Re: fetchmail no rula

1999-12-23 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Wed, Dec 22, 1999, TooMany... En cuanto a la manera de hacer del fetchmail, yo lo que tengo es un script, que cuando lo ejecuto me pide el passwd (es una locura tener el passwd en un fichero, aunque estés en tu casa - también me llaman Fox Mulder ;-)-) y te Pero eso implica estar

Re: Red Ethernet

1999-12-23 Thread Nitebirdz
jcarlos, Puesto que tu intencion es compartir una unica conexion a la red, necesitas configurar un router tal y como queda indicado en el manual que mencionas. No es una pieza especial de hardware, sino que lo unico que necesitas hacer es usar uno de los ordenadores como router (IP

Re: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera

1999-12-23 Thread Manel Marin
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Xose Manoel Ramos wrote: El Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:55:22PM +0100, Cosme P. Cuevas contaba: ... Todo eso parece improbable, increíble, ya lo se, pero yo puedo decir que el día que me estaba bajando este mensaje se me cortó la comunicación, y mira

preguntas sobre bashrc. bash_profile, etc/environment, etc.

1999-12-23 Thread Oscar González
Hola de nuevo: ¿Dónde puedo encontrar información en castellano sobre la configuración y variables de los ficheros /etc/environment /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, bash_profile, etc.? Por lo que sé, los ficheros anteriores que figuran en /etc/ son de configuración general de recursos para todos los

Re: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera

1999-12-23 Thread Blu
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 08:04:39PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: [...] AUN PEOR: Y se me ha pasado por la cabeza que te pueden enviar un ping con datos (la cadena de marras) y tu PC al contestarlo te cuelgue... ¿es posible? [...] Pues precisamente eso fue lo que me paso a mi y por eso inicie este

Re: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera

1999-12-23 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Blu wrote: Hasta donde yo se la cadena funciona solo en un sentido, de la serial al modem y no desde la linea al modem. Bueno, ante la duda me picaba la curiosidad y lo comprobé ayer personalmente. Efectivamente una candena entrante a través de la línea telefónica también puede colgar el modem.

autentificacion con apache de RH y de Debian

1999-12-23 Thread David Charro Ripa
Estoy migrando un servidor de intranet con RedHat4.2 a Debian/potato (si, si, nada de windows a Linux). Ya he pasado de PHP2 a PHP3. Ahora estoy con el apache. Y es que tiene en un directorio un control de acceso con el archivo .htaccess que no consigo que haga lo mismo en RH4.2 que en Debian.

CNEWS

1999-12-23 Thread Carlos Javier Sosa Gonzalez
Estoy intentando instalar el CNEWS, lo he instalado, pero intento mandar un mensaje a la lista que tiene por defecto (news.announce.newusers) y no me hace ni pajolero caso (con el Netscape de otro ordenata en la misma red). Con el telnet (como decia la Linux Actual 7) envio el mensaje, y lo

sólo ésto...

1999-12-23 Thread TooMany
#includeofftopic.h #includemorriñanavideña.h #includefiestorro_noche_vieja.h #includefraternidad.h main() { printf¡¡¡FELIZ NAVIDAD A TODOS/AS, Y PRÓSPERO AÑO BUGGERO, DIGO2000!!!\n; } -- \|/ \|/ Have a nice day ;-) @'/ ,. \'@

Configuración del frame buffer

1999-12-23 Thread Miguel A. Abarca
Hola de nuevo, en vista de la imposibilidad de encontrar soporte para mi tarjeta gráfica (S3 Savage3D) con Xfree86 -ni siquiera la versión 3.3.5-, me aconsejaron que lo intentara con el framebuffer; después de leer el Howto sobre el tema y realizar lo que allí se decía sigo sin poder

laptop compaq contura 430C

1999-12-23 Thread Samuel Montosa
esto... ya se que puede sonar estupido pero... ¿alguien sabe como entrar al setup de este ordenador? (obviamente no dispongo de los manuales, y ya me he perdido un par de veces por la web de compaq) ta'luego -- /--\ | Miembro de LIMA (Linux

Re: Modem ruidoso

1999-12-23 Thread Samuel Montosa
El Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 05:39:43PM +0100, Daniel Payno dijo: En la cadena de Inicialización del modem (por ejemplo ATZ|) metele un M0, en plan ATM0Z| (creo, si no va prueba ATZM0|)... El | es importante, por cierto... Lo que te puede variar es donde tienes la Init... o está en

Re: laptop compaq contura 430C

1999-12-23 Thread Carlos Javier Sosa Gonzalez
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Samuel Montosa wrote: esto... ya se que puede sonar estupido pero... ¿alguien sabe como entrar al setup de este ordenador? Yo tengo un Thoshiba y hace falta un disco para modificar la bios. (obviamente no dispongo de los manuales, y ya me he

Re: preguntas sobre bashrc. bash_profile, etc/environment, etc.

1999-12-23 Thread Correcaminos
El Sun, Nov 28, 1999 a las 12:44:37PM +, Oscar González dijo: Hola de nuevo: ¿Dónde puedo encontrar información en castellano sobre la configuración y variables de los ficheros /etc/environment /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, bash_profile, etc.? Por lo que sé, los ficheros anteriores que

Re: Configuración del frame buffer

1999-12-23 Thread Correcaminos
El Thu, Dec 23, 1999 a las 04:39:06PM -, Miguel A. Abarca dijo: Hola de nuevo, en vista de la imposibilidad de encontrar soporte para mi tarjeta gráfica (S3 Savage3D) con Xfree86 -ni siquiera la versión 3.3.5-, me aconsejaron que lo intentara con el framebuffer; después de leer

Re: laptop compaq contura 430C

1999-12-23 Thread drequena
Hola, Es un poco offtopic pero... En el caso del Toshiva si mantienes pulsado ESC durante el arranque provocaras un error y tras pulsar F1 pasaras a la imagen de TSETUP que hay en rom. Saludos cordiales, David Requena Zabala Information Systems and Technology CSC Ploenzke S.A.

Re: Modem ruidoso

1999-12-23 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On mié, 22 dic 1999 01:45:38 Samuel Montosa wrote: El Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 05:39:43PM +0100, Daniel Payno dijo: En la cadena de Inicialización del modem (por ejemplo ATZ|) metele un M0, en plan ATM0Z| (creo, si no va prueba ATZM0|)... El | es importante, por cierto...

Re: IMAP not allowing access

1999-12-23 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Just a random guess: check in /etc/pam.d -- I already have all the latest software. -- Laura Winslow, Family Matters Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/spamoff.html GnuPG

netdate in potato??

1999-12-23 Thread Tim Nicholas
Hello all, Can anyone tell me which package in potato contains 'netdate' or some other equivalent program?? thanks, Tim -- Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let the frantic Goddess and delerious drunk cry together in shadow for the puppy's sad stare, the forest and the death of the moon.

Re: Best way to be a tester

1999-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe you will get a better answer if you'll try to post it on debian-boot@lists.debian.org I'm about ready to do an install of debian, and thought the most useful thing might be for me to test the new (potato?) install procedure from scratch. I figure most people have been upgrading

Re: IMAP not allowing access

1999-12-23 Thread Marcin Kurc
remove /etc/cram-md5.pwd if you don't use it. On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 06:37:55PM -0500, Matt Kopishke wrote: Hi, I just did a update on my machine to get the latest potato and imap seem's to have broken in the process. I get the following error in the log: Login failed: user-name has no

Odd sound issue

1999-12-23 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
Hello, I'm running a Debian 2.1r4 box with a SB 16 WavEffects (CT4171) sound card. It seems to work in some things but not others. I have support for it compiled into the kernel and I have 'PnP OS?=No' in the BIOS (Award 4.51pg, I believe). cat english.au /dev/audio works fine, but xanim

Re: apt-get can not remount /usr ro. How to use lsof to find the offending files?

