struct provided_data *input_data;
DR>
DR> ---> input_data=read_data(input_file_name);
DR> }
Do you include a prototype for read_data() in main.c? This would
probably be done by creating 'scanner.h', and putting a prototype
struct provided_data *read_data(char *input_file_name);
in there. If there's no prototype, then the C compiler will, for
historical reasons, assume that the function is actually
int read_data(...);
and so you're then trying to assign the result of read_data
(implicitly an int) to input_data (a pointer).
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell
squid, snmp and mrtg
Hi! I've managed to get squid's snmp daemon running so far. However I can not get mrtg to work with it. cfgmaker doesn't work and I don't know enough of mrtg to start scripting stuff. Can anybody that has got this working send me his /etc/mrtg.cfg file? FYI, I'm running only squid's snmp agent on port 161 and I can get a snmpwalk output of .1.3.6.1.4.1.3495.1.1 Thanks! -- p.
Re: Can apt be steered?
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > > > is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to > > think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt... > > Not really. If the packages don't work together then the packages > should have dependancies saying that. It might be desirable to have > facilities to work around buggy packages like that, but in general > the current behaviour (believe the information provided by the > packages) is perfectly sensible. The problem is that apt-get offers no means of choosing a site source on a per-package basis. That is, I want to offer preferential treatment to Helix for Gnome stuff and maybe to tydc for KDE2 stuff (or maybe to debian.org -- my current workaround is to comment out the tydc lines in my sources.list and KDE2 is working much better just now). So far, I have been unable to find a way to figure out in advance what package versions apt is going to install, much less which site they are going to come from.
Re: Problems with my cable company
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Values for /etc/ppp/options mtu
Hi, I want to tune my ppp connection a little bit. What is a good setting for mtu? Can there any recommendations made? I could not find a suggested value anywhere. I have a 56k modem. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/
NCP
Hi, Does Debian-Linux support the NCP(Netware Core Protocol from Novell)? Does Debian have an Program for merge a Debian-Server to a Novell-Network? Please help me!! Sincerely Lukas Kempf -- Sisag Lukas Kempf Tel: 041/875 07 11 FAX: 041/875 07 12 E-Mail: G: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.sisag.ch
Weird sound problem
Hi All @[EMAIL PROTECTED] it but my sound has died. All was working fine yesterday, then I updated my (woody) system and now all is silent. I am using alsa and gnome. Everything _looks_ okay--modules loaded, esd running, volume up--just no sound. The only thing that I have noticed is that when I boot I get the following message: snd: cs461x: powerup ADC failed snd: cs461x: powerup DAC failed that I don't remember seeing before. Does anyone have any ideas? thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Algorithmics Inc adr:;;185 Spadina Avenue;Toronto;Ontario;M5T 2C6;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Financial Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;-18400 fn:Richard Black end:vcard
Why is checksecurity looking at this?
I got this message in my box this morning: /etc/cron.daily/standard: find: /mnt/accountant_c: Input/output error I confirmed that the error comes from checksecurity doing its setuid checks. My problem is not with the error; it's that checksecurity looks at this filesystem at all. Doing a 'mount' returns this: //ACCOUNTANT/C on /mnt/accountant_c type smbfs /etc/checksecurity.conf has these lines: CS_TYPES=' type (auto|proc|msdos|fat|vfat|iso9660|ncpfs|smbfs|'$CS_NFSAFS')' # CS_DEVS='^/dev/fd' # CS_DIRS='on /mnt' # CHECKSECURITY_FILTER="$CS_TYPES|$CS_DEVS|$CS_DIRS" So it seems like /mnt/accountant_c ought to be filtered out on two different criteria. Has anyone else seen this sort of thing? Should I make a bug report?
where is the source code??
