Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-23 Thread Paul McHale
Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux (preferably debian) ? thanks, paul - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile

What is causing the segmentation fault?

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I think my biggest problem with this is the segmentation fault I get every time I try to use the 'passwd' or 'su' commands. Does anybody know if this is caused by PAM, or are these commands corrupted? If I need to replace them, how do I go about doing this? Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: >

packaging question

1999-10-23 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all, I was trying to find a newer version of a package and was looking in potato then realized that the potato version is quite old. I find this very strange since potato isn't even released yet! I started looking at some of the other packages and most of them were this way. So my questi

putting packages on hold from cmd line

1999-10-23 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello Is there a way to put a package on hold from the command line? I'd prefer not to go into dselect just to find one package, (emacs20_20.3-11) which is giving me problems. I want to put it on hold to a new version comes out as this only causes problems when installing.

Re: Parallel port problem - No printing possible

1999-10-23 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:08:15PM -0400, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I am running potato with kernel 2.2.9. I have tried to recompile the > kernel also without auto detect of the parallel port, but no go. When > compiling with auto detect I can see the printer detected, but on > parport0 (or somethi

Looking for fetchmail program

1999-10-23 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Hi, i'm running a little Linux Server (400 Celeron) as a Internet Gateway for my Dialup System.   Now I'm looking for a way, to get my mail from my POP3 account to my server and send mail over my linux server to the POP3 account...   Is there any way to do this? with automatically dialing i

Parallel port problem - No printing possible

1999-10-23 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am struggling getting my printer to work (Epson SC 740). I am now pretty sure my problem is that the printer doesn't receive anything because documents are spooled, and it looks like the documents are sent to lp0. Still, the printer is dead (It prints in Windows though). I am pretty sure tha

Help! Gimp 1.1.10 Upgrade (dependencies)

1999-10-23 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to upgrade to Gimp 1.1.10 (potato), and don't understand some of the dependencies: Well, the dependencies look fine, unless I want support for gifs, for which I downloaded giflib-bin_3.0-5.2 (and giftrans). But giflib-bin says it depends on: giflib3g (>=3.0-5.2) libungif3g (>=3.0-

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
not sure if debian's sendmail includes the legal warning on connection but i had a LOT OF PROBLEMS with that on outlook. that piece of shit would just dump crap to the SMTP server without looking for a response then puke when it didnt work right. i.e. it would try to send mail before the server e

Re: automated md5sum checks

1999-10-23 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote: Hello Andrew, > Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated > basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? During its nightly/weekly/whatever run, for sure. Have a look a the

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-99 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ben, > > I could not find pam-apps at all using dselect. While I was there, I > removed all obsolete packages > (there were several, and this did not have any other affects). dselect did > want to install several > other packages but this did not help e

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ben, I could not find pam-apps at all using dselect. While I was there, I removed all obsolete packages (there were several, and this did not have any other affects). dselect did want to install several other packages but this did not help either. I am not sure why my system ended up with sha

postgresql problem, continued

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
This is where the potato packages for postgresql get messed up: Enter default encoding (UNICODE): Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/lib/postgres/data su postgres -c cd /var/postgres; . ./.profile; initdb -e UNICODE -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/lib/postgres/data -u postgre

Re: errors installing postgresl

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-99 Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 09:37:59PM -, Pollywog wrote: >> Does anyone know what these errors are all about? >> I can't get this installed. >> >> Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data >> su - postgres -c >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I can not log in and the passwd function still give me a segmentation fault. I will remove pam-apps. Do I need to do anything else to get the changes I've made to be recognized? Doug Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Ok, I modified t

libc6 >=2.1 on slink, without apt-get possible?

