Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On 29/11/99 aphro wrote: id suggest making the compiler(s) runable only by root(same for the libraries the compilers use) i suppose, but that takes the fun out of the system :-) make users home dirs on another partition mounted with at least the noexec option and make sure there is no direct

Re: Potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
Sven Esbjerg wrote: > Another thing. When I install new packages from dselect I get an error: > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 > > Is this a general error (I haven't seen it on any other potato-machines)? It happens to me

thanks

1999-11-29 Thread luis
hello forget my previous problem, now i can get thoe following route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.100.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 localnet* 255.255.254.0 U

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread Joe Block
Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Can I ask for some advice? > > We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They > have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students > want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those > students have user acco

Re: Deb package for Julian date?

1999-11-29 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
Godric wrote: > Hi. Anyone know if there is a deb package (I'm using Slink still with > 2.0.36 kernel) for converting ordinary dates into Julian dates (as used > in Astronomy)? Or if no debs then any GNU/Linux package which I could > use alien on? If you program python, there is a Date class in

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Can I ask for some advice? > > We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They > have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students > want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those > stud

Re: gw ppp0

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, luis wrote: luis >hello greetings. luis >how can i specify the IP address of the gateway to contact to the ppp0 luis >conexion? try route add default gw nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread claw
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:49:04 -0800 Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a safe way to set up a `guest' user-account with a > publicly known password? The usual method is to set it up in a chroot jail using a restricted shell. -- J C Lawrence Home

Re: sudo problem

1999-11-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 29-Nov-1999, Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't get any replies to this, so am sending it again. However, I > noticed an additional message after the prompt returns: > > $ sudo ls > sudo: unable to lookup nielsen via gethostbyname(): Resource temporarily > unavailable > Segment

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-29 Thread The Doctor What
* Enrico Zini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991122 13:56]: > I'm trying with a RedHat 6 (The server will need Debian, anyhow), and I > had more luck: it didn't require a custom kernel and had a module for the > DAC960. It seems to hang, however, when formatting the drives, when a > disk is reported dead. P

security and guest accounts

1999-11-29 Thread Jim McCloskey
Can I ask for some advice? We've just set up two Slink machines in a graduate student lab. They have ethernet connections; there is no firewall. Some of the students want to do all their work in a regular way on these machines and those students have user accounts. But a number just want to be

gw ppp0

1999-11-29 Thread luis
hello how can i specify the IP address of the gateway to contact to the ppp0 conexion? i get the following route thanks a lotKernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.100.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 0

Re: pcmcia network card dramas

1999-11-29 Thread Brian Mays
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 310 with ToPIC 97 PCMCIA controller. When > pcmcia is started (in potato) if my network card (IC-CARD+ ethernet) > is already inserted, it is detected as "anonymous memory". > If I insert the card after starting pcmcia, it is detected correctly. > This started a few m

Re: setting up isdn. sorry but redhat is easier

1999-11-29 Thread Markus Jaekel
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Searching debian-user did not help me much, so either I am asking the > wrong forum, or it works for most people. I'll return with other > questions, but for a start: > * has anyone had sucess with isdn4net on debian, or is anyone porting yes, it w

esound problem

1999-11-29 Thread Jocke
Hi all, anyone know what to do about this? slayer:/home/jocke1s# apt-get install esound Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: esound 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > I have SO5.1a running fine for a few months now on a potato box. Got > it > > from the Sun website a couple months ago. Many fewer hiccups than > > version 5.0. > > well, i'm having same trouble, too. downloaded 5.1 from s

Re: Clock problems

1999-11-29 Thread Marc Mongeon
I think this is caused by the file /etc/adjtime, which is supposed to adjust for clock drift, but gets skewed when you first set the hard- ware clock. Remove the file, then re-set the clock. It will be re- created as needed. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-K

Re: Deb package for Julian date?

1999-11-29 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Godric -- > Hi. Anyone know if there is a deb package (I'm using Slink still with > 2.0.36 kernel) for converting ordinary dates into Julian dates (as used > in Astronomy)? Or if no debs then any GNU/Linux package which I could > use alien on? I don't know if there is a Debian package to do what

Re: remote power on

1999-11-29 Thread Marc Mongeon
Machines with advanced power management features can be configured to "go to sleep", and "wake up" on certain kinds of activity on the serial port, maybe the DCD signal or something. This is a function of the machine's BIOS. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe

Deb package for Julian date?

