Re: apt-get netscape v4.76 problem
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:33:48PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Yikes! > I have done: > apt-get install netscape-base-4 > apt-get install netscape-base-476 > apt-get install netscape-java-476 > apt-get install navigator-base-476 > apt-get install communicator-base-476 Try either: $ apt-get install navigator or $ apt-get install communicator Both are "psuedo-packages", in they only supply the dependencies necessary to get all the parts installed. The first justs gets the browser, the second gets the whole Netscape/Navigator/Mail thingy. It's confusing, because the executable is like "navigator-smotif-476", but it needs these other parts as well. -- Eric G. Miller
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
> If some other program is using /dev/dsp, you'll also get that error. > > Check to see if 'esd' is running, it'll snatch up /dev/dsp. I know there > are ways to make it release it every so often, but I can't remember how. esd is not running, I'm certain. I don't have any apps running that might grab dsp that I'm aware off. btw, I'm running sawfish with kde, mixed woody and potato. A
Voodoo 3
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what to do to set up my voodoo 3 to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL under X 3.3.6? At this point, what I think I know is that Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL API, and that it can work with (over?) Glide, which is the Voodoo's API (also the name of the implementation thereof). Am I anywhere close? But I'm completely lost as to what to do to get it to work... I've installed the following packages (from potato): libglide2-v3 libglide2-dev glide2-base mesag3-glide2 mesag3-widgets mesag-glide2-dev mesag-widgets-dev Okay, so the dev packages are probably overkill at this point, but what the heck? :) If I try to run /usr/bin/test3Dfx, I get: gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault In the description for libglide2-v3, it says "You'll need the /dev/3dfx kernel driver to use this library." I have no clue what to do about this; where would I get the this kernel driver? I haven't had much luck in finding current documentation (I assume things have changed significantly since the 3dfx howto was last updated 3 years ago, since it specifically mentions that there is no kernel configuration necessary). If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be most appreciative. TIA. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
To quote Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # > If some other program is using /dev/dsp, you'll also get that error. # > # > Check to see if 'esd' is running, it'll snatch up /dev/dsp. I know there # > are ways to make it release it every so often, but I can't remember how. # # esd is not running, I'm certain. I don't have any apps running that # might grab dsp that I'm aware off. # # btw, I'm running sawfish with kde, mixed woody and potato. Well, I know you've probably already checked, but in the interests of thoroughness ;): is "arts" running? It's the KDE sound server. I apologize if you've already checked - I can't help it :) Dave
Re: xmms and sound
Are you running esound? Try running it with "esd" as root. Second, make xmms use another plugin, try oss. Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm trying to make xmms make sound... > so here's the problem: > i'm able to hear sound from "cdcd", from "gcd" or from "wmcdplay" for example > (so i can play cd's), BUT i can't hear anything from xmms ! > > what's wrong ? (ok, i think it's the output plugin -- i do not have any > libesdout.so in /lib -- but how do i do to work around ?) -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
Actually, I hadn't checked for arts. It is not/was not running. Thanks. A > Well, I know you've probably already checked, but in the interests of > thoroughness ;): is "arts" running? It's the KDE sound server. > > I apologize if you've already checked - I can't help it :) > > Dave > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: lilo.conf
I've got a new lilo package on http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ . It will be in unstable in a few days. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
Re: lilo.conf
To quote Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark Hey, I didn't know you wrote bonnie++ :) Great utility, thanks :) Dave
Re: JDK 1.2.2 or higher
Mitchell wrote: Does anyone know of an apt source which has a later version of JDK than the one in the woody tree. Either 1.2.2 or higher? Thanks From Mitchell add: deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian woody non-free and you should be set. this information can be [1]found on the blackdown site, also. /ben [1] http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/INSTALL-1.3-j2sdk -- |_ |_ | _ _ |_ "Gravity cannot be held responsible |_) . |_)|(_|(_ |\ for people falling in love." -- Einstein
Re: debconf
Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:06:19PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > How does one go about changing the message priority in debconf? > > > > You may be looking for 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' -- without a bit more > > explination I can't tell for sure. > > Sorry about the vagueness. Basically, when I did my initial install, > debconf was set to only give me high priority messages, I would like to > set this to low. I did dpkg-reconfigure debconf-tiny and I got no > errors, but nothing happened either. > > -Rob > Hi what I do usually is apt-get install dialog dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=dialog debconf you can use --frontend=text as well but IMHO dialog looks better.
Re: CPU optimization
On Jan 06 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > Hmm..well I read in the gcc manual that -O3 is "optimize even more" > and is the maximum.:-) First of all, I must say that I'm enjoying this discussion a lot and that although I never used this pentium-builder thing, I think that it's pretty slick. I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). BTW, you can use -O6 for your programs. If I remember correctly, it will fallback to whatever is the highest mode of optimization (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong -- I read this a long time ago and didn't find it listed in the current documentation now; the funny thing is that it's not mentioned in the current potato manpage). I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: apt-get netscape v4.76 problem
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:33:48PM -0800, thus spake Xucaen: Just in case, here is a solution from the bottom up! Ok, in the following order ( as root ): dpkg --purgeall your netscape packages - clear 'em out. Find out what you have with aptitude. Then cd /etc/apt mv sources.list sources.list-save now copy the file attached to /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install netscape-smotif-476 Steven Wayne posted this on uk.comp.os.linux last week. If you need to do this, don't forget to re-instate your own sources.list afterwards, unless you want to go for woody!Sorry if this is too basic - it worked for me! Glyn -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux 8:20am up 38 min, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.57, 0.39 deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free #deb ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/helix/distributions/debian woody main #deb-src ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/helix/distributions/debian woody main #deb ftp://galeon.sourceforge.net/pub/galeon/nightly/debian galeon/ #deb-src ftp://galeon.sourceforge.net/pub/galeon/nightly/debian galeon/ #deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.helixcode.com/pub/helix/distributions/Debian woody main #deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/Debian woody main
Re: Problem running Java code
Kenward Vaughan wrote: Sorry for what may be a trivial ?? for the Java-folks, but I'm not one myself... yet. I DL'd a package called jchempaint for my chemistry classes which is a java app. I installed java-common and kaffe, believing that to be what was need to run the program. But when I try it, I get: daddy:~# jchempaint java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/JPanel at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:native) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:52) at kaffe.jar.ExecJarName.main(ExecJarName.java:58) at kaffe.jar.ExecJar.main(ExecJar.java:59) Am I doing something obviously wrong, or missing a package? you're trying to use an app that uses the Sun Java Foundation Classes (JFC). these are not free. see the [0]blackdown project page for information on downloading the "official" Java2 SDK for Linux. /ben [0] http://www.blackdown.org -- |_ |_ | _ _ |_ "Gravity cannot be held responsible |_) . |_)|(_|(_ |\ for people falling in love." -- Einstein
Re: CPU optimization
Rogerio Brito wrote: > > First of all, I must say that I'm enjoying this discussion a > lot and that although I never used this pentium-builder thing, > I think that it's pretty slick. > > I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the > trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may > be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess the few things left won't take that much time.:-). > BTW, you can use -O6 for your programs. If I remember > correctly, it will fallback to whatever is the highest mode of > optimization (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong -- I > read this a long time ago and didn't find it listed in the > current documentation now; the funny thing is that it's not > mentioned in the current potato manpage). > > I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. > > []s, Roger... I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it doesn't relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I researched this for a few hours.I got stuck at the debian/rules when I decided to ask for help.
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:49:46 -0800, Ross Boylan said:
> At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without
> uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this,
> so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available under the GPL.
>
> I've since discovered that the some packages also create a bunch of
> crontab jobs, and they are still cluttering things up a bit.
>
> If there's a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it.
Try finding the line in the file /etc/inet.conf and comment it out for the
services that you don't want to run. You may have to reboot then, or try
restarting the internet superserver - try a "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". You
might have to kill a few other processes or just stop them using their scripts
in /etc/init.d/.
Hope this helps
>
> #! /usr/bin/python
> # switchDemon.py
> #
> # Usage: switchDemon.py (--on | --off)
> #
> # This script will scan, turn off, or turn on selected
> # demons in /etc/rc?.d/. It does so by renaming S* symbolic
> # links so the services won't start.
