Re: Nuevo modem

1998-04-26 Thread Boriel
Hola! J. Parera wrote: Actualmente tengo un modem Mwave (no sirve para Linux) y estoy pensando en comprarme otro, agradecería que me recomendasen un buen modem, que sea externo. (o al contrario, una lista de los que no sirven) Cualquiera interno o externo (yo tengo un supra externo) sirve,

Re: Nuevo modem

1998-04-26 Thread Raul Hernandez
Actualmente tengo un modem Mwave (no sirve para Linux) y estoy pensando en comprarme otro, agradecería que me recomendasen un buen modem, que sea externo. (o al contrario, una lista de los que no sirven) Te puedo asegurar que no sea un Zoltrix win HSP modem 33600 Me la metieron

Problemas pasando a Libc6

1998-04-26 Thread M. Pascual
Hola, si vuelvo a ser yo: Y ya, por ultimo, para compilar un paquete con Libc5, como le digo que los ficheros que busca estan en otro sitio. (He instalado los ficheros libc5_5.4.38-1.deb + -altdev y -altdbg) Me explico: error -- In file included from

Problemas libc5---libc6

1998-04-26 Thread M. Pascual
Hola otra vez: Siguiendo con los problemillas de libc5--libc6. Instale el paquete libforms0.88_0.88.1-1.deb + el -dev y el -bin y ahora al ejecutar el programa News-peruser me dice can't load library 'libforms.so.0.88' y si que la tengo en /usr/X11R6/lib y, obviamente, la ruta esta en el fichero

Problemas libc5 --libc6

1998-04-26 Thread M. Pascual
Hola a todos: Pues que resulta que haciendo el cambio de la libc5 a la libc6, me han surgido una serie de problemillas. He realizado el cambio con el script autoup.sh y he seguido al pie de la letras las intrucciones cambiando todos los ficheros que solicita; el sistema funciona excepto algunos

Re: Samba

1998-04-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Does the latest version of Samba support user list requests? I was unable : to find any information on it. If it does, where can I find information : on configuring it? Uhhmmm, I don't think so but I'm not sure. : If not, is it something in which the

Re: Mutt libc6

1998-04-26 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:12:39PM +1000, Chris wrote: [...] With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a look a mutt and see what people where on about. However, I am currently running a bo system (waiting for hamm to go stable) and I can't find a package for

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
i think i found the problem,if i do a cat /etc/init.d/xdm,there's nothing who's writen on screen but if i do a cat /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist,then i have this output (it will be shown after my message),does it's possible that dpkg failed to update the /etc/init.d/xdm ??? Alain

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
it work !! i copied the xdm.dpkg-dist file over xdm and now,i boot with X enabled !! Alain p.s.something to check next time that a user run into this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i need root

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. Ben does there is a a

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
does there is a a reference for this package (say a web page,manual,etc...)it's because i'm a bit nervous to try an unknown (by me) package and removing any root access (which i can do anyway using the /etc/login.access,take a look at man 5 login.access for information on that

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. Ben this is a no go,i

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
this is a no go,i dont want to install this package because i dont want to give root access to my brother: Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
But you don't have to give root access to your brother. Sudo lets you set up access by username, in the /etc/sudoers file. i.e., on my system: # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL blp ALL=(ALL) ALL So no one but root, blp can take advantage of sudo,

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Chris
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD and then locking the bios already done. - but if he's smart enough that you have to worry about the root password, he's going to know how to reset the bios. i dont think he'll be able to do that because he dont know

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Carl Mummert
Chris wrote: You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.

Re: Mutt libc6

1998-04-26 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:19:02PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:12:39PM +1000, Chris wrote: [...] With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a look a mutt and see what people where on about. [...] Mutt users mailing list: ( subscribe

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.