1999-11-29 Thread Godric
Hi. Anyone know if there is a deb package (I'm using Slink still with 2.0.36 kernel) for converting ordinary dates into Julian dates (as used in Astronomy)? Or if no debs then any GNU/Linux package which I could use alien on?

Clock problems

1999-11-29 Thread Timothy Bedding
I am having problems with the clock losing time after I have shut my system down overnight. Is this to be expected? I thought that there would some way round this. Or is the only way simply to keep the machine running all the time? Cordially Tim

Re: remote power on

1999-11-29 Thread Phillip Rulon
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:05:06 -0500 From: Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Mail-Followup-To: luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-T

setting up isdn. sorry but redhat is easier

1999-11-29 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
I got my isdn line a few days ago, and using the isdn4net package in addition to isdn4linux is was quite ease to get redhat 6.1 online. But debian was my first distribution and I really would like to use it for my day to day use. Setting up debian is unfortunately not that easy. From isdn4net web

Re: remote power on

1999-11-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 03:09:49AM +0100, luis wrote: > > (how) can i power on a remote machine (via internet) using a modem ? > Wouldn't the machine have to be on to listen to the modem ring? You might find (or build) a smart answering-machine kind of device that could do this. Let me know

gw ppp0 ?

1999-11-29 Thread luis
hello how can i specify the gateway address to the ppp0 conexion? thanks a lot

Y2K Information Security Workshop

1999-11-29 Thread Marvin Atchley
The Federal Reserve Board is hosting the above workshop on 12/3/99. Would you be interested as being listed as a resource for financial institutions, banks, and federal agencies to call for emergency assistance during Y2K rollover? If so please complete the attached document per example given. (

Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-29 Thread Marek Habersack
* Evan Moore said: > I have been reading about securing my linux box and it mentions making > /etc readable only by root. Would this mess up anything by making making > all of the /etc file permisions 600? Hmm... Is it Microsoft Security Bulletin you've been reading? :))) Seriously, "securing" /etc

Re: smail routing

1999-11-29 Thread Steve George
Hi, I tried that, and indeed when I have set this sort of thing up before using TIS Gauntlet this is what you do. However, because I am on a dial-up line smail is delivering to the smarthost as soon as it sees that the mail is not local ie it never checks DNS. So the problem appears to be, ho

Increasing kernel task limit

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
Someone posted a while back(week or 2) he wanted to increase the max # of processes on his box to about 4000 (?) or so. If he is still subscribed he may find this interesting: http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991122S0004 (that is part of a Column in BYTE called 'The Linux Process Model: The Linux

Re: class 1 modem

1999-11-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can also use efax. luis wrote: > hello > > which package i muss use to send faxes with a class 1 modem > > i already can use minicom with it > > thanks a lot -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/profile

1999-11-29 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Fish Smith wrote: > My /etc/profile reads like this: > # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for > bash(1). > > PATH=".:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" > PS1="\\$ " > s9x() { snes9x /.roms/$1 } > play() { mpg123 $*>/dev/nul

Re: Boot disk for kernel-image-2.2.13 not working

1999-11-29 Thread Graham Williams
> John Carline wrote to Graham Williams on 29 Nov 1999 17:02:13 +1100: John> Hi folks, John> Every time this has happened to me, it was either a bad John> floppy or a bad floppy drive. On one occasion, the John> connector to the drive became slightly loose and all the Joh

Re: scsi bus and tape backup questions

1999-11-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Bill wrote: > greetings all: > > i have a couple of questions i hope someone can answer for me. > > to start: i have a sparc station and linux (debian 2.1, 2.0.35 kernel) > > 1st question - re: scsi > > my system works pretty good. i am only curious as to why the sparc > scsi bus locates the int

Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
a lot of system programs store their default config file there (lynx comes to mind) so yes there will be issues. there really isnt a reason i can think of that making /etc readable by root only would help security all that much. id suggest making the compiler(s) runable only by root(same for the li

ISDN Rate problem

1999-11-29 Thread Alexander P. Barkey \(hypnotic\)
Hi since I got ISDN my pc is telling me every 2mins on console 1 how much money I spent in the current online session...This would be nice if I wouldn't have a flatrate where I pay monthly and not per minute... Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this?   The Message is like this :   Nov 29

Re: Good UK spell checker?

