Diald

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
diald.telia Description: My diald.options file Chuma Agbodike writes: Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. So I can find out what is wrong with my setup or non-setup ? I think that's where the problem lies because when I disable diald and use pon

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-27 Thread Richard Ayres
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote: What a nightmare! Things in /opt should be installed in /opt/bin, /opt/lib, /opt/man, ecc. using symlinks and/or wrappers. Well done upstream packages which use /opt should carry an utility to install symlinks and wrappers in /opt/* or

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: Been there, done that. Like I said.. this is an advanced problem. I've done some more experimenting today and so I have some more things to add should anyone still be watching this thread. Did you try: 1) to rip off

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: And this may allow me to deal with the hyphons at the end of the lines. I can do one pass through sed replacing new lines with \n, and then make another pass editing out all the '-\n'. I am still left with the problem of converting all the other '\n'

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
George Bonser wrote: Ok, try this. do a make menuconfig and unselect all network drivers except the EL3. (3c509) and make that one hardcoded (not a module) . Install that kernel. Remove all but the minimum number of boards on the motherboard needed to boot the system and display boot

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Udjat the BitMeister... writes: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. There appears to be a problem with cfdisk... when it writes the partition information, it isn't 'sufficiently' done. Like, if I set a partition

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
A. M. Varon wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: I'm a step ahead (I am really QUICK aren't I?). I reconfigured my BIOS thinking that perhaps something in there was responsible for this problem. Yes, you are QUICK! :) I have exhausted all possibilities and I am more

Adaptec AHA-2940

1997-11-27 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I know Linux supports the 2940, but while re-compiling the kernel I don't see anything with '2940'. Are there any web pages or mailing lists with help/support for th Adaptec AHA-2940 ?? Thanks Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
Well, it's time to sum up the efforts of all you good folks out there who tried to relieve my ignorance. I want to thank you all for the information (even Aaron was helpful) you imparted and the spirit of helpfulness for what was clearly an off topic post. First cntrl-v is a very nice new trick

Re: [SOLVED] Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: Bingo! I had added a custom keymap. Added the appropriate lines to boot.dpkg-new, mv'ed it to boot, rebooted, and Voila! Thanks much. FYI, normaly you only have to change /etc/kbd/default.map. No

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: Before people start flooding this thread with nifty perl one-liners, I would really like to see how this is done with sed. oops. too late. no script-language-religious-war intended, though. i use perl and sed and think they're both great. i'd also like

Linux -- SunOS connection terminal problem

1997-11-27 Thread Janos A Csirik
Hello, I use Debian Linux on my home computer, and frequently need to log in to some university machines which are running SunOS (4.1.3 and 5.5). However these machines do not know about the terminal type 'linux', so I have to use vt100, which results in screwing up my console (which I can fix by

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1997-11-27 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I know Linux supports the 2940, but while re-compiling the kernel I don't see anything with '2940'. Are there any web pages or mailing lists with help/support for th Adaptec AHA-2940 ?? Thanks Matthew Hi. What kernel are you trying to compile? If 2.0.29 - then while make menuconfig

Re: Linux -- SunOS connection terminal problem

1997-11-27 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Janos A Csirik wrote: I use Debian Linux on my home computer, and frequently need to log in to some university machines which are running SunOS (4.1.3 and 5.5). However these machines do not know about the terminal type 'linux', so I have to use vt100, which results in

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1997-11-27 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Yup, found it ! I'm using 2.0.32 I re-compilied the kernel, added support and everything seems to work just fine. I still have to add my external scsi drives at a later time I think the following Warning message is related to that.. ? Thanks again for the help! kernel: aic7xxx: Adaptec

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Donald Becker wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: You didn't include the 'dmesg' output in the attachments. What value is being detected? My fault, I forgot to attach it. I will send you several dmesg outputs in my next message so that you have some sort of

3c509.c Driver modification for over-clocked AMD 5x86 133 detection.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Sorry gang I forgot to attach the driver source to my last message, so here it is. /* 3c509.c: A 3c509 EtherLink3 ethernet driver for linux. */ /* Written 1993-1997 by Donald Becker. Copyright 1994-1997 by Donald Becker. Copyright 1993 United States Government as

ps2 mouse driver

1997-11-27 Thread Kin-Koi Lo
Hi, I have a PS/2 compatable mouse connected to serial port. When I use the XF86Setup to configure the mouse, I didn't get any respone. So I use the modconf to install the mouse driver. But I get the following message : initmod: device or resource busy. Then I decide to the use the gpm to

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-27 Thread George Bonser
I ran into a problem at the balug installfest in San Francisco this past weekend with a debian system where insmod would not install the driver but modprobe WOULD. It exhibited the same symptom ... device or resource busy. George Bonser Debian/GNU Linux See http://www.debian.org Linux ... It

reset console/term (tty0)

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
How do I reset the console (tty0, etc)? The reason I ask is because when I executed gzip -dc file.tar.gz without the |tar -xvf -, my text became unreadable - translated into high ascii characters.. I remember that there was a control sequence to reset it, but I couldn't figure out what it was.

autofs/2.0.32

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
I compiled 2.0.32 w/ support for autofs and installed the newest version of autofs. I'm trying to auto mount my cdrom drive on /dev/hdd. when I type ls or whatever in /cdrom, I get the following messages in xconsole: automount[]: attempting to mount entry /cdrom/libc.so.6 automount[]:

Debian Problem after compiling kernel

1997-11-27 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; I recently obtained and installed Debian 1.3.1 off the InfoMagic CD. It installs kernel 2.0.29. I then downloaded and compiled kernel ver 2.1.62 and 2.1.63 and upon booting I get the following error: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Arguement SIOCADDRT: Invalid Arguement After looking around for

svaglib

1997-11-27 Thread Luka Pravica
hi, I made some programs using svgalib. But I can run those programs only when I am root. When I am not root, I get following error message: svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console Any other svgalib programs (precompiled from debian-packages) are running without problems. I tried to make

Re: Debian Problem after compiling kernel

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Vaibhav Goel wrote: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 IPADDR=204.69.208.4 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=204.69.208.0 BROADCAST=204.69.208.255 GATEWAY= ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} [ ${GATEWAY} ]

Re: Debian Problem after compiling kernel

1997-11-27 Thread Luka Pravica
Vaibhav Goel wrote: Hello; I recently obtained and installed Debian 1.3.1 off the InfoMagic CD. It installs kernel 2.0.29. I then downloaded and compiled kernel ver 2.1.62 and 2.1.63 and upon booting I get the following error: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Arguement SIOCADDRT: Invalid

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
A. M. Varon wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: Possibly... I'm going to try hacking out the code in the driver to see if I can get a better detection scheme going for my particular hardware. My one last shot... could you get the latest linux kernel (2.0.32) and recompile

How can I use PPP connection?

1997-11-27 Thread Adalberto da Silva
Hello, I'm quite confused with PPP connection. I'm using xisp to dial and set my internet connection under Linux. The internet provider from my university uses dinamic IP assignment and I can easily get a 'socket' for my W95 applications: I run a script that dials, I put my

Re: svaglib

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Luka Pravica wrote: hi, I made some programs using svgalib. But I can run those programs only when I am root. When I am not root, I get following error message: svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console Any other svgalib programs (precompiled from debian-packages) are running without problems.

Re: Linux -- SunOS connection terminal problem

1997-11-27 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Janos A Csirik wrote: [...] Is there an incantation involving termcap or terminfo that will make these SunOS computers be able to use my linux terminal? I have had the same problem. To solve it I created ~/.terminfo/l directory on Sun and copied there the

Re: How can I use PPP connection?

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Adalberto da Silva wrote: Hello, I'm quite confused with PPP connection. I'm using xisp to dial and set my internet connection under Linux. The internet provider from my university uses dinamic IP assignment and I can easily get a 'socket' for my W95 applications: I run a

limiting user %cpu

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
how can I limit the %cpu used by a user? ulimit will limit the cpu time, but not %cpu... what exactly is 'cpu time' and how is it calculated? Thanks --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key 100 MB web space for $10/month, http://www.3dillusion.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: How can I use PPP connection?

1997-11-27 Thread Adalberto da Silva
Well, your second point is somewhat cryptic for me. I've installed some programs, I rolled a new kernel with ppp support and related stuff. But I must confess: where are those network configuration files? I wish the time I spent with OS's (or quite-OS's...) that don't ask me for

crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi, linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like shadowed password file, or any other only root-readable files. Is there a

Re: How can I use PPP connection?

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Adalberto da Silva wrote: Well, your second point is somewhat cryptic for me. I've installed some programs, I rolled a new kernel with ppp support and related stuff. But I must confess: where are those network configuration files? I wish the time I spent with OS's (or

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Luka Pravica wrote: Hi, linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like shadowed password file, or any other only

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Donald Becker
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: Ok, now for the details. The delay I had to modify was the one at id_read_eeprom() function. Setting this value in progressive increments of 1000 I reached success at 5000 usec's of delay. To be on the safe side I also modified the function above

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Donald Becker wrote: This indicates a problem with your machine and the udelay() routine. Between them yes. It's pretty clear that the udelay() routine isn't being calibrated correctly. It should be calibrated when the machine boots. This can cause other, less obvious, problems. Uh

screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread tko
This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg stops. I've seen various debug messages, but they scroll off the screen before the

Re: dselect and debian on walnut creek

1997-11-27 Thread tko
Chris Camacho writes: has anyone tried installing debian from linux toolkit june 1997 when dselect asks where the dist is I have tried every sub-dir I can and it can't find the dist anyone else had this prob? how did you cure it? thanx CC Are you installing for the first time or is

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg stops. I've seen various debug

Re: Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-27 Thread W Paul Mills
You probably have files in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.boot that you modified. When you upgraded these files were not updated. Look for files in these directories that end with dpkg-dist. Those are the new files, but are not being used. Some things need to happen different at boot-up now. You will

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg stops. I've seen various debug messages, but they

Re: Terminal setting: linux

1997-11-27 Thread ioannis
I remember a bug report saying that gnuplot was not compiled with svga . That was true true few weeks ago. Gnuplot now runs on lib6 and the latest release was uploaded yesterday, perhaps this bug has been fixed; though I do not recall reading anything about it in the changelog. On

Re: Switching keyboards under X

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Louis-David Mitterrand writes: Oh, I don't type the lines litteraly, they are bound to F2 and F3 respectively in my shell. It is xmodmap itself that I find slow (2 full seconds ;-) You mean you are looking for an MS-DOS function like, where you can press CTRL-F1 to switch between

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
Is there a way to crypt a whole e2-filesystem or at least a whole directories? Or is there any other way to overcome this? Yes there is. Whether or not Debian has a package for this yet I do not know, however here is an address that should answer some questions:

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-27 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: f you wish to use your ppp interface for most packets and your ethernet card for only a few, put something like the following in /etc/ppp/ip-up: /sbin/route del default /sbin/route add default ppp0 /sbin/route add 137.22.96.0 netmask 255.255.240 eth0 (The number after netmask

Problems with the Xfig Package

1997-11-27 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the T icon (for text writing), xfig hangs and also the xterm shell blocks forever! I need to kill xfig and the shell!! I have the Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 0 (Protocol 3.2); i have tried to use the previous version Xfig 3.1

compile error (kernel)

1997-11-27 Thread Benoit Joly
hi i configured the kernel with make xconfig put sb16 ... enable, awe32 sync too and make dep, make clean but when i did make zImage i saw: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486

Hamm distribution

1997-11-27 Thread Johan Harvyl
As far as I can see there are only one set of base disks; the bo dist base disks. After having installed them, dselect starts and if you try install, the first file it tries is libc6, which can't be installed since it conflicts with the libc5 that comes with the bo distribution. It can be

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 12:09:00AM -0500, Wintermute wrote: Yes there is. Whether or not Debian has a package for this yet I do not know, however here is an address that should answer some questions: http://www.aoy.com/Linux/Security/Linux-Security-FAQ/CFS-Doc.html There is a Debian

Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
Hey, Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and netinet/protocols.h. I've searched my hard drive and I don't have these files anywhere (and I have kernel sources installed and most of the -dev

Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
Can anyone recommend an Ultra SCSI controller that works under Linux? I'm looking to hang several of the new 18GB Barracuda/Cheetah Seagate drives off of one... I'm currently looking at the BusLogic Flashpoint BT-950. Is anyone using this card? Any comments? TIA, Kevin Traas -- TO

(off topic)Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: Luka Pravica wrote: Hi, linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want,

set up network correctly ?