RE: 440LX Support

1998-04-26 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: My new computer has the 440LX chipset, and it seems that there are alot of pci devices that are unknown to Debian 1.3.1 and 1.3.1.r6 I can begin to load linux by booting the CD, and everything works fine, even the

Re: ISDN modem problems (SOLVED)

1998-04-26 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I have now my Zyxel Omni.net plus ISDN modem up and running. The crucial informaton seemed to have comed from the Serial-programing HOWTO and involves IRQ priorities. Enabling `irqtune' in /etc/rc.boot/hwtools seems to have done the trick.

RE: Hamm installation problems

1998-04-26 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 To follow up on my previous message I have found the solution to the first problem. The message Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 was in fact caused by a memory detection problem. I

Debian 1.3.1 vs. Debian 1.3.1 R6

1998-04-26 Thread Michael Balcos
Hi! I'd just like to know if the 1.3.1 R6 release of Debian has all the Debian packages. Should I buy the 1.3.1 release before buying the 1.3.1 R6 release? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
I was moving a file and intended to type mv thefile.tar.gz ~/so that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed mv thefile.tar.gz /~ . Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I tried to mv ~ normalfilename and this does create a normal file, but the

Re: Software for ISDN

1998-04-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Carvalho wrote: Now that I had installed, finally, my ISDN card (PCBIT) on Linux I want to make a connection to my ISP but I don't know what program to use! You need the isdnutils package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Shaleh
Most of these silly character files (and we have ALL done it) can be dealt w/ using ./. This causes it to not be looked at. so rm ./~ says look in . and remove the file ~. No expansion performed. I used this technique to test this e-mail. Try `touch ./~`, then `rm ./~`. Works like a champ.

Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-26 Thread Tristan Day
About 3 weeks ago I managed to get dual booting WinNT4 and Debian 1.3.1 (I doubt it's R6) but faced the following problems, so I think they may be of use to you seeing as I used the same mini-HOWTO. I don't think that the HOWTO made clear that you have to run lilo (by simply typing in 'lilo')

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: mv thefile.tar.gz /~ . Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I tried to mv ~ normalfilename and this does create a normal file, but the ~ file still exists. If I try to rm ~ the system thinks I want to delete my home directory.

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Chris
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: mv thefile.tar.gz /~ . Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I tried to mv ~ normalfilename and this does create a normal file, but the ~ file still exists. If I try to rm ~ the

i made my second mess with dselect

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
while installing stuff (in X) i pressed on the home key in dselect,i pressed the home key several time to get back to the upper section of the menu but my keyboard was not fully set so i got this as result: *== Req base adduser 3.6 3.6 Add users and groups to t *== Req

i'm not able to run mosaic

1998-04-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this error,does anyone know what it mean ?? ~$ Mosaic Couldn't open display: (NULL) Error: Can't open display: thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: i'm not able to run mosaic

1998-04-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: : i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this : error,does anyone know what it mean ?? : : ~$ Mosaic : Couldn't open display: (NULL) : Error: Can't open display: : : thanks a lot. : Alain Your DISPLAY variable isn't

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-26 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello to the list I must stand by the Pine package maintainer on this issue. The maintainer should not be expected to put himself in a bad legal position for anyone just so they can have a convenient installation package. Not being a package maintainer, I have not read the Policy manual

Re: Debian 1.3.1 vs. Debian 1.3.1 R6

1998-04-26 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Michael Balcos wrote: Hi! I'd just like to know if the 1.3.1 R6 release of Debian has all the Debian packages. Yes [*]. Should I buy the 1.3.1 release before buying the 1.3.1 R6 release? No need. [*] There were some packages (zip

Re: i'm not able to run mosaic

1998-04-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alain Toussaint wrote: i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this error,does anyone know what it mean ?? ~$ Mosaic Couldn't open display: (NULL) Error: Can't open display: mosaic runs under X and your DISPLAY environment variable (which tells X which X

MCA Debian questions

1998-04-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it involves a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best place to go. It's a good one, anyway. I have just tested a debian boot disk off the MCA linux web site. It works on this machine---an IBM MOdel 65SX donated to

