Re: LogCheck and it's rules

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:59:49PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > Robert Ramiega wrote: > > > named[.*]: USAGE .* .* CPU=.*/.* CHILDCPU=.*/.* > > PAM_unix[.*]: (ssh) session opened for user .* by (.*) > > > > and i still get in logcheck mails: > > Dec 13 23:46:53 plukwa named[159]: USAGE 9451252

Re: xserver for 3dlabs Permedia

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:31:54AM -0500, David Teague wrote: > One of my students has a 3dlabs permedia AGP 8Meg video card. > He has managed to get Xwindows up with SVGA, but wants to better > use the cards features. We found xf86 server for this card in > Unstable. Use the 3DLabs server, inclu

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:55:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Did you run fsck on the filesystem? The cron job triggering the problem > > might be something like updatedb that touches everything on the disk. > > Fix the filesystem and the problem will go away. > > oh, yes. I fsck, and

Distributions (CD Image?)

We were looking into installing Dabian on one of our systems and would like to know if you have a CD image of your latest distributions on an FTP site. If not, are there any special tricks to burning my own on a Windows 98 machine? Thanks Bill French

Re: What happend to timezones?

d> Hi! > > Last time I upgraded my potato (few days ago), the timezone package has > gone away, so I can't tell to my machine that I'm in GMT+1. It would be > important because there is an othet OS on my hdd, which requires GMT+1 to > be present in CMOS. > > Any idea? > It is all here. for exam

Re: LogCheck and it's rules

Robert Ramiega wrote: > named[.*]: USAGE .* .* CPU=.*/.* CHILDCPU=.*/.* > PAM_unix[.*]: (ssh) session opened for user .* by (.*) > > and i still get in logcheck mails: > Dec 13 23:46:53 plukwa named[159]: USAGE 945125213 945085613 CPU=61.74u/56.5s > CHILDCPU=0u/0s > Dec 13 23:04:55 plukwa PAM_u

Re: sound as non-root?

Marshal Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You need to log out and log back in to make the group changes take > affect. Just stating the semi-obvious. Yep, logout.. Works great now. Thanks! Thanks again, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = =

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

william wiled, > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:06:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that my hardrive didn't > > switch to ro due to errors on the weekly cron run. The remount as ro > > both stops incoming mail, and makes it impossible to telnet in t

Building an emergency repair CD

Hello! I'm building an emergency repair CD for the servers we sell. The idea is that if the system ever goes so crazy it can't even boot, you put the CD in, reset the computer and the CD boots and overwrites anything with a copy of the working system. I already managed to build the boot environm

Re: sound as non-root?

Thanks. I wasn't sure how far out you had to go. Michael Heyes Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/14/99 03:40:32 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound as non-root? You need to log out and log back

pcmcia/pppd problem in potato

To recap: I'm somewhere along the way of moving from slink to potato. After recompiling the kernel and pcmcia modules "pon" stopped working with the log indicating from pppd: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error Doing a setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 0 sometimes fixes this, b

Re: sound as non-root?

You need to log out and log back in to make the group changes take affect. Just stating the semi-obvious. Marshal From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sound as non-root? Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:08:47 -0500 > > > Hmm. If rbf is added to /dev/audio group, it looks like this should work. > Th

Re: Monochrome XFIG

"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings You should have, among others, the following lines in the file /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common (or /etc/X11/Xresources on an older system): ! load color-specific resources for cli

stuck on LILO after updates

Had been a while since I had updated my potato RAID server, so I ran updates yesterday and there was a boatload of updates. Went by real fast, but only 1 package errored out. However, now on reboot it hangs at LILO. Any suggestions? Let's say I reboot to a rescue disk. What should I do? ==

library Problem ?

a lot of x apps only come with the following message after startup und terminate ! MCBAINS:~# kfind kfind: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual dpkg -C comes with no message about broken packages ! i have slink installed. Where

tqueue_lock

Does anyone know what "tqueue_lock" is and what it's function is? I am trying to run: modprobe ppa --> results in "/lib/modules/2.2.12/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock." Any info on what tqueue_lock is or what it is part of would be appreciated. Tom Bebee Welch Allyn Inc.

