Re: executable won't execute

Hi, > [readelf output] > > ELF Header: > [...] > INTERP 0x000114 0x08048114 0x08048114 0x00011 0x00011 R 0x1 > [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-lsb.so.3] That dynamic linker doesn't look right. A little googling shows that Redhat and Suse seem to be using that one now. A

Re: lenny, xterm,rxvt, ncurses programs do not act on terminal size change

Hi, > I've noticed some time ago that when I change terminal size(both urxvt,xterm) > ncurses programs running inside do not get this information or do not act on > this information. Is anyone else having the same problem? Is it some problem > with the terminals or is it a problem with ncurses? I

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

Hi, > > is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something else > > that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be installed? > > Not that I can see. You can query the disk geometry, but proc is too > low level to know about what filesystems are on the devices. > /pro

Re: mutt: the + tag

Hi Andrei, > AFAIU mutt will show a + in front of messages that are addressed > directly to me, but considers "me" to be only [EMAIL PROTECTED] so > the only messages with a + are mails from cron. Is there a way to > instruct mutt that my real address is also "me"? man muttrc(5): ] alter

Re: crontab -e

> Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > #crontab -e > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > > How do I change what gets used? > > Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your preferred > shell

Re: autofs and /home/home

Hi, > I can't seem to figure out a *very* simple automount configuration > (I've done this before, but it was over two years ago :-( ). > > After much work (and not enough understanding!), I have succeed in > automounting a remote /home directory on a local client using > 'autofs'. > > Unfortuna

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

Hi, > >>deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates testing contrib > >>deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates testing contrib/ > > > >Your first line points to testing but the third line (security) still > >points to etch. > > > Oh wow, I didn't notice that. Well I removed the etch and

Re: Really stupid mutt question

> > Now deleting 1000 messages, which may or may not contain important > > or confidential data, is to me a less than optimal way to write a > > new message. So I would like to know what is the magic key I need > > to press to compose a *really* new message (i.e. to bypass or get > > rid of the pos

Re: receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN

Hi, > I'm on a VPN set up by a D-link router connected to a cable modem. > The internal IP address of the router is 192.168.0.1, and its dhcpd is > set up to deliver IP addresses between 192.168.0.100 and > 192.168.0.199, with my MAC address bound to 192.168.0.109. The > bizarre thing is that my

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

at - I can't believe that no one else has noticed that in the past... Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

> Am 2006-02-23 14:49:15, schrieb Jan C. Nordholz: > > Then your permission bits on /dev/console and/or /dev/tty0 are not > > as strict: > > > > ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/tty0 /dev/console > > ] crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 2006-02-23 08:17 /dev/console >

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/tty0 /dev/console ] crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 2006-02-23 08:17 /dev/console ] crw--- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-03-29 21:30 /dev/tty0 Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

remaining possibility is to open /dev/console itself - but that has ownership/permission 0:0 0620. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

urn 1; } ] printf("Active terminal: %u\n", V.v_active); ] close(o); ] return 0; ] } Apparently VT_GETSTATE doesn't work when you're under X (returns EINVAL)... but there's an alternate solution: Marc, what about the "vtXX" commandline option to the X server? See man XFree86 or Xorg... HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

a closer look at if you plan to use it directly. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

. I've got no g++-2.95 here to continue the tests. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bash scripts: how to determine directory of 'source'd file

ment (the filename to be sourced) is on the stack. This, in combination with $(pwd), should be sufficient to locate the sourced file. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

, but consider that this might lead to other problems (because then your software has to cope with EIO errors from NFS operations). Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Immortal processes

se they're no real processes anymore, not respond to signals. So summing up, this sounds like a bug in TkRemind... where exactly is TkRemind? Could you name me the package? (I'd go look myself, but packages.d.o is currently down...) Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

oot. Scsi tapes are infamous for doing such things, and NFS is, depending on the mount options used, very good at doing the same. (Btw: 'ps' can show you in which function the process is blocking - that's the WCHAN column.) Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Hi Luis! > > strace -eopen bash -c "echo 'X'" > > Many repeated lines, but, after "uniq": > > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3 > open("/dev/tty", O

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

quot;echo 'X'" for example (calling bash with a command so it doesn't open an interactive session); or, even more interesting perhaps, strace -echdir bash -c "echo 'X'" HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: custom rescue/boot cd? (trouble with intel sata raid ICH6)

, take a look at ISOLINUX, which is part of the SYSLINUX toolkit: ==> http://syslinux.zytor.com The process of creating a bootable CD is explained there, although the explanation given there is not very verbose, IIRC. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Probs with netboot/NFS

ip=192.168.1.18:192.168.1.2:192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0: Yep... the ip= parameter tells the kernel how to configure the network device, but you have to repeat the NFS server IP in the nfsroot= parameter; this ought to work: auto rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/nfsroot ip=... HTH, Jan -- Jan C

Re: apt-get update problems

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 05:20:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > >Hi! > > > >>1) several errors of followig form > >>Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the > >>public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY xx