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: I was moving a file and intended to type mv thefile.tar.gz ~/so that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed mv thefile.tar.gz /~ . Now I have a 800k file named ~ on

Re: xisp

1998-04-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to install both xisp from the stable and the unstable tree. Both seem to have dependency problems which I was unable to solve. Could anyone suggests how to het (any one) xisp up and running? Use xisp and xforms from

infocom botched installation

1998-04-26 Thread Randy Edwards
I tried to install a couple of the infocom-type games from hamm without luck. The packages in question are xzip, gsn-jigsaw, and weather. Dpkg gives me error messages that there is no old pre-removal script and that the new package (there's been an update since I first installed them)

Connecting with KISDN

1998-04-26 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm trying to connect to my ISP with my ISDN card - PCBIT. I'm using KISDN and I still couldn't connect correctly. My /var/log/messages is saying the following: -- Apr 26 16:06:06 paradise syslog: Found 1 devices: /dev/ippp1, Apr 26 16:06:09

find says it cannot find some directories

1998-04-26 Thread James G. MacKinnon
This is a followup to my note of the other day, the essence of which was: My Debian 1.3 box has been running with no major problems for many months. Suddenly, a few days ago, the cron job that runs find every morning starting sending root a report saying that many directories did not

Re: Hamm installation problems

1998-04-26 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francois Gouget writ es: Hi, For the partitionning now. I still only see two partitions. So, to tell you more about my disk, it' a Quantum SCSI VIKING II 9.1WLS. According to Linux fdisk the geometry is C=1110 H=255 S=63 so I get a warning that it

an exim expert, please

1998-04-26 Thread Marco Frattola
Hi all, I'm trying to switch from sendmail to exim, and I'm facing some problems. I have a small net and a dialup connection to internet. Since only some accounts on one machine are enabled to internet mail usage, I'd like to rewrite headers to supply correct reply-to and From field (and maybe

Re: Connecting with KISDN

1998-04-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My /var/log/messages is saying the following: -- Apr 26 16:06:06 paradise syslog: Found 1 devices: /dev/ippp1, Apr 26 16:06:09 paradise kernel: ippp1: dialing 0 0800200558... Apr 26 16:06:13 paradise

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not try to expand anything directly after a backslash. This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things that even

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Chris
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not try to expand anything directly after a backslash. This is the best thing to

Re: LaTeX installation

1998-04-26 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Luka Pravica [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the installation error-file (from dpkg) obviosly some files are missing, like texmf.cnf, language.dat... I tried searching for those files but they are not on my hard drive. Perhaps all those files get installed with some other package, but

Re: How to send files over uucp

1998-04-26 Thread Rick Younie
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I am currently fetching mail over an established uucp link. It works great! I would like to send file over this link as well. Afer reading the uucp man page it appeared simple but something is not right. uucp local_file

Network setup: local network with two external addresses

1998-04-26 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
This is probably a FAQ: I have two machines with a NIC in each, cabled together with thin Ethernet cable. 1. Machine one [alpha] is currently configured as galactic.demon.co.uk with a static IP of 158.158.63.??? [numbers changed to protect the innocent!] NIC is currently more or less

Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB. I've heard about this before, but only w/ 128MB

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB. First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK.

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
Oh! Sorry! My mistake. I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that again. Which as I understand would be okay for a 16MB system, since the kernel takes about 1MB, but implies that about 16MB is not being found since it is a 32MB system. On 26-Apr-98 Ben Pfaff

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I read somewhere that the reported memory doesn't include the memory used by the kernel and loaded modules. I forgot where I read this, may have been some other list. -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Memory problem...re-read!

