Ipfwadm/ipchains admin

1998-12-14 Thread Robert Claeson
Some time ago, I happened to find a web-based admin utility for ipfwadm and ipchains. Now that I need it, I can't seem to find it anymore. Perhaps somebody out there can help me out? Thank's, Robert

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-14 Thread David Stern
Hi Mark, I have some good news, and I have some bad news. THe good news first. I do have a boot disk for you. (details below) THe bad news is that since I'm removing scsi support (this was reported to be the problem, see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9810/msg03176.html

Re: Why sudo does it ?

1998-12-14 Thread shaul
> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, shaul wrote: > > > [01:53:38 shaul]$ sudo -l > > You may run the following commands on this host: > > (root) /sbin/halt > > (root) /sbin/shutdown -r "now" > > (root) /sbin/shutdown -h "now" > > [01:55:14 shaul]$ sudo reboot > > Sorry, user shaul is not allowed to

Re: vgetty info.

1998-12-14 Thread shaul
1) Check out /usr/doc/mgetty-*, assuming you installed some mgetty-* packages. 2) Try asking on mgetty mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Great mailing list. but remember that they want you to read the documentation first. 3) Please report back to this list. Thank you. > I'm looking for informat

Presort my email messages when exmh is the MUA.

1998-12-14 Thread shaul
I am using exmh to handle my email (MUA ?). The MTA is smail (is it also the MDA ? What are the differences between MDA and MTA ?). I want to presort my email messages. Can you recommend a way to do it (procmail ? exmh capabilities for this task, if it got any ? other ?). Is the proposed way a po

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-14 Thread shaul
> Hi all, > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an > open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can > download > in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the > past someone > mentioned 'cft

RE: URGENT advice needed!

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: Actually, all the reviews say that the RIVA TNT is better than the Voodoo2, and as a side benefit, you get a 2d card as well. Peter > In truth -- none. Your best bet is to get a voodoo2 chipset and hold your > breath. > > On 14-Dec-98 Michael Meskes wrote: >

e2fsck has invalid magic number

1998-12-14 Thread Frankie
when I try and mount a certain 2efs partition on my pc, I am told that it has a bad magic number, and to try an alternative superblock (-b 8193) how can I copy the alternate superblock back over the first superblock, or otherwise sort it out?   thanks in advance for your help,   frankie

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Ted Llewellyn wrote: > Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default > SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade > to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do > that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.

re: ipfwadm

1998-12-14 Thread debian
I have my linux machine routing my packets from my lans 64 ip subnet.. Anyone tell me if I can compile kernel with ipfw support and setup some ip firewall rules using ipfwadm.. and do some packet filtering.. the machine with the link does.. www/mail/ftp/http/dns/irc so the firewall should allow al

Re: system instablity

1998-12-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sourcerer wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Ed C. writes: > > > > > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > > understand that

Questions...

1998-12-14 Thread BOHICA
Two of them actually: 1I just compiled and installed the new 2.0.35-3 kernel, from and to hamm (needed the PARIDE support). Although PARIDE works just fine now, I have lost all passwords. When I login, all I have to do is type any valid username, hit enter, and I immediately have full superu

Re: LI but no LO (contd.)

1998-12-14 Thread Chris Evans
My problem is that booting from the hard disc gets LI but not LO, i.e. LILO isn't mounting linux. Two people (many thanks) suggested I instruct lilo to use linear addressing either by using the lilo -l option or putting "linear" into /etc/lilo.conf. This sounds very promising but I think the

Re: URGENT advice needed!

1998-12-14 Thread Mike Deal
> I wasn't really precise. I do not need any 3D feature under X. All I want is > to use the machine under Linux as well as under M$. The 3D card is just for > the kids. I think I read somewhere XFree 3.3.3 works with TNT chips. > > Michael > > P.S.: Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the debia

Re: Problem with the mailing-list?

