On Sunday, April 2, I installed from scatch on all new hardware.
That installation failed to install
net-tools
The whole installation "seemed" to go well,
and on reboot the desktop interface worked well.
While the installation properly used some networking during installation,
afterwords I cou
The new mozilla-browser, version 0.9.7-6, package, has a "user friendly" print
selector.
As it works with my lprng package, I am left with only a default selection,
so menus offer no alternatives.
And menu clicking within Mozilla offers no way to add another printer choice.
Before, we could enter
at would take me a half day since I am unfamiliar with
the tools to find its source.
Any ideas where "map_ptr" comes from and if/how I might correct it?
Thank you,
Jameson Burt
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:39:11 Jameson Burt wrote:
> I use "rsync" to mirror most of i386 Debian Lin
rsion 2.2.4-7
dpkg version 1.9.18
gzip version 1.3.2-3
Thanks,
Jameson Burt
After running woody for 4 months, I once again upgraded woody,
this time getting the mirror package 2.9-24,
getting perl 5.6.0-20 on which mirror runs,
and getting about 300 other upgraded packages.
Unfortunately, after this upgrade, mirror consumes all memory and swap
space,
filling up my 128MB
gnumeric 0.61-1 (sid) requires libgal2, but
while debian's mirrors pretend to serve
libgal2; eg, thru
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
those links lead to no such package.
Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com
(202) 690-0380 (
On my home computer, I mirror Debian i386 versions,
including potato and woody.
The use of pool packages has hindered my search
for appropriate packages.
Here I give three techniques I once used,
the limitations caused by "pool" packages,
and partial solutions.
Below, of the three techniques, "1" s
I installed Maple version V successfully 2 years ago.
I have had Maple version VI for 2 months.
My initial installation attempt failed,
so I paid for Maple VI but have not gotten it working.
Maple has a licensing managerie which I successfully maneuvered.
After a lapse of two months, I'll be a lit
Three times I entered,
dpkg -i tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb
Each time, the file
/usr/bin/wish8.0
was not installed.
I even purged the package then reinstalled the package.
All other files were installed from tk8.0;
only this file /usr/bin/wish8.0 was not installed.
I finally entered,
dpkg -X tk8.0_
As I upgraded from slink to potato,
I believe an interactive comment mentioned that 2.2.* kernels
(I run kernel 2.2.16) need no explicit loopback.
Because of my selection, the upgrade script produced a file
/etc/network/interfaces
with all lines commented.
In particular, this "interfaces"
I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network
that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98.
This network has (over the same ethernet cables)
computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks
as follows [first 2 digits altered],
10.129.206.0
10.129.207.0
10.129.2
into /etc/init.d .
I could make the links myself, but they have a certain number sequence,
so I had best let the Debian installation create this links.
Does anyone have an idea how to get proper links back into /etc/rc?.d
Thank you,
Jameson Burt
I wish to both interactively type commands to my modem and send files to it via
xmodem or zmodem.
(I do not want to dial some phone number as I communicate with my modem)
I didn't see how to really do this with "cu";
seyon and minicom want to dial phone numbers but not just the modem.
I want to do
My default gnome and enlightenment together open 1070 files according to lsof.
Running two other X servers for my wife and child, my Debian Linux
computer has 2800 open files according to lsof.
I must kill programs to reduce the number of open files, or else
requests like
ls -1 |wc
respond abou
I couldn't initially share my printer when I upgraded from hamm to slink;
in fact, I couldn't even print from my local printer.
To solve my problem, I decided it was a good time to switch from the lpr
package to the more complex/complete/modern lprng package.
I could then print from my local compu
> I was actually going to check the message archive this time, but I'm
> sitting here at a Netscape status bar telling me "Connect: Contacting
> Host www.debian.org..." endlessly.
>
> Anyway, I can't even get my printer to print a simple text file. It is
> a Panasonic KX-P4430. I checked the bas
> I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can
> work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up
> connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look
> ups since it is connecting on port 53. Does anyone know how to stop
> this in NT?
>
I
> The best statistical pagacke is IMHO R.
>
> -Egon
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, William Park wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience,
> > > and I have have several large databases essential f
> Hello.
>
> There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th
> disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo
> says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with "Unable to open /dev/sdf".
> strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives
>
>open("/dev/sdf", O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (De
>
> call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, i
> discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but
> why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language
> over perl? especially since perl can run on almost any pla
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do,
avoiding working with an actual blocksize.
I sent this almost verbatim to another person on December 31, 1998.
Over the years, Exabyte has sold about 1 million tape drives,
so there are many on the market used, including the 8200 whic
>
> On 16-Jan-99 Shao Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Has anyone tried out the Xi graphics video server??
