SDBM access with c

1999-10-26 Thread Evan Moore
I am trying to create a c program that can interface with a dbm created from a perl scriptB. I know only how to access NDBM and GDBM databases, but the person who wrote the database program in Perl used SDBM. How can I access this SDBM database in c? Thanks Evan

exim: Rewriting from address for outgoing mail ?

1999-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: exim Version: 3.03-1 Severity: wishlist How can I get exim to rewrite the from address only on outgoing mail ? - -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.2.12 #1 Thu Oct 14 09:29:24 EST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages exim depends on: ii

any need to upgrade kernel

1999-10-26 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I am running slink with kernel 2.0.36. Is there any advantage to upgrading the kernel. If so, which kernel would be best? Or shall i just leave the kernel alone as things are working fine.. thanx

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thanks a lot, John. My Cds are from"Linux System Labs", www.lsl.com; but I am > really > suspecting that they are not complete. > Reason: There are a bunch of files with 0 bytes, with just the name. Let me > give you > examples: In the binary disk1, in \disks\slink\con

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Taupter
Sean Johnson wrote: > > It's written Starzilla, but it's pronounced KOffice. And about the conflict between Qt and GPL licenses? Taupter

manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-26 Thread Charles Lewis
Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I do when I update the kernel: Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how t

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Thiem
Brad wrote: > The way wheel works is that any user can use su, but only users in the > wheel group are allowed to su to root (uid 0). Your suggestion will not > let any user besides those in adm use su at all (which may be what you > want). > > The programs that don't support wheel then are ones t

Various Problems with Gnome and X....

1999-10-26 Thread David Pollack
My problem is that when I use the gnome panel and pager app in WindowMaker my settings for the pager are not saved. I have made a little icon that autostarts the panel upon starting X but the pager app reverts to its default settings. I have the latest deb package for Debian Linux and the gnome

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-26 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:51:51AM -0700 Joey Hess wrote: > I ran into this too. Is there a way to add those stats back in? I'm afraid I haven't had much success (probably due to the fact that my SNMP knowledge is atrocious). Perhaps the snmpd maintainer can shed some light on this one? -mj -- M

Re: shh for Linux?

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Lutgens
wtf is shh?

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use

Re: shh for Linux?

1999-10-26 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yes there are, they are in the non-us section. You need to ad the following line to your /etc/apt/source.list. The package is "ssh" deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello, > > Are there shh client and servers avai

Re: gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard Clarke wrote: [SNIP] Hi Richie, Have a look to 'la gazette' #43, I think its all you need. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX enhancements aren't.

shh for Linux?

1999-10-26 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, Are there shh client and servers available for Debian? I use putty in Windows and was wondering if there was something similar in Linux? Also, are there any shh servers? I'm looking for non-payware software! TIA, Ron -- = = Ronald Burnett Farrer =

Re: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 10/26/99, Philip Lehman scribbled about "connection cost monitor anyone?": > I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs > (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the > day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. > > At the moment I'm runn

Re: x windows

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
for the s3 virge the server would be XF86_S3V. what is the other card's chipset?? might be best to try to yank out the other card, and use the onboard S3 Virge, run XF86Setup, choose S3 Virge, set the resolution, and the color depth .. click on done(i think thats the name of the button) it will t

Compiling a Kernel 2.0.x with Debian 2.2 (potato)

1999-10-26 Thread Chris
Hi, I've upgraded to the Debian 2.2 (potato) release. The the default gcc enviroment is based on gcc-2.95 (egcs-1.2). These include the compilers g++, gobjc, g77, chill and gcj and libraries libstdc++2.9(-dev), libg++2.8.2(-dev). gcc-2.95 provides the preferred C compiler which is called `gcc'. Thi