1999-12-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/12/99 Shaul Karl wrote: Let me see if I got it correctly: mount can tell whether I have open file descriptors that are related to removed files and there for it does not let me remount the fs ro? What does it care? Will remounting the fs erase the data from these blocks? Why was I allowed

ftp

1999-12-23 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, It seems that I have a difficulty in setting up ftpd on an Intel machine. On a SunClassic, it was OK. I think I have followed all the steps in man in.ftpd, but the following is what I usually get: okidz:~$ ftp localhost Connected to localhost. 220- hi, wassup? 220 okidz.pindad.co.id FTP

Next codename

1999-12-23 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, What would be the name of the next Debian version after potato? Wheezy? Oki

Re: apt-get can not remount /usr ro. How to use lsof to find the offending files?

1999-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
On 22/12/99 Shaul Karl wrote: Let me see if I got it correctly: mount can tell whether I have open file descriptors that are related to removed files and there for it does not let me remount the fs ro? What does it care? Will remounting the fs erase the data from these blocks? Why was I

shutdown

1999-12-23 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm having problem in creating a script for executing shutdown from a normal username: okidz:~$ /sbin/shutdown -h now shutdown: must be root. I have tried to put a username in /etc/shutdown.allow and executing shutdown -a -h now, but unfortunately it doesn't work. Problem is, after logging

Re: What happened?

1999-12-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 09:24:54AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: Rob Hensley wrote: Hmm...how come this list was so active up until the time that I sent out my post to it? I was hopein' to get an answer sometime soon if possible, could some please help. At least answer someone elses post so I

Re: Odd sound issue

1999-12-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:02:08PM -0800, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: Hello, I'm running a Debian 2.1r4 box with a SB 16 WavEffects (CT4171) sound card. It seems to work in some things but not others. I have support for it compiled into the kernel and I have 'PnP OS?=No' in the BIOS (Award

Re: MS Intellimouse

1999-12-23 Thread Nitebirdz
Colin, I found a little program called imwheel in the freshmeat.net site, downloaded it and installed it. It has been working fine for me ever since, and it does precisely what you are looking for: wheel + third button. Give it a try. Nitebirdz On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp

1999-12-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
What's /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, /etc/ftpusers say? -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Can't install on ThinkPad 385XD

1999-12-23 Thread Alex Bell
I am trying to install the version of Debian which came with 'Using Linux Special Edition' by Tackett et al, Que 1999. I have made the resc1440, drv1440, and root floppies. When I boot with the resc1440 floppy in drive a: the usual IBM ThinkPad logo appears, then an initial Linux message - the

Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)

1999-12-23 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings, I have asked this before, but either nobody saw it, or nobody knew, so I am posting this again in the hopes someone will know the answer. Many of the KDE apps rely on a library called qt1g, which dselect claims To not appear available. Checking my system, I find a library called

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
Well, that looks okay, maybe a problem with your PAM setup? On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:23:27AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:22:57PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: What's /etc/hosts.allow in.ftpd: localhost and /etc/hosts.deny, ALL: PARANOID /etc/ftpusers say?

MUD Sever.(How do I compile?)

1999-12-23 Thread Jack Sonnie
Hi... I have been using Debian for about 5-6 months, and have a fair knowledge about the system. I will have a small peer-to-peer network set up in a day or so, and want to run the Debian box as a DikuMUD Server. I have the source code for the program, but it just says to type make and

dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no dip group listed, only a dialout group. Is this an oversight? Should I chgrp the /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the dialout group? -- David S. Jackson