hi i have installed linux. i want to know where can i find the source code for basic linux excluding graphics and x-windows. is the source code included in the distribution that i have installed. from where can i download it.? is the kernel the main part of the linux?? please reply at your earliest. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: Problems with my cable company
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:43:38AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > Rogelio E Castillo Haro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > REC> But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address, > > I wanted to use as a gateway was a different machine, though, with a > different Ethernet card, and the cable modem would only give out > addresses if the MAC address of the Ethernet card connected to it > matched the address the cable company thought it should have. I have seen it that cable modems will give out IP addresses to any MAC address, but to some maximum number of addresses. So, if you can only get one IP from the cable modem, and there's already a MAC address cached, you can't get another card to grab an IP. The answer, in this case, is to reset the cable modem. That will mkae it lose its cache. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4
Re: Mutt - marking mailbox as having new mail.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:08:18PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-10-17 18:16:49, RenX99 wrote: > > > What I have is this.. You open mutt, press "c" to change folders, > > press "?" to get a list of folders. The debian folder has a "N" > > next to it when there is no mail in it, and the others do not have > > anything marking... but when you enter a folder there is new mail in > > the folder with an "N" marking the mail as new. Makes sense? > > Yes, now answer the question. Do you have mailboxes line in .muttrc > that contains all the files that you would like to check for new mail? I guess I'm kind of sniping from afar here, but this kind of help is not very useful. You should have ended it with "Because if you do..." or "If you don't..." My guess is that the original poster has a program which is checking his mailboxes and not resetting the time stamps correctly. I would advise him to either stop running it or fix it. What is your solution? Cheers, Chris And remember, my .sig applies to me. Sorry again for being rude. -- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Re: where is the source code??
http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/potato/main/source/ Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > hi > i have installed linux. > i want to know where can i find the source code for > basic linux excluding graphics and x-windows. > > is the source code included in the distribution that i > have installed. > > from where can i download it.? > > is the kernel the main part of the linux?? > > please reply at your earliest. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works When: Wednesday 18 October 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Alien is a tool developed for the Debian project to convert binary Debian packages to and from Red Hat, Stampede or Slackware binary packages. We will investigate how Alien works so that we can better assess when and how it can help bridge the gaps between the Linux distributions. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Nick's Roast Beef of Old Philly, 16 South 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA. Keysigning Notes PADS and our sister organization, PLUG, keep our signed keys at the Philadelphia Linux Web of Trust, http://www.PhillyLinux.org/keys/ . Please post a notice to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to bring your key to have it signed. We are always interested but not always prepared to do a proper keysigning at every meeting. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller
Sendmail 8.11
I was looking for some updated files last week, that were in the Woody collection, and updated my Potato installation... Sendmail was updated to 8.11 and now my Netscape users cannot use this machine as their outgoing mail host. My Pine users are ok! When sending mail with Netscape it complains about not having a username, if a user name is provided in the Outgoing mail user name (in Preferences), then Netscape will prompt for a password. If the user exists on the outgoing mail host, and the user provides the correct password, then the mail will be sent... This is new behavior from Sendmail 8.9.3 How can I configure Sendmail 8.11 to work as before? One more thing... Was wondering if anybody knows how to do content filtering in Sendmail. I want to check Subject: for keywords/phrases (not the entire subject line, I'm already doing that), and possibly check the contents of the message body. Doing the checks at SMTP time is preferred, checking later and then trying to send bounce type emails doesn't have the same effect. Thanks for your time, -Craig Coles
Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs
Jesse Goerz wrote: >[...] What I really want to do is > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with > the Debian official CD's. (I reinstall a lot because of all the messing > around > I do.) Are you saying I can use the Pseudo Image Kit to create my own ISO > images or are you just suggesting that for burning the official Debian CD's. You would definitely use it for creating the ISO images of the official Debian CDs. As for custom CDs, I'm not so certain about a process for doing this cleanly. I seem to recall a utility that migrates downloaded apt-downloaded packages from /var/cache/apt/archives to an appropriate place. Anyone care to be more helpful? (not difficult)
Who configure video OPTi82c264?
Hello. I don't configure video opti82c264. Helpme!!! Edwin A. Gelves P. Colombia.