Re: HELP: Netscape fonts

Albert Hurd wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > Albert Hurd wrote: > > > > > > Changing the font size in Preferences does not seem to affect the > > font > > > size on the toolbars and, more importantly, the fonts in the > > message > > > listing in the mail program. Anyone know to get these to

Re: sound as non-root?

Hmm. If rbf is added to /dev/audio group, it looks like this should work. There may be a better way to do this, and maybe this won't work at all, but I wonder if you need to reboot? I'm not sure if /etc/group is only read at boot or not. Michael Heyes Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12

3c905c wierd troubles

Hi all .. I have 2 3c905c on a Debian potato and have configured one to have "$IP1", the other "$IP2". When I ping "$IP1" or "$IP2" I get an error like "neighbour table overflow". But ping'ing other hosts work just fine. I was wondering if anyone else have similar problems? Is it a mis-confi

slink newbie tries to dpkg

I'm the newbie who just got slink base up on a floppy only system. I am trying to get some packages installed, and must be missing something. I tried to start installing the admin packages, so I picked cron from the following URL: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/adm

Re: SSH .deb files

Just a nit... David Wright wrote: > Quoting Dan Brosemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > However, you are breaking the law if you attempt to: > > > > 3. Export it _from_ the US to a country other than Canada or export it > > _from_ Canada to a country other than the US if the original source was > >

Re: sound as non-root?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > what are the permissions on /dev/dsp? $ l d* 0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 22 12:02 dsp 0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 19 Oct 22 12:02 dsp1 Any ideas? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett

Re: Off Topic - Journalist Slams Linux

Art Lemasters wrote: > > Dwight Silverman, who writes about "high technology for the > Houston Chronicle," (Denver Rocky Mountain News, 12-13-99) called > Linux the "geek fad du jour." He said quite a few negative and > inaccurate things about Linux...seems to be on a crusade to increase > M

Re: file systems...

Hi, >From what you are typing there you aren't specifying the type of filesystem >being mounted, iso9660 is the CD system which I think tries to auto-work out >the rock ridge extensions for long filenames. Steve On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 07:14:29PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I had my harddri

MS Intellimouse

Someone I know is running potato and has a MS Intellimouse (a mouse with two buttons and a wheel). What we'd like to be able to do is have the functionality of both the wheel and an emulated third button. However, we read that the Emulate3Buttons in X doesn't work if ZAxisMapping is turned on. S

Re: journaling filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > does anyone have experience with installing ReiserFS? (or any other > > journaling filesystems?) > > I don't, but the installation process is the same

Off Topic - Journalist Slams Linux

Dwight Silverman, who writes about "high technology for the Houston Chronicle," (Denver Rocky Mountain News, 12-13-99) called Linux the "geek fad du jour." He said quite a few negative and inaccurate things about Linux...seems to be on a crusade to increase MS profits at the expense of the re

Re: sound as non-root?

what are the permissions on /dev/dsp? Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/14/99 01:40:26 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Debian User Subject: Re: sound as non-root? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > add ":rbf", without the quotes Ok, now I get a

RE: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout b

On 14-Dec-99 Svante Signell wrote: > - GDM, XDM or KDM are not interesting, since then ALL users have to use the > graphical login. I prefer to go to X with startx, for other users > startx can be put in their login scripts. I know you can always go to > a virtual console with CTRL-ALT-Fx, x

Re: PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

Hi, Noah! Thanks for your comment. I went to the closet and took old VGA card out. Unfortunately it did not help. Swapping cables, moving cards around does not help either. I can reproduce the problem if I try to move 1Gb of data from one place into another. Windoze does it, but Linux get

RE: problems forwarding X over SSH...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could do it a little kludge-ily by adding the laptop's IP or actual hostname in /etc/X0.hosts (you might possibly even be able to add .* If you have to add it each time, you'll have to, obviously, restart xdm. But it's certainly doable. Hope it helps? Regards, Glen

Re: journaling filesystem

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > does anyone have experience with installing ReiserFS? (or any other > journaling filesystems?) I don't, but the installation process is the same if you're going to replace the HD that provided the root fs. > what i'd like to do is >

Re: sound as non-root?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > add ":rbf", without the quotes Ok, now I get a little futher: "Can't open /dev/dsp!" Any ideas? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === = = =

Re: sound as non-root?

Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sound works great on my potato system as root, but I have permission > problems as a normal user. Is there a way I can make it so a normal user > can play sounds/music? Yes, add them to the audio group. You can see what group a particular device is in by l

Re: unidentified TCP connections

Quoting Robert Varga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > How can I determine the process belonging to a tcp connection on my > machine? I have a couple of connection which I find very unnerving: > > netstat -a | grep aiesec produces the output: > > tcp0 0 mymachine:27567aiesecplanet.satim:

Re: unidentified TCP connections

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:34:07PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > tcp0 0 mymachine:1097 aiesecplanet.satim:auth > ESTABLISHED > > These connections mostly persist, so the port numbers are always the same > for a long time, until the connection dies. > There tend to be other conne

Re: df is reading wrongly

Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As part of securing my server, I moved /var and /home to seperate partitions > from / All seems to work but df is giving strange results. When I type df, > I find a partition which I know to be 88 MB to show as 1.7 Gigs. > > Should I worry? The usag

Re: sound as non-root?

add ":rbf", without the quotes Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/14/99 01:05:33 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: sound as non-root? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Add users to the audio group in /etc/group Ok, thanks! Hmm.. Wha

sound as non-root?

Hello all, Sound works great on my potato system as root, but I have permission problems as a normal user. Is there a way I can make it so a normal user can play sounds/music? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === =

Re: MySQL from Netgod hoses DBI???

Hello > I recently upgraded MySQL from www.netgod.net/x/ and now my DBI stuff > doesn't work. Here are the relevant (I think) packages: ... > Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' > for module DBD::mysql: libmysqlclient.so.4: The recent MySQL package depends on libm

Re: SSH .deb files

Quoting Dan Brosemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:19:35PM +, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: > > If ssh were non-free, and I were to download it from a site in the US, > > then I would've broken

unidentified TCP connections

How can I determine the process belonging to a tcp connection on my machine? I have a couple of connection which I find very unnerving: netstat -a | grep aiesec produces the output: tcp0 0 mymachine:27567aiesecplanet.satim:auth ESTABLISHED tcp0 0 mymachine:27434

jde paket won't install properly

Hello fellow users of Debian, I think I've got a small problem here. For university I need to develop in java, and so far I've done so using XEmacs on the boxes provided, which run on solaris. As I had XEmacs installed on my part slink, part potato system anyway, I installed the 'jde' package

gpm and X

I have two pointing devices, and I like to use them both with X. I can do this using gpm with the following command gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/psaux -M -t ms -m /dev/ttyS1 -R and by putting the following lines in the "Pointer" section of XF86Config: Protocol"MouseSystems" De

df is reading wrongly

As part of securing my server, I moved /var and /home to seperate partitions from / All seems to work but df is giving strange results. When I type df, I find a partition which I know to be 88 MB to show as 1.7 Gigs. Should I worry? The usage info for the / partition is also 500 MB or so out.

Re: SSH .deb files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wright) wrote: >Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: >[...] >> > ... Ssh uses cryptography that you >> >technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US" >> >package. >> >> With the slink version that's true, bu

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > I've got a 3Com USR 56K Message Modem. > > This modem is capable of receiving fax and voice messages > WHEN YOUR PC IS OFF ("Independent Mode"). > Very nice feature! ( makes the modem fairly expensive, too). > > BUT > =

Re: xserver for 3dlabs Permedia

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:31:54AM -0500, David Teague wrote: > Am I right to assume that Potato binaries won't work directly with > Slink? Does he have to recompile from source to use this Potato > Xserver with Slink? Answers in order are "Yes" and "He would have if nice people hadn't already don

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

Hi there. just received from Torsten Uhlmann the following interesting infos: A) There exist (he made it, as I understand) what looks like a pretty cool application under KDE, "KMsgModem", which handles the capability of the Independent Mode of the 3Com Message modem analogously (w

Re: SSH .deb files

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:19:35PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: > If ssh were non-free, and I were to download it from a site in the US, > then I would've broken the law, wouldn't I? Whereas, because it's non-US, >

xserver for 3dlabs Permedia

Hi One of my students has a 3dlabs permedia AGP 8Meg video card. He has managed to get Xwindows up with SVGA, but wants to better use the cards features. We found xf86 server for this card in Unstable. Am I right to assume that Potato binaries won't work directly with Slink? Does he have to reco