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Fish Smith
Can I quote you? It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. -Wayne Topa __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Fish Smith
Can I quote you? It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. -Wayne Topa __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Fish Smith
Can I quote you? It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. -Wayne Topa = Jolan Tru, Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4784/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: i want to know what people reccomend for an e commerce package for linux(free or not) something thats stable, secure, and runs on debian 2.1 :) nate ++ MiniVend and Minimate may be exactly what you are looking for; if

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone have an experience with Debian on an SMP machine? Is it stable? How well does it perform? --- As you can see we have no probs with them :-)) -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Acctualy if using default kernel for Debian 2.1 (I think 2.0.36) everything works fine. I didn't even start using the port since I need to change it's IRQ to 5 I used setserial and received the message about busy port. Let me add that I don't have any additional serial cards. This port is used

scan large files

1999-12-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

IMAP and disable plain passwds / APOP ?

1999-12-23 Thread Onno
When I use imap with CRAM-MD5 authentication do I have to recompile the source to disable plain passwords? Has anyone experiance with APOP in imap? Regards, Onno

Re: dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no dip group listed, only a dialout group. Is this an oversight? Should I chgrp the /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the dialout group? You should have a group

I can't apt-get.. help me.

1999-12-23 Thread generoso
I installed debian packages using apt-get over the network. I'm running debian 2.0 on i386 machine. A few weeks ago I upgraded kernel upto 2.2.13 and upgraded some packages in potato. After that apt-get causes segmentation-fault. I always get message Electric Fence 2.0.5.., maybe I installed

logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable # apt-get --compile source logrotate but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) przemol

logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable # apt-get --compile source logrotate but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) przemol

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Robert, On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote: I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote: Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything The debian group

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Ian Stuart
Egbert Bouwman wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote: Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything Remember that the dependencies will kick in (though jdk

Re: Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)

1999-12-23 Thread Robert Rati
I'm pretty sure the packages would have to me modified. To get around it, you'll have to manually install the packages uses dpkg --force-depends. Unfortunately, anytime you upgrade packages, dselect will want to remove those packages because they have unmet dependencies (atleast apt will). This

Re: dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
David S. Jackson writes: I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no dip group listed, only a dialout group. Is this an oversight? That or a bug. What are you running? Should I chgrp the /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the dialout

Kernel Panics

1999-12-23 Thread Peter Ludwig
Just a quick note, I'm starting to wonder about my hardware. For the last few months (since I reloaded the system back to running slink in fact), I have been receiving errors similar to the following message :- Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Oops: Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: CPU:

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Robert, And this works: expanse:~# chroot /usr/remote/ su - ookhoi ookhoi $ Of course bash is there: ookhoi $ /bin/bash ookhoi $ And is it in the chrooted /etc/shells? Thanx you for your response! Yes, it is: okhoi $ cat /usr/remote/etc/shells

/dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Bostjan JERKO
When using new (compiled) kernel (e.g. 2.2.15) I receive message for port /dev/ttyS2 - port busy (0 and 1 working properlly). Any ideas what might be the problem ? B.

Re: netdate in potato??

1999-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: netdate in potato?? Date: Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 07:28:45AM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | dpkg -S netdate | | netstd: /usr/man/man8/netdate.8.gz | netstd: /usr/sbin/netdate | | | Um, in *potato* netstd is an

apt-move

1999-12-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
I can't get apt-move to co-operate. elm:# apt-move move Creating Lists... Error: makelist: No master ls file exists! It seems to want ls-lR and I think it looks in the /debian/.apt-move directory, but I can't get it right. My debian mirror is in /debian. --

Packages.gz

1999-12-23 Thread Jonathan D . Proulx
How do I generate a Packages.gz file for a local distribution directory? TIA, Jon

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
jfoste ++ jfoste MiniVend and Minimate may be exactly what you are looking for; if you jfoste have some skills in database managemant including SQL, perl programming, jfoste html scripting, and a lot of cgi knowledge and PHP3 are also VERY

