security flaws in proftpd/wuftpd ?

1999-10-16 Thread aphro
i find it very suprising that there is not even a peep from debian developers about the massive security holes in proftpd and the minor ones in wu.ftpd ..virtually all the other distros announced. even if there is not a good fix people should be made aware not everyone watches bugtraq. unless the

Re: pile of packages

1999-10-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: > How can I generate > Packages.gz and other auxiliary > files (what?) from a directory > with a number of packages such > as kde or proposed updates > I want to make it possible > to be installed over local network

PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

1999-10-16 Thread John D Smith
Has anyone out thar, installed Linux onto a HP 8130, and if so, can they perhaps enlighten me as to how to tell the BIOS how to manually address a PCI network card. You will appreciate that a eth0 is a handy thing to have nowadays :-) I seem to be having some serious PnP problems with the ISA side

Upgrade and floppy

1999-10-16 Thread David Jardine
As an inexperienced debian user, I rashly followed some instructions I read somehwere to do an update/upgrade from the slink version I installed from a couple of CDs that fell off the back of a magazine. I have a debian/win95 system with a debian boot floppy. I boot to one or the other system by

Re: need help for my mitsumi cdrom

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 15 Oct, 1999 à 11:39:23PM -0600, jh wrote: > I am resubmitting my question with a little more clarity. Sorry for the > redundancy. > > I got Debian installed. I currently do not have my cdrom mounted. I > could not find any way to mount it during the installation. I also do not > have a wo

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast! [gets rid of libc5 too!]

1999-10-16 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
That did it. Thanks, although that seems like something I should have tried... -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:52:15PM -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even > > installed accelerat

Re: Redialing ppp

1999-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Brian Servis writes: > Add > holdoff 1 > persist > to your ppp options file(see the man page for pppd for details). If you > used pppconfig then that would be in your /etc/ppp/peers directory and > the default name of the options file is 'provider'. The global ppp options file is /etc/ppp/op

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-10-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John wrote: > It seems an opportunity to upgrade to 2.2.7, and gain experience > - I think I understand the Howto and other literature - but now I > come to plan the work, things are not straightforward. i'd recommend 2.2.12 (the latest),

passing parameters to a SSI in apache

1999-10-16 Thread Robert Varga
How can I pass parameters to an SSI (server-side include)? I invoke the SSI file from a server-parsed html file: test.shtml: ... <--#exec cmd="cginame" --> What I would like to be able to do is to either to set environment variables for the cgi invoked, or set command line parameters for it.

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs can lower the number of reserved blocks, but here's my question: Why, on a 6.4

pile of packages

1999-10-16 Thread Konstantin Kivi
How can I generate Packages.gz and other auxiliary files (what?) from a directory with a number of packages such as kde or proposed updates I want to make it possible to be installed over local network using apt Thanks , Konstantin Kivi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

oracle 8.0.5 and potato

1999-10-16 Thread Konstantin Kivi
The next debian release potato uses glibc-2.1.x Oracle 8.0.5 that I use for development uses 2.0.7 and fail to compile with 2.1.x. Redhat provides compatibility package for RedHat 6.x with older libraries and compiler(?) Is it possible to make such package for debian? Oracle 8.1.5 is too huge to be

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast! [Details of how to get]

1999-10-16 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that

Thinkpad 560 - some info, a couple questions

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Marius, Thanks for the info. It appears you have a VERY old BIOS, as I downdraded mine recently from the IBM 1.1 system disk (I was previously using 1.2). My Power Management version is 1.35 (yours 1.25) My BIOS is 1.28 (yours 0.21) The "Thinkpad Configuration" software is the Windows based

unexepted end of file

1999-10-16 Thread Michael Droth
Hello. I've got...: dpkg-deb: unexepted end of file in version number in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/resource.frk/minicom.deb dpkg: error prossesing /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/resource.frk/minicom.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Skipping deselected packa

HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
*Please cc replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I cannot access my mail e-mail account.* Here's my problem: no matter how much I delete, my free space count is 0 blocks. e2fsck doesn't help. When I run df, it knows that the blocks used is less than blocks free, and blocks used gets smaller as I del

where are the word processor debs

1999-10-16 Thread Charles Lewis
Does anyone have a url for a nice wordprocessor? I've got an ftp url for kde in my sources.list, but I don't have koffice in my package list. I tried corel's website but they don't have a .deb to download. === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Comput

Re: Redialing ppp

1999-10-16 Thread aphro
i use the persist option in /etc/ppp/options it'll keep redialing no matter what forever, until you tell it to stop :> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Emacs20 install error

1999-10-16 Thread Carl Greco
I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink system with the following steps: 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 [leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20 Emacs installs but fails to configure with the following error mes

Re: Postscript Merging -> psmerge ?

1999-10-16 Thread shaul
NAME psmerge - filter to merge several PostScript files into one SYNOPSIS psmerge [ -oout.ps ] [ file.ps ... ] DESCRIPTION Psmerge merges PostScript documents into a single docu ment. It only works in the specific case the the files were create

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-16 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:52:15PM -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even > installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious > improvement. The first time I ran X everything worked fine. Then, out > of the blue, th

Re: installed but now what?

1999-10-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:58:02PM -0600, jh wrote: > > One other question: I am logged on in root. Can someone give me something > to type along with a brief description of what it does? I want to see Linux > in action. > I would suggest 16:16 ~ $ cd /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ 16:17 /usr/share/doc

Re: anyone use FireMail?

1999-10-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Oct-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> FireMail is a spam filter that works with procmail. I use Exim, but I like >> FireMail because it can filter based on the "Received:" header. > > Exim can filter in the Received: header too. > > if h_Received: contai

Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious improvement. The first time I ran X everything worked fine. Then, out of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X. I was doing a lot of stuff trying to set

Re: Redialing ppp

1999-10-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Oct, David J. Kanter wrote about "Redialing ppp" > How do I set up pon to redial if the telephone number is busy? There are Add holdoff 1 persist to your ppp options file(see the man page for pppd for details). If you used pppconfig then that would be in your /etc/ppp/peers directory

Re: Redialing ppp

1999-10-16 Thread John Hasler
David J. Kanter writes: > How do I set up pon to redial if the telephone number is busy? By giving pppd the 'persist' option. > here are example scripts in the /usr/doc/ppp/examples but those are for > ppp-on, which I don't think is the same as pon, right? Yes, but they are all ways of starting

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed

1999-10-16 Thread Rafael Maximino Dib Gonçalves
wow, I just haven't told u about the peer error because it just occured when I tryed to connect to my isp using the kppp programm. and that's nothing to do with the connection speed... and I just can't connect with it even now because I dunno nothing about peers... I think because in redhat systems

kernel upgrade options

1999-10-16 Thread John
I have RedHat and SuSE working as I need and am wrestling to get Debian 2.1 to the same point mainly for interest and to eventually rely solely on Debian. Embarrassingly, I've just realized my major problem is due to the fact that Debian kernel is 2.0.36 whilst the other dists are 2.2.5 and 2.2.7

otra vez...

1999-10-16 Thread Berna
Perdón se me había pasado enviarte el archivo, pero ahora si por ahí va... s.java Description: application/unknown-content-type-jbuilder.javafile

podrías ayudarme?...

1999-10-16 Thread Berna
Hola Mira te escribo para lo siguiente, estoy implementado un editor visual en Java que contenga iconos y opciones de menu; es decir una herramienta CASE. Cada una de las opciones de menu por supuesto deben realizar una acción, así como también las opciones de los iconos. Tanto el

Redialing ppp

1999-10-16 Thread David J. Kanter
How do I set up pon to redial if the telephone number is busy? There are example scripts in the /usr/doc/ppp/examples but those are for ppp-on, which I don't think is the same as pon, right? Perhaps I'm a little confused as to the difference between the three potential dialers I have: wvdial, pon/

Modem connection transfer rate

1999-10-16 Thread David J. Kanter
I read here last week about addind the following lines to my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file: bsdcomp 15,15 defalte 15,15 vj-max-slots 16 asyncmap 0 mru 576 mtu 576 So I did. But then, after running modconf, I noticed that some new modules appeared---ones I never specified during set up. They were:

