Re: ???RealPlayer installation???
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, rich wrote: > I'm trying to install RealPlayer 5.0 on slink (no .deb package, right?) If you mean Realplayer G2, there's a deb in unstable. Just check out www.debian.org. The package has been renamed to "realplayer" (the older version is still "rvplayer" in stable i guess). -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: netscape 4.6
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > The communicator/netscape v4.6 as well as X 3.3.3.1 and a few other > newer debs for slink can be found at, http://ftp.netgod.net/x, or add > the line below to your sources.list file for apt. This is a Debian > developers site, they are built from the potato sources against a slink > system, so they are safe. > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ I pointed apt to the above uri, but doing "apt-get install navigator-smotif-46" made it complain about the netscape-base-4 package. It seems i have version 5 installed, and it needs version 10. Version 10 is in potato. Trying to install that one, apt complains about glibc 2.1 (figures). Is there a way to avoid my problem? --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: [OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm also looking for the G200 drivers. :> Unfortunately, I no longer have > my G200 machine, but I hope to be getting it again soon. Now to get OpenGL > drivers for my Mach64. ;> I presume that last one was a joke. Or isn't it? -- nico (i have a mach64 based card :)) --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: configure compiler to core dump
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > On some unix machines, when it seg faults, the compiler > will say something segmentation fault(core dumped). Then the > compiler will write a file core in the current dir. I noticed this thread a few days ago. I thought of something then, but presumed it wouldn't concern your problem. As you don't seem to find the solution to your problem, i'll throw it in the open anyway. There's this little catch to core file dumping. If you don't have write access to the directory you're in, core won't be dumped. Seems trivial, could be overlooked :) -- Nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Using more than one ISP
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there any easy way of maintaining access to more than one ISP without > re-writing the config files for smail and ppp? At present I use a spare > computer for this but it's not very convenient. It's been some time that I've used ppp (nifty cable net access over here :P), but afaik you just use different scripts to start up. eg. pon-foo, pon-bar. poff can be recycled i guess. (as long as pon and poff are ppp scripts, when i used ppp they were called ppp-on and ppp-off, but then again that was Slackware). --scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: rpm -i no /bin/sh
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Paul wrote: > I am in the early stages of setting up a Debian system. So far, so good. I > have > now tried to install a few RPM's and failed due to dependancy problems with > /bin > /sh. I thought this means that /bin/sh doesn't exist. I have checked and it > does > as a link to /bin/bash. What else could it mean? You *are* aware of the fact that debian uses .deb files, and not rpm's, right? Ofcourse, you *can* use rpm's, but if there's a .deb available, by all means, use it :) Check out www.debian.org/Packages. Now, if you *have* to use rpm's, take a look at the 'alien' package. It converts a lot of formats to .deb. But you'll still have to be careful, as rpm's were made for Redhat. -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Using more than one ISP
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > This nearly works, but password authentication fails on the alternative > ISP. This may be because one uses CHAP and the other uses PAP; I don't > know. Hm, to be honest, I'm totally clueless about the way Debian handles ppp (I used to use Slackware), but I'll try to help anyway. (Just don't take anything I say here for granted). The way I did in Slackware is, there was /etc/ppp. There were what are called 'chat' scripts (ie. scripts for the 'chat' program). This program handled the authentication process. Now i'm totally unaware if Debian uses this one too, but if it does, try to find these scripts (wild guess: /etc/ppp :D) Now, make different ones for different ISP's, and then refer to them in the ppp-on (or pon) scripts. There, I hope that helps. Maybe 'man chat' will help too, especially for configuring PAP/CHAP differences. -- scratch (totally clueless now) --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: rpm -i no /bin/sh
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Paul wrote: > I have alien installed and would of course hope to convert the RPM's I > require once I am sure I can use Debian for my needs. > > I thought initially while I am trying to get things set up I would > just try installing as RPM's. Debian appears to offer an RPM installer. > I was not surprised at library dependancies etc. but the /bin/sh thing > although probably very simple has completely thrown me. > > Is it more likely to work if I convert them with alien and then try? I'm not sure, but IIRC the rpm package is primarily there for alien in the first place. I see no benefit in using rpm directly, in stead of alien. With alien, you create a debian package, which you can install with dpkg afterwards. That way, if things get broken you can easily "dpkg --purge" it in one step. The problem with rpm could be that, if it breaks, purging the package with rpm could break aswell. As for the /bin/sh dependency, maybe you have the bash package installed, and the rpm looks for a sh dependency. OTOH, I can't imagine how rpm would know where to check for dependencies, as it thinks it's working on a Redhat system. --scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: unknown message
IIRC, this message probably means that you have recently updated to a 2.2 kernel. In this kernel, ifconfig sets it own routes, so there is no more need for a manual 'route add'. Check your init.d scripts, especially '/etc/init.d/network'. OTOH, I could be completely wrong here, and this message seems like the thing i described, but really isn't and you *are* trying to set a wrong route. --Nico On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > As far as I know that is a problem with how your network card > id configured. The route or gateway has not been properly > defined, so that addroute is having problems. > Read the HOWTO about networking about how to configure the > network and test it. > > Hope this helps > > Sebastian Canagaratna > > > > Hi, > > > > during boot process I get the following message > > > > Checking all file systems... > > Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999) > > Mounting local file systems... > > not mounted anything > > SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument > > ^ > > > > What does it mean? > > > > bye Harald > > -- > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [Debian-Slink/2.1 (i686)] > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > :: Nico Galoppo :: Linux - Free power for the masses : :: :. :: :: :: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be :: : http://hq.narfum.org/~scratch :: . .::
Re: How to determine local IP
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
> > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1
>
> nice, now can you do that with a perl one-liner? :)
Something like this?
perl -e 'print (`/sbin/ifconfig` =~ /inet addr:(.*?)\s/);'
--nico ;)
(yeah you'll probably have to change 'inet addr' to 'P-t-P')
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Re: netscape fonts
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Joel Keating wrote: > Ok i changed the lines in font server to use 100 dpi and i start the > xserver with the --dpi 100 switch. I've dloaded the .deb of xfstt and > it is running. I copied all my .ttf fonts from windows to my ttffonts > dir in linux. What is the line i need to add to XF86Config under > debian to get X to start seeing the new ttf fonts? Thanks for your > help? Didi Damian wrote: I believe you have to add a "Fontpath" line to your XF86Config. Take a look at your current one, there'll probably be a line for your font server already. Xfstt sits at port 7101 IIRC. --nico :: Nico Galoppo :: Linux - Free power for the masses : :::. :: :: :: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be :: : http://hq.narfum.org/~scratch :: . .::
Re: crystal sound on dell
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Joel Keating wrote:
> I have a del xps R400 system that has onboard crystal sound system.
> I have not sucessfully installed a driver that works with my sound
> card. Does anyone have any success with the sound system and any
> kernel? Thanks for any help.
I'm using a crystal in my AST system. I've had some problems getting it to
work, but at least kernel 2.2.9 gives me a stable sound system. In the
past I've had problems with DMA timeouts, but 2.2.9 seems to be free
ofthose. You'll probably have to use isapnp to activate the sound system
though, before you load the drivers. So get the kernel sources, configure
them for Crystal sound as a module.
Then, configure isapnp through pnpdump (man isapnp). Run isapnp, then load
the kernel module as follows:
modprobe cs4232 io=0x354 irq=5 dma1=0 dma2=1 (for a pretty standard
setup).
Ofcourse, you'll have put the values you find with pnpdump. All in all,
it's a pretty tough job to get it working, so If you encounter any
specific problems, mail me.
--nico
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Re: crystal sound on dell
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> Off course, you have to compile the kernel with sound support and enter
> the proper parameters (you can take those from the isapnp.conf file).
> Alternatively, install the ALSA drivers at http://www.alsa-project.org/
> (in fact, that's how I have my PC running now).
