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RE: [Alug] Mindterm/ SSH
by Jonathan Dye 24 May '02

24 May '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ricardo Campos [mailto:corez23@linuxmail.org] > Sent: 24 May 2002 10:44 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: [Alug] Mindterm/ SSH > > OK. I need to give SSH access to my machine to about > 10/20 people. They mostly use windows, some use Mac, and some > sensible ones use GNU/Linux. Most are not > "technically disposed". > > My basic idea is to use Java for them to do this- > there is no xserver on this machine btw. MindTerm > springs to mind... however the source code is no > longer available. [...] Doesn't webmin have a java ssh applet? Maybe it would be worth looking at that as I assume the code for that is GPL along with the rest of webmin. JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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mmap() question
by Paul 23 May '02

23 May '02

Hi Folks playing around with a PCI IO card that has four seperate blocks of registers on board. One block is mapped to IO space and can be read without any trouble. The remaining blocks are all mapped to memory with the mmap kernel call. Now for the problem - If I try to read from a nonexistant register, the computer locks up completely. Although I have some data on the card, there is holes in the register map for optional plug in modules. Trouble is, I do not know where all these holes are... Question - Is there a nonblocking call that I can use to read from the PCI card without locking up the system ? Regards, Paul.

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[craigo@wizball.co.uk: Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes]
by Craig 23 May '02

23 May '02

(Forgot to stick this on ALUG.. fingers went off and emailed Ricardo instead!) On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:00:22PM +0000, Ricardo Campos said: > Thanks for the help guys, I've been given enough info to > really have a good go at it. I'll keep you posted! > > As an aside, obviously this dist-upgrade thing isn't > very reliable. Is there any way I can gather info and > send it on to the deb developers so they might be able > to sort it out? Please do keep us posted. Btw, this what I normally do on most machines $ apt-get update $ apt-get upgrade then $ apt-get dist-upgrade Works for me 100% all the time for some weird reasons. I must been doing something right... (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes
by Ricardo Campos 23 May '02

23 May '02

People on ALUG wrote: >Lots of handy hints! ;) Thanks for the help guys, I've been given enough info to really have a good go at it. I'll keep you posted! As an aside, obviously this dist-upgrade thing isn't very reliable. Is there any way I can gather info and send it on to the deb developers so they might be able to sort it out? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Printing
by John Seago 23 May '02

23 May '02

Please ignore my request for help, I have recompiled my kernel, deleted the existing /etc/printcap and re-run apsfilter setup, and somehow managed to get everything working. Now all I have to do is work out what went wrong the first time! -- John Seago

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debian upgrade woes
by Ricardo Campos 23 May '02

23 May '02

Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one.... I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade. 1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!) 2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0 . the xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more ! XF86Config brings no joy- it appears to produce a 3.3.6 style config, and XF86Setup segfaults immediately. I'm new to the debian packaging system, so erm... help???? My first choice is to fix the console's keymap. Then I probably want to uninstall X completely and grab Xfree86 3.3.6 of my install CD's again, and then resolving the conflicts this will cause is another question entirely.... *eep* Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] debian upgrade woes]
by Craig 23 May '02

23 May '02

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:40:29PM +0000, Ricardo Campos said: > Oh, it's hard to say where to start on this one.... That's okay.. have a cup of tea. I'm sitting here, dogtired :( > I upgraded from Debian 2.2r3 to testing (woody) and am having the following > problems since my apt-get dist-upgrade. Uh oh. > 1st off, it's screwed my keymap, so I cannot seem to find a combination to > produce the pipe symobol | (very annoying!) I can't remember how to do this one, I remember fixing this ages ago when I installed debian on this new machine last year. > 2nd, it (rather predictably) screwed my X configuration. It seems that X4.1.0 > no longer supports the S3 server. (mine's a S3 trio 64+ to be exact). However, > dpkg -l shows that I have two xserver-common packages, one 3.3.6, one 4.1.0. > The xserver-s3 package is still version 3.3.6, as is xserver -vga. There may > be others, since I cannot dpkg -l | more ! Install either xserver-s3, xserver-s3v or xserver-svga instead. I remember I had that problems on the laptop a while ago. See if that helps. > XF86Config brings no joy- it appears to produce a 3.3.6 style config, and > XF86Setup segfaults immediately. Try running xf86cfg instead in console. I'm sure this should help out.... > I'm new to the debian packaging system, so erm... help???? When you installed Debian first time. You are set to 'stable' version of Debian. Unfortunatly, stable softwares are way behind the latest. So the path goes like this: Stable > Testing > Unstable As you know already you switched to Testing ;) To update to the latest packages, do: $ apt-get update then $ apt-get upgrade (most people do apt-get dist-upgrade, it is sometimes well known to screw up big time..) > My first choice is to fix the console's keymap. Then I probably want to > uninstall X completely and grab Xfree86 3.3.6 of my install CD's again, and > then resolving the conflicts this will cause is another question entirely.... Try my suggestion above. HTH -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Printing
by John Seago 22 May '02

22 May '02

I made an attempt to transfer my archive to a larger partition, somewhere in the process of which partition was which, I managed to reformat the wrong partition and lost all my data, (luckily my address book was in the process of being sent back to me by Email). Having through incompetance messed things up, I reinstalled tidying up my partitions at the same time. Having got everything back to normal I went through the same process of setting up Apsfilter that I used succesfully last time, but on trying to produce a test page, or print from it I get `deamon not present' . I need to restart the process but despite searching with Google, and reading the manual I can't find a way to do this that I understand, Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- John Seago

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Re: crappy ide for /boot and swap
by tom potts 21 May '02

21 May '02

'by putting in a crappy old IDE disk that contained /boot and the swap partition, and used the raid for everything else. It's been running 3 weeks without problems (well no ones asked me to mend it!)' --------------- you may find that using a crappy old IDE may slow the system down considerably if it starts paging a lot. You might find it interesting to make a swap partition on your big disk and then try doing something that swaps a lot to test which swap is faster - worth an afternoons playing as it can make a hell of a difference! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Re: [Alug] ALUG website
by Ricardo Campos 21 May '02

21 May '02

> But feel free to look? > > http://www.wizball.co.uk/linux_article.php?id=17 I've linked to it on the ALUG site. ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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