Re: how to access image file without floppy
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:23:07PM +0800, a wrote: > My floppy drive does not work. Can I read files in image file such as > resc1440.bin? To read the files on the rescue disk (which is a FAT filesystem): mount -o loop -t msdos rescue.bin /mnt To read the files on the root disk (which is a compressed ext2 filesystem) Backup file: cp root.bin temp_root.bin.gz decompress:gunzip temp_root.bin.gz mount: mount -o loop -t ext2 temp_root.bin /mnt -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware
Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
Running unstable, I do this: apachectl start And get this: Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started I haven't altered /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Where did the invalid command 'ExtendedStatus' come from? If I comment this command and try to start apache, I'm taken to another invalid command, and then another, and so on. Finally, after I comment 8 or 12 invalid commands apache will start. apachectl has worked fine until a few days ago. I do this: apacheconfig And get this: Finding DSO mods Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484. ..Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484. and so on for a few screens. Finally the config files are generated, and, upon attempted restart, the above-described 'Invalid Command' errors appear. Here is line 484 of /usr/sbin/apacheconfig: if ($main::allconf =~ m/^\s*$l\W/m) Are the apacheconfig messages related to the invalid commands in /etc/apache/httpd.conf? Is Perl issuing errors or warnings? Should I just manually fix /etc/apache/httpd.conf and go on my merry way?
Re: sound question
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The "right way" to do this is to add it using modconf. But AFAIK this just > adds > it to /etc/modules (along with any arguments the module might need). > Thanks for the info it's great to know about tools like modconf. I do think your right that it adds them to /etc/modules because it showed that my nm256 was already configured, but, the man page looks like this tool is more powerful than *just* adding them to the /etc/modules file. thanks again, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
re: setting up eth1 interface
> ###network modules > alias eth0 tulip > alias eth1 tulip What if you added the right IO, to the lines above ? Did you try that ? Although I'm not sure, as far as I could tell that module didn't have options. > #options tulip io=0x400,0x800 This was for both cards right ? > > The options line is now commented out since neither card would work with > that line. > > modprobe -v eth1 was silent, no errors or messages in /var/log/messages If it's silent that meant it didn't do anything. Maybe you need a different driver then the Tulip one, otherwise I would think he'd find it (especially if you added the IO-parameters). If you run out of ideas I found an other one: compile into the kernel and add this to your lilo: ether=0,0,0,0 eth0 ether=0,0,0,eth1 or something like that. Also did you try looking at the diagnostic program at his webpage ? http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html And you could also try downloading the latest driver there. Compile that and try it. BTW, what happends if you haven't inserted the module yet (there is no eth0) and the insert with the right options to find eth1 ? Other ideas, not yet, maybe later. ;) (I'm sure this can work in some way). Now I've gotta go and shower and get to work fast, Lennie.
HELP! - LILO (SCSI)
hi all I tried adding a ULTRA SCSI hard disk to the server (on the separate ULTRA SCSI channel on the controller), and while the system correctly identifies all of the attached SCSI devices (including the two other HDDs), it gives me this message when I connect the ULTRA SCSI drive: can't locate boot device If I disconnect it, ie. take my system back to exactly the way it was before, LILO stops at "LI"???!?!?!? Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?? thanks a lot Andrew
use the same type1 fonts for latex, X and gs
I want to install some type1 fonts for latex X and gs. But I don't want to copy the same fonts into different directories. Is there a way to tell the programms to use the same directory? (Well I guess this is possible, but won't latex choke on fonts.dir?) Cheers Martin -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium) pgpPKXLgkDcxm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
hi matt, On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Matt Miller wrote: > Are the apacheconfig messages related to the invalid commands in > /etc/apache/httpd.conf? Is Perl issuing errors or warnings? i do not know as i run potato. i do not use apacheconfig as i can hardly imagine a script that really configures apache the way you want it to. > Should I > just manually fix /etc/apache/httpd.conf and go on my merry way? i would do so. to test whether the syntax of httpd.conf is ok, do the following (apache does not get started): /usr/sbin/apache -t for debugging, do /usr/sbin/apache -X (runs apache in single-process mode) normal start: /usr/sbin/apache & rgds dani -- Daniel Mettler http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd All general statements are false. (The Ultimate Law)
Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?
Stan Kaufman wrote: > > Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how > to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I > start, I'd like to know what I'm running into. HI Stan, looks like were in the same situation. I'm looking into building .debs now but I don't know how. If you need some help on that HOW-TO please let me know. Again I have no experience here but it's about time to start. later, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: DRI in XFree 4 with i810
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:33:55AM +0530, Viral wrote: > I've got XFree 4 starting up with DRI (I'm running 2.4-test11, with > the > agpgart and dri modules). > > I can run the gears demo, but quake 3a fails to run. > I get some Gart errors in my log. > I'm attaching my log file. Does anyone know whats the problem. > DRIUnlock called when not locked > (WW) AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Device or resource busy) > (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Invalid argument) I have exactly same errors, and it makes my X crash. But it is not related to Quake3 and I can't reproduce it. Dmitry Borodaenko
lprng and magicfilter problem
Greetings, It seems that these two packages work really well together! but I have a networking problem though.. and I would like to understand what is going on. I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer. Works well when I print from this host. (I've set the magicfilter to 'ljet2p'.) I set up my laptop to talk to print to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it does, but magicfilter doesn't process this postscript that it sends, and passes it directly to the printer (which spits it out as stepped text, not recognising the !%.) Why is this happening? Why isn't the postscript being processed by magicfilter on the server? Standard stable (potato) Debian installation on both.. lprng_3.6.12-8 magicfilter_1.2.39 and the server queues set up with 'magicfilterconfig'. I don't want to have to install (not that it's overly difficult) magicfilter on all the workstations. Any help appriciated. Paul Schulz
Re: Re: expand software raid
I set up a small Linux system on /dev/hda and than added 3 other disks to one raiddevice. The Linux System is Debian 2.2r0 Standart Installation with a new 2.2.17 Kernel with raid patches from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/ than the raid utils from the same site. After this you can create /dev/md0 from your three disks you want to use raid with. good luck Michael >I have 3 HD and I would like set RAID 5 on them using software raid under >debian. I currently have nothing on any HD, they all have no partions. I >would like to know what would be the best steps for me to take? I >creating a small partition at the end of one of the drives to set up the >kernel etc for software raid the best thing to do then create all my other >partitions? What were the steps you took to set up raid 5? >Thanks >Matt >On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Michael Bürkle wrote: >> anyoone knows if it's possible to expand a software raid 5 under debian from >> 3 HD to 4 HD without deleting the 3 existing disks? >> >> thx Michael >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim & mutt
On 23 Nov 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 11/24/00 00:36:47 -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail
> > using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it
> > (and other mail clients), but I don't know how can I properly configure
> > exim, specially to handle the fact that my machine's hostname is dynamic
> > (it tries to use its local hostname, which doesn't exist, since it is
> > just "debian"). What should I do? Thank you.
>
> I take it you mean that your email address with your isp is different
> that your local email address, is this right?
>
> At the end of the exim.conf file there is a section for rewriting
> stuff. I'm not sure of your requirements, but I'm the only use on thsi
> system, and so I'm the only one that sends mail from it. I have this
> entry in the REWRITE CONFIGURATION section:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcfrF
>
> Here, my local [EMAIL PROTECTED] My @home email address is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I want to rewrite my local email address with
> one that the world will recognize in all the appropriate places.
> That's what the bcfrF is for. Each rewrites a heading in the email
> header like so:
>
> b - blind copy
> c - courtesy copy
> f - from
> r - reply-to
> F - From
>
> So whenever your local email address appears in any of these headers,
> it will be rewritten with your "real" address.