1999-11-29 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Dwayne C Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 11:03:48PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 03:54:45PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: >> > Does anyone know of a spell-checker that only accepts U.K. (Canadian) >> Ispell with only the uk dictio

update ignoring sources?

1999-11-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
I have added some lines to my sources.list file. When I do an "apt-get update" I see this: {0}:dogbert:/etc/apt>apt-get update Get:1 http://www.daft.com ./ Packages [4210B] Hit http://www.debian.org slink-update/main Pack

Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:31:15PM -0500, Evan Moore wrote: > I have been reading about securing my linux box and it mentions making > /etc readable only by root. Would this mess up anything by making making > all of the /etc file permisions 600? Yeah, it would break nearly every program on the sy

Re: eth0+ppp0 ?

1999-11-29 Thread Remco van 't Veer
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 18:35, Shaul Karl wrote: > A related question: > Suppose both eth0 and ppp0 are connected to the Internet. Is there a > way the user can determine dynamically if he gets connected through > ppp0 or eth0? For example, can I tell terminal A apt-get to work > through ppp0 and

file permisions in /etc

1999-11-29 Thread Evan Moore
I have been reading about securing my linux box and it mentions making /etc readable only by root. Would this mess up anything by making making all of the /etc file permisions 600? thanks in advance evan

Re: eth0+ppp0 ?

1999-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Shaul Karl writes: > Suppose both eth0 and ppp0 are connected to the Internet. Is there a way > the user can determine dynamically if he gets connected through ppp0 or > eth0? I don't think there is any way for a user to do that with existing tools. Root could muck about with the routing table to

Re: Silo problem (SPARC potato) -- FIXED

1999-11-29 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Thanks for those who responded so quickly -- I put vmlinux instead of vmlinuz in my /etc/silo.conf file, so it was unable to find the kernel file. My stupid mistake. . . Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Phillip Rulon
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:06:11 +0100 From: "Remco van 't Veer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian-User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Fr

Fed Gov Linux User? Please reply.

1999-11-29 Thread tjm
Hello. In an effort to legitimize my using Linux (Debian, in fact) at work for various jobs both as a server and a desktop client, I'm looking for other users who are also using Linux in their Federal Government jobs. I need to be able to get Linux added to the 'approved' software list, the quali

Re: Silo problem (SPARC potato)

1999-11-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 07:57:33AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > Can anyone suggest what I've done wrong? I tried running silo, even though > the SPARC FAQ led me to believe this was unnecessary. Did the /etc/silo.conf > configuration change after the upgrade? I'm afraid the docume

Re: help

1999-11-29 Thread Kent West
Kit wrote: > > I have a Pentium 233MMX, 64 mg Ram, 8.4 gig HD (partitioned into 4 > parts)master, > I wish to install into the G:\ drive which has nothing on it...1.8 gigs. > using windows 98 2nd edition. > > 1. will I have enough space? Depends on what you want to do. But as a rule of thumb, ye

Re: Bind error

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: baptis >messages.0:Nov 22 15:55:17 ns squid[331]: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 32 baptis >to *:3128: (98) Address already in use baptis >messages.0:Nov 22 15:55:27 ns squid[360]: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 32 baptis >to *:31

Re: Silo problem (SPARC potato)

1999-11-29 Thread mheyes
Looks like you need a symbolic link from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13. Also, your /etc/silo.conf references "/vmlinux" not /vmlinuz. mike "Christopher S. Swingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/29/99 11:57:33 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/Berisford

Re: How to Download & Install Debian

1999-11-29 Thread Kent West
> "Carl A. Fahsltrom" wrote: > > How do I download and install Debian Linux using a multiboot > system between Linux and Windows. > > Thanks > Carl A. Fahlstrom This isn't enough info to go on. I suspect you'd do best to start out by reading http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install

Re: eth0+ppp0 ?