Re: lossless repartition of NTFS

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
partition magic 4.0 + will do it..can shrink that ntfs drive down..and make an EXT2 drive ..of course pqmagic isn't free.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks a lot, John. My Cds are from"Linux System Labs", www.lsl.com; but I am really suspecting that they are not complete. Reason: There are a bunch of files with 0 bytes, with just the name. Let me give you examples: In the binary disk1, in \disks\slink\contrib\binary-i386 there are a total of

lossless repartition of NTFS

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, There is an NT computer with 3Gb NTFS single partition. We want to chop out of it a piece for Linux partition. Is there a tool/procedure (fips cn not do that) that will manage to do that? NTFS disk is only 0.5 Gb full. Thanks, Sasha.

x windows

1999-10-26 Thread raymond ferrari
I have been trying to get x windows up and running but have problems. I installed x during dselect, I have a color monitor. It seems as though the distribution I got at the Linux World Expo in San Jose may have a problem(comes from Linux Central). Seems as though I don't have a config file. I have

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:35:46PM -0400, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > This machine is not loaded and there are no users at this time. I just > rebooted and loaded "linux single" and I get exactly the same, / is full > but du only reports 8MB being used. This is a wild shot, and I don't really think so

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Sean Johnson
It's written Starzilla, but it's pronounced KOffice. Sean On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:19:00AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > J Horacio MG wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech.

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Peter S Galbraith writes: > My slink CD (first release) came with sysklogd 1.3-31 and its > /etc/syslog.conf file did not contain anything for ppp.log (I just > checked). Hmmm. I just checked a slink box (clean CD install, no updates). It has sysklogd 1.3-31 and has the correct entries in /etc/s

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 09:52:51PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 08:26:09PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > I was under the impression (I still am) that it's a bad thing to just set > > the system > > clock back. Instead you should get it to run slower (or faster

Re: Can't get seconf NIC to work

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
Does anyone have a URL on how to get a second NIC to work under kernel 2.2.13? The modules directory only has dummy.o in it. What is it I have missed? The family are getting aggrieved that what was supposed tp be an upgrade seems to have removed all net access for the PCs on the private IPs.

Re: Who is using up my root partition? [Solved]

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
The directory /data was being used to nfs mount a remote file system. However, there were some LOCAL directories under /data also. Unmounting /data and removing the local subdirectories fixed the problem. du -x was only seeing the remote files and certainly not reporting any file space consumption

runnin the gimp in XF86_VGA16?

1999-10-26 Thread ascii-terminal
I was wondering if anyone got around to getting the gimp to work under the above mentioned x server. I shouldn't see any problem because images can be displayed even though they are at 24 bpp color they get reduced automatically in various applications (eeyes, xv, etc). The last time I tried thi

Re: proxyarp

1999-10-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can use the arp command to make your machine answer arp requests for whatever address you'd like. The arp command is in the netbase package so you should already have it. For example, if I wanted my machine to answer arp requests for the host 192.9.202.22 and my ethernet address is 00:C0:4F:4

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler wrote: > Peter S Galbraith writes: > > Well, when I upgraded from bo to slink, all my ppp messages went to > > /var/log/messages and `plog' gave nothing. > > Look in /etc/syslog.conf. The last lines should be: > > daemon.*,mail.*;\ > news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ >

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install > sucesfully the cdrom module. My cdrom is a Matshita cdrom CR 5633 (got > this from the win95 previous installation). Not familiar with this cdrom, so no help here. > I had been able to install >

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Peter S Galbraith writes: > Well, when I upgraded from bo to slink, all my ppp messages went to > /var/log/messages and `plog' gave nothing. Look in /etc/syslog.conf. The last lines should be: daemon.*,mail.*;\ news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice

Re: fetchmail error message

1999-10-26 Thread Godric
nate wrote: Thanks for the help - problem solved now.

Re: Can't get seconf NIC to work HELP!