> # Scan mode (neither --on nor --off) simply reports the status
> # of the demons.
> # Note that demons are not actually started or stopped by this script;
> # it just controls what will happen at system startup.
> #
> # (c) 2001 Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> # Made available under the GPL (see www.gnu.org)
>
> import glob, os.path, re, sys
>
> class Demon:
> "Information and actions on a demon"
>
> gDisabled = "Disabled-"
>
> def __init__(self, name):
> "Name of demon"
> if not os.path.exists("/etc/init.d/"+name):
> raise name + " is not a known demon"
> self._name = name
> self._statuses = []
>
> def checkStatus(self):
> "Check status at various run levels"
> self.doOverRunLevels(self._checkStatus)
>
> def turnOff(self):
> "Make it so won't run at next system start"
> self.doOverRunLevels(self._turnOff)
> self.checkStatus()
>
> def turnOn(self):
> "We will start on next run level change"
> self.doOverRunLevels(self._turnOn)
> self.checkStatus()
>
> def doOverRunLevels(self, method):
> "Invoke method over all run levels"
> for rl in glob.glob("/etc/rc[0-9Ss].d"):
> method(rl, rl[-3])
>
> def _checkStatus(self, directory, runLevel):
> "See if we are around and fill in _statuses if we are"
> aRegex = re.compile("("+Demon.gDisabled+r")?S(\d\d)"+self._name);
> for file in os.listdir(directory):
> aMatch = aRegex.search(file)
> if aMatch:
> aStatus = DemonStatus(runLevel, aMatch.group(2), not
> aMatch.group(1))
> self._statuses.append(aStatus)
> return
>
> def _turnOff(self, directory, runLevel):
> "Disable demon for future reboots"
> aRegex = re.compile(r"S(\d\d)"+self._name)
> for file in os.listdir(directory):
> aMatch = aRegex.match(file) # must be at start
> if aMatch:
> os.rename(os.path.join(directory, file),
>os.path.join(directory, Demon.gDisabled+file))
> # no return values documented for os.rename
> return
>
> def _turnOn(self, directory, runLevel):
> "Enable demon for future reboots"
> aRegex = re.compile(Demon.gDisabled+r"S(\d\d)"+self._name)
> for file in os.listdir(directory):
> aMatch = aRegex.match(file) # must be at start
> if aMatch:
> os.rename(os.path.join(directory, file),
>os.path.join(directory,
> file[len(Demon.gDisabled):]))
> # no return values documented for os.rename
> return
>
> def reportTo(self, file):
> "Send human readable report to stream"
> file.write("Demon %s:\n"%self._name)
> for aStatus in self._statuses:
> file.write("\t%s\n"%str(aStatus))
>
>
> class DemonStatus:
> "Status of a given demon"
>
> def __init__(self, runlevel, priority, enabled=1):
> "Priority (nn) of demon and whether it is enabled"
> # runlevel is a single 0, 1, ...
> self._runlevel = runlevel
> self._priority = priority
> self._enabled = enabled
>
> def __str__(self):
> if self._enabled:
> msg = "Enabled"
> else:
> msg = "Turned off"
> return "%s for run level %s (priority %s)"%(msg, self._runlevel,
> self._priority)
>
> def isEnabled(self):
> if self._enabled:
> return "on"
> else:
> return "off"
>
>
> aCommand = sys.argv[1]
> if aCommand[0] == "-":
> if aCommand[-1] == "f":
> anAction = "turnOf
Permissions
Hello My ls -l listing shows lines like this drwx--S---5 sunilsunil4096 Dec 13 09:21 Desktop/ drwxr-sr-x5 sunilsunil4096 Aug 24 07:28 GNUstep/ I know s bit is suid on files and x permission on directory allows you to traverse it . But what does s and S mean on directories also what is the difference between S and s Sunil -- Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil Powered By Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Principal, College of Applied Sciences,Calicut,Kerala,India http://geocities.com/sunil_tt ~ ~
still Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
I just realized my response below kinda makes it seem like the problem has gone away: but it hasn't. When running 'xanim foo.wav', I still get the error 'Cannot Open /dev/dsp device', and I still need help fixing that :) sorry 'bout the confusion... Aaron On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Actually, I hadn't checked for arts. It is not/was not running. Thanks. > > A > > > Well, I know you've probably already checked, but in the interests of > > thoroughness ;): is "arts" running? It's the KDE sound server. > > > > I apologize if you've already checked - I can't help it :) > > > > Dave > > > > > > -- > > 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] >
Unable to Install Debian From CD
I have run dbootstrap from the Debian CD and installed the base system. I've done all the steps up to the point where the system is rebooted. When it reboots from a diskette, it runs the first part of the installation (set up partitions, install base system etc.), but if I try to access the CD, it says CDROM mount failed. When it boots from the HDD, I see that it finds the CDROM and calls it hdb. But when I run dselect, it only gives three options for access methods: nfs install from an NFS server (not yet mounted) floppy install from a pile of floppy disks * apt APT acquisition (file,http,ftp) I want to continue the installation from the CDROM discs resuming at the point where the Debian installation system boots from a Linux HDD, but I do not know how to proceed. Could someone provide assistance? Thank you. NOTES: The BIOS of my system does not support booting from CDROM. I believe I am using a standard ATAPI IDE drive (Wearnes CDS-2420). The CDROM drive is slaved to the HDD on the primary channel of an add-in IDE controller. ___ Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! Many to choose from! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
Aaron, You can probably play music from a cd with any cd player, you can probably play a wav file with play file.wav but you can't play an .mp3 with xmms. You'll need to recompile a kernel with your sound card selected. Have look at the Debian University: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt I've just emerged from the cannot open /dev/dsp dilemma myself. You may still need to run xmms with sudo, even though you're in the audio group. Get hold of grip; put a cd in you cd; you can play any track. Rip a track (right click on it to select). Play it as a .wav. Get BladeEnc. Encode a .wav. sudo xmms Select your .mp3 . You'll know then if you need to recompile the kernel. Best wishes.
Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD
Hi, have you included a /cdrom line in your fstab? If the installation program cannot find a cdrom itself, you are able to fix it this way, I think, Greetz, Sebastiaan On 7 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have run dbootstrap from the Debian CD and installed the base system. I've > done all the steps up to the point where the system is rebooted. When it > reboots from a diskette, it runs the first part of the installation (set up > partitions, install base system etc.), but if I try to access the CD, it says > CDROM mount failed. > > When it boots from the HDD, I see that it finds the CDROM and calls it hdb. > But when I run dselect, it only gives three options for access methods: > >nfs install from an NFS server (not yet mounted) >floppy install from a pile of floppy disks > * apt APT acquisition (file,http,ftp) > > I want to continue the installation from the CDROM discs resuming at the > point where the Debian installation system boots from a Linux HDD, but I do > not know how to proceed. Could someone provide assistance? Thank you. > > NOTES: The BIOS of my system does not support booting from CDROM. I believe I > am using a standard ATAPI IDE drive (Wearnes CDS-2420). The CDROM drive is > slaved to the HDD on the primary channel of an add-in IDE controller. > > > ___ > Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! > Many to choose from! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance
I have an IBM ATA-100 30G harddrive, attached to a ASUS CUSL2-C (Intel 815EP-based) mobo. The kernel is not even using the drive in UDMA mode. The performance is *horrible*: every time I copy to the disk the CPU usage goes up all the way and I'm seeing things like "load average: 5.47, 5.02, 3.27", which is only caused by disk access. ,[ dmesg ] | PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b | PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later | ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio | ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio | hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive | ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 | ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 | hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, 9797MB w/1900kB Cache, CHS=19906/16/63, UDMA | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, 29314MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63 ` As you can see, the other HD (which is an ATA-66 Quantum) is at least used in UDMA mode. What is the reason the kernel dislikes the drive so much? ;^) Do you suppose I've missed some option in kernel configuration? Any other possible reasons? Could the fact that the whole drive is one 30G ext2fs partition have anything to do with the slowness? Many thanks for any suggestions, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
mutt w/IMAP4+SSL?
