Re: Samba setup

[C. Falconer]

At 08:59 PM 10/24/00 +0200, you wrote:

Does anyone know if it is possible to replace a Windows NT domain controler
by a samba server so that a newly installed client system creates its entry
in the domain automatically? I think MS works that way, doesn't it?


Kinda - it depends on your clients more than anything.  Samba 2.0.7 is the 
latest official version, and can act as a domain controller to authenticate 
and provide file and print sharing for win95/8 machines.  It cannot act as 
a PDC for a domain of NT workstations though.


Samba 2.1.x is *supposed* to have full PDC/BDC support for NT domains, but 
its still work in progress,


I have a dozen win95b machines using an old pentium as a samba server - 
rocks seriously hard considering the budget was $100 NZ, and that was spend 
on the O'Reilly book "Samba".  I thoroughly recommend it to you.


--
Criggie

Re: fullscreen video playback

[Damien]

> This might work, but is not optimal if you have a not-blazingly-fast
> processor. If that case, it might be better to make some modelines for the
> sizes of the videostreams (eg 352x288, 320x240, ...) and insert these in
> your X config. That way, video will be played at fullscreen, without
> additional load for the CPU.

it supports hardware scaling with x/4

cheers

 damien


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gnomeicu and remote gnome panel

[Alexey Kakunin]

Hi!
I have one, more theoretical question:
I have two machine: machine A with debian woody and Helix GNOME and machine B 
with Mandrake 7.0/RE and also with GNOME 1.2 (original, not HELIX).
I have gnomeicu installed on machine A.
THen I login to machine A from machine B and try to run gnomeicu - it crashes, 
because (as I understand) can not connect to gnome panel or, may be gnome 
session by using CORBA. Yes, it is true, I haven't gnome session started on 
machine A.
But I have gnome session and gnome panel started on machine B. As I know, it is 
not matter for CORBA where is the server: on local machine or in the net.
So, how can I say to gnomeicu, started on machine A to use gnome panel (or 
gnome session) on machine B?

PS Yes, I know, I can run gnomeicu with -a and it is works fine without any 
gnome panel, but as I understand, theoretically it is possible to use remote 
gnome panel, I want to know, is it possible on practise.

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Best Regards.
Alexey Kakunin, M.Sc.

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

[Kai Weber]

+ Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Telnet complains about a "Temporary failure in name resolution"
> 
> Anything else I could try?
> Any other woody users having the same problem?

I have the same problem. I do not know what is exactly the reason for,
but I remember it worked some versions and on potato before. 

I tried something on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf but with no
effect.

There is no network traffic if I try to telnet or ssh with the host's
name. But "ping localhost" works!

Kai.
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Debian diskless X-Terminals

[Denis J. Cirulis]

Hello !

I want to build a network of X-Terminals (Debian based of course).
Which hardware is best for this stuff (both server(1) and clients(5)) and is
there any Debianized way of creating terminals. I saw LTSP page and packages
but these are made for RH. 
If someone can tell me the debians way of making X-terminals please mail me
privately cause now i'm not in the list.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
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insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

[Erik Steffl]

  the message in subject:

Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
than /lib/m
odules/2.2.17/modules.dep

  is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
why do I get the message?

  I tried to figure out why is the /etc/modules.conf newer than
modules.dep but couldn't figure it out. both file are up to date (as far
as content goes).

  here are the dates:

Oct 24 23:55 /etc/modules.conf
Oct 24 17:05 /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

  the date/time on modules.conf is always exactly the same as the
date/time of booting the system - that means that it's updated (or at
least touched) everytime system boots.

  however, the modules.dep is only changed when it really should be
changed (I think it's changed by install scripts of modules, but I
haven't verified that)

  what should I do to have modules.dep always newer than modules.conf?

  btw all the modules work as expected (autoload and all that stuff)

  TIA

erik

New Installation + Kernel

[Hanno Böttcher]

Hi all!

I want to install a Debian and I'm asking myself what Kernel whould be
the best choice? E.g. anyone tried the 2.4 ? Is it making Problems?


Thanx for hints

Hanno

help on build apache 1.3.12 on potato

[Jaume Teixi]

I get a lot of errors, so someone has been able to build apache 1.3.12
on potato

I need some help points,

thanks
jaume.

Re: gnomeicu and remote gnome panel

[Bruno Boettcher]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:16:20AM +0400, Alexey Kakunin wrote:
> But I have gnome session and gnome panel started on machine B. As I know, it 
> is not matter for CORBA where is the server: on local machine or in the net.
> So, how can I say to gnomeicu, started on machine A to use gnome panel (or 
> gnome session) on machine B?
> 
me too i am interested, to perhaps add a begin of explanation, the
problem is to tell your remote session, that it should use the
CORBA-naimng server of your local machine, otherwise i doubt it would be
able to connect to your local orb

So how do you repoint the nameserver in this case?

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human population is growing

Re: New Installation + Kernel

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:26:57AM +0100, Hanno Böttcher wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I want to install a Debian and I'm asking myself what Kernel whould be
> the best choice? E.g. anyone tried the 2.4 ? Is it making Problems?
> 

2.2.17 from ftp.kernel.org, its more recent then the debian packages
which are really patched up 2.2.17pre6.  

2.4 kernels are not finished and are still buggy.  i would stay away
from 2.4 until 2.4.8 at the very least IMO anyway.

-- 
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http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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where's esdctl???

[Bruno Boettcher]

hello,

i just made another upgrade of my woody but still for some reason
esd is present, so the package is still present and is updated, but
esdctl and in fact all utilities around esd disappeared..

what happenened to them? in fact i only need esdctl to let my at scripts
be able to devalidate esd teporarily to play a .au sound and
revalidate it just after this to continue having sounds from enlightment
and gnome. and no esdplay never maanged to play correctly these
sounds...

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human population is growing

Re: gnomeicu and remote gnome panel

[Alexey Kakunin]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:55:01 +0200
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:16:20AM +0400, Alexey Kakunin wrote:
> > But I have gnome session and gnome panel started on machine B. As I know, 
> > it is not matter for CORBA where is the server: on local machine or in the 
> > net.
> > So, how can I say to gnomeicu, started on machine A to use gnome panel (or 
> > gnome session) on machine B?
> > 
> me too i am interested, to perhaps add a begin of explanation, the
> problem is to tell your remote session, that it should use the
> CORBA-naimng server of your local machine, otherwise i doubt it would be
> able to connect to your local orb
It seems to be right.
> 
> So how do you repoint the nameserver in this case?
Really, I don't know. I do not so familiar with CORBA and ORBIt.
May be, we should ask ORBIt developers?

> 
> -- 
> ciao bboett
> ==
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett
> ===
> the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant.
> human population is growing


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Best Regards.
Alexey Kakunin, M.Sc.

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

[Colin Watson]

Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed
>the base system from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by
>issuing an 'apt-get install task-x-window-system', I got an internal
>error after downloading the necessary files (if I was still  at a
>download speed <=56K, the machine wouldn't be in one piece anymore,
>making my question moot). I think I'll obtain a CD and try again.

OK, annoying, but still nothing to do with the card :-)

>But say, don't you have to specify the card you want to use when you
>set the X system up? Or did Debian autoprobe your Voodoo card? If you
>actually had to specify a card, which one did you pick?

Haven't a clue, I'm afraid. I got my Voodoo card long after installing
Debian, and judging from /etc/X11/XF86Config I just re-ran xf86config. I
have the following Device section:

  # Device configured by xf86config:
  
  Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Voodoo3 (generic)"
  VendorName  "3dfx"
  BoardName   "Voodoo3 2000"
  #VideoRam16384
  # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
  EndSection

-- 
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Re: unpackaged tools?

[Colin Watson]

Chris Blazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   I've never used a debian distribution, but now I have a need to
>look at some debian packages.

Aside from using dpkg itself, any Unix system should be able to unpack
Debian packages. If you do 'ar x filename.deb', you'll get three files:

  * debian-binary, basically just a version identifier;
  * control.tar.gz, with information about the package and maintainer
scripts and so on;
  * data.tar.gz, which is a filesystem archive.

-- 
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Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

[Philipp Schulte]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: 

> Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
> than /lib/m
> odules/2.2.17/modules.dep
> 
>   is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
> why do I get the message?

Do a 'depmod -a'
Phil

iBCS libsocket libnls -help

[wmwaisse]

 Hello to all Debianers

 I got to deal with UNIX sockets ( from a SCO C program ) under
Linux.

 It seems I got to emulate libsocket ( linls and libx too ) under
Linux.
 Isn't it possible to use a shared SCO Unix libsocket.a ???

 The solution to Emulate libsocket.a seems to be iBCS ( Intel Binary
Compatibility System ).
 This needs to patch the kernel, the only version iBCS ( and iBCS extras ) 
packages I found were foe a calera distribution.

 Am I forced to use a specific kernel ( 2.2.14 ??? ) 

 Is it possible that the 2.4testn kernel give me more support
about this ???

 Where would it be possible to find a list of things I got to do and
warnings for possible difficulties ???

 Thanks to Linux and all Linuzians :-))


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HELP: EXT2-fs warning

[Rainer Haape]

Hello List,
I have a strange problem with my debian machines:

>From time to time there are warnings on syslog:

EXT2-fs warning (device ide(xx,y)): ext2_free_inode bit already cleared for 
inode 

when i run fsck i got errors, and some files were repaired, that is copied to 
lost+found. It seems to occure on differend kernels (currently 2.2.17) and on 
different machines (always ide-devices)
Can anyone help??

Thanks,
Rainer Haape
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Key mapping in X

[Stefan Janecek]

Rob Hudson wrote:
> 
> Awesome.  I added this to my .Xmodmap in my /home dir...
> 
> ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
> !
> remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
> keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
> add Lock = Caps_Lock
> 
> ... and it worked after I typed 'xmodmap .Xmodmap'.  Will X read
> this file on start up each time?  Or do I have to tell it to?

you can tell it to by putting the line 'allow-user-modmap' in
/etc/X11/Xsession.options. 
see 'man 5 Xsession.options' for other options

/stefan.

> 
> Thanks,
> Rob.
>

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

[robert_wilhelm_land]

Juergen Fiedler wrote:

> I think I know that one: XFree 4.0.x didn't make it onto the CD's. I'm using 
> it on my
> laptop (ATI Mach 64
> LE)  and it works quite nicely. I get it via apt-get with the following 
> sources:
> 
> deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/$(ARCH)/
> deb-src http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/source/
> 
> As to the Voodoo 3 drivers for 4.0: They scare me. The description on their 
> site seems to
> indicate that games that rely on glide won't work with this server - and what 
> would be the
> point in getting a Voodoo card if I can't play most of the games that I got 
> it for  in the
> first place?
> Please correct me if I'm wrong about this (Please! I would really love to be 
> wrong!).


Thanks for the URL Juergen, should be a great help for the near
future.
Did the update to xfree 4.0.x destroy your 3.3.6 configuration, 
precisely - can I choose between both in the startx script?

The magazin C'T (www.heise.de) had a article recently about this
subject and reporting 
having trouble with the VooDoo (2,3) cards.
Hopefuly they managed a workaround.
If you don't happen to find it on their server contact me - I'll have
a look in the past 7 magazines.



Robert

Re: recommendation of software to use for web-based systems?

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello LTG,

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, LTG wrote:

> I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT
> machines.  I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a
> web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software.  It
> should include a database (like oracle), 

postgreSQL is a great database (IMHO), completely for free (GPL) and
available as Debian package. There are also different interface packages
(perl, C, tcl/tk), so it is of course possible to setup web access. 

> a middle tier, like weblogic,

Don't know about the function of weblogic, so can't help you there.

> and a webserver (maybe more?).  

Apache. Most sites run this server. Great configurability and ability for
scripting etc. Also completely for free.

> Which packages should I use?
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations?

Just my 0.05$.
 
> I really just want to build a cool system at home.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim

Regards,
Daniel

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

[Erik Steffl]

Philipp Schulte wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
> > Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
> > than /lib/m
> > odules/2.2.17/modules.dep
> >
> >   is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
> > why do I get the message?
> 
> Do a 'depmod -a'
> Phil

  it does not help at all, the reason why modules.conf is newer is
because some program always updates it during reboot but modules.dep is
not updated...

  does anybody else have the same problem? if not, how come I have this
problem? I did not change startup scripts, everything is 'the debian
way'

erik

Re: where's esdctl???

[Stéphane BOREL]

> i just made another upgrade of my woody but still for some reason
> esd is present, so the package is still present and is updated, but
> esdctl and in fact all utilities around esd disappeared..

Try installing esound-clients

HTH

-- 
Stef

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

[robert_wilhelm_land]

Colin Watson wrote:
> Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed
> >the base system from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by
> >issuing an 'apt-get install task-x-window-system', I got an internal
> >error after downloading the necessary files (if I was still  at a
> >download speed <=56K, the machine wouldn't be in one piece anymore,
> >making my question moot). I think I'll obtain a CD and try again.
> 
> OK, annoying, but still nothing to do with the card :-)

As for the initial debian install - I had the same problems as
Juergen.
After using dselect again and insuring no broken dependancies, Xfree
setup worked reliable (in case of my ATI 128) and the server appears
to be very fast. The videocard chip is recognized by the server.

> >But say, don't you have to specify the card you want to use when you
> >set the X system up? Or did Debian autoprobe your Voodoo card? If you
> >actually had to specify a card, which one did you pick?
> 
> Haven't a clue, I'm afraid. I got my Voodoo card long after installing
> Debian, and judging from /etc/X11/XF86Config I just re-ran xf86config. I
> have the following Device section:
> 
>   # Device configured by xf86config:
> 
>   Section "Device"
>   Identifier  "Voodoo3 (generic)"
>   VendorName  "3dfx"
>   BoardName   "Voodoo3 2000"
>   #VideoRam16384
>   # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
>   EndSection
> 
> --
> Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you talking about Xfree 3.3.x?
People buying VooDoo cards usualy intend to play games :) and may want
to use OpenGL


Robert

PHP

[Adrian Nims]

Hello,

I try to use PHP language in connection wiht web, I'm on debian potato
and using apache web server 1.2.6. I have the following problem: when I
run a php file in netscape it appears a window "Save as ..." instead of
executing my php file. Does anybody know how can I solve this ?


Thank you,

Adrian Nims

Re: apts: something wicked happend resolving (Now Fixed!)

[Russ Pitman]

Just to clear this thread. Tonight I did an apt-get install postfix which
reinstalled all the current deps and now postfix is fine.

Many thanks for your assistance.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:45:56PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:05:32PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote:
> > Jason,
> > Will do later this evening, I'm a bit lost on bind tho.
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:05:13AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > 
> Hi Jason, back now.
> Well, changing /etc/resolv.conf seems to have partly fixed the problem. I
> can do apt-get update now,providing of course the site isn't busy. Any one
> with half a brain would have a 'Site Busy' message instead of that crackpot 
> obfuscation. Maybe I'm a bit tired tonight.
> 
> resolv.conf now reads:
> ---
> nameserver localhost
> nameserver 203.31.178.5
> nameserver 203.31.178.8
> ---
> Postfix is still broken, with mail stuck in the the queue, I thought that
> leaving the ISP's nameservers in resolv.conf might help but not so.
> 
> Any further suggestions?
> --

-- 
russ

Re: PHP

[Stefan Janecek]

Adrian Nims wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I try to use PHP language in connection wiht web, I'm on debian potato
> and using apache web server 1.2.6. I have the following problem: when I
> run a php file in netscape it appears a window "Save as ..." instead of
> executing my php file. Does anybody know how can I solve this ?

i assume you already have 
LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so
in your httpd.conf. 
Additionally, you will have to put lines like
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php
...etc
in srm.conf so that apache knows which files it should process through 
php. (httpd.conf and srm.conf should both be in /etc/apache).

hope that helps,
/stefan.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Adrian Nims
> 
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AW: PHP

[Eckenfels, Melanie]

>I try to use PHP language in connection wiht web, I'm on debian potato
>and using apache web server 1.2.6. I have the following problem: when I
>run a php file in netscape it appears a window "Save as ..." instead of
>executing my php file. Does anybody know how can I solve this ?


Yaeh,

You have to add in your httpd.conf file:

For PHP3:

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps


For PHP4:

#
# And for PHP 4.x, use:
#
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Greetings

Mela

help building apache

[Jaume Teixi]

I don't need mod_auth_dbm  and I get this errors compiling,
so how to disable this ?

thanks,
jaume.


gcc -shared -o mod_auth_anon.so mod_auth_anon.lo -lm -lcrypt
gcc -c  -I../../os/unix -I../../include   -DLINUX=2 -DTARGET=\"apache\"
-DNO_DBM_REWRITEMAP -DUSE_HSREGEX -DUSE_EXPAT -I../../lib/expat-lite
`../../apaci` -fpic -DSHARED_MODULE mod_auth_dbm.c && mv mod_auth_dbm.o
mod_auth_dbm.lo
mod_auth_dbm.c:81: gdbm-ndbm.h: No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [mod_auth_dbm.so] Error 1
make[4]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/apache-1.3.12/build-tree/apache_1.3.12/src'
make[2]: *** [build-std] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/apache-1.3.12/build-tree/apache_1.3.12'
make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/apache-1.3.12/build-tree/apache_1.3.12'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

nfs client crash

[Suresh Kumar.R]

Hi,

I get the following message and the machine crashes, apparently when it
tries to access our nfs server.

nfs: task 588 cant get a request slot

This is not the server problem (most probably) as the files can be
accessed at the same time from someother client machine.

This error occurs only in certain specific machines.

The clients runs a mix of stormix and debian potato 2.2. The file systems
are mounted in the client using autofs while in the server, they are
mounted at boot time using /etc/fstab.

Any suggestions?

Suresh
-
Suresh Kumar.R  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept of Electronics & Communication
College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016
INDIA

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than

[Ray Percival]

I have the same problem after installing the Sblive drivers. depmod -a does not 
work though. Any other thought please?

-- Original Message --
From: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:58:32 -0700

>Philipp Schulte wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
>> 
>> > Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
>> > than /lib/m
>> > odules/2.2.17/modules.dep
>> >
>> >   is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
>> > why do I get the message?
>> 
>> Do a 'depmod -a'
>> Phil
>
>  it does not help at all, the reason why modules.conf is newer is
>because some program always updates it during reboot but modules.dep is
>not updated...
>
>  does anybody else have the same problem? if not, how come I have this
>problem? I did not change startup scripts, everything is 'the debian
>way'
>
>   erik
>
>
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>

mouse and keyboard problems in x 3.3.6

[Bob Edwards]

Good day,

Thanks to help from several on this list,
I am very close to getting my mouse
and keyboard problems taken care
of. I really appreciate the time out
of your busy schedules.

Here is where I'm at currently. I'm so
very close to fixing both problems.
My mouse works in console mode
just fine, in x not so fine.

The line in the /etc/gpm.conf file
reads : "type =PS/2", so I changed
the same line to "type=PS/2" in
the XF86Config file.

In the /etc/gpm.conf file there is
a symbolic link from /dev/mouse
to /etc/gpmdata.

However, in the /etc/gpm.conf.file,
an earlier line reads:
device"/etc/psaux".

There is not a symbolic link
between /dev/psaux to
/dev/mouse.

I took care of most of the keyboard
problems, the only thing is that I have
a microsoft natural keyboard, and I
cannot use the number pad on the far
right. Everything else on the keyboard
works fine, and the server no longer
sends me error messages when
I try to start x.

For your review, relevant sections of
my XF86Config file as it now stands:

**
keyboard section

Protocol   "standard"
AutoRepeat500  5
XkbModel  "Microsoft"

EndSection
***
Section Pointer

Protocol"PS/2"
Device   "/dev/gpmdata"
BaudRate  1200
#ZaxisMapping   4  5
Buttons3

EndSection
**

X does start, and the pointer goes to
the bottom of the screen, but it will
only move back and forth across the
bottom of the screen, but not
up and down.

regards,
Bob Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Re: How do you read a sgml file?

[Bob Bernstein]

> "MP" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

MP> I'm looking at the wine documentation directory, and half the
MP> files seem to be sgml ones.  How do you read them?  Do you
MP> need to run a utility to convert them to latex or something?

Easy way: 
# apt-get cygnus-stylesheets 
$ db2html some_file.sgml
$ lynx some_file.html

Interesting way:
Surf to: http://people.debian.org/~bortz/SGML-HOWTO

Note to self: find out if there's a task deb for sgml/xml.

-- 
Bob Bernstein
at
Esmond, R.I., USA

Dual OS

[Clayton Stapleton]

Hi Debian's;
Have installed Debian 2.2 (potato) using 3 CD's from CheapBytes.
Things are going ok except that when I run "uname -a" the return
is "2.2.15-4mdk" whereas was expecting "2.2.2.17pre6.deb".

My system is a Pentium 166MMX, 64MB RAM, cd-rom, floppy,
2 hard drives 8.1G and 9.1G. Mandrake is installed on /dev/hda1
(8.1G) with lilo using the MBR for startup. It also provides for
starting alternate OS which I use. Mandrake was installed before
I installed Debian.

Used Mandrake to fdisk /dev/hdb so that there is 4 partitions on
/dev/hdb. "dev/hdb1", "/dev/hdb5", "/dev/hdb6" and "/dev/hdb7".
Used Debian to activate "dev/hdb1" as "/", "dev/hdb5" as "/usr",
"dev/hdb6" as "/var" and "dev/hdb7" as "/home".

Why didn't Debian use the kernel version 2.2.17pre6 that is on
the CD's instead of using 2.2.15-4mdk?

TIA
Clay Stapleton

Re: How do you read a sgml file?

[David Z Maze]

Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> I'm looking at the wine documentation directory, and half the files
Mark> seem to be sgml ones.  How do you read them?  Do you need to run a
Mark> utility to convert them to latex or something?

In general, you need a tool capable of reading whatever instantiation
of SGML the files are and doing appropriate processing/rendering.  For 
certain DTDs, you probably already have appropriate software, but
those files are generally referred to as just "HTML".  :-)

While I haven't looked at the WINE documentation, I wouldn't be
surprised if the files are in DocBook format.  (Look at the first line 
of the file; it should have a  declaration, and it'll
say if it's DocBook or something else.)  For general-purpose SGML
processing, I'd recommend installing the jade and jadetex packages.
To format DocBook documents, also install docbook and
docbook-stylesheets.

At this point, you're ready to do the formatting.  Look for a DSSSL
style sheet file (it'll probably have a .dsl extension); if one
doesn't exist, use
/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/docbook.dsl
instead.  Then run

jade -t tex -d (name-of-dsl-file) file.sgml
jadetex file
jadetex file
xdvi file
dvips file (etc.)

-- 
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell

Re: a whole bunch of questions

[robert_wilhelm_land]

No one able to help me in my posting "a whole bunch of questions" ?

Hopefuly waitung for some help


Robert

modules and permissions

[Anthony Fox]

Hi,

I have three questions related to installing the alsa sound modules in my
potato box.  At the moment, the alsa sound modules are loaded into the
kernel at boot time.  They are not specified in /etc/modules.  They are
specified in /etc/modules.conf, but this should not cause them to be
loaded at boot time, correct?  How do I get the alsa sound modules to be
loaded on demand, i.e. when an app tries to access /dev/dsp, instead of at
boot time.

Second, root has access to the sound devices and to the cdrom device, but
users do not.  I have tried adding my user to the audio and cdrom groups
by appending the name to the audio and cdrom lines in /etc/group.  This
didn't do the trick, though.  What permissions do I need to set to allow
users access to audio and the cdrom device?

Finally, for some reason, I am having problems mounting cds in the cdrom
device.  I on occasion get an error that the kernel does not recognize the
cdrom device as a block device.  This may have something to do with the
fact that I installed scsi support and modules and ide-scsi emulation in
order to use the cd-rw functionality of the device.  however, none of
these modules are loaded into the kernel at all, so they should not be
causing any conflicts, correct?

Of course, thanks in advance.

-Anthony.

Serious newbie needs help!

[Viper5192]

Hi, I'm really quite new at this.  Just installed 2.0.4 of Debian on my 
laptop, wiping out Windoze completely. :-)

I just have the basics as the person I got it from just gave me the basic 
files, no packages, just the base system.  Anyone have the whole set on CD?

Oh and I also have a problem.  When I first installed Debian, I was networked 
from my Laptop (Debian Box) to my Windows ME Desktop machine, in so much as I 
could get a good ping from it.  The laptop has a combo card, an old Megahertz 
xjem1144 10base2/14.4  Ethernet/modem with the xjacks connector for network.

Well I had been having problems with file and printing sharing on my desktop 
so I finally get that working, and now I can't ping my Windoze Box.  Must 
have set something different in Windoze.

Help!

Peace

Paul

Newbie extraordinaire ;-)

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Re: Dual OS

[Francesco Bochicchio]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:01:32AM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Why didn't Debian use the kernel version 2.2.17pre6 that is on
> the CD's instead of using 2.2.15-4mdk?
 
Debian usually gives you the choice among several of the last stable kernels.
Just install the kernel-package and kernel-modules packages corresponding
to your preferred kernel version (this will also cause the deinstall of
current kernel-package and modules ).

Ciao
-
FB

Re: New Installation + Kernel

[Mark Phillips]

Hanno Böttcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I want to install a Debian and I'm asking myself what Kernel whould be
> the best choice? E.g. anyone tried the 2.4 ? Is it making Problems?

I am using 2.4.0-test9 and it seems fine so far.  It allows me to use
LVM and ReiserFS, both of which are great!

Cheers,

Mark.

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/~~\__/~~\
__
"They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" 

Re: New Installation + Kernel

[Alec Smith]

Only use kernel 2.4 on test systems which you can afford to have go down
if something goes wrong. The current 2.4 versions have the "pre" on their
names explicitly because of their beta nature -- Things might work, but
there's no guarentee.

On a production system which must "just work", 2.2.17 is a better choice
of kernel.


On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:

> Hanno Böttcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I want to install a Debian and I'm asking myself what Kernel whould be
> > the best choice? E.g. anyone tried the 2.4 ? Is it making Problems?
> 
> I am using 2.4.0-test9 and it seems fine so far.  It allows me to use
> LVM and ReiserFS, both of which are great!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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RE: Serious newbie needs help!

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 25-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I'm really quite new at this.  Just installed 2.0.4 of Debian on my 
> laptop, wiping out Windoze completely. :-)
> 
> I just have the basics as the person I got it from just gave me the basic 
> files, no packages, just the base system.  Anyone have the whole set on CD?
> 

linux central has always done debian right.  currently they are offering a 3 cd
set of potato (most recent release) for $6 plus shipping.

> Oh and I also have a problem.  When I first installed Debian, I was networked
> from my Laptop (Debian Box) to my Windows ME Desktop machine, in so much as I
> could get a good ping from it.  The laptop has a combo card, an old Megahertz
> xjem1144 10base2/14.4  Ethernet/modem with the xjacks connector for network.
> 

there is a debian-laptop list for your laptop'ing needs (-:

Re: iBCS libsocket libnls -help

[Chris Gray]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:12:31AM -0400, wmwaisse wrote:
>  Hello to all Debianers
> 
>  I got to deal with UNIX sockets ( from a SCO C program ) under Linux.

Have you tried reading the socket(2) man page?  It seems like what you
need, but I've never used SCO before.

>  It seems I got to emulate libsocket ( linls and libx too ) under
>  Linux.  Isn't it possible to use a shared SCO Unix libsocket.a ???
> 
>  The solution to Emulate libsocket.a seems to be iBCS ( Intel Binary
>  Compatibility System ).  This needs to patch the kernel, the only
>  version iBCS ( and iBCS extras ) packages I found were foe a calera
>  distribution.

I don't think you need to go through all of this.

>  Am I forced to use a specific kernel ( 2.2.14 ??? ) 

No.

>  Is it possible that the 2.4testn kernel give me more support about
>  this ???

Maybe a little, but there's probably not too much difference in this
area.

>  Where would it be possible to find a list of things I got to do and
>  warnings for possible difficulties ???

Try searching on Google (www.google.com) for socket programming.  Lots
of good looking links turned up for me.

Good luck,
Chris

-- 
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got to be a better way.
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.

Re:Dual OS

[Satyajit Das]

Original message from: Clayton Stapleton
>Hi Debian's;
>Have installed Debian 2.2 (potato) using 3 CD's from CheapBytes.
>Things are going ok except that when I run "uname -a" the return
>is "2.2.15-4mdk" whereas was expecting "2.2.2.17pre6.deb".
>Why didn't Debian use the kernel version 2.2.17pre6 that is on
>the CD's instead of using 2.2.15-4mdk?

# YOUR DEBIAN USING MANDRAKE KERNEL - 2.2.15-4MDK
# PLEASE CONFIGURE DEBIAN KERNEL IN DEBIAN AND MANDRAKE KERNEL IN MANDRAKE.

>
>TIA
>Clay Stapleton
>
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Re: Voodoo 3 2000

[Juergen Fiedler]

I haven't tried the 4.0 server with my Voodoo card yet - just the Mach64.
And unfortunately, I don't quite remember what went on with the config file. As 
far as I
remember, it updated it automatically - but I could be completely wrong here. 
I'm pretty sure
that XF4.0 can't read XF3.3.x config files. The thing that I remember is that 
XF4.0 expects the
config file in /etc/XF86Config (as opposed to /etc/X11/XF86Config) and the 
installation of
XF4.0 didn't move it over automatically.
If I were you and wanted to try 4.0, I would definitely make a backup. I 
haven't had any
troubles with my current installation, but some people obviously couldn't get 
it to work at all
and had to revert to 3.3.x.