> >
> > Is it really much better that XF86??
> >
>
> Depends on the card, monitor, etc. However it does not interface nicely with
> the Debian X packages. Personally I would suggest
>
> --Message-Boundary-7696
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
> Content-description: Mail message body
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help me how I have to interpret the output of the
> (Matrox) X-server. I start but crashes. but how to interpret all the
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any
> > good documentation to read??
> >
> > Thx.
> >
> > Shao.
> >
>
> I would recommend O'Reilly "Learning the bash Shell".
> (http://www.ora.com) and
> I did a few searches in user's archives and came up with the book
> "Beginning Linux Programming.' I read a review and it said it was for
> people who already have programming experience. I have none. I look
> at files and understand very little. I would like to be able to
> understand the p
> >Oz Dror wrote:
> >Prior to the debian 2.0 installation I used to have a detail boot log
> >on /usr/adm/messages.
> >
> >Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated
> >the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated
>
The following comes from Debian Bug report #31689.
Benno Overeinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: bootlog on debian 2.0 missing in /var/log/messages
> From: Benno Overeinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:01:46 +0100
&g
> > Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it
> > to work with latex's \typein.
> Hi,
>
> This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it
> does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited
> also.But more i
>Oz Dror wrote:
>Prior to the debian 2.0 installation I used to have a detail boot log
>on /usr/adm/messages.
>
>Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated
>the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated
ditto.
After upgrading to 2.0, I now see the nice syslog entries
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do.
The primary line I use is
/sbin/dump 0uBf 250 /dev/nst0 /
Notice the 0 for a whole dump, the B for size 2.5MB (250)
You merely needed to tell it how long your tape is,
otherwise the default is old-fashioned small.
If you
> Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hmm... my Trackman Marble is a PS/2 device:
>
>
> Section "Pointer"
>Protocol"PS/2"
>Device "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
>
> ...and...
>
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=
> type=ps2
> append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""
>
The parameter that can be changed is the "maximum click interval".
This can be changed with
xterm -mc 500
for 500 milliseconds. I believe the default is 250 milliseconds.
This gives me time to make another click if all three clicks haven't been
recognized. My problem probably did not demand a
I would like to lower the minimum time until the next mouse click is
recognized. I have looked a bit in xbase, xterm, and fvwm2 documentation, but
I haven't stumbled onto how to change the minimum time between mouse clicks.
Why? Linux users use the command line a great deal.
They often want to
What you look for is not the executable file xconfig.
When you make a new kernel, you use the program "make".
When you use the program "make", it refers to the file "Makefile"
in the current directory.
If you installed the kernel-source package
hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.34_2
Consider the option power_saver.
This largely turns your monitor off, so you save a few electrons a rest
from their frantic day.
Monitors and I believe video cards produced in the last three years mostly
support the DPMS (Display Power Management System).
Both my NEC C500 and my Nokia 445Xpro suppo
I know a couple people who have installed this card, including myself.
Here is what I did.
1. From http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html, I got the following
for my Matrox G200 video card,
xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm
xsuseconfig-981102.tgz
2. I ran
alien xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rp
I have used a fresh bo upgraded to hamm per instructions in
libc5-to-libc6 for 8 months.
After following those instructions, I felt free to use dpkg,
but avoided use of dselect (even though I have used dselect perhaps
40 times over the last two years).
Now, 8 months later, I decide to use dselect.
> On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Jameson Burt wrote:
>
> > Buslogic is often touted as having the superior scsi adapters.
>
>
> Buslogic is now Mylex, BTW.
>
> I have been using a Buslogic card with an Exabyte tape drive for years,
> you have the configuration wrong s
Buslogic is often touted as having the superior scsi adapters.
This probably has merit and Buslogic certainly works well with
the Linux community.
Without meaning to smear Buslogic, the following might tame excess
exuberance about Buslogic.
At the least, it shows a couple of their limitations.
The
With a Buslogic (Mylex) BT-958 scsi adapter, my Exabyte 8200 8mm
tape drive fails.
With an Adaptec 2940uw, that same 8mm tape drive works well.
I merely switched scsi adapters on the same P2B motherboard
of my computer, using the same kernel and modules.
I want to use the Buslogic adapter with my E
> I think the way to go as a community would to form a regroupment which would
> define standards on how such suite of apps should behave and output, and let
> the programmers do their job. Let's have a central brain which coordinates
> everyone's effort in a single place, to get the most out of ou
While it isn't exactly a tab, you could use
\qquad #big space
\quad#no so big space
\; #thickspace
\: #mediumspace
\, #thinspace
\! #negative thinspace
\hspace{2.3cm} #you probably want to avoid ruler measurements
\hspace{4.7ex} #varies by siz
I avoid the problem of a separate /etc/resolv.conf for each of my ISP's
by never using my ISP's DNS servers.