Since i got some free time this weekend i was going to try out mutt
for the hell of it ..since i hear its a good reader..but i can't
get it to connect to my IMAP4+SSL server. it connects fine to
just the IMAP4 port but i must have it connect to the SSL
port. the package description says it supports SSL and
according to the FAQ i set the configuration to use
SSL:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .muttrc
set spoolfile={10.10.10.1/ssl}INBOX
set folder={10.10.10.1}
set imap_user=aphro
when i load mutt:
{10.10.10.1/ssl}INBOX is an invalid IMAP path, if i
remove the /ssl it works fine, provided i turn
off my firewall for port 143 ..
from the MUTT faq:
I'd like to get my mail via IMAP!
Mutt does now officially support IMAP. Please upgrade to a
recent version and use --enable-imap and preferably
--with-ssl if you have OpenSSL installed to get
SSL encryption for your IMAP connections.
Then you simply set your spoolfile to "{mailhost/ssl}INBOX"
to access your email (replace mailhost with the name or IP
of your IMAP server and omit the "/ssl" if you
don't have SSL support). INBOX is the canonical name for
your mail spool via IMAP. With IMAP, you can have more than
one mail folder and access them with "{mailhost/ssl}INBOX/foo
with the name foo.
going to be a hard transition for me i think, being a pine
and netscape mailer user for the past 5+ years ..but
i trust the end result will be worth it ...im not really
looking to recompile mutt to get this working..so if it
is possible let me know what i am missing for it to work.
btw im running potato looks like mutt is 0.94-5
thanks
nate
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Re: Permissions
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:03:35AM +0530, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > > Hello > > My ls -l listing shows lines like this > drwx--S---5 sunilsunil4096 Dec 13 09:21 Desktop/ > drwxr-sr-x5 sunilsunil4096 Aug 24 07:28 GNUstep/ > I know s bit is suid on files and x permission on directory allows you > to traverse it . But what does s and S mean on directories also what > is the difference between S and s s means the execute bit is also set, S means its not. so if you remove the s bits from those directorys you get: drwx--5 sunilsunil4096 Dec 13 09:21 Desktop/ drwxr-xr-x5 sunilsunil4096 Aug 24 07:28 GNUstep/ see? its done that way since the s is in the same position as an x bit so otherwise you could not tell if the file is user|group executable if it was s[ug]id. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpopnggxLqjC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I have an IBM ATA-100 30G harddrive, attached to a ASUS CUSL2-C (Intel > 815EP-based) mobo. > > The kernel is not even using the drive in UDMA mode. The performance > is *horrible*: every time I copy to the disk the CPU usage goes up all > the way and I'm seeing things like "load average: 5.47, 5.02, 3.27", > which is only caused by disk access. > > ,[ dmesg ] > | PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b > | PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later looks like the system doesn't know what kind of controller it is try patching from www.linux-ide.org nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/wd0a whenever i need to do anything > related to raw devices is a performance improvment. nor is writing > huge kludgy initscripts or bloated daemons just so i can do: I can't see why a daemon about 30k in size is bloated. See it this way: The old way to manage devices is with major/minor node numbers. There are not much free numbers these days and if we put the system to 32 Bit numbers or the like, the kernel will be very much more bloated than that small daemon in user-mode could ever be bloated. One other IMO very good argument is, that with the old system the list of numbers is used at two different locations, one in the kernel and one in /dev or MAKEDEV scripts. With devfs there is now only one list in the kernel. (Not to mention that numbers are given in a very chaotic way to devices.) Last but not least without /dev being an ordinary directory one is much more flexible with the root-dir. It's much more simple now to make / read-only without the need vor a ramdisk and the like. And at least i'm very pleased that now i can have a look in /dev and see what's really there. By the way i love dynamically managed resources and i don't like the idea that resources are managed statically -- only think about USB. > chgrp wheel /dev/somedevice > chmod 660 /dev/somedevice > > and have it stick. (past reboots) With devfsd this is also very simple possible. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > Hi. xanim complains that it cannot open the /dev/dsp > device. Funny thing is, I'm in the audio group and the > device's permissions seem legit: first be sure your audio driver is installed and is working. i suggest playing a mp3 as root in single user mode (init 1) to make it easiest to rule out anything else using the device. and/or run lsof | grep dsp get the lsof-2.2 package for this im assuming your using kernel 2.2 ..dont know if the package works on kernel 2.4 as i have never used 2.4. from what i see 2 things could be wrong either something is using the device, or something WAS using the device but hasn't let it go, or #2 would be the audio driver is not installed/not compadible/broken/etc. also could be a hardware conflict which would be related to the audio driver as it cannot load properly if there is a conflict. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISO problems (rsync is silently exiting)
Hi, Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows box here. Following the instructions, I ran make-pseudo-image and now have a file called binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is 634,220KB in size. Finally, I am to patch this file to make the "Official" ISO. Per the instructions: c:\windows\desktop\debian> rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 rsync.kernel.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso . NOTE: THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF RSYNC. [...] [...] ... and that's it. The hdd goes wild for about five minutes, and then it silently drops me back to a prompt. The pseudo-image is unchanged. hrmm ... maybe it downloaded PERFECTLY?! Try to burn it to a CD with Adaptec Easy CD Creator, "this is not a valid ISO". md5sums don't match either. Any ideas? -- Mark
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andreas> 2.) boot. fsck will fail. do manual fsck, remount / rw, > Andreas> edit /etc/fstab: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > Andreas> /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 > Andreas> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 none swap sw 0 0 > Andreas> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 / ext2 defaults 0 > Andreas> 1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 /local ext2 > Andreas> defaults 0 2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/tagret1/lun0/cd /cdrom > Andreas> iso9660 ro,user,noauto > > This seems to be overly complex, even for devfs. Or is the > documentation found in > linux-2.4.0-test10/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README out-of-date > or wrong? No, but Andreas stated clearly that he don't want to use devfsd. And the above are the internal names of devfs and the device drivers. The other names like /dev/discs/disc0 and the like are the user friendly naming scheme which is brought to you with devfsd. So if you don't use devfsd you don't get the new, shorter names but only the very long internal names (which are deprecated to use). -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > very funny, im sure you would like it if someone FORCED you to use > *only* KDE or *only* gnome. the Free software movement is about > freedom and choices and *options* i should have the *option* to turn > that `feature' off. > > don't force your preferences on others. you like devfs use it, don't > force me to do the same. > as soon as there is no longer any choices or options in GNU/Linux is > it no better for me then Windows. Hey, than Linux is no better then Windows. Did you know that they changed the way the caching and the VM works? And the worst: They let you no choice to use the old system! How could they do without asking you! These bad guys! -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
Re: another mkisofs question
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 21:28:35 GMT, Peter Horton writes: >> bash-2.03# mount -o loop -t iso9660 test.iso /mnt/loop/ >> bash-2.03# ls -la /mnt/loop/ >> total 5 >> dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 6 2001 . >> drwxrwxrwx6 root root 1024 Jul 5 2000 .. >> -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jan 6 2001 firstfile >> dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 6 2001 seconddirectory >> -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jan 6 2001 secondfile >> > >mkisofs takes a path not a file spec. > >try 'mkisofs -l -v -o test.iso .' ... ah, thanks. that does it. cherrs, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
busted Partition Table - How to Fix?
Is there any way to fix a busted partition table? I have Linux installed on the primary master drive, /dev/hda. I have a seconday IDE drive, /dev/hdc, a 40 gig Maxtor, containing data. The partitions on /dev/hdc are in FAT32 format. There is also some raw space on the drive. I thought I would do some partiton creation and resizing on /dev/hdc using partition magic, but it complained that the partition table was busted, something about start and end. I tried GNU parted and it gave me this when I did a "print" cmd: Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/hdc - wrong signature 1 How do I fix this? What surprises me is that I am able to mount all the partitions on /dev/hdc and access all the files there. - greg strockbine
package searching & soundcard issues
hello, question 1: does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or something, but i can't seem to find the file anymore. question 2: on my debian installation, root seems to be the only user who can access the soundcard (with xmms, etc.). if i'm not mistaken, the souncard is /dev/dsp. on my machine this is: crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp i tried doing an `addgroup mark audio', but i still get `Permission denied' when i try `cat /dev/dsp'. can anyone give me a hand? thanks. -mark
Re: busted Partition Table - How to Fix?