Re: apt-get update problems

!= sarge, apt complains. Change your sources.list, and blackdown should work again. Regards, Jan [1]: Since version 0.6.x, that is. After having been around in unstable and experimental for quite a while, apt 0.6 finally entered testing these days. -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: compressing tar files / backup scripts

va/projects tar -rvf backup$1.tar .mozilla tar -rvf backup$1.tar bin gzip backup$1.tar This will create backup$1.tar.gz - you could have achieved the same result by doing tar -czvf backup$1.tar.gz java/projects .mozilla bin because tar -z is doing nothing more than piping the resulting archive through gzip. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cannot get Xorg to start

s lacking support for that kind of special device. Did you change your kernel at the same time you migrated from XF86 to Xorg? Do you have a USB or a PS/2 mouse? Did you compile the kernel yourself, or are you using a prepackaged one? Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:38:40AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Price wrote: > > > that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about > > > shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the > > > origi

Re: control of modules?

em, you should post a small excerpt from your bootlog containing the error messages. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

o install new locales? No, they aren't - but I've already replied to myself in this thread with a solution that will work without meddling with your system's locales. ;-) Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi, > > debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character > with an ASCII value > 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read > such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

mode - e.g. xterm has a wrapper script "uxterm" which does just that, provided you have configured at least one UTF locale ('locale -a' shows all configured locales, and 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' will let you re-choose). HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: When kill -9 won't do

returning either data or an error). You should check dmesg or the syslog for corresponding error messages. But to answer your original question: There's no way to force a process to come out of the 'uninterruptible sleep' state - it can recover by itself (when the kernel function ret

Re: customizing xterm

xterm's manpage can tell you about the meanings of the various resources, if they're not self-explanatory. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: annoying iptables messages

ne klogctl() yourself), and add something like this to your /etc/syslog.conf: kern.* /dev/tty8 Note that now the debug messages will have the usual syslog stuff prepended (timestamp, hostname, and "kernel:"), but I can't think of a different solution atm. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: annoying iptables messages

e gone, but dmesg is still clogged with > iptables > junk. You can't change that. I'd suggest you use another source of information: by customizing syslog.conf you should be able to extract every possible subset of logging messages pretty comfortably. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

is to prevent to give the string between "host" and the opening curly brace as the hostname to the DHCP client, but use the value of the "host-name" option instead. I'm glad it works. Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:54:59AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > [...] > The real puzzle to me, is that the only recent change to this file is to add > a > hardware address for the wireless pcmcia card. Before it was always working > > Anyone any ideas as to what is wrong? > > > my /etc/dhc

ACPI battery state doesn't get updated

PI wakeup devices: ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:03.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:03.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 --- I'd be very glad if someone can help me.

Re: Remote X-Desktop

he desktop's local display and the virtual terminal it shall connect to to your needs) Don't know if I got the syntax exactly right, but you can look up the mechanism in the manpages of xadm(1) (especially read through XDMCP ACCESS CONTROL) and Xserver(1) (concerning the commandline

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to > change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. > > locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list > of locale programs including

Re: how does mutt send?

> > Do you get an Exim banner come up? > > Yes, I get > 220 potty.co-ho.net ESMTP Exim 4.34 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:27:09 +> > > > > > When you say "Sending mail normally from command line functions > > correctly", what exactly do you mean? It is possible that the > > command(s) you issue are no

Re: how does mutt send?

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:31:17PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I compose a message in mutt and hit Y, it says "Sending message..." > and waits, apparently not sending anything until I hit Q. SO what does > mutt do at this point? I must have to configure something, but I'm > unclear wha

Re: ssh w/o password?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:20:55AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have a two machine network at home and I want to replace ftp and > telnet with ssh for security reasons. I am under the impression that it > is possible to set things up so that I do not have to login with my > password, but I ha

Re: network options

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:09:22PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I found this in my /etc/network/options > > ip_forward=no > spoofprotect=yes > syncookies=no > > > Can someone explain how this is used for the iptables configurations and > for setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/... options? > > I am also

Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)

reboot Further refinement (warning any users that are still logged on... ;-)) is of course possible. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Number of Loop devices

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:52:24PM -0500, david wrote: > I would like to know how to mount more than 8 loop devices (if this is > permited by the kernel). Hi david, you can pass the max_loop= option to the loop device driver; if you're loading it as a module, pass it as a parameter to insmod - i

weird ppp problem

r the lo interface) seems to hang... Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

> Hi! > I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access > from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod > it to "754" so user could access it but it doesn't change > the permision on it. Simply chmod'ing the permissions of the mount point won't help. Use mount with the uid,

Re: Problem with apt

there out of the way and do the dpkg-reconfigure. If you want to save your cache, you'll have to take a closer look at what exactly is wrong with it - if you don't care, you can just delete those files. I had the same problem a couple of months ago, and mine was unrecoverable, i.e.

Re: command for disk free ?

> Hello, > > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. man df Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Disappearing cursor in opera

ions in Enlightenment and this only occurs with opera, I'm pretty confused. Can someone explain this spontaneous focus loss to me? TIA, Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Options for mkisofs

> I use the following commandline to make my .iso images: > > mkisofs -A Some\ title -JR /burndirectory /tmp/some_img.iso Try mkisofs -V label. HTH, Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

didn't know that the kernel headers are also included in the source package, I always installed both when migrating to a new version (and rebuilding the kernel). Hmm, ok, seems I've got to browse the HowTos once again... thanks for your patience! Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

I've done that for years... but there seem to be no matching packages in unstable that allow for - compiling one's own kernel manually and - compiling additional modules matching the kernel version, for which I'd need the correct header package Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

still have the old kernel-headers-2.4.20 > package around; just use that. Hope my apt cache hasn't been cleaned automatically already... Is there any way to obtain the latest debian kernel sources that are compatible with the -3 headers? Thank you! Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature