Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: > > > - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started > > Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So it fa

Re: Mail problem

1998-01-14 Thread Rick Jones
Rick Jones wrote: > > Pete: > > I have been able to get my email to go through. There has most > definately been a change someplace, here. > > I had to use the reply-to field and change my from to my systems idea > of who I am for it to work. This means that anybody without a s

Re: Whereis libXpm

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So this would mean that i do have libXpm installed. THe problem is that > when i try compile something (gnome in this case) it tell's me that it > cannot find it ! I would appreciate any help here if that would be > possible. Do you have the xpm4-dev or

Re: DOSEMU and IPX

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 05:46:57PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it posible to run ipx under DOSEMU 0.66 without linux ipx support? You may be able to run one of the IPX-over-packet-driver drivers (in the Crynwr collection?) on top of the packet driver that DOSEMU provides to DOS (I think).

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:27:26PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 10:50:09PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > >login Use the system password database for authenticating > > the peer using PAP, and record the user in the sys- > > tem wtmp file

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: > I use now xdm to login into the system -- however > it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored. .xinitrc is used for startx, and .xsession is used for xdm logins. I symlink them together here for convenience. Hamish --

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar Rick Jones: > Not true. 1) X MUST be operating to benchmark CDE, KDE, or Afterstep > etc. 2) > To acurately benchmark the performance of software 'whatever' you have to > include > the processes that are handled by X. So you would have to benchmark the > combnation X

debian 1.2x ldso upgrades

1998-01-14 Thread John S. Murphy
Having problems upgrading libc5, xlib6 and ldso using dpkg I get; ** Setting up ldso (1.8.12-1) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X

hacker attack: leaves .BitchX dir in root's home

1998-01-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
My site has been atacked by a hacker using a method that leaves a directory .BitchX (or something close) in root's home dir. It gets the user/password combination of any user that telnet, ftp or use pop3 to get to the machine (no ssh). What's the security hole that's being exploited? At first the

Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-14 Thread Peter Prohaska
Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during installation I can't see why i

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Rick Jones
Peter Iannarelli wrote: > > Hello Guys: > > It took me some time to get dial-in ppp working as well. > > In pap-secrets I has to adjust the following line. > > * beagle "" > > to > > * *"" > > Peter This kind of entry would allow everybody access to your system without

configuring the network: netconfig?

1998-01-14 Thread Zsolt Frei
Hi! Is there a simple utility in DEBIAN to configure the network, like "netconfig" was in the Slackware distribution? I had no problem setting up the network during installation (to use an ethernet card), but now I would like to change to PPP and I do not want to edit all the /etc/hosts, /etc/res

Re: Smail configuration question

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:57:55PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > I need to rewrite some of my config files, and I just > wanted to know why you have to use $($user$) in some > places instead of just $user? Afaik $( expands to ( and $) expands to ). Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Guys: It took me some time to get dial-in ppp working as well. In pap-secrets I has to adjust the following line. * beagle "" to * *"" Peter -Original Message- From: Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Gervai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Noxon <[

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-14 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: > Hi > > I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All > seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup > bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other > binaries, it also tries to run the se

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 10:50:09PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote: >login Use the system password database for authenticating > the peer using PAP, and record the user in the sys- > tem wtmp file. Note that the peer must have an > entry in th

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > > > pppd[24325]: pppd 2.3.2 started by LOGIN, uid 0 > > > [...] > > > > pppd[24325]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="pierre" > > > > password=""] > > > > pppd[24325]: PAP authentication failure for pierre > >

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Igor Grobman
> > problems: > - maybe the mouse is stuck in the upper screen (I didn't take care of > that actually) you need to add the following to your TextConfig (or uncomment it as the case might be): ResetProg "/path/where/reset/script/is/located" the reset script from the hamm version of stm is attach

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > pppd[24325]: pppd 2.3.2 started by LOGIN, uid 0 > > [...] > > > pppd[24325]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="pierre" password=""] > > > pppd[24325]: PAP authentication failure for pierre > > > pppd[24325]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 "Login incorrect"] > >

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 10:26:12PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > pppd[24325]: pppd 2.3.2 started by LOGIN, uid 0 > [...] > > pppd[24325]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="pierre" password=""] > > pppd[24325]: PAP authentication failure for pierre > > pppd[

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > pppd[24325]: pppd 2.3.2 started by LOGIN, uid 0 [...] > pppd[24325]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="pierre" password=""] > pppd[24325]: PAP authentication failure for pierre > pppd[24325]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 "Login incorrect"] > pppd[24325]: sent [LCP