1999-10-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, At this time I can't use apt-get, as I can't connect to my ISP under linux. If possible, I was hoping to find a site that has the lib6c >= 2.1 and dependency packages, that I could install with dpkg on top of a slink CD based system. If this is a very extensive effort (many packages/problem

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
James Ruby wrote: > I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? > > I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap > they are all primary partitions. > > Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and > make partitions th

Re: errors installing postgresl

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 09:37:59PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Does anyone know what these errors are all about? > I can't get this installed. > > Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data > su - postgres -c > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:

Re: non-us apt-get config

1999-10-23 Thread Todd Suess
I use these lines in sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US At 07:48 AM 10/23/1999 -0700, Uurcus the Swale wrote: Hi, can

Re: Install debian from a remote CDROM

1999-10-23 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:37:27PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > I have the slink CD's and two machines. > One machine has potato installed and a CDROM drive. The another one > don't. > Is it possible to install slink on the second machine by using the > CDROM drive from the first machine ? How

Install debian from a remote CDROM

1999-10-23 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I have the slink CD's and two machines. One machine has potato installed and a CDROM drive. The another one don't. Is it possible to install slink on the second machine by using the CDROM drive from the first machine ? How can I do that ? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho P.S. I'

errors installing postgresl

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
Does anyone know what these errors are all about? I can't get this installed. Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data su - postgres -c PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bi n:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin/X11/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/root/bin:/

Need help configuring postfix

1999-10-23 Thread Raul Miller
Hi, I'm probably just being stupid, but I can't figure out how to configure postfix. How do you configure postfix so that most of the time mail is delivered directly, but some of the time it's delivered to a specific smtp server. Also, it must deliver most mail in my primary mail domain remotely

Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-23 Thread M.K.Pai
Dear Manuel, If you want to take prints of books put out on the web, I would recommend is using netscape with a -remote option. Check out man netscape. PAI

how to read MIME from nmh? is tm packaged?

1999-10-23 Thread Britton
I have started getting a bunch of MIME encoded MF Word documents from a prospective employer. I am trying to figure out how to save the attachment in a file with nmh as you can do with pine. I'm hoping that this is possible even though when I do mh-edit-mhn or the list I get cannot exec I havn

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ok, I modified the file as you show below. > > Did you notice that there was a file named other.dpkg-dist that had the > following in it? > Not sure if this is important or not. > auth required pam_unix.so > account

Re: poff makes X hang

1999-10-23 Thread John Hasler
Jocke writes: > When I type poff my machine hangs > If I instead kills the pppd process the machine reboots > when my connection is closed. > This have started when I compiled and used 2.3.22 ... ^^ > Anyone got any ideas? Yes. You are using a

segmentation faults

1999-10-23 Thread John
Have been unable to find any definition and write-up on 'segmentation faults'. I have encountered this whilst trying a package installation as part of the learning process - the matter is not critical, but nontheless I would like to understand what is involved in case I meet this error when it is i

Re: Is it possible to get libc6 >= 2.1 to run on slink? How/Where?

1999-10-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
John Miskinis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In any case I would be love a pointer to some info on libc6, I'm > very confused. Or a note stating that 2.1 is not possible on slink > if applicable. You can upgrade slink to glibc 2.1. I've done it, and it causes no problems as far as I know. Edit /

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I modified the file as you show below. Did you notice that there was a file named other.dpkg-dist that had the following in it? Not sure if this is important or not. auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so password required pam_unix.so session required

automated md5sum checks

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-99 Patrick Kirk wrote: > Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1 > or beyond? I believe xfmail can do IMAP. I don't recall whether Mahogany Mail can do it. -- Andrew

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic

1999-10-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1 or beyond? Patrick

Netscape Installation Problem "segmentation fault

1999-10-23 Thread Daniel Yang
I got binary distribution of Netscape Communicator 4.61 version for Linux 2.0, export encription standard from ftp.netscape.com. I installed it on my Debian 2.1 system. Everything seemed to be fine with installation until I tried to run "./netscape". The first problem I got was that netscap

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
I use this at home for my wife's Outlook 98. Just have the server run IMAP and Outlook 98 is a fine client.

adding win 95 partition

1999-10-23 Thread James Ruby
I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap they are all primary partitions. Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and make partitions that windows 95 can see and use,

poff makes X hang

1999-10-23 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I have a strange problem I haven't seen before. When I type poff my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[<---] doesn't work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot. If I instead kills the pppd process the machine reboots when my connection is closed. some syslog me

