RE: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-13 Thread Pollywog
I don't know if you can get 1.42 but 1.44 is at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.44- 6.1.deb If you really need 1.42, I believe it comes on the Slink CD's but I am not certain. I can check my CD's if you wish. -- Andrew

QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, where can I find qt1g (>= 1.42-2)? I've been searching ftp.debian.org and www.debian.org, as well as various mirrors, and this library is missing (should be in non-free/binary-i386/libs/). Where can I get it? Regards, -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condi

.shosts authentication with openssh

1999-11-13 Thread David N. Welton
I haven't a clue as to what openssh changed so that this no longer works:-( I went through and redid all my known_hosts things, but that didn't fix the problem. Any ideas? Thanks, -- David N. Welton(Circa mea pectora [EMAIL PROTECTED])multa sunt suspiria http://

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > I understand that fcntl locks don't work over NFS, but apparently fcntl > used to set errno to ENOLCK if you tried it, while now it sets it to > EACCESS. That's apparently why the same code worked fine on > slink. libPropList will work fine if i

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I understand that fcntl locks don't work over NFS, but apparently fcntl used to set errno to ENOLCK if you tried it, while now it sets it to EACCESS. That's apparently why the same code worked fine on slink. libPropList will work fine if it's not able to establ

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they "sort of" work in 2.2 kernels, but I wouldn't count on it). Even if they work over NFS they may not work with other networked file systems or on non-Linux systems. So the fix is actually complicated, libPropList needs to u

Re: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: > It is not due out until December 1 > If it's half as good the screenshots I'm packaging it! -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Nov-1999 Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I know I haven't imagined this, but I can't find it anywhere. Somewhere >> I saw a post maybe in this mailing list about a PIM (Personal Information >> Manager) program who's name was Merlin or Mar

Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm having a problem that seems to be related to NFS on potato. Here's the setup: /home is mounted via NFS. When I run WPrefs, the configuration tool included with Window Maker, I get the following error: "Could not open Window Maker domain (/home/frodo/GNUstep

Re: Those wildly unofficial Pine 4.20 debs

1999-11-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I've (unofficially of course :-) fixed this flaw in a new revision of the package which I'll be handing over to Noah to put up on his page shortly. This also fixes the "bug in ld.so" message some people were getting. I still don't know what caused it. Some library incompatibility in potato I gue

Re: Seperate DEB package for pico

1999-11-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
No I haven't asked permission but another Debian developer was going to. I think I'll ask him how he's getting along with that. If anyone is really worried about the license, they can download the source, apply the Debian diffs and recompile it themselves. That is completely legal. -- Jaldhar

Re: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hello, > > I know I haven't imagined this, but I can't find it anywhere. Somewhere > I saw a post maybe in this mailing list about a PIM (Personal Information > Manager) program who's name was Merlin or Marvin or something like > that. Magellan. You we

Re: emacs and word processing

1999-11-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Joop van Son wrote: > I had the same problems yesterday. The first 3 problems you described are > ispell problems. When you type "ispell -vv" you get a list with flags of > ispell. One of these flags is "NO8BIT". > Here is what I have done to correct that: > "meta-x; ispell

Re: pc2phone

1999-11-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, luis wrote: > hello everybody: > > a humble question > > is there any sotware that could enable me to make voice phone calls > inside the internet? pc-phone calls? pc-pc calls? > > i only use my dos partition to make this pc-phone calls inside the > internet, using the voca

Re: Small observation [FYI]

1999-11-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:59:27AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the > following: > > When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between > /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. > > Follo

Re: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Pollywog
http://www.kAlliance.org/Magellan

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-13 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: >> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could >> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. >> Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted?