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: shaulk >A related question: shaulk >Suppose both eth0 and ppp0 are connected to the Internet. Is there a way the user can determine dynamically if he gets connected through ppp0 or eth0? For example, can I tell terminal A apt-get to work through ppp0 and t

Re: help

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Kit wrote: kit >I wish to install into the G:\ drive which has nothing on it...1.8 gigs. kit >using windows 98 2nd edition. I hope you di not use Win98 to download the files? Win* has a problem dealing with files with multiple periods in them, verify the files are named right

Re: sudo problem

1999-11-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I didn't get any replies to this, so am sending it again. However, I noticed an additional message after the prompt returns: $ sudo ls sudo: unable to lookup nielsen via gethostbyname(): Resource temporarily unavailable Segmentation fault $ No recipient addresses found in header Any ideas? Bob

Silo problem (SPARC potato)

1999-11-29 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hello -- Recently upgraded a Sun Ultra-10 (sun4u) machine from Solaris 2.5.1 to Debian slink. After the install I upgraded to potato (apt-get upgrade) and then installed the kernel-image-2.2.13-sun4u. When it installed the new version of Silo it replaced my /etc/silo.conf with a file filled with

Re: who broken?

1999-11-29 Thread Dave Wiard
> dave >After upgrading to potato, it appears as though who may be broken: > dave > > dave >[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/dave] who --count > > are you running that command from inside screen ? I get teh same but only > when im inside a screen .. yea. i hadn't thought to try it on some other tty, and

Bind error

1999-11-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm having problems with squid + bind here: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 32 to *:3128: (98) Address already in use messages.0:Nov 22 15:54:56 ns squid[273]: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 32 to *:3128: (98) Address already in use messages.0:Nov 22 15:55:06 ns squid[302

Re: FW: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

1999-11-29 Thread Joe Block
Chris Larson wrote: > I have installed corel linux onto my laptop. Everything looks great and runs > fine except for three things. > > 1. My ethernet card is not working. I can ping myself but I cannont ping > anything else. > > I am still not able to get this to work, even with everyone's advice

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-29 Thread ferret
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Cyrus Patel wrote: > Hey Manuel, > > I've got a Panasonic (Matshita) 8x read/4x write scsi burner and so far it > has worked perfectly for me. cdrecord identified it immeadiately and it hooked > up to my existing scsi card without any problems. I've had just one problem wit

Re: eth0+ppp0 ?

1999-11-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> aphro writes: > > did you configure your PPP connection with the a new default route and > > give it the defaultroute flag (run pppconfig) it should add the new > > defeault route once the ppp link is up. > > pppd won't replace an existing defaultroute. The solution is a script in > /etc/ppp/ip

Re: IP address change

1999-11-29 Thread Evan Moore
also don't forget /etc/networks On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, luis wrote: > > > > luis >i need to change the IP and name of one machine > > > > usually, /etc/init.d/network for the ip/network in

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the > same problems. > > The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working > somewhere along the way. I also have had this problem. One thing that makes my mode

Re: Help after upgrade to potato!

1999-11-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > 1. After upgrade to potato from slink the ethernet card is not working any > longer. How do I reenable it? Is it being detected correctly? What error messages are you getting? What have you tried to do? > 2. The old kernel is still there, how do I upgrade to 2.2.x? > apt-get in

Re: WebMail

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
http://webmail.wastl.net/ is the "Webmail" homepage, its a server-side java mail thingie that is easy to setup, with an IMAP host to verify passwords..can sedtup multiple accounts, has all kinds of cool stuff, debian package too. downside though, its a memory hog, make sure u got at least 40-50MB

Re: Crash windows with ping?