HTH,
Juergen

robert_wilhelm_land wrote:

> Thanks for the URL Juergen, should be a great help for the near
> future.
> Did the update to xfree 4.0.x destroy your 3.3.6 configuration,
> precisely - can I choose between both in the startx script?
>
> The magazin C'T (www.heise.de) had a article recently about this
> subject and reporting
> having trouble with the VooDoo (2,3) cards.
> Hopefuly they managed a workaround.
> If you don't happen to find it on their server contact me - I'll have
> a look in the past 7 magazines.
>
> Robert

Re: PCI modems (success!)

[Ken Januski]

Hi Leonardo,

It only took about a week to figure out that your message below did in fact
tell me exactly what I needed to know in order to get my pci modem working
correctly. I was thrown by the memory address that /proc/pci showed. But
once I realized I needed to put that in the /dev/serial.conf file rather
than ttyS* I was fine. For some stupid reason on my part I didn't put in the
correct IRQ, according to /proc/pci. So I connected but very slowly. Modem
HOWTO, a great document,  suggested this was due to an incorrect IRQ. When I
then changed serial.conf to include the IRQ that /proc/pci showed my
connection speeded up significantly.

Thanks to you, all the other debian list users who messaged me, and the
Serial and Modem HOWTOs for helping me solve this problem.

Ken


- Original Message -
From: "Leonardo Dias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: PCI modems


> > So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with
> > setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells
me.
> > If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there or could
this
> > be a default setting from some configuration file? Thanks for any
pointers
> > you can give and thanks for your incredibly speedy response.
>
> It's really easy.
>
> Do a
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> You'll find a communication device in some IRQ. Get that IRQ number and
> open your
>
> /etc/serial.conf
>
> Change the IRQ in there, then run
>
> /etc/init.d/setserial start
>
> or something like that. That's all you need. :-))
>
> --
> Leonardo Dias
> Analista Programador / Analyst Programmer
> Catho Online
> www.catho.com.br

Re: netscape navigator-v304

[Ken Januski]

Russ,

I'm getting same error and foolishly assumed that the dpkg error was
correct. But I did wonder about the 301/304 discrepancy. Now trying 304/304
myself.

Ken
- Original Message -
From: "Russ Pitman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: netscape navigator-v304


On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:36:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:19:06PM +1100, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> > My bad!!
> > I really  should have seen that :-(  However the error persists
> >
> > ---
> > arjay:~# ftp
ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v304-export.
x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
>
> You can't use ftp like that.  It's:
>
>   $ ftp host.domain.tld
>
> ...then interactively going to the directory you want and selecting the
> file you're interested in.
>
> > ftp:
> >
ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v304-export.
x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz:
>^^^
> So which is it you want?  3.01 or 3.04?  I'd suggest matching up
> versions.  I find both the following work:

Actually I wanted -v304, I just assumed that the message from dpkg knew what
was correct, see ERROR in my original post.

>
> wget ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/\
> netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
>
> wget ftp://archive/navigator/3.04/shipping/english/unix/linux12/\
> navigator_complete/\
> netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
>
>
> Please check your own tpyos, *especially* the second time.

Trying to avoid typos I tried the above on the command line all in
one line. I understand that that is right?

This resulted. For some reason the cut/paste breaks the command line
after the wget displacing the rest of the command line in the process
I cannot explain that,but I assure you that the command line -was- input
as one line.

So where am I going wrong


arjay:~# wget
ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v301-export.
x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
--19:17:31--
ftp://archive.netscape.com:21/archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v301-expo
rt.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
   => etscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz.1'
Connecting to archive.netscape.com:21...
archive.netscape.com: Host not found
arjay:~#


>
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>  Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org
>   What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?  There is no K5 cabal
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BTW I did not test both the above commands as I managed to get -v304 before
I read your mail.

--
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smbpasswd help!

[Timothy C. Phan]

Hi All,

  I tried to use the smbpasswd to change my passwd and it kept giving
  me this:

machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the tconX on the IPC$ share. Error was : ERRSRV - 
ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup 
are invalid.).
Failed to change password for myname

  If I login in as root than, it would be ok!

  Please help.  TIA!

---
tcp

cron, syslogd, klogd died

[Bob Bernstein]

Quite serendipitously I discovered that the above processes had
stopped running on a potato system (i386) I have here. I noticed my
'locate' command did not seem to be returning good results, and when I
looked it was dated Oct 18. Then 'ps ax' told the Rest of the Story. A
reboot brought those three services up and all seems well now. Three
questions occur to me:

1] What might bring about those three processes (and no others,
apparently) dying?

2] What might be the reason I did not get notification that there was
a problem? I notice the user aliased for root and postmaster's mail
did not get notified of the problem, and in fact does not seem to be
getting *any* system reports. I coulda sworn I ran 'newaliases' after
I set up /etc/aliases.

3] I note this language in 'man aliases': 

"After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a
".forward" file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the
list of users defined in that file."

Does this mean the user who I have aliased to get root and
postmaster's must have a .forward file in his home directory in order
to get mail for root and postmaster? I don't understand the connection
between aliasing and .forward files. I have the used the latter, for
instance with procmail, or send mail on to another email address, but
why this mention of .forward in 'man aliases'.

Sorry to go on so long here. Many tia's for light shed on any of the
above confusions!

-- 
Bob Bernstein
at
Esmond, R.I., USA

Sound on Diamond Sonic Impact

[robert_wilhelm_land]

The SuSe DB states that the Sonic Impact should work with the OSS
module - in spite of the supported hardware HOWTO.

Sound refuses to work although adding user rland to group audio, in
fact the sound card output channel should make the boxes at least do
some noise as just tested on the other PC - it doesn't.

Does lsmod help tp clarify:
MINI:/home/rland# lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
nls_cp437   3904   1  (autoclean)
fbcon-cfb32 3464   0  (unused)
rtl813911520   1 
videodev2656   0  (unused)
sound  57592   0  (unused)
soundlow 416   0  [sound]
soundcore   2628   3  [sound]
ntfs   34184   0  (unused)
smbfs  23952   0  (unused)
vfat9008   0  (unused)
nfsd  143460   0  (unused)
nfs28352   0  (unused)
lockd  31112   1  [nfsd nfs]
sunrpc 52420   1  [nfsd nfs lockd]
binfmt_misc 3148   0 
autofs  9088   0  (unused)
ide-floppy  8444   0 
unix   10212  33  (autoclean)



sound is indicated as 'unused' - unused by what, by the OS?
Dave Sherohman suggested to use gom -it or any other mixer. When do I
need a mixer (my aim is just wanting to here the CDROM playing)? A
have only little knowledge in this area too.

Gnome's "gmix" complaines about "no mixers found" and asks me if I had
compiled sound into the kernel.

Martin mailed me that /etc/modules.conf would be a optional config
file - however, which file does the kernel use to load a module when
booting up?

Last but not least - linux.aureal.com seems to be dead - sigh.
(SuSe recommendes to have a look at this site for various drivers)




A general question - do I have to cc my reply to the person helping
me? 


Robert

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

[tjm]

Hello,

I have had the same problem although it doesn't seem to
cause any adverse condition with the machine.  The startup
script /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils (/etc/init.d/modutils) runs
depmod -a when the machine boots, but it seems that the 
time stamp that results from the new modules.dep file 
being made is incorrect.  It appears that the date is 
ok but the time is not, making it appear the modules.dep
file may be older than modules.conf.  If I run depmod -a 
after the machine is up and running, the time/date stamp on 
the modules.dep file is correct.  Maybe the system time that 
is used when the startup script is run is not correct until 
later in the boot process, but I don't know enough of
this to make changes safely.  Try changing the time/date of
the modules.conf back a couple days by using 'touch' or
remaking the file (update-modules) after turning the system
time back temporarily to see if it makes a difference.  A 
proper solution would be much nicer, though. 

Using Debian potato with a 2.2.17 kernel.


> >
> > > Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
> > > than /lib/m
> > > odules/2.2.17/modules.dep
> > >
> > >   is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
> > > why do I get the message?
> >
> > Do a 'depmod -a'
> > Phil
> 
>   it does not help at all, the reason why modules.conf is newer is
> because some program always updates it during reboot but modules.dep is
> not updated...
> 
>   does anybody else have the same problem? if not, how come I have this
> problem? I did not change startup scripts, everything is 'the debian
> way'
> 
> erik
> 



thanks,
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Getting gnome helix running on potato

[Martin Waller]

Hello,

I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome helix 
running under potato.


Can it be done (without resorting to woody)?
How?

Thanks
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Basic Kernel Question

[Jay Kelly]

Hello All,
I keep running into a problem everytime I upgrade my kernel. Before I
upgrade I can place a floppy into the drive and type mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
with no errors. After the upgrade I do the same command I get an error about
needing to specifiy the file format. What am I missing when I upgrade my
kernel. Also I would like to add a basic firewall to just protect itself. I
dont need ipmasq I just want to close all ports except one. What will I need
to add to the kernel?
Thanks everybody

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

[Robb Kidd]

Martin Waller wrote:

> I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome helix
> running under potato.
>
> Can it be done (without resorting to woody)?
> How?

I did a little Woodage for the Helix-GNOME install.  I'm still mostly 
Potato.
Here's what I did:

1)  Change the stable to unstable lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and add "deb
http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main" to it.
2)  apt-get update
3)  apt-get install task-helix-gnome
4)  Change the unstable lines in sources.list back to stable. (Except for the
helixcode entry.)

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

[Martin Waller]

Unfortunately, the computers in question are behind a web proxy which 
requires manually logging on, so that http access method of apt won't 
work


are we unstuck?

Martin



From: "Robb Kidd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:00:18 -0400

Martin Waller wrote:

> I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome 
helix

> running under potato.
>
> Can it be done (without resorting to woody)?
> How?

I did a little Woodage for the Helix-GNOME install.  I'm still mostly 
Potato.

Here's what I did:

1)  Change the stable to unstable lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and add 
"deb
http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main" to 
it.

2)  apt-get update
3)  apt-get install task-helix-gnome
4)  Change the unstable lines in sources.list back to stable. (Except for 
the

helixcode entry.)



