Re: Espacio Swap

1998-06-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 06:39:50PM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: También quiero comentar una cosa. En mi Debian 1.3.1 puedo ejecutarlo como usuario normal. ¿ Esto es recomendable desde el punto de vista de la seguridad ? Estás obteniendo información sobre que 'daemons' están

Seguridad con top (era: Espacio Swap)

1998-06-21 Thread Enrique Cea
También quiero comentar una cosa. En mi Debian 1.3.1 puedo ejecutarlo como usuario normal. ¿ Esto es recomendable desde el punto de vista de la seguridad ? Estás obteniendo información sobre que 'daemons' están corriendo y las tareas que pueda estar ejecutando el root. Digo yo

RE: Conexión a internet mediante infovia

1998-06-21 Thread J. Parera
Hola, Hola, los scripts no me han funcionado :(. Creo que es debido a mi modem, el cual es un Diamond SupraExpress 33.6 (con una cadena de inicialización ATF2, o eso creo haber leído en Linux Actual #2). Osease que debo cambiar lo que he señalado en el /etc/ppp.chatscript por algo diferente

Moving linux to another partition?

1998-06-21 Thread lanceh
I just installed a new harddrive and I wish to move linux over to it. Is there a way to do this without having to reinstall everything? The newest version of partition magic may do this but I do not have it and I am not that familiar with the Virtual File System that LInux uses since I am a

Re: Dosemu

1998-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On 20 Jun 98 05:21:07 GMT, Robert Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS/2 !! SYS01475 OS/2 !! SYS02027 You've got dosemu trying to boot off an OS/2 partition. It can't. In your /etc/dosemu/conf file, there's a line like disk { partition /dev/hda1 } # 1st

X problem (again) Win managers.

1998-06-21 Thread Psychotron
Hi! Well I managed to install X thanks to the people that helped me here but I'm for getting rid of all those newbies problems :) This time I couldn't get those windows managers to run. People advised me to install them so I choosed fvwm95, the instalation was ok, dselect did not

Re: PGP

1998-06-21 Thread Michael Beattie
On 20 Jun 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 13:33:52 +1200 (NZST) Michael Beattie writes: I am having trouble learning to use pgp.. *G* Did you already read the pgpdoc1.txt file (/usr/doc/pgp)? Without reading this you will probably unable to understand how pgp and

Re: X problem (again) Win managers.

1998-06-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- This time I couldn't get those windows managers to run. People advised me to install them so I choosed fvwm95, the instalation was ok, dselect did not find any problems, but when I first started X it did not appear like the fvwm95 docs said it would be. I found the windows

Strange problem with ppp server --MKP

1998-06-21 Thread Mike Patterson
I'm running a PPP server on my debian 1.3 box for one of my friends on a win95 machine to connect to. He dials in, and pap is authenticated. Great! First problem, though, is that no entries get created via route and ifconfig, so he gets stuck. So I manually put entires in right after he logs

Re: Moving linux to another partition?

1998-06-21 Thread servis
On 20 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a new harddrive and I wish to move linux over to it. Is there a way to do this without having to reinstall everything? The newest version of partition magic may do this but I do not have it and I am not that familiar with the Virtual

How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-21 Thread TRSchultz
How do I setup /dev/cdrom? I just installed Debian 2.0 from floppies that I downloaded from ftp.debian.org. I suppose the install program did not setup a /dev/cdrom because I install from floppy. Even though I installed the cdrom driver when asked by the install program. I type #insmod cdrom

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- Does the kernel find the CD-ROM on boot? What is the device name? Try mounting the CD by device name. Run dmesg | more to see if the CD-ROM is found. -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL

Re: Strange problem with ppp server --MKP

1998-06-21 Thread john
Mike Patterson writes: He dials in, and pap is authenticated. Great! First problem, though, is that no entries get created via route and ifconfig, so he gets stuck. You need to give pppd local and remote ip numbers, like this: 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.23 So I manually put entires in right after

Re: Strange problem with ppp server --MKP

1998-06-21 Thread Mike Patterson
Mike Patterson writes: He dials in, and pap is authenticated. Great! First problem, though, is that no entries get created via route and ifconfig, so he gets stuck. You need to give pppd local and remote ip numbers, like this: 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.23 I did that in my last attempt. I put it

Sendmail problems and new ghostscript debian packages...