Staroffice and Debian
Hello Was anybody here successfull in running the latest 5.2 Staroffice with Debian "woody"? It always tells me something about "missing components" but works on a SuSE box. bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet & Security for ProfessionalsFax 0241/911879 WESTEND ist CISCO Systems Partner - Premium Certified
Re: My emails are vanishing...
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:41:25PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Are you using exim? It has a limit on the maximum number of messages > per smtp connection. > > Check your /etc/exim.conf file for a line like > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 Make the value 0 for unlimited messages. Very important for subscribers of this list!
long fsck [was Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")]
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:05:56AM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > Try remote rebooting a server with a 120Gig Raid array and 1GB Ram takes > several hours to come up if wants an fsck! Not if you're using reiserfs or some other journalling filesystem on the RAID array! What does this have to do with the original topic anyway? -- Nathan E Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net/~nnorman pgpNAqdj25brH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can apt be steered?
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:41:48AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > The problem is that apt-get offers no means of choosing a site source > on a per-package basis. That is, I want to offer preferential treatment > to Helix for Gnome stuff and maybe to tydc for KDE2 stuff (or maybe to Or alternatively, the problem is that these extrenal packages don't have correct dependancies. If they won't work with the standard Debian packages they should be set up so that the standard Debian packages won't satisfy their dependancies. > debian.org -- my current workaround is to comment out the tydc lines in > my sources.list and KDE2 is working much better just now). So far, I > have been unable to find a way to figure out in advance what package > versions apt is going to install, much less which site they are going > to come from. apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use --dummy-run to do a dummy run). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpWUaUozDIpl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs
Robb Kidd wrote:
>
> Jesse Goerz wrote:
> >[...] What I really want to do is
> > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with
> > the Debian official CD's. (I reinstall a lot because of all the messing
> > around
> > I do.)
> ... I seem to recall a utility that migrates downloaded
> apt-downloaded packages from /var/cache/apt/archives to an appropriate
> place. Anyone care to be more helpful? (not difficult)
And here I go replying to my own mail. "apt-move" is the name of the
utility. Probably just what you're looking for. ("man apt-move" will
tell you more than I could)
Sound, card cs461x, basic questions
Debianistas I have finally decided to venture into sound on debian. The card is one of the cs461x flavor, and I have a number of questions that I would like to direct to someone who has sound working with that specific type of card, because it appears to have some idiosyncracies not shared by other sound cards. My kernel is 2.2.17-ide, and the cs461x module appears in modconf. I would appreciate it if someone who has this card configured has a little time to help a linux-sound-dummy, please e-mail me and I can describe further where I am. Thanks. Gary Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 FreeBSD 4.0
Re: Prints only PostScript files
The psonly600 filter should already invoke enscript for text files (enscript is the default for files which don't fit any of the other filter criteria). I believe enscript defaults to 2-up, but the filter can be edited to change this. ps600-filter does not use enscript, however (they also differ in how they process PDF files). A simple 'lpr file.txt' works for me, at least. On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Answered my own question. > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. > > Dwight > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > > > $ lpr file.ps > > > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > > > $ lpr file.txt > > > > What packages or configuration am I missing to convert plaintext files to > > PostScript and send them on to the printer. > > > > My previous Slackware, SuSE and Red Hat systems have all been configured > > out of the box to do this automatically. > > > > The strange thing to me is that I did have this working before I started > > working on the problem of why my printer was printing an extra page on > > every print. So maybe I glitched something with my configuration > > experiments. > > > > My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: > > > > lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\ > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\ > > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dwight > > -- > > Dwight Johnson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'