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
do you have a soundcard? many soundcards (esp soundblaster) use irq5, are you sure there are no conflicts with anything on that serial port? nate On 23 Dec 1999, Bostjan JERKO wrote: Bostja Acctualy if using default kernel for Debian 2.1 (I think 2.0.36) everything works fine. Bostja I didn't

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: paul.k I accept that sendmail is not used for reading mail, but I'm fairly sure paul.k my sendmail receives mail as well as sends it. From /var/log/mail.log : paul.k paul.k Dec 22 01:25:45 funkiest sendmail[4378]: BAA04378: from=gnumeric paul.k [EMAIL

Re: Packages.gz

1999-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 09:50:54AM -0500, Jonathan D . Proulx wrote: How do I generate a Packages.gz file for a local distribution directory? dpkg-scanpackages which is from the dpkg-dev package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins --

Re: Kernel Panics

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
Does it always happen when you run iptraf? it could be a network driver problem or a network card hardware problem. a good way to test the board/cpu/hdd and i/o subsystems that i have found is running 10x copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the same time for 24-48 hours, if the machine lasts 24 hours

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Ookhoi wrote: I will try to reproduce it at home It seems to be quite useful for ISP setups... In the meantime, did you try giving chroot /usr/remote /bin/bash as your login shell? Of course enter it into /etc/shells as well. I did not try it yet,

Re: MUD Sever.(How do I compile?)

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Jack Sonnie said: I have the source code for the program, but it just says to type make and cross your fingers... I hate (lack of) documentation like that... From what I can tell, make must be either a Unix compiler or was in the original Linux... Uh... No. Make coordinates the actions

Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD

1999-12-23 Thread Bob Elliott, RCS
Don't forget to refrigerate it in case it is a thermal issue... -Bob - Original Message - From: aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Guilherme Soares Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Users Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown:;@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday,

Re: questions about generic Ethernet drivers, DHCP

1999-12-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Salman Ahmed wrote: I finally got a second box to install Linux on today. Unfortunately its not the Compaq Deskpro EN I had hoped for. Its an older Digital 5000 PC with the following specs: PII 233 Adaptec AHA-2940 UW SCSI Adapter 2 Seagate 2Gb SCSI HDs Matrox Mystique video card

Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a permission denied when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as a user. Also, could someone explain why /usr/sbin/pppd is in the dip group and not the

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: : On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: : : paul.k I accept that sendmail is not used for reading mail, but I'm fairly sure : paul.k my sendmail receives mail as well as sends it. From /var/log/mail.log : : paul.k : paul.k Dec 22 01:25:45 funkiest

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/23/99, Egbert Bouwman addressed Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg): In the dselect man page (dd 29th november 1995) in slink you can read: The dselect package selection interface is confusing or even alarming to the new user. The debian group tries to remedy this by

Re: logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable # apt-get --compile source logrotate but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) przemol -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a permission denied when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as a user. Also, could someone explain why /usr/sbin/pppd is

Re: Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a permission denied when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as a user. Also, could someone explain why /usr/sbin/pppd

aha1542 kernel panics

1999-12-23 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
I have been trying to solve this problem without success for about a year now. My hardware is: - Dell NetPlex 486SX/25 - 32MB RAM - AHA1542C SCSI Controller - 3COM 509B Ethernet Controller - 2-port 16550A Serial Card - 3 x SCSI Hard Drives External - 1 x SCSI Jaz Drive External - 1 x SCSI Sony

Date's and info...

1999-12-23 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, I was just wondering if a date had been set for the release of potato being stable yet? If so, what is it? Also, I was wondering what kernel version it would be shipping with. If 2.4 is out by then, is it gonna be that? Thanks for your time, Bye!