1998-06-21 Thread Henry Chih-Hsiang Yao
Hello, Currently, I am running a server at UCLA using Debian distribution 1.3.1 . The network is working fine except for the emails configuration. For some reason, I can not send emails using locate email clients such as elm nor can I recieve email with properly setup user account. My

/proc/modules missing

1998-06-21 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, After seeing on this list that I can read the bootup messages with shift_pgup I saw the following error message several times: Loading modules: [something] modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory There was also another one saying something like that there was already a slhc.o

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-21 Thread ironfoot
I had the same problem. I was trying to install a SB16 cdrom and finally got it working by recompiling the kernel with support for non-IDE/SCSI controller card (sbpcd driver to be exact). After that, everything worked fine. Was driving me nuts for a while, though. I was assuming that since

Re: Sendmail problems and new ghostscript debian packages...

1998-06-21 Thread Henry Chih-Hsiang Yao
For the sendmail problem, I tried all possible combination for sendmail configuration and still does not work. In some configuration, it could hang the network by opening too many sendmail sessions with UCLA's smtp hosts. None of the configuration will let local deliveries besides forwarding to a

Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Chris R. Martin
I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error message I'm getting from dpkg: libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( 5.4.33-7 ) version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed I have been unable to find libc5_5.4.33-7 -- I can only find up to revision 6 in stable. Where can I get the version of

ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Do either of these require reverse lookups on FTPs? I can't get in from home, which currently is not resolving on reverse lookups. I can get in from work, however. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus|

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 08:13:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:49:16 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [12:47am] [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet ftp.debian.org ftp Trying 130.207.7.21... Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP

scc driver Question.

1998-06-21 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello , i use Debian 1.3.1 and kernel 2.0.30 tree , i need to upgrade the scc driver from version 2.0 to 2.4c and i've copy the new files: scc.c in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/drivers/char scc.h in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include/linux scc.h in

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:55:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Do either of these require reverse lookups on FTPs? I can't get in from home, which currently is not resolving on reverse lookups. I can get in from work, however. To answer my own question, both ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

Anyone running StarOffice 4.03 on Hamm?

1998-06-21 Thread Tor Slettnes
Could anyone who has StarOffice 4, service pack 3 running on Debian 2.0 do: ldd /usr/local/Office40/bin/soffice.bin | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (modify to whatever path StarOffice is installed under)? I would be eternally grateful! I have a bit of a problem with my own, and I want to see if

Re: Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote: I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error message I'm getting from dpkg: libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( 5.4.33-7 ) version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed I have been unable to find

Re: Anyone running StarOffice 4.03 on Hamm?

1998-06-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 02:59:41AM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: Could anyone who has StarOffice 4, service pack 3 running on Debian 2.0 do: ldd /usr/local/Office40/bin/soffice.bin | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Done. Tor: I sent you two, one just as you desired and another one with

Re: Sendmail problems and new ghostscript debian packages...

1998-06-21 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Henry Chih-Hsiang Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Secondly, where is the none-free directory on the ftp site. ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/mirrors/debian/non-free/ ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/non-free/ The non-free directory for 'bo' is at the same level as the 'bo' directory. Bernt. -- To

Re: apache_1.1.3-6 preinstall script giving errors

1998-06-21 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Douglas Bates wrote: The problem is that because the pre-install script doesn't finish successfully, the scripts aren't copied into /var/lib/dpkg/info. I have to extract them with ar and tar. I did so and ran the preinst script by hand as /bin/sh -v preinst install It stopped after

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-21 Thread dpk
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:55:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Do either of these require reverse lookups on FTPs? I can't get in from home, which currently is not resolving on reverse lookups. I can get in from work, however. To answer my own

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 09:57:50 -0400 (EDT), dpk wrote: I have turned off PARANOID for ftp... you should be able to get in now. Thanks. Dunno why but some of the addresses for jps.net just don't reverse well, others do. *shrug* -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed

Re: Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote: I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error message I'm getting from dpkg: libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( 5.4.33-7 ) version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed I have been unable to find libc5_5.4.33-7 -- I can only find up to

Long package names.+misc

1998-06-21 Thread Gutraind
Hello Debian Users! I'm DownLoading hamm packages, and wondering if the long package file names (written in vfat by my win95) will be readable in linux, or I'll have tons of ~1~2~3~4~5~6~7~8 things all over. In bo there were special ms-dos packs I can't find in hamm. Is it because hamm will read