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread John Hasler
Dave Wiard writes: > enlightenment 0.16.0 is broken with potato. it hangs it loads > completely. I installed it last night. Works. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money fro

compiling a KDE App (kdesu)

1999-10-23 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi hackers, normally i am using gnome/enlighenment, but for root-shells with X this system lacks some simple tool like kdesu, that does all this authorization-stuff. ok, with my old SuSE it was no problem either to install the package or to compile it by using ./configure and so on. Now, i do no

Re: a2ps margins (solved)

1999-10-23 Thread peter karlsson
Dave Thayer: > N.B. this is for US letter size paper. Assuming that you are using european > standard paper sizes in Sweden, you will need to look around for the > corresponding medium commands for A4(?) paper. A4dj worked fine. And, yes, it's a DeskJet clone that I have, an Olivetti JP150W. Th

network tools wanted for ...?

1999-10-23 Thread Lars Nixdorf
hallo, I'm searching for networking tools (comerziel or freeware) for: -monitoring services conectivity (nocol,spong,..) -statistical graphical presaentation (mrgt my choose, are there tools that have the same database like mrgt, or tools that convert it) -graphic

Re: Why isn't my ftp working?

1999-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
Take a look at /etc/inetd.conf for a line like: #ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd If it shows up like that, delete the octothorpe (#) at the beginning of the line. This happened to one of my systems during an upgrade. Bob On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Wiard
Thanks guys. I knew there was a way to switch consoles, but I couldn't remember how to make it happen. That worked great! btw: enlightenment 0.16.0 is broken with potato. it hangs it loads completely. i could just have a completely messed up potato, too. i've never done this before. Dave Wia

Re: EXIM settings for dialup.

1999-10-23 Thread Ronald Tin
Sorry that I didn't make it clear.. :( I don't have much problems sending the mail through alumni.ust.hk. And no problems for sending local mail too. (There was quite a number of problems, but were solved before I decided to post here :) The problem is that local mails suffers from the address r

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:51:47AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ok Ben, here they are. > > One other thing to note: During the install I had a message with "modutils" > stating > that The form: > Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10 was replaced with the form: > Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10/fs

Re: Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
"Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > > I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp > package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or > "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a > fatal server error. Specifically, it says

multiple volume tape utility?

1999-10-23 Thread Martin Weinberg
I have a very long (e.g. 80GB) input stream that I want to dd onto a tape (DLT). I'm in a quandry on how to do this. Sounds like an FAQ but can't find a pointer anywhere.n Is there a utility that will accept data from a pipe and pause at EOT and let me change volumes? Any suggestions? --Marti

Re: a2ps margins

1999-10-23 Thread David J. Kanter
You may want to try two things: 1. Look at the docs in /usr/doc/a2ps/html. Nicely laid out help there. 2. Set the default paper size. I have a DeskJet, and telling a2ps that adjusts the margins appropriately. On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:28:33AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > How do I set the a2ps

Re: Drum roll, please...

1999-10-23 Thread Stacy anon
that was classic!! I must save this one :) Glad to hear you made it home with no more than wet underwear and socks. you changed your signature cool :) -- Steve C. Lamb |Keep word, Lysander; we must starve our sight ICQ: 5107343 | From lovers' food til

Re: a2ps margins

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:28:33AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it > prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost > column unreadable. > I made the following change to /etc/a2ps-site.cfg: # D

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Eric, I have attacked the output from /etc/dpkg -S pam "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Hello & Help! > > > > I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... > > > > After the upgrad

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok Ben, here they are. One other thing to note: During the install I had a message with "modutils" stating that The form: Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10 was replaced with the form: Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10/fs I could not find where to change thi. I did find a file called conf.modules.old

Re: Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:25:32AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp > package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or > "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a > fatal

Re: boot and shutown both suddenly getting delayed

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:21:52PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and > shutdown. During boot it gets as far as "mounting local file systems... > not mounted anything". It then pauses for several minutes before finally > continuing, a

Re: Laptop works... sort of, Part 2

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:43:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > There was one other problem that I forgot to mention: > > When the machine goes into a suspend while I'm running X, it will frequently > (but not always) come back up with an all white screen and I haven't been > able to find a way

Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a fatal server error. Specifically, it says that there wasn't a config file foun

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0400, denis miller wrote: > I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ > Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) Any suggestions about how Bad, bad customers :)) > to get them working together? > > Denis I use "qpopper" on my

boot and shutown both suddenly getting delayed

1999-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and shutdown. During boot it gets as far as "mounting local file systems... not mounted anything". It then pauses for several minutes before finally continuing, after which the system seems to work normally. On running shutdown, it proce

Re: printer

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 05:51:55PM +0800, HU-LIAO wrote: > We connected the printer with Linux (Debian 1.3) server by hub. It worked > well. After someone having done something wrong for example, having connected > a new PC with Linux server and tried printing without installation of the > driv

Re: non-us apt-get config

1999-10-23 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:48:41AM -0700, Uurcus the Swale wrote: > Hi, can somebody please tell me exactly what line I need in > /etc/apt/sources.list to access the non-US archives? > I need to use FTP not HTTP, and currently I have non-us.debian.org listed > as the FTP host. > maybe you try somet

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What specific problem are you using. Sorry; I meant "What specific problem are you having?" -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infin

non-us apt-get config

1999-10-23 Thread Uurcus the Swale
Hi, can somebody please tell me exactly what line I need in /etc/apt/sources.list to access the non-US archives? I need to use FTP not HTTP, and currently I have non-us.debian.org listed as the FTP host. Thanks in advance! U = ()() "Don't modify spaghetti code unless you can eat the conseq

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ > Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) My condolences. I've played with it and think it's one of the worst POS email programs the world has ever seen. > An

Why isn't my ftp working?

1999-10-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
When I put together my potato partition, I noticed that I was no longer able to ftp to my machine. I actually wasn't able to do much. But I copied my slink config files over, and that helped most services. So could someone tell me where ftpd starts from? And, is there any encrypted ftpd that I

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > What is going on? Please help me recover my system. I currently have a > single login as root where I was running dselect. I am afraid to log > off because I don't want to be locked out permanently. Can you attach all of the

Re: Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Oct, Ethan Benson wrote about "Re: Looking for monitor sync settings" > On 22/10/99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: > >>cd to that directory, then type gunzip monitors.gz >>Then you can view the file. > > nah, use zless or zmore then you do not have to recommpress it again > (or have it wasting ex

Re: date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 1999, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I think something is writing to > > the hardware clock on closing down but what could this be? > > /etc/rc*.d/*hwclock.sh (which are symlinks to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh). > > The relevant code from my version

Re: c++ messed up

1999-10-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:00:42 -0700, Dave Wiard wrote: > I've got a messed up c++: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory A libstdc++*.so symlink is missing. > anybody know how to fix this? No, you'll need to provide more information. Is the package system OK (dpkg --a

Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE64 question

1999-10-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Cliff Rice wrote: > Hello all, > > Newbie question: I get the error below when I attempt to > do a cat endoftheworld to /dev/dsp. Obviously I've not > configured something right for my soundcard since the test > failed. I've included the files below. Any help is most > welcome. > > Thanks in ad

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Dave Wiard wrote: > i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm > running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm > running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file > locally? > > Dave Wiard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CS - Western

Re: EXIM settings for dialup.

1999-10-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Ronald Tin wrote: > Not sure if I should post here (but I'm running exim on a debian :) > > So, I have a Debian unstable running exim 3.03, connecting to the > Internet through PPP without fixed IP. I have configured exim to > use "smarthost"(*) to send mail, performing address rewrite like > this

Re: Install Printer under Linux

1999-10-23 Thread Dr.ahmed ebrahim mohamed aboanber
Dear Jaroslaw: Many thanks for your letter, and sorry for my delay reply becouse of my trip. After I checked my files, I found the problem now is that there is no magicfilter, so could you please let me know the name of this package, can I find it on the CDROM or it is better to get from th

Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread denis miller
I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) Any suggestions about how to get them working together? Denis

printer

1999-10-23 Thread HU-LIAO
We connected the printer with Linux (Debian 1.3) server by hub. It worked well. After someone having done something wrong for example, having connected a new PC with Linux server and tried  printing without installation of the drive of printer, now it always continue to print out something w

