xfree86 cannot map sys bios
I'm running unstable on 2.4.20, with xserver-xfree 4.2.1-5. I've tried with a voodoo3 and the tdfx driver, and a tnt2 with the nv driver. The errors were the same. With startx, X comes up on the display, but quits shortly after. The only real error I see is this: (EE) NV(0): Cannot map SYS BIOS Any clue what this is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer seg.fault
How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron
How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't lock /var/run/crond.pid?
How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid?
I have fixed the problem I deleted crond.pid and it now works Thanks all Kevin - Original Message - From: "Bill Marcum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:08 PM Subject: Re: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? > On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:30:16 +0200, kevin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? > > > Does the file /var/run/crond.pid exist? Can you, as root, create files in > /var/run? Is it possible that /var is out of space or is not mounted (if you > have a separate /var partition)? > > -- > This place is called Antarctica. There is no kitten here. > > > -- > 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]
Groups
FW: GroupsI have a problem with groups can any help please I get this error when I type groups: id: cannot find name for group ID 0 0 I can not add a user to a group. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Groups
No still does not work. Thanks Kevin - Original Message - From: "A.R. (Tom) Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Groups > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: > > > FW: GroupsI have a problem with groups can any help please > > I get this error when I type groups: > > > > id: cannot find name for group ID 0 > > 0 > > > > I can not add a user to a group. > > Has something happened to your /etc/group file? > It should exist, and be world-readable. > There usually is a backup of the previous version: /etc/group- > > -- > #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@* ^@) > > Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters > NL-1062 KD nr 149 tel.+31-204080204 > Amsterdam e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Groups
as which user are you doing this? root what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)? -rw-r--r--1 root 0 445 Dec 19 15:38 group what is the content of the file /etc/group ? root:x:0: daemon:x:1: bin:x:2: sys:x:3: adm:x:4: tty:x:5: disk:x:6: lp:x:7:lp mail:x:8: news:x:9: uucp:x:10: proxy:x:13: kmem:x:15: dialout:x:20: fax:x:21: voice:x:22: cdrom:x:24: floppy:x:25: tape:x:26: sudo:x:27: audio:x:29: dip:x:30: postgres:x:32: www-data:x:33: backup:x:34: operator:x:37: list:x:38: irc:x:39: src:x:40: gnats:x:41: shadow:x:42: utmp:x:43: video:x:44: staff:x:50: games:x:60: users:x:100: nogroup:x:65534: kevin:x:1000: which `groups` command doe you actually use (type `which group`)? root@debian:/etc # which groups /usr/bin/groups what command do you try to use to add a user to a group? groupadd useradd Thanks Kevin - Original Message - From: "A.R. (Tom) Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Groups > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: > > > No still does not work. > > More info please: > - as which user are you doing this? > - what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)? > - what is the content of the file /etc/group ? > - which `groups` command doe you actually use (type `which group`)? > - what command do you try to use to add a user to a group? > > -- > #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@* ^@) > > Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters > NL-1062 KD nr 149 tel.+31-204080204 > Amsterdam e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
Please can you help with this error? Below is the log, env and .bashrc DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY root@debian:/root # env PWD=/root PAGER=more PS1=root@debian:$PWD # USER=root MAIL=/var/mail/root EDITOR=vi SSH_CLIENT=10.100.4.117 2842 22 DISPLAY=debian:0.0 LOGNAME=root SHLVL=1 SHELL=/bin/bash HOME=/root TERM=xterm PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X 11 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 _=/usr/bin/env This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Dec 31 23:07:00 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "XFree86 Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "Card0" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/ lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font s/100dpi/" (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (++) using VT number 7 (WW) Cannot open APM (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7180 card , rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7181 card , rev 03 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card , rev 01 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card , rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card , rev 01 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 102b,0519 card , rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 8086,1229 card 103c,10cb rev 08 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: "scanpci" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) UnloadModule: "scanpci" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: (--) PCI:*(0:13:0) Matrox MGA 2064W rev 1, Mem @ 0xd0104000/14, 0xd080/23 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x0010
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 6:30 AM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > Kevin wrote: > > >Please can you help with this error? > >Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > > >DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY > > > >root@debian:/root # env > >PWD=/root > >PAGER=more > >PS1=root@debian:$PWD # > >USER=root > >MAIL=/var/mail/root > >EDITOR=vi > >SSH_CLIENT=10.100.4.117 2842 22 > >DISPLAY=debian:0.0 > >LOGNAME=root > > > > > Are you ssh'ing in to this box? > > And then changing to root? > > (It's not a good idea to run as root as a general rule; however, I can > understand the need to run X as root temporarily.) > > There's some security mechanisms in place with X and ssh, and even once > those are satisfied, I'm not sure what the effect will be of becoming a > different user. > > However as a normal user, you need to do two things: > > 1) edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set the line "X11 Forwarding Yes" > instead of "no" on the box being ssh'd into (and restart ssh -- > "/etc/init.d/ssh restart"). > 2) On th machine from which you're ssh'ing, use the command "ssh -X > " instead of "ssh ". > > Kent > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Are you ssh'ing in to this box? Yes and no I only run ssh to get env and the logs etc to email. I get the error on the system when I run make xconfig. Thanks Kevin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35:02PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Please can you help with this error? > > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY > > > > root@debian:/root # env > > PWD=/root > > PAGER=more > > PS1=root@debian:$PWD # > > USER=root > > MAIL=/var/mail/root > > EDITOR=vi > > SSH_CLIENT=10.100.4.117 2842 22 > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0 > > LOGNAME=root > > SHLVL=1 > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > HOME=/root > > TERM=xterm > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X > > 11 > > SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 > > _=/usr/bin/env > > > > > > This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any > > way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, > > please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository > > (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) > > > > XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System > > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) > > More useful information: > > - What command are you running? > - What is the *exact* error message? > - How is your root session executing? > - Are you local or remote on this box? > > > If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to > root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local > display *and* merging xauth records, as root: > > # export DISPLAY= > # xauth merge ~//.Xauthority > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? >Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > make xconfig cannot open display: debian:0.0 root local Thanks Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM > > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > > > > > > on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35:02PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > Please can you help with this error? > > > > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > > > > > > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY > > <...> > > > > More useful information: > > > > > > - What command are you running? > > > - What is the *exact* error message? > > > - How is your root session executing? > > You didn't answer this question. Are you logged in directly as root, or > did you run 'su' or 'sudo' from another userid? > > > > - Are you local or remote on this box? > > > > > > > > > If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to > > > root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local > > > display *and* merging xauth records, as root: > > > > > > # export DISPLAY= > > > # xauth merge ~//.Xauthority > > > make xconfig > > cannot open display: debian:0.0 > > root > > local > > That's a bit terser than is useful. > > Are you *logged in as root, directly, on an X display?* I doubt it. > > The solution I suggested previously should work. Try it and report > results. > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? >Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk chmod 755 kconfig.tk make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "10.100.4.2:0.0" Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" while executing "button .ref" (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51) make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 Yes I was login directly as root Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:52 AM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > > > on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM > > > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > > > > > > > > > on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35:02PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > wrote: > > > > > Please can you help with this error? > > > > > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > > > > > > > > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY > > > > <...> > > > > > > More useful information: > > > > > > > > - What command are you running? > > > > - What is the *exact* error message? > > > > - How is your root session executing? > > > > You didn't answer this question. Are you logged in directly as root, or > > did you run 'su' or 'sudo' from another userid? > > > > > > - Are you local or remote on this box? > > > > > > > > > > > > If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to > > > > root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local > > > > display *and* merging xauth records, as root: > > > > > > > > # export DISPLAY= > > > > # xauth merge ~//.Xauthority > > > > > make xconfig > > > cannot open display: debian:0.0 > > > root > > > local > > > > That's a bit terser than is useful. > > > > Are you *logged in as root, directly, on an X display?* I doubt it. > > > > The solution I suggested previously should work. Try it and report > > results. > > > > Peace. > > > > -- > > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > >Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > make xconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts kconfig.tk > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' > cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk > ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk > echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk > echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk > cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk > chmod 755 kconfig.tk > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' > wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display > "10.100.4.2:0.0" > Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" > while executing > "button .ref" > (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51) > make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 > > Yes I was login directly as root > > Kevin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > FYI If I try xhost +localhost xhost: unable to open display "debian:0.0" Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "James Tappin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:27 AM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:12:34 -0800 > "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FYI > > If I try xhost +localhost > > xhost: unable to open display "debian:0.0" > > > > 3 alternatives spring to mind; either: > xhost +debian # as the original user > or: > export DISPLAY=localhost:0 # as root before running make xconfig > or even: > ssh -X root@localhost # instead of su > > -- > James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/`Microsoft --- Something lingering > http://www.tappin.me.uk/with data loss in it I fancy" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Same on all 3 unable to open display -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:15 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:25AM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM > > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > <...> > > The following is largely irrelevant. > > > make xconfig > > rm -f include/asm > > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > > make -C scripts kconfig.tk > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' > > cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk > > ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk > > echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk > > echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk > > cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk > > chmod 755 kconfig.tk > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' > > wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk > > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display > > "10.100.4.2:0.0" > > Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" > > while executing > > "button .ref" > > (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51) > > make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 > > > > Yes I was login directly as root > > To what? > > Rather more important than what you're running is *how* you're running. > None of us here can peek over your shoulder to see what's on your > screen. You have to provide that information. You've been less than > helpful, I'm not going to respond further if you don't provide useful > information. > > Here's the story: > > - If you're logging in to a GUI session on your GNU/Linux system > (local X11 session), as root, but have mangled your $DISPLAY > variable by hand, there is no display (X11 session) to connect to. > This could be your problem, and fits with the information you've > provided. > > - If you're logging in to a GUI session on your GNU/Linux system > (local X11 session), as a non-root user, and have accessed root via > su or sudo, but have not set, or have incorrectly set, a $DISPLAY > variable, or have not properly configured xauth, there is no display > (X11 session) to connect to. This could be your problem, and fits > with the information you've provided. > > - If you're logging in to console on your GNU/Linux system (no X11 > session), there is no display (X11 session) to connect to. This > could be your problem, and fits with the information you've > provided. > > - If you're sitting at another system, not running a local X11 server, > and are establishing a shell session to your GNU/Linux box, there is > no X11 session to connect to. This could be your problem, and fits > with the information you've provided. > > - If you're sitting at another system, running a local X11 server, and > are establishing a shell session to your GNU/Linux box, but have any > of a number of configurations which don't forward the X11 > connection, there is no X11 session to connect to. This could be > your problem, and fits with the information you've provided. > > > Kevin: unless you clarify precisely how you're logged into your system, > there's little but educated guesses most of us can provide for you. > Please provide the appropriate information. > > Alternatively, you could use a configuration option (e.g.: make config, > make menuconfig) which doesn't require an X11 display. > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? >Reading is a right, not a feature > -- Kathryn Myronuk http://www.freesklyarov.