I found that DNS lookups to my local ISP took as long as lookups to the
the main internet DNS servers A through M, about 4 seconds.
So, I run a local DNS server, and I have but one entry
i
exmh I use. It is an X-based front end to mh.
I have thousands of mail in about 40 folders right now.
I like seeing message titles/date/author above and the messages below.
Perhaps since no one else has mentioned exmh, it might have a flaw.
For example, since it is based on mh, one could alter mh
I see no upgrade notes for slink.
For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in
.../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade
Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the
upgrade distribution. For example, I might install a newer gimp from slink.
Since I wouldn't have upgraded t
I LOOK FOR A COMMAND THAT SETS THE PERMISSIONS OF ONE FILE LIKE THE PERMISSIONS
OF ANOTHER FILE.
This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file
like another file,
touch -r file-template file-target
Of course, one can go through machinations like
cp -p file-te
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years.
Now, none of the rescue disks in
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386
work with my Adaptec 2940UW.
I have tried all four
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440*
and I have tried
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years.
Now, none of the rescue disks in
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386
work with my Adaptec 2940UW.
I have tried all four
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440*
and I have tried
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.
Harald Koenig of XFree86 solved my problem with 3 X-servers under xdm.
Here is his reply, annotated.
> Starting multiple X servers at the same time doesn't work reliably.
> You should try adding some delay (maybe ~5...15 seconds) between starting
> multiple instances.
>
> Unfortunately, xdm can
So I needn't end my xdm session when I get up and my wife uses Linux, I run
three X servers under xdm. For this, I have within /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :0
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 :1
:2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 :2
Usually, on booting, :0 starts, then :1
I confirm possible problems with scsi.
Here's my story
For four months, I noticed no problems with my tape drive or my disk drive.
In the last two weeks, I have updated a few packages in hamm, but not many.
I now have two indicators that just one partition (out of 8+ partitions) on my
disk drive
For four months, I noticed no problems with my tape drive or my disk drive.
In the last two weeks, I have updated a few packages in hamm, but not many.
I now have two indicators that just one partition (out of 8+ partitions) on my
disk drive gets its signals diverted to the tape drive.
1. mke2fs
Over 4 months, I used dump to successfully back-up 5 filesystems in this order
/ /usr /var /home /usr/local
Now, for two weeks, I have gotten no successful backup.
"dump" always goes wild on the /var filesystem.
With the exception of an Atapi CD, all other such hardware is attached to an
Adapte
I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users.
This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously
using Linux.
I believe I could get a dummy terminal working through the serial port,
then display on a second monitor (though I don't know any approach for a
sec
I believe I had a similar problem last year with IRS forms.
I have but 4MB of printer memory.
Perhaps you have too little printer memory for such a large file.
Maybe there is a slick way around low printer memory.
In the end, I selected a few pages at a time for printing.
> I hope the cross-posti
Daniel Martin suggested a magical solution, one his mail prodded me to use.
I now have an X-session for myself on F7,
one X-session for my wife on F8,
one X-session for my child on F9.
WOW
Mail to debian-users on January 4, 1998, by Remco Blaakmeer showed how to do
this in xdm. He suggested a c
I leave my xdm X-windows session running 24 hours a day.
My wife uses Linux for a few minutes each day.
I could give her permissions to run X-windows applications on top of my
X-windows session with
xhost +localhost
but "xauth" is considered more secure and does not receive complaints from
This message addresses several private questions about R from my earlier mail
to the Debian users mail-list.
Of course, the real experts gave us R, knowing answers better than I.
Indeed, I answer these questions from the perspective of a novice.
I include here a little about the R developers, w
I also found the fvwm changes troublesome since I had to spend a few hours
(or was that days) redoing post.hook. I also feel something like
should raise and focus on successive windows. I found the default fvwm
configuration anemic.
I solved this focus and raise problem, but I use rather t
Back in the 1980's, At&T produced S.
Most statistical departments quickly worked with S; eg,
Stanford, Purdue, Carnegie-Mellon.
Numerous statistics departments contributed code to S.
In the early 1990's, Statistical Sciences licensed S from AT&T, producing
S-Plus.
They put on a pretty front end, t
When mounting /usr over a link, we locked our Debian Linux and ended all
network mounts for Linux SunOS and Solaris.
For two years, we have tailored RedHat Linux. We boot up with a minimal /usr.
We then mount a large Linux /usr directory from a Sun's disk drive. We use
this /usr in common on
I can not decipher recommendations for setting time for those with ppp
connections that can get very good time with ntpdate (referencing 3 ntp
servers). In the following, "hardware-clock" refers to the medium grade
clock that runs whether the computer is on or off; "Linux-clock" refers to
th
> Hi guys,
>
> I have expected just a problem,
>
> I want to conect on the internet with my Debian.