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Horvath Zsolt wrote: hz133 >Hi hz133 > hz133 >I've heard windows will crash when I ping it. What parameters have ping in hz133 >this case? Thats not entirely true, some versions of (unpatcheD) windows will crap out with some fragmented icmp or igmp packets but i dont remembe

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: arenaz >Hello again, arenaz > arenaz >A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to arenaz >recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go arenaz >through this situation? I have had a lot of success with

help

1999-11-29 Thread Kit
I have a Pentium 233MMX, 64 mg Ram, 8.4 gig HD (partitioned into 4 parts)master, I wish to install into the G:\ drive which has nothing on it...1.8 gigs. using windows 98 2nd edition. 1. will I have enough space? I downloaded all files in " ftp://ftp.debian.us.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-29 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: homega >aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something about a patch. How do I apply homega >a patch to the kernel? I mean, just by: I believe the patch i mentioned (from kt.linuxcare.com) doesn't *yet* exist as far as i know, SO should work with 2.2.10 althou

Re: WebMail

1999-11-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > anyone knows about a webmail software to use? > I want to provide webmail for my site. Check out the following URL's. At least one of these packages is available in .deb format. htt

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Remco van 't Veer
I had a similar problem with S3 ViRGE with XF86_SVGA, the console character set got fd up after switching from X to a VC. I used to fix this by running "setfont" (from the kdb package) after every switch.. HTH, Remco On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:48, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in

WebMail

1999-11-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, anyone knows about a webmail software to use? I want to provide webmail for my site. Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- h

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone > pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I > frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or > ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to re

Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to reboot, I seem to have read something about this one but I can't rem

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello again, > > A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to > recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go > through this situation? There's a nice document on IDE CD-Rs and Zips at http://www.tcu-inc.com/mark/article

Re: Potato ISO-Images

1999-11-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > can anyone tell me, where I can get the > ISO-Images for Potato with Kernet 2.2.13 ? I don't think there are any potato ISO images at this point. We don't even have finished boot floppies for many platforms! Sorry, -Adam P.

Re: char-major-5

1999-11-29 Thread Serge Gavrilov
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:03:21AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > These were the steps I followed to solve the problem. Thanks to Colin for his > help! > > Michael Heyes > > > > With ppp as a module, try putting the line "alias char-major-108 ppp" > into /etc/modutils/aliases and runni

Re: Crash windows with ping?

1999-11-29 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:16:50PM +0100, Horvath Zsolt wrote: > I've heard windows will crash when I ping it. What parameters have ping in > this case? Search the net for "teardrop" this nice program does the trick... -- Wojciech M. Zabolotny http://www.ise.p

Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 29 Nov, 1999 à 06:59:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether Debian could change the format of the distributed > .bin files in the installation floppies. Currently, it seems that the $ file /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin /cdrom/dists/slink/main/d

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-29 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hey Manuel, I've got a Panasonic (Matshita) 8x read/4x write scsi burner and so far it has worked perfectly for me. cdrecord identified it immeadiately and it hooked up to my existing scsi card without any problems. Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello again, > > A friend of mine

Re: Xemacs->Print-to-file HOW?

1999-11-29 Thread David Z. Maze
Eric G Miller writes: EGM> I know this is a little off topic. I'm trying to figure out how to get EGM> Xemacs(21) to pretty-print to file. Use a prefix argument, like C-u M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces. This will prompt you for a filename. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: PPP not working after reinstall

1999-11-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
The problem is already solved. I'm putting the gateway as the ethernet card. Quoting Ookhoi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm sending this e-mail using Windowze because my Linux box was > > > reinstalled (the primary HD was broken) and PPP isnt working. I used > > > pppconfig > > > to

same-gnome kills sawmill

1999-11-29 Thread Pedro Sanchez
The following looks to me like a bug against sawmill: Launch the "same gnome" game and click the "maximize" button. This always logs me out of the gnome-session (which is my only command in .xsession) killing all other applications except communicator which has to be killed manually. This doesn't h

Re: /etc/profile

1999-11-29 Thread Patrick Kirk
Absolutely

Re: char-major-5

1999-11-29 Thread mheyes
These were the steps I followed to solve the problem. Thanks to Colin for his help! Michael Heyes With ppp as a module, try putting the line "alias char-major-108 ppp" into /etc/modutils/aliases and running 'update-modules' then 'depmod -a' to see if that solves the problem. (modprobe reads f

lost HDD space

1999-11-29 Thread debian
Hi all, I have an 8.5 Gig HDD but my total partition space comes to only 7.2 Gigs. Id there a way for me to create a new partition to use the missing 1.3 Gigs. I've been using SAMBA to copy my kids games to the Linux server and run them from the network instead of the CD drive. Great speed b