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > log on as root on the system it self. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:47 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > > > > >>>>Yes I was login directly as root > >>>> > >>>> > >>>To what? > >>> > >>>Rather more important than what you're running is *how* you're running. > >>>None of us here can peek over your shoulder to see what's on your > >>>screen. You have to provide that information. You've been less than > >>>helpful, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>log on as root on the system it self. > >> > >> > > > >That's not an answer. > > > > > > > Kevin: > > Please answer the following questions. > > 1. When you turn on your computer and boot into Linux, does it present > you with a log in prompt? > > > 2. If the answer to Question 1 above is "No", does it automatically go > into a graphical screen that has a mouse pointer (is X running)? > > > 3. If the answer to Question 1 above is "Yes", is it a graphical login > (kdm, xdm, etc), or is it a text-based login (white text on black > screen, 80 columns by 24 lines, or similar)? > > > 4. If the answer to Question 1 above is "Yes", as whom do you log in? > root? or a normal user? > > > > Once you've answered these questions, we'll have more to ask. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes to 1 Text root Thanks Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 5:17 AM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > Kevin wrote: > > >>1. When you turn on your computer and boot into Linux, does it present > >>you with a log in prompt? > >> > >> > >> > > Yes. > > >>3. If the answer to Question 1 above is "Yes", is it a graphical login > >>(kdm, xdm, etc), or is it a text-based login (white text on black > >>screen, 80 columns by 24 lines, or similar)? > >> > >> > > Text. > > >> > >>4. If the answer to Question 1 above is "Yes", as whom do you log in? > >>root? or a normal user? > >> > >> > > root > > > Okay, next question. > > Are you then trying to run "make xconfig"? Or are you starting an X > session with something like "startx"? > > > Kent > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tryed both. also Gnome would not start same error, but KDE started. It now works I rebuild the system. Thanks all for you help Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Word for Linux
Is there a *.doc (MS Word) viewer / converter for linux & is it a deb pkg? -- -- mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux -- Use the source!! http://users.townsqr.com/gnol/ Power is as unix does -- L I N U X 2.0 -- What do you want to connect to today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash problem - cannot telnet to my box
I had a similar problem on a Redhat 5.1 system once. I was unable to login locally or remotely as anything but root. It ended up I had a file called nologin in my /etc/ directory, once I removed this I could login. But this sounds like it is a problem more related to your system not finding a required library. Good luck. George Bonser wrote: > > Same thing happened to me yesterday. I thought I screwed it up somehow so > I didn't say anything. If I try to log in, I get the issue, then it drops > the connection. I still have a login up from a workstation at work and > monday I will try to get in and fix it. > > Here is what I get when I attempt to log in: > > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent > permitted by applicable law. > Last login: Sat Nov 7 22:18:24 on ttyp2 from calvin.shorelink.com. > You have new mail. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > It all happens very fast. > > On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I just did a partial upgrade to slink - partial because of limited > > bandwidth - and now I cannot use telnet or ssh to my box. After > > entering the password I get:- > > > > Linux elm 2.1.126 #4 Wed Oct 28 19:37:29 WST 1998 i586 unknown > > Last login: Sun Nov 8 13:13:40 on ttyp0 from elm.cbcfreo.wa.edu.au. > > You have mail. > > bash: 0: command not found > > > > > > The upgrade included all required and important files. I may have missed > > a library, but apt seems happy enough. > > > > elm# apt-get check > > Updating package file cache...done > > Updating package status cache...done > > Checking system integrity...ok > > > > This is when using my local mirror. Come to think of it the mirror does > > not match the Packages file too well. > > > > Any hints on fixing this one? > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia > > voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Linux > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > George Bonser > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Kevin Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.concentric.net/~kpm76 ** UN*X ** Live free or die!
Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration
Mine worked. Make sure that you are typing a zero and not an oh when you are puting in your reg #. Also check to make sure that your first and last name and e-mail address are exactly the same as the ones you typed on the web page. You may want to direct any furher queries to the server: starnews.stardivision.com group: stardivision.com.support.installation Steve Beitzel wrote: > > No, it's still unregistered, because it says so on the title bar, and I've > tried reinstalling like 5 times already. That's why I asked the list in > the first place -- I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem > is with it, and it dosen't seem to bother anyone else. Thanks for trying > though. Anyone else have an idea??? > > L8r, > > Steve > > /\ >/ \ > /\ > / /\/\ \ > /\ Steve Beitzel >/ /\ /\ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > / \/ \/ \ http://www.iit.edu/~beitste > / /\ \ICQ#: 19510745 > \ \/ / > \ ___/ >\ /___\ / > \ \___/ / > \ / > \/ >\ / > \/ > > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, [iso-8859-1] Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > > > Hi, Steve! > > > > If the registration button is ghosted, I think the registration is OK. Maybe > > this is doen automagically if you do an online registration. You get the > > reg. > > key by email in fact you need to reinstall for some reason. Maybe? > > > > just my 2¢... > > > > Wed, 11 Nov Steve Beitzel wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I know that people are always asking questions about how to > > > install StarOffice, but I couldn't find an answer in the archives about > > > this. I recently downloaded and successfully installed StarOffice 5.0, > > > except when I try to do the online registration, it fails for some > > > reason. The failure is odd, because I see the webpage that says "Thank > > > you for joining StarDivision" and whatever, and I get the Registration key > > > by email, but I am not allowed to activate the key -- the program keeps > > > that button ghosted. It seems that the online part of the registration > > > process was successful and there is something wrong with the program. Any > > -- > > Åsmund Ødegård > > Stipendiat Teknisk programvare > > Inst. for Informatikk, Universitetet i Oslo > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~aasmundo > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Kevin Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.concentric.net/~kpm76 ** UN*X ** Live free or die!
Re: Pre beginner
You may also want to try using one of the Tecra boot images instead. Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Rombalski, Emmanuel wrote: > > > I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel > > 166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a > > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible > > NIC. I created a 400 MB DOS 6.22 bootable partition and left the rest of > > the drive raw. I downloaded all the files (via HTTP) from Debian that were > > specified in the download portion of the getting started guide. When I run > > the install.bat from the DOS prompt Linux begins booting > > (uncompressing), flashes some unreadable messages and then my computer > > reboots. What am I doing wrong? > > Try not to load any DOS device driver before running install.bat. > If needed, modify your config.sys file. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Kevin Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.concentric.net/~kpm76 ** UN*X ** Live free or die!
Re: my modem keeps 'hanging itself up'!?
Martin Waller wrote: <> > So, whats the prob.? Hardware? (it's worked fine for years - a standard > 14.4 internal) Software? (happens more under Linux it seems, esp. after > upgrading from bo to hamm [but could be coincidence?]), ISP provider? > Telephone line? Your still using your old 14.4? I'd try a new modem. They have some really nice 56Ks for alot less than you paid for that 14.4 back in the day. -- Kevin ---- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.concentric.net/~kpm76 ** UN*X ** Live free or die!
Re: Sound Card
I have the same problem with squake. I just play with no sound for now I guess. Andrew & Julie Daws wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Another (probably) dumb question, about the sound module for my SoundBlaster > card... During the config (menuconfig) one is asked for the IRQ and DMA > settings, but it seems to expect one DMA of 1 or 3, and another of either > 5,6, or 7. This worked fine on my other PC (Jazz16 with IRQ7, DMA 3,5) but > my soundblaster is DMA 1 and 3... the sound module compile and installs > (even loads with insmod OK), but when called (xquake starts) it has an error > during the DMA initialisation... > > Am I missing something obvious here? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > (who now reads his email on his linux box, but still can't quite get it to > send properly yet... :-) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Kevin Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.concentric.net/~kpm76 ** UN*X ** Live free or die!
installing ethernet nic
Howdy, I am attempting to install a 3com 3c905 nic through the debian install. While doing so, I get prompted for a module command-line argument for my particular nic. I have read that the 3c59x driver will work for the 3c905 but I don't know what to enter for the module command-line argument. Can someone please let me know what to enter here or where to find the particular data? The HOWTO's don't provide the level of resolution that I am seeking. Kevin -- -- Kevin Krafthefer Internet Developer Smith, Bucklin, & Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] (312)644-6610x3818 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC
e or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://non-us.debian.org sarge/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_sarge_non-US_non-free_binary-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files = Which I can see is true. All I have is this: = 7300:~# ls /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_* /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-powerpc_Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-powerpc_Release /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_contrib_source_Release /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_contrib_source_Sources /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-powerpc_Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-powerpc_Release /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Release /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-powerpc_Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_non-free_binary-powerpc_Release /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_non-free_source_Release /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_stable_non-free_source_Sources = So how do I get files for sarge here? Am I following the wrong guidance for upgrading to Sarge? Could someone please offer a pointer or two? I've googled for this problem but don't find it anywhere. It's probably something extremely simple for an experienced Debian user but for me, after an hour of scratching my head and hunting for solutions, I'm stumped. Prior to the above steps, I did step my way through all of the previous instructions at the above URL. In particular, I did do these steps: Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (`sarge'), PowerPC Chapter 4 - Upgrades from previous releases 4.1 Preparing for the upgrade apt-get install aptitude 4.1.1 Disabling APT pinning (nothing to do here) 4.1.2 Checking packages status 7300:~# dpkg --audit 7300:~# dpkg -l | pager (nothing noteworthy here: 156 packages from the base installation plus heimdal and afs packages, all with "ii" at the beginning of the line; although the afs configuration failed during initial setup, I assumed it was due to the fact that the software is very old (1.2.3final2-6) and my cell is running code from OpenAFS that is all at or later than version 1.2.11) TIA for any suggestions and my apologies if the answer is staring me in the face somehow... -Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC
> sources.list and comment all but one line. Then change that one line so > that instead of "stable" it reads "sarge", and try running the update > again. If it fails, you can suspect the mirror of not having sarge > files, or at least of not having the expected file structure. You might > try "testing" instead of "sarge", or even "sid" or "unstable" for > cutting-edge software. > My sources.list file now reads: 7300:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep -v ^\# deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib When I update: 7300:~# aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://debian.lcs.mit.edu sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://debian.lcs.mit.edu sarge/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://debian.lcs.mit.edu sarge/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_sarge_contrib_binary-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files Based on the error message, I'm missing files that aptitude expects to find in the /var/lib/apt/lists/ directory tree. I don't know what these files are or how to get them there. Is the error message misleading me? I get the same result when the sources.list file reads: 7300:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep -v ^\# deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > Another idea that just came to me: You indicate that your original > sources.list file was pulling from CDs; now you're telling it to pull > from the Internet. You are attached to the Internet, yes? > Yes, this box does have an internet connection, but good point. In fact, browsing just now to verify my previous check of the mirror led me to a work-around for this problem. I noticed the Packages and Packages.gz files in those directories on the mirror, downloaded the .gz versions, unzipped them, named them according to the apparent naming scheme in /var/lib/apt/lists, and with those files present, aptitude update did what I expected it to do and dist-upgrade now seems to be chugging away. Thanks again for your reply, Kent. To the developers, I'm not sure why this happened. I would have thought that aptitude would have gone out and gotten those Packages files by itself. Instead, I had to get them by hand and put them in place and with that done, aptitude seems to be doing what I would expect. That may be a bug, but I really don't know. -Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with Sarge on OldWorld 604e PowerMac: booting, quik, 2.6 kernel, etc.