>
Interesting. I had the same problem as Carlos but was able to solve it
because I do have a dotted quad name for one of the ISPs I use.
However, I've just looked at my /etc/exim.conf, and I see that exim
itself has set up the following:
*acampbell.cix.co.uk $lookup{$1}lsearch{etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfF
Anthony
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Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.
On 23 Nov 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I tried compiling in Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371), which > someone said should work. On bootup I get the following: > > > es1371: version v0.22 time 15:47:48 Nov 23 2000 > es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 > es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe800 irq 10 > es1371: features: joystick 0x0 > es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 9 (0x09) > es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC > es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D > > > I thought this meant the card was recognized, but cat /proc/sound > doesn't give anything. > > I have no idea how to go on from here. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > Anthony > My sincere thanks to all who've replied on this, either on the list or privately. Meanwhile I've downloaded the OSS file and everything seems to be working (at least, something comes out of the speakers though I haven't actually got anything to test it with yet!). I'll work on the helpful suggestions made and see if I can get the kernel version to function later. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb) Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
Re: Where to find unzip?
On 11/23/00, 9:53:36 PM, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:32:31PM +0100, H?kan wrote: > > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > > right dist. > > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? > there's a package named unzip too It's in non-free so won't be on the Official CDROM set. I use the zip-crypt and unzip-crypt packages which are in non-US. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
tob not restoring
Hi, Anyone out there using tob? My backups seem to work fine (very simple policy: full backup each Monday, differential every other day). I wanted to test restoring by deleting a file and trying to restore it. The file was /home/liam/addr1.txt and below are the commands I use plus the results. In summary, I can find the file in the backup list and tob seems happy enough about restoring but the file never gets written to the disk. Any hints appreciated. Liam === ns1:~> sudo tob -find '.*addr1.txt' No tape position known in advance. Position to what entry? 0 Ok, got resource /etc/tob/tob.rc. This is the tob script. VOLUME: root TYPE: Full DATE: Nov 19 06:57 /home/liam/addr1.txt VOLUME: root TYPE: differential DATE: Nov 24 04:34 Cleaning up. Bye. ns1:~> sudo tob -restore '.*addr1.txt' No tape position known in advance. Position to what entry? 0 Ok, got resource /etc/tob/tob.rc. This is the tob script. Restoring .*addr1.txt from /dev/nst0 relative to /home/liam. Cleaning up. Bye. ns1:~> sudo !! sudo find / -name addr1.txt -print ns1:~> == Liam Ward DV4 t: +353 1 672 7250 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.dv4.com
Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
Hi, Have you installed apache-common? > Running unstable, I do this: > > apachectl start > > And get this: > > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or > defined by a module not included in the server configuration > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > I haven't altered /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Where did the invalid command > 'ExtendedStatus' come from? If I comment this command and try to start > apache, I'm taken to another invalid command, and then another, and so > on. Finally, after I comment 8 or 12 invalid commands apache will start. > apachectl has worked fine until a few days ago. > > I do this: > > apacheconfig > > And get this: > > Finding DSO mods > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484. > ..Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484. > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at >/usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484. > > and so on for a few screens. Finally the config files are generated, > and, upon attempted restart, the above-described 'Invalid Command' errors > appear. > > Here is line 484 of /usr/sbin/apacheconfig: > > if ($main::allconf =~ m/^\s*$l\W/m) > > Are the apacheconfig messages related to the invalid commands in > /etc/apache/httpd.conf? Is Perl issuing errors or warnings? Should I > just manually fix /etc/apache/httpd.conf and go on my merry way? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- P
Re: Where to find unzip?
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Håkan wrote: > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > right dist. > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? In potato it's in non-free. In woody it's in non-US/main.
Re: Setting up eth1 interface
What you need is load the module twice ! One for each NIC. I have that setup on my LAN as I use 2 ne2000 clones : (You will have to adapt this to your tulip module) First edit the /etc/modutils/aliases file and add : <-- cut here --> # Aliases for using twice the ne2000 module (ne) alias ne0 ne alias ne1 ne <-- cut here --> Then create a file /etc/modutils/ne to specifiy options : <-- cut here --> options ne0 io=0x300 irq=10 -o ne0 options ne1 io=0x280 irq=15 -o ne1 <-- cut here --> (the trick is to actually rename each module with a name neX ( -o neX ) Then here is /etc/network/interfaces : <-- cut here --> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # ADSL interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.0.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 up /etc/network/ipchains.rules # Local network auto eth1 iface eht1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 <-- cut here --> Maybe that should be documented in some FAQ because I haven't found any easy-to-find doc about that besides looking in the kernel doc how to load modules and rename them. Silver - Original Message - From: "Sean Norris,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 7:23 PM Subject: Setting up eth1 interface > Hello All, > > I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a > gateway and my wife's win98 laptop. > > I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org. > Currently, a D-link DE-530TX is working well with a tulip driver loaded > as a module to connect to my cable modem. The second NIC is a linksys > LNE-100TX ver. 4.0, which also uses the tulip driver. > > However, I cannot get the eth1 interface to initialize. > >#ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: unknown interface: No such device > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > eth1: unknown interface: No such device > > In my /etc/network/interfaces file there is no entry for eth1. >eth0 is : iface eth0 inet dhcp > so I tried adding : "iface eth1 inet" > > Now with #ifup eth1, I get the error >/etc/network/interfaces: too few parameters for iface line > > So, I think that I am almost there I just cannot find any information on > what options should be on that line. Or am I not really supposed to be > editing that file directly? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Sean > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHP, Apache, MySql Intermittent errors
Any Clues anyone? I am using a potato installation. I have apt/dselect installed apache, PHP4 and am running mysqld on another networked machine. I have updated the etc/php4/apache/php.ini file to include the mysql.so extension. I have also included a default mysqlserver, username and password in php.ini, to allow others to write pages that access some read only database tables without needing to know this data. I find that my code will SOMETIMES fail if I use mysql_connect() or mysql_pconnect() without arguments relying on the values in php.ini. I see an error message of the form Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'databasename' where 'databasename is passed to mysql_db_query(). It fails perhaps once out of four tries. If I supply the hostname, username and password to mysql_pconnect() then it seems to work correctly. (I have tried tens of times without a failure.) Any Ideas anyone? Dave Whiteley -- E-Mail: Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24-Nov-2000 Time: 11:17:13 Phone: 0113 233 2059 This message has been disinfected. It does not contain the Linux .sig virus. --
Apache package problem
I recently upgraded my debian woody. Now whenever I start apache it just dies and I get this error in /etc/apache/error.log : apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed. This is package apache-1.3.12-2.1 Any ideas what could cause this error ? Silver smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: I want out!
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: :ktb wrote: :I agree. Not that I have any clue how to unsubscribe using the instructions at the :bottom of the page, but I've decided that I should stay on the list untill I can :figure that out. The old instructions were a commandline that would send the proper mail. mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ^ subject ^ recipient ^^ read message from /dev/null Stick around anyway, there many more fun things to learn :) -Jon
Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus Silver - Original Message - From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors. > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or > defined by a module not included in the server configuration > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
Newbie Question
Hallo Folks, I've just swaped from Suse to debian 2.2. The whole system runs just fine but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. The system knows my device when I am installing packages, but not from the console or from gnome. I must add, that I am running an scsi-cdrom. Is there a setup programm (just like this for the installation). Thanks for your help. damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: add new Tex packages!?