Re: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Have you tried searching Linuxberg for that, or one of the other Linux > software sites? No, but I found someone I had mentioned the program to. It's called Magellan. Looks really awesome: http://www.kdeforum.org/news/939533382/Stuff/magellan/ I wish I could find its web site, though. I'd be ni

Re: Installing from CD-ROM: problems

1999-11-13 Thread peter karlsson
Michelle Konzack: > If you run dselect, choose teh accessmetode multicd2 > (or like this, because I do not know exactly). We changed it to apt (setting up with apt-cdrom, but it didn't find all the lists) > +--+ .~. > | Michelle'

RE: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Pollywog
Have you tried searching Linuxberg for that, or one of the other Linux software sites? On 13-Nov-1999 Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hello, > > I know I haven't imagined this, but I can't find it anywhere. Somewhere > I saw a post maybe in this mailing list about a PIM (Personal Information > Manager) pr

PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

1999-11-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I know I haven't imagined this, but I can't find it anywhere. Somewhere I saw a post maybe in this mailing list about a PIM (Personal Information Manager) program who's name was Merlin or Marvin or something like that. Any ideas? I remember the screenshots of it where from KDE and it looked

Re: Installing from CD-ROM: problems

1999-11-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
At 19:39 13.11.1999 +0100, you wrote > This was the original Message: MK>Hi! MK> MK>A friend of mine is installing Debian from cd-roms (from a machine without MK>Internet connectivity), and since I have never done that myself, I'm a bit MK>at a loss to why it won't work correctly. Here's th

/include help

1999-11-13 Thread Dave Wiard
At some point, somehow my /include lost a great deal of the system headers disappeared (possibly while updating some stuff to potato). Now that I have those back in place, I still can't compile since gcc and g++ can't seem to find them. Is this a problem with gcc or what? How do I re-register th

Netscape bus error after accidental dist-upgrade

1999-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
Oops. I added the potato directories to my sources.list file, intending to do a dist-upgrade *later*, but discovered that if you run dselect and let it "Install" with the potato directories there . . . it does what amounts to a distribution upgrade all by itself. So I ran a real dist-upgrade (onl

Installing from CD-ROM: problems

1999-11-13 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! A friend of mine is installing Debian from cd-roms (from a machine without Internet connectivity), and since I have never done that myself, I'm a bit at a loss to why it won't work correctly. Here's the problems: * The initial dselect install only installed from the first cd, it seemed not

RE: web email packages

1999-11-13 Thread Ray Schultz
On 13-Nov-99 Pere Camps wrote: > What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I > find it? Take a look at: http://www.atdot.org/ and see if it is what your looking for. -- Ray Schultz, Linux Enthusiast, Houston, Texas USA --- 12:32pm up 1 day, 2:11, 2 users,

Re: AWE-soundcard problem (potato)

1999-11-13 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 11:19:35AM -0500, Cliff Rice wrote: > I think there is a sound HOWTO on www.linux.org that I used which worked > real well. I've also found the AWE32/64 HOWTO to be very helpful: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html > #define AWE_DEFAULT_BASE_ADDR 0x6

web email packages

1999-11-13 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I find it? It would be ideal if there were a .deb for it, put I can also cc it if necessary. Thanks a lot for your help. -- p.

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-13 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: > I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could > find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. > Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted? The pr

Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-13 Thread David J. Kanter
I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significa

Re: AWE-soundcard problem (potato)

1999-11-13 Thread Cliff Rice
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 03:42:23PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > Hi > > Yesterday I decided to upgrade one of my Slink machines to Potato to see how > it works. Except for a minor problem whith a package it all worked out well, I > thought... After upgrading I decided to listen to some mp3 and then

Re: postgres and php problem in slink

1999-11-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Francesco Tapparo wrote: >I'm having some problems with php3, postgresql and php3-pgsql. When I >connect from an html page to my postgres server, I receive an error because >www-data is not a postgres user. In my pre-2.2 system I simply did >"createuser www.data", but if I try to do that in

Re: apt-get kernel-update?