Hi List- I'm having some difficulty with this combination. I'd like to use quik to boot this OldWorld 7300 PowerMac (604e) directly from the HDD (without any MacOS tools) into a 2.6 kernel. It seems that Debian is the only distribution that makes this practical to do without doing all sorts of stuff from scratch. I can install Woody by first booting from a bootable floppy image available on the mirrors and then using a root.bin floppy image at the same location: /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.23-2002-05-21/powermac/images-1.44 [ ] boot-floppy-hfs.img 16-May-2002 11:22 1.4M [ ] root.bin16-May-2002 11:21 1.4M Woody installs and runs fine, but I've got very old software. I'd like to use relatively current versions of kerberos and openafs available in Sarge, so I upgraded following the instructions in the Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (`sarge'), PowerPC Chapter 4 - Upgrades from previous releases at http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/powerpc/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html Though there were some hiccups, I got them worked out and managed the upgrade to Sarge without further problems. The problems arise when I want to install a 2.6 kernel. I've tried many things now, but ultimately, I end up making the box unbootable from the HDD. I can boot from that bootable floppy above, mount the root fs, then chroot into it and make modifications to the Sarge installation, but cannot figure out how to get quik to boot the 2.6 kernel, or for that matter, how to make a bootable floppy that will use /dev/sda2 as the root fs instead of /dev/fd0. I found the knl package, but the knl binary insists that every kernel image I have is not a kernel image (including the 2.2 kernel that ships with Woody, the 2.6.8 kernel image I installed from aptitude, as well as the kernel on the bootable floppy: zImage---even after I gunzip it), so adjusting the root fs and swap dev for the kernel image is something that I cannot seem to do. When I install the 2.6.8 kernel from aptitude (yes, the correct one for my arch) and edit quik.conf to use it instead of the 2.2 kernel shipped with Woody (which boots fine), I can no longer boot from the HDD. The closest I can get is a weirdly colored penguin logo (sometimes red, sometimes blue, sometimes green, etc.) Furthermore, even though I can boot from the floppy and chroot into the HDD root fs and thus edit quik.conf again (restoring it to its original state), I still cannot boot from the HDD (yes, I did run quik after revising the quik.conf file in each case; I even used the installer program on the root.bin image to run quik after making the revisions in a console and thereby noticed that it was running quik -v -f -r /target, but still to no avail; back in the console, I tried quik -v -r -f / while chrooted into /target and still no joy; part of the problem with doing it through the install program was that after upgrading to Sarge, the upgraded quik package relies on a glibc version that the root.bin image doesn't have, so I chrooted into /target, removed quik, adjusted my sources.list file to return to stable, then updated and installed quik again, thus restoring quik to the same one originally installed I think), but still no success. Am I doing something wrong with quik here? I've read that it can be incredibly difficult to install right (though doing it with the Woody install program was easy enough) and that the OpenFirmware in these machines is very buggy. Is it possible for me to netboot one of these machines with bootp and/or tftp and stuff? Maybe that's a better solution than struggling with quik. I've tried installing Sarge right off the bat, but I don't find any bootable floppy images for booting and installing Sarge on an OldWorld PPC. The CD images are there, but I've read that these machines cannot boot linux from the CD. The floppy images I find in /debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/20050305/images/powerpc/floppy are not bootable. I tried both the boot.img and the ofonlyboot.img and the 7300 ejects the disks as unbootable in each case. It appears that the only way I can get Sarge on this machine is to install Woody and then upgrade to Sarge which I've done 3 or 4 times now. If that's not the case, could someone please explain the alternatives to me? But I need a 2.6 kernel for openafs-1.3.81 in Sarge, and every time I try to boot from one, I toast my system and end up having to start all over. I've tried many things to avoid starting over, but none work. Once I've tried booting with quik into a 2.6 kernel, I can no longer boot from the HDD no matter what I try (and I've tried many things). The only way I've found it possible to recover is to install Woody again (sigh...). Any advice would be most welcome. Also, is this a post more well-suited to a developer list? TIA. -Kevin PS. Oh, and why i
Re: Buggered up my router somehow.
I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... 255.255.255.0 Can you do that ? Adam Scriven - Lore wrote: > > Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow > completely fscked up my router. > > It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Penguin), and that > part > looks like it's working great. > I've got 2 other network cards, both 3Com 905B. I have the 3c59x module > loading with modprobe, and I've checked ifconfig, and both cards look to be > setup correctly. > eth0 is 192.168.0.1, and eth1 is 192.168.1.1 > (Incedentally, eth2 is an NE2k-pci card, for the PPPoE client). > > I can see the world just fine from the router (I'm telnetting to an ISP > where my maail is hosted to send out this message, and I'm on the router now), > but I can't ping anything on my 192.168.0.0 network (192.168.1.0 isn't used > yet). > The route command returns: > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > ADSL-NAME * 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0 > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > default ADSL-NAME 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 ppp0 > > (I had to tyype this in by hand, so any formatting problems are mine.) > > This all looks OK to me, but pinging just gives 100% packet loss, and > traceroute > to 192.168.0.2 from the router gives: > traceroute: sendto: Operation not permitted > 1 traceroute: wrote 192.168.0.2 38 chars, ret=-1 > > So, the question is, how have I managed to bugger this up, since it was > working > fine this morning. I recompiled a new 2.2.17 kernel, but AFAIK I picked all > the options that I needed. My old (working) kernel was 2.2.14. Did I forget > some vital piece of information? > > Thanks very much for any help. > Adam > > OH, I also meant to ask. I used to use linuxconf on my RH systems. Is there > an > equiv. for Debian? Something better, perhaps? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Buggered up my router somehow.
I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... 255.255.255.0 Can you do that.. anyone ? Adam Scriven - Lore wrote: > > Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow > completely fscked up my router. > > It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Penguin), and that > part > looks like it's working great. > I've got 2 other network cards, both 3Com 905B. I have the 3c59x module > loading with modprobe, and I've checked ifconfig, and both cards look to be > setup correctly. > eth0 is 192.168.0.1, and eth1 is 192.168.1.1 > (Incedentally, eth2 is an NE2k-pci card, for the PPPoE client). > > I can see the world just fine from the router (I'm telnetting to an ISP > where my maail is hosted to send out this message, and I'm on the router now), > but I can't ping anything on my 192.168.0.0 network (192.168.1.0 isn't used > yet). > The route command returns: > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > ADSL-NAME * 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0 > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > default ADSL-NAME 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 ppp0 > > (I had to tyype this in by hand, so any formatting problems are mine.) > > This all looks OK to me, but pinging just gives 100% packet loss, and > traceroute > to 192.168.0.2 from the router gives: > traceroute: sendto: Operation not permitted > 1 traceroute: wrote 192.168.0.2 38 chars, ret=-1 > > So, the question is, how have I managed to bugger this up, since it was > working > fine this morning. I recompiled a new 2.2.17 kernel, but AFAIK I picked all > the options that I needed. My old (working) kernel was 2.2.14. Did I forget > some vital piece of information? > > Thanks very much for any help. > Adam > > OH, I also meant to ask. I used to use linuxconf on my RH systems. Is there > an > equiv. for Debian? Something better, perhaps? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Buggered up my router somehow.
whoopsie... :) been in windows too long.. anyhow.. possible though ? "Mark A. Bialik" wrote: > > Kevin wrote: > > > I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... > > 255.255.255.0 > > Can you do that.. anyone ? > > Those aren't broadcast addresses... they're subnet masks. > > === > Mark A. Bialik (414) 290-6749 > Network/Security Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Infinity HealthCare, Inc.Mequon, WI
kerneld/modutils
Am I supposed to continue running kerneld or not? When it does run it says I don't want to run it with 2.2.x but everytime a fixed modutils deb is released it readds it to rc2.d -- Kevin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tape Backup Problem
I had the same problem, but I had a scsi HP and I only tried taper. I was using 2.2.12 with slink. Kevin - Original Message - From: "JoeCool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: Tape Backup Problem Hi All, I've been trying to get tape backup working on a server and almost everytime I attempt to backup files to the tape drive the machine goes crazy. The load goes sky high (way over 100.00) and it stops responding to everything. Maybe someone out there has some insight on the problem. Specs: Debian 2.0 with Kernel 2.2.2 running on a Dell with a Quantum DLT4000 tape drive. Details: I attempted to do a test backup a 150meg directory to tape using the tape backup program "Taper" After about 10min of it running (46% done) the machines load starting going up and up. I tried to stop the program, and kill it but was unable to since machine stop responding to my commands via telnet. The load was very high... --> load average: 246.98, 267.86, 210.28 Then i couldn't even telnet to the machine or anything. Everything appeared to be down, except that I could ping the machine. Finally about 30min later I was able to telnet back into the machine. I noticed several of the following messages in the messages file and also when i typed "dmesg" -- May 3 14:23:23 taz kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 228089503) timed out - resetting May 3 14:23:23 taz kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. -- So a week later I attempted again with tape backup using a different program. this time i used "Tob". I did a small test backup using a 20meg directory. It appeared to work fine. I was able to backup and restore the files. I then attempted to backup a 2gig directory. After about 15min the machine went crazy like last time and load went up and I got locked out so I had to have someone reboot the machine. Didn't see any error messages in any logs or anything. Anyone ever expierance this problem? Anyone have any ideas what might be causing it? I been trying to figure it out for a couple weeks now with no luck. Any help is appreciated. TIA -Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel panic: unable to mount root
I decided to compile a new kernel (2.2.1) to upgrade from 2.0.38 for my 486 (slink) and I followed the instructions in the kernel howto. I compiled and installed the kernel, ran lilo, and rebooted. I receive the following error: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01 my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only I have two IDE hard drives with / on hda1. my boot disk works and mounts root fine. I must've missed some option in the kernel, or is my lilo.conf is set up wrong? thanks for any help, Kevin
RE: Kernel panic: unable to mount root
That's what the problem was. Thanks for the help. Kevin -Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:50 PM To: Kevin Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: Kernel panic: unable to mount root On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Kevin wrote: > I decided to compile a new kernel (2.2.1) to upgrade from 2.0.38 for my 486 > (slink) and I followed the instructions in the kernel howto. I compiled and > installed the kernel, ran lilo, and rebooted. I receive the following > error: > > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01 You didn't by chance happen to compile IDE support as a module did you? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
/var being eaten
something seems to be eating up space in /var. however i don't see anything taking up that much space. what could be taking space that wouldnt get counted in du, or be shown with find /var -pring |xargs ls -l? Thanks. -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- /dev/sda5 182M 164M 9.3M 95% /var ÓÄ(~)> du -sh /var 28M /var
Re: /var being eaten
ok now im completely out of space i rebooted and nothing was freed up -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:04:58 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: /var being eaten something seems to be eating up space in /var. however i don't see anything taking up that much space. what could be taking space that wouldnt get counted in du, or be shown with find /var -pring |xargs ls -l? Thanks. -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- /dev/sda5 182M 164M 9.3M 95% /var ÓÄ(~)> du -sh /var 28M /var -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten
cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again. using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you dont want 2.0 compat. -Original Message- From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:02:08 +0200 To: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:52:23PM -0700): > ok now im completely out of space > i rebooted and nothing was freed up but can you write to /var, or is it only the df output which reports 100% usage? which debian? which kernel? which e2fs? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- heisenberg may have been here.
Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten
its a 200 meg partition. i ran du -sh as root. -Original Message- From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:25:36 +0200 To: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 01:10:47PM -0700): > cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different > partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again. > > using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you > dont want 2.0 compat. did you run du -sh as root? what's the output if you run it as root? and how big is your partition again? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1-800-psych hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. if you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. no one will answer.
Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten
i just tar'd the dir, blew away the partition and recreated it. still dunno what caused it but oh well. -Original Message- From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:27:55 -0700 To: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten its a 200 meg partition. i ran du -sh as root. -Original Message- From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:25:36 +0200 To: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 01:10:47PM -0700): > cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different > partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again. > > using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you > dont want 2.0 compat. did you run du -sh as root? what's the output if you run it as root? and how big is your partition again? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1-800-psych hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. if you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. no one will answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad file
it looks like the filesystem is screwed up is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) ?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guide.it.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# rm guide.it.html rm: cannot unlink `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# mv guide.it.html bad.file mv: `guide.it.html' has unknown file type
Re: bad file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# cat /dev/null >guide.it.html su: guide.it.html: Permission denied and as for just trying to rm it, i already showed i cant do that > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: > >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > > > >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > > > >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 > >guid > >e.it.html > > Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >guide.it.html`? > > cheers, > &rw > -- > -- NT is 'more secure' in so far as, if your average cracker screws > -- around with it very much, an NT system tends to remove itself > -- from the network rather promptly. -- ?, some CERT guy > >
Re: bad file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# chmod 644 guide.it.html chmod: changing permissions of `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted > > >> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: > >> >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > >> > > >> >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > >> > > >> >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 > >> >g > >uid > >> >e.it.html > >> > >> Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >guide.it.html`? > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:47:55 PDT, Kevin writes: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# cat /dev/null >guide.it.html > >su: guide.it.html: Permission denied > > Another long shot: chmod. > > Then I'm out of ideas other than unmounting and fsck'ing... > > cheers, > &rw > -- > -- Debugger > -- Psychologe, der einem erklaert, warum man beim Anbaggern > -- abgeblitzt ist. > >
Re: bad file
its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on ./guide.it.html and i cant fsck it because im not local and cant go to single user. oh well, thanks for the help > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:07:12PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# chmod 644 guide.it.html > > chmod: changing permissions of `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted > try lsattr guide.it.html, guess the 'i' attribute is set (immutable) > chattr -i guide.it.html should fix it (man lsattr and man chattr for > more info) > I still recommend though that you fsck that fs ASAP, since you don't know if > there's any other damage. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
passwd error
the other day i added a user, then removed it right after. passwd worked when i added this user but after removing it, it stopped working. bash-2.00# passwd passwd: Critical error - immediate abort im not out of diskspace ii login 2902-8 System login tools im running unstable and 2.4.16 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1.7k Dec 29 15:36 /etc/passwd -rw-r-1 root root 1.3k Dec 29 15:36 /etc/shadow
vraagje
ik wil graag unix of linux downloaden waar kan ik dat downloaden stuur een mailtje terug alvast bedankt kevin
ifupdown
I'm running testing/woody. This morning I rebooted and when ifup tried to run it seems that its using a borked path. I got ifconfig: command not found, and route: command not found. So where does ifupdown get its path from? -- Kevin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Which programming Language
Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:31 +0100 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __ We can't answer that question without knowing what problem you want to solve. If you are just looking to learn a first language for the fun of it I would go with c++ with emphasis on object orient paradigms. That is what most jobs look for and most open source projects use in case you want to help. On the other hand it's a shitty language with a LOT of pitfalls once you need to implement things effectively. I agree with Micha - First define what you want to program in the long run. If you aspire to becoming a kernel hacker then learn C. If you want to write scripts as web robots for screen scraping then you have more options but perl is often used here. If you want to write gnome applications - C, if KDE then C++ A few notes: C is the basis of many languages and some people - such as Bruce Eckel of Mindview - actually teach C as a preparation to learning C++ and Java. C is a good start. Python is object oriented and as such is useful if you specifically want to learn nice, clean object oriented language. However its not a good start if you want to then move to another language. Basic is awful - I started with Basic in the early 80's and it was the defacto learning standard - but even then we knew it was awful! If you want to write dynamic websites then PHP (very C like) or Perl (a bit C like) are supported by just about every ISP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
debian, win jij een High Tea naar London?
Hoi debian, kevin wil je graag attenderen op een smakelijke actie van Sensodyne. Pak jij een Gelukskoekje? Dan win je fantastische prijzen zoals een trendy theeset, een Smooth Jazz cd-box of een luxe High Tea trip naar London. Klik op onderstaande link en ontdek meteen of je gewonnen hebt: http://www2.sensodyne.nl/gelukskoekje/index.php?PKTF=11308841512994 Veel succes! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am an idiot: Checksums not updated in SHA512SUMS file in amd64
I am stupid. Sorry for bothering you... Firefox somehow cached it and clicking it opened the file for 12.7. Sorry again and best regards, kevin - Hi all, first of all, i am not sure if this is the right place - sorry if not. I recognized that at https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ the SHA512SUMS file still has the checksums for debian-12.7. thanks and best regards, kevin
Checksums not updated in SHA512SUMS file in amd64
Hi all, first of all, i am not sure if this is the right place - sorry if not. I recognized that at https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ the SHA512SUMS file still has the checksums for debian-12.7. thanks and best regards, kevin
Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with less weight? Well, the "ifhp" package contains the "standard" LPRng input filter, assuming you're using LPRng. If you want a dumb filter (one that doesn't make any effort to, say, print PostScript to non-PostScript printers or do the right thing with DVI files sent directly to the printer), "lpf" is included in the "lprng" package, and the LPRng-HOWTO (included in the "lprng-doc" package) mentions using it: 4.10.3. The Jaggies - LF to CR-LF Conversion With lpf Let me add that, in the past, I've had nothing but trouble using HP's JetDirect... erm... directly. They've probably improved things since I last had to deal with it, but their old network stack couldn't handle more than one connection at once so, if a job was printing, the printer would just refuse new connections until it completed; sometimes jobs would simply mysteriously get lost; the printer would just get wedged as machines trying to print jobs fought for its attention; and on and on. The solution was (and is) to designate one machine as the spooler for that printer and have all the other machines send the jobs through it. This is straightforward to set up using LPRng, and it has the added bonus that you can install and configure all sorts of fancy printer filtering stuff on just the one, spooling, machine and have all the clients take instant advantage of it. (Samba can be used to provide shared printer service for any Windows clients that are lounging around, too.) This is well worth setting up, in my opinion. -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with external DNSes
Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> My needs are the following:
> - from my LAN I want that the address xxx.mydomain.com resolves directly
> to our server (192.168.1.2).
> - I want all my former settings to work. I.e. www.mydomain.com resolves
> to the ISP located site.
>
> I managed to do the first step. Unfortunately, my bind configuration
> made is so that I couldn't resolve www.mydomain.com anymore. Everything
> else (google, slashdot) resolves correctly.
You presumably made your local server authoritative for
"mydomain.com", and put an SOA record for "mydomain.com" and an A
record for "xxx.mydomain.com" in your zone file, but you didn't
include any records for "www.mydomain.com".
You have a few choices:
1. You can keep doing things that way and manually duplicate the
address record your ISP has for "www.mydomain.com" in your own zone
file. If your ISP changes the IP address out from under you, you'll
need to manually fix your own records.
2. You can keep doing things that way and delegate the
"www.mydomain.com" domain to your ISP's name server using an NS record
on your local name server. This is terrible DNS practice (because the
ISP's name server won't normally have an SOA record for
"www.mydomain.com"; instead, it'll have one for "mydomain.com" that
conflicts with the one *you* have), but that doesn't particularly
matter for an internal DNS server, and I believe things will work
correctly in this particular case. No guarantee, though...