Hello Manuel, to enable kpathsea to search very quickly for files, tetex remains a database of all the files in your tex-installation in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R (actually it resides somewhere in /var, /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is just a link to it). Whenever you install new files, you have to update this database, otherwise, tex won't find your files. This is done via the command: 'mktexlsr' as root. I think, texhash does about the same among a few other nice things. Regards, Daniel On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package > letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls > files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and > asks for the path, when I insert the path it works. > What do I have to do to get this running? > > Thanks, > Manuel
Resolve.conf
Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using capt and dselect. Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine. Help me please. Best Regards James Preece
Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?
> Stan Kaufman wrote: > > > > > Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how > > to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I > > start, I'd like to know what I'm running into. > > HI Stan, > looks like were in the same situation. I'm looking into building .debs now > but I > don't know how. If you need some help on that HOW-TO please let me know. > Again I > have no experience here but it's about time to start. > > later, > Andy > Have you seen the existing docs? In particular, the maint-guide package? The packaging-manual and other stuff that is on www.debian.org/devel as well also come to mind. The debian-mentor mailing list is a very helpful src if you have any question about your pacakges. > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: lprng and magicfilter problem
Hello Paul, lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just forwards the job directly to the printer. Up to now I havn't found out how to change this (I'm sure there is a way), but I'd also like to keep resource hungry gs away from my laptop and let the printer server do the hard work so I'd be interested in a solution to the problem. Regards, Daniel On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Paul Schulz wrote: > Greetings, > > It seems that these two packages work really well together! but I have a > networking problem though.. and I would like to understand what is > going on. > > I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP > Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer. Works well when I print from > this host. (I've set the magicfilter to 'ljet2p'.) > > I set up my laptop to talk to print to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it does, but > magicfilter doesn't process this postscript that it sends, and passes > it directly to the printer (which spits it out as stepped text, not > recognising the !%.) > > Why is this happening? Why isn't the postscript being processed by > magicfilter on the server? Standard stable (potato) Debian > installation on both.. > > lprng_3.6.12-8 > magicfilter_1.2.39 > > and the server queues set up with 'magicfilterconfig'. > > I don't want to have to install (not that it's overly difficult) > magicfilter on all the workstations. > > Any help appriciated. > Paul Schulz > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
docbook-utils
Hi, I trying to learn DocBook using the Crash Course by David Rugge, Mark Galassi and Eric Bischoff. At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: docbook2html, docbook2ps, docbook2pdf, etc. In the Debian package task-sgml I could only find docbook2man and docbook2texi. Does somebody know where to find this utilities as .deb packages? Thanks, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: Newbie Question
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:34:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo Folks, > > I've just swaped from Suse to debian 2.2. good idea. > The whole system runs just fine > but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the devices (/dev/fd0) you need to be in the appropriate group (floppy). > The system knows my device when I am installing packages, but not > from the console or from gnome. I must add, that I am running an > scsi-cdrom. What tool produces what kind of error-message? > Is there a setup programm (just like this for the > installation). Thanks for your help. I prefere apt-cdrom/cache/get to dselect. There is no tool like Yast, but there are commandline-tools. They are more powerfull. -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.interface-business.de Private:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yi.org/guettli
RE: I want out!
Well, I think I can work out how to 'unsuscribe' :) I've never actually seen this message everyone's talking about though. I'm on digest - possibly the reason - but surely you need some instructions there too. Or is it just me?I am forced into reading this with M$, perhaps my junky mail client misses part of the digests. tim > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan D. Proulx [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 7:53 AM > To: Andrew Dwight Dixon > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: I want out! > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: > :ktb wrote: > > :I agree. Not that I have any clue how to unsubscribe using the > instructions at the > :bottom of the page, but I've decided that I should stay on the list > untill I can > :figure that out. > > The old instructions were a commandline that would send the proper > mail. > > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > ^ subject ^ recipient ^^ read >message >from /dev/null > Stick around anyway, there many more fun things to learn :) > > -Jon
Re: how to access image file without floppy
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:23:06AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:23:07PM +0800, a wrote: > > My floppy drive does not work. Can I read files in image file such as > > resc1440.bin? > > To read the files on the rescue disk (which is a FAT filesystem): > > mount -o loop -t msdos rescue.bin /mnt > > To read the files on the root disk (which is a compressed ext2 filesystem) > > Backup file: cp root.bin temp_root.bin.gz > decompress:gunzip temp_root.bin.gz or: zcat root.bin > tmp_root.bin > mount: mount -o loop -t ext2 temp_root.bin /mnt beware if you have any user accounts other then yourself you should mount that: mount -o loop,nodev -t ext2 tmp_root.bin /mnt the /dev nodes on the root floppy image do not have secure permissions. (they are all 644) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpMKyEUMiNwh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Log files
Hi, Where would I find the log files that contain users activities on my debian box? I am really just wanting the log file that shows what programs they accessed etc. THA Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.
Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:42:05AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:42:05 -0800
> From: "Eric G . Miller"
> To: Debian-User-Mailinglist
> Cc: Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> > Actually I want to use the class g-breif, but I need the functions for
> > the footer from the letter class or is there any package which I can
> > add to my .tex file together with g-brief to get the footers?
>
> Have you tried \usepackage{fancyhdr}? It gives you pretty good control
> over headers and footers.
>
Now I've tried the "fancyhdr". I use the documentclass "g-brief", the
"rechnung" and the "fancyhdr" package. I did a "latex file.tex", I
didn't get any errors, but if I do a "xdvi file.dvi" I don't see
anything of the thigs I've done with \cfoot{}. I can't see any
problems. Can anyone give me a hint?
Thanks,
Manuel
Re: Newbie Question
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:42:01PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > > The whole system runs just fine > > but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. > > If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the > devices (/dev/fd0) you need to be in the appropriate group (floppy). no you don't, permissions of the device have nothing whatsoever to do with mounting, you would only need direct permission to the device if you want to format it or run mkfs on it (or play audio cds). instead check /etc/fstab to see if the proper line exists: for cdrom: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,nodev,nosuid,user,noauto,ro 0 0 usually /dev/cdrom is a symlink to the real cdrom device, say /dev/scd0 for floppy: /dev/fd0 /floppyext2defaults,nodev,nosuid,user,noauto 0 0 nodev,nosuid are supposed to be implyed for `user' but im just paranoid ;-) with these fstab entries a `mount /cdrom' or `mount /floppy' should mount the appropriate devices. note that `auto' might be a more desirable filesystem type for floppy, cdroms are rarely anything but iso9660 so auto does not do much good there. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp6NvqDsG8Ox.pgp Description: PGP signature
joystick
hi, I have a 15-pol joystick and I want to plug it on my soundcard. So first i tried to installed joy-analog.o but it didnt work so I tried joystick.o . I think the probleme is on my soundcard. It is a ISA card. Hope you can help me MM
Re: Resolve.conf
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:19:56PM -, James Preece wrote: : :Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using :capt and dselect. : :Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine. Your symptoms don't seem to match a missing /etc/resolv.conf, this file is used to specify DNS servers, if it's gone getting to the box from the out side should be fine but outgoing you should need to specify IP rather than host name. for example $ lynx http://www.ai.mit.edu should fail while: $ lynx http://128.52.32.5 should work for what it's worth here's my file: ---start--- nameserver 199.45.32.40 nameserver 151.202.0.85 nameserver 128.52.32.80 nameserver 128.52.39.7 search ai.mit.edu ---end--- nameserver is the IP of your DNS server(s) search is the default domain to use (ie if I type "ssh www" it will resolve to "ssh www.ai.mit.edu") -Jon
Re: Log files
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:59:08AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi, > > Where would I find the log files that contain users activities on my debian > box? I am really just wanting the log file that shows what programs they > accessed etc. logs of things you would be concerned with are found in /var/log/auth.log, this will show things such as passwd changes and shell changes (chsh chfn etc) for general programs, such as ls, cat, mc, and whatnot there is no logging. other then the user's shell history file but looking at that is called being nosy ;-) the user can also easily delete this file or set the HISTFILE environment variable to /dev/null to avoid your nosyness. even if you prevent those, they can still just logout by running kill -9 where pid is the pid of the login shell. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpkdxm513I6H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.
* Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [241100 09:16]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I'm working on it. Just recompiled my kernel the other day to support > > firewalling but haven't had time to work on the iptables and other > > configuration issues. > > I find it easier to configure exim to listen only on 127.0.0.1 (with the > "local_interfaces" setting) - it's all fetchmail needs - than fudge with > firewalling. > > Much cleaner that way, I think. But that's just me :) Good suggestion. I'll look into that. Thanks. > > @home is way too broad in their description of "server". I understand > > that their intent is to limit bandwidth since it is a shared resource > > but their one-size-fits-all policy is ridiculous. > > Tell me about it. Why doesn't anyone consider special cases like > hobbyists any more? I would willingly pay a small premium to be able to > run "servers" as a private person. > > > They would not go for it. They were especially not helpful after I, point > > blank, told them that their policy only served to conserve bandwidth for > > use by teenagers pirating software, stolen music and porn. Hmmm...maybe > > I shouldn't have told them that, huh? :) > > :) > > Back to your problem with fetchmail: would it help to see a working > config? I realize you are trying to be helpful but...I don't have a problem with my mail configuration. We've kind of taken a side trip off the main thread. The person with the mail problems is John-Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the guy who started the main thread that lead us here. :) But thanks anyways! rob.jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eth0 problem
Hi, I have added 3 Debian boxes to my network and they all seem OK, till I noticed that when changing some of the cat5 cables around, that the 3 debian boxes eth0 does not start passing data again when cat 5 is replaced, the cables were only removed for a minute or less.I did not notice straight off as when I replace the cable all looks fine as the hub lights up, but a few minutes later bigbrother is telling me that all three debian boxes are down. I did an "ifconfig eth0 up" and still no good, but an "ifcongif down" and then "up" brings them back online again. There were no errors recorded in log files. This only happens to the debian boxes as the redhat and the SuSe linux servers are not bothered by having the network cables missing for a minute or two. Any advice on what might be causing this would be appreciated. Thanks Daniel
RE: Resolve.conf
OK I have got that back in now Thanks. I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping answers. access from the box is fine. any ideas please anyone ?? Cheers James ""Newbie"" Preece -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2000 07:01 To: James Preece Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Resolve.conf On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:19:56PM -, James Preece wrote: : :Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using :capt and dselect. : :Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine. Your symptoms don't seem to match a missing /etc/resolv.conf, this file is used to specify DNS servers, if it's gone getting to the box from the out side should be fine but outgoing you should need to specify IP rather than host name. for example $ lynx http://www.ai.mit.edu should fail while: $ lynx http://128.52.32.5 should work for what it's worth here's my file: ---start--- nameserver 199.45.32.40 nameserver 151.202.0.85 nameserver 128.52.32.80 nameserver 128.52.39.7 search ai.mit.edu ---end--- nameserver is the IP of your DNS server(s) search is the default domain to use (ie if I type "ssh www" it will resolve to "ssh www.ai.mit.edu") -Jon
Re: VCD/SVCD - Kernelpatch
>Hi, >I know you can watch vcds with tools like mtv or the smpeg-plugin for xmms >or with xtheater (http://xtheater.sourceforge.net) but what really >interests me now is: Is there a VCD-Kernel-Patch Out there? if yes, where? else, plz >tell me where I could search for it. >My Actual problem is, I want to run SVCDs which are in mpeg2-format but i >just have a mpeg2-codec that cannot read from SVCDs raw (like the above >mentioned vcd-players do--but they are mpeg1-only) so I needed kernel-support >for vcd/svcd for reading the appropriate files on the cds. >It would be great if someone knew help here cause it looks like this is >still a domane of Windows that Linux couldn't manage yet for some reasons... >(maybe cause VCD is somewhat a asia-only-thing?) >I'm looking forward to your replies, >Michael Kernel 2.4 supports the UDF file system which is used by DVDs. Perhaps that is what you need to view SVCD's since they seem similar. Scott
Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
I'm having the same problem and I know that none of the solutions provided so far will work. I do have apache-common installed. I went to the lengths of commenting out the ExtendedStatus line in httpd.conf and then got a similar syntax error on the first "Order" directive. I commented that out and got further syntax errors on quite standard apache directives. Completely purging apache and apache-common and reinstalling them makes no difference. Auto install and config have always worked for me in the past. What's going on here? Cheers, Chris On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Silver wrote: > You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus > > Silver > > - Original Message - > From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM > Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors. > > > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or > > defined by a module not included in the server configuration > > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Newbie Question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a setup programm (just like this for the installation). Debian contains a bunch of configure programms for different task, such as the configuration of ppp. Have a look at: $ ls /usr/sbin/*config -- Ingo Ruhnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible
All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filenames show messed-up, like: -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 664 Jan 19 1999 aqf83a~1.m3u dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 19 1999 aquari~1.aro/ I am sure that I used to see normal file names on the same CD-ROM previously. Any idea what went wrong all of a sudden? ,[ /etc/fstab ] | /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 ` Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
apm
hallo, how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what. thanks, Manuel
Re: Resolve.conf
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:26:51PM -, James Preece wrote: :OK I have got that back in now Thanks. : :I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping :answers. : :access from the box is fine. sounds like a firewall problem (and you should be using ssh not telnet, but that's an other thread) Assuming this machine isn't behind another firewall try (as root): ipchains -L this will show local firewalling rules, not that you'll be able to make much sense of them :) The quick & ugly solution (if this is a problem) is: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -X /sbin/ipchains -F /sbin/ipchains -P input ACCEPT /sbin/ipchains -P output ACCEPT /sbin/ipchains -P forward ACCEPT these commands will remove all firewalling rules, and remove packet forwarding. -Jon
Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
A recent update to one or more apache module installation scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off. Edit the section of your /etc/apache/httpd.conf with the LoadModule lines and check to see which modules might not be enabled. Compare against a working server or see if you've got an apache.conf.0 backup file made before the changes. Whichever apache update made the changes (I installed several at once) disabled mod_status, mod_dir, mod_autoindex and mod_info, if memory serves. --- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having the same problem and I know that none of the > solutions provided > so far will work. I do have apache-common installed. I went > to the > lengths of commenting out the ExtendedStatus line in > httpd.conf and then > got a similar syntax error on the first "Order" directive. I > commented > that out and got further syntax errors on quite standard > apache > directives. > > Completely purging apache and apache-common and reinstalling > them makes no > difference. Auto install and config have always worked for me > in the > past. > > What's going on here? > > Cheers, > Chris > > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Silver wrote: > > > You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus > > > > Silver > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM > > Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews > warnings/errors. > > > > > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > > > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or > > > defined by a module not included in the server > configuration > > > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Managing Log files
Hi, After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large in size. Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy way to manage log files and there size. I assume there is some way to have the contents removed that is older than a certain date. I would not see a need for any information more than 1 month old in my case. TIA Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.