Re: more from the ppp battlefield

1998-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote: > i finally just killed the process supporting the mouse... i guess there is > a way in some init control file to prevent it from starting gpm. /etc/rc*.d/*gpm > Serial connection established. > Using interface ppp0 > Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 > > th

SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-14 Thread Irmund Thum
a short review for other beginners: SVGATextMode can resize the console screen on the fly, e.g. SVGATextMode 116x43x9_12 - use dselect to install SVGATextMode - if XF86Config exists, you should know what to do otherwise read the man pages and docs carefully - un-comment the lines in /etc/rc.bo

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-14 Thread Irmund Thum
ok - was not a too good but apparently common idea to ask this question. ;-) __ IT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: I have exactly the same question! Upgraded from 2.2.0f to 2.3.2 and PAP stopped working from /etc/shadow. I thought it's libpam0g but after installing them all it still does not work. If you - or anyone - get the answer I'd be very interested as well! > I'm

Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, William T Wilson wrote: : On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : > This was just what I was about to suggest. It would be awkward if : > SEUL users had to go to a different packaging system for packages not : > available in SEUL. In effect it would become a kind o

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
That's because only xinit uses .xinitrc. Makes sense, huh? You need to put things you want to start into your .fvwm2rc. Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: > Hello, > I use now xdm to login into the system -- however > it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored. > > I specify there xsetroot, fvwm2 &,

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: > Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered the > commands on the command line to make sure of spelling a

Re: xload

1998-01-14 Thread csmall
William R. Ward wrote: > > It moved to a different package. Look in Packages for 'xload' - I > don't remember which package it's in, but you'll find it. xcontrib -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-14 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This was just what I was about to suggest. It would be awkward if > SEUL users had to go to a different packaging system for packages not > available in SEUL. In effect it would become a kind of Debian-lite, > (or, dare I say it, a Red Hat-lite or

more from the ppp battlefield

1998-01-14 Thread dave mallery
hi i wanted to report a small victory in getting ppp to work. (and ask another question) after days of frustration, i remembered that my vanilla distribution kernel supports a non-existant mouse on ttyS0 (that's where my modem lives) ((i have a bus mouse)) i finally just killed the process s

DOSEMU and IPX

1998-01-14 Thread fealvar
Is it posible to run ipx under DOSEMU 0.66 without linux ipx support? __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Potenciado por Debian GNU/Li

Re: No response to email queries

1998-01-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hello, I'm a subscriber to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've sent multiple email queries and yet to see one published. What should I be doing? This one made it through. Just do what you did for this one, I guess. Also, try to be detailed in your questions; it makes it easier for us to figure out w

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Vladislav Papayan x285 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is .xinitrc valid when using xdm -- or do I have to > use something else now? .xsession is generally used for xdm - you can change this if you want by editing /etc/X11/Xsession. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm trying to get mgetty's AutoPPP feature to work with PAP in PPPD to allow users to dial in with Win95 and Linux. So far, no go. I am dialing my own ISP with PAP and it works great. When I crank up logging, I see this: pppd[24325]: pppd 2.3.2 started by LOGIN, uid 0 pppd[24325]: Using interfa

Re: Whereis libXpm

1998-01-14 Thread Brian K Servis
Steve Witt writes: > >On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: >> >> In that case i need another type of assistance. When i do >> ldconfig -p | grep libXpm i get this : >> >> 126 - ELF libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 >> 127 - E

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > I tried to be clear but... anyway, my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this: > > #---cut here to damage your monitor-- > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. > # > > passwd: c

Dselect error (unstable related)

1998-01-14 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, Upgraded quite successfully to libc6 unstable. But now for some reason, I get the following error when ftp upgrading using Dselect; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/

Logging question / PPP session termination problem

1998-01-14 Thread John M. Rulnick
Briefly: Syslogd goes wild when PPP connections terminate, "ppp_dev_stats called" appears ad infinitum in logs. Help? Details: A person connects to my Debian machine via modem, using PPP. When they kill PPP to disconnect, system messages start being generated at a rapid rate. This messa

Re: watching ttys

1998-01-14 Thread Pere Camps
Joey, > > I'd like to know if there's any tool for watching what a user is > > doing in a terminal, let it be serial or telnetd. > Check out the ttysnoop package. Thanks for the info. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;

[Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, I use now xdm to login into the system -- however it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored. I specify there xsetroot, fvwm2 &, and other stuff -- but nothing seems to be picked up. Is .xinitrc valid when using xdm -- or do I have to use something else now? Thanks, Vladislav -- TO

Re: Quake and getvc

1998-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > > # Run something on a VC, from X, and switch back to X when done. > > # GPL Joey Hess, Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:27:08 -0400 > > # EDIT THIS FILE TO WORK WITH YOUR SYSTEM.. > exec open -s -- sh -c "glqwcl -nocdaudio -mem 32 $* ; chvt `getvc`" This script is no longe

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As for documentation try the command > info libc >then look at the section >* Name Service Switch Well you could also just read the /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz file which explains everything in detail. Mike. --

Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-14 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of course, and then complains

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-14 Thread Gerald Belton
I used to participate in another high-traffic list. The Free Catholic Mailing List gets over 200 messages per day. They had a solution to the high traffic that worked very well (at least for me). The list is echoed to a usenet newsgroup, bit.listserv.catholic. The group is moderated by a r

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:18:55AM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > > passwd: db files > > > group: db files > > > shadow: db files > > For these three replace "db files" with "compat" and you should be done. > How should it read? The HOW

Cnews would not configure on installation

1998-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, Leafnode is not working well with my news provider so I tried to install Cnews an Suck. Cnews installation script exits with an error message informing the user that it could not configure cnews. I don't know how to proceed from there. I am using a Debian 1.3.1. CDROM for installation. I

No response to email queries

1998-01-14 Thread IBMackey
Hello, I'm a subscriber to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've sent multiple email queries and yet to see one published. What should I be doing? ibm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread G John Lapeyre
With 2MB , you a line in your XF86Config that only includes lower resolutions. The X Sever will ignore any lines that try to much resolution and too many colors simultaneously. Maybe this is your answer... On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, John Boggon wrote

Lilo howto install it?

1998-01-14 Thread Ivan Rojas
Sorry for get back to the same question, I bet that millions of times you have solved this answer but this is the first time I ask it :o) I got Debian 1.3 in CDs and installed in my second hard drive, guess what is in the first one... anybody sayed windoze95? Well the thing is I tryed creating a

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Keith Beattie
Tim Thomson wrote: > > A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the > same system? > > I said it would probably be better for somethings, and maybe slower than > others, but I wasn't sure - so I though to ask you people. > > Anyone done any benchmarks??? > This is no

lilo with multiple kernels/partitions

1998-01-14 Thread Tim Ferrell
what kind of entry do I need to add to lilo.conf to get lilo to boot a alternate kernel located on a Zip disk? I can use a custom boot floppy and mount the Zip disk (/dev/sda1) as root but it would be simpler if I didn't need the floppy... one less disk to misplace ;-) Thanks, Tim -- ## #

One more question...XFree86 error 111

1998-01-14 Thread Hotze
Hello. This is the LAST time that I mail you guies without joining the list. Please respond directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I've configured most of my packages, but with XFree86 I get an error message, labeled "111" I get this message several times, then I get the configuration screen

Re: smail and bouncing

1998-01-14 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo Pann McCuaig > At work I have a bo system serving in-house e-mail. Most of the client > machines are running IE on Win95 and get their mail via POP3. > > Mail is transferred between ISP and the bo system using uucp and smail. > > Everything is fine. > > But . . . > > Say a message comes i

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Also, I am in Panic Mode now. > * If I am unable to log in as root, how do I fix what I did to > nsswitch.conf? I was sensible enough to backup the old file before > making the changes. I am unable to locate my emergency disk (or > whatev

Re: Quake and getvc

1998-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Skreeg wrote: > Trouble is I need a program called getvc. > Is there a debian package with this in it? This is amusing, becuase I'm a debian developer, and the author of getvc and of the script below, and yet getvc is not in debian. :-) > #!/bin/sh > # Run something on a VC, from X, and swi

Pregunta

1998-01-14 Thread Fabio Daniel Guerra
Como hago para adquirir el Programa LINUX DEBIAN. Lo nesecito urgente y no lo concigo? Nombre: Fabio Guerra. Ciudad: Rivera - Uruguay Telefono: 28553 Direccion: Ituzaingo 558 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Will Lowe wrote: > I prefer that people cc replies to me, as well as sending them directly > to the list. > I use procmail to sort out incoming mail, > and the stuff that's sent to/from lists ends up in "debian", "freedos", > "kde" folders. Stuff that's send to me

Quake and getvc

1998-01-14 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, slightly off topic but what the hell, I`ve attempting to use Linux as a viable Quake platform. I`ve got QstatView which is a Quakeworld server browser and is X based written in TK. Now, I have a script which supposedly launches qwcl into a console and switches to that console. T

Re: why libc6?