Re: Long package names.+misc

1998-06-21 Thread Gutraind
Just to add one thing: The debian manual(tutorial) lacks just the answers to my questions, though the the topics exist: http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/rhpennin/debian/debian-tutorial.html/ch-network.html Gutraind wrote: Hello Debian Users! I'm DownLoading hamm packages, and wondering if

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-21 Thread Shiraz Sayani
Hi, I'm still having problems with my ISDN connection to my ISP. I set up /etc/device.ippp0, which has the comment # See also : isdnctrl(8), isdnctrl help text # pppbind is not yet documented in that manpage :-( The isdnctrl help text says pppbind name [devicenum] PPP,

RE: [URGENT] Setting up the Xserver w/ an ATI XPERT@WORK card . T hanx

1998-06-21 Thread Max Lawson
Hello, Thank you for your answers. The problem I had was that the Mach64 server shipped w/ Debian 1.3.1 didn't know about ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] After downloawding the XFree86-3.3.2 release binaries, and intalled them everything is running fine (except that I've to adjust modelines:

Can't get Perl5.004.04 to compile on Bo

1998-06-21 Thread Christopher Fury
I'm trying to compile perl5.004.04 on my debian 1.3 system... when I run the configure script I get a problem when it trys to link with the dl library (libdl). libdl is in /lib... I don't see any other packages (I did install dld, though I don't know if it's necessary, it's not very

Window Maker

1998-06-21 Thread Matt Kopishke
Would any one happen to now were I might find Window Maker (windowmaker.org) in a debian pakage (.deb). Thanks, -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.147.29 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.147.29/ss/MVHS Seed

missing dlfcn.h, dlopen() man page... other dl stuff HELP!

1998-06-21 Thread Christopher Fury
Er... I'm missing a file dlfcn.h... I get an error when I try to compile Apache 1.3 (just .configure'd) I'm running debian 1.3 on my home machine (where I'm working right now) On my debian 1.3 system at work I notice that I have the file. Also there's a man page for dlopen, which isn't

Update, version nos of ld... Re: missing dlfcn.h, dlopen() man page... other dl stuff HELP!

1998-06-21 Thread Christopher Fury
I have version 1.9.9 of ld.so... The stable release is 1.8.12... This is the version of ld at work, and it has a man page for dlopen and the dlfcn.h file Should I downgrade (the status file in /var/lib/dpkg says not to downgrade to 1.8.x), I don't remember why I installed 1.9.9 (oops :)

fdutil install problem

1998-06-21 Thread Harry Tuttle
Hello, I have been trying to install fdutils and keep getting the following messages with dselect. Is there a problem with my system or the package, which I doubt. If anyone can help would really appreciate the advice. Thanks in advace. Here is the message I get during installation: Do

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SS == Shiraz Sayani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SS pppbind name [devicenum] PPP, bind interface to ippp-device SS (exclusive) SS and my old setup used 'isdnctrl pppbind 0', so I tried both 0 and SS ippp0 as the parametr, 0 is correct. SS but although the connection to the ISP is made, SS I

X modules

1998-06-21 Thread Chris
Does anyone know which hamm package modules for extended input to X come in? In particular I'm after the xf86Wacom.so file Thanks, Chris --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!

Afterstep?

1998-06-21 Thread Chris
Hi all, What happened to afterstep? I just installed afterstep for my newly upgraded hamm box, expecting to see my setup just as normal, however it appears that afterstep has been replaced with something else - GNUStep. To be honest, I'd like the old afterstep back. Any ideas how I can do

Re: Afterstep?

1998-06-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 04:22:55AM +1000, Chris wrote: Hi all, What happened to afterstep? I just installed afterstep for my newly upgraded hamm box, expecting to see my setup just as normal, however it appears that afterstep has been replaced with something else - GNUStep. To be honest,

Re: Afterstep?