printer
Hi, Debains: I have a question about my printer: When I print some "pdf" from acroread, the printer works fine, however, when I want to print some plain text file from xterm with the command "lpr filename", I can just get the first two lines of the file. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? Thanks a lot! Regards, Nianwei _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
default font in Python-TKinter or Tcl/Tk
Before I switched to Debian/Potato I used RH6.1. On my old Linux I had a Python program that used the Tkinter-package as a GUI. On RH the defauld font looked good and was readable. On my Potato system I had to comment out the use of the scaled 100dpi font in the XF86Config file to make the fonts readable: # ... #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" # ... Now it looks better. My question is: How do I change (or set) the default font that is used by Python/Tkinter ? TIA Matthias -- Matthias Müller Tel.:+49 30 449 80 68 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Managing Log files
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large >in size. Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy >way to manage log files and there size. I assume there is some way to have >the contents removed that is older than a certain date. I would not see a >need for any information more than 1 month old in my case. See 'man logrotate', /etc/logrotate.conf, and /etc/logrotate.d/*. Oh, and there's also a program called 'savelog' which manages a lot of the files in /var/log. They're called from various scripts in /etc/cron.*. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dia Won't Save files anymore
Hi. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but for some reason my Dia won't save valid Dia files anymore. It can open my old Dia files, but when I try to create a new one and save it it gives the message: "xmlNewGlobalNs() deprecated function reached". Then when I try to reopen that file later it says that it isn't a valid Dia file. Has anyone else experienced this or have a solution for this? Thanks. -Jeff
Re: lprng and magicfilter problem
Hi! On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:24:07 +0100 (MET), Daniel Reuter wrote: >lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is >issued, How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't find it Thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lprng and magicfilter problem
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't > find it apt-get install lprng put a correct source in /etc/apt/sources.list, such as: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free and it'll be installed []s Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:38:06AM -0800, Brian wrote: > A recent update to one or more apache module installation > scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off. > >[...] > > Whichever > apache update made the changes (I installed several at once) > disabled mod_status, mod_dir, mod_autoindex and mod_info, if > memory serves. > These modules where commented. Uncommenting them got me further, but only to a different 'invalid command.' Someone replied off-list to me, and I got some addtional info. Apparently apacheconfig doesn't play well with Perl-5.6. (A bug is already filed.) By changing the first line of /usr/sbin/apacheconfig to: #!/usr/bin/perl-5.005 -w I was able to use apacheconfig to generate httpd/conf without errors. The initial attempt at restarting apache failed, but the only problem was a missing 'ServerName' directive. Since I'm using apache only for local web development I just added the following line to /etc/apace/httpd.conf: ServerName localhost and 'apachectl start' worked. I like this solution since I'm not yet heavily into apache details, and I like the idea of automatically generating httpd.conf using apacheconfig. To me hacking httpd.conf by adding a 'ServerName' directive is easier than uncommenting several 'LoadModule' directives.
Re: lprng and magicfilter problem
Thank you!!, I will try it tonight (after apt-get update with the new address...) On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:45:18 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: >On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >> >> How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't >> find it > >apt-get install lprng > >put a correct source in /etc/apt/sources.list, such as: > >deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > >and it'll be installed > >[]s >Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but >IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" >http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 > Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
djscript ?
I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript. Where can I get this program? 'apt-get install djscript' doesn't seem to find it. Seung-woo Nam
startx problem
Hello, I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect. And now when I run "startx" I receive the following error messages. Can you help? var: allowed_users, value: rootonly var: nice_value, value: . /etc/X11/X is not executable giving up xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. - startx worked just fine until the upgrade. Thank you for your help. -- _ Dave G. Bacon Computer Network Manager Outagamie Waupaca Library System 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton, WI 54911 920/832-6193(voice), 920/832-6422(FAX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _
Re: Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:07:03AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filenames show > messed-up, like: > > -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 664 Jan 19 1999 aqf83a~1.m3u > dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 19 1999 aquari~1.aro/ > > I am sure that I used to see normal file names on the same CD-ROM > previously. Any idea what went wrong all of a sudden? > > ,[ /etc/fstab ] > | /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 > ` [...] Did you compile a new kernel with iso9660 support but without Joliet support? Cheers Martin -- Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer pgpO8K2Vp7kw2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -, John-Mark wrote: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to > connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be > passing the mail to exim and therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj > mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also > if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it? > Thanks for all help which is much appreciated. > jm > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I avoid having to worry about the MTA when receiving mail by putting mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" into .fetchmailrc and letting procmail deliver my mail. I'm not sure, but I think the default behavior of procmail will deliver your mail to the usual place. Otherwise, you'll need to write a .procmailrc file. -- Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I lost my GnuPG Key. Nobody ever sent me the secret plans anyway. GnuPG is at http://www.gnupg.org/
Re: startx problem
Dave Bacon wrote: > Hello, > > I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect. And now when I > run "startx" I receive the following error messages. Can you help? > > > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly > var: nice_value, value: . > /etc/X11/X is not executable ls -l /etc/X11/X and look at the file that X is linked to, then: find / -name _file_ ln -s path_to_file /etc/X11/X have luck ! jaume.
Re: startx problem - one step closer
Thanks to Jaume for the very helpful reply. After following the suggestion listed below I am now able to bring up a graphical display, but it is only an "x"(mouse cursor) on top of a coarse gray back ground. I am not sure, but I think I still may need to specify which Window Manager to use. Am I on the right track? If so, how do I tell X which window manager to bring up by default. Thanks again for your help Dave Bacon Jaume Teixi wrote: > Dave Bacon wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect. And now when I > > run "startx" I receive the following error messages. Can you help? > > > > > > > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly > > var: nice_value, value: . > > /etc/X11/X is not executable > > ls -l /etc/X11/X > and look at the file that X is linked to, then: > find / -name _file_ > ln -s path_to_file /etc/X11/X > > have luck ! > jaume. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Dave G. Bacon Computer Network Manager Outagamie Waupaca Library System 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton, WI 54911 920/832-6193(voice), 920/832-6422(FAX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _
install 2.2.17 fail
Can anybody help!? When installing 2.0.34 with a rawrite created bootfloppy: no problem, system up and running. Whan installing 2.2.17 with a rawrite created bootfloppy the system tells me that the boot failed and that I have to replace the floppy. I newly downloaded the image several times, used a new floppy as well as a drive. Same result, no difference. What can be the problem? System: architecture: i386 model: IBM 730 (= MCA/PCI machine) Memory: 48Mb SCSI / CD-ROM: PCI-slot-1 containes adaptec 2940 (SCSI): id0 1Gb IBM HD (type 662) id1 Pioneer CD-ROM player id6 1GB IBM HD (type 663) IDE floppy-drive Installed 1 DOS 6.2 partition, 300Mb. no network, no PCMCIA PCI-slot 1 is free (adaptec in PCI slot-2) MCA-slots NOT used! Is the someone who can help me?! Thanx, Frank.