3. You can make your local server authoritative for
"xxx.mydomain.com" instead of "mydomain.com" and include SOA and A
records for *that* domain name. This will work fine unless you later
decide that there are lots of names at "mydomain.com" that you'd
rather have resolve to local hosts and "www.mydomain.com" is the only
exception. Then, you either need a separate zone file for every such
host, or you need to switch to method 1 or 2.
> I tried to play with BIND's configuration through webmin, but I didn't
> make it work as expected. Worse I broke my first working step.
I've never used "webmin" so I don't know what it botched up. To
implement scheme (3) above, what you want is this. In what follows,
I'm assuming that xxx.mydomain.com (192.168.1.2) is also the machine
running your local DNS service.
/etc/bind/named.conf:
[ . . . ]
// add entries for other zones below here
zone "xxx.mydomain.com" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.xxx.mydomain.com";
}
/etc/bind/db.xxx.mydomain.com:
; authoritative for $ORIGIN xxx.mydomain.com
@ in soa @ hostmaster (
20030217 ; Serial
28800; refresh period (8 hours)
7200 ; retry interval (2 hours)
604800 ; expire time (7 days)
86400 ) ; negative TTL (1 day)
in ns @
in a 192.168.1.2
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Glide3 Compilation Problems
Hi All, When I try to compile Glibe3 from source on Debian Woody 3.0r1 powerpc, I get the following errors. bagpuss:/home/admin/Glide3# ./build.3dfx Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 2064208501328 1458024 26% /home Making all in swlibs make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Glide3/swlibs' Making all in fxmisc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Glide3/swlibs/fxmisc' /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DX11 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math -DBIG_OPT -Wall -I../../h5/glide3/src -I../../ h5/incsrc -I../../h5/incsrc -I../../h5/minihwc -I. -I../../swlibs/fxmemm ap -I../../swlibs/fxmisc -I../../swlibs/newpci/pcilib -I../../swlibs/tex us2/lib-O6 -m486 -c fx64.c libtool: ltconfig version `' does not match ltmain.sh version `1.3.5' Fatal configuration error. See the libtool docs for more information. make[2]: *** [fx64.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Glide3/swlibs/fxmisc' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Glide3/swlibs' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 2064208501328 1458024 26% /home Time Elapsed: 0 Years, 0 Days, 0 Hours, 0 Minutes, 0 Seconds Disk usage: 0.0 Mb Any ideas what I need to do? Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Glide3 Compilation Problems
> Kevin Smith said: > > Hi All, > > > > When I try to compile Glibe3 from source on Debian Woody 3.0r1 powerpc, I > > get the following errors. > > how about apt-get install libglide3 ? > > or if you want to build it: > > apt-get -b source libglide3 ? > > the source one requires you have source uris in /etc/apt/sources.list > e.g.: > deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free > > you may need to apt-get build-dep libglide3 before compiling. > > nate When I tried the apt-get install libglide3, apt reports it couldn't find the package. Is this package not available on the powerpc platform? When trying to compile from source, I get the following errors: recursing into fxmisc (make libs) cc -O6 -m486 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizatio ns -ffast-math -DBIG_OPT -I. -I/home/admin/glide-2001.01.26/build-tree/g lide2x/swlibs/include -I/home/admin/glide-2001.01.26/build-tree/glide2x/ cvg/include -DENDB -DX11 -Wall -fPIC -DPIC -c -o fx64.o fx64.c cc1: Invalid option `486' make[3]: *** [fx64.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [libs] Error 1 make[1]: *** [libs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/glide-2001.01.26/build-tree/glide2x' make: *** [debian/stampdir/build.glide2.cvg] Error 2 Build command 'cd glide-2001.01.26 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best WWW browser..
Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) and am currently using Galon for web-surfing. However, it seems to break on some sites - they seem to be moaning about Frames support mostly. Anyway, which browser should I use under gnome to get the most pages viewed? I'd prefer a .deb package from stable but if not, what do people think of the Opera 7 that recently appeared? http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/353-20030214-P1/ Thanks for your help, Kevin -- The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on +44 (0)1980 612100. Please also destroy or delete the message from your computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors Building xserver-xfree86
Hi All, What does this error message mean when building xserver-xfree86? I compiled my own Kernel 2.4.20 for the powerpc for Debian Woody 3.0r1. DId I miss or so something wrong with the Kernel compilation? Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in xfree86-4.1.0 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is xfree86 dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4.1.0-16 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is powerpc dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: kernel-headers-2.4 dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.) Build command 'cd xfree86-4.1.0 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed Also, where can I get this package from and what exactly is it called in apt: warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested X: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by X) Many thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 and Upgrading
Hi All, Does anyone have a lay instructions on upgrading to XFree86 4.2.0 from the following: XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-powerpc-smp ppc [ELF] Module Loader present Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apach2 and perl?
Try the following: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/www.iin.org/cgi-bin/ This supports execution of Perl scripts, but not perl scripts within directories, just those that are the ScriptAlias directive. AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl - Original Message - From: "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:32 PM Subject: apach2 and perl? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP active getting blocked [solved]
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:11:04AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote.. > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:55:55PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > > I thought that it would be easy to make the switch on the client side, > > > but I've run into problems. At first I thought it was my firewall that > > > was stopping incoming data, but I temporarily disabled the firewall and > > > still can't get incoming FTP data. > > > > Are you behind a NAT'ing/MASQ'ing gateway? If you're using iptables, > > you need the ipt_nat_ftp and ipt_conntrack_ftp modules loaded. > > A stopgap or lazy solution would be just use pasv mode instead. Rob's suggestions did the trick! I didn't have ipt_nat_ftp and ipt_conntrack_ftp loaded. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 msg31576/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:36:41AM -0500, sean finney wrote.. > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:37:06AM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > > which device should I use in /dev (sda? or sdb? ... ) > > whichever one mounts :) if you want to take a sneak peak, do > file -s /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1, and if it says something about > a vfat parition or an x86 boot sector, that's the one. A nice utility to use for figuring out which scsi the device is on is apt-get install sg3-utils Then just run sg_scan -i // to see scsi type devices and sg_map // to see device assocations I've got one of those 6-in-1 USB card readers and 4 scsi HD's on a raid card. This utility helped me figure it out right quick. Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 msg32103/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cd destroyed in cd drive
Too much vibration due to a warped disk perhaps? I've heard it happen and seen it happen. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 7:25 PM Subject: Cd destroyed in cd drive Hi, I was wondering how a cd could break into pices in a cd drive?
bogofilter feeback to mail server
I have a small LAN for a half dozen users with a POP mail server that I set up. The mail server filters spam with bogofilter. On my workstation, I use Mutt. Sometimes a bit of spam will get past bogofilter and make it to my workstation (separate box from the mail server, although same LAN). Has anyone come up with a good way of getting that spam back to the mail server so that bogofilter can be run against it to update the files goodlist.db and spamlist.db? I've seen several pages on the web on how to use Mutt macros to send the spam through bogofilter -N and -S when bogofilter is run on the same machine as Mutt. But what I haven't figured out is a clever way of using similar macros to get that same type of feedback back to bogofilter on the mailserver box. Any thoughts? Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bogofilter feeback to mail server
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 06:29:36PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote.. > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 16:35, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > But what I haven't figured out is a clever way of using similar macros > > to get that same type of feedback back to bogofilter on the mailserver > > box. > > Ive never done this before, but maybe you could setup a mail box on the > server that sends commands and attached messages to bogofilter. Just > forward the message as attached and perhaps send a command in the > subject line, and have a perl script listening on the other end that > runs bogofilter on the message depending on the command. Setting up a user/mailbox on the mail server would probably work. You could bounce the spam email from your client box to the mail server. And then, probably easier than have a perl script parse the Subject line, just run a cron job to pipe the email to bogofilter and delete it when finished. What I have done instead though, and it seems to be working, is add the following to my .muttrc as a macro: macro index X "unset wait_key\nssh -f \ my.mailserver.com bogofilter -S -d /home/kevin/.bogofilter \n \ set wait_key\n" macro pager X "unset wait_key\nssh -f \ my.mailserver.com bogofilter -S -d /home/kevin/.bogofilter \n \ set wait_key\n" [macros courtesy of a user on the bogofilter mail list] Obviously this is MUA specific. While this macro sends spam feedback back to bogofilter so that it can get better at detecting spam, it is not sending bogofilter 'good, non-spam' email to help build the goodlist.db. Of course I could do this with more Mutt macros attached to my saves, replies, etc, but then I'd be teaching bogofilter about MY good email. Yet bogofilter is running on a LAN filtering email for all of the users in the LAN, not just me. I'm not sure how critical it is to teach bogofilter about good mail on a continual basis. Spam is spam, so having only me as the spam teacher for bogofilter will probably serve all the LAN users o.k. But good, non-spam email is user specific, so I would think bogofilter would want contributions from everyone. Perhaps I'm trying to use bogofilter in a way for which it was not designed. We'll see how it works in this setup. More later. Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
/etc/chatscripts/provider
What is the correct way to tell my modem to do an ATM0 (shut it up) in this script? Thanks, Kevin -- The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on +44 (0)1980 612100. Please also destroy or delete the message from your computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel
Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried passing kernel parameters > > ether=11,0x2000,eth0 ether=10,0x4000,eth1 ether=9,0x6000,eth2 Actually, if I read the source right, these aren't having any effect. They certainly aren't doing what you want them to do: they aren't determining which physical card gets assigned to which logical device. > Now I can only ping all three addresses if eth0 is connected by cable. > eth1 and eth2 no longer respond though ifconfig output has not changed. Maybe check again---I believe the machine will behave the same whether you include that kernel setup string or not. If it's a genuine effect, see if there's any difference in the kernel log messages between the two cases. The behaviour can---in theory---vary from driver to driver, but here's the way it should work for the eepro100 driver and most other PCI drivers. Whether the eepro100 driver is loaded as a module or compiled into the kernel, at some point its initialization function will be called. The initialization function uses the standard kernel "pci_module_init()" function which, ultimately, enumerates the PCI devices in bus/device/function order, the same order you see the devices if you do a "cat /proc/pci". At this point, the behaviour can differ from driver to driver, but the eepro100 driver allocates the next "eth%d" device, binds it to that card, and overwrites the irq and I/O port base with the correct values for the card, completely ignoring the values you supplied in the setup string. The order *is* deterministic, you just can't determine it using the kernel setup string---eth0 through eth2 will always be assigned in bus/device/function order, which means they'll be assigned in order according to the physical PCI slot. I believe the person who said most drivers probe in MAC-address order was mistaken. According to an old mailing list post by Donald Becker: http://beowulf.es.embnet.org/listarchives/linux-tulip/1999/04/0048.html the 3c509 driver is unique in activating multiple cards in MAC address order. The PCI drivers all (?) detect them in PCI bus/device/function order. This gets much more complicated if you have PCI cards of multiple types (they are enumerated in bus/device/function order *within* each driver, but the order the driver initialization functions are called depends on the order they're compiled into the kernel, more or less). If you have (E)ISA legacy cards or certain motherboard chipsets, it's complicated even further. > Also if I bring the interfaces down and backup I get an error both > ways on the last interface. The order of the interfaces does not > matter. [ . . . ] > ifup eth1 > ifup eth0 > ifup eth2 > SIOCADDRT: File exists You can see which command is generating this by running "ifup" with the "-v" option. "ifup" implicitly does a: route add default gw 10.0.1.3 eth0 (or eth1 or eth2) for each "ifup" with a "gateway 10.0.1.3" line, and I assume that's the culprit. I don't know why it's working twice but failing the third time. Again, the "-v" flag might help. -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel
Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The final thing which I still do not understand is that, after I > passed the ether= kernel parameters for each card, only eth0 would > work. But if I `ifdown eth0` then only eth1 would work. Finally > if I `ifdown eth1` then eth2 would work. This one has got me > stumped. I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with the "ether=" kernel parameter. It would work the same either way. It's just the way Linux does business: if you run "tcpdump -i eth1" on the Linux machine, you'll probably see it accepting packets on eth1. However, there's nothing forcing it to *reply* to, say, a ping on the same interface the original packet came in on. With "eth1" connected, packets are coming in on that interface but trying to go out on the disconnected "eth0". You have to bring "eth0" down before they go out on "eth1" instead. Then, you have to bring "eth1" down before they go out on "eth2" instead. There are ways to force interface affinity, in the sense that a packet whose source address is 10.0.1.11 can be forced to route out on eth1, but that requires something like rule-based routing. -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up IPTables..