1998-06-21 Thread aqy6633
Also, is there a way to allow xterm to add utmp entries? At this point, knowing who is logged onto the machine is much more important than the machines security for me. (as root) chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm and uncomment XTerm*utmpInhibit: false line in /etc/X11/Xresources Alex Y. --

All blue text on console is underlined

1998-06-21 Thread Jitse Niesen
Hello all, All the blue text on my console (in textmode) is underlined. Can anybody give an explanation for this or a way to turn this off? I'm using the latest Debian unstable release. Some version info: svgatextmode 1.8-5.2 kbd 0.96a-4 kernel 2.1.105 However, I already suffer

Re: Window Maker

1998-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Matt Kopishke wrote: Would any one happen to now were I might find Window Maker (windowmaker.org) in a debian pakage (.deb). Thanks, There is a wmaker package (plus some supporting packages) in hamm. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Paul Miller
I installed windows NT4.0 on the same disk as Linux was on. Now, I can't boot Linux -- a kernel panic occours and it claims that it can't read the superblock. I've tried booting off the Debian Boot Disk and the Debian Rescue Disk and I still get the same results. I can not mount _any_

[OFF-TOPIC]: Meet me in Cambridge (PGP, etc)

1998-06-21 Thread Edward Betts
I noticed that quite a few debian developers have .cam.ac.uk addresses, and I wondered if anyone would like to meet with me on tuesday. I am going to Cambridge on Monday/Tuesday to have a look around on a university (well Sidney Sussex college really) open day. I thought maybe some people could

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: boot Linux -- a kernel panic occours and it claims that it can't read the superblock. I've tried booting off the Debian Boot Disk and the Debian Rescue Disk and I still get the same results. I can not mount _any_ partitions that are on the same

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-21 Thread Shiraz Sayani
Martin Bialasinski wrote: SS == Shiraz Sayani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SS but although the connection to the ISP is made, SS I cannot access anything via ppp e.g. SS Bert# ping 195.121.1.34 SS PING 195.121.1.34 (195.121.1.34): 56 data bytes SS (HiSax driver detected) SS ping:

Release version of 2.0???

1998-06-21 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi, I'm new to the whole Debian thing, but I see on the Debian.org web site that the release version of 2.0 is upcoming soon. Could anyone give us some kind of feel of how soon is soon? What are the steps that remain to be taken before release? ttys, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to get started?

1998-06-21 Thread Marcus Johnson
Thanks to all who provided information on how to get started with Debian! Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release version of 2.0???

1998-06-21 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Marcus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm new to the whole Debian thing, but I see on the Debian.org web site | that the release version of 2.0 is upcoming soon. Could anyone give us | some kind of feel of how soon is soon? Beta is out in a day (I hope). It should be quite stable already. |

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-21 Thread Paul Miller
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: boot Linux -- a kernel panic occours and it claims that it can't read the superblock. I've tried booting off the Debian Boot Disk and the Debian Rescue Disk and I still get the same results. I can

Linux Y2K

1998-06-21 Thread timothy
How will Debian other distributions handle Y2K on older computers which don't have a Y2K safe BIOS? Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21-Jun-98 Time: 16:39:58 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0.

Re: Linux Y2K

1998-06-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
t == timothy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t How will Debian other distributions handle Y2K on older computers t which don't t have a Y2K safe BIOS? Check http://www.debian.org/news.html#19980104 Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: staroffice (fwd)

1998-06-21 Thread Brian Weiss
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:34:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tor Slettnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: staroffice On 21 Jun 1998, Tor Slettnes wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted

Re: rxvt has wrong TERM variable

1998-06-21 Thread the lone gunman
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:18:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gang, Been having some trouble getting mutt to work in colour in rxvt under X (rxvt 2.20-3.1, according to 'dpkg -l|grep rxvt'), and I worked out that the problem was that the TERM variable is set as 'xterm'. When I

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-21 Thread Naresh Sharma
I'm planning to buy an AMD233K6, 32 mb ram, 3.2 gb hard drive system and want to know if debian linux could be successfully installed. The hardware specs. don't mention clearly about it. Help will be appreciated. Regards Naresh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-21 Thread Shaleh
Naresh Sharma wrote: I'm planning to buy an AMD233K6, 32 mb ram, 3.2 gb hard drive system and want to know if debian linux could be successfully installed. The hardware specs. don't mention clearly about it. Help will be appreciated. Regards Naresh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: AFIO usage...

1998-06-21 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: I was wondering how I would use AFIO to replace they way I use tar. Here is a sample: tar c -X /root/backup/exclude -f /mnt/scratch/linux/backup.tar / What I do not know how to do is exclude several file which are listed in the file exclude which