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
So how can I get the second NIC to work? This is getting urgent now as I will have people using the system later. Patrick

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote: > [...] > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C > > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I > > just have to echo this question. > > This sort of question pops up on

RE: gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Paul McHale
Richard, I would make sure your winbox mail client is configured to use a valid account/password on the linux box. If it is, I am not sure what the problem is. With my setup, Linux is where the mail is actual sent. My account [EMAIL PROTECTED] is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My mail client (outlook89) i

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
No way, This machine is not loaded and there are no users at this time. I just rebooted and loaded "linux single" and I get exactly the same, / is full but du only reports 8MB being used. I'm puzzled here :( -- Pedro I. Sanchez Nick Cabatoff wrote: > > On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > Hel

Re: your mail

1999-10-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, daphne ledwaba wrote: > My name is daphne,I am working in the IT department where i am doing network > support,My problem is Part of our clients are running Unix.Let me make a > short scenario > > machine so that users can work on unix environment.In order for the > client

Re: cvs

1999-10-26 Thread peter karlsson
Micha Feigin: > I am looking for a tutrial about cvs beyond the very basic work. Install the cvs-doc package, or point your browser at http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/html_mono/cvs.html -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Compiling proftpd from potato in a slink box

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
sorta off subject but proftpd had some pretty serious security flaws in it, and i dont think it would be advisable to use on a unprotected system(non firewalled). those flaws were fixed but there are many more potential problems as the base code has some severe security problems. wu-ftpd has simi

Re: pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
did u install the source version ? (dont know if debian has a binary for it??) if you compiled from source make sure to enable shadow support(the right kind of shadow there are 3-4-5 different ways to retrieve encrypted passwords) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Unix98 ptys don't seem to be working

1999-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:56:01 -0500, Jeff Hildebrand wrote: > I believe that I have done everything necessary to get them working: > > - kernel in use is 2.2.12, compiled with Unix98 ptys and pty filesystem > - glibc 2.1.2 (and ldso upgraded to the necessary level) Your system can now use Unix

Compiling proftpd from potato in a slink box

1999-10-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I cant compile proftp from unstable in a slink server because it gives me the following error: gcc -Wall -g3 -I/usr/include/mysql -g -O2 -DUSESHADOW -DAUTOSHADOW -DCONFIG_FILE_PATH=\"/etc/proftpd.conf\" -DRUN_DIR=\"/var/run/proftpd\" -DLINUX -I.. -I../include -c mod_pgsql.c In file inclu

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use the command du -x to get a repo

pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Richard Clarke
Ok I have installed qpopper, so that I can retrieve mail from my debbox using pop3. However when I try and login, it wont accept my password. Looking at syslog shows me this, Oct 26 16:26:40 clarke-r in.qpopper[19796]: connect from 10.1.1.2 Oct 26 16:26:40 clarke-r in.qpopper[19796]: (v2.53) Unabl

cvs

1999-10-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a tutrial about cvs beyond the very basic work. The man page is a bit dificult to follow, and I don't have the time to read every sub option now. The main thing that I am looking to do is to implement password on importing and exporting of code (its to be used to centrelise develop

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-26 Thread David Teague
Camiel Coenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze [..] > annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset > button Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ? Camiel: I have a K6 350 in a ASUS P5 MB with 128MB RAM and a

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler wrote: > Charlie writes: > > I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> Debian 2.1, and reconfigured ppp. > > How? > > > It works, but now /var/log/ppp.log does not at all reflect what is > > happening during the ppp exchange. > > Do you have 'debug' on? > > > Where's the new log file for ppp?

Unix98 ptys don't seem to be working

1999-10-26 Thread Jeff Hildebrand
So I'm testing out various pppoe clients for linux for the local telco, but they all seem to require Unix98 ptys. I believe that I have done everything necessary to get them working: - kernel in use is 2.2.12, compiled with Unix98 ptys and pty filesystem - glibc 2.1.2 (and ldso upgraded to the nec

Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and it says that

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: > > i just installed star office 5.1 (5.1a?? just d/l it a few days ago) on > debian 2.1 (slink) with no trouble. it was a clean install of slink. wish > i could figure out what to install to give java support though(or what the > java support would do if i had it) installing the jdk

Re: Stealth Firewall...