Hi, in DOS you can restore the MBR with fdisk /mbr that will install the standard MBR for M$. I do not know how M$-fdisk behaves when having more than one hd in the computer, so boot with a win98 bootfloppy with only one hd installed, run fdisk /mbr and see if you are able to do something. To rewrite your partition table, you can use any fdisk (DOS or Linux, AFAIK) and rewrite the partition table. Maybe scandisk will help too. Succes, Sebastiaan On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Greg Strockbine wrote: > Is there any way to fix a busted partition table? > > I have Linux installed on the primary master drive, /dev/hda. > I have a seconday IDE drive, /dev/hdc, a 40 gig Maxtor, containing > data. > The partitions on /dev/hdc are in FAT32 format. There is > also some raw space on the drive. > > I thought I would do some partiton creation and resizing on > /dev/hdc using partition magic, but it complained that the > partition table was busted, something about start and end. > > I tried GNU parted and it gave me this when I did a "print" cmd: > Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/hdc - wrong signature 1 > > How do I fix this? > > What surprises me is that I am able to mount all the partitions > on /dev/hdc and access all the files there. > > - greg strockbine > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: package searching & soundcard issues
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:55:02AM -0600, Mark Phillips wrote: > question 2: > on my debian installation, root seems to be the only user who can access > the soundcard (with xmms, etc.). if i'm not mistaken, the souncard is > /dev/dsp. on my machine this is: > > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp > > i tried doing an `addgroup mark audio', but i still get `Permission > denied' when i try `cat /dev/dsp'. can anyone give me a hand? thanks. Have you logged out and logged back in after you added yourself to the group? Apologies if this is obvious to you, just thought I'd toss it out. -Rob
Re: package searching & soundcard issues
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:55:02AM -0600, Mark Phillips wrote: > > i tried doing an `addgroup mark audio', but i still get `Permission > denied' when i try `cat /dev/dsp'. can anyone give me a hand? thanks. you have to logout and relogin for group changes to take effect. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpPOjRPx9xhl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Packaging Policy.
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Corey Popelier wrote: > Correct, I'm sure as hell not about to do that :) But I was thinking along > the lines of saying "look, here's an unofficial .deb of fetchmail since it > appears to be a tad outdated, and I've had considerable problems with > the existing one which appear to be resolved in a later version." FYI fetchmail was officialy adopted this morning with the blessings of Paul (the former fetchmail maintainer). I'll be sponsoring the uploads, as Chris Ball (the new fetchmail maintainer) is in the NM queue. BUT this doesn't mean your help is not appreciated :) Just mail patches to the BTS, and you'll be helping a new release of the fetchmail package to come out faster. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgppiGOQYhDcn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem
Hello, On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Jeffrey S. Coppock wrote: > lprng several times, I decided to try lpr. LPR WORKS! I don't know > what the difference is, but it's enough. I reinstalled magicfilter Great. But i'm still wondering what whet wrong with lprng. In that previous mail with the result of the -d switch, i couldn't see anything wrong. But what the heck, it's working, so many happy printing :-). Meanwhile my printer broke down :(. It's a matter of life and death :-). Greetz, Jo
Re: [debian-user] mutt w/IMAP4+SSL?
Hi! >--[Nate Amsden]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mutt does now officially support IMAP. Please upgrade to a > recent version and use --enable-imap and preferably > --with-ssl if you have OpenSSL installed to get > SSL encryption for your IMAP connections. $ mutt -v Mutt 1.3.12i (2000-11-27 [...] +USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_SASL [...] So it's just not compiled in (because openssl is incompatibel to the GPL or some such nonsense). Yours, Rüdiger. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ruediger-kuhlmann.de/
Re: CPU optimization
:: Mircea Luca writes: >> I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the >> trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may >> be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). > Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess > the few things left won't take that much time.:-). Is it safe to recompile X with different flags? IIRC, X 3.3.6 shouldn't even be compiled with gcc 2.95.2 (the Makefile would look for gcc272), because 2.95 would miscompile it. (I could be wrong). >> BTW, you can use -O6 for your programs. If I remember >> correctly, it will fallback to whatever is the highest mode of >> optimization (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong -- I >> read this a long time ago and didn't find it listed in the >> current documentation now; the funny thing is that it's not >> mentioned in the current potato manpage). >> >> I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. >> >> []s, Roger... > I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it > doesn't relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I > researched this for a few hours.I got stuck at the debian/rules when > I decided to ask for help. Yes... I saw a few Makefiles using -O9 and -O10. I've made some tests here modifying pentium-builder. I think the prolem with changing it is that, if I call gcc -O2 -O3 That'll be the same as "gcc -O3" So it'll work if you set an env. variable to "O3" and override the -O2, but will not work the other way araound (you can't force it to use a lower optimization level than the one in the command line). That's because -O2 will just enable a set of optimizations, and -O3 will enable a superset of -O2. Unless the code was changed in order to strip the previous "-O" setting from the arguments (Joey, if you're reading this: is it nonsense?)... Anyway, the difference between -O2 and -O3 seems to be loop-unrolling; I'm not sure if it's worth recompiling everything with -O3... J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU optimization
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:21:58AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Mircea Luca writes: > > >> I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the > >> trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may > >> be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). > > > Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess > > the few things left won't take that much time.:-). > > Is it safe to recompile X with different flags? IIRC, X 3.3.6 > shouldn't even be compiled with gcc 2.95.2 (the Makefile would look > for gcc272), because 2.95 would miscompile it. (I could be wrong). I've been running an X compiled with 2.95.2 since that version of gcc has been released (I compiled it too :). I've not had X crash on me. Not once. So there. :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys
undo extraction
Hi if extracted GCC_2.95.2.1.tar.gz because i wanted to compile ProFTPd , and i want to undo it because i have no space left now in my root partition. How can i undo the extraction or remove the files? dunki
Re: undo extraction
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:44:38PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: > Hi > > if extracted GCC_2.95.2.1.tar.gz because i wanted to compile ProFTPd , and > i want to undo it because i have no space left now in my root partition. How > can i undo the extraction or remove the files? rm -rf GCC_2.95.2.1 or whatever directory name was created, all sanly created tarballs extract one directory with all the files under that. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpWQMua41TOx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Netscape 6 for Linux ?
Hi all I was reading that there is a netscape version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone tried it out? Can anyone foresee any problems in me downloading it and installing on my computer. I'm using debian 2.2. T:Irvine
Re: Packaging Policy.
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:55:26PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: ... > My issue is this, 5.5.3 is actually about 5 or 6 versions behind the > times. It was from about Sept last year if I recall. Now I don't know what > the status of the maintainer of this package is, but what are the Debian > policy/ethical issues involved if I suddenly piped up and said I had > [unofficial?] packages available for this? As others pointed out this is quit acceptable. But there is a but:) Official packages are tested/screned, and at least uptill now I trust them. Now comes some one I don't no, telling me he has fixed some probs. Nice nice, but would I want to handover my system to this guy? No, I wouldn't. Installing a deb has to be done as root, and noway am I going to run a prog as root of someone I don't know. No doubt you're trustworthy, but I don't know for sure. But if you would provide the diffs, I could check for myself that you did you job and nothing more and would be able to compile it for myself. So please put the diffs up somewhere too so that "apt-get source package" would work. A few days ago someone posted he had deb-ed the latest exim (with the rewriting stuff per router/transporter). I tried to do it myself, but failed. I asked for help, but he didn't anwser anymore:( so I'm stuck with the old version. Had he put up somewhere the diffs I could have checked that no evil deeds were incorperated and could have been running the latest and greatest. -- groetjes, carel
Re: package searching & soundcard issues
Hello, * Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hello, > > question 1: > does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to > when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method > to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and > zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or something, but i can't seem to find > the file anymore. The file you need to grep is Contents-.gz that can be found on each Debain mirror in the distributions directory (something like /pub/debian/dists/unstable). Bye -- DEFRESNE Sylvain
Re: gpm and wheelmouse
> now the wheelie doodad is working happily in mozilla (not ns4 tho---gotta > play around some more) and xterm and who knows where else... > > One question...does anyone know if it's possible for the wheelie in xterm > (wterm) to scroll through the command history rather than up the scroll > bar? > > thanks again, > rick create a ~/.imwheelrc here is mine : "Terminal" <-- title of the window (xterm for you ?) I have gnome-terminal None, Up, Up <-- up button None, Down, Down<-- down button modifierwheel simulated key button key for more explanation, try man imwheel nicolas
Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?
irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was reading that there is a netscape > version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone > tried it out? Can anyone foresee any > problems in me downloading it and installing > on my computer. I tried it. No problems installing it at all. BUT, I don't recommend using it. NN6 is just a re-packaged Mozilla milestone 18, which is not very fresh. There have been at least two more releases of Mozilla since M18, so NN6 is quite outdated. Also, you have to register NN6, which I found a cumbersome pocess; you don't have to register Mozilla. All that said, either of the browsers is by no means a finished product. They are slow, bulky, and buggy. Gotta say that I love Mozilla's rendering engine + international languages support. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?