>
> I have configured the file /etc/ppp.chatscript, so that i have
> writing my provider's phone number, my login and pass
> But when i lauch ppp i don't know what i shall do.
>
> Please help me
Knews receives articles wonderfully.
However, whenever I try to reply to mail, I get the message
"Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed!"
Of course, there is a domain-name problem of some sort.
My domain-name should be something like "mnsinc.com".
In the mail-user-agents o
Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file /etc/news/server
would determine the NNTP news server for any news-reader. This would ideally
work for knews, netscape, pine, trn, ... . I believe one can configure the
traditional news readers like knews, pine, trn to use the variable
I concur that Best Power's products; eg, the Fortress that I also use, have a
well deserved reputation. While the inexpensive Fortress models may not still
have all the push buttons they did a year ago; when the lights got bright
here, the firemen came to put out an electrical fire next door, n
> > >
> > > Your libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt saves many people from ruinning their
> > > operating systems. A few changes could save a few more people. When a
> > > person
> > > ruins zher operating system by badly adding packages from hamm, zhe
> > > consumes
> > > weeks of time. You might
Mike Fleming has brought together a series of presentations at the Washington
Statistical Society. The theme has been public-domain software, including our
usual friends in statistics and Linux like R (S+ clone), octave (Mathlab
clone), LaTeX. Beyond the packages many of us have heard of, this
>
> I am not very familiar with the Debian distribution, and would like
> suggestions on what to include in the Debian mirror on ftp.tux.org that
> would fit within 2 GB maximum.
>
> The current exclude_patt for mirror is rather ugly and over-micromanaged, I
> suspect it is trying to do too much
The key document for upgrading from stable "bo" to unstable "hamm" is
libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt. I have botched the upgrade from rex to bo, and
the upgrade from bo to hamm. I botched the upgrades because I installed
programs from the unstable version over several months successfully, then on
In README.mirrors, Debian's primary site ftp.debian.org has the remote
directory listed as /debian. Using the standard "mirror" program, I have
always gotten the response
"Cannot get remote directory details (/debian )"
For a year, I just went on to other mirror sites.
The above message
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jameson Burt wrote:
>
> : After upgrading ldso, libc6 and several other packages, several packages
> : failed to work, responding "segmentation violation",
> :xv, xfig, xephem
> : The cause of this was my setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
After upgrading ldso, libc6 and several other packages, several packages
failed to work, responding "segmentation violation",
xv, xfig, xephem
The cause of this was my setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .bashrc.
I had used this setting with no problems for a year under rex and bo.
To correct t
> [snip]
> >
> > The "Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO says to install
> > libreadline2_2.1-4
> > but I only find libreadline2_2.1-2.
> > I never did find this debian package.
>
> Go to http://www.debian.org/packages.html and do a search for
> libreadline2. Then you'll find libreadline2_
I see no wish or tclsh packages.
These are required by the Debian hamm package exmh_2.0zeta-3.deb.
I have had this problem with other packages that required dependent-packages
not at ftp.debian.org.
The following packages were missing for gimp gimp-data-min_0.99.14-1_all.de
b
libmpeg1_1.2.2-
I have been told to display a warning message whenever a person enters a
particular, "secure", directory. Of course, on first thought this is a
lame idea since people can access a directory without using "cd".
And you cannot put out a message into standard output whenever the
directory is acces
I like to display "fortune" or the "dhammapada" in my x-window at login,
so I have in ~/.xsession
xmessage -center "`dp`" &
In fact, I like it so much that I generate a new dhammapada every 10 minutes
on an X-window in the fourth quadrant:
xterm -T dhammapada -geometry +1024+11
My nightly cron job mirrors a debian site.
Here is my cron job, which runs mirror if not already running,
then turns off ppp with poff.
if [ -z `/sbin/pidof -x mirror` ]; then (pon; sleep 120; /bin/mount
/dev/sdb2 /mnt 2>/dev/null; cd /mnt/mirrors; ./run-mirror; poff) ;fi
Sometime
>
> You could have avoided the transfer with a "mirror -T". Whenever I
> see it going haywire (usually because I did something stupid to my
> clock), I stop it and try that first.
Thank you very much.
My computer's clock is off by 30 minutes, though on bootup Linux eventually
accomodates that
I had for 6 months used "mirror" to mirror the Debian distribution through
the site uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu.
On August 30, 1997, MY MIRRORING PROCEEDED TO GET THE WHOLE MIRROR,
REPLACING FORMER IDENTICAL FILES.
I did not change mirror sites, I did not change my mirror.defaults file,
though I did
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