diald on debian?
Hey list I recently tried to set up diald, but can't get the automatic internet connection to work. I've definitely got a working internet connection if I start it manually using pon. I have diald installed, and all the configs look OK to my inexperienced eye. What else should I look at to get diald working correctly so that I don't have to manually bring up my internet connection? TIA -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel .config file
dizma said: > Hi there > > When I make: > apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 > > debian woody install in /usr/src: > kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 > > after that I bzip2 this archive... > > So my question is how to load the current kernel and modules > configuration in .config file > > dizma You want the config that came with the stock Debian kernel that's currently running on your machine? If so, copy /boot/config- to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/.config. -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A few Newbie Questions
(Ignoring ones I can't answer quickly) Wathen, Metherion said: > Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: > > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on > your harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg > to > uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb free.) as root: apt-get autoclean > 2.) How do I modify swap partiton size without having to reinstall > everything all over again? > > 3.) How do I change the clock time to the correct time? as root: date --set then to change the bios time so the computer "remembers" after next reboot: hwclock --systohc > 4.) Is it possible to have the cdrom and floopy drives automatically > mount without recompiling the kernel? > > 5.) How do I check if my sound card/drivers are working? > (exp. I have WindowMaker installed and sound events turned on but I > get > no sound. I installed XMMS and it plays .cda, so how come no other > sounds?) > > 6.) Where is there a mp3 plugin for XMMS? - do it need one? Pretty sure it should "just work" if you open an mp3 in xmms > 7.) Is there a GUI file manager for X, WindowMaker, Debian? hmm... I know of nautilus for gtk/gnome, konqueror for qt/kde if you don't want all the extra libraries... mc?? (midnight commander) > 8.) Where should I put tarballs I've downloaded before running "gzip > -dc"? Can I gzip from a cd to my harddrive? If so, how? > > 9.) How do I switch between color depths on the fly? "Ctl + Alt + +" > seems to only switch resolutions. Not sure this is possible... I hear there's something in xfree 4.3 which will allow this, but 4.2 is *just now* making it into unstable, so I have no idea when we'll see 4.3 > 10.) Do I need all 7 cd's to upgrade from potato to woody? Or can I > just d/l the first cd? You *could* do it all off the internet with *no* cd's. If you already have Debian installed, as root run apt-setup, remove your cd source and add http source. As root, run apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade; done (this is one of the main reasons I love Debian). > If someone could tell me of a website that helps people migrate from > Windows to Linux, I would greatly appreciate it. Umm... http://linuxnewbies.org comes to mind. -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web-based email for debian?
Squirrelmail works well for me. It's PHP based and only in Woody right now though. will trillich said: > i saw in an old post (from alvin oga -- thanks alvin) > that there are several options available for those of > us who are thinking of offering online (http) access > to our email servers: > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Mail/webmail.txt > > the question is: > > which debian packages contain such beasts? > > (primarily we're looking for mod_perl instances, or at > least perl which can be Apache::Registry'd. acmemail > looks reasonable so far -- but searches for a debian > [potato] package aren't turning up anything.) > > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #55 from Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Been thinking about HOW TO BACK UP YOUR DEBIAN SYSTEM? There's > a whole website just for you: > http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html > Concepts, methods, applications, procedures... Have a look! > > Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
Re: YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)
Joachim Trinkwitz said: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > >> on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> wrote: >> > This may sound stupid, but is there an up-to-date Open Office >> > package to be had as a deb? I was thinking it might be nice to >> > install it that way rather than installing the OpenOffice.org >> > binary which doesn't use package management. >> >> AFAIK&C: no. > > Yes, it is: put the following line in your sources.list > > deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main > > then say: > > # apt-get update ; apt-get install openoffice > > and more than 75 MB of Debian archives will flood your hard disk. > > Good luck and greetings, > joachim I tried installing the openoffice .debs directly from http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian, but had no luck, so I tried your source instead and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nobak]$ sudo apt-get install openoffice Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package openoffice has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package openoffice has no installation candidate Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
Re: web-based email for debian?