Re: hello

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Think what would happen if every newcomer to this list made posts like that. On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:36:48PM -0700, Kimberly Marlor wrote: > I'm a new subscriber to debian and just want to say > hello to everyone else on the debian user list. > > HELLO1 > > Got to go, Bye. > > > ===

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-16 Thread iehrenwald
> Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root > partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? Look in your BIOS and check out the boot order options. Stuff like A,C,SCSI C,A,SCSI SCSI,A,C CDROM,A,C etc --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Forcing a core dump?

1999-10-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
Neil Booth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have found a bug in some software that causes it to segfault. > However, there is no core file to use with gdb. Why is a core file > not generated / how do I force one? Programs can prevent themselves from dumping core -- if they do, then there's nothing

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-16 Thread John Hasler
W. Paul Mills quotes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Varghese) writes: >> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John Hasler wrote: >> the exact message that appears when i type either pon or pppd is: >> /usr/sbin/pppd: this system lacks kernel support for pppd. this could be >> because the ppp kernel module is not l

anyone use FireMail?

1999-10-16 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone here tried FireMail on a Debian system? I cannot get it to work and the author has tried to help but it still won't work. FireMail is a spam filter that works with procmail. I use Exim, but I like FireMail because it can filter based on the "Received:" header. The URL is http://azzie

Re: Forcing a core dump?

1999-10-16 Thread Remco van 't Veer
ulimit -c unlimited On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 16:15, Neil Booth wrote: > I have found a bug in some software that causes it to segfault. > However, there is no core file to use with gdb. Why is a core file > not generated / how do I force one? > > Thanks, > > Neil. -- Zimmermann semtex Shell

Re: Postscript Merging & Dial-in PPP Access

1999-10-16 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:44:12PM -0700, Peter Ludwig wrote > > I'm trying to get a couple of things running for a > client here. I need the system to be able to do two > things :- > > 1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a > small script that converts the text output from > another

Re: /var/log/ppp.log

1999-10-16 Thread dayglo jesus
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:48:06PM -0700, pplaw wrote: > pppd 2.3.5 started by pppd, uid0 > tcgetattr: input/output error(5) > exit > > q: what does all of that mean? and, what's the fix? > > (the modem is set to com 4 (/dev/ttyS3) @ irq 3.) > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. > I'm no expert bu

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Varghese) writes: > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John Hasler wrote: > the exact message that appears when i type either pon or pppd is: > /usr/sbin/pppd: this system lacks kernel support for pppd. this could be > because the ppp kernel module is not loaded or because the kernel

RE: Need SCSI Tape Help

1999-10-16 Thread Mike Barton
Thanks, MAKEDEV did work but tape support was already in my custom (SMP) kernel. The machine that has all the proper devices without my intervention is running 2.0, so, I guess something is missing in the kernel build process. If I knew where to start, I'd go looking and post a fix. In any case, t

Re: LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)

1999-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 16:18:49 -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Also, any good tutorials/references on SGML? On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 15:34:57 +1300, Brett Shand wrote: > Try here: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html Enough material to drown in. Stéphan Bortzmeyer has a hands-on

Re: SGML->PDF

1999-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Aside, there's an SGML list [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 00:22:46 +0100, Steve George wrote: > Does anyone know of any tools to convert from SGML (or any output jade can > make) to PDF? Use jade's TeX output and run it through pdfjadetex (see e.g. http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdasse

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:03:00PM -0600, Alexis Maldonado wrote: > Hello! > I'm using a Western Digital Expert (2MB Cache, 7200RPM), with a Promise > Ultra/66 board, and kernel 2.2.12 with the hedrick patches. > > hdparm -t /dev/hde gives me 22.5 MB/s :( I still have 14.81, just like under UDMA3

Re: keymap error when closing X

1999-10-16 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Brandon, > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ookhoi writes: > +- > | > I get the following when closing Xwindows. > | > > | > What does this mean? > | > How do I fix it? > | > > | > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > -xkm > | -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD

Re: playing MP3s with xmms

1999-10-16 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, David Blackman wrote: > chmod /dev/dsp to soemthing read writabel by all user Or better, add the desired user to the group audio with adduser username audio Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right?