Re: bootdisk

Arne wrote: > > Can someone point me to the bootdisk-image from the debian ftp-site. > Thanks, > Arne > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null go to http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors and chose a mirror site. On that site go to the directory /debian/dists

Webalizer and Apache

Hi, I have webalizer and apache running fine on a potato box. I have added the following to /etc/apache/cron.conf: # Pre-rotation script to run (leave blank if none). APACHE_PRE_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/webalizer It works fine but I get a report mail on Webalizers doings every day from cron. I have tried

Re: Xterm and function keys

Hi again! Sorry to bother you again with this, but unfortunately noone replied. Must have chosen a bad time for my posting. :-) I discovered a strange thing: In an xterm the function keys produce the following: F1 -> ^[OP F2 -> ^[OQ F3 -> ^[OR F4 -> ^[OS F5 -> ^[[15~ F6 -> ^[[16~ ... On

IRC troubles

Hi, since I usually use the #debian channel on Openprojects.org to get help and currently not able to log on there I ask here: I use X-Chat 1.2.1 on my Debian potato system for IRC. Since yesterday when I log on to irc.openprojects.org and join the #debian channel the IRC client crashes. It does

bootdisk

Can someone point me to the bootdisk-image from the debian ftp-site. Thanks, Arne

Re: Files in /var/lib/dpkg/

> /var/lib/dpkg/available is the file that keeps track of all packages currently > available to be installed, based on the package info retrieved by apt-get > update > and your sources.list file. > > /var/lib/dpkg/status is the database file that contains information about the > state of all pack

journaling filesystem

hi, does anyone have experience with installing ReiserFS? (or any other journaling filesystems?) what i'd like to do is a) booting from a disk b) dd my / to a free partition c) reformat my root-partition with ReiserFS d) dd the root-backup back to my root-partitio

FW: Slink and Trouble compiling bttvgrab 0.15.4

Has anyone successfully installed the bttv driver and bttv grab? I tried to install the bttv 0.6.4 driver which installed like a dream, but when I tried installing bttvgrab version 0.15.4, I get all sorts of errors. When I run the configure script it fails to discover KDE and Qt libraries (which s

Re: Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

Marshal Wong wrote: > > For the emacs20 error, I think you need to make the directory > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev and copy debian-changelog-mode.el > into it from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg. I though that this > problem was fixed already. Anyways, see if that helps. Hey, thanks!

Solved: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

Hi Well, Her Majesty's empire really came through for me! Thank you to David and Frank for your help. Frank was right about booting off the non-BIOS SCSI disk...for some reason, it does work (and, as he hinted, the magic incantation to LILO seems to be "linear"). I did not

Re: SSH .deb files

Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: [...] > > ... Ssh uses cryptography that you > >technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US" > >package. > > With the slink version that's true, but that really makes it non-free > rather than no

Re: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

Quoting Brian Boonstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a system with Windows 95 on an IDE drive, and Debian potato > on a SCSI drive, hung off of an old DPT PM2021/9x controller. This > controller does not appear to be mapping the SCSI disk to D: like I had hoped > > and expected. > >

Re: DocBook Tools?

Happens to us all. ;-) "Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:07:24PM -0500, > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > % zgrep db2html Contents-alpha > > usr/bin/db2html text/cygnus-stylesheets > > usr/lib/debbugs/db2html misc/debbugs > > usr

What happend to timezones?