You do? I have tried them myself, but had a problem with the mixer. I
couldn't unmute the right channels.
--nico
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Re: General questions
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> You could download individual .deb files and install them by hand ("dpkg
> -i package.deb"), or point apt at your friendly potato mirror and then
> use "apt-get install " to install and upgrade the packages you
> want.
To do this, is it necessary to manually switch over sources.list files
every time you want a potato package instead of a slink package?
-- nico
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xterm TERM environment
Hi, I've been asking myself this question: why is it that whenever i use the Xterm Debian package, the debian-xterm TERM environment is exported, in stead of "xterm"? I use a lot of accounts with no "debian-xterm" termcap entry. How can I change this behaviour and/or what is de Debian policy on this subject? Thanks, -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
rxvt: keypad doesn't work
Hi everybody, another newbie question. Upon installing the rxvt package, I noticed that it is very nice at serving my needs. It even does things better than xterm in respect to the del/backspace problem. The problem is, it seems my keypad doesn't work in rxvt. I can use the keypad in other X programs, but in rxvt i just get "beeps". Do I need to change the resources for rxvt? I didn't find a default resources file, so I have nothing to go for. I also checked /usr/doc/rxvt but no luck there. Anyone? -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
X libs not found
Hi, I'm experiencing problems running mxaudio: intra:/etc# ldd /usr/local/bin/mxaudio libXt.so.6 => not found libXmu.so.6 => not found libX11.so.6 => not found libXext.so.6 => not found libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000b000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000e000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40017000) Nevertheless, doing an ldconfig shows these libs as installed. intra:/etc# ldconfig -v ldconfig: version 1.9.10 /usr/X11R6/lib: libXt.so.6 => libXt.so.6.0 libXmu.so.6 => libXmu.so.6.0 libX11.so.6 => libX11.so.6.1 libXext.so.6 => libXext.so.6.3 [others cut out] What am i doing wrong? -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: color with tcsh
Fethi, You can find this in the xterm man pages: -/- -ls This option indicates that the shell that is started in the xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell that it should read the user's .login or .profile). -/- So using "xterm -ls -e /bin/tcsh" should do the trick. -- nico > Any suggestions to make tcsh work, or HOW TO change colors in bash would > greatly be appreciated, thanks.. --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > P.S. `lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc' on the command line works fine, how can I add > that to the .bash_profile? Just adding 'alias lynx="lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc" ' doesn't work? -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Jim wrote: > I am able to get Lynx and Telnet to connect to an (non local) IP address > such as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, > but when I enter in a URL such as http://www.foo.com I get the error > "can't resolve host". If you don't have a file called /etc/resolv.conf, you need to create one. Here's what a typical one looks like: search yourdomain.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 193.190.253.33 nameserver 134.58.126.3 The first line is there to tell the resolver which is your domain, so that you can use "short" names. The second line gives the first nameserver, the local host. You need to have a nameserver running for that. The last two lines give nameservers out on the net. You should contact your ISP to find out these. Anyway, check out "man resolv.conf". -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: router @isdn
Hmm you're cryptic about the problem, but have you tried using another server? eg. BitchX coolhandle irc.webbernet.net Also, are you sure DNS is working? -- nico On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Ronnie Cooley wrote: > Hello I have installed debian2.1 > I get pings back when i ping my router and when i ping my isp from debian. > But when i start BitchX it will do nothing but blink at me. > Any ideas. > the puter that has linux on it is networked to another computer both hooked > to same router > i can get on the net in windows on both machines but not when i am in > debian on the second computer, > Thanks' > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Alan Cox's patches
Nono, just apply patch #6, they're not sequential. Maybe make a copy of your /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.ac though. For safety. Then: cd /usr/src/linux.ac patch -p1 < linuxacpatch That's it! -- nico On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Sean wrote: > Are the ac-kernel patches applied in order? > > For instance, if I wanted to apply patch #6, would I first have to apply > patch 1->5? > > Thanx. > > Sean > --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
printing ansi strings
Hi everybody, I have a small but annoying problem. I want to display ansi strings (escaped sequences) on the console. For example, when I do cat /usr/doc/bitchx/bx.ans This gives a the right colors, but wrong characters. Normally, I would get nice shaded blocks (the ones in your ascii table), but now I get weird foreign language characters. Also, when I start up bitchx, the startup ansi screen is displayed correctly, but when i use a script that does direct ansi strings, the characters deteriorate ;) (I believe this has something to do with bitchx's built-in ansi routines). Should I be searching for problems with character encoding and codepages? If so, which codepages should i use? Thanks! -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
running pine via ssh
hi, i've been trying to run pine on a remote host as following: ssh remotehost pine this is what i get: Executing /usr/bin/ssh1 for ssh1 compatibility. Enter passphrase for RSA key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Can't access terminal or input is not a terminal. Redirection of standard input is not allowed. For example "pine < file" doesn't work. what am i doing wrong? -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
pine
JHM, "ssh -t remotehost pine" works just fine! Thanks, this is what i call user support :) -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
boot record recovery??