1999-11-13 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > I was wondering if there are any plans from the Debian folks to > allow something like "apt-get kernel-update", which would > automatically update the kernel. Some times ago there was already a thread about that topic.

apt-get kernel-update?

1999-11-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I was wondering if there are any plans from the Debian folks to allow something like "apt-get kernel-update", which would automatically update the kernel. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group

Re: hamm->potato with apt?

1999-11-13 Thread Sean Johnson
Yes it can be done. You'll need to get the version of apt-get that is in ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-2.0-i386/ and then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the potato packages. Run apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. It's been quite a while since I did this

Unidentified subject!

1999-11-13 Thread Stuart Hall
i was just trying to register my points , but coulld notm gert through on the phone my account #is 6015 9800 7888 7141 i was just hoping you coiuld help me out.

AWE-soundcard problem (potato)

1999-11-13 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi Yesterday I decided to upgrade one of my Slink machines to Potato to see how it works. Except for a minor problem whith a package it all worked out well, I thought... After upgrading I decided to listen to some mp3 and then my problems startet. First I had to learn that you are no longer able t

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > [...] > > Well, since I already have all the packages I wanted to upgrade, I > removed the ones in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ and copied the ones > missing to /var/cache/apt/archives/ I can think of no reason, wh

DPMS problem

1999-11-13 Thread John Dalbec
Environment: Slink XFree86 3.3.2.3a-11 Cirrus GD5446 2 MB 1280x1024x8 interlaced KDE 1.1.2 PS/2 mouse DPMS 5/10/15 min. timeouts Problem: When I run xhexagons or xtriangles and press the left mouse button over a game piece DPMS kicks in and blanks the screen for as long as I hold the button down.

Canoscan FB 620P

1999-11-13 Thread eric k. wolven
Hi all, I bought a Canon scanner, Canoscan FB 620P, and am wondering if it works with Debian. The hardware is installed. I have sane, xsane with and without gimp installed. The scanner came with a cd with drivers for Win95-98 but obviously won't do on my system. I've checked the Canon site f

slink - How to make a soundcard work

1999-11-13 Thread Frank Schwellinger
Hi all, as a Newbie to debian slink I have no idea how to make a Soundblaster Pro compatible soundcard work. I didnĀ“t want to recompile the kernel, so I tried to install the modules soundcore and sound (sound module with the parameters: io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x330) with modconf. I g

What replaces netdate in potato?

1999-11-13 Thread peter karlsson
I noticed that netdate has been removed from potato. What should I use instead? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 14 Nov, J Horacio MG wrote about "Re: apt-get, now what?" > El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 09:23:05 -0500, Kevin Heath dijo: >> >> > I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the >> > files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave >> > me the fo

postgres and php problem in slink

1999-11-13 Thread Francesco Tapparo
I'm having some problems with php3, postgresql and php3-pgsql. When I connect from an html page to my postgres server, I receive an error because www-data is not a postgres user. In my pre-2.2 system I simply did "createuser www.data", but if I try to do that in a 2.1 system, createuser complain th

Canon LBP8 III+

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Following an unsuccessfull test to make it work in serial mode, I'm not able anymore to print the special french chars on my printer. I made a reset of the setup (LOAD FONT < ROM), but I'm still stuck :( I tryied to 'recode' in 'cp347 & 850', but this time, the printing was stuck; if som

hamm->potato with apt?

1999-11-13 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello! Theoretically, if I installed apt on a hamm (2.0) system, and attempted to have it upgrade to kernel 2.2 and glibc 2.1, would it download all other packages necessary for the system to work afterwords? If yes then; has anyone actually tried this? I'd hate to have to re-install Debian 2.0

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 09:23:05 -0500, Kevin Heath dijo: > > > I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the > > files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave > > me the following: > >[...] > > upgraded. > > Sorry, but the following package

Re: Realtek NIC speed issues

1999-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
What driver are you using with this card? I'm using the ne2k-pci driver (compiled into the kernel) and typically get several hundred kB/s transfer rates (10-base2) with 8029-based cards on both my computers (potato, 2.2.13 and 2.0.38 kernels). I just ftp'd a 17 MB file between the boxes as a test

Re: Realtek NIC speed issues

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:21:44AM +1000, Daniel Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully someone can help me on this as I've just about given up. I have > a realtek8029 based PCI network card. Under windows this card performs > well, getting good (50+kb/s) from local sites. Under Debian however I'm

Re: Where is my CD-ROM drive?