1997-11-27 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, System: Debian 1.3/kernel2.0.30/3c562-3d Lan+Modem adapter I have just set up my PCMCIA card without any erros. That is i don't get any errors at boot time. Card Services 2.9.6 co recognize the card. During installation of Debian 1.2/kernel 2.0.27 i have setup the network (ip-addresses,

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? Can anyone recommend an Ultra SCSI controller that works under Linux? I'm looking to hang several of the new 18GB Barracuda/Cheetah Seagate drives off of one... I'm currently

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Kevin Traas wrote: Can anyone recommend an Ultra SCSI controller that works under Linux? I'm looking to hang several of the new 18GB Barracuda/Cheetah Seagate drives off of one... I'm currently looking at the BusLogic Flashpoint BT-950. Is anyone using this card? Any comments? I am

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Adam Shand wrote: Hey, Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and netinet/protocols.h. Why you need to compile this program? If you want to find out whether your linux is vulnerable, just

Netscape Comm. 4.03

1997-11-27 Thread Larry Gene Gariepy Jr.
Hi, Now that I have gotten ppp to work, (thanks to several members of this list), I am free to play with my new version of Netscape. However, Netscape and Debian are not playing well together these days. I was just wondering if anyone else has had problems with Netscape 4.03 (or any 4.0x).

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Michael Neuffer
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? Yes, all the controllers from DPT. Check out http://www.dpt.com Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Problems with the Xfig Package (fwd)

1997-11-27 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:37:13 +0100 (CET) From: Gerardo Lamastra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problems with the Xfig Package I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the T

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Michael Neuffer wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? Yes, all the controllers from DPT. Check out http://www.dpt.com Have you looked at the software RAID?

Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-11-27 Thread Gianluca \Ryo\ Trimarchi
First of all, sorry my bad English :-) Please help me with these problem: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer. It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux (1 native e 1 for the swap). Both the hds are on the primary Eide channel

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread butch
Hi, i was wondering if any of you could please list the better places to buy scsi disks and controllers in the usa? allan -Original Message- From: Michael Neuffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux-Net Mailing List linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu; Debian User List

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
Have you looked at the software RAID? Is it more flexible because you can run it with hard disks with different geometry. !!! ??? I've never heard of this under Linux? Can anyone provide more info? Regards, Kevin Traas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Markus Schneider
linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like shadowed password file, or any other only root-readable files. It can be

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like shadowed password file, or any other only root-readable files. It can be

Dpkg-FTP problem

1997-11-27 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all! I have a little problem with dpgk-ftp and my dselect... It core-dumps whenever dkpg-ftp tries to connect to the ftp server. I have not changed anything drastic since it last worked (I now run 2.1.65, but it did the same with 2.0.32) I have upgraded to hamm, but I did it kinda

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-27 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Nov-97 Richard Ayres wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote: In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function. You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages not

Re: cu connects to PnP modem ok, but no response for AT

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:31:48PM +0500, Igor Grobman wrote: # cu --speed 115200 --line /dev/ttyS1 Connected [here I type atf, which is not echoed] cu: write: I/O error Disconnected # Looks like your modem is not really detected by linux. The connected message from cu only

Re: Filling in the dialog boxes with Taper 6.8.2

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 04:17:47PM +0200, Frere Roy wrote: I've just installed the Taper 6.8.2 backup to tape programme. I have encountered a curious phenomena namely that I cannot type any characters in the message boxes, i.e. name of backup etc. Bug report already filed. Joey reports that

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Kevin Traas wrote: Have you looked at the software RAID? Is it more flexible because you can run it with hard disks with different geometry. !!! ??? I've never heard of this under Linux? Can anyone provide more info? go to http://linas.org/linux/raid.html Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:15:49PM +0600, Rick Hawkins wrote: They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan, I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at

Re: Problems with the Xfig Package

1997-11-27 Thread Marco Pistore
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Gerardo Lamastra wrote: I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the T icon (for text writing), xfig hangs and also the xterm shell blocks forever! I need to kill xfig and the shell!! Hi, are you using xaw95? I had the same problem when i

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : You are absolutely correct, and as a developer I should probably know : better. My only excuse is that I spend a lot of time on this list, and : consider the folks here my friends. This leaves little time to go : exploring other venues, and besides, I'd

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Shand wrote: Hey, Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and netinet/protocols.h. Why you need to compile this program? If you want to

Re: Problems with the Xfig Package

1997-11-27 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
Thanks Marco, that was right! Anyway I tried to recompile XFig withouth the Xaw3d extensions but it didn't worked correctly. Now it is fine! Gerardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) ... Why you need to compile this program? BTW, linux is NOT vulnerable to this attack. Even version 1.2.13. Kudos to Linux!!! Makes me proud! Later, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) ... Why you need to compile this program? BTW, linux is NOT vulnerable to this attack. Even version 1.2.13. Kudos to Linux!!! Makes me proud to be a Linux user/supporter Later, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread ctang
I can not run xmcd after my recent upgrade from stable to unstable. The programs shows: xmcd: error in loading shared libraries libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So, what's the problem? It seems I have all libX* lib file except this one. Thanks for