Hi people, I've been extremely stupid a few moments ago. I did 'dd if=resc.bin of=/dev/hda' instead of 'of=/dev/fd0'. I accidentally rewrote the first data on my first hard disk!! This is what my partition table on /dev/hda was like: hda1 & hda2. hda1: win95 partition (fat16), bootable, approx. 1.5 gig hda2: linux native, rest of the drive, approx. 1 gig lilo was installed on this drive, 'dd' reported 2880 records written to /dev/hda. I'm desperately searching for a way to recover my data. Does anyone know a dirty way to do this, preferably with as little damage as possible? Maybe anyone has got experience with specific software to deal with this kind of problem? (could eg. Partition Magic do "magic" here?) This was not my linux root disk, so I can still access that (with a bootdisk ofcourse). A DOS partition is more dramatic. --thanks in advance! --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: boot record recovery??
Hi, I already tried to guess the partitions with fdisk, so i don't have the partition table anymore. Anyway, i KNOW what i wrote to it. I did "dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/hda", so it's the debian rescue disk that was written to the beginning of the hda drive. -- nico On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Benoit.Joly wrote: > it's me again... > > go in linux and enter in fdisk... > > send us the output of the partition table (p key) > > benoit > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, scratch wrote: > > > Hi people, > > > > I've been extremely stupid a few moments ago. I did 'dd if=resc.bin > > of=/dev/hda' instead of 'of=/dev/fd0'. I accidentally rewrote the first > > data on my first hard disk!! > > > > This is what my partition table on /dev/hda was like: hda1 & hda2. > > hda1: win95 partition (fat16), bootable, approx. 1.5 gig > > hda2: linux native, rest of the drive, approx. 1 gig > > > > lilo was installed on this drive, 'dd' reported 2880 records written to > > /dev/hda. > > > > I'm desperately searching for a way to recover my data. Does anyone know a > > dirty way to do this, preferably with as little damage as possible? > > Maybe anyone has got experience with specific software to deal with this > > kind of problem? (could eg. Partition Magic do "magic" here?) > > > > This was not my linux root disk, so I can still access that (with a > > bootdisk ofcourse). A DOS partition is more dramatic. > > > > --thanks in advance! > > --nico > > > > --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- > > --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- > > :: :: > > --:: Linux - Free power for the masses ::: > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
[SOLVED] Re: boot record recovery??