Re: DRI and X 4.0.1
Hello Hans, Thanks for making the effort to get the reply through:-) Interesting info too. I couldn't get DRI to compile, so that was a no-go, but your info about the reversed situation with 2.4.0-test9 was interesting - I hadn't tried the test11 kernel as I use lm-sensors-source to patch the kernel source to use lm-sensors and it wouldn't work with test11. After reading your mail though I thought I'd give it a try, just to check out dri. In the end, I seem to have got dri working with the 2.4.0-test11 kernel - no version conflicts or errors, but dri still appears to be version 1 - hmm... With the depth set to 16bpp, XFree86.0.log showed that dri had initialised ok - no errors - and the superquadrics, lament and gears screensavers ran ok, as did space orbit (not as well as X 3.3.6 + utah_glx IMO - with that combo I found the difference quite obvious but the difference with and without dri in X 4 seems much less so, and ultimately not as good - still, early days). Unfortunately, X wouldn't start at all if I used 24/32 bpp, which is what I use most of the time for my graphics work, so I can't just switch the XF86XConfig-4 files between 16bpp and 24/32bpp, and just log out and back in to switch depths. I also found that the version of Procmeter3 that I currently use won't run with test11 :-( so for now, I've reverted back to test5 (and no dri) until Procmeter3 can work in >=test11 and I can switch between 24/32bpp and 16bpp with dri installed. Thanks again, LeeE P.S. Don't know what the problem with mailing was - I receive mail on that box every day:-/ Hans Wilmer wrote: > > Hi, > > sorry for forwarding this; it seems I can't send you mails directly. > > GH [snip...] > > Well, I was hoping to discover an easy way to get it going this time, > like just downloading some Debian package(s), install it/them, edit my > XF86Config, maybe get and compile a new kernel --- and enjoy. But it > doesn't seem to be that easy, still :/ > > It would be nice if you could let me know whether 2.4.0-test11 and the > current XF86 sources fit together or not. I'm not exactly looking > forward to having to download several megs of X11 sources, not to > speak of a new kernel version again; but keeping up to date with the > XFree development might be a good idea, anyway. The improvement in > performance is really great in both 2D and 3D :), though the only > reason I need 4.0.1 is that game, `Terminus'. > > Good luck with getting it working! > > GH > -- > Nieder mit der Mineralölsteuer!! Senkt die Benzinpreise!! > > - End forwarded message - > > -- > Nieder mit der Mineralölsteuer!! Senkt die Benzinpreise!! > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: djscript ?
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 13:11, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf > file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything > and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript. > Where can I get this program? 'apt-get install djscript' doesn't seem > to find it. $ dpkg -S djscript djtools: /usr/bin/djscript djtools: /usr/share/doc/djtools/djscript.README.gz djtools: /usr/share/doc/djtools/djscript.ChangeLog djtools: /usr/share/man/man1/djscript.1.gz Looks like you need the djtools package. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:53:15PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> Now I've tried the "fancyhdr". I use the documentclass "g-brief", the
> "rechnung" and the "fancyhdr" package. I did a "latex file.tex", I
> didn't get any errors, but if I do a "xdvi file.dvi" I don't see
> anything of the thigs I've done with \cfoot{}. I can't see any
> problems. Can anyone give me a hint?
>
> Thanks, Manuel
Well, I can't do any better to explain it than the fancyhdr docs. You
have to watch out for the first page style (by default it will be
different -- maybe only a page number). This is explained in the docs.
One document I did look something like this:
\documentclass[]{report}
...
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
...
\fancyhead{}
\lhead{\leftmark}
\chead{}
\rhead{\rightmark}
\lfoot{My Documentation}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{2pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}
...
\pagestyle{fancy}
...
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}
Note, the "first page" of a chapter will only have a centered page
number in the footer under this set-up.
Hope that helps.
--
Eric G. Miller
can't listen to my audio cds
hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The problem is that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds. Before anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work properly otherwise. By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd to /cdrom and be able to read it just fine. However, i can't mount an audio cd, when i try this it complains: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the dumb approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to open the cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and all. My audio in general works fine on this machine, although that's a little beside the point and not very helpful. I thought that perhaps that this was a groups issue for my non-privaleged account, so i added that account to the "audio" group, to no avail. Although i can't get it to work as root either, so i guess i should've taken that as a hint that the group thing wouldn't work. Anyway, i've never had this problem before with any of my other linux boxen, so i'm a little dumbfounded. I think i've troubleshooted it quite a bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping that someone here will be able to help me. My only idea is that perhaps when i rolled my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of course :) that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow. Well, that's my only guess anyway. I hope all this information will be of some use to y'all in solving my problem. Thanks, dave
Re: add new Tex packages!?
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a /usr/local/share/texmf tree that is sourced before the "official" one. This way you have control about newer packages, they are not overwritten on upgrades, and are easy to maintain. Check /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf Andre > Hello Manuel, > > to enable kpathsea to search very quickly for files, tetex remains a > database of all the files in your tex-installation in > /usr/share/texmf/ls-R (actually it resides somewhere in /var, > /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is just a link to it). Whenever you install new > files, you have to update this database, otherwise, tex won't find your > files. This is done via the command: > 'mktexlsr' > as root. I think, texhash does about the same among a few other nice > things. > Regards, > Daniel > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package > > letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls > > files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and > > asks for the path, when I insert the path it works. > > What do I have to do to get this running? > > > > Thanks, > > Manuel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany
Re: can't listen to my audio cds
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:25:16PM -0500, Dave Bresson wrote:
>
>
>
> hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The problem is
> that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds. Before
> anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work
> properly otherwise. By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd
> to /cdrom and be able to read it just fine. However, i can't mount an
> audio cd, when i try this it complains:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>or too many mounted file systems
That's correct. You don't mount audio cd's (they don't have a
filesystem).
> when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the dumb
> approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to open the
> cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and all. My audio
> in general works fine on this machine, although that's a little beside the
> point and not very helpful. I thought that perhaps that this was a groups
> issue for my non-privaleged account, so i added that account to the
> "audio" group, to no avail. Although i can't get it to work as root
> either, so i guess i should've taken that as a hint that the group thing
> wouldn't work. Anyway, i've never had this problem before with any of my
> other linux boxen, so i'm a little dumbfounded. I think i've
> troubleshooted it quite a bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping
> that someone here will be able to help me. My only idea is that perhaps
> when i rolled my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of
> course :) that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow.
> Well, that's my only guess anyway. I hope all this information will be of
> some use to y'all in solving my problem. Thanks,
In order to make groups work, you have to log out and log back in (only
root can change which groups you're in, else they're inherited from the
program's parent ... logging out takes you back to login or xdm, which
is running as root and can start its children with you in the proper
groups).
Make sure that /dev/cdrom points to the right place. It's normally a
symlink pointing at the real cdrom drive if it's not there or points
to the wrong place, it won't work.