Re: Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

1999-10-16 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:27:33PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > At the moment I am using a Sound Blaster vibra16x pnp card, > this card is not really supported by OSSFree (kernel) > or ALSA. Although the card produces sound, it gives dma > errors when using the second dma channel and it is >

Re: playing MP3s with xmms

1999-10-16 Thread David Blackman
chmod /dev/dsp to soemthing read writabel by all user --dave On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "AM" == Alexis Maldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AM> Have the same card here. > AM> Can you play audio with other apps? Like splay? > > Hmmm, haven't heard of splay. I bas

Re: xanim error solved :)

1999-10-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:30:06AM -0400, Mark Buda wrote: > That error can occur when you try to run a binary linked with glibc > 2.1 on a system with glibc 2.0. Your choices are to use the xanim from > slink, upgrade to glibc 2.1, or build xanim from source. That is precisely it, I'll have to g

Forcing a core dump?

1999-10-16 Thread Neil Booth
I have found a bug in some software that causes it to segfault. However, there is no core file to use with gdb. Why is a core file not generated / how do I force one? Thanks, Neil.

Slink installation freeze -- Ultra ATA/66 to blame?

1999-10-16 Thread michael
Hi, I'm trying to install Slink from CD on my new computer. Booting from the CD-ROM starts out fine, until it gets to the md driver (which is for RAID, I believe?), at which point, the computer freezes. When the md driver line first appears on the screen, I can hear the hard disk spinning up and t

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-16 Thread Wade Curry
Reading this thread motivated me to look around to find the answer to this problem. I've had the same problem with my real name disappearing from the From: lines. I found the problem in my .bashrc . Some of the readmes and howtos I read said to set some environment variables. This is what I got:

hello

1999-10-16 Thread Kimberly Marlor
I'm a new subscriber to debian and just want to say hello to everyone else on the debian user list. HELLO1 Got to go, Bye. = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: 128-bit encryption version(s) of Netscape-4.7

1999-10-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: > fortify from non-US, but last I checked the version supporting 4.7 > wasn't in yet (probably soon!). It is available from www.fortify.net... which is where i went when i got sick of waiting. The Debian patch for t

Re: installed but now what? (YOU MAY NOT NEED SCSI)

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Jeff, I just realized that I assumed you had a SCSI based CDROM. I have had SCSI on the brain lately trying to get mine working and that hurdle is over. If you have an IDE based CDROM (most likely) forget everything I said about SCSI. In any case try the MCDX support under the CDROM entry

"dselect" not "deselect", sorry

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
dselect NOT deselect, sorry... John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: installed but now what? (CONTINUED)

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, You are much better off WITHOUT PCMCIA from an installation standpoint. I do not know the exact steps to follow to get the "standard" CDROMs to work though as my installation was much more complicated. In any case, it is probably a matter of using the "modconf" utility, which I believe gets

booting from SCSI

1999-10-16 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? The ide disk does not have bootable partitions but it has lilo on it because I can't get the system to boot off the scsi disk directly. Also, inserting/removing an I

need help for my mitsumi cdrom

1999-10-16 Thread jh
I am resubmitting my question with a little more clarity. Sorry for the redundancy. I got Debian installed. I currently do not have my cdrom mounted. I could not find any way to mount it during the installation. I also do not have a workable modem for this computer so I did not do a ppp connection

Re: playing MP3s with xmms

1999-10-16 Thread Ashley Clark
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] splay /usr/mp3/zen.mp3 > splay: Failed to open sound device. > > I got the same error message when I specified the device file to be > /dev/audio, /dev/audio1, and /dev/dsp (which is the default I think). Do you have write acces

Re: installed but now what?

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Thanks for writting John. I have a 486dx desktop. It has 16 mb of ram. I do not believe I have any PCMCIA ability. Yes, the base system is installed. I used floppy images created from another computer from my debian disks. Incidently, the cdrom was working in dos before I installed, so there must

Re: please help if you can ...

1999-10-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 10:53:52AM +1300, lanz wrote: > Please explain in layman terms ... > - > ( I have read all faq's/howto etc) > > > Example > > > A system with a 2 GB hardrive and following partitions. > > 1) 25 mb > dos/fat1

Re: installed but now what?

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Jeff, You are FAR from sh*t out of luck! I did not have a CDROM to use under linux either. And I still do not have an ISP that I can connect to under linux (only WIN95). I do not know what your hardware config is. For example, PCMCIA interface? If so, I do not believe it is possible to us

TP-560 - Sus/res - minimal package list to get 2.2.1 kernel and potato?

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, As it turns out, the person was running "potato" that had the 2.2.1 kernel running with suspend/resume working on the Thinkpad 560. As I can't connect to the network under linux (yet) is there a minimal amount of potato packages that I can put over the slink stuff I have? Or would the nu

installed but now what?

1999-10-16 Thread jh
Well, I got Debian installed. I currently do not have my cdrom mounted. I could not find any way to mount it during the installation. I also do not have a workable modem for this computer so I did not do a ppp connection, therefore I do not have any packages installed. How can I get my cdrom to wor

Re: 128-bit encryption version(s) of Netscape-4.7

1999-10-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
fortify from non-US, but last I checked the version supporting 4.7 wasn't in yet (probably soon!). -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +

telnet[d]-ssl seem to be broken

1999-10-16 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello world, Installing telnet-ssl gives me /usr/bin/telnet.nossl (!) but no telnet. Installing telnetd-ssl gives me /usr/sbin/in.telnetd.nossl but inetd has an entry pointing to /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. The packages in question are ..._0.12-4 and this is on a potato system. What am I missing? =

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-16 Thread Mark Zimmerman
I think I may have found it. From the qmail FAQ: >> 1.2. How do I set up user masquerading? I'd like my own From lines to >> show [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Answer: Add MAILHOST=af.mil and MAILUSER=boss to your environment. To >> override From lines supplied by your MUA

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-16 Thread Samuel Varghese
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Samuel Varghese writes: > > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i > > get a message saying that there is no pppd module. > > Please post the *exact

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-16 Thread Samuel Varghese
after issuing the updatedb command, a locate pppd command yields the following: /usr/doc/isdnutils/examples/default/ipppd.DEVICE.gz /usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd /usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/notes.ipppd.gz usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/readme usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/readme.linux.ORIG.gz usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/r

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-16 Thread Samuel Varghese
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Samuel Varghese wrote: > > > > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get > > a > > message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do?

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-16 Thread Samuel Varghese
the answer to both your questions is yes. sam On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, W. Paul Mills wrote: > Make sure "ppp" is in your "/etc/modules" file. > Also make sure the module exists -- "/lib/modules/2.?.??/net/ppp.o" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Varghese) writes: > > > i am new to debian but have mana

Re: playing MP3s with xmms

1999-10-16 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:59:06PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "AM" == Alexis Maldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AM> Have the same card here. > AM> Can you play audio with other apps? Like splay? > > Hmmm, haven't heard of splay. I basically only tried playing audio CDs

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-16 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:09:52AM -0400, Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /home: > drwxrwsr-x 3 ed ed 1024 Aug 11 1998 home > > I don't know how the above happened for /home. What should the > owner/permissions of /home be? > drwxrwsr-x 10 root staff

Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Steve George writes: > I'd suggest that you put two nameservers in, one from each ISP, and then > don't change the config. Long term you could write a script to edit your > resolv.conf... The pppconfig in potato does this. > So, in your case it may be better to deliver directly,... Many ISP are

Re: Smail help needed from newbie

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. BTW I use exim instead of smail, and it works like a charm. On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:16:53PM +, Abdul A

Re: test

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
SVP do not clutter our list with messages as these. This messages was forwarded to hundreds of people's personal e-mail boxes. Just as you would not like all of us to send you messages that waste your time, we do not want others sending us messages that waste our time. Note that if you have some

/var/log/ppp.log

1999-10-16 Thread pplaw
debs, i'm tring to pon. nothing happens. here's the /var/log/ppp.log: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid0 tcgetattr: input/output error(5) exit pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid0 using interface ppp0 connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty1 lcp: timout sending config-requests connection terminated receive se

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-16 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! > > though i'm yet to meet drive which could saturate even UDMA(33) > > I'll have to second this. If you try this drive on a 33M bus, and it's > the only device on the bus, you're not likely to see any improvement > just by sticking it on a 66M bus. The drive is the limiting factor > here.