Hi! Last time I upgraded my potato (few days ago), the timezone package has gone away, so I can't tell to my machine that I'm in GMT+1. It would be important because there is an othet OS on my hdd, which requires GMT+1 to be present in CMOS. Any idea? btw, netdate is being used hourly to keep sy

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

MK>>I have spezifications of around a dotzend Win-Modems MK>>which are working properly with Dos and Linux. MK> MK>Do you have any web-page with those specifications? MK> MK>I would like to see if I can put my PCI modem to work under Linux. MK> MK>And I need all the help I can get :) MK> MK>Thank

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >Note that the modem is NOT one of those windows-specific modems. I use it > >and works fine for connecting to my ISP. > > It is an Internal or external modem? I have bought an "Supra Max 56i > Voice PCI" modem I cant put it to work un

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

Hi ---Alberto Bigazzi said >I've got a 3Com USR 56K Message Modem. > >This modem is capable of receiving fax and voice messages >WHEN YOUR PC IS OFF ("Independent Mode"). >Very nice feature! ( makes the modem fairly expensive, too). > >BUT >=== >I can't use it with my Debian (hamm) ! >

Re: SSH pam

Thanks for the link to putty. Tried it. It works well. And fits on a floppy. What I'll do is have it on my web-site so I can download it anytime. BTW, http://www.securityportal.com/lasg/file/index.html is a great resource. Many thanks. Patrick

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

MK>Hi everybody. MK> MK>I've got a 3Com USR 56K Message Modem. MK> MK>This modem is capable of receiving fax and voice messages MK>WHEN YOUR PC IS OFF ("Independent Mode"). MK>Very nice feature! ( makes the modem fairly expensive, too). Hi back, can you give me more details about your Mod

Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

Hi everybody. I've got a 3Com USR 56K Message Modem. This modem is capable of receiving fax and voice messages WHEN YOUR PC IS OFF ("Independent Mode"). Very nice feature! ( makes the modem fairly expensive, too). BUT === I can't use it with my Debian (hamm) ! ===

Re: LogCheck and it's rules

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 05:55:57PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 13/12/99 Pollywog wrote: > > > > and i still get in logcheck mails: > > > Dec 13 23:46:53 plukwa named[159]: USAGE 945125213 945085613 > > > >try > >named.*: USAGE .* umm i'm not sure if i tried this, but will check it ASAP > > >

Re: Re: PAM and Others Problem

Hi Ben, first thank you for the answer. Sometimes I fell I'm alone in the net, I don't know if you fell the same... Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:04:54 -0500 From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Josep Llauradó Selvas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: exportfs?

"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where the heck do I get exportfs from? I've done a "apt-cache search nfs" > and "apt-cache search *nfs*" but nothing that would point to any exportfs > type functionality. $ dlocate exportfs knfs: /usr/sbin/exportfs knfs: /usr/man/man8/expor

Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

Hi, Below are my motivations for bringing this issue up: - The intended use of the computers are for desktop applications. - I don't want to give the root password away to other users on my machines, in this case my family members. - Main

Re: apt does not get...

I am only guessing: 1) Perhaps you should try one or two other sites in order to verify if this is a persistent problem. 2) I am behind a firewall/proxy server as well. You might want to customize my /etc/apt/apt.conf. /* In some instances involving filenames it is possible to set the default

Re: lo on potato

For me eth0 route seems to be set automatically by the kernel, but not lo. I'm using kernel 2.2.12. Marcin Kurc writes: > kernel 2.2.x does "route add -net" automatically. You dont need to specify > it. > The route can be changed by giving full syntax like you said. > > -> /usr/src/linux/Do

Re: ssh pam

>However, AFAIK, you'll have to hand out some $$ if you want >a Windoze (95/98/NT) ssh client. Nope, try TerraTerm with the SSH plugin. It is free and quite good! Regards, Onno

Re: Monochrome XFIG

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:39:08PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings > but the panels and menus are plain black and white as if I had started > "xfig -monochorome." I have the same effect in one of my boxes, which was continuously

Re: exportfs?

>From the NFS-HOWTO: "Many Linux distributions lack a exportfs program. If you're exportfs-less you can install this script on your machine: __ #!/bin/sh killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.

Re: exportfs?

"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Where the heck do I get exportfs from? I've done a "apt-cache search nfs" > and "apt-cache search *nfs*" but nothing that would point to any exportfs > type functionality. You mean you want to export some parts of your filesystem using nfs ? You need th

exportfs?

Ok, Where the heck do I get exportfs from? I've done a "apt-cache search nfs" and "apt-cache search *nfs*" but nothing that would point to any exportfs type functionality. Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris

Re: DocBook Tools?