1999-11-13 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hi Bryan, >Linux is not recognizing your SCSI CD. type dmesg. Is there any >mention of your CD? Linux is recognizing my CD-ROM. I think the problem is the SCSI-Driver for my SCSI Controller. Before I upgraded to a new kernel my Controller was recognized as a NCR53C875 and now the system

Realtek NIC speed issues

1999-11-13 Thread Daniel Thomas
Hi, Hopefully someone can help me on this as I've just about given up. I have a realtek8029 based PCI network card. Under windows this card performs well, getting good (50+kb/s) from local sites. Under Debian however I'm doing well if I average 10kbs from the same location. Does anyone have

Re: find -exec

1999-11-13 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > What i wanna do ..is 2 things > > find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644 > > find all directories in a directory tree and chmod them 775 [...] > find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f > > to no avail ..no matt

Re: find -exec

1999-11-13 Thread Gregory T. Norris
> find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f The -exec portion of the command must be terminated by `;', which must also be escaped to the shell. As in: find . -exec chmod u+wx {} \; -type f

Re: find -exec

1999-11-13 Thread Dave Baker
> What i wanna do ..is 2 things > > find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644 > > find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f > try this: find . -type f -exec echo {} \; I've replaced the chmod with a painless payload so you can test it out first. the \; is required to mark the end of the

Re: Kernel-image 2.2.10 or linux.tar.gz 2.2.10?

1999-11-13 Thread aphro
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: djkant >And is the potential error with the system.map easily fixable if I were to djkant >use the tar.gz file? (Just look for where the symlink points to the new djkant >system.map, right?) i've enver had a problem upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1/2.2 in ter

find -exec

1999-11-13 Thread aphro
What i wanna do ..is 2 things find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644 find all directories in a directory tree and chmod them 775 and i'm trying to do it with the find -exec command. For the directory part i did get this working: chmod 7755 `find . -type d` but for the file part

Re: suidmanager

1999-11-13 Thread Marek Habersack
* Pollywog said: > > On 12-Nov-1999 Martin Fluch wrote: > > Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ... > > I just keep a backup copy of suid.conf and overwrite the new version after I > have done a Debian upgrade. That was the easiest way to deal with it without > editing the file after every upgr

Kernel-image 2.2.10 or linux.tar.gz 2.2.10?

1999-11-13 Thread David J. Kanter
I've got both of the files above, but don't know which is the best one to use in order to update the kernel (2.0.36) on my Slink + Potato system. I saw the buzzword "system.map" in the docs for the kernel-image, but I know I won't be able to customize a kernel unless I've got the sources: the tar.

Re: I killed my monitor!!

1999-11-13 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Is there any way to check a running X server to find out exactly which > modeline is being used at a given time ?? Start xvidtune from a console/xterm window. Press the "show" button. It will output the current modelin

Re: Does anybody use pcsnd driver?

1999-11-13 Thread aphro
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Serge Gavrilov wrote: serge >Hello! serge > serge >Does anybody use pcsnd driver (for pcspeaker) with 2.2 kernel? GOD NO!! i hate that thing its more annoying then the speakers on macs. first thing i do when i get a new PC is take that out unplug it and if possible throw it

Re: I killed my monitor!!

1999-11-13 Thread aphro
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme >so I don't think the modeline you mention was being used at all. I think ssahme >that the modeline that was being used at all times under Debian was: ssahme > ssahme ># 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync ssahme >Modeline "1280x1024" 1101280 1328

Re: symbolic link?