Hi all, Can anyone tell me where there is a HOWTO describing (or give me an outline of what I should do) setting up IPTables on my debian 3.0r1 box. I am using a self-compiled 2.4.20 kernel and connect using ppp/dialup so here's what I think I need to know: * What kernel options/modules should I compile and set with modconf? * What userspace stuff do I need to do? * Is firestarter a good way to set up a basic firewall? (It looks easy to me). Thanks, Kevin -- The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on +44 (0)1980 612100. Please also destroy or delete the message from your computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Phoenix with java ..
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:09:55PM -0800, nate wrote.. > I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided > to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. > > what I did: > > 1) install phoenix(I install to ~/phoenix) > 2) download java: > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html > (I downloaded the linux self extracting file) > 3) chmod +x the java file and run it, move the directory to /usr/local/java > 4) exit phoenix > 5) cd ~/phoenix/plugins > 6) ln -s /usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > 7) start phoenix > 8) in url box type about:plugins to be sure it's loaded > 9) test it by going to: > http://java.sun.com/openstudio/applets/clock.html > > worked for me I didn't have Java installed, but saw this thread and this post (thanks nate) that made it look so easy, so I gave it a try. It worked for me (both galeon and phoenix), but I had to do one more thing in order for it to work. My system did not have the package libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 I noticed that I needed this when I started up galeon from a console. It gave a message that it was trying to load the java plugin but failed because the plugin couldn't find the file [libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] So I went to http://packages.debian.org and searched for packages containing libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. It returned the package name for me, I installed it, and presto - java works. HTH. Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pptp ...
Karoly Vegh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Im trying to get into my firm's LAN with pptp from a cable-provider at > homel. Colin Ellis is right. > Feb 26 10:41:59 hb pppd[1271]: rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x0 "E=691 R=1 > C=3BEDB47127E2081CF23A3BBDAA861AF9 V=3"] The error code here E=691 is a simple authentication failure. > ps. ofcourse i changed the real IP to SERRVER_IP, useraccount to 'username' > and so on through the whola mail. I hope you also changed your real password to "password", or else you're trying to log in with password "password". Besides that, the culprit is probably extra backslashes. Instead of: name "domainname.atusername" you want: name "domain\\username" with the backslash doubled instead of quadrupled. Note that "domain" should probably be the simple NT domain name (not a fully qualified hostname). Similarly, the entries in "chap-secrets" should look like: # Secrets for authentication using CHAP # clientserver secret IP addresses domainname\\username PPTP YourRealPassword SERVER_IP PPTP domainname\\username YourRealPassword SERVER_IP with the backslashes doubled, not quadrupled. On my PPTP tunnel, if I use double backslashes, it works. If I quadruple the backslashes like you've done, I get the same authentication failure you do. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: pppd problem...
"Christof Hurschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry, but how do I get rid of the "tap0" default route? The "diald" dial-on-demand package is probably doing it. You can "apt-get remove diald" to get it out of the way, at least until you get things working with "pon/poff". -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shadow RAM can't be disabled
"Mark A. F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here are the forced Shadow RAM settings: > > F000 - (System BIOS) > E800 - EFFF (Rapid Resume BIOS) > E000 - E7FF (System POST) > > Upper Memory Boundary F200 > > I am working through my installation of Debian. > > What misbehaviors might I experience due to these settings? Most likely, none. Unless the descriptions are inaccurate, those ranges are plain old ROM, so shadowing won't cause a problem. The only worry is shadowing over top of a range of memory that some device (like an ISA network card, for example) is using for memory-mapped I/O, but those are the ranges you've already disabled. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boolalpha (c++ question)
I'm learning C++ and ran into a bit of difficulty with boolalpha. I guess I don't have all the right libraries loaded (although I would have thought this one was quite basic) because the following doesn't work: cout.setf(ios_base::boolalpha); // from textbook The err msg I get is: `ios_base' undeclared (first use this function) So o.k., I see that there's been no declaration. So I looked through my /usr/include and did some grepping for boolalpha, and nothing is returned. Which must mean I'm missing a header file. Could someone please give me a tip as to what header file I might be missing, and even better, what package it might be in? Earlier in the program I do have: #include #include using namespace std; Many thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: boolalpha (c++ question)
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:21:39PM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote.. > AFAIK GCC 2.95 doesn't have the ios_base namespace , you'll have to > use ios instead. > > however boolalpha is not implemented in 2.95, so you'll have install > g++-3.2 (only in testing I believe). > > if you plan on learning C++ I recommend you use 3.2, it is more > standard compliant and will give you more verbose warnings and errors. > but please note that there is not binary compatibility between > C++ code compiled using different versions of GCC so if you use GCC > 3.2 you won't be able to link against C++ libraries provided by debian > (like QT for instance). > > what I do is have the two versions installed, I use 2.95 for compiling > any software I download and 3.2 for my own code. First, thanks much for your response. I'm running testing, so I apt-get'd g++-3.2 just now with no problem and tested out boolalpha, and presto, it worked! Thanks. Second, question about how to best set up the dual compilers: Like you, I'll use 2.95 to compile downloaded software, and 3.2 for stuff I write. Do you change the symlink in /usr/bin depending upon what you are doing? Is there a better way such that you won't forget to change that symlink cause I know sooner or later I'll forget. When I compile my own stuff, I use qmake. So it's easy enough for me to have qmake.conf point to 3.2. Is there debian package software that uses qmake? If not, then I can leave my symlink in /usr/bin pointing towards 2.95 and just change the pointer in my qmake.conf. Thanks again Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?