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
connection refused means there is no firewall there on that port/protocol. a properly firewalled port will time out when a connection is attampted. as for IGMP i dont think that is even enabled in the kernel is it ?? thought only tcp/udp and icmp by default. firewalling icmp was for me, kidna com

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
J Horacio MG wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's > > > > crap and they > > > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving > > > > them > > > > anything

Re: Incomplete CD included with Debian GNU/Linux - Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:06:49 +0100, Chris Butler wrote: > Unfortunatly, the CD is incomplete. Known problem. See http://www2.newriders.com/cfm/prod_book.cfm?RecordID=585 for the CD replacement offer. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd b

Re: shell account

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
last time i used a dialup shell(or any shell that supported zmodem) i had to use rz to recieve a file(on the rmote shell) and then upload the file, and use sz to send a file from the shell to my modem. hope this helps! nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
i saw this recently on freshmeat: http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/03/16/921605259.html pppcosts is a small utility that calculates and displays the time (and phone costs) you have been online using a modem or ISDN ppp connection. The time and costs are saved, so that you can use pppcosts t

Re: Fw: help for pointers

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
you can use weblogs.. in apache i use this: CustomLog /path/to/www-access.log combined so a virtual host directive (for me) looks like: ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /users/virtual/aphroland.org ServerName www.aphroland.org ErrorLog /users/virtual/aphroland.org/www-error.log Custom

Stealth Firewall...

1999-10-26 Thread Onno
How can I equip my firewall with -STEALTH- capabilities? I know that TCP and UDP connections are done by specific network demons or that inetd will startup the necessary network demon. I'm also familiar with tcpd within inetd. But how can I get my Firewall (potato) too act like there is no compu

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Evan Moore
I have been reading the Linux Programming published by WROX press. It is a great set of books from Beginner to MasterClass. On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, John Carline wrote: > Stephan Engelke wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > > > Someone tell me how

Re: Can't get seconf NIC to work

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
did u try to compile the NIC driver static into the kernel, i got 2 machines that use tulip(although on 2.0.36) and i try to avoid modules at all costs. the only thing that get modularized for me are stuff thats 3rd party and not included w/the kernel. if its a server, there are modules out there

RE: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: >> I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs >> (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the >> day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. >> At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I wo

Re: fetchmail error message

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
check your ulimits (ulimit -a) i get that error because my ulimits are quite strict and when i exceed the limits it prevents me from doing so and pukes with that error. currently i have ulimit's for memory set at 24,000kB for virtual memory and 12,000kB for memory. you also could be out of memory

Re: paste appears to be disabled

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
you using a 3 button mouse? X uses the middle button for paste. at least it does on my slink system and these IRIX boxes i got here. i used X without being able to paste for 2 years, man when i foundout that the middle button pasted..WOAH I WAS HAPPY! (and that it worked too) :)) nate

Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
not a problem if you do that. i've done htat the whole time i've used debian, never used the .deb's for kernels always grabbed the .tar.bz2's offa kernel's mirrors. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.fir

shell account

1999-10-26 Thread tf
hey guys, I just got a free shell account at sdf.lonestar.org. I've never messed with anything like this before, and could use some zmodem advice. I just installed the lrzsz package. Um, should I upload files from my box, or from the remote computer? sorry, I'm clueless. Is there a ultility I

Re: HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: >I updated libncurses4, libncurses4-dev, libreadlineg2_2.1-13.6 >(bash_2.02.1-1.8) as well now, but I'm having trouble since libc6-dev >conflicts with libstdc++2.9-dev: [...] >Fine, so I try to deinstall libstdc++2.9-dev but: > >h0rus:/tmp# dpkg --purge lib

RE: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Oct-99 Philip Lehman wrote: > I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs > (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the > day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. > > At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I would