Ethan Benson wrote: > > [...] > normally anyone whether anyone is logged into the console or not can > press control alt delete and reboot the system (if you have that line > in inittab) adding shutdown.allow changes this so that > control-alt-delete only works when a listed user is logged into any of > the console ttys. if none are logged in then control-alt-delete is > disabled. > [...] Ah, I see: 'shutdown.allow' is used for making rebooting more restrictive - I thought I could use it for enabling mere mortals to execute the halting of the system. > > Now when I type 'shutdown -a -h now' it still tells me, I have to be > > root. It looks like I have to set a SUID-flag. But I would prefer a > > better solution. Otherwise: What would 'shutdown.allow' be good for? > > you could do two different things: > > add a group `shutdown' and add any authorised users to this group and > do a chgrp shutdown /sbin/shutdown && chmod 4754 /sbin/shutdown. or > use sudo. > > i highly reccomend sudo over making shutdown suid. making shutdown > suid allows users in that group to call shutdown with whatever > arguments they want, which is not a good thing. > > with sudo you can give specific users the ability to run ONLY > "shutdown -h now" with only those exact arguments and no other. > > then you would run instead: > > sudo shutdown -h now > > here is the relevant lines to put in /etc/sudoers (use visudo): > > Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown -h now > Cmnd_Alias REBOOT=/sbin/shutdown -r now > > username hostname=SHUTDOWN,REBOOT > > or if you don't want the user password to be required: > > username hostname=NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN,REBOOT Thank you very much, Mr. Benson - 'sudo' works just fine. > just be sure to use visudo to edit sudoers it will check your syntax > properly. if you don't like the editor it runs (probably vi) then > export EDITOR=whatever I am definitely a vi fan and I had no problems with editing 'sudoers'. Best regards, Andreas.
Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting
Jason Lunz schrieb: > > [...] > I've seen it happen where the gnome panel CD player somehow locked the > tray when you put in a non-audio disc, and only its eject button would > work. Try using it, or killing it and using something else. > [...] I haven't got X installed yet. Regards, Andreas.
Re: Staroffice and Debian
It works for me. According to debian-devel, a Debian package is being prepared. On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:10PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > Was anybody here successfull in running the latest 5.2 Staroffice with > Debian "woody"? > It always tells me something about "missing components" but works on a > SuSE box. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: System.map problem
it's a list of the addresses of kernel exported variables. mostly not needed except by kmod and a few strange apps like dosemu. see http://www.dirac.org/p/linux for more details. pete linux To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ To oink is porcine, to meow is feline.http://www.dirac.org/p._. To neigh is equine to howl is lupine, /v\ To moo is bovine to bleat is ovine.// \\ ^^ ^^ The best way to accelerate a win95 system is at 9.81 m/s^2 rules On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:35:12AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > > Yes, it happend after I compiled the kernel, and yes, I see that size > > of /boot/System.map-2.2.17 is different from that of > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/System.map > > Just curious people, but what purpose does the system map serve? > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX > PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Problem with KDE2
Hello debian-user, I have one problem with KDE2, after instalation KDE2 (from 2.2 r0 potato from 'Unoficial binary' disk) does not want oneself to start.During showing kde2 logo start.. there is some errors: "Was some error setting up inter-process communication for KDE, Could not read network connection list" and some about 'dcopserver' On two different computers there is this problem. X-win,gnome and other works fine, other aplication from kde2 (koffice etc.), work fine under gnome, but kde2 desktop does not wont to start. What causes such error and how to dissolve him. And what is this - 'dcopserver' ? Sorry for my english, I'm from poland.. -- Best regards, GustawKit mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
COMPAQ IJ600 printer problems
I can not get this printer to work in linux. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? paraport and para-printer are on in my kernel. It detects the paralalel port. but, for example, if I do cat file > /dev/lp0 I get nothing,. No error messages, but no printout. :< Someone said they think the IJ600 won't work period in linux. anyone know?
Re: Staroffice and Debian
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:01:12AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > It works for me. According to debian-devel, a Debian package is being > prepared. A debian package? Perhaps you are refering to Open Office (gpl'd version of Star Office)? > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:10PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Hello > > > > Was anybody here successfull in running the latest 5.2 Staroffice with > > Debian "woody"? > > > > It always tells me something about "missing components" but works on a > > SuSE box. Yes, I have goten both Star Office 5.2 and Open Office 6.0 working. No, they are not both installed. Now if only Open Office could print... When does it complain about "missing components"? During the install, or when you try to run it? I really hate the install process. Really. With a passion. I needs a /tmp the size of the pacific ocean and doesn't recognize TMPDIR. And it runs in X. Well, enough ranting. When you run it, you have to run "setup" for each user (setup's in thers somewhere /program/setup I think). Then you can run $HOME//soffice which is a link to /program/soffice. That goes for both versions as of a few days ago. > > -- > Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen > > -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes. -- Dave Barry
Re: Can apt be steered?