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:07:24PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % zgrep db2html Contents-alpha > usr/bin/db2html text/cygnus-stylesheets > usr/lib/debbugs/db2html misc/debbugs > usr/man/man1/db2html.1.gz text/cygnus-stylesheets Please excuse

CLASS1 FAX receive monitor

Hi, there: Anyone has a good hint to use class 1 fax to receive fax? I am currently using efax but it wound be much better if the receiving status can be shown on the window. Have any such kind of monitor out there ? Thanks. -- Min Xu City College of NY, CUNY

Re: SSH pam

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: >With ssh you have to connect with a secure client, which you can get on >any unix, and there's a free one for win32, called putty, which is very >nice. Supports telnet, too. > >The problem with telnet is that nayone who wants to sniff your network >can get ev

Re: SSH .deb files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: >Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: > > >deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > >and then type apt-get install ssh. Ssh uses cryptography that you >technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US" >package. With t

RE: LogCheck and it's rules

On 14-Dec-1999 Ethan Benson wrote: > i like the idea of logcheck but when it sends so much crap it defeats > its purpose. > > since i see its not just me having problems with it perhaps a bug > should be filed, this package is useless out of the box on standard > debian systems. I did not kno

Scwm, anyone?

I'm intrigued by scwm, and wonder if anyone else isn't able to use the configuration tool. When I select Preference->Scwm options... nothing happens. Pretty much the only thing that works in the Preferences menu is the themes. Does anyone have any pointers? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROT

Re: arithmetic

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:37:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are there options (maybe new options since this was last discussed?) > that I'm forgetting or that I don't know about? There's Gnumeric. I haven't tried it recently, but for simple things it's been doing quite well for a while

ppp.log?

For the past several days, pppd hasn't written anything to var/log/ppp.log on my potato system. /etc/syslog.conf still shows local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log /var/log/syslog is showing the ppp information. Has something changed here? Bob -- Bob Nielsen, W6SWE (RN2)Internet: [EMA

Re: DocBook Tools?

"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:28:33PM +0100, > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are packaged. 'cygnus-stylesheets'. Contents.gz is your friend. > > As I said in my original message, I grepped the Contents.gz for potato > and slink, and came up w

RE: LogCheck and it's rules

On 13/12/99 Pollywog wrote: > and i still get in logcheck mails: > Dec 13 23:46:53 plukwa named[159]: USAGE 945125213 945085613 try named.*: USAGE .* > CPU=61.74u/56.5s CHILDCPU=0u/0s > Dec 13 23:04:55 plukwa PAM_unix[17035]: (ssh) session opened for user root > by > (uid=0) PAM_unix.*: (ssh

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > what network it was attached to. This local name doesn't necessarily > correspond to its real name on the network and thus ssh was setting > the display to this local name instead of the laptops real network > name. Obviously this dis

Re: DocBook Tools?

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > Where can I get the tools db2html, db2ps, db2rtf, etc.? They are used in > generating documentation for Gnome, but I can't find them. I've grepped > the Contents file for slink and potato, but don't see them. > Eric, These sound remarkabl

Re: sgmltools-2 and texinfo

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > > This should do the trick: > > jade -t tex -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/print/docbook.dsl > myfile.sgml > myfile.tex > > where myfile.sgml is the DocBook SGML file you want to convert and myfile.tex > is the output filename you

Re: HELP: Netscape fonts

Albert Hurd wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > Albert Hurd wrote: > > > > > > Changing the font size in Preferences does not seem to affect the > > font > > > size on the toolbars and, more importantly, the fonts in the > > message > > > listing in the mail program. Anyone know to get these to

Re: partition table recovery

gpart is packaged for Debian and is in the unstable (potato) distribution in the admin section: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s gpart Package: gpart Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 62 Maintainer: David L. Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.1e-1 Depends:

file systems...

I had my harddrive crash, so I had to do a fresh installiation of potato. Before when I issued the command "mount /dev/scd0 /ultraplex" my cd would be mounted on ultraplex, and I had long file names. However, now the same command gives me those annoying truncated filenames. What could have change

Re: lo on potato

kernel 2.2.x does "route add -net" automatically. You dont need to specify it. The route can be changed by giving full syntax like you said. -> /usr/src/linux/Documentation On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:33:57AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Yes, > > I had the same problem. The solution was to add