1998-12-14 Thread Allens
Yes, I had to re-subscribe. Peter Allen P.S. Sorry for this mail (and all the mail I send at the moment) being posted twice, as my mail server seems to be doing that and returning them to me as well. W. Gernot Bauer wrote: > > Hi, > > I didnt receive the debian-user-digest fo

solved; Re: sorting russian text; perl

1998-12-14 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Thanks for info. Finally I found the solution. The problem was that correct language setting is ru_SU which is not supported under hamm. Do not know about slink. Eugene. On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Damon Buckwalter wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:13:09PM +0400, Eu

Re: Debian CDs.

1998-12-14 Thread homega
Christian Lavoie dixit: > What's is the best place (on-line) to get the Slink CDs when it's out? If you are in Europe, I got hamm from some guys in Germany, I believe the company name is Datom. Check out on www.datom.com (hopefully that's the right URL). They sent me the CDs straight away, and t

Re: URGENT advice needed!

1998-12-14 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:11:46PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > In truth -- none. Your best bet is to get a voodoo2 chipset and hold your > breath. > > On 14-Dec-98 Michael Meskes wrote: > > I just bought a new computer which is equiped with a Hercules Terminator > > Beast. Does anyone know if this car

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Hi all, }-> I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an }-> open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download }-> in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the past someone }-> mention

Re: apt-get

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Hi there, }-> I just mail to share my expirience during updating. }-> usualy using lynx and than download install from }-> ftp.de.debian.org and always forgotten something }-> on whats depend the package i tried to install }-> i just tried apt-get }-> wow :) }-> for example: }-> apt-get up

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Birgit Kellner wrote: > Thanks a lot to everyone who has replied to this thread so far. I > managed to sort out some package conflicts with dselect, but they have > not resolved the basic problem. What's more, dselect has configured man, > to the effect that I cannot find manu

Re: KDE 1.0.....

1998-12-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 01:16:09PM +, Rich Hartman wrote: > Is KDE 1.0 available anywhere in *.deb format - does anyone know if > debian is going to continue releasing KDE? I have the "old" KDE > installed, and it's a little buggy - if debian is vetoing them, maybe > I should think about swi

RE: URGENT advice needed!

1998-12-14 Thread Shaleh
In truth -- none. Your best bet is to get a voodoo2 chipset and hold your breath. On 14-Dec-98 Michael Meskes wrote: > I just bought a new computer which is equiped with a Hercules Terminator > Beast. Does anyone know if this card is supported by Xfree? I can go back to > the store tomorrow and g

URGENT advice needed!

1998-12-14 Thread Michael Meskes
I just bought a new computer which is equiped with a Hercules Terminator Beast. Does anyone know if this card is supported by Xfree? I can go back to the store tomorrow and get a different card, in case it is not. But which §d card is better suited to also run X on? Michael -- Michael Meskes

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Birgit Kellner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I thought that I had successfully installed Debian, but it so happens > that bash replies "command not found" to just about every second command > I type, including such basic things as "make config". Before I lose my > temper, erase everything and star

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread Birgit Kellner
Thanks a lot to everyone who has replied to this thread so far. I managed to sort out some package conflicts with dselect, but they have not resolved the basic problem. What's more, dselect has configured man, to the effect that I cannot find manual entries which I could access before ... The basi

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-14 Thread Stefan Baums
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:46:43AM +, David Stern wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:17:17 GMT, Stefan Baums wrote: > > OK, so I download this true type font pack which turns out to be > > Mac compressed. The filename is > > > > STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx > > > > Does anyone know how to get at its co

Re: I tweaked my Linux box too much!

1998-12-14 Thread Robert Vollmert
> went blank and everything locked up. I figured that if I new how to > disable xdm, I could boot up to just the Linux command line and run > XF86Setup again, but I do not know what config file to edit in order to > disable xdm. To disable xdm, you can also replace the start-xdm line in '/etc/X1

Re: getting to runlevel 3 after X crash?