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > --dummy-run to do a dummy run). I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get and man dpkg and neither contains the word 'dummy'. I'll give that a shot. I agree that the source of the problem is with the alternate packagers, Helix and tdyc. They could very easily fix the problem by changing the names of their packages, possibly by making helix/tdyc part of the package names (rather than, in Helix's case, part of the package version). However, the rest of us cannot control their activities, nor those of debian.org.
Anti-spam system
People,
I have an anti-spam in my MTA system, a sendmail Sendmail 8.10.2/8.7.1.
But when somebody send a message in this format:
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"@my.host
it can pass throught my anti-spam system.
It is like this:
MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]@{relay}>
Somebody knows how can i fix this bug??
Tanks so much,
Atenciosamente,
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,,$,Alberto Pereira
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Re: Java JSP Tomcat
> I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out > the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of > Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP > mail). I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires jdk1.3 (or 1.2.2 with jndi), jsse, and jmx packages from sun which are all non-free. Won't this relegate tomcat to the contrib section? Blackdown provides non-free debs for jdk1.3 but jsse and jmx are only available in zip form with a fairly restrictive license. How do you plan to help distribute those packages? FYI: I've decided to experiment making debs using tomcat, so I'm wrestling with this issue right now. I've decided to make 'installer' debs which install the zip file from /tmp.
Re: Can apt be steered?
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > > --dummy-run to do a dummy run). > I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get and man dpkg > and neither contains the word 'dummy'. I'll give that a shot. Umm.. Perhaps it's --dry-run. There's a whole bunch of synonyms. > I agree that the source of the problem is with the alternate packagers, > Helix and tdyc. They could very easily fix the problem by changing the > names of their packages, possibly by making helix/tdyc part of the > package names (rather than, in Helix's case, part of the package > version). However, the rest of us cannot control their activities, > nor those of debian.org. Having a workaround in apt would only fix part of the problem. Once you've got them onto the system you still have the same problem (packages claiming to be things they aren't) but you've lost the source information. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgphdRCYEjgUs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: where is the source code??
Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to know where can i find the source code for > basic linux excluding graphics and x-windows. [...] > is the kernel the main part of the linux?? [...] Linux is a kernel; nothing more (IMHO you could say that some tools, which are interacting with the Linux kernel, e.g. the modutils, also belong the the Linux kernel?). The OS you are running is ``GNU'', with Linux as the kernel. See http://www.gnu.org/ for more information about GNU. I quote: The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''.) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as ``Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems. You see, the OS is a combination of ``GNU'' and ``Linux'', that's why it should be called ``GNU/Linux'' and not just ``Linux''. If you call it just Linux, you don't give any credits the people, who are developing GNU. It's nice and fair, that Debian is called ``Debian GNU/Linux'' and not just `` Linux''. BTW: The "real" kernel of the GNU Operating System is ``Hurd'' (http://hurd.gnu.org), which is under active development. I quote again: The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). So, a current "Linux distribution", consists of a lot of software. But, everyone uses a Linux based GNU system as the core. -moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
KDE 2.0 debs for woody
Just to let everyone know. The current set of Debian packages for KDE 2.0 in woody are not tagged as Official 2.0. There are still upstream fixes that are continuing to come through and although I screwed up and taged the changelog as 2.0 it is not. Official release is scheduled for Monday I believe and I will have 2.0 official debs uploaded by Monday. I appologize for any confusion I may have caused by this. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD pgpJ9tp5etXiH.pgp Description: PGP signature
pppconfig