Re: xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can not run xmcd after my recent upgrade from stable to unstable. The programs shows: xmcd: error in loading shared libraries libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So, what's the problem? It seems I have all libX* lib file

Re: Filling in the dialog boxes with Taper 6.8.2

1997-11-27 Thread Frere Roy
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 04:17:47PM +0200, Frere Roy wrote: I've just installed the Taper 6.8.2 backup to tape programme. I have encountered a curious phenomena namely that I cannot type any characters in the message boxes, i.e. name of backup etc. Bug report already filed. Joey reports

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Short of encrypting the filesystem itself, I have yet to find a way to secure things under Linux But if anyone has any ideas, I'd be *more* than glad to hear them Later, Kevin Traas What about mounting only some directories (/home with

Re: xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 12:44:36AM +1100, Lawrence wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can not run xmcd after my recent upgrade from stable to unstable. The programs shows: xmcd: error in loading shared libraries libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Serial Mouse

1997-11-27 Thread Simon Cooper
The mouse pointer jumps across the screen rather than a smooth movement, I notice the problem most when the pointer crosses window boundaries, the cursor changes and the mouse pointer pauses at this point. I am using the fvwm95 window manager, the problem is less evident when using the openlook

Kernel crash after floppy problems

1997-11-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I have a problem with my system. Unfortunately the PC floppy drives allow to remove floppy even if it is mounted. If later someone tries to use the directory where the floppy was mounted, the system crashes. I had also similar problems when during the mount the file system

Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there including the master boot record. This was ok, and all my files got themselves safely on their

Re: Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there including the master boot record. This was ok, and

Help: Install packages

1997-11-27 Thread wdh
Hello Everyone, We have a very simple question, which we think most of you may not even notice. We are using dselect to install packages from ordered CD. The CD has different file structure from what dselect expected. For example, dselect wanted to locate *.deb at /main/binary. The CD put

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
hmm.. look in /var/log/messages -Paul On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_

Re: (off topic)Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
It can be done much easier, just put the linux boot disk (from any distribution) into the floppy, reboot the system, then mount the hard disk from the root's shell and the whole HD is yours without using any other OS !!! Unless your server is physically secured (closed in the safe, all

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Markus Schneider wrote: linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like shadowed password file, or

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-27 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Dale Scheetz writes: | Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but | compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that less is more, is more | than a cute word play, it is true for every context of more. | |less is better, but DOS users know about

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-27 Thread Pere Camps
On 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? Yes, and it works fine. Ok. Thanks. Also, thanks to everyone else who has answered this same question. You're too many to reply one by one! Salutacions, Pere

SCSI disk drive setup question

1997-11-27 Thread Ken Gaugler
I have a couple of SCSI drives I am trying to get up and running - one is a Seagate ST32107WC. It has a SCA connector on it, so I bought a little adapter thingie to convert it to 50-pin. On boot up (under Linux) the PC self test sees it, in the early stages of boot the Adaptec identifies it

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Mika Marjamaki
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? Hi! We are getting a new Linux-server really soon - I heard it might come tomorrow or maybe next monday or so. Anyway, it will have some

smail locking

1997-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
I keep getting the following messages: 11/27/1997 10:03:00: open_spool: /var/spool/smail/input/0xb7IX-001Lt6C: lock_fd() failed: Try again Is there some lockfile which I need to rm? It seems to happen most if I try to send some mail when not connected to my ISP causing diald to bring up a

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Elie Rosenblum
And thus spake Adam Shand, on Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 01:07:53AM -0900: Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and netinet/protocols.h. I've searched my hard drive and I don't have these files

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-27 Thread Amos Shapira
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wr ite: |Udate: | |on the pop3 problem - I got a log file going. It does check |/var/spool/mail as it should, but reports 0k for the user when checking. |If you go to the directory, there is a mail file for the user. One of our customers had this problem.

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Udjat the BitMeister... writes: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. There appears to be a problem with cfdisk... when it writes the partition information, it isn't

Linux filesystem from DOS?

1997-11-27 Thread Jones, David A \(CAP, ITS, US\)
Hi Team- I was wondering if anyone has a method of writing Linux / Un*x filenames from DOS apps. You know- where we have more than 1 period in the filename like x.yyy.zz? I have to move some files back forth, but DOS changes the name to x-yyy.zz so when I try to use gunzip, etc, I get an

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