I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system was downloading 89 upgrades, one of which was libc6 ver 2.3.1-14. But when I go to packages.debian.org, and look at the libc6 debs in there, I see that it clearly says that ver 2.3.1-14 is still unstable, and that testing should be 2.2.5-14.3. Normally an upgrade like this is good stuff, but this time it caused me some problems, namely it uninstalled php4. So I'm a bit lost. Did I mess something up? Or was libc6 or something else moved from unstable to testing just a bit early? Not quite sure whether I should try to back track and get back to libc6 ver 2.2.5-14.3 so I can get my php4 back, or whether there's another way of getting this done without going to a totally sid box. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:11:51AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote.. > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > What am I missing? > > > > # apt-cache policy libc6 > > libc6: > > Installed: 2.2.5-14.3 > > Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3 > > Version Table: > > Have you done an "apt-get update" today? Even if you have, try it again, > then try "apt-cache policy libc6" again and see if it's any different. I > don't know what else could have us showing different information about > the same repository. O.k., so it seems as if libc6 has moved to testing and that packages.d.o is just a bit behind. No problem. But I guess I'm still a bit surprised that this upgrade forced me to uninstall php4 (at least the forced uninstall is better than simply breaking it). Anyway, I need to run php. Am I correct in assuming that if I want to run php4, I'll have to apt-get -t unstable install php4 and that if I do this, that it will seek out all of the upgrade dependencies it needs from unstable. For example, if I check the dependencies of php4 unstable, I see that it requires apache-common >1.3.27, yet my current testing version is 1.3.26-1.1. So will this automatically get updated to unstable too? And perhaps further dependencies down the line as well, in essence making this box a sid box? Sorry for the detailed and probably somewhat obvious question, but I switched over to Debian last summer, and am loving it. But this is the first time I've encountered this type of situation where a testing package upgrade (libc6) caused an incompatitibility with another testing package, in the case php4. Perhaps that's why they call it testing? Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: adduser wants root passwd though I am root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am root and want create new user ... > > $> whoami > $> root > $> adduser test > $> Password: Under the hood, "adduser" uses "useradd" (from the "passwd" package) to do its work. My "adduser" and "passwd" packages are the current Woody/stable version: adduser version 3.47 and passwd version 2902-12. When I run "adduser" as root, it does *not* prompt for the root password; it immediately creates the new user and prompts for the new user's password (twice). If I run "adduser" as a regular user, it prints the message: adduser: Only root may add a user or group to the system. It's possible this behaviour is changed in newer versions of "adduser" and "passwd", but your suspicions are justified. The MD5s for "adduser" and "useradd" on my (Woody) system are: b7783a6c5057bd917b303f8c79ab4186 /usr/sbin/adduser c62fb94c47a8af25768e5db96e5a6d52 /usr/sbin/useradd -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote.. > Didn't someone here mention a favorite web hosting company recently?? > > I think it was 750 MB storage and 20 GB traffic for a very reasonable price. > > Any favorites or companies to avoid??? I've been using Eryxma.com recently and have been happy with them. The thing I like the best is the plan that I have -- it's called "Private Webhosting" -- and while it is on a shared server, I get my own, virtually complete OS. So it's more like having your own machine. Cost -- various plans, but even the low end at $52/year gets you 100 MB of space. Support has been good, but only via email. At that price no one is going to pick up the phone for you. Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)
"n/a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apparently there's something i'm not getting thru my thick skull about > packet filtering. I think others have pointed out the main problem---packets being forwarded by the machine don't pass through the INPUT and OUTPUT chains. This behaviour differs from the old "ipchains" behaviour: see iptables(8), the section titled "COMPATIBILITY WITH IPCHAINS". If you're trying to build your tables based on old "ipchains" examples, you'll run into trouble. > Could someone explain to me in text (no diagrams) how a > packet is evaluated and then processed tru the chains, also what is done and > not-done any more after a packet has passed thru a chain. There's a good explanation in the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//netfilter-hacking-HOWTO.html though it uses a couple of ASCII diagrams. In a nutshell, the kernel networking code includes several netfilter "hooks" where packets can be examined, dropped, modified, rerouted, or whatever. An IP packet arriving on any interface (even the loopback interface) is first passed to the NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING hook. This happens even before the kernel decides whether the packet is destined for a local process or needs to be forwarded to another machine. Next, the packet enters the kernel routing code which decides what to do with it. Packets directed at a local IP address pass through the NF_IP_LOCAL_IN hook. After this, they are dealt with by the kernel in the "usual" manner (including passing the data up to an appropriate user process). Packets that must be forwarded don't pass through this hook. Instead, they pass through the NF_IP_FORWARD hook, then through the NF_IP_POST_ROUTING hook, and then to the appropriate device driver. Locally generated packets are handled first by the routing code before being passed to the NF_IP_LOCAL_OUT hook (which can change their routing) and then the NF_IP_POST_ROUTING hook, and then to the appropriate device. The upshot is this: Packets arriving from a different machine and directed at one of the firewall's IP addresses pass through the NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING and NF_IP_LOCAL_IN hooks. Packets arriving from a different machine that must be forwarded to another machine pass through the NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING, the NF_IP_FORWARD, and the NF_IP_POST_ROUTING hooks. Locally generated packets destined for another machine pass through the NF_IP_LOCAL_OUT and NF_IP_POST_ROUTING hooks. Packets sent from the firewall back into the firewall (e.g., "telnet localhost") pass out through the NF_IP_LOCAL_OUT and NF_IP_POST_ROUTING hooks and then back in through the NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING and NF_IP_LOCAL_IN hooks. That's all assuming that none of the hooks interfere with the packet. Since the hooks can drop, modify, or otherwise reroute the packet, the actual path of a packet can be even more complicated. The hooks can do all sorts of things. One of the main things they do is apply the rules that you set with "iptables". If the only table you configure is the "filter" table, its three chains INPUT, OUTPUT, and FORWARD, will be applied at the LOCAL_IN, LOCAL_OUT, and FORWARD hooks. Therefore, packets will only pass through one of the three filter chains (except packets through the loopback which are processed by the OUTPUT chain on the way out and the INPUT chain on the way in). In your case, it looks like you need to do some masquerading for your internal LAN, so things get a bit more complicated. If you configure the "nat" table, too, destination NAT (i.e., changing the destination of a packet) in the "nat" PREROUTING chain is applied in the PRE_ROUTING hook: a packet arriving from the big, bad Internet that *seems* to be for the firewall's external IP address could be *really* for the firewall or it might be for a machine on the internal LAN. The destination NAT is applied at the PRE_ROUTING stage so that it can rewrite the destination address before the kernel routing code makes its decision. Then, it gets passed to LOCAL_IN or FORWARD as appropriate. (Destination NAT can also be applied via the "nat" OUTPUT chain in the OUTPUT hook if you want to redirect locally generated packets for some reason; and source NAT is applied via the "nat" POSTROUTING chain in the POST_ROUTING hook after the packet has already passed through the "filter" OUTPUT or FORWARD chains.) I hope that helps. I can't tell from the configuration rules you gave exactly what it is you're trying to do. It looks like you want internal hosts to be able to make direct SMTP and POP connections to a certain subnet of external hosts and web connections to "kottweb", but you want to prevent all other connections (except web connections proxied through the firewall). Can you clarify this? -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file server recommendations?
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the > > debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest > > putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way > > to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are > > users on your system. > > > www.ssh.com have some very nice and easy to use windows clients as well > both for ssh and scp. What's a good, and hopefully open source & free, program that can act as a SSH server on a Windows box? I do most of my work in Linux/Debian, but there's one offsite webserver I have to take care of that's Win2K. Presently I ftp files up to it, but I'd rather be doing something a little more secure. Is there a way of getting an SSH server running on it that my Debian SSH client can connect to? Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Phoenix with java ..
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:13:44AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote.. > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:09:55PM -0800, nate wrote.. > > > I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided > > to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. > > > > what I did: > > > > 1) install phoenix(I install to ~/phoenix) > > 2) download java: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html > > (I downloaded the linux self extracting file) > > 3) chmod +x the java file and run it, move the directory to /usr/local/java > > 4) exit phoenix > > 5) cd ~/phoenix/plugins > > 6) ln -s /usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > 7) start phoenix > > 8) in url box type about:plugins to be sure it's loaded > > 9) test it by going to: > > http://java.sun.com/openstudio/applets/clock.html > > > > worked for me > > I didn't have Java installed, but saw this thread and this post (thanks > nate) that made it look so easy, so I gave it a try. > > It worked for me (both galeon and phoenix), but I had to do one more > thing in order for it to work. My system did not have the package > > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 > > So I went to http://packages.debian.org and searched for packages > containing libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. It returned the package name for > me, I installed it, and presto - java works. I did this last month on a testing box and as I stated, it worked great. I tried it today on an unstable box, and it doesn't work. I get this err msg back when trying to start galeon from a console: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: GetGlobalServiceManager__16nsServiceManagerPP17nsIServiceManager] Has anyone been down this path before? Would appreciate any tips. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Phoenix with java ..
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:29:29PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote.. > > > 1) install phoenix(I install to ~/phoenix) > > > 2) download java: > > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html > > > (I downloaded the linux self extracting file) > > > 3) chmod +x the java file and run it, move the directory to /usr/local/java > > > 4) exit phoenix > > > 5) cd ~/phoenix/plugins > > > 6) ln -s /usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > > 7) start phoenix > > > 8) in url box type about:plugins to be sure it's loaded > > > 9) test it by going to: > > > http://java.sun.com/openstudio/applets/clock.html > > I did this last month on a testing box and as I stated, it worked great. > I tried it today on an unstable box, and it doesn't work. I get this > err msg back when trying to start galeon from a console: > > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > [/usr/local/java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined > symbol: GetGlobalServiceManager__16nsServiceManagerPP17nsIServiceManager] > > Has anyone been down this path before? Would appreciate any tips. Should have done a bit more research before my posting the question as I've got it figured out now. So apologies for the one-sided discussion here. I essentially did steps #1-9 above, except instead of getting the Java plugin from Sun I got it from Blackdown at: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/ JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin The link came from another posting about this same problem that was posted earlier. Got it working with this download from Blackdown. I guess there's a problem with compiling the Sun version with gcc3.2, which is the default compiler for unstable (if I've understood everything correctly). Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Building a source tarball..
Hi, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) on a x86 laptop. I know how to build a source tarball into binaries and how to bung 'em into /usr/local/bin. However, I have recently found (thanks to this list) how to build the kernel source into a .deb package using make-kpkg - what I want to know, is there a way to do the same thing with a foo.tar.gz? Then do a dpkg -i foo.deb? Anyone point me in the right direction? Or should I stick with: ./configure ./make ./ make install ? Thanks, Kevin ^-- $ != The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on +44 (0)1980 612100. Please also destroy or delete the message from your computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar ate my symlinks
Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Can you tell if the tarball actually has the symlinks in it but the > >restore messed up, or if the files are stored incorrectly and restored > >correctly? > > I don't know; is there any way to tell that in a compressed (or even a > decompressed) tarball? Sure, use: tar tvfj linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | less and you'll get an "ls -l"-style directory listing. The symlinks should have an "lrwxrwxrwx" mode, and you should be able to see their values. I believe you've been bitten by a queer bit of "tar" behaviour. Some time ago, there was a security bug where "tar" could be tricked into following a symlink it had just created and then overwrite files outside the directory where the restore was supposedly contained. To fix this problem, "tar" was patched to use a regular file placeholder for possibly troublesome symlinks. When "tar" completes, it's supposed to go back and change those placeholder files back into symlinks, but if "tar" crashes (or is stopped) before the restore completes, the symlinks will be left as (zero-length) regular files. Perhaps you interrupted the restore, or perhaps it crashed while trying to restore "/proc" or something. Then, "tar" wouldn't have had a chance to go back and fix all the placeholders. I would suggest reattempting the restore without extracting "/proc". "tar"'s exclude mechanism is singularly stupid, so: tar -jxv --exclude=proc will exclude *all* files and directories named "proc", not just the top-level one. However, you can do: ssh '...' | tar -jt | egrep -v '^proc' >FILES_TO_RESTORE ssh '...' | tar -jxv --files-from=FILES_TO_RESTORE to avoid restoring the problematic "/proc" directory while still restoring any "proc" files and directories hiding elsewhere. If you still end up with screwed up symlinks no matter what you do, all is not lost. On the 192.168.2.10 machine, run the following command: tar -jtvf linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | egrep '^l' | \ perl -lane 'print "ln -snf $F[7] $F[5]" if (@F == 8 && $F[6] eq "->")' \ > FIX_MY_SYMLINKS That'll create a shell script capable of recreating all the broken symlinks (except those where the symlink filename or value contained whitespace---hopefully you don't have any of those that matter). After you've double-checked that the commands in FIX_MY_SYMLINKS aren't total nonsense, then on the broken machine, run: cd / ssh 192.168.2.10 cat FIX_MY_SYMLINKS | sh and your symlinks should be restored. Hope that helps. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar ate my symlinks
Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe you're right. It was "exiting now" when untarring /proc, > which apparently prevented it from finishing the job. > > >tar -jtvf linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | egrep '^l' | \ > > perl -lane 'print "ln -snf $F[7] $F[5]" if (@F == 8 && $F[6] eq "->")' \ > > > FIX_MY_SYMLINKS > > This gave me warm unix fuzzies like you wouldn't believe. I'm glad it worked, but since you went this route, be extra careful that there were no more files after that "exiting now" error that you missed restoring! > One last question. I'm planning on doing a similar procedure to my > other machine. Is there anything other than /proc that I need to > exclude? I was surprised to find that /dev made it through intact. It'll depend on your kernel and what other "special filesystems" you've mounted. If you run "mount" without options, it'll list what's mounted, and you can figure out what isn't a real filesystem from there. In addition to "proc", you might see "usbdevfs", "devpts", and "shm" filesystems that shouldn't be copied. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?
Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you can, you may want to suspend mail delivery when you do that, in > case sendmail decides to write to the mailspool at the same time you > do. (Incidentally, does anyone know a better way to lock a mailspool > before appending messages to it?) The "mail-lock" and "mail-unlock" commands from the "lockfile-progs" package will lock and unlock a mailbox in a way that should be compatible with all Debian mail programs. Mail locks are considered stale after about five minutes, so you need to finish your fiddling within that time window or use "mail-touchlock" to keep the lock fresh. (See the mail-lock(1) manpage for more information.) -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question
I am looking for info on how to setup a router on debian server ver 3.0 This router will house 3 nic cards which will route IP traffic from one segment to another Please let me know if such the guide is available Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Devices
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:16:58AM +1000, Lloyd Bayley wrote.. > Greetings All, > > I'm hoping you can help me as I've struck a dead-end. > It's not for the lack of trying, mind you! > > When I plug my USB Thumb drive into my linux box, (which I've only just > done for the first time as I've not needed to before), > I get the following messages on the screen... > > debian:~# usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2 > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Try going through this write-up of mine to see if you've covered all of the USB bases . http://basiclinux.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Basiclinux/AddingUSBStorageDevices Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting debian to use Win2k as it's Internet gateway?
Hi, I have a win2k box set to do ICS and dial on demand (not the question) - 192.168.0.1 I have my Debian laptop attached to this eth0 192.618.0.10. They share files via samba. But, I'd like to be able to set Debian so that it uses 192.168.0.1 as it's internet gateway. I've fiddled with route but to no avail. Is there a simple way of doing this? How? Thanks for your help, Kevin PS. please cc replies to me, as I'm having problems subscribing back to the list! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:18:56AM -0600, Ray wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: > > > > It's always interesting to watch 'em finally wake up. > > the way i was looking at it is longhorn must be horrible if the > marketing has to get this much of a running start on reviews before > the actual scheduled release(was it 2006?). if you heard there was a > movie/game/tech that had marketing running for 3 years before release, > wouldn't that be a sign of major suckage to you too? Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. Personally, I think Trusted Computing is intended for Microsoft, the various large copyright holders, and three-letter government agencies, not those poor souls stuck with Windows. What's taking all the time is getting all the hardware vendors onboard the shiny new Palladium train, as well as twisting the arms of those who resist. This all takes time and money. Like many of us I think free software is a better deal for everyone except for proprietary software vendors like Microsoft. As more people come to this inevitable conclusion Microsoft will most likely resort to the same kind of illegal anti-competitive tactics that has gotten it in trouble before. Should be an interesting ride anyway. Sure hope they lose though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
custom kernel hangs during boot (debian sid/unstable)
Here's my issue-- So I had to re-install my system today (long story). I run a custom kernel in order to get NVIDIA drivers to work (the gcc version mismatches always have stumped me w/regard to getting the drivers working with stock kernels). To make a custom kernel, I did the following (all running sid/unstable: 1.)got the kernel configuration file for the package kernel-image-2.4.22-686-smp from /boot. 2.)Installed the kernel source for same kernel (2.4.22) and used the config file from the stock .deb as the .config in the kernel source tree 3.) after a "make menuconfig oldconfig", where I simply exited and saved, I ran: make dep; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --append-to-version=.311003 --revision=1 --initrd kernel-image modules-image 4.) installed the resulting deb w/dpkg, ran lilo, and rebooted After rebooting, the system always hangs w/the custom kernel at the line "INIT: version 2.8...". This is not because it can't find the hard drive (that was the problem before doing --initrd with make-kpkg). Further, the stock kernel runs fine (only problem is installing the nvidia drivers, which result in non-loading modules with the stock kernel and gcc-3.2.2), and was compiled with gcc 3.2.2. I used the config file from the stock kernel deb and am using gcc 3.2.2 (the current version in sid, the machine was installed earlier today, the 31st of Oct.) Any input would be appreciated. Also, if someone can point out how to get the NVIDIA stuff working with the stock kernel, that would be another good solution. Thanks, Kevin = Kevin Thornton Committee on Genetics University of Chicago http://www.molpopgen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: print command
Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. The Bash-specific solution already proposed: for (( i=0; i<80; ++i )); do echo -n '*'; done; echo has the advantage that, since "echo" is an internal command, the entire loop is executed in the current shell process. (But see below.) For some other possibilities that do require launching one or more processes, these work: head -c80 /dev/zero | tr '\000' '*'; echo or: dc -e '80[[*]n1-d0/dev/null these are the elapsed real times (in seconds on my slow computer) for various solutions proposed in this thread: X secs/1000 -- - python -c 'print "*"*80'35.488 for x in `seq 80`; do echo -n \*; done; echo10.772 yes '*' | head -n 80 | tr -d '\n'; echo 9.051 for ((i=0;i<80;i++)); do echo -n '*'; done ; echo9.773 perl -e 'print "*"x80 ."\n"' 6.727 head -c80 /dev/zero | tr '\000' '*'; echo5.787 dc -e '80[[*]n1-d0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wireless pcmcia card (g)
Any recommendations for a 802.11g wireless pcmcia card that is supported by linux/debian? I've done a lot of googling and reading, and while 802.11b seems well supported, 11g seems less supported. So any recommendations for setups that work in debian unstable for a laptop would be appreciated. Thanks Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New user help...
I feel like RedHat has sold out on me as a paying customer, so I'm looking at Debian. I've run into a few problems, though... First, the framebuffer console looks hideous on my laptop. I searched the list archives, but the only solutions I found were using the kernel parameter 'vga=normal' (no effect) or recompiling the kernel (something I prefer to avoid). Second, I tried 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-586'. I got the new kernel installed and running (which nicely took care of the above problem), but it didn't come with pcmcia modules so now I have no network. Are those in another package? Third, to see if apt-get is as easy as everyone says, I did 'apt-get install xfce'. It downloaded all the dependencies, or so it says... but when I run startxfce, it bombs because it can't find 'xinit'. What am I missing? Thanks for helping out a newbie. Krum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dvd ripping tools
I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's where I truly own the rights. The 30 sec clips will be used on our website where we advertise the DVD's for sale (bicycling workouts - spinervals.com for those interested). Could someone please suggest: 1. a tool for ripping the DVD 2. a tool for browsing and then editing the ripped portions into 30 sec clips Many thanks Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd ripping tools
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:40:11PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote.. > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:23, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's where I > > truly own the rights. The 30 sec clips will be used on our website > > where we advertise the DVD's for sale (bicycling workouts - > > spinervals.com for those interested). > > > > Could someone please suggest: > > > > 1. a tool for ripping the DVD > > mencoder (part of mplayer. Under debian has its own package) is quite > good. iirc the package is in the merilat.fr repository: Thanks for that suggestion. I'll give mencoder a try. In the meantime, I've tried the following: Ripping the DVD using video-dvdrip. This worked well and left me with a nice .avi file. Such file played great in Xine on my Linux box. So then I copied it over to a Windows box for testing, and it didn't play. It could be the Windows box not having the right players, so I'll test further on a different box. But just in case, I'd like to ask what is the best codec to use when coverting from dvd to avi? Or should I be targeting a mpg file? Ultimately I need to take the finished 30 sec clips I'm making and put them on our website, so I need a recipe so that most users can view. > > 2. a tool for browsing and then editing the ripped portions into 30 > > sec clips > > I think avidemux does this but I am not sure. I've also apt-get installed avidemux. Given a vob, it too does the conversion and gives me an avi. Plays fine on Linux, not so well on other non Linux boxes. Again, probably my choice of codecs and other options. There seems to be no shortage of choices to be made when doing this stuff. avidemux as an editor looks o.k., although I'm not really at that point yet. Again, thanks. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(newbie) Still no network...
I've installed 3.0r1 a few times now on my laptop, and I'm still running into problems. I used apt-get to install a newer kernel-image and matching kernel-pcmcia-modules. It boots, but pcmcia won't load and I have no network. Assuming I start with a fresh install, what commands should I run to upgrade the kernel without screwing everything up? (My reason for wanting to upgrade the kernel is the hideous framebuffer console that can't be turned off in the stock kernel...) BTW, is there a program analogous to RedHat's chkconfig? Thanks, Krum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd ripping tools
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:34:13AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote.. > Don't remember what the exact codecs are. Prety much the standard for > dvds now is divx (mpeg4 variant). Linux plays it out of the box, but > windows media player needs an external plugin (www.divx.com). The > player plugin is free. Decoders are available as addware or payware > iirc. I've now played around quite a bit with mencoder, avidemux, acidrip and dvdrip and have managed to rip some good quality avi files from my DVD. The one hurdle, however, that I can't get by (but need to) is to get these avi's encoded into a format so that the average brain dead web viewer can simply click the video from his MSIE screen and see it play. > I think there are avi variants that media player can plays out of the > box but I don't know whole the details. I guess this is precisely the point. I need these 30-sec clips to play out of the box (on Windoze) just like the trailers you see at moviefone.com or any of the other movie sites. Anyone able to point me in the right direction? Thanks. Making progress. Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro
Hi All, Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro? If so, can you give me step-by-step instructions, or point me in the right direction, on how to do this? Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting time from timeserver on a dial-up
Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system clock based on the time from one of the many timeservers on the internet. What package do I need to do this? How do I make it autorun once pppd has got the ppp connection up and running (I use the pon script) Thanks for your help, Kevin -- Please don't read any further if you're offended by mailservers adding legalese to the bottom of eMails.. ;-) The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on +44 (0)1980 612100. Please also destroy or delete the message from your computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