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RE: Basic Kernel Question

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 25-Oct-2000 Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hello All,
> I keep running into a problem everytime I upgrade my kernel. Before I
> upgrade I can place a floppy into the drive and type mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> with no errors. After the upgrade I do the same command I get an error about
> needing to specifiy the file format. What am I missing when I upgrade my
> kernel.

you should do mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy.  Replace vfat with whatever
format your floppy is in -- minix, ext2, msdos, etc.

There is a auto option you can place in /etc/fstab for the floppy device. 
However for that to work you need to either a) compile support for the common
file systems into the kernel or b) auto load all of those modules at boot.

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

[Ray Percival]

Add deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distiributions/debian unstable main 
to /etc/apt/sources.list
run apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

This will grab the helix stuff for you and leave everything else alone just to 
make sure read what packages it is going to upgrade before you say yes. I've 
done this it works well and I'm very happy with it.

Apt? Is there anything it can't do?

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:54:27 GMT

>Hello,
>
>I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome helix 
>running under potato.
>
>Can it be done (without resorting to woody)?
>How?
>
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How to test HDD thoroughly? (Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel)

[hogan]

I have a 486DX4/100 (kinda) running Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel..

A week or two back it started misbehaving and I asked a few of you guys about
the place about what "Unknown vector XXX in CPU#0" and "hda interrupt lost"
meant..

Some people said that it sounds like the hard disk is on the way out. What I
want to know is, how do I test an ext2fs formatted hard disk more intensively
than at just a filesystem level?

The hard disk in question is a Fujitsu, 1GB or so.
The IDE controller is a SiS.
The motherboard is both PCI and ISA (strange as most 486s were ISA only or
VLB - also - should it be edge or level detect for PCI settings??)

If it is indeed the harddisk that has died, does anyone have any
good-condition 1GB-8GB IDE drives? I don't think this old 486'll handle over
8GB, that and I'm not too crash hot on using some of that 'patch my bios on
boot' master boot sector voodoo evil :)

Any suggestions welcome
Anthony

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

[Robb Kidd]

Martin Waller wrote:

> Unfortunately, the computers in question are behind a web proxy which
> requires manually logging on, so that http access method of apt won't
> work
> are we unstuck?

I don't see anything other than http lines mentioned on the Helix Code
sites.   Got modems and a lot of time on your hands?
:)  Or at least use a modem to download it to one machine and then use apt-move
to create an internal apt source.

Re: Basic Kernel Question

[hogan]

> you should do mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy.  Replace vfat with whatever
> format your floppy is in -- minix, ext2, msdos, etc.
>
> There is a auto option you can place in /etc/fstab for the floppy device.
> However for that to work you need to either a) compile support for the
common
> file systems into the kernel or b) auto load all of those modules at boot.

>From memory you need module "autofs" or similar loaded or compiled into
kernel.

Anthony

Fw: Boot-time Usenet warning on cvalle

[carolina valle]

Hi,

I've installed Debian as a partition to my Windows98 laptop...I'm a new user
to Debian/Linux and I've been getting these emails at work. I've been asked
to change the name of my machine (which is apparently 'fux'), but I don't
know how to go about doing this. I've been getting emails like this for 2
weeks now. I do remember choosing the name 'fux' at one point during the
installation, in which a more experienced Linux user was walking me through
it. I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how to solve this
problem. It seems that emails are being sent to 'root'@yellowbrix.com and
then forwarded to my box (fux). I need to stop this from happening.

Thanks so much!

Carol


- Original Message -
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:47 AM
Subject: Boot-time Usenet warning on cvalle


> Old .news.daily file; need to run news.daily?
>

smtp domain question

[Debian Ghost]

Hey Guys,
I have just changed DNS to point to a different domain. 
I changed from ghost.net.cfw.com to ghost.ntelos.net. I edited
the /etc/exim.conf file to reflect the change, but for some reason
when I telnet to smtp "ESMTP", it still thinks it is the old domain rather
than the new. Is there a global configuration I need to make system wide
to get my services to recognize the new domain?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc> telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ghost.net.cfw.com ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:30:24 -0500

Any advice appriciated!
Thank you kindly,

D. Ghost

Re: Dual OS

[csj]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Hi Debian's;
> Have installed Debian 2.2 (potato) using 3 CD's from CheapBytes.
> Things are going ok except that when I run "uname -a" the return
> is "2.2.15-4mdk" whereas was expecting "2.2.2.17pre6.deb".
> 
> My system is a Pentium 166MMX, 64MB RAM, cd-rom, floppy,
> 2 hard drives 8.1G and 9.1G. Mandrake is installed on /dev/hda1
> (8.1G) with lilo using the MBR for startup. It also provides for
> starting alternate OS which I use. Mandrake was installed before
> I installed Debian.
> 
> Used Mandrake to fdisk /dev/hdb so that there is 4 partitions on
> /dev/hdb. "dev/hdb1", "/dev/hdb5", "/dev/hdb6" and "/dev/hdb7".
> Used Debian to activate "dev/hdb1" as "/", "dev/hdb5" as "/usr",
> "dev/hdb6" as "/var" and "dev/hdb7" as "/home".
> 
> Why didn't Debian use the kernel version 2.2.17pre6 that is on
> the CD's instead of using 2.2.15-4mdk?
> 
> TIA
> Clay Stapleton

Funny. But the following post appears to answer your question. Can you
"modprobe" properly? If you can't, then your problem is probably a
misconfigured boot manager (lilo or grub?). From the suffix alone, 2.2.15-4mdk
appears to be a Mandrake kernel. If Ethan's solution doesn't work (I haven't
tried it yet), try mine (boot Debian as a non-Linux OS).

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter
From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org


On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:49:29AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've installed multiple Linuses in combinations like Mandrake + Debian,
> Mandrake + Storm, Redhat + Debian. The biggest problem for me was the module
> loading. modprobe produces error messages about not finding the module to be
> loaded.
> 
> But this may be because in LILO I installed Debian as just another Linux OS.
> In a recent reinstall I configured Debian to boot as an alien ("other")
> operating system (like winblows). Now I'm able to modprobe without too much
> fuss.

sounds like you weren't configuring lilo correctly, i assume you have
seperate / filesystems for each distro, and you did NOT have seperate
/boot partitions, you probably had a lilo.conf like this:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
 root=/dev/hda1 ## redhat
 read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
 root=/dev/hda2 ## debian
 read-only

on your redhat /etc and ran lilo from redhat.  this would boot your
REDHAT kernel using your Debian root filesystem (and thus debian
modules which don't match the redhat kernel) 

what you should have done instead is:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda1 ## redhat
read-only

image=/debian/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2 ## debian
read-only

and mounted your debian / on /debian under redhat, THEN run lilo, and
your debian kernel will be loaded for debian and your redhat kernel
for redhat.

remember that lilo does not read /etc/lilo.conf at boot time, it only
uses it at install time to create a blocklist for the specified
kernel.  the root= is not used by lilo except as an argument it passes
to the kernel.  the first lilo.conf just creates one blocklist for the
redhat kernel and passes it a different root= argument.  

the latter creates two blocklists, one for redhat one for debian
kernels. 

Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]

[mike]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:33:32 +0200, Remco Rijnders said:

> Hello all,
>  
>  I was hoping if any of you know the solution to the following problem
>  reported to me by email:
>  
>  - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon  -
>  
>  Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:27:35 +0200 (CEST)
>  From: root (Cron Daemon)
>  To: root
>  Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts 
> --report /etc/cron.daily
>  X-Cron-Env: 
>  X-Cron-Env: 
> 
>  X-Cron-Env: 
>  X-Cron-Env: 
>  
>  /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>  error: mysql-server:15 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mysql.log
>  run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
>  
>  - End forwarded message -
>  
>  I get this mail daily. The error started to occur when I did an
>  upgrade from potato to woody. Any help is much appreciated :)
>  

 Look in /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server.
There should be only one entry for /var/log/mysql.log. 
Sounds like the upgrade to woody duplicated this entry.

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Re: pg_log (PostgreSQL)

[Oliver Elphick]

Michel Tremblay wrote:
  >I use pgsql 6.5.3
  >What's the pg_log?
  >
  >Why the pg_log come bigger
  >when many transaction is execute, vacuum update etc...
  >in my database?
  >
  >it's possible to reinitialise the pg_log?
 
pg_log is poorly named.  It is not a log file.  DO NOT touch it!
It records the state of every transaction in your database; if you
lose pg_log you lose your data!

I'm copying this to the users list to ensure wider coverage for this
information.

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Re: Mysql error

[kmself]

on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:56:54PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> hello all
> 
> my mysql server keeps telling me:
> 
> Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed.
> 
> I've tried to uninstall, reinstall... I remade all my http system
> to try to fix it... looking inside the logs I found that it is
> not finding file "host.ISM". What can I do to fix it?

This is part of your local MySQL configuration, it's part of the hosts
table in the mysql database itself.  Looks like you're not getting a
postinstallation or configuration job running correctly.  I'd try a
*purge* of MySQL, including wiping your databases (if you need to
preserve data, try moving the directory elsewhere for the interim).
Then reinstall.

Good luck.

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Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]

[Remco Rijnders]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mike wrote:

>>  /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>>  error: mysql-server:15 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mysql.log
>>  run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

> Look in /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server. There
> should be only one entry for /var/log/mysql.log. Sounds like the
> upgrade to woody duplicated this entry.

Mike, 

Thank you for responding. I checked the files as you mentioned. 
/etc/logrotate.conf doesn't mention any mysql.log at all. 
/etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server contains one entry for
/var/log/mysql.log and one for /var/log/mysql.err . I am kind of
stumped as to where the message I am getting is coming from as I can't
seem to find any indication as to why this would be so.

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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and powerfailure

[kmself]

on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Matt Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I was doing an dist-upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and my power went out. Data is 
> backed up but I had to rush out of the house to work. I didn't get to boot 
> the system. When I do what should I expect. Will I need to format or will It 
> begin where it left off(Just Hopeing). Any tips or suggestions would be 
> appreciated.

apt-get tends to be interruptable.  If you haven't already booted, you
should find that you can, your disks will probably require an fsck
(which will happen automatically).  If "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't
run, it will probably prompt you to run "dpkg --configure -a" to finish
configuring any half-configured packages.