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Re: can't listen to my audio cds
> "Dave" == Dave Bresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The Dave> problem is that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio Dave> cds. Before anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and Dave> the drive does work properly otherwise. By this, i mean that i can Dave> mount any kinda of data cd to /cdrom and be able to read it just Dave> fine. However, i can't mount an audio cd, when i try this it Dave> complains: Dave> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or Dave> too many mounted file systems That's normal. Audio cd's, in general, don't have a filesystem, so you can't mount them. (I say "in general" because there are some cd's that are both audio and data.) You don't need to mount. You just need to point your cd player to /dev/cdrom. Dave> when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the Dave> dumb approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to Not a dumb approach. This is the normal way. Dave> open the cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and Dave> all. My audio in general works fine on this machine, although that's Dave> a little beside the point and not very helpful. I thought that Dave> perhaps that this was a groups issue for my non-privaleged account, Dave> so i added that account to the "audio" group, to no avail. Although /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hd?, which is in the disk group. I'm not sure what the "proper" way to set that up is, but I changed mine so that it's in the "floppy" group instead, and added myself to the "floppy" group. Dave> i can't get it to work as root either, so i guess i should've taken Dave> that as a hint that the group thing wouldn't work. Anyway, i've Strange that you can't get it to work as root either. I've didn't have a problem with audio cd's other than adding myself to the right group. Dave> never had this problem before with any of my other linux boxen, so Dave> i'm a little dumbfounded. I think i've troubleshooted it quite a Dave> bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping that someone here Dave> will be able to help me. My only idea is that perhaps when i rolled Dave> my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of course :) Dave> that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow. I don't remember there being any sort of option related to audio cd's in the kernel config. I'm using my own kernel too. Dave> Well, that's my only guess anyway. I hope all this information will Dave> be of some use to y'all in solving my problem. Thanks, Well, I didn't answer your question, but I hope I've at least given you something to go on. Hubert -- | --- | / --+-- | / ___|___Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \ | _|_ | |__| |__|__|GCS/M d- s:- a-- C++ UL+() P++ L++ E++ W++ N++ o? || K? w--- O++ M- V- PS-- PE+++ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 X R- tv+ b+ | / | \ DI D G e++ h! !r !y | / | \ || <><-- http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/ PGP/GnuPG fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F Key can be found at http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/hackerhue.asc
Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions
Hi, There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it in the FAQ? `apt-cache search backup' doesn't quite cut it :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: eth0 problem
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:20:59AM +1100, Daniel Knights wrote: > I have added 3 Debian boxes to my network and they all seem OK, till I > noticed that when changing some of the cat5 cables around, that the 3 > debian boxes eth0 does not start passing data again when cat 5 is replaced, > the cables were only removed for a minute or less.I did not notice > straight off as when I replace the cable all looks fine as the hub lights > up, but a few minutes later bigbrother is telling me that all three debian > boxes are down. I did an "ifconfig eth0 up" and still no good, but an > "ifcongif down" and then "up" brings them back online again. There were > no errors recorded in log files. > > This only happens to the debian boxes as the redhat and the SuSe linux > servers are not bothered by having the network cables missing for a minute > or two. Any advice on what might be causing this would be appreciated. Do the servers all have the same type of network-cards? I have a 3Com 3c900 Combo and it seems this card doesn't react anymore after some time. An ifdown+ifup brings it back again. Phil
Re: apm
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some > changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what. Usually you should not have to make changes to lilo.conf in order to turn on APM. Does your board support APM and is it switched on in the BIOS? Then the kernel should detect it and say so while booting (something like "APM BIOS detected" - check your logs). There are some APM options you can turn on during kernel-configuration like screen-blanking. Phil
ALSA and ThinkPad 560
I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. Now I want to try installing the ALSA drivers to my ThinkPad 560 also, and I know that my ThinkPad uses the ESS Autodrive drivers in Windows. Does anyone know how to get ALSA to work on a ThinkPad? I have tried to configure ALSA for ESS Autodrive and alsaconf just aborts. Maybe I need to use a different driver, not ESS Autodrive. My desktop has a VibraX card but I had to configure ALSA for SB16 PnP to get it to work, so perhaps a different driver is needed on the ThinkPad also. thanks -- Andrew
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models. --Chris On Friday 24 November 2000 16:10, Pollywog wrote: > I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA > drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the > past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA > website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. > > Now I want to try installing the ALSA drivers to my ThinkPad 560 also, and > I know that my ThinkPad uses the ESS Autodrive drivers in Windows. Does > anyone know how to get ALSA to work on a ThinkPad? I have tried to > configure ALSA for ESS Autodrive and alsaconf just aborts. > > Maybe I need to use a different driver, not ESS Autodrive. My desktop has > a VibraX card but I had to configure ALSA for SB16 PnP to get it to work, > so perhaps a different driver is needed on the ThinkPad also. > > thanks > > -- > Andrew
FTP and IPCHAINS
HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default configuration file.
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said: > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out > www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which > has > a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various > eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models. Thanks, I got it to work a little while ago but I get painful feedback if the volume is too loud. It works if I run "sndconfig" and use the SB16 setting. Running alsaconf does not get it to work. I will check the URL you have and see if I can find anything that might help. -- Andrew
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that is a valid URL, linuxthinkpad.org. Is it the one you were thinking of? -- Andrew On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said: > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out > www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which > has > a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various > eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models. >
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
No, that's a different one. www.linux-thinkpad.org is apparently down as I said in my previous email though. :-) Google may have a cached copy, though. On Friday 24 November 2000 17:43, Pollywog wrote: > The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that > is a valid URL, linuxthinkpad.org. Is it the one you were thinking of? > > -- > Andrew > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said: > > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out > > www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) > > which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure > > the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models.
Re: can't listen to my audio cds
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, brian moore wrote: > In order to make groups work, you have to log out and log back in (only > root can change which groups you're in, else they're inherited from the > program's parent ... logging out takes you back to login or xdm, which > is running as root and can start its children with you in the proper > groups). > > Make sure that /dev/cdrom points to the right place. It's normally a > symlink pointing at the real cdrom drive if it's not there or points > to the wrong place, it won't work. > allright, it seems the problem *did* end up being a groups issue. I forgot to mention in my original email that i added my non-privaleged account to the cdrom group and it also did not work. so what i did was change the group of /dev/hdc to cdrom (it was root.disks before) and also the /dev/cdrom link as well for good measure, and all seems to work. anyway, thanks for your help! dave
Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:06:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian > FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See > http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. > > Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it > in the FAQ? `apt-cache search backup' doesn't quite cut it I might have a future answer to this. I wrote debbackup, a backup script, but have not uploaded it yet. If anyone wants to test it, they are welcome to. pgpUm0jvarkmp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:10:09PM +, Pollywog wrote: > The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did > not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I > thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. The Debian packages _are_ sufficient, or at least they were for me. The alsa-source package has the drivers, which you compile for your current kernel (pretty simple with make-kpkg). -- Tom "Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us." -Leo Buscaglia
Netcape Form Bug?
Hi. I am currently using Netscape 4.75 on Debian Potato. Since I have been using Netscape, including previous versions of NS and Debian distributions, I have found that when entering information in an input form, and use the popup list menu to select an option, I can no longer enter keyboard input anywhere in the Netscape window. This only occurs after selecting "more..." and after entering multiple submenus. Mouse selections, radio buttons, etc work fine but it becomes unusable for keyboard input. It will only consistently return to normal after restarting Netscape. Although this is probably not Debian specific I wonder if any one has discovered a fix or workaround. Terry.
Re: Debianizing tarballs: THANKS for the info!
Many thanks for the responses! I've managed to create a .deb from source and install it. The process is somewhat more complicated than compiling a kernel, but not that much. "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > The New Maintainers Guide (package: maint-guide) already has a lot of this > information and is comprehensive enough for simple packages. IMO you > should work on enhancing that rather than starting a parallel effort. This document is very helpful; it sets a high standard for clarity. Kudos to Josep Rodin, the author! Jim Crumley wrote: > > Well, there already is any easy way to do this - apt-get source. > This command downloads the Debianized source of a package. To use > this command you probably want to do the following: > > 0. Make sure that you have apt-get and debhelper installed. > > 1. Add a deb-src line to your /etc/apt/sources.list - something like: > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Great tip! I didn't know about adding a deb-src line. John Hasler wrote: > > Use alien. Another adroit suggestion; works great. Thanks again to everyone! Stan
Re: FTP and IPCHAINS
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS > I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default > configuration file. Do you have the module "ip_masq_ftp" loaded? Phil
Printer problemss
My printer - a DJ500 - used to work perfectly. I don't print very often, so I'm not sure -exactly- when it stopped working, but it was probably when I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.17. I can't see anything in the changes file that is relavant though. I have the right modules loaded: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc# lsmod Module Size Used by lp 4580 1 parport_pc 7300 1 (autoclean) parport 7312 1 [lp parport_pc] I'm not entirely sure if it's supposed to be on lp1 or lp0, I think it's lp0 (I have 2 parallel ports). BUt when I try catting stuff out the ports, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~gossamer# cat xmas_list >> /dev/lp0 (just hangs until I press ^C) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~gossamer# cat xmas_list >> /dev/lp1 zsh: no such device or address: /dev/lp1 I assume from this that it's lp0. In neither case do the data lights on the printer flash or anything like that, and nothing is printed. What'd I do? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving : capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good : reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl. -- Larry Wall
Re: Netcape Form Bug?