1998-12-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
oliver audiated, > Unless your /etc/inittab is very different from mine, `telinit 3' will > have no effect at all. In Debian, X is not normally dependent on the > run-level. > There are two ways to stop xdm. The simple one is to press Ctrl-R at the ... It's not stopping X that's the problem;

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Birgit Kellner wrote: >(1) How can I check which packages are and which are not installed on my >system? dpkg -l >(2) In case a particular command is not recognized, how can I find out >what package is needed to make it work? 1. To look for in the list of all _installed_ files:

Re: Remote printing

1998-12-14 Thread Graham Ashton
On 14 Dec, Kent West wrote: > At 02:07 PM 12/14/1998 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>I'd like to print directly to a networked laser printer that has its >>own IP address. > > Yep, it's possible. Desirable? Depends. If you're the only one printing to > it, sure. If others are printing to it a

Re: getting to runlevel 3 after X crash?

1998-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > >information junky that I am, i set rvplayer running again on friday, >and it crashed X another couple of times. The bad way, so that it >can't be restarted ("failure in apmsync()" and the blinkies). > >This time, I remembered that some had suggeste

Re: cfengine cron job

1998-12-14 Thread Graham Ashton
On 14 Dec, Ben Collins wrote: > Execute this command: > > /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert --local --add --rename --divert > /etc/cron.daily/cfengine /etc/cron.daily/cfengine.norun wow. how cool is debian? thanks a lot. [scuttles off to see what else dpkg-divert can do...] -- Graham

HP Deskjet

1998-12-14 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Emai

Best Sound Card

1998-12-14 Thread John
Hi All, I'm going to replace my opti931 sound card. (I never could get the *%##@ running on a linux only drive.) What I'm wondering is which sound card is the best quality and easiest to configure with the Debian system using linux only. Please don't tell me it's the Turtle Beach Pinnacle. While I

Re: incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages

1998-12-14 Thread Daniel Elenius
Britton writes: > >The subject pretty much says it all. My 'smarthost' is aurora.uaf.edu, >and my username on this system is fsblk, but my username from my home >maching (which is 'gandalf') gets put in the "From:" line. I have tried >responding with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' when asked by smailconfig

Re: Printing Quota

1998-12-14 Thread Jens Ritter
Llista mail debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All! > > I want to do a printing quota under Linux using de LPRng. The > quota system is very easy (Quota = Quota - Num_lines_printed), but I don't > know who to interact with de LPR, I need a filter? How I put my script in > the filter? (

Kernel boot problem!

1998-12-14 Thread Jeff Browning
When I boot up my Linux box it get's stuck on "LILO Loading Linux..." This has never happened before. I just compiled and installed a sound supporting kernel, but that has been working until now. I installed my kernel backup but it still does the same thing. The only way that I can boot my comp

Re: Install problem with .tgz files?

1998-12-14 Thread Kent West
At 04:34 PM 12/14/1998 +, Martin Smith wrote: >I recently bought my first computer - a Cyrix P180 without an OS - and >have been trying unsuccessfully for the last week to install Linux. I >hope someone can help this frustrated newbie. > >I first tried to install Debian 2.0 using CDs from Chea

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-14 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (tracheotomy bob) writes: > Hi all, > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an > open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can > download > in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I t

Re: Epson Stylus Color IIs

1998-12-14 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (van den Hurk) writes: > Hi everybody out there! > > Is there any support under Linux for the Epson Stylus Color IIs? AFIAK The Epson Printers talk ESC/P2. There is support for st(ylus)color. So you should at least be able to use it as a Stylus Color printer. HTH, Jens -

Re: Install problem with .tgz files?

1998-12-14 Thread Kent West
At 04:34 PM 12/14/1998 +, Martin Smith wrote: >I recently bought my first computer - a Cyrix P180 without an OS - and >have been trying unsuccessfully for the last week to install Linux. I >hope someone can help this frustrated newbie. > >I first tried to install Debian 2.0 using CDs from Chea

Re: Install problem with .tgz files?