Re: sorting and naming files

1999-11-29 Thread Marc Mongeon
The following should do approximately what you want: $ i=1 $ for f in `ls | sort` > do > mv $f text${i}.txt > i=`expr $i + 1` > done 'man bash', 'man sort', and 'man expr' should give you some more insight into what these commands do. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specia

Re: char-major-5

1999-11-29 Thread Serge Gavrilov
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:55:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One other char-major problem. When I start my ppp session with pon, I get a > "Can't locate module char-major-108". The session works ok. I tried compiling > ppp as a module instead of in the kernel (it worked with char-major-5),

using X Toolkit API on slink - Pushbutton.h?

1999-11-29 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I'm trying to get a full X Development system put together based on slink. I am trying to get some simple XT examples to compile. (although I have lesstif and GTK working nicely) There is no "Pushbutton.h" file on my system anywhere, although in the Xaw directory "Box.h" and "Label.

Re: PPP not working after reinstall

1999-11-29 Thread Ookhoi
> > I'm sending this e-mail using Windowze because my Linux box was > > reinstalled (the primary HD was broken) and PPP isnt working. I used > > pppconfig > > to configure. I estabilish the connection with pon but the connection's > > velocity doesnt pass above 0 bytes, even pinging or ftp

/etc/profile

1999-11-29 Thread Fish Smith
Apologies for the blank space up here. I'm having mailer problems. Of course if I could type my listserv addresses right I wouldn't have to forward the bounce-backs twice... Please CC replies to me, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. My /etc/profile rea

Crash windows with ping?

1999-11-29 Thread Horvath Zsolt
Hi I've heard windows will crash when I ping it. What parameters have ping in this case? Zso

[Linux: Router] What does I need ???

1999-11-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and good day. OK, today in the morning I have downloaded the Base-Installation of Potato. Now, my Question is, WHAT DOES I NEED to install a simpel Router ??? I have 5 NIC's 3c509-TPO and a fixed IP-Adress from my Provider (eth0). The cable modem 2 will be installed next year but I like

Re: where to find this bug: "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 2."

1999-11-29 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Martin Fluch wrote: > Does an > > dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* > > help? oh, yes, cycled from .22 up to .48 why didn't debconf update throughout regular apt-get update cycles? gerhard

Xemacs->Print-to-file HOW?

1999-11-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
I know this is a little off topic. I'm trying to figure out how to get Xemacs(21) to pretty-print to file. The closest I came was setting the lpr command to gv, with the argument '-'. gv comes up and displays the file but menus like 'Save Document As' are greyed out. Any ideas here? -- +--

Re: Potato upgrade [PERL]

1999-11-29 Thread J Horacio MG
> After a long battle with an upgrade to potato from a very customized slink am > allmost happy. I just miss one thing: > I cannot start gdm due to some wierd problem. It complains about the user and > group for /var/gdm. Supposedly they should be nobody:deamon but that doesn't > work either. In S

Potato ISO-Images

1999-11-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, can anyone tell me, where I can get the ISO-Images for Potato with Kernet 2.2.13 ? I was searching but without success. Michelle

Re: where to find this bug: "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 2."

1999-11-29 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Does an dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* help? Martin On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Gerhard Kroder wrote: > i try to "apt-get upgrade" and get this error since a week or two. and > since i don't understand perl enough i can't realy trace back. is it a > pro

Re: man and non-80 columns displays

1999-11-29 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi, > I like to use some non-standard text modes, like 132x60, but when I use > man it aways show pages as if it were at 80 columns mode. HOw to fix it? I'm using a quick hack: in the directory /usr/share/groff/tmac (slink/potato) or /usr/lib/groff/tmac (1.3) there is a file: man.local Add the l

CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-29 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello again, A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go through this situation? Thanks in advance, Manuel Arenaz

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-29 Thread J Horacio MG
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I installed Star Office 5.1 in the /opt directory as root with the > setup option /net. > > Then I ran setup as normal user from the /opt/ > directory and the > setup program installed basic files in my home directory. > That's all, no problems under potato with 2.2.1

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:24:03PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file > or directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2

Re: samba for a kids network-server

1999-11-29 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks.

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