Re: shutdown

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
Have a look at using sudo, to execute any commands you want as root. Speaking of sudo, is there a menu/X/KDE driven way of managing the sudoers file? I'm not having much luck with adding things in there manually and I'd rather have something slightly more automated anyway. -- Bart Szyszka

dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
I guess I could just use sudo. After trying that, it seems to be easier than getting all the permissions correct for the dialout group. For example, the /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/* files are gid dip. That doesn't seem to jive very well with the dialout group. Anyway, TkDesk seems

Re: Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
Many of the KDE apps rely on a library called qt1g, which dselect claims To not appear available. Checking my system, I find a library called libqt1g which claims in the package description to replace and provide qt1g. Is there a way to convince dpkg that it should install these programs

I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download tree?!? If QT is OK to put in there then what's the point of saying KDE can't be

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!? Hi, I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:43PM -0500, Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread carlf
Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download tree?!? If QT is OK to put in there then

Re: aha1542 kernel panics

1999-12-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] My hardware is: - Dell NetPlex 486SX/25 - 32MB RAM - AHA1542C SCSI Controller - 3COM 509B Ethernet Controller - 2-port 16550A Serial Card - 3 x SCSI Hard Drives External - 1 x SCSI Jaz Drive External - 1 x SCSI Sony DDS-3

Re: dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
David S. Jackson writes: I guess I could just use sudo. After trying that, it seems to be easier than getting all the permissions correct for the dialout group. The dialout group has little to do with ppp. When the device name comes from a privileged source (as it should) pppd opens it as

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to include KDE until they either fixed the licensing issues or QT became free. QT v2 is under

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!? QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to

poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Richard Dansereau
Hello! Why is it that when I use the poweroff command that my machine only halts and does not turn off. I know that I can poweroff my machine when shutting down from Windows. Is there something I have to set? Do I need some power management daemon running? Does the kernel have to be compiled

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Richard Dansereau said: Does the kernel have to be compiled differently? Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Richard Dansereau
Richard Dansereau said: Does the kernel have to be compiled differently? Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have it in all of the

pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Clyde Wilson
I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon I get: Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: CONNECT Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: -- got it Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: send (\d) Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]: Serial connection established. Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Todd Suess
I got that recently when I reinstalled potato, I cured it by using ATF as my init string in pppconfig. Once I did that I never got the error again. Regards, Todd At 11:38 AM 12/23/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon I get: Dec

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Richard Dansereau said: Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have it in all of the time.. even if your machine does not have APM. If it's compiled with APM support, it will always be there... (It's not

Achieve file-locks over NFS??

1999-12-23 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy, list people. I'm a brazilian sysadm with a big trouble: I need some way to allow user-level programs to achieve file-locks (exclusive access file locks, more specifically) over my NFS. I need to transfer my qmail MTA from a machine to

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread John Carline
Richard Dansereau wrote: Richard Dansereau said: Does the kernel have to be compiled differently? Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically compiled in? You would think it could be made smart

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 14:00:56 -0500, Brian Servis wrote: The KDE folks had/have no exception and thus were/are violating the GPL. Only if they're reusing other people's GPLed code, which reportedly they don't. Remember, an author isn't bound by the copyright license she puts on her own

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: I looked at minivend/minimate a few months back, and downloaded it again last night to see if i can get it working..i need to get a small ecommerce site up(only 4 products changing on a weekly basis) i hope i can figure it out and get it going :) thanks for the info..didnt

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
not 8-bit clean usually means that the chatscript is not succeeding in convincing the ISP to start ppp. Post your /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider files. Munge any passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Do Linux full-time... Hiring Linux specialists

1999-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Can you write the exact URL? Thank you. ---BeginMessage--- Previously Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I have no objections to job postings here. I think the web page idea is a good one. That webpage is supposed to be there already, I talked with the webteam

Java 1.2 fails to run.

1999-12-23 Thread David Teague
Hi I have a stock Slink system running on a K6 350 100 MHZ MB 128 MB RAM, 8G ide drive, SiS 6326 8MB video. I have jdk1.1 deb package installed. I need jdk1.2 I downloaded jdk1.2.2 r3 from blackdown, untarred it in /usr/local. I set the path per install instructions from blackdown: export

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