1998-01-14 Thread joost witteveen
> I've read many messages concerning the "new" libc6 and associated problems. > Why libc6? What does it do for Linux that libc5 does not? - Better compliance with the standards. Most of the problems we see in moving to libc6, are caused by the non-conforming oddities of libc5. - Libc6 is a

Re: Some remarks: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > > Hi all! > > I've read a discussion about serial ports and interrupts and still have > some doubts. > WHY KERNEL'S SERIAL DRIVER IS WRITTEN IN THIS WAY THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO > SHARE INTERRUPTS? I think it is more of a c

Re: Monitor Specs for Xfree86

1998-01-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: > Gregory, > > I believe that the dot clock setting is from the video adapter and not the > monitor. Correct, however monitors *do* have a bandwidth limitation - for instance my Iiyama is 160MHz. I believe that the dot-clock you speci

Re: What to do after "rm -r /usr"?

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: > Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a > "rm -r /usr" by mistake. He did stop it after a while, > though, so that he can at least still do a little bit > on his system. > > Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back > to a stab

Re: watching ttys

1998-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Pere Camps wrote: > I'd like to know if there's any tool for watching what a user is > doing in a terminal, let it be serial or telnetd. > > I think I have a malicious user, but I want it to be a safe shot. Check out the ttysnoop package. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

why libc6?

1998-01-14 Thread tko
I've read many messages concerning the "new" libc6 and associated problems. Why libc6? What does it do for Linux that libc5 does not? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.-

Re: Cloning a Debian system

1998-01-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
>» I have setup a small Debian Linux system as a router, is there an easy way >» to "clone" this? I.e. to create copies of it on similar machines. We need >» them in pairs for WAN links between segments (EN-PPP-EN). >» >» E.g. a small boot to an LRP* or recovery disk, and a tftp, or, ? >» >»

Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in > > YP. > > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > > passwd: db files > > group: db files > > shadow: db files

Re: 'make config'

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Keathley Keathley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple > reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked > for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my > kernal? I even installed one fro

Re: Whereis libXpm

1998-01-14 Thread Steve Witt
Sorry about this but it should be -L/usr/X11R6/lib without the space I added in my first message. Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Whereis libXpm

1998-01-14 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > > In that case i need another type of assistance. When i do > ldconfig -p | grep libXpm i get this : > > 126 - ELF libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 > 127 - ELF libXpm.so => /usr/X11R6/li

Re: What to do after "rm -r /usr"?

1998-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a > "rm -r /usr" by mistake. He did stop it after a while, > though, so that he can at least still do a little bit > on his system. > > Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back > to a stable system again. I suggested letting dse

Re:'make config'

1998-01-14 Thread Butch Kemper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 07:24 -0600 on 1/14/98, Chris Keathley Keathley wrote: > I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple > reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked > for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such dir

Cross compiling with gcc. Target WindowsNT

1998-01-14 Thread fealvar
Hi folks, is it posible to generate binary files for NT using gcc under Linux?? And if so, what packages shoud i install?? __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Univer

Is e2fsprogs OK now?

1998-01-14 Thread Paul Rightley
A while back there was a warning regarding the hamm version of the e2fsprogs package - e2fsprogs_1.10-4.deb I believe. I now have e2fsprogs_1.10-10.deb installed and have had a few weird problems at home with a partition greater than 2GB in size. Is there a known problem with this package? Thank

Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in > YP. > > $ cat /etc/passwd > > ...some stuff... > > +::0:0::: OK > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > passwd: db files > group: db files

Re: loging into NT

1998-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Do you already have a domain controller? If so, you can have samba authenticate using the NT domain controller. That's what I use here in our office, since all our client machines (6 Win95, 1 NT wkst) log on to our local domain. You just edit the smb.conf file and set these options: encrypt pa

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, John Boggon wrote: > Have already done this. xdm is installed and working. I figured I'd try and > get X to start in 16bp before I tried to configure xdm to do the same. To set it to permanently use 16 bpp instead of 8, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the "Depth" setting f

Re: divide the list - in what ?