> > Hi all > > I was reading that there is a netscape > version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone > tried it out? Can anyone foresee any > problems in me downloading it and installing > on my computer. > > I'm using debian 2.2. There shouldn't be a problem with the installation. I would recommend Mozilla, but actually there is not much defference between Netscape and Mozilla. Both browsers are a bloated piece of crap... -- with friendly regards jens luedicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PMC - Perl Mail Client http://www.irs-net.com/ wget it: wget -m -nH ftp://ftp.irs-net.com/pmc >> President BU-ll-SH-it ... -- If's Beste Freundin: Else
Re: GCC and EGCS
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: staf wagemakers writes: > > > The latest gcc sersion 2.96 ( which is the default compiler on Red Hat 7 ) > > has > > a few bugs and isn't able to compile the Linux kernel. This version of gcc > > is > > only a pre-release therefor I wouldn't use this version at all... > > There was some flame war in linux-kernel and elsewhere I guess because > of that. It's not "pre-release". They actually picked a CVS snapshot > that was not binary-compatible with anything else, and with unknown > bugs, and packaged it. > > I'd call our version of gcc (2.95.3) a "prerelease", but not Red > Hat's "2.96". > > The gcc people had to publicaly announce that there has never been an > official 2.96 gcc version... Ok, then I wouldn't never use Red Hat 7.0 :) regards, -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://staf.digibel.org
Re: ldap, ldap everywhere
Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: Hi. I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? That's exactly what I tried today to set up, but I didn't get it really to work yet. But try to install slapd (openldapd) and try to get the authentication done with libpam-ldap in adition to the passwd-authentication. The idea behind the pam-stuff is that the authentication works transparently, so you have not to change anything, just configure pam right. But I don't now how far this goes. I think some more work is to be done, like make that exim will get the correct users for mail delivery, and I don't think that adduser, passwd ... will just work on ldap. Does anyone know more about this? One more thing: in the testing distribution there isn't yet the openldap version 2.x. If you need ldap-v3 support, you'll need v2.x, maybe it is in unstable? Good luck, Tibor
Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance
On 07 Jan 2001 03:58:45 -0500, Arcady Genkin said: > I have an IBM ATA-100 30G harddrive, attached to a ASUS CUSL2-C (Intel > 815EP-based) mobo. > > The kernel is not even using the drive in UDMA mode. The performance > is *horrible*: every time I copy to the disk the CPU usage goes up all > the way and I'm seeing things like "load average: 5.47, 5.02, 3.27", > which is only caused by disk access. > > ,[ dmesg ] > | PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b > | PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > | ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > | ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > | hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive > | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive > | ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > | ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > | hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, 9797MB w/1900kB Cache, CHS=19906/16/63, UDMA > | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, 29314MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63 > ` > As you can see, the other HD (which is an ATA-66 Quantum) is at least > used in UDMA mode. > > What is the reason the kernel dislikes the drive so much? ;^) > Do you suppose I've missed some option in kernel configuration? Any > other possible reasons? Could the fact that the whole drive is one > 30G ext2fs partition have anything to do with the slowness? > Well i am using the identical ibm drive on an abit mb without ATA100 support. In my kernel config i set IDEDMA_AUTO=y so the kernel automatically enables DMA. When i run hdparm -i it shows: UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4 mode5 And hdparm -t shows disk reads about 30MB/sec. Maybe you have to manually enable DMA for this drive.
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
Hi Ross! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without > uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this, > so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available under the GPL. > > I've since discovered that the some packages also create a bunch of > crontab jobs, and they are still cluttering things up a bit. > > If there's a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it. > Original script deleted. What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). Anyone got a better idea ? Regards, Stefan
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
On 07/01/2001 at 16:31 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: > What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to > original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. > IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). > > Anyone got a better idea ? > Debian has an excellent set of scripts for this and much more.. Why don't you do (as root) "update-rc.d -f service-name remove" and later, when you want to enable it again, do a "update-rc.d service-name defaults"? Simple, quick and effective. :) Regards, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.smux.net/~sena/ gpg fingerprint: F20B 12A8 A8F6 FD1F 9B1D BA62 C424 8E73 DD2E 47C8 SMUX - http://www.smux.net/
Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ,[ dmesg ] > > | PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, > > DID=244b > > | PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > looks like the system doesn't know what kind of controller it is > try patching from www.linux-ide.org Woohooo! ,[ dmesg ] | PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 | PIIX4: chipset revision 1 | ... | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, 29314MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(100) ` Thanks!!! The only question is whether I used the right patch. There seem to be two different kinds of patches (judging from the filename format), but no documentation about the difference between them. Any idea what the difference would be between: ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.gz and ide.2.2.18-27.all.20001208.patch.gz besides that the first one is newer? I used the first patch. Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
strange cron.daily message
Hello!
I'm getting this email with the subject
Anacron job 'cron.daily
from anacron every day. The body of the message says:
/etc/cron.daily/status:
{module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21 does not match kernel data.
Can somebody enlighten me what it means?
Thanks
Diego Biurrun
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
Stefan Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to > original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. > IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). > > Anyone got a better idea ? What I do is ``chmod -x'' on the unwanted file in /etc/init.d/. This prevents them from being loaded. Essentially the same thing as you do, but I think that this way the script is going to be deleted if the package it belongs to is removed. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
Re: ISO problems (rsync is silently exiting)
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:46:48 -0800, Mark Symonds said: > > Hi, > > Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows > box here. Following the instructions, I ran > make-pseudo-image and now have a file called > binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is > 634,220KB in size. Finally, I am to patch > this file to make the "Official" ISO. Per > the instructions: > > c:\windows\desktop\debian> rsync --verbose --progress --stats > --block-size=8192 > rsync.kernel.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso . > NOTE: THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF RSYNC. > [...] > > [...] > > and that's it. The hdd goes wild for about five minutes, and then > it silently drops me back to a prompt. The pseudo-image is unchanged. > hrmm ... maybe it downloaded PERFECTLY?! Try to burn it to a CD with > Adaptec Easy CD Creator, "this is not a valid ISO". md5sums don't > match either. > > Any ideas? > I did this a while back and what i remeber is that i had to remove the block-size option to get rsync to work.
Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?