The Partition-Rescue HOWTO wasn't very useful to me, but I solved my problem while finding "gpart", a system util that I found on ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems. It tries to guess your partition table from the raw data on your HD, comparing it to conventional disk partition fingerprints. Thanks for everybodies help, Nico On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Benoit.Joly wrote: > hi, maybe you should look at the partition-rescue howto... > > http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue.html > > if you still can access your linux partition, i think your partition > table is ok. > > did you try to reinstall lilo and try to boot dos with it? > maybe by chance you just lost the mbr... (i hope for ya it's the case) > > Benoit > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, scratch wrote: > > > Hi people, > > > > I've been extremely stupid a few moments ago. I did 'dd if=resc.bin > > of=/dev/hda' instead of 'of=/dev/fd0'. I accidentally rewrote the first > > data on my first hard disk!! > > > > This is what my partition table on /dev/hda was like: hda1 & hda2. > > hda1: win95 partition (fat16), bootable, approx. 1.5 gig > > hda2: linux native, rest of the drive, approx. 1 gig > > > > lilo was installed on this drive, 'dd' reported 2880 records written to > > /dev/hda. > > > > I'm desperately searching for a way to recover my data. Does anyone know a > > dirty way to do this, preferably with as little damage as possible? > > Maybe anyone has got experience with specific software to deal with this > > kind of problem? (could eg. Partition Magic do "magic" here?) > > > > This was not my linux root disk, so I can still access that (with a > > bootdisk ofcourse). A DOS partition is more dramatic. --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
[offtopic] Re: boot record recovery??
Hi wolfgang, I'm sorry i forgot, but a better way to filter out your debian-user mail is on grounds of the X-Mailing-List header. Check out the list archives for an explanation. -- nico On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, wolfgang zeikat wrote: > > > hi scratch, > you didnt include > debian-user@lists.debian.org > in the To: or Cc: headers of your mail, > so it was impossible for my email client to sort your > incoming mail into the "debianuser list" folder > > i assume you just put us listers in Bcc: > > i get a lot of mail (incl. the hundreds here) so it > would be nice to have them at least sorted (i guess i > am not the only one? - it happened with a few other > mails for the list too so this mail isnt off topic ;) > > thanx > greetings > wolfgang > > --- scratch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I already tried to guess the partitions with fdisk, > > so i don't have the > > partition table anymore. > > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
tcplogd causing firewall/proxy to crash
Hi, I'm running a small local net, masqueraded behind one linuxbox, extra. Earlier today, it seems I got portscanned (judging from the logs). Tcplogd (afaik part of Wietse Venema's tcp_wrapper), that is installed with Debian by default logged the attempts nicely, but the logs also show this: [--- a lot of scans deleted ---] May 4 10:19:02 extra tcplogd: port 12 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] May 4 10:19:02 extra tcplogd: netstat connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] May 4 10:20:53 extra kernel: May 4 10:21:41 extra kernel: Out of memory for tcplogd. May 4 10:22:42 extra sshd[187]: log: Generating new 768 bit RSA key. May 4 10:24:30 extra /USR/SBIN/CRON[8088]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a) May 4 10:21:21 extra tcplogd: ssh connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] May 4 10:27:35 extra kernel: May 4 10:33:53 extra kernel: Out of memory for tcplogd. After this, my dhcpcd client & my sshd client crashed (doesn't show up in the logs, but I noticed when I came home). Strangefully, the telnetd was still running (luckily). The system is a 486dx50 with 8 megs ram. I know this is not too heavy a system, but with no users & only having to pass on packets, this shouldn't be happening or am I wrong? Maybe anyone has some pointers on how to tune my system? --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
keypad doesn't work in rxvt
Hi, I have troubles using the keypad in rxvt. I used the .deb file to install rxvt, so the setting ought to be the default ones (although i have to admit I installed this Debian slink system while keeping my old /home partition). Delete & Backspace keys work 'normally' though. The odd thing is, when I execute do: intra:~$ reset <--- screen cleared ---> Erase is delete. Kill is control-U (^U). Interrupt is control-C (^C). After this, the keypad DOES work. Anyone with a clue as why this happens & how I can make the keypad work without "reset"? (For the moment I have it in my .profile :)) -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: keypad doesn't work in rxvt