Greetings, I had no problem using pppconfig to set up Linux to my ISP. Also, I have installed the Netscape package and all works well. Now, I have a 2nd need - to also be able to connect to my company's RAS server from my home and then be able to Telnet into our mainframe. I do this now with DUN when I boot to WIN98. I have once again tried using pppconfig and I am quite close but not there yet. It seems that there should be something different with these two types of configurations but I can't quite put my finger on it. I have created a 2nd file called myoffice (in addition to the default file named provider). I know that I must do pon myoffice to get there, and it dials and connects, but then drop off (something about "expect host:"). Any coaching will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Don
Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data' (fwd)
All right, I read the FAQ at horde.org/imp, and did find this: --- 5.1 Common error messages 5.1.1 "Document contains no data" The Netscape error message, "Document contains no data", only tells you that nothing was sent from the web server to the browser. In other words, something went quite wrong, yet you've no idea what. In order to get an idea of what really happened, take a look in the web server's error log, in which more verbose errors should be found. There is a good chance that the error is caused by omitting IMAP support from PHP; you can check whether that is the case by examining your server configuration with a PHP script such as the following: Don't confuse PHP's IMAP support with Apache's mod_imap, which refers to image maps. --- /var/log/apache-ssl/error.log only says: [Wed Oct 18 09:52:03 2000] [notice] child pid 26408 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) I'm sure this is referring to IMP as I did a tail -f on the error.log in an xterm while I attempted to send a message in IMP. This is the only message that appeared. I have the packages php3-imap and php3-cgi-imap installed, and it worked fine before, so while this gives me some sort of clue, I need a little more assistance. How do I run the script the FAQ is referring to? Can anyone point me to a possible configuration file to check regarding IMAP support for PHP? Thanks in advance :) -Matt > OK, you have me worried now. I did a few searches and > the only refernce to a bug was - > > 4319604 > > Disabling the Netlet provider in > the Administration console for a user causes error > message: > "Document contained no data". > > Workaround: > > Remove the provider from the > channel list in the Administration console. > > - but this is for the iplanet portal server. > > Alternatly, all other references to this error concern > attempts to obtain data from an external source. > > It is possible that netscape is caught in a error loop > after attempting to obtain a dataless doc or file. > > I have no further ideas and I'm not inclined to > attempt to recreate the error. Hmmm. > > Good luck. > > Ian. Thanks for the attempt, Ian. This one's really got me scratching my head. If I don't have an answer soon, I'll have to de-install everything, remove all related files, and start over. I thought you weren't supposed to have to do this with Linux. Cheers, Matt > --- Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, ian mckerrow wrote: > > > > > I've had that same spontanious error using > > netscape > > > under MS. I tried to discover the cause but gave > > up > > > after a few hours and went to bed. The next > > morning > > > the error was absent. I concluded that it was > > caused > > > by my internet connection and not an onboard > > error. > > > > > > I've had it once since for 10 minutes and then > > > everything was fine. My C++ error correction did > > not > > > run on either occasion. > > > > > > Ian. > > > > The thing is, on my system it has been there > > consistently since Saturday > > night (US Pacific time :) when I got home. I get > > the same error under > > Netscape whether it's running on Linux, MacOS or > > Win98, whether outside my > > firewall or behind it. IE under Win98 just times > > out and says the page > > can't be displayed. > > > > ??? > > > > > > > > --- Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm running IMP as the frontend for my > > mailserver. > > > > Oddly enough, things > > > > were working fine before I left out of town for > > a > > > > week. I got back, and > > > > whenever I try to send a message (whether as a > > > > Reply, or as a new > > > > message), I get a Netscape: Error window that > > says > > > > 'The document contained > > > > no data. Try again later, or contact the > > srver's > > > > administrator.' > > > > > > > > Well, that would be me, so rather than > > contacting > > > > myself, I come to the > > > > list for assistance. :) > > > > > > > > TIA for any help. > > > > > > > > Cheers. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's > > FREE. > > > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt > > "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." > > --Oscar Wilde > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