1999-11-13 Thread aphro
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Sean McIlwain wrote: mcilwa > mcilwa >How do make a symbolic link to a device, say if I want to make a mcilwa >symbolic link between /dev/stylewriter and /dev/ttyS1, how would I do it? same way.. ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/stylewriter nate --

Re: apt-get

1999-11-13 Thread Randy Edwards
> OK, so I guess I have to bite the bullet. How is the general opinion on > potato at the moment? IMHO, the biggest problem I've seen is that NIS is broken (has some files that conflicts with hostname). Bind will need some major reconfiguration, along with some other things probably; but gene

Does anybody use pcsnd driver?

1999-11-13 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello! Does anybody use pcsnd driver (for pcspeaker) with 2.2 kernel? I cannot find anywhere what major and minor numbers I must have for files /dev/pcaudio /dev/pcsp /dev/pcsp16 /dev/pcmixer Does anybody know this? Thanks, -- Serge Gavrilov Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering,

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > - > Error http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main apt > Error reading from server Remote end closed connection > > Error http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libncurses4 > Error reading from server Remo

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread Kevin Heath
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 03:50:05AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the > files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave > me the following: >[...] > upgraded. > Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Nov-1999 Eric G . Miller wrote: > If you don't want xdm at all, easier just to: > $ dpkg --purge xdm That will work, but if KDE debs are installed, they require that xdm be installed, so the best way to deal with it (for a KDE user) is: update-rc.d -f xdm remove(as root, of cou

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
If you don't want xdm at all, easier just to: $ dpkg --purge xdm -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:15:38PM +, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Hello, > > Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and > /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by > default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this > default would be

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:07:51PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > You can do it that way, but it isn't the proper way. It's generally a > bad idea to mess with files in /etc/init.d because they may be needed in > more than one runlevel. > > Leave the files in /etc/init.d alone, and go into /etc/rc2.d

apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave me the following: - Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, qt1g is already the newest version Sorry, giftrans is alre

keyboard request not working in Potato?

1999-11-13 Thread ferret
Does anyone else have this problem? I have a kbrequest line in /etc/inittab, and the default kmap has alt-uparrow bound to KeyboardSignal I'm using kbd 0.99-5, console-data 1999.08.29-?(in the middle of upgrading) Any ideas? It worked just fine before I updated to Potato. -- Ferret no baka

Re: Somebody is hacking me; what to do?

1999-11-13 Thread Kevin Heath
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 02:31:35PM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > The only way to be sure you've removed all backdoors and compromised > files is is to disconnect from the net, format all of your drives > and reinstall from scratch. >[...] > Probably sounds like overkill, but when all is s

Re: SOLVED - Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!

1999-11-13 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 01:14:07AM +1100, Damon Muller wrote > Hi folks, > > Thanks to those who responded promptly to my pathetic cries for help with an > IP aliasing problem. I have finally found the culprit. > > The ipmasq package obviously sets up some ipchains rules that prevent any > connec

Re: networking options

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:09:48PM -0800, Michael Hunter wrote: > I have a six-year-old 486DX with 24MB running Debian, and I'd like to > connect it to my home network, which currently consists of two Win98 > machines connected by 3Com network cards. What is the best way to connect > my Debian box

Re: Interested

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:25:14PM -0500, Donta' Watson wrote: > Hello I am trying to find my way in this gigantic way of networking and > communications. I have recently graduated and I am looking toward > working > with some other product other than Microsoft. I have heard about Linux > and > I l

Re: symbolic link?

1999-11-13 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Sean McIlwain wrote: > > How do make a symbolic link to a device, say if I want to make a > symbolic link between /dev/stylewriter and /dev/ttyS1, how would I do it? ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/stylewriter or ln -s ttyS1 /dev/stylewriter