1998-12-14 Thread Kent West
At 04:34 PM 12/14/1998 +, Martin Smith wrote: >I recently bought my first computer - a Cyrix P180 without an OS - and >have been trying unsuccessfully for the last week to install Linux. I >hope someone can help this frustrated newbie. > >I first tried to install Debian 2.0 using CDs from Chea

missing space on / partition

1998-12-14 Thread digger
Hello all, Recently I was given a new hard drive and moved around my partitions. For some reason df shows the root partition as nearly full. Could it be the way I partitioned it? Here's some info: df -xcd : 13436 / 13519 total df: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available

Re: Remote printing

1998-12-14 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in part): > > I'd like to print directly to a networked laser printer that has its > own IP address. > I print to an HP LaserJet 8000 N directly from Linux, both plain-text files (lpr file-name) and graphics (using Netscape). Since the printer is IP

viedo player for debian 2.0?

1998-12-14 Thread Greg Fox
Hello. I am desperately seeking a viedo player for debian 2.0. I haven't been able to get the src for xanim to compile, and the xanim ELF does not work for 2.0 (I have even copied over the libraries from a libc machine, but it seg faults). mpeg_play with a tk frotend is ok for .mpg/etc but I a

Re: How to test RAM?

1998-12-14 Thread Dan hursh
Hi all, I found a tar ball of this, and I will try to compile it tonight, but I'm willing to bet the compile will fail, so I'll ask now. Do anyone know where a binary of this might be? When I tried to compile my own kernel, Iit failed in xconfig and menu config on a bunch of parse errors.

Re: Remote printing

1998-12-14 Thread Kent West
At 02:07 PM 12/14/1998 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I'd like to print directly to a networked laser printer that has its >own IP address. > >I can't find anything in the usual documentation to suggest: > >1) whether this is possible or desirable, Yep, it's possible. Desirable? Depends.

Re: [GUI-SIG] Wrong configuration of tkinter in python

1998-12-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
> I've got this message when I try to do > python dialog.py in the Demo/tkinter/guido : > > XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error) on X server ":0.0" > after 53 requests (51 known processed) with 0 events remaining > > I use the tk8.0 and tcl8.0 that comes in Debian 2.0 . > > I suspect th

how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread Birgit Kellner
I thought that I had successfully installed Debian, but it so happens that bash replies "command not found" to just about every second command I type, including such basic things as "make config". Before I lose my temper, erase everything and start from scratch - (1) How can I check which package

getting to runlevel 3 after X crash?

1998-12-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
information junky that I am, i set rvplayer running again on friday, and it crashed X another couple of times. The bad way, so that it can't be restarted ("failure in apmsync()" and the blinkies). This time, I remembered that some had suggested that going to runlevel 3 rather than rebooting m

Install problem with .tgz files?

1998-12-14 Thread Martin Smith
I recently bought my first computer - a Cyrix P180 without an OS - and have been trying unsuccessfully for the last week to install Linux. I hope someone can help this frustrated newbie. I first tried to install Debian 2.0 using CDs from CheapBytes. Everything went fine until it came time to ins

Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks

1998-12-14 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: > > I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is > done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected > to my academic LAN. > > what I wish to do is set u

Re: Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-14 Thread joseph evan porter
> > No, quite frankly, Maelstrom doesn't seem to be working for me, either. The > only way I can get it to work is to d/l pristine source and compile it myself > > > I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. > > Anyway, I just discovered that it existed last night, and

Wrong configuration of tkinter in python

1998-12-14 Thread Manuel Gutierrez Algaba
I've got this message when I try to do python dialog.py in the Demo/tkinter/guido : XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error) on X server ":0.0" after 53 requests (51 known processed) with 0 events remaining I use the tk8.0 and tcl8.0 that comes in Debian 2.0 . I suspect that this is relate

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-14 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Graham Ashton wrote: > humbug% cat .forward > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f || exit 75 #ashtong" > humbug% ll .forward Thanks, I was setting ~/.forward the wrong way ;-) r i c h a r d l. a l h a m a technical support group cyberspace laoag, isp 2900 phils.