let me be more specific: nice: 1. auto URL completion (big whoop). 2. renders CSS, even if you turn javascript off (NICE) 3. it crashes less from what i've seen. bad: 1. they took away the "bookmark button". maybe this is small potatoes for some, but it's relevant to me. i liked being able to "file" my bookmarks. this is what i find most annoying. 2. kerberos is completely broken (i can't access my school grades with ns6). 3. very, very, very slow to load. even slower than previous NS incarnations 4. more junk. if the mozilla project/AOL really wanted to do anyone any good, they would concentrate less on "the sidebar" and more on speed and stability issues. no, i don't want to see little icons at the bottom of the browser that give me 'convenient access' to instant messenger or NS mail. i hate icons and the sidebar makes me puke. 5. assigning helper applications is now very inconvenient; i can't seem to make it work. well, i was able to assign gv to postscript, but that was after 10 minutes of trial and error. i think this subsystem is broken, because even though gv is summoned when i display a postscript object, the helper display doesn't "show" the postscript/gv entry; it's like the entry is invisible. shit, i can't write for beans. i hope you understand what i'm saying here. i'd recommend against netscape 6. i love CSS, so it's almost worth it for me. i'm thinking of going back though. pete On Sun 07 Jan 01, 10:10 AM, Arcady Genkin said... > irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was reading that there is a netscape > > version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone > > tried it out? Can anyone foresee any > > problems in me downloading it and installing > > on my computer. > > I tried it. No problems installing it at all. BUT, I don't recommend > using it. NN6 is just a re-packaged Mozilla milestone 18, which is > not very fresh. There have been at least two more releases of Mozilla > since M18, so NN6 is quite outdated. Also, you have to register NN6, > which I found a cumbersome pocess; you don't have to register Mozilla. > > All that said, either of the browsers is by no means a finished > product. They are slow, bulky, and buggy. Gotta say that I love > Mozilla's rendering engine + international languages support. > -- > Arcady Genkin > Don't read everything you believe. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? linux In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - ---._. The only true science is physics. The rest is [EMAIL PROTECTED]/v\ simply stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherfordhttp://www.dirac.org // \\ --- ^^ ^^ GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules pgpOwDPmtvvfb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:52:17 +, sena said: > On 07/01/2001 at 16:31 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: > > What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to > > original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. > > IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). > > > > Anyone got a better idea ? > > > Debian has an excellent set of scripts for this and much more.. > > Why don't you do (as root) "update-rc.d -f service-name remove" and later, > when you want to enable it again, do a "update-rc.d service-name defaults"? > > Simple, quick and effective. :) > Not that simple or effective when you need to reset the links which are not defaults. You'll have to save the original non- default runlevels and two-digit sequence code used by init to decide which order to run the scripts in. When defaults is used the service starts in runlevels 2345 and stops in 016 and the links will have sequence code 20. You will need to explicitly specify anything that does not have these default values.
Command line search and replace
Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? Something along the lines of: replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an ".html" to an ".htm." Note however that I intend to use the tool on other text files besides runaway web pages, such as processing a list of files to feed to tar.
Re: Command line search and replace
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > Something along the lines of: > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process > > I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an > ".html" to an ".htm." Note however that I intend to use the tool on > other text files besides runaway web pages, such as processing a list > of files to feed to tar. > Use something like for file in * do sed 's/replace this/by this/g' < $file > $file.tmp; mv $file.tmp $file; done (there probably _are_ errors, check man sh) Miso&Frankie -- Nietzche is dead. pgpNBNhYgG7XF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
To quote Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # No, but Andreas stated clearly that he don't want to use devfsd. And the above # are the internal names of devfs and the device drivers. The other names like # /dev/discs/disc0 and the like are the user friendly naming scheme which is # brought to you with devfsd. So if you don't use devfsd you don't get the new, # shorter names but only the very long internal names (which are deprecated to # use). Incorrect; on my system, the shortened names exist without devfsd. Observe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david]# ps aux | grep devfs | grep -v grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david]# mount -t devfs none /dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david]# ps aux | grep devfs | grep -v grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david]# ls /dev/discs/ total 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Dec 31 1969 disc0 -> ../ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Dec 31 1969 disc1 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david]# ps aux | grep devfs | grep -v grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david]# Tada :) They do exist. It's still longer than '/dev/hda1', but '/dev/discs/disc0/part1' isn't all that bad. Dave
Re: Command line search and replace
csj writes: > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > Something along the lines of: > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process Look at awk and sed. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: CPU optimization
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. > >> > >> []s, Roger... > > > I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it > > doesn't relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I > > researched this for a few hours.I got stuck at the debian/rules when > > I decided to ask for help. > > Yes... I saw a few Makefiles using -O9 and -O10. You should never blindly use high optimization levels. For one, there is nothing wired above -O3, so -O9 and -O10 both fall back to -O3, IIRC. For another, -O2 is considered for many applications the maximum safe optimization level, so recompiling all of your packages with -O3 might not be the best idea. (I know I've had programs I've written die on -O3 that work on -O2). -O2 is considered to be the "production code where you don't care about length of compile time" option. -- Zachary M. Loafman
Re: Command line search and replace
suggestion: cat file | sed s/search/replace/gi >file2;cp file2 file1; - Original Message - From: "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: Re: Command line search and replace > csj writes: > > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > > Something along the lines of: > > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process > > Look at awk and sed. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, Wisconsin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??
I am trying to isolate a problem with my ps2 mouse. The pointer function does not work in console or xterm. It will cut and paste OK. I have checked all of the various configurations and read all of the related docs. I have determined that the problem did not exist prior to reinstalling my systems from scratch using the current stable debian 2.2r2. I have not noticed the /dev/gpmdata prior to this install. I have alwasy used /dev/psaux for both XF86Setup and for gpmconfig. The docs say to use /dev/gpmdata for XF86Setup and /dev/mouse or /dev/psaux for gpmconfig. I am certain that the hardware is OK. I want to try an older version of gpm to see if the problem goes away. Anyone know where I can download a slink version. That one worked fine. I like to use the mouse functions in Midnight Commander and they do not work. Thanks! John
Re: CPU optimization
:: Zach Loafman writes: >> Yes... I saw a few Makefiles using -O9 and -O10. > You should never blindly use high optimization levels. For one, there > is nothing wired above -O3, so -O9 and -O10 both fall back to -O3, > IIRC. Yes, I think the reason to use -O10 is to use the highest optimization level, even when a new version of gcc offers -O4 or -O5... > For another, -O2 is considered for many applications the > maximum safe optimization level, so recompiling all of your packages > with -O3 might not be the best idea. (I know I've had programs I've > written die on -O3 that work on -O2). -O2 is considered to be the > "production code where you don't care about length of compile time" > option. Yes, but you may want to use those with applications which do not crash and are CPU-intensive (mp3 or ogg-vorbis encoders are a good example). Now, I don't know why gcc will fail to do loop unrolling safely. :-( J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dialup pp problemsq 2.1->2.2
running:
Kernel: 2.2.18pre21
OS: debian 2.2r2
using dialqd/pppd setings from 2.1 setup (which works)
has the follwong uutput:
(from messsages)
Jan 7 10:41:31 zeek2 diald[153]: Calling site 192.168.0.2
Jan 7 10:41:32 zeek2 connect: Initializing Modem
Jan 7 10:41:33 zeek2 connect: Dialing system
Jan 7 10:41:53 zeek2 connect: Connected
Jan 7 10:41:53 zeek2 connect: Loggin in
Jan 7 10:41:53 zeek2 connect: Protocol started
Jan 7 10:41:53 zeek2 diald[153]: Connected to site 192.168.0.2
Jan 7 10:41:53 zeek2 diald[153]: Running pppd (pid = 448).
Jan 7 10:41:54 zeek2 kernel: registered device ppp0
Jan 7 10:41:54 zeek2 pppd[448]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jan 7 10:41:54 zeek2 pppd[448]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 7 10:41:54 zeek2 pppd[448]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 pppd[448]: Connection terminated.
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 pppd[448]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 pppd[448]: Sent 267 bytes, received 361 bytes.
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 pppd[448]: Exit.
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 diald[153]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
supported
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 diald[153]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 diald[153]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Jan 7 10:41:57 zeek2 diald[153]: stop ppp0: Cannot send dump request:
Connection refused
Jan 7 10:41:58 zeek2 diald[153]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
supported
Jan 7 10:41:58 zeek2 diald[153]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Jan 7 10:41:58 zeek2 diald[153]: start sl0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Jan 7 10:41:58 zeek2 diald[153]: Disconnected. Call duration 5 seconds.
Jan 7 10:41:58 zeek2 diald[153]: IP transmitted 110 bytes and received 0
bytes.
Jan 7 10:41:59 zeek2 diald[153]: Delaying 2 seconds before clear to dial.
any ideas what is going on, I'm figuring that the sl0 bit is because the ppp
failed, so the problem is with pppd, mabey?
also: mabey its related mabey not, but every time I boot now(since I added
SLIP support to the kernel) the printer starts dumping a page or more of
{z{z{z{z{z{z
I'm using a BJ-200
all of this worked under 2.1 which I am using ot sqend this e-mail.
any ideas?