1998-04-26 Thread tony mollica
I should read these listings a little more carefully. Obviously, the kernel shouldn't take up 17 megabytes. (Can you build a kernel that big?) re-reading before posting, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Box keeps crashing

1998-04-26 Thread Chi Wong
I have Debian 1.3 running smoothely with the 2.0.33 kernl patched for several months. Now I keep coming across this wierd lines in my syslog entries. i want to know what the below entires from my syslog means. It looks like someone is excuting the pentium bug on my system I just wanted to double

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh! Sorry! My mistake. I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that again. when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB.

MCA Debian questions

1998-04-26 Thread Harter
This message was originally addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a carbon copy was sent to you. - This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it - involves a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-26 Thread Bob the Geek
Bob Hilliard wrote: Hi, Does it list 'Lotus', 'Lotus123', '123', 'WK?', or anything else that appear to be a Lotus file type? Lotus 123 1.0 for dos Lotus 123 1.0 for windows and Lotus, as well as most any other major file system is supported. The puppie has balls. -- To

PPP again

1998-04-26 Thread Edward Bell
I am a new user of Debian 1.3 . I don,t want to sound like a whiner, but what info do I need to get ppp running . I have read the how-tos and I am still having a problem. Specifically I am dialing my ISP with minicom and can start the server, I close down minicom without killing the connection. I

looking for a filter plug-in for NE 3.04mail

1998-04-26 Thread Merlin
Hello :)) I'm such anoyed with all the mail i received (not for the mail by themselves but for their quantity.. I would like to know if someone have heard about a hypothetic filter plug-in for NE..it is maybe just a dream :) (just like life (?):)) Well so ... bye :) -- Pierre Dupuis ([EMAIL

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
Hm. Well. I have no idea what options the default kernel that comes with the hamm install disks built with? Does anyone know where this is documented? But in any case, the default hamm kernel found my 64MB just fine. So I doubt this is the problem. Thanks, Timothy Hospedales

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:44:55PM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not try to expand anything directly after a backslash. This is

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:40:01PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 11:44:55PM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cat /dev/null -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm -i rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. [...] It took me some time to deal with it. There is a trick. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader. Hint: It is possible with rm. ;) rm -- -i

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Carl Mummert
int main() { unlink(-i); } This works for any filename which the kernel can recognize (that is, any filename except one with a '/' in it. If you have one of THOSE, good luck. Carl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sun's not eternal That's why there's the

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread hospedales
I would like to make my Debian box use shadow passwords since it is allways on the 'Net. Firstly, how do I turn on shadow passwords in debian? Secondly, will this affect my pppd, proftpd, telnetd, apache or other daemons? Thanks, Timothy Hospedales BTW, I was reading the Shadow-HOWTO and

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Carl Mummert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you think about it, an 8 character password encodes to 4096 * 13 character strings. So a dictionary of say 400,000 common words, names, passwords, and simple variations would easily fit on a 4GB hard drive. The attacker need only sort them, and then check for

qt libraries for Debian.

1998-04-26 Thread Mauro Sanna
Hallo. I am searching for the latest versions of the QT libraries. (version 1.32 and version 1.33). I have found only the .rpm packages. Where can I find the .deb packages? I need the qt libraries for Debian because I want install the KDE window manager. Thank you. _ _ __ | \/ |(_/ _ _ _

Re: How to send files over uucp

1998-04-26 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 09:27:58PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:36:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Bonser writes: You should probably do doing something like: uucp remote_uucp_node!/full/path/to/file /path_to_local/destination No, he should be

Re: UUCP question (important)

1998-04-26 Thread Peter Prohaska
Hi * I just run into the same problem these days. One way to solve the problem is by using uucico -e -p TCP (think TCP is the default name in debian). But thats not a very good thing I think, because you continously have uucico running in the background. As I read in the info doc, using -l, -p

ipx ne2000 not working

1998-04-26 Thread Keith Vance
I am trying to get my Linux box to connect to my Novell server and I am having some trouble. I have all the things that need to loaded, loaded. NCPFS is loaded and ipx support is there. The problems that I am having are as follows: if I type ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 I get a response back