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 15:17:17 +, Stefan Baums wrote: > STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx According to the file extensions list at http://whatis.com/ , that's BinHex encoded. The "macutils" package can convert that. Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

anyone using xringd in the UK?

1998-12-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I would like to know if anyone has had any luck with getting xringd to work with an ISP service in the UK? If yes could you send me an email with more details ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill Colle

Smail and POP3

1998-12-14 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Well I have got my X working now (finally found the old SUSE Matrox server on the Webi its gone from the SUSE hompage). Now I have a smaill Smail problem. I am using Smail to send mail and fetchmail to pull incoming mail from the company POP3 server. I have set my visable domain to

Re: cfengine cron job

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:20:51PM +, Graham Ashton wrote: > > What would be the most "debian friendly" way of disabling it? I thought > of removing the cfengine package, but then thought that there might be a > less heavy handed approach, other than deleting/moving the files from > /etc/cron.

Re: driver for intel etherexpress won't install

1998-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Aaron Stromas wrote: >can someone explain to me what does the message which i get when i >attempt to install the drivers for intel etherexpress pro 100 pci lan >adapter mean: > >/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/eexpress.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > >Installation failed. It possi

Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks

1998-12-14 Thread Ian Stuart
I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected to my academic LAN. what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all reques

Re: Funky mouse.

1998-12-14 Thread Brent McMillan
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Brent McMillan wrote: > > > > I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I > > picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal > > and vertical roller on the underside. It look kinda like it ha

Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-14 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all! OK, so I download this true type font pack which turns out to be Mac compressed. The filename is STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx Does anyone know how to get at its contents under GNU/Linux? Is there even a Debian package for this? Or do I have to mail the site maintainers and beg them to ma

Re: How to test RAM?

1998-12-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ed Cogburn wrote: > So, how can > I check my RAM? > There was, a long time ago, a thread in debian-user about testing RAM. > Does anyone remember this? Does anybody know of a Win95/DOS/Linux > program (freely available) that does a thorough test of RAM? "memtest86" in the doc/hwtools pac

Still the less fortune problem...

1998-12-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> case $- in > *i*)# interactive shell only > echo "\n" > fortune -a > echo "" > ;; > esac Hm, this gives me an Illegal variable name. error... Stef

Re: Gimp file formats?

1998-12-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> The "save as" option on my Gimp only offers its internal > (.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif. What'm I > missing here? Layers can only be saved in gimps own format. So you have to flatten an image first, before you can save it as GIF. Also if it has more than 8-bit colors, it can't be sa

Re: Problem with the mailing-list?

1998-12-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I didnt receive the debian-user-digest for 4 days now. Do you have > troubles with it? No, I don't think so. Maybe there were some troubles with your e-mail account, and you have been deleted from the list (it happened to me once...)? Subscribe again, and everything should be fine. Stef

driver for intel etherexpress won't install

1998-12-14 Thread Aaron Stromas
can someone explain to me what does the message which i get when i attempt to install the drivers for intel etherexpress pro 100 pci lan adapter mean: /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/eexpress.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Installation failed. what do i have to do to install the divers. i'm usi

Remote printing

1998-12-14 Thread mark . lake
Hi, I'd like to print directly to a networked laser printer that has its own IP address. I can't find anything in the usual documentation to suggest: 1) whether this is possible or desirable, 2) how to go about it? Any clues gratefully received. Mark - Dr. Mark Lake Institute of

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > > tree, but /dev is g

X keyboard mapping

1998-12-14 Thread Armin Wegner
I would like to switch between two keyboard mappings - us and german - whenever I need to. I've written two input files for xmodmap, accordingly. These are correct. I typed xmodmap but nothing happend. I can remember that this worked some installations before. What could be the fault? Are t