Re: Banner

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I know that on our IBM machines at school, our BIOS displays the school board's logo and says "This computer is Y2K-compatible" (the hype hit our school's admin this summer). These are old machines doing this, so although you may have to flash your BIOS, there might be some way of doing it semi-ea

Re: playing MP3s with xmms

1999-10-16 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:06:37PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I have SoundBlaster PCI128 sound card for which I have configured sound > support into the kernel (2.2.12) as follows: Have the same card here. > CONFIG_SOUND=y > CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370=y > CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370_JOYPORT

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
[snip] > peer refused to autheticate [snip] Jeeze! Why didn't you say so? Basically, your ISP wants you to authenticate using CHAP, instead of PAP, or vice-versa. I've never used CHAP, myself, so I can't help you there, but I have seen this discussed before. Try coping your /etc/ppp/chap-secre

tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?

1999-10-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fine on my slink computer. Should I report a bug or am I missing something? Thanks, Sasha.

Re: LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)

1999-10-16 Thread Brett Shand
At 04:18 PM 10/15/99 -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: >Also, any good tutorials/references on SGML? Try here: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html Brett

Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-16 Thread Steve George
Hi, On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > > > > Many thanks for this reply. I certainly need some help with this; > tearing out my hair in handfulls! > > > Hi Anthony, > > I'm guessing somewhat here, since I've only used sendmail

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Oct-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > On 16 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > >> >> Then there seems to be some modules in the directory, wich are not needed, >> e.g. they are left from the previous kernel... (have a look at their date) >> ... I guess you can savely remove them ... or move /lib/module

Re: Problems with Linux partitions after installing FreeBSD

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 15 Oct, 1999 à 04:37:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I had a Slink install on my second machine, and I wanted to give > FreeBSD a try. After I installed it into the first primary partition, > I can find no way to boot into Linux. I have a boot diskette, which I > figured I w

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 15 Oct, 1999 à 10:45:28PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed a 2.2.12 kernel and the hedridck patch for udma66; > I had: > append="mem=127M ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11" > > in /etc/lilo.conf, but I still have problems; detection is well done > BUT not for the good dr

Ipfwadm

1999-10-16 Thread Peter Good
Hi, I have a 2 computer setup, runnin Debian 2.0.36 as the server,   I am having a problem with dcc send on the windows computer, receive works fine.   I feel it must be in the ipfwadm somewhere but i can't find where.   I have the ip_masq_irc module loaded btw,   Thanks in advance.

Re: What is the status of GNOME for slink.

1999-10-16 Thread Dave Baker
> Recently, the GNOME project stopped mirroring the debianized packages of > GNOME because GNOME has been included in the main Debian distribution. > This is fine for potato users. However, I have Gnumeric 0.25 installed on > my slink machine. I would like to use 0.38 because of many improvements.

A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

1999-10-16 Thread shaul
Is there a driver for this chipset ?

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-16 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 16 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Then there seems to be some modules in the directory, wich are not needed, > e.g. they are left from the previous kernel... (have a look at their date) > ... I guess you can savely remove them ... or move /lib/modules/2.2.12 to > /lib/modules/2.2.12.old and inst

Help needed also - Enlightenment/Gnome on slink

1999-10-16 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I could also use some help trying to get later gnome versions and enlightenment running on slink (2.0.36 kernel). I originally installed the gnome and enlightenment that came on the slink CD. But the enlightenment-conf had problems installing. I grabbed a bunch of .debs of newer gnome an