Pretty clean, all-in-all.  Try that with RPM .

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Re: X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work

[kmself]

Haven't tried it lately, but my understanding was that it didn't do
remote connections.  Or maybe it was selector with the '-indirect' or
'-query' options.

on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:20:45PM -0700, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> GDM knows perfectly well what XDMCP is, as do all DM's based on XDM (are
> there any that AREN'T?).
> 
> The default gdm config is fine.  Add:
> 
> gdm: 192.168.0. (or whatever)
> 
> to your hosts.allow and you'll be fine.
> 
> If it STILL decides to be weird, look at gdm.conf and make sure you have
> "Enable=1" in the [xdmcp] section.
> 
> -
> Marc Wilson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson
> 
>  -Original Message-
> From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:22 AM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Re: X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work
> 
>  << File: ATT00185.dat >> on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Thomas
> Luft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed Debian woody release (because of KDE) and want to
> > connect my Win32 computer to the linux kdm. I am using StarNet's
> > X-Server (X-Win32) and wanted to connect to the Linux machine via
> > XDMCP (Broadcast and query). Unfortunately the Debian machine isn't
> > willing to host any sessions...  Does anyone know where to tweak the
> > settings so that I am able to start an X-Session on Win32?
> 
> $ apt-get install xdm
> 
> AFAIK, other display managers don't support XDMCP, except possibly WDM,
> 'coz WindowMaker's just so fscking cool .
> 
> Launch X on the Windows box.  You'll want something like the -direct,
> -indirect, or -query options, forget which 'zactly.
> 
> Alternative is simply to start an X session and launch stuff by hand
> from a telnet (ugh) or ssh (yeah!) session.  Plus you don't have to
> worry about your windowmanager crapping out.
> 
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Conexion a internet

[Roberto Calvente]

Hola, me llamo roberto y os escribi un e-mail el 
otro dia. Mi pregunta era y sigue siendo la siguiente:
 
como me puedo conectar a internet con 
Linux?
 
Tengo instalada la Debian 2.2 potato, un modem 
zoltrix externo 56k y pentium 200 MMX.
 
Lo intenté con el wvdial y parece que conecta ya 
que el modem hace el ruido estridente de comprobar el ancho de banda, y luego me 
comprueba el login y el password del ISP, a continuacion me pone starting pppd. 
Por lo que supongo que ha conectado. Sin embargo, cuando ejecuto el netscape no 
entra en ninguna pagina, solo me sale conect loking www.direccion que le doy y ya esta no puedo 
entrar en ninguna pagina.
 
Por favor, si alguien sabe como puedo arreglarlo 
mandenme un e-mail a 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

 
Gracias.
 

Re: Debian diskless X-Terminals

[kmself]

on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:10:37AM +0200, Denis J. Cirulis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> I want to build a network of X-Terminals (Debian based of course).
> Which hardware is best for this stuff (both server(1) and clients(5)) and is
> there any Debianized way of creating terminals. I saw LTSP page and packages
> but these are made for RH. 
> If someone can tell me the debians way of making X-terminals please mail me
> privately cause now i'm not in the list.

There was a recent article on this posted at LinuxToday -- within the
past two weeks, IIRC.  There may also be docs at the Debian website
and/or through Google.

Hardware depends on your setup.  For simple X Terminals, minimal
hardware (486, Pentium), with a good graphics card, high-speed
networking, and a good monitor, should be sufficient.  For various types
of local processing, you're going to want more memory and CPU.  Look for
savings in administration, not hardware, though you may see some
advantages there as well.

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Re: mouse and keyboard problems in x 3.3.6

[Andreas Hetzmannseder]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:56:48AM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote:
> 
> [...] 
> The line in the /etc/gpm.conf file
> reads : "type =PS/2", so I changed
> the same line to "type=PS/2" in
> the XF86Config file.

I just did the same thing yesterday, and I also got into trouble...

> In the /etc/gpm.conf file there is
> a symbolic link from /dev/mouse
> to /etc/gpmdata.
> 
> However, in the /etc/gpm.conf.file,
> an earlier line reads:
> device"/etc/psaux".
> 
> There is not a symbolic link
> between /dev/psaux to
> /dev/mouse.
> 
> I took care of most of the keyboard
> problems, the only thing is that I have
> a microsoft natural keyboard, and I
> cannot use the number pad on the far
> right. Everything else on the keyboard
> works fine, and the server no longer
> sends me error messages when
> I try to start x.
> 
> For your review, relevant sections of
> my XF86Config file as it now stands:
> 
> **
> keyboard section
> 
> Protocol   "standard"
> AutoRepeat500  5
> XkbModel  "Microsoft"
> 
> EndSection
> ***
> Section Pointer
> 
> Protocol"PS/2"
  ^^
You may want to try "Microsoft" instead.
That was given as the default protocol during my XF86Config.
Well, I thought that couldn't be right (although the mouse was moving perfectly
with it) as I also have a PS/2 mouse.
So I changed the protocol to "PS/2" and the "device to "/dev/psaux" and the
mouse was frozen forever...

> Device   "/dev/gpmdata"
   ^^
This should be OK.

> BaudRate  1200
> #ZaxisMapping   4  5
> Buttons3
> 
> EndSection
> **
> 
> X does start, and the pointer goes to
> the bottom of the screen, but it will
> only move back and forth across the
> bottom of the screen, but not
> up and down.

I hope the highlighted settings work for you as they do for me.

Kind regards,
Andreas.

Looking for libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

[Todd_La_Pittus]

Installing KDE 2.0 (AARGH!), and ALL sorts of dependency problems.

Trying to get libqt2.2 installed, but it needs the above mentioned package
installed 1st.

Thanks!
//Todd

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

[Erik Steffl]

tjm wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have had the same problem although it doesn't seem to
> cause any adverse condition with the machine.  The startup
> script /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils (/etc/init.d/modutils) runs
> depmod -a when the machine boots, but it seems that the
> time stamp that results from the new modules.dep file
> being made is incorrect.  It appears that the date is
> ok but the time is not, making it appear the modules.dep
> file may be older than modules.conf.  If I run depmod -a
> after the machine is up and running, the time/date stamp on
> the modules.dep file is correct.  Maybe the system time that
> is used when the startup script is run is not correct until
> later in the boot process, but I don't know enough of
> this to make changes safely.  Try changing the time/date of
> the modules.conf back a couple days by using 'touch' or
> remaking the file (update-modules) after turning the system
> time back temporarily to see if it makes a difference.  A
> proper solution would be much nicer, though.

  I tried that but the problem seems to be that the modules.conf is
updated during boot process (looking and date/time of the file), and
modules.dep is not (or is updated sooner)...

  well, at least I see I am not alone... does this look like a bug? last
time I checked there was no bug filed, but I have hard time to figure
out which package the bug would be filed for...

erik

> 
> Using Debian potato with a 2.2.17 kernel.
> 
> > >
> > > > Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
> > > > than /lib/m
> > > > odules/2.2.17/modules.dep
> > > >
> > > >   is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
> > > > why do I get the message?
> > >
> > > Do a 'depmod -a'
> > > Phil
> >
> >   it does not help at all, the reason why modules.conf is newer is
> > because some program always updates it during reboot but modules.dep is
> > not updated...
> >
> >   does anybody else have the same problem? if not, how come I have this
> > problem? I did not change startup scripts, everything is 'the debian
> > way'
> >
> > erik
> >
> 
> thanks,
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Re: Looking for libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

[romeu]

It's part of the woody (unstable) distribution. Point your
/etc/apt/sources.list to woody (unstable in place of stable, woody in place
of potato).
apt-get update
apt-get install libstdc++2.10 (I guess... See the package name with
apt-cache search libstdc++2.10)
It will install libqt2.2, and all the sttuff it needs.
I think you have to install libstdc++2.10  before installing KDE2. It
worked for me.




   
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16:35libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 
   

   

   






Installing KDE 2.0 (AARGH!), and ALL sorts of dependency problems.

Trying to get libqt2.2 installed, but it needs the above mentioned package
installed 1st.

Thanks!
//Todd



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Infrared hardware

[Tom Allard]

I'm interested in getting an infrared device for my desktop Linux box at 
home.  My requirements are that I must be able to control my VCR & Dish 
Network satellite receiver and it must be able to receive commands from the 
remote.  Using it to sync with my palm would be nice, but it's really the 
control of the VCR & Satellite that I'm interested in...

I've looked at IRMAN, but that's a receiver only.  I'd like to be able to 
use my linux box to control my video taping.  My satellite receiver has no 
"timer" functions and my Sony VCR's "cable mouse" doesn't know how to 
control the satellite.

Price, of course, is a consideration (but so are additional features).
Anything from a simple serial port dongle to a TV card would be considered.
It absolutely must work under Linux (currently Potato w/kernel 2.2.15, but
that can be upgraded as needed).

rgds-- TA  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.

compiling perl scripts

[Kevin Krafthefer]

Hello,

I am trying to speed up a perl script. So I am trying to byte compile
it, however, the resulting "c" code (from perl -MO script.pl) has some
header files that I don't have (EXTERN.h, perl.h, patchlevel.h, and
cc_runtime.h). Any ideas what packages might have these? Or any general
pointers in general on byte compiling perl?

Kevin

Setting up on-board sound hardware, also internal modem

[Mr J M Drake]

I'm making slow progress setting up a Debian system on an M800LMR
motherboard with onboard sound. The mobo documentation identifies the
Linux driver module as cmpci. This loads happily and finds sound hardware,
but can't write to it - as seen in this output from dmesg:

...
cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 09:53:24 Jun 25 2000
cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xcc00 irq 9
...
cmpci: write: chip lockup? dmasz 2048 fragsz 512 count 2048 hwptr 173
swptr 173
cmpci: write: chip lockup? dmasz 2048 fragsz 512 count 2048 hwptr 1145
swptr 1145

I've been advised that irq 9 is bad news and I should change it to
something else, but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone confirm that
this is the problem, explain what to do or otherwise help me? 

I also have an internal Genius GM56PCI-L modem, which came with no info on
Linux drivers at all. I've emailed the manufacturers but as yet had no
reply. Can anyone identify the correct module and point me in the right
direction for setting it up?

Many thanks

John

-- 


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Linux Tough guy

[Cavaiani, Don]

You seem to be much smarter by far than 98% of the people on this list.  I
have been trying for a couple of days - via the Debian list yesterday - to
find out how to make my linux part. bigger w/o losing everything.  I'm sure
the many e-mails must 'bout drive you batty some days!

I tried to find a FIPS expert via the web, but he's probably no longer
there, so I forwarded it directly to you for one last try.

domain change

[Debian Ghost]

Hey Guys,
I posted this question earlier in another way, but no one replied to it.
Maybe if I ask in another way:

I changed the domain name of my machine (via DNS) and was wondering
if there was a global file that I need to change to tell my machine it is

host.new.domain rather than host.old.domain.

I changed the exim.conf file (sendmail) but when I telnet into my machine,
somehow exim still thinks it is the old name even though I changed the
conf file. Is there any global file that I need to edit to get rid of the
old.domain and tell the machine it is new.domain?

Thanks a lot!

D. Ghost

Re: Linux Tough guy

[Andy Bastien]

There are those who would have you believe that Cavaiani, Don wrote:
> You seem to be much smarter by far than 98% of the people on this list.  I
> have been trying for a couple of days - via the Debian list yesterday - to
> find out how to make my linux part. bigger w/o losing everything.  I'm sure
> the many e-mails must 'bout drive you batty some days!
> 
> I tried to find a FIPS expert via the web, but he's probably no longer
> there, so I forwarded it directly to you for one last try.
> 


I don't think I'm the one you meant, but I know Partition Magic 5 can
resize ext2 partitions.  I don't remember whether it handles swap
partitions, but you can just delete and recreate those.

Re: domain change

[Andy Bastien]

There are those who would have you believe that Debian Ghost wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> I posted this question earlier in another way, but no one replied to it.
> Maybe if I ask in another way:
> 
> I changed the domain name of my machine (via DNS) and was wondering
> if there was a global file that I need to change to tell my machine it is
> 
> host.new.domain rather than host.old.domain.
> 
> I changed the exim.conf file (sendmail) but when I telnet into my machine,
> somehow exim still thinks it is the old name even though I changed the
> conf file. Is there any global file that I need to edit to get rid of the
> old.domain and tell the machine it is new.domain?
> 

Maybe /etc/hosts or /etc/hostname ?

btw, you aren't related to Space Ghost, are you?

Re: domain change

[Kevin Krafthefer]

/etc/host
/etc/hosts

Debian Ghost wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> I posted this question earlier in another way, but no one replied to it.
> Maybe if I ask in another way:
>
> I changed the domain name of my machine (via DNS) and was wondering
> if there was a global file that I need to change to tell my machine it is
>
> host.new.domain rather than host.old.domain.
>
> I changed the exim.conf file (sendmail) but when I telnet into my machine,
> somehow exim still thinks it is the old name even though I changed the
> conf file. Is there any global file that I need to edit to get rid of the
> old.domain and tell the machine it is new.domain?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> D. Ghost
>
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Re: broken woody

[Johann Spies]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:57:12AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> after a "apt-get dist-upgrade" my system (woody) seems quite broken.
> Apache and lpd among other daemons/progs are nolonger working.  Also
> my system load average is shown (top) as being around 1.2 although
> I can't see any obvious "culprit"-processes, and the system dosn't
> "feel" loaded.

An upgrade to some woody packages broke my lpd but replacing (on
potato) lpr with lprng (as somebody on this list suggested) solved the
problem.

My apache is still working.

Johann
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  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of 
  God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and 
  perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the 
  world."  Philippians 2:14,15 

Re: mv multiple files w/wildcard

[Johann Spies]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 06:13:50PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > 
> > I have a number of subdirectories where I have files with - such as 
> > name - title.txt and I wish to convert them to:
> > name: title.txt

> 
> Look at 'rename':
> 
>rename 's/\s-\s/: /' *
> 

or maybe mmv

Johann
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  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of 
  God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and 
  perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the 
  world."  Philippians 2:14,15 

Re: Linux Tough guy

[kmself]

on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:42:27PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> You seem to be much smarter by far than 98% of the people on this list.  I
> have been trying for a couple of days - via the Debian list yesterday - to
> find out how to make my linux part. bigger w/o losing everything.  I'm sure
> the many e-mails must 'bout drive you batty some days!
> 
> I tried to find a FIPS expert via the web, but he's probably no longer
> there, so I forwarded it directly to you for one last try.

I've used fips once, to resize a Win98 partition (shrinking it), prior
to installing GNU/Linux.

I've used Partition Magic, once, to resize several partitions on a
laptop -- both shrinking and growing them.  Working without docs, the
process was moderately terrifying, however, I was willing to skotch the
whole disk, so I accepted the risk.  The process takes a fair bit of
time, is *not* immediately intuitive, is hindered by a deceptive
topical resemblance to the Legacy MS Windows GUI, though the guts are in
fact quite different (minor example:  it's not possible to move a window
on screen).  The process doesn't indicate when it's going to start (when
you've committed to changes), or provide any realistic idea of how long
it will take to complete.

My preferred partitioning mode is to back up all relevant partitions to
tape, verify backups, repartition disks as desired, and restore backups.
It's somewhat more time-intensive, but it works, and generally reduces
risks.

If I've got the spare disk space, I'll usually make the tapes as a
precautionary measure, but use a disk partition as a staging area for
actual data transfer -- much faster.

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Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?

[John Ericson]

On Oct 24 14:28, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Are you specifying a display for the X client?  Following works:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ batch
> warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
> at> export DISPLAY=:1
> at> xlogo & 
> at> 
> job 66 at 2000-10-24 14:24
>

The export DISPLAY=:0 line did the trick. I guess I must have made it more
complicated for me than it was. 

Thanks for you help!

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Q: Update CD Rom options?

[Jonathan Gift]

Hi,

When I loaded Debian 2.2 I gave it the stable distribution. I see on the
package list on their web site that there's also unstable and non-free. I've
looked with apt-get and can't see them. Are there other sources on the CD I
should have apt-get ackowledge? Is non-free in fact on the cd?

If there are others, what are they that should be added or reconfigured by
ap-get?

Thanks,

Jonathan

Re: Linux Tough guy

[Geordie Birch]

the debian package parted resizes ext2fs (or claims to.)

guess i'm the linux tough guy.  i'll take you all on.

said Cavaiani, Don, on Oct 25,

> You seem to be much smarter by far than 98% of the people on this list.  I
> have been trying for a couple of days - via the Debian list yesterday - to
> find out how to make my linux part. bigger w/o losing everything.  I'm sure
> the many e-mails must 'bout drive you batty some days!
> 
> I tried to find a FIPS expert via the web, but he's probably no longer
> there, so I forwarded it directly to you for one last try.

Can I use sendmail with having a console login

[Jay Kelly]

hello guys,
Im running sendmail and would like to give email accounts to my entire
office but do not want to give them a login to access the server via
console, ftp, ssh etc. Can this be done? Can I give a email account without
a home directory account?
Thanks

Re: PHP

[staf wagemakers]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:36:58PM +0300, Adrian Nims wrote:
> I try to use PHP language in connection wiht web, I'm on debian potato
> and using apache web server 1.2.6. I have the following problem: when I
> run a php file in netscape it appears a window "Save as ..." instead of
> executing my php file. Does anybody know how can I solve this ?

Add the next lines to your srm.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

and restart apache.

This should solve the problem...

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gnome shortcuts

[Debian Ghost]

Hey All,
Silly little question here. 
I can swear I used to drag icons from the Gnome pager to the desktop to
create a "shortcut". I recently had to reinstall enlightenment (not
gnome) but when I started X again, all my gnome stuff was gone. When I try
to drag icons off the main gnome pager to the desktop, they don't
stick. It is like a paper icon that flies back to the pager. Could anyone
tell me what I am doing wrong and suggest a way to get icons on the
desktop.

I also use multiple virtual desktops and sometimes the gnome pager will be
on all of them and sometimes it will only pop up on my original desktop
but not the other desktops. Anyone have a clue about that?

Thanks so much,

D. Ghost

'space ghost using debian'

sound module

[Debian Ghost]

For some reason my sound module stopped working recently. I can't fathom
any configuration changes that I've made. Does anyone have any ideas on
how I can get this working?

Oct 25 16:43:07 ghost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/ad1848.o: insmod
sound-slot-0 failed
Oct 25 16:21:20 ghost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/ad1848.o: insmod
sound-slot-0 failed
Oct 25 16:21:28 ghost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/ad1848.o: insmod
sound-slot-0 failed
Oct 25 16:22:06 ghost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/ad1848.o: insmod
sound-slot-0 failed

Thanks!

D. Ghost

Re: compiling perl scripts

[Colin Watson]

Kevin Krafthefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to speed up a perl script. So I am trying to byte compile
>it, however, the resulting "c" code (from perl -MO script.pl) has some
>header files that I don't have (EXTERN.h, perl.h, patchlevel.h, and
>cc_runtime.h).

Try compiling with -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/CORE.

>Any ideas what packages might have these? Or any general pointers in
>general on byte compiling perl?

To be honest: don't bother. You end up with an enormous executable
unless you have a libperl.so, and even then you have to assume people
you're distributing it to have that library too. If you compile, evals
get noticeably hairier. And it's harder to debug.

Also, you should understand that the speed gains are relatively small.
Compiling speeds up the loading process, of course, but after that the
script will (as far as I know) run at the same speed. Even the loading
process isn't all that slow. As a data point, some benchmarks done by
people at the web server company I work for compared CGIs written in C
and Perl against various other forms of dynamic content generation, and
while the difference was there it wasn't anything to worry about (a
fraction of the difference between CGI and FastCGI, for example).

If you want to speed up your Perl scripts, there are much more useful
things you can do:

  * Don't 'use diagnostics' in production code. It slows down compiling
by about a third of a second to half a second of a few-hundred-line
script on this P3-450.

  * Check your use of other modules to make sure you aren't sucking in
large volumes of general-purpose code. For instance, using the
Exporter might be overkill if you just want to export one symbol, as
you could manipulate the symbol table yourself, or using IO::File
might be overkill if all you want is localized filehandles, as you
can do that with 'local *FH'.

  * Use the /o switch on regexes containing variable interpolation if
you're sure the variables won't change over the lifetime of the
script. Or, if they will change but not within some inner loop, wrap
that loop in an eval().

  * study() scalars on which you're going to do a lot of pattern
matches.

  * Use Perlish constructs where you can. For instance, 'foreach my
$element (@list)' is faster than 'for (my $i = 0; my $element =
$list[$i]; $i++)'.

  * Generally, the fewer operators you use, the faster your code will
be.

  * Watch out for list assignments, passing large argument lists into
functions, and returning large lists from functions, all of which
can lead to a lot of data being copied around unnecessarily. Use
references instead if the lists are large.

  * Use techniques like the Schwartzian Transform or the Guttman-Rosler
Transform when sorting large lists on only part of each element.

  * Cache the results of frequently called functions. The Memoize module
on CPAN may help with this.

  * Don't use functions that invoke shells if you can possibly avoid it,
for reasons of both security and speed.

  * ... and, of course, the usual "check your algorithms", as you would
for any language.

Hope that helps,

-- 
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Make Menuconfig + curses.h

[Hanno Böttcher]

Hi all!

I have a problem simply starting the Menuconfig before compiling the
Kernel. I downloaded 2.2.17 from ftp.kernel.org and unziped it to
/usr/src/linux. Then I tried to run "make menuconfig" but I got an error
similar to "dialog.h:29: curses.h: no such file or directory". I tried
to find out, where to get this file, but I didn't find anything, no
matter if online or at the Debian CD. Anyone got a similar prob?

Thanx for help
Hanno

Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]

[mike]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:21:15 + (UTC), Remco Rijnders said:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mike wrote:
>  
>  >>  /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>  >>  error: mysql-server:15 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mysql.log
>  >>  run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
>  
>  > Look in /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server. There
>  > should be only one entry for /var/log/mysql.log. Sounds like the
>  > upgrade to woody duplicated this entry.
>  
>  Mike, 
>  
>  Thank you for responding. I checked the files as you mentioned. 
>  /etc/logrotate.conf doesn't mention any mysql.log at all. 
>  /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server contains one entry for
>  /var/log/mysql.log and one for /var/log/mysql.err . I am kind of
>  stumped as to where the message I am getting is coming from as I can't
>  seem to find any indication as to why this would be so.
>  
What i would try next is to comment out the 'include' line in
/etc/logrotate.conf.  I am assuming you have a line like:
include /etc/logrotate.d . 
This should ignore the mysql-server file that contains 
/var/log/mysql.log. Then do #run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily and  see what
messages you get.
If you get no error message , check /var/log to make sure
that mysql.log is still getting rotated.
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Re: /boot

[m . senft]

On 21 Oct, ColdWater wrote:
> Even with the boot in before the 1024cil,  is it recomended to to create a
> /boot partion?

In the manual of SuSE Linux (German Distribution) it's recommended to
create a /boot partition for all disks above 500MB. Debian defaults to
no /boot partition. However, the File System Standard says that /boot
is the place for all static files of the boot loader, the biggest of
them (normally) is the kernel.
IMHO, for a standalone workstation it doesn't really matter. A separate
partition is good for servers since you can prohibit accessing it (mount
it readonly). Since it's quite easy to create, it's always a good idea
to create such a partition.

> Is it good, bad or it does not matter? What about it's size. 10Mb is enough?

About the size: Depends on your kernel, but 10MB surely is enough. On our
small server we have a /boot partition of 5 MB, while 1.3MB are used
(standard Debian installation, standard kernel). If you're going to
install a kernel with huge multimedia support compiled in, you maybe
need 10MB, I never checked that out.
It's always a good way to use 1 block for the /boot partition,
especially on large disks.
You should place the /boot partition first on the disk, it's
easier to administrate and you avoid problems such as 1024-cyl and the
like.


greetings...
marco

Re: Make Menuconfig + curses.h

[Leen Besselink]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Hanno [iso-8859-1] B?ttcher wrote:

> /usr/src/linux. Then I tried to run "make menuconfig" but I got an error
> similar to "dialog.h:29: curses.h: no such file or directory". I tried

I think this is solved by installing the ncurses header files:
apt-get install libncurses5-dev

sit back have fun ! :)

-
New things are always on the horizon.

Re: gnome shortcuts

[Erik Steffl]

  you might try to start gnome desktop, forgot which program it is, I
once started it accidentally... try gnome control center..., gnome panel
or something liked that...

erik

Debian Ghost wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
> Silly little question here.
> I can swear I used to drag icons from the Gnome pager to the desktop to
> create a "shortcut". I recently had to reinstall enlightenment (not
> gnome) but when I started X again, all my gnome stuff was gone. When I try
> to drag icons off the main gnome pager to the desktop, they don't
> stick. It is like a paper icon that flies back to the pager. Could anyone
> tell me what I am doing wrong and suggest a way to get icons on the
> desktop.
> 
> I also use multiple virtual desktops and sometimes the gnome pager will be
> on all of them and sometimes it will only pop up on my original desktop
> but not the other desktops. Anyone have a clue about that?
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> D. Ghost
> 
> 'space ghost using debian'
> 
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Mirrors <<< Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000

[Antonio Rodriguez]

According to [1], the mirrors will be afected, so to create them it is said the
some "exclude" tweaking must be done. Does anyone have the info -or the script-
for what exactly is meant
Mirroring Potato, getting ready for 2.2_r1

Joey Hess wrote:

> ---
> Debian Weekly News
> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/
> Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000
> ---
>
> Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian community.
>
> Debian has package pools! James Troup [1]revealed that "for the last
> month and a half, I've been working on re-implementing dinstall and
> switching to package pools." His message gives details about how
> regular users, developers, and mirror admins will be affected (not
> much, not much, and a great deal), the new layout of the Debian
> archive, the database backend, the migration strategy ("an
> as-of-yet-unwritten tool will migrated n Mb of data a day into the
> pool from the legacy dists/ tree"), and the timeline before this is
> put in place on the Debian archive (about two weeks).
>
> A beta version of the LSB-FHS test suite was ran against several major
> distributions including Debian woody, which failed 17 tests out of
> 243. A [2]chart shows that other distributions failed many more, while
> SuSE only failed 5. The [3]detailed report of Debian's failures is
> interesting reading. After [4]examining each failure, Wichert
> Akkerman commented, "Not all of the test results are fair in my
> opinion: some are real bugs in Debian, others are bugs in the
> testsuite or the result of using an incomplete install." Some were
> really bugs in the test suite, a few were things that should [5]not
> be in the FHS, and 6 of the 9 remaining failures "can be fixed by
> simply creating empty directories" Since FHS editor Daniel Quinlan and
> the [6]author of the test suite are involved in the discussion, it
> appears that all of these things will be eventually worked out.
>
> Why isn't Helix Gnome in Debian yet? For a while now there has been
> duplication of effort, with Peter Teichman of Helix maintaining an apt
> repository of Helix Gnome packages, and other Debian developers
> maintaining regular Gnome in Debian. The only real reason for this
> duplication of work is that Peter thinks that there might be
> [7]copyright problems with some of the images in Helix Gnome, but
> he's not sure, and for whatever reason this question has been
> unresolved for some time now. Meanwhile, some folks [8]feel that "the
> woody packages aren't BAD, but after using Helix, going back feels
> like a serious downgrade", and others [9]have found that the Helix
> packages "do not have the same quality when it comes to dependencies
> and such". A subthread that tried to list the differences between the
> two sets of packages found very little of note besides Helix's
> branding. Whatever the differences, many people are using the Helix
> debs, and bothering Debian developers with things like [10]this bug
> report. This situation really needs to be resolved before it has a
> chance to turn ugly.
>
> Debian's newest server is klecker.debian.org, which is now serving as
> Debian's [11]main web server. Of course, it's named after Joel "Espy"
> Klecker. Unfortunately, many home directories from the old
> va.debian.org machine, which suffered a disk failure, have still not
> been recovered and may be [12]gone for good. A new hostname,
> people.debian.org has also been [13]set up, "which will exclusively be
> used for individual web pages". Developers with personal Debian web
> pages should begin using URLs based on the new domain name.
>
> New packages in Debian this week include the following, and [14]80
> more:
>   * [15]insight: Graphical debugger based on gdb
>   * [16]kannel: WAP and SMS gateway
>   * [17]scigraphica: Scientific graphics and data manipulation
>   * [18]webmin: Web based administration interface
>
> There were no security announcements this week.
>
> More and more Debian news sources are appearing. The latest arrival is
> [19]Debian Planet, a web site providing Debian news in a weblog
> format. In the meantime, [20]Kernel Cousin Debian is up to their 7th
> issue, but still needs more contributors.
>
> ---
> References
>   1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0010/msg7.html
>   2. http://www.linuxbase.org/test/results/
>   3. http://www.linuxbase.org/test/results/Detailed_Debian_Woody.html
>   4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01440.html
>   5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01731.html
>   6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01490.html
>   7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01462.html
>   8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01432.html
>   9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-

Re: Mouse not working in X -- still

[Geordie Birch]

are you running gpm?

does your mouse work under gpm?

if so i recommend that you:

# /etc/init.d/gpm stop

and then get your mouse working under x.

last week i almost threw some perfectly good hardware out the window

gb

said Bob Edwards, on Oct 24,

> Greetings,
> 
> My mouse is not working in X. I've made a lot of silly mistakes along
> the way that have made things a lot more difficult than necessary. But I
> persist . . .
> 
> Pertinent information:
> 
> PS/2 Mouse
> Bus mouse
> Potato version: 2.2.17
> X version: 3.3.6
> 
> If I'm understanding the HOW-TOS correctly, 2.2.17 does not support a
> busmouse.
> Is that correct.
> 
> Please be patient with a newbie, and help if your own busy schedules
> permit.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob Edwards
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Fayetteville, Arkansas
> 
> 
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