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:05:43AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Try finding the line in the file /etc/inet.conf and comment it out for the > services that you don't want to run. You may have to reboot then, or try > restarting the internet superserver - try a "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". You > might have to kill a few other processes or just stop them using their scripts > in /etc/init.d/. For servers that run from inetd, just edit inetd.conf and either `/etc/init.d/inetd restart` (or `killall -HUP inetd`) to make inetd reread its configuration. No reboot is necessary. For standalone servers, `/etc/init.d/ stop` will shut it down until the next reboot (or runlevel change). Follow that up with update-rc.d (read the man page) if you want to disable it semi-permanently. -- SGI products are used to create the 'Bugs' that entertain us in theatres and at home. - SGI job posting Geek Code 3.1: GCS 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+
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
> > chgrp wheel /dev/somedevice > > chmod 660 /dev/somedevice > > > > and have it stick. (past reboots) > > With devfsd this is also very simple possible. Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never stayed the way I wanted them. (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound, root.video for all of /dev/v4l, etc). I'm using the devfsd from unstable now. Also, I use the NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.0.1 driver. This driver needs five entries in /dev to work. I can't get devfs to keep those entries there across reboots. I made a script to do make those entries every time the system is booted but I'm sure there is a prorper way of doing it. Any help? Thanks.
fixed: apt-get netscape v4.76 problem
good morning all!! It appears I installed all the packages except for the one I needed. netscape-smotif-476 is the one I needed, and it takes care of all dependencies. The descriptions for the packages at the debian web site is what confused me. thanks again for all your help!! xucaen > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:33:48PM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > Yikes! > > I have done: > > apt-get install netscape-base-4 > > apt-get install netscape-base-476 > > apt-get install netscape-java-476 > > apt-get install navigator-base-476 > > apt-get install communicator-base-476 > > > > but NONE of these ever installs the netscape > > executable. or, if it is, I can't find it > > anywhere to run it. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
mpg123/splay v winamp
debs, some mp3's won't play on mpg123 (illegal audio-mpgeg-header) or splay (floating point exception), but will play on winamp on windoze. are these mp3s bad or is there another player i should be using. please cc me. ia, t. bentley taylor. //
Re: package searching & soundcard issues
Mark Phillips wrote: > question 1: > does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to > when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method > to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and > zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or something, but i can't seem to find > the file anymore. Another easy way : go to http://packages.debian.org , scroll down to the bottom of that page, and use the search engine provided there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpxCgVdftSRE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the # instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never # stayed the way I wanted them. (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound, # root.video for all of /dev/v4l, etc). I'm using the devfsd from unstable # now. # # Also, I use the NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.0.1 driver. This driver needs # five entries in /dev to work. I can't get devfs to keep those entries # there across reboots. I made a script to do make those entries every time # the system is booted but I'm sure there is a prorper way of doing it. Since I don't know much about your system, all I can do is tell you how I got it to work. I'm running unstable(Sid), so I just did an 'apt-get install devfsd'. If you're not running Sid, I imagine you can pick up the source package, and build it(using dpkg-buildpackage). You could also temporarily change the 'deb-src' line in your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to "unstable", and do an 'apt-get -b source devfsd'. That installed a script(s?) in /etc/init.d, which start devfsd at boot-time. Of course, you have to have the kernel automatically mount devfs in /dev, which is available as an option in the kernel pre-compilation configuration. If you didn't select it there, add "devfs=mount" as an argument to the kernel, either through /etc/lilo.conf, or at the boot-time LILO prompt. Then, it Just Worked(tm). All ownerships and permissions are as I'd expect, including /dev/sound and friends. If this doesn't work for you, would you mind giving us a bit more information? Some things of note: What devfs-related options you configured in your kernel, how devfs is being mounted to /dev, how devfsd was installed, and anything else that is related. :) Dave
Re: undo extraction
> On 20010107.0504, Ethan Benson said ... > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:44:38PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: > > Hi > > > > if extracted GCC_2.95.2.1.tar.gz because i wanted to compile ProFTPd , and > > i want to undo it because i have no space left now in my root partition. How > > can i undo the extraction or remove the files? > > rm -rf GCC_2.95.2.1 > > or whatever directory name was created, all sanly created tarballs > extract one directory with all the files under that. I wrote a little perl script [1] that gets the names of the files from a tarball, then removes all the files and directories found inside the tarball. It comes in real handy when a tar archive dumps into the currently directory and makes a big mess. Of course you can untar in a temp dir or use the 't' option to look inside first, but sometimes I put too much trush in where the tarballs are going to dump and get screwed. [1] http://www.cogit8.org/download/tarball-clean.txt -Rob
re: How to get vi to delete characters
Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering 'i' Also know how to :wq etc But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says ndd will delete N lines; but it doesn't work. In insert mode, backspace key often changes case of letters. Del key doesn't delete anything.
Re: How to get vi to delete characters
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 14:03:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says > ndd will delete N lines; but it doesn't work. It's referring to ESC [number] dd. > In insert mode, backspace key often changes case of letters. Del key > doesn't delete anything. You can delete characters using ESC x; you can delete words using ESC dw. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
RE: How to get vi to delete characters
Try 'x', but not in insert mode. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:04 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: re: How to get vi to delete characters Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering 'i' Also know how to :wq etc But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says ndd will delete N lines; but it doesn't work. In insert mode, backspace key often changes case of letters. Del key doesn't delete anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: edit apt-get sources.list (apt-get woes)
Two problems, apt-get has stopped mounting my periph PCMCIA cdrom (EXP). When I try apt-cdrom add, it prompts me to put in cdrom, but then it complains that it is not a valid block device. Don't understand why this has started happeing, as it used to work fine. So, as a workaround I mounted the CDROM, looked through source files, and copied the x11 directory to /sources/x11 on my hard drive. Then tried to compile from there. First did gunzip *.* then tar *.* ; but I don't think I have source packages; still have .diff .dsc and .tar files.How to make progress from here??
Re: Turning off services SOLVED
At 04:31 PM 1/7/2001 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: Hi Ross! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without > uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this, > so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available under the GPL. > > I've since discovered that the some packages also create a bunch of > crontab jobs, and they are still cluttering things up a bit. > > If there's a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it. > Original script deleted. What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). Anyone got a better idea ? Regards, Stefan Doesn't this have a few rough spots: you get a bunch of error messages on startup, and if you have started a service sometime after boot it won't be shut down automatically when you shut down? On the update-rc.d idea (in another message): this only turns things off if the script they refer to is deleted. But I wanted to keep it around.
re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list
"Malformed" line 13 It is:deb file://sources/x11 What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work
re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??
I've got my PCMCIA modem dialing now. In DOS,with the old win31 terminal program, I can dial up my university ISP, and connect to a login prompt. Under Linux, when I dial in with wvdial, the login prompt screen flashes by without giving me time to enter text. The pppd takes over and starts dialing again. Pppd can't connect, at least so far. tail -f log says something wrong with 8 bit, etc. Sorry, I have to leave it like this for now; because I've got to go over to linux box to try to connect and get exact error message.
Firewall Rules
I have 2 nics in my Linux box. One connected to my cable modem, and the other has a windows machine attached to it, which I do masquerading for. I need to be able to connection via VPN from the windows box to an outside host. Is there a way to easily determine what ports needs to be opened to accomplish this, or is there a way to masquerade for the windows machine, but not do any firewalling for that machine specifically, while still protecting my linux box? And lastly, can any one tell me what rule I could implement to still be able to use Napster? TIA, jdk
Re: making a boot disk
Is that 'lba32' option supposed to allow booting a kernel that is located after the 1024th cylinder? I always thought that was a BIOS limitation, not a LILO one. I can't use LILO for booting anyways because my BIOS doesn't allow booting off the second IDE bus. LILO hangs at "LI" when booting. As I said before, I have loadlin set up for normal boots off the harddisk. Now I want to make a boot floppy I can use if my system goes bad for some reason. -D On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:48:42PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: | | A boot disk is one way to go. You might also try adding 'lba32' to the | top of your lilo.conf. | | Assuming a recent enough LILO, you shouldn't get that error. I use | lilo-21.6.1, installed to its own directory(/temp/lilo), and I've but | 'lilo' on hold as far as apt and dpkg are concerned. | | Dave
re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??