Incomplete CD included with Debian GNU/Linux - Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Butler
Hi, A friend of mine recently got hold of above book. Very nice, step-by-step installation instructions. Unfortunatly, the CD is incomplete. It doesn't include half the base system. More importantly, it doesn't include the installation disks! Perhaps someone involved with the project should get

Re: question about this mailing list

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 03:31:07PM -0600, jh wrote: > I am going on vacation. In order to stop mail while I am away do I need to > completely unsubscribe and then re-subscribe when I return? Yes. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardi

connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I would like something more full-featured. Any recomm

RE: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote: [...] > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I > just have to echo this question. This sort of question pops up on the C newsgroups and mailing lists a

changing install path of .debs

1999-10-26 Thread shadgun
So here's a good one... How does one go about changing the install path of .debs? The intention is to: -install gcc & friends on a partition that I can mount/umount when needed -do a chroot for ftp/sendmail/http/dns If I mangle the install path with dpkg, will I have to manually update these pa

HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 24 de oct de 1999, a las 07:28:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge dijo: > J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No such file > > or directory), skipping > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libcrypt.so (No such file or > > direc

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: > most of my PPP activity shows up in messages and syslog. Pppd is compiled to log through syslog with facility daemon and level debug. It's up to syslog to decide what to do with the messages. They show up in 'messages' and 'syslog' as well as 'ppp.log'. > i setup my ppp with p

Looking for a good and simple FTP Server

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Hi I want to set up a simple but good FTP Server. Can you tell me which one is good? Having problems with ProFTPd. Thx Alexander P. Barkey

gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I have my debbox, set up so that exim delivers local mail, and I can run fetchmail to retrieve pop3 mail to a local mailbox. I now wish to be able to download this mail to my winbox on the internal network. I installed gnu-pop3d and added it to inetd.conf, and I can telnet to port 110 just

Fw: help for pointers

1999-10-26 Thread venu
hi all heres a nice query from a friend >where can i find an utility which can account for bandwidth usage of each of >the sites hosted on one web server with only one ip address can we help him ? http logs ?? and then he is bound to ask about "controlling" so ip route ? tc ? solutions ???

[no subject]

1999-10-26 Thread daphne ledwaba
Hi   My name is daphne,I am working in the IT department where i am doing network support,My problem is Part of our clients are running Unix.Let me make a short scenario   A pc tha is running windows 95,There is also telnet running from this machine so that users can work on unix environmen

Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am running 2.0.38 on slink. I downloaded the kernel tarball and unpacked it in my /usr/src directory. I then renamed the resulting 'linux' directory to 'kernel-source-2.0.38' and created a symlink 'linux->kernel-source-2.0.38'. I ran 'make menuconfig' (but you might prefer make config or make

isdnutil causes kernel panic

1999-10-26 Thread Timo Kabsch
Hello around, i have just installed Debian Slink an my system and wanna try an online update via isdn. So i installed isdnutils and the newest kernel (2.2.12). Now, the system gets a kernel panic (killing interrupt handler, it sais, and a lot of digits). Whats wrong? Thanx. Timo Kabsch

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Danjean wrote: > What was wrong is that the default paths have not been changed. To solve > the problem, we just have to add the correct default paths in > /etc/modutils/path, do update-modules, depmod -a, and all is good. In that case you didn't read what modutils tells you whe

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
The problems come from the modutils package and the PATH. When I installed the 'buggy' package, I saw a message about the line PATH in the conf.modules file. The syntaxe of the line has changed from PATH[fs]=/lib/module/2.2.12 to PATH[fs]=/lib/module/2.2.12/fs (I'm not sure of the correct syntaxe,

Re: kernel causing mild panic

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks - that worked!

Can't get seconf NIC to work

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Effortless is one word I wouldn't use to describe the move to the 2.2 kernel. Can anyone suggest why lsmod shows nothing, why I can't load the tulip module or what I need to do to add a route for 10. Thanks in advance. enterprise:~# cat /proc/modules enterprise:~# route add -net 10.0.0.

Re: Warning: Q < 10.66666667

1999-10-26 Thread peter karlsson
Sebastian Stark: > what means Q in the last lines ?? I use debian 2.1 I get the same thing, but it works anyway. Some kind of incompatibility. I filed a bug report about it some time ago (#43685), but haven't got any response as of yet. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Pollywog wrote: > > Will I have any problems installing StarOffice 5.1a on a glibc2 system? > Any special instructions? I followed the instructions that come with the > tarball once and messed up my system, and I ignored part of the instructions > the next time and all went well. The ot

fetchmail error message

1999-10-26 Thread Godric
Hi. I received the following error while using fetchmail on a new slink 2.1 install with exim: realloc failed:cannot allocate memory. Can anyone please tell me what this means and what should be done? I used the fetchmail -vv option to find the message, and have run fetchmail both as root and using

Rescue floppy

1999-10-26 Thread Louis Poncet
My floppy doesn't support the new 2930 Adaptec scsi adapter. Is there someone who can help me. -- - Louis Poncet Administrateur sytème [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Urgent Problem regarding Database Connectivity with Oracle

1999-10-26 Thread cilnet
Dear SirDated : 26/10/1999 We have Oracle 7.3 installed at our place. I want to connect java version jdk1.2 to this Oracle database. Can you kindly reply me how to connect java with Oracle 7.3 in this case ? I will be extremely grateful to

Eterm 0.9

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Lutgens
Hey all, word to the wise, should you upgrade to Eterm0.9 from the cvs deb site, it doesn't seem to read the cfg files properly. i.e. telling you that shade is not valid in context color. and the like. Linkwise menubars don't work either.

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: > > /etc/rc.boot/hwtools > > > Yummi, > > could you be so kind to tell us, in which package this script should be? I > didn't find it on my system... Ooops, you're right, it's a

Re: getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o "exim -qf")

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:42:15AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by > "exim -qf" but it used to just go out right away, which was > more convenient to me. > > Can anyone tell me what I need to change so mail will clear > out from the queue r

Re: ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-26 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:00:31PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > [...] > > Does any one know what might be happening? I'd be more than happy to > > provide you with further information (file listings and stuff like that). > > The m

Re: Sendmail 8.10.0.Beta6 (slated for experimental)

1999-10-26 Thread Adam Shand
> * SASL isn't compiled in, my notes/temp package are at work ;-{ > I hope to get this (SMTP auth) going ASAP. have you found any docs on doing this and making it work? i downloaded the tar ball from sendmail.org the other day and any mention of smtp auth seemed quite missing. am i just

Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Lars Nixdorf wrote: > hallo, > > I want to update to kernel 2.0.38. Are there .deb packages to do that? > Is it a problem for debian , when I install kernel-2.0.38 from a tar.gz file > to komile the kernel (/usr/src/kernel-2.0.38 and link linux to this)?

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > > Andrew > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in sc

getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o "exim -qf")

1999-10-26 Thread David Karlin
Hi, I've been reconfiguring my mail server (Exim/slink). Now, when I send email to the internet, it seems to sit in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by "exim -qf" but it used to just go out right away, which was more convenient to me. I'm pretty sure that something got change

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > Andrew Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-26 Thread Onno
>> Boot from your rescue flop, edit your /etc/inittab file and >> change the line: >> id:5:initdefault: >> to: >> id:3:initdefault: > I don't believe this will work on a Debian system by default, since Debian > by default doesn't make any differences between runlevels 2-5. Are you by > any chan

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-26 Thread Paul
> > Try changing the ownership of /var/spool/mail/paul from mail to paul. > > E.g. (as root): > > chgrp paul /var/spool/mail/paul Thanks again. ls -ld /var/spool/mail/paul now says: -rw-rw 1 paul paul 422603 Oct 23 12:16 /var/spool/mail/paul But mutt still says the mai

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