Wow. That is what I call an explanation. Thanks. I've tried to do some more digging up myself, although I don't fully understand everything you say. I've found that the rxvt terminfo entries are supplied by the libncurses-base packages, so maybe a bug report against that should be done. intra:/usr/share/terminfo/r# dpkg -S /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt* ncurses-base: /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt ncurses-term: /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-basic ncurses-base: /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-m ncurses-term: /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-orig intra:/usr/share/terminfo/r# dpkg -S /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt* ncurses-base: /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt ncurses-base: /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-m rxvt & rxvt-m in /usr/share are symlinks to the /etc ones. Now, about the control sequences stuff. Doing infocmp rxvt gives doesn't give me an "is1" entry. intra:~# infocmp rxvt | egrep '33' kf18=\E[32~, kf19=\E[33~, kf2=\E[12~, kf20=\E[34~, The only place with Escape 33 seems to be "kf19". What I'm confused with, is what these sequences are used for, and more importantly *when* they're executed (for example what is executed when I start up rxvt). Maybe it would be a good thing if you could send me that manual :). Am I right when I think that, to solve my problem, I have to edit the rxvt terminfo file? Should I add Escape-33 to a specific control sequence? I'm still confused, although you've cleared up quite some issues over here :) Thanks, -- nico On Wed, 12 May 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > That is odd that the terminal isn't "reset" when rxvt starts up. You can get > the same > behavior (keypad works) with: > > tput reset > > -or- > > echo -ne '\033>' > > "Ah ha!" you say, so this '\033>' sequence is what does it, but what the hell > is > '\033>'? Well, if you look at the Xterm Control Sequences document it sez: > > ESC = Application Keypad (DECPAM) > ESC > Normal Keypad (DECPNM) > > So in fact if you do: > > echo -en '\033=' > > Then your keypad will cease to work again. Cool eh? So why does reset and > 'tput reset' > do this? Weeel, (as the man page for tput will tell you) doing a 'reset' > causes > the rs1, rs2, rs3 and rf terminal control sequences to be written to the > terminal. We > use the infocmp program to print out our terminal settings: > > chilin$ infocmp | egrep '(rs1|rs2|rs3|rf)=' > rs1=\E>\E[1;3;4;5;6l\E[?7h\E[m\E[r\E[2J\E[H, > rs2=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E>, > > So that's the first thing. Now we're on the trail. When the terminal is > 'init'ialized > (as per tput, which must be what happens when rxvt starts up) the terminals > is1, is2, > is3, if and iprog strings are output to the terminal (if present). A look > again at our > infocmp output shows: > > chilin$ infocmp | egrep '(is1|is2|is3|if)=' > ind=^J, is1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l, > is2=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l, > > You can see that is1 does a '\033=' (\E == Escape == \033). Hmm. I guess if > the rxvt > used to work with the keypad before "out of the box" what's happened is that > the > debian-dude in charge of terminfo entries changed the entries and that's why > the > behavior changed. If you'd like the Xterm Control Sequences doc, I think it > comes with > the xbooks package. If you don't want to download the whole (20MB or so) > xbooks > package email me and I'll send it to you. > > Now, what is going to the keyboard when it's in "Application" mode and you > type > ? Well, it's '\033Ot'. Why? I don't know! I can tell you that when > I type > the other left-arrow key I get '\033[D' which infocmp happily tells me is the > kcub1 > (aka kl, or key-left) sequence. Hmmm, curiouser and curiouser. It seems to me > that the > keypad 4 should at least generate the key-left sequence if not the 4, right?! > I have > no idea why it generates '\033Ot' especially since this doesn't seem to be any > sequence infocmp knows about. --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: sshd
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely. And I don't want to > remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5 > minutes when there is no network. :) Why exactly does sshd freeze on > startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something? If I'm right, it's probably generating an RSA key. This is not only done on startup though. OTOH, one would think this would be a background process, and you shouldn't wait for it at bootup. I never noticed such a freeze personally. --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
g2player
Does Real G2 player need glibc2.1 ? I downloaded the binaries from real.com, but it refuses to run on my slink system. intra:~# realplay realplay: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __eh_pc That's really all it does. Anyone? --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
writing Debian CD images
(Sorry I lost the original message to reply to, hope the person who asked this question will read this) For your Debian CD images to write yourself, take a look at: http://cdimages.debian.org You can find the official CD images for Debian there. Beware that it's a huge download though, hope you don't pay on a per megabyte basis :) -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
[solved] g2player (fwd)
Hi, I've solved the lib bugs by installing the stdlibc++-2.8 package. (I only had the stdlibc++-2.9 package installed). Works fine now. If only I knew how to install it properly on my Debian system. The way I did it now, I used Alien to convert the .rpm from real.com to a .deb. Of course this is not how it should be, as, for example, Netscape plugin support isn't there. Anyone has got some pointers on how to enable the plugin support in Netscape? (ie. which plugin *.so files to put where probably). Thanks, Nico. --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses ::: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:47:33 +0200 (CEST) From: scratch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: g2player Does Real G2 player need glibc2.1 ? I downloaded the binaries from real.com, but it refuses to run on my slink system. intra:~# realplay realplay: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __eh_pc That's really all it does. Anyone? --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I way off here? Thanks, -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Creative Labs DXR3 DVD decoder?