I had similar problems with that 8bit problem with my deb 2.1 with diald... I fixed it with /ppp/options, the setting crtscts, or xonxoff I believe.. try settings these on/off see what it gives you... I'm sorry I cant remember more about it. (if I remember correctly its like local echo, if you have ever used terminal to connect 2 computers and you get 2 of everything on the screen, something similar is happening to your connection...) hope this gives you some ideas / help Ken
Re: GCC and EGCS
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:14:04PM +0100, staf wagemakers wrote: | On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: | > :: staf wagemakers writes: | > [snip] | > I'd call our version of gcc (2.95.3) a "prerelease", but not Red | > Hat's "2.96". | > | > The gcc people had to publicaly announce that there has never been an | > official 2.96 gcc version... | | Ok, then I would never use Red Hat 7.0 :) I second that. I upgraded my RH6.1 system to 7.0 before I knew about this. Now I am with Debian. :-)
Wishlist project ?
Good evening, With the risk of me repeter I like Debian but it is necessary well to acknowledge which one has as handicap the fact that when a release comes out, one is always late of a war compared to redhat and others on the freshness of the packages. I believed to understand that there was precisely like project in Debian, to make so that one can make cohabit several library on a same installation. That would make it possible by example to go to seek a software which one has very took need and to install it in spite of necessary dependances more raised than the current versions installed. thank you for your Tony comments -- Tony Schonfeld - F5GIT - Phone: +33 (0)6 11 17 75 38 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.f5git.ampr.org
Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance
Arcady Genkin wrote: > | PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 > | PIIX4: chipset revision 1 > | ... > | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, 29314MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(100) > ` > > Thanks!!! cool! glad it works :) > > The only question is whether I used the right patch. There seem to be > two different kinds of patches (judging from the filename format), but > no documentation about the difference between them. Any idea what the > difference would be between: > > ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.gz and ide.2.2.18-27.all.20001208.patch.gz > > besides that the first one is newer? > > I used the first patch. i'm not sure, i would of used the first one too i think. check the filesize differences ? but if it patched cleanly and seems to be working i'd say your set to go .. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [debian-user] mutt w/IMAP4+SSL?
Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > So it's just not compiled in (because openssl is incompatibel > to the GPL or some such nonsense). > > Yours, Rüdiger. ack. too bad..i don't want to have to compile it to install on 50 different systems :( guess i will use netscape for now . thanks nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs
> That installed a script(s?) in /etc/init.d, which start devfsd at > boot-time. Of course, you have to have the kernel automatically mount > devfs in /dev, which is available as an option in the kernel > pre-compilation configuration. If you didn't select it there, add > "devfs=mount" as an argument to the kernel, either through > /etc/lilo.conf, or at the boot-time LILO prompt. > > Then, it Just Worked(tm). All ownerships and permissions are as I'd > expect, including /dev/sound and friends. I did the same thing and now it Just Worked(tm). Shrug. Don't know what I was doing wrong before. I had to add the following lines to /etc/devfsd/devices: # devices file # format: name [bc] major minor uid gid mode nvidia0 c 195 0 rootvideo 0660 nvidia1 c 195 1 rootvideo 0660 nvidia2 c 195 2 rootvideo 0660 nvidia3 c 195 3 rootvideo 0660 nvidiactl c 195 255 rootvideo 0660 It appeares that /etc/init.d/devfsd reads this at startup and creates the devices listed. I'm going through my conf files and changing them all over to the new devfs style entries and then will remove backwards compatability through the /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf. Thanks for the ideas.
Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??
I find it much easier to mess with the initscript with the update-rc.d script. To remove for example xdm from the initscript you enter: 'update-rc.d xdm remove' If do do that, then xdm wont start from init any more. I dont know the exact command but you can do it the other way to, that is, you can make it start with init with update-rc.d I think it is update-rc.d xdm defaults. I just read the manpage in a hury now, so i may have got it wrong now, but just read the manpage and you will know what to do. I also may have understod this thread completly wrong, please just ignore me if this make no sense to you. I have'nt slept for a LONG time.. nevermind if that is the case.
Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:53:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Malformed" line 13 > > It is:deb file://sources/x11 > > What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work Not claiming to be an expert here, but shouldn't it read: deb file:///sources/x11 Kevin
Re: debconf
Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:06:19PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > How does one go about changing the message priority in debconf? > > > > You may be looking for 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' -- without a bit more > > explination I can't tell for sure. > > Sorry about the vagueness. Basically, when I did my initial install, > debconf was set to only give me high priority messages, I would like to > set this to low. I did dpkg-reconfigure debconf-tiny and I got no > errors, but nothing happened either. Older versions of debconf honored your priority setting when you were reconfiguring debconf. This turned out to be a little silly, so newer versions do not. Try: dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf -- see shy jo
sources.list line
I installed the base system of potato from a Win/Dos partition on local hard disk. Now, I`m tryeing to install the Packages (from the same partition) using the dselect. When I am updating (second step of the dselect), it protest about the line one of the "sources.list" file: deb file:/win/main/binary-i386 main Before it, sure, I mounted the /win filesystem with it respective line in /etc/fstab correctily. Who does does know what is hapen ?
Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Malformed" line 13 It is:deb file://sources/x11 What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work No, it should be: deb file:/sources/x11 ./ And don't forget to make the "Packages" file in that directory (with dpkg-scanpackages) (supposed you have there some *.deb files only). I don't know what the "override"-file should do, but I do it this way: cd /sources/x11 touch ov dpkg-scanpackages ./ ov > Packages
Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD
Hello there. I have the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto0 0 Thanks, Brad. On Sun, 07 January 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > have you included a /cdrom line in your fstab? If the installation program > cannot find a cdrom itself, you are able to fix it this way, I think, > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > On 7 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have run dbootstrap from the Debian CD and installed the base system. > > I've done all the steps up to the point where the system is rebooted. When > > it reboots from a diskette, it runs the first part of the installation (set > > up partitions, install base system etc.), but if I try to access the CD, it > > says CDROM mount failed. > > > > When it boots from the HDD, I see that it finds the CDROM and calls it hdb. > > But when I run dselect, it only gives three options for access methods: > > > >nfs install from an NFS server (not yet mounted) > >floppy install from a pile of floppy disks > > * apt APT acquisition (file,http,ftp) > > > > I want to continue the installation from the CDROM discs resuming at the > > point where the Debian installation system boots from a Linux HDD, but I do > > not know how to proceed. Could someone provide assistance? Thank you. > > > > NOTES: The BIOS of my system does not support booting from CDROM. I believe > > I am using a standard ATAPI IDE drive (Wearnes CDS-2420). The CDROM drive > > is slaved to the HDD on the primary channel of an add-in IDE controller. > > > > > > ___ > > Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! > > Many to choose from! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! Many to choose from! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com
xdm doesn't start
Hey, I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up. It says "starting x display manger: xdm", but it never does. Anyone know why? (i'm running potato w/ x4) Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: xdm doesn't start
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up. It says "starting x display manger: > xdm", but it never does. Anyone know why? > (i'm running potato w/ x4) Maybe it started but didn't switch vts for you? Try alt-F7? Im not sure, I don't like booting into X. If I have to diagnose a problem it's just a waste of time and pain in the ass.
Re: Packaging Policy.
> As others pointed out this is quit acceptable. But there is a but:) > Official packages are tested/screned, and at least uptill now I trust > them. Now comes some one I don't no, telling me he has fixed some > probs. Nice nice, but would I want to handover my system to this guy? > No, I wouldn't. Installing a deb has to be done as root, and noway am > I going to run a prog as root of someone I don't know. No doubt > you're trustworthy, but I don't know for sure. But if you would > provide the diffs, I could check for myself that you did you job and > nothing more and would be able to compile it for myself. So please > put the diffs up somewhere too so that "apt-get source package" would > work. As posted just recently there has been an adoption of fetchmail with the blessing of the current fetchmail maintainer, so I won't be putting anything up anywhere :) I will probably assist the new maintainer tho if necessary, as I have already played with both 5.6.0 and 5.6.2, which are the two latest versions of fetchmail. At any rate, its been interesting gauging the responses of the debian community - I could take the line that says "well ive got what I want" and ignore the broader community, but these responses have been positive enough to lean my thinking the other way. Corey Popelier.
Can sometimes ftp to debian.org -> apt-get update HOWTO???
need step by step newbie lesson on updating from ftp site. TIA, dave