Re: shell magic/info

1998-12-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Sibuyas Bombay hat gesagt: // Sibuyas Bombay wrote: > My concern is actually to write a program that will prompt a user 4 > or 5 inputs only, (pon, poff, elm, quit) then make it as her default > login shell, that way, i dont give her a fully interactive shell (and > a potential security hole for m

Re: system instablity

1998-12-14 Thread Sourcerer
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Ed C. writes: > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > understand that you don't believe me, and you are not th

cfengine cron job

1998-12-14 Thread Graham Ashton
I've just installed a new hamm system, and am getting mail messages about cfengine's cron job; -- Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:44:51 + /etc/cron.daily/cfengine: cf:alice:/etc/

Re: C++ include files

1998-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:52:37 +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I using egcs1.0.3 (?) and libstd++2.9 (I think.) That may be your problem. For egcs 1.0.3, you need libstdc++2.8(-dev), not 2.9. 2.9 is for use with egcs 1.1 and 1.1.1 . Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of m

C++ include files

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Makholm
When I'm trying to compile C++ files it doesn't finds the C++ headerfiles automatically. It works when I'm telling it where to find them as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > g++ -I/usr/include/g++-2 test.cc - or - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > setenv CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH /usr/include/g++-2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > g++ tes

Gimp file formats?

1998-12-14 Thread Gossamer
The "save as" option on my Gimp only offers its internal (.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif. What'm I missing here? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'm not one of those who think Bill Gate

XFree and the dead keys

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello don't know if this has been asked before: How do I set up my XF86Config-File in way that the german keyboard produces a "plus asterisk asciitilde" instead of "plus asterisk deadtilde" ? The following does not work: Section "Keyboard" Protocol"Sta

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-14 Thread David Herbert
I did type in what you asked. I also thought it was strange about the error returnedI deside to use a CD rom that would be on the frist controller to solve this problem until I have a up and running kernelThanks to you and Kent for your helpI'm sure once I'm up I'll be back.

Re: CDrom

1998-12-14 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Debian User, > I just installed Debian 2.0 am I am configuring it now. But I am having a > problem with the mounting of my CDrom. I can see the list of different CDrom's > but I can only see from the "m's" and down. I have a HP Pavilion 6340 with the > default CDrom.

[Off Topic] Creative Hardware Question

1998-12-14 Thread Dan Hugo
It's late, and I have a meeting in something like 7 hours to talk about this subject, so I thought I might post a question here to see what my fellow Debian users think. Given the WebPad from Cyrix (http://www.cyrix.com/html/emerging/index.htm), the Netwinder from Corel (http://www.corelcomputer.c

Re: Any one using voice modems (mailbox) on Debian with US Robotics Modem

1998-12-14 Thread Dan Hugo
A vgetty documentation site: http://www.yeolde.com/~surfgriz/vgetty/ I used to have a link to the mgetty+sendfax page which included the sources and various bits of info for vgetty as well, but that link seems to have moved... I too have a USR Sportster voice on a shelf somewhere, and I was goin

LDAP and Netscape Mail ...

1998-12-14 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi I'm starting to fiddle arround with a directory server! I'm using umich-ldap without any changes. Now I'm trying to configure my netscape to use this directory server to search for info. I configured netscape with the following parameters: Description: Teste ldap server: neptuno.sc.uevora.pt

Printing Quota

1998-12-14 Thread Llista mail debian
Hi All! I want to do a printing quota under Linux using de LPRng. The quota system is very easy (Quota = Quota - Num_lines_printed), but I don't know who to interact with de LPR, I need a filter? How I put my script in the filter? (I see that de lpf filter give me de number of lines printe

Problem with the mailing-list?