Re: c++ messed up

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
(re)install libstdc++ ?? run ldconfig -v | grep libcstc++ to make sure its loaded if its installed, if not add the path to it to /etc/ld.so.conf or to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. (there may be a better way to do this but thats how i do it and it works pretty good for me) my system (slink): [E

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
check to see if there is anything in /etc/hosts.deny i think debian defaults to denying everyone access (could be wrong) then either add your ips to /etc/hosts.allow, comment out the lines(reccomended) in hosts.deny (tweak it later) or rm hosts.deny hosts.allow/deny easiest way to add your stuff:

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
oh, in that case ... it may be easier to make a dos boot disk, and download ntfsdos (www.ntinternals.com i believe) to recover the data. i havent seen a (simple) boot disk rescue thing for linux to rescue NT. ntfsdos(read only) is free, a read write version is commercial. i dont remember the ot

a2ps margins

1999-10-23 Thread peter karlsson
How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost column unreadable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Package differences - bla_all.deb vs. bla.deb

1999-10-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
What is the difference between the locales_2.1.2-5_all.deb package file and the locales_2.1.2-5.deb package file? I assume packages with a _i386 "extention" are specifically for the i386 architecture. That makes me think the _all package is for all architectures, but then what is the packag

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:37:03PM -0600, jh wrote: > Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. > I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have > tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have > tried most o

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

1999-10-23 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:56:29PM +, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > With all the recent activity concerning exim etc., I'd decided to set things > up > myself instead of using Netscape. > > I was about to post asking some questions, but you have just provided the > answers!! I'm glad I could he

Installing nedit and xmbase-grok

1999-10-23 Thread Andreas Kurth
Running potato, I wonder how to install both xmbase-grok and nedit (or plan). Xmbase-grok depends on lesstif1, which replaces lesstifg, while nedit and plan depend on lesstifg. Is there a way to have both lesstif1 and lesstifg dependend packages installed? Thanks, Andreas. -- Andreas Kurth

Re: X Dacspeed

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:31:42AM -0700, aphro wrote: > DAC speed is related to the VIDEO card only. it just defines how fas the > video card can draw to the analog output at the specific refresh > rates(somewhere along those lines) it is different from the refresh rate > on the monitor. even if

Magic cookie problem

1999-10-23 Thread Johann Spies
I start X with alias "startx -ls -xauth" and regularly get the following error message: GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication rejected. I then kill the process and start again. Most of the time it works the se

c++ messed up

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Wiard
I've got a messed up c++: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory anybody know how to fix this? i'm running potato.. Dave Wiard

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello & Help! > > I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... > > After the upgrade I have seen these problems: (It upgraded about 50M of > packages). > > 1. I can not login to a virtual terminal.

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 Art Lemasters wrote: Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the b

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'd first look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello & Help! I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... I used dselect to select a package and it wanted to upgrade a bunch on stuff. I let it because I was interested to see how long it would take with my new DSL connection. After the upgrade I have seen these pro

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the best way to go with those if you mus

FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Evan Burkitt
I have just installed Debian 2.1 and need some advice on how to get FTP and telnet working. For ftp I can see that inetd runs in.ftpd when an ftp client attempts to connect, but the operation fails on the client side with "Connection closed by remote host". On the server I have a user named ftp

Correction: Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:17:00PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing > the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any > account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r > /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinst

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Brant Wells
--- Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have tried most of the combinations listed. I know the info

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >if you are running a system > > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > install samba, read up on the docs, it will take some tweaking to get it > to work with NT(has to do with encryption during auth) > > but it works..and works good That would work, but I don't think that's what he's looking for. It sou

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >if you are running a system > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > > > net

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have YIKES - That sounds like the power supply specs! BE CAREFUL! The

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
install samba, read up on the docs, it will take some tweaking to get it to work with NT(has to do with encryption during auth) but it works..and works good nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:56:30PM -0700, Dave Wiard wrote: > i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm > running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm > running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file > locally? > Ctrl-

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