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > Does anybody know if this works under linux, or if the specs are > available so I could write a driver? Creative labs? Considering the recent SB Live! driver soap, my first guess about open documentation is a simple 'no'. -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
procmail mailing lists sorting & pine
Hi, I use procmail to sort my mailing lists. eg. this is what my .procmailrc says about the debian-user list: :0: * ^TOdebian-user mail/debian-user This works fine, apart from two annoyances in Pine: 1) When i reply to a message, answering "y" to "reply to all?", there's always a 'recipient list not shown' entry in the CC: field. I have to remove it every time. I guess it comes from the "Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;" field that I see in every Debian-user list message. Is there a way to remove this behaviour? 2) Maybe it would be nice if I could remove all the "Resent-*" lines from debian-user list messages. I've been trying to do that with a pipe in the .procmailrc to formail, at the same time as sorting them with procmail. I've only been able to lose all my incoming mail this way ;) Anyone that give me some pointers? Thanks, -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > /dev/clipboard would require kernel modifications, and is probably not > what you are lookign for. I don't see why it would? > What WOULD be useful would be an X11 app that has the following feature: > > When you run this app from the command line, and send text to its standard > input, the app places that text in the X clipboard. Well, there exists such an app. At least, WindowMaker has it: intra:~$ dpkg -S wxcopy wmaker: /usr/X11R6/bin/wxcopy wmaker: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/wxcopy.1x.gz NAME wxcopy - copy stdin or file into cutbuffer SYNOPSIS wxcopy [options] [filename] DESCRIPTION wxcopy copies stdin or filename into the cutbuffer. If no cutbuffer is specified, the data will be copied into cut buffer 0 and the other cutbuffers will be rotated, if pre sent. If a cutbuffer is specified, the data is copied into that cutbuffer, and no rotation of buffers is per formed. Then, there's wxpaste too. Don't know if it works for non-WindowMaker windowmanagers though. -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Replacement for Netscape
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > I have a 486DX2/66 with 8MB which runs perfectly well. Its doing file and > print sharing, e-mail, and IP gatewaying. The same machine running Windows > 95 basically sucked. For that matter, I even compile stuff on it > sometimes. I have a similar system running IPmasq & ssh, but trying to do more gives me a lot of "out of memory"'s. I even had to disable tcplogd for the moment to keep my 8 megs from running out. Do you have similar problems? -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::------ --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: error executing gnome update for slink 2.1
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Renzo Bagnati wrote: > After installing the GNOME update for debian 2.1 (using apt-get as described > in > http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml) and trying to run the gnome > desktop, I got the following errors in the file .xsession-errors: try pointing your sources.list at the slink staging area and do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade worked as a charm for me. --scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
upgrading to slink 2.1r4
Hi,
what is the correct way to upgrade to slink2.1r4 using apt?
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade??
Doing this only upgrades 12 minor packages on my original 2.1 system.
Please cc: any replies to me, as i'm not on the list.
--nico
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