1998-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Irmund Thum wrote: > > Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced? > > Wouldn't it be possible to divide it into something like > > configuration (problems with install and confi

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-14 Thread John Spence
> I like the list the way it is aswell! :) Yes, I do to. Although I would dearly love to see a: "When is version 2 coming out"-list "How to move from libc5 to libc6"-list Both lists could be answered by a bot that posted the usual reply. I do think that a lot of general Linux questions that ar

Re: libc compatibility in Debian 2.0

1998-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Martin Jackson wrote: > Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications "out of the box?" I am > curious because Red Hat decided not to support this... Yes, the altgcc and altdev's will permit this "out of the box". Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: problem w/sound

1998-01-14 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > > won't work. The player starts and I hear a *click* from the speakers but > That's the sound module being inserted by kerneld -- it gets inserted when > you try to play a sound, and removed when you have

RE: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar Herr Detlev Scholz \(ODIS\): > Dear users, > > i m a novice user of debian-Linux. The installation was easy, and > everythink works well :-). > Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well, > when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KD

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar George Bonser: > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: > >> This is somewhat incorrect, George. Yes. X uses a protocol called XDMCP to >> allow xfer's of information, as you have explained, between local and remote >> machines. And X uses sockets and protocols when used

Re: hmm NT domains ans sharee access

1998-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Doing "domain" authentication is easy. First you need to know what share constitutes your home directory ('smbclient -L' will list shares on a given machine). Then you can use smbmount (as root) or smbclient (works like tar, you can run it as yourself) to access the share--just specify the user (wi

What to do after "rm -r /usr"?

1998-01-14 Thread Andy Spiegl
Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a "rm -r /usr" by mistake. He did stop it after a while, though, so that he can at least still do a little bit on his system. Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back to a stable system again. I suggested letting dselect install a

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread John Boggon
> How do I start X using more than 8bp ? > >startx -- -bpp {16|24|32} > Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
How do I start X using more than 8bp ? startx -- -bpp {16|24|32} -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

'make config'

1998-01-14 Thread Chris Keathley Keathley
I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my kernal? I even installed one from dselect and went back and checked and it still was not ther

watching ttys

1998-01-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'd like to know if there's any tool for watching what a user is doing in a terminal, let it be serial or telnetd. I think I have a malicious user, but I want it to be a safe shot. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91

Re: loging into NT

1998-01-14 Thread Pere Camps
Jens, > Not at this time, at least not in the same way logging on to a domain works. > In order to do this samba needs to be able to function as a "Domain > Controller". The current version does not have this capability, though the > samba team is working on this. What a pity... really.

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread John Boggon
> >To get xdm working, first you have to install it. During installation it >should ask you if you want to automatically start xdm at boot time. >Alternatively, xdm is started out of /etc/init.d/xdm. Follow the indicated >files and you will see what you are missing. Make sure you have run >xf86conf

Re: Linux IPX configuration.

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:04:25AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on --No error > > /proc reports > infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx > Local_Address Remote_Address Tx_Queue Rx_Queue State Uid > > infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx_interfa

Linux IPX configuration.

1998-01-14 Thread fealvar
Hi, folks. I'm getting trouble configuring IPX in my Linux Box. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 ncpfs 0.23 i do the following: modprobe ipx --- No error modprobe ncpfs -- No error ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on --No error /proc reports infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx Loca

Re: divide the list - in what ?

1998-01-14 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Irmund Thum wrote: > Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced? A lot of people are against it, for reasons easy to understand. OTOH, the list does have a lot of traffic. Wouldn't it be possible to divide it into something like

Re: Announce: Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) Project

1998-01-14 Thread Adam Shand
> Debian seems to have made it as one of the more popular distributions. > I would recommend working on it. Debian could benefit greatly from > some polishing. I agree whole-heartedly on this. It seems to me (from a reasonably brief scan of the SEUL web pages) that Debian and SEUL compliment eac

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: I have tried getting my Xserver to run at 16 bits color with a 2 meg video card as well with no success. I have had absolutely no troubles with a 4 meg video card and 8 meg video card. I'm using ATI. Is it a memory thing? Thats the only conclusion I can come up with. To get xdm workin

More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread John Boggon
How do I start X using more than 8bp ? I've tried startx -bpp16 startx --bpp16 going thru all the startup and config scripts I could find reading how-to's and man pages hiring a witchdoctor No luck.. I'm using the X-F

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from fetchmail > to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides are > to > use the exim instead of the smail package? I use the smail version that came with the D

maintaining system time across reboots with ppp?

1998-01-14 Thread Jameson Burt
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

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