> "Terry" == Terry Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Terry> Hi. I am currently using Netscape 4.75 on Debian Potato.
Terry> Since I have been using Netscape, including previous
Terry> versions of NS and Debian distributions, I have found that
Terry> when entering information in an input form, and use the
Terry> popup list menu to select an option, I can no longer enter
Terry> keyboard input anywhere in the Netscape window. This only
Terry> occurs after selecting "more..." and after entering
Terry> multiple submenus.
Terry> Mouse selections, radio buttons, etc work fine but it
Terry> becomes unusable for keyboard input. It will only
Terry> consistently return to normal after restarting Netscape.
Terry> Although this is probably not Debian specific I wonder if
Terry> any one has discovered a fix or workaround.
This is an extremely annoying bug. The workaround that I've found is
to put the Netscape window into windowshade mode and then take it out
again. This will usually restore keyboard function.
Cheers,
Chris
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Re: 2.4.0-test11 and XFree4 problem
On Thursday 23 November 2000 18:44, Maitland Bottoms wrote: > > "scott" == scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > scott> Does anyone have any ideas on further debug I can do? > > Hope this helps: > > I had trouble when moving to xserver-xfree86 4.0.1 and installing a > new G400 card - I think because I had utah-glx installed. Now that I > have removed utah-glx, the GL stuff gets handled by mesa and X works. > > -Maitland No, I don't have utah-glx installed. I installed my previous card, a Voodoo3 2000 and recompiled the kernel with tfdx module. The startx still hung but this time I did get a corrupted display. My system is an Athlon-800 with AMD's Irongate chipset. I noticed that XFree86 4 is loading modules from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers Maybe I need to download the X 4.0 deb src's and recompile under 2.4.0-test11. scott
Re: Setting up eth1 interface
Hello all, This is just to thank all those who offered advice. I finally managed to bring up the eth1 interface. I tried all the suggestions, aliases with a single tulip driver, aliases with 2 tulip drivers, compiled the tulip driver into the kernel and passed ether arguments with lilo. Obviously, the last thing I tried, adding a tulip module when tulip was already compiled in the kernel, worked. As a theoretical question, why can't the tulip driver that is compiled into the kernal recognize both cards? From http://www.securityportal.com, I understand there are some security concerns with having a kernel load modules, so shouldn't you be able to support 2+ cards with a monolithic kernel? Anyway, all is working. Thanks again. On to setting up samba. Sean
2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?
Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't work/is broken. Here's the situation: On a potato firewall box, I've been successfully running a *2.2.15* kernel with the stock pppoe from the potato archive (which is a v 1.0-1 Roaring Penguin pppoe driver). However, when I compile a new custom *2.2.17* kernel, what happens is pretty bizarre. I can get a PPPoE connection with my ISP (PacBell), but after a certain number of packets (usually about one web page worth), the connection dies. Thinking that the problem was the old version of PPPoE, I just installed the latest version (2.3) from Roaring Penguin (built from the upstream source into a .deb). This continues to give me a functional, durable Internet connection with the 2.2.15 kernel, but also continues to roll over and die when I boot to the 2.2.17 kernel. I've rechecked several times -- from the IPMasquerade-HOWTO -- the proper kernel compilation configs, so I'm pretty confident of my kernel. So, has anyone seen problems like this? TIA! Stan
Re: Netcape Form Bug?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 07:03:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > This is an extremely annoying bug. The workaround that I've found is > to put the Netscape window into windowshade mode and then take it out > again. This will usually restore keyboard function. > Or just iconify it. I believe that's as close as you'll find to an official workaround. noah - -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6HxVhYrVLjBFATsMRAsgPAJ9drDq1qllAqZVTPoNmcCerIw5qZwCeNOWw E1xXACekxc6VgAyEuLfS0HI= =ksRT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?
Hello, I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine. I am also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software. However, I never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6 (everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded to 2.2.17. So unless there's a difference between 2.2.15 and 2.2.17 that you haven't accounted for (PPP module or some such) I have no clue as to what it's not working for you. BTW, I'm using Mindspring (aka Earthlink). Good luck David Bellows Stan Kaufman wrote: > > Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that > it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in > getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm > botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't > work/is broken. > > Here's the situation: On a potato firewall box, I've been successfully > running a *2.2.15* kernel with the stock pppoe from the potato archive > (which is a v 1.0-1 Roaring Penguin pppoe driver). However, when I > compile a new custom *2.2.17* kernel, what happens is pretty bizarre. I > can get a PPPoE connection with my ISP (PacBell), but after a certain > number of packets (usually about one web page worth), the connection > dies. > > Thinking that the problem was the old version of PPPoE, I just installed > the latest version (2.3) from Roaring Penguin (built from the upstream > source into a .deb). This continues to give me a functional, durable > Internet connection with the 2.2.15 kernel, but also continues to roll > over and die when I boot to the 2.2.17 kernel. I've rechecked several > times -- from the IPMasquerade-HOWTO -- the proper kernel compilation > configs, so I'm pretty confident of my kernel. > > So, has anyone seen problems like this? > > TIA! > > Stan > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?
David Bellows wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine. I am > also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software. However, I > never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6 > (everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded to 2.2.17. So > unless there's a difference between 2.2.15 and 2.2.17 that you haven't > accounted for (PPP module or some such) I have no clue as to what it's > not working for you. BTW, I'm using Mindspring (aka Earthlink). > > Good luck > David Bellows David, thanks for the prompt response! Now at least I know that I'm not crazy -- just too dim to have figured this out yet. I guess that's good news ;-) Stan "Dammit, Jim, I'm an applications developer, not a network sysadmin!"
Re: apm
Hi, You need to add the line append="apm=on", like this: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only append="apm=on" > hallo, > > how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some > changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what. > > thanks, > Manuel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jamil
Restarting a debian install
I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root password" phase? Walt pgpvmkR5S5P2m.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: eth0 problem
>Do the servers all have the same type of network-cards? I have a 3Com >3c900 Combo and it seems this card doesn't react anymore after some >time. An ifdown+ifup brings it back again. >Phil > Hi Phil The card is a Netgear with a Tulip Digital 21040 chip which is what we have in the Redhat and SuSe servers and they do not behave this way. cheers Garry Regards, Daniel ___ Daniel Knights Highway Internet Services ABN: 14 088 130 269 Part of the LiSP Group http://www.lisp.com.au Servicing the Dubbo, Mudgee, Coonabarabran, Gilgandra, Warren, Wellington and surrounding areas. Enquiries 02 6372 3645 129 Market St, Mudgee 2850
Re: Restarting a debian install
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was > selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root > password" phase? Someone on irc.debian.org was able to help me out. The command is dpkg-reconfigure base-config Walt pgpcTitD3UIdE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FTP and IPCHAINS
Try using the ftp module or pointing port 20 to whatever machine you're doing the active ftp from. Chris On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS > I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default > configuration file. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpv6Z4sqVZ3P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FTP and IPCHAINS
use passive ftp from `man ftp` passive Toggle passive data transfer mode. In passive mode, the client initiates the data connection by listening on the data port. Passive mode may be necessary for operation from behind firewalls which do not permit incoming connections. -Jon