1998-12-14 Thread W. Gernot Bauer
Hi, I didnt receive the debian-user-digest for 4 days now. Do you have troubles with it? Gery -- - Wolfgang Bauer SKWB Schoellerbank Aktiengesellschaft Sterneckstr. 5, 5024 Salzburg, Austria - Phone: ++43-662-8684-364

Re: calculating bandwidth requirements

1998-12-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 11:53:43PM +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote: > Can't one force the users to use theproxy at port > 80/8080? Yes, by using a custom kernel with the TRANSPARENT_PROXY option enabled. Install the transproxy package and read the enclosed documentation. It's not difficult. Nils -- *--

RE: hardware questions - Promise Ultra DMA 33 + Asus TX97E

1998-12-14 Thread Chang, FKK
Thanks, though I didn't really need it (it is mostly about patching old kernels). I got things working by experimenting with the order, jumpering and master/slave combinations of the drives. (Quite a lot of combinations, 4 interfaces, 8 ports, 5 drives, master/slave choice, etc,etc..) At a

Re: Cannon BJC-4100 printer

1998-12-14 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Anyone already printed with BJC-4100 with colors? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Quoting Phillip Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On mar, 08 dic 1998 10:55:11 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > > I have a problem. > >

Re: I tweaked my Linux box too much!

1998-12-14 Thread Richard Alhama
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: > > I know you know the old saying, "If it's not broke don't fix it." I > was trying to "tweak" > my X Window System display by running XF86Setup utility. I had had a > nice display setup already but I thought if I tinkered with it some more > I coul

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-14 Thread Britton
You want ncftp. Use the get -C command. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hi all, > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an > open line for seven hours plus. Does anyo

Re: sorting russian text; perl

1998-12-14 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:13:09PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > about one month ago there were posting about locale's usage under > > perl. I tried to use it for sorting russian, but it did not work for me. > > Is there any additional tricks beside

How to test RAM?

1998-12-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ed Cogburn writes: > > I don't see anything similar in Win95. > > That tends to point toward memory. Different OS's have very different > memory usage patterns, and a bit that usually ends up storing user data > in one may get part of a kernel data structure in anoth

Re: shell magic/info

1998-12-14 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh . Actually, they can start with the full path to *any* program there. > My concern is actually to write a program that will prompt a user 4 or 5 > inputs only, (pon, poff, elm, quit) Check out "whiptail" (in the whiptail pack

Buslogic BT-958 failing with Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive

1998-12-14 Thread Jameson Burt
With a Buslogic (Mylex) BT-958 scsi adapter, my Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive fails. With an Adaptec 2940uw, that same 8mm tape drive works well. I merely switched scsi adapters on the same P2B motherboard of my computer, using the same kernel and modules. I want to use the Buslogic adapter with my E

Re: [MrG0D@aol.com] CDrom

1998-12-14 Thread Andrew Ivanov
What do you mean, from "m's" and down? Do an ls | more in the /dev to view the content page by page. Andrew

[MrG0D@aol.com] CDrom

1998-12-14 Thread Alexander Koch
Hello. This mail got caught in a spam trap and since it is no spam I'm forwarding it here. Would somebody of you please help him? Thanks, Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Alexander Koch - <>< - aka Efraim - PGP - 0xE7694969 - Hannover - Germany --- Begin Message --- Dear Debian User, I just ins

Maelstrom problem...FIXED!

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Well, I got the sources and compiled. I did an strace and got an endless loop of: select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 6}) = 0 (Timeout) So I figure there some sort of delayed loop that isn't exiting. Probably waiting for something like sound to start. Sooo...I started with volume=0 and it wor

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-14 Thread Eric Jensen
If only Staroffice would _SAVE_ as powerpoint files... :( _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | Page me via ICQ at | |___ | | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |__/ | or by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__/ On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: >

Re: diald setup problem

1998-12-14 Thread okushi
> > > I'm having trouble setting up diald on my Linux box. The problem I have > > > right now, which I haven't been able to figure out for the last couple of > > > hours, is that ppp0, when the link comes up, assumes the IP address > > > assigned to eth0. I just cannot figure out how it gets it!

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