Rick Macdonald said: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > >> >> I also use SquirrelMail on both woody and potato machines. I skipped >> the .debs this time and installed directly. Works great and haven't >> had a single problem yet. > > I'm looking at the SquirrelMail web site, and I can't see that the > MessageList shows which messages have been replied to, or the size or > if there are attachments. There is a column with a "+" mark, which is > maybe one of these three things? Are these other things I mentioned > available? > > ...RickM... The column with the "+" shows attachments, replies, and priority. A "+" means "attachment is here", a "!" means "high priority", a "A" means "replied to this message". -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back
Harry Putnam said: > Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few > rinkles. > 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. > > Currently, I get popped right into X. > I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level > /etc/inittab But I see nothing in there that looks likely. > > In fact it claims the default is runlevel 2. Or is runlevel 2 X. I > don't think so. > > In my redhat dealings it was possible to set default to runlevel 5 > which force boot to bring up X. setting runlevel 3 gave you a console > login. > > Where is this choice made on debian? Remove xdm, gdm or kdm. If any of these are installed, they will dump you into X unless you're in single-user mode. apt-get remove gdm (or kdm or xdm if you have either of those instead) -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
Re: The quest for rodent power
I've never been able to get gpm working successfully, so I gave up on it.
That said, do you get any output if you do an "/etc/init.d/gpm start"? I
think there's also some messages it will write in /var/log. Check
/var/log/messages, look for a /var/log/gpm, etc.
Dunno where the gpm config stuff is kept, though it would seem strange to me
if it were tied in with the regular X stuff, since one can theoretically run
gpm without X installed at all. Maybe there's something in /etc for gpm
configs...
Harry Putnam said:
> Running woody (testing)
>
> I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really
> miss having my little rodent in text mode.
>
> Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine.
>
> I can't remember how to tell with no doubt where the mouse is
> connected. At which device. I remember saying /dev/psaux during
> install but that was just a guess.
>
> Boot messages indicate gpm services are being started. But I have no
> functioning mouse in text mode.
>
> A grep of ps waux shows"
> ps waux|grep 'gpm' turns up nothing
>
> The devices directory itself shows
> ls -l /dev/ |grep 'mouse\|psaux\|gpm'
>
> prw-r--r--1 root root 0 Mar 1 15:26 gpmdata
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 7 Feb 28 21:41 mouse -> gpmdata
> crw---1 root root 10, 1 Nov 4 14:52 psaux
> crw-rw1 root root 10, 32 Nov 4 14:52 usbmouse
>
>>From posts here, I got the idea that the XF86Config mouse section is
> related to text mode mouse settings in some way. That section of mine
> looks like this:
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver
"mouse"
> Option
"CorePointer"
> Option
"Device""/dev/psaux"
> Option
"Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option
"Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option
"ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver
"mouse"
> Option
"SendCoreEvents""true"
> Option
"Device""/dev/input/mice"
> Option
"Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option
"Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option
"ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> How can I tell beyond doubt which device the mouse is on. And get this
> thing configured and working.
>
>
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sendmail setup with two distinct queues?
Hello list
I'm attempting to set up sendmail with two separate queues, one for incoming
and one for outgoing mail (this is for the mailscanner package). I've tried
setting it up via /etc/mail/sendmail.conf with the following config:
DAEMON_MODE="Daemon";
DAEMON_PARMS="-bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";
DAEMON_HOSTSTATS="Yes";
DAEMON_MAILSTATS="No";
QUEUE_MODE="daemon";
QUEUE_INTERVAL="10";
QUEUE_PARMS="";
MSP_MODE="none";
MSP_INTERVAL="${QUEUE_INTERVAL}";
MSP_PARMS="${QUEUE_PARMS}";
MSP_MAILSTATS="No";
MISC_PARMS="";
CRON_MAILTO="root";
CRON_PARMS="";
AGE_DATA="";
DAEMON_STATS="${DAEMON_MAILSTATS}";
MSP_STATS="${MSP_MAILSTATS}";
I run "sendmailconfig", then restart sendmail. I email a test message to
this machine. I see it delivered to /var/spool/mqueue.in via the mail log. I
also see the d and q files sitting in /var/spool/mqueue.in. At this point if
I had mailscanner running, the mailscanner program would pick up the mail in
mqueue.in, examine it and pass it to the outgoing mail daemon for delivery.
Since mailscanner is *not* running, the mail should stay in
/var/spool/mqueue.in indefinitely.
However, after it sits there for several minutes sendmail picks it up and
sends it on. I assume this is the queuer fishing for mails, but why is it
looking in /var/spool/mqueue.in for outbound mail? How can I tell it to only
look in /var/spool/mqueue for outbound mail via this configuration file? I'm
currently trying it with
QUEUE_PARMS="-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue";
is this correct? If not, what is correct?
Thanks
--
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