Re: [OFF TOPIC] Finding an IP from a Mac Address

2000-01-29 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Take a look at arpwatch. This is the only way you can get an idea of which IP belongs to which mac-address. But don't be to optimistic; if it's somebody on a modem you will only be able to spot the ISP... Good luck. -- Sven Esbjerg http://www.dina.dk/~joker

Re: incorrect time on boot by 6 years???

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> Anyway, the problem: After rebooting the computer, the year resets > from 2000 to 1994. The rest of the date and time looks OK. I don't Looks like Y2K bug in the BIOS or the RTC. Try forcing the year to 2000 in the BIOS, do a reboot before the OS enters (in the LILO: prompt, for example), enter

Re: dselect would like to remove perl!!!

2000-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Maurizi) wrote: > ... and many othe essential packages! Please read the "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." thread on this mailing list. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

why does ifconfig -a show aliased ips?

2000-01-29 Thread hypnos
Why doesn't `ifconfig -a` show the aliased IPs on my eth0 device on my server/firewall/gateway? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tty3:~]$ ifconfig -a loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:3731 error

incorrect time on boot by 6 years???

2000-01-29 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have seen this problem now on several different Linux only computers (no ntp), running frozen potato. At first, I thought it was a problem with the specific computer, but now I am beggining to wonder... Anyway, the problem: After rebooting the computer, the year resets from 2000 to 1994.

[OFF TOPIC] Finding an IP from a Mac Address

2000-01-29 Thread Raphaël HALIMI
Hello. This question has nothing to do with Debian, but I ask here because I really need a quick answer, so I try everywhere I can... Yesterday, again, somebody downloaded 60 Mb from my machine. It's the third time this month. I wouldn't mind, but I have a cable connection and my ISP allows me onl

ntp and 0.0.0.0 address

2000-01-29 Thread Brian May
Hello All, I cannot get ntp to work on my computer. In the past, with previous versions, there have been no problems - it just works! I think there is a bug in ntp somewhere (it has 0.0.0.0 on the brain), but the maintainer seems to disagree. I submitted bug 56551 which has now been closed agai

Debian instructions contradictory?

2000-01-29 Thread dkphoto
Below is a quote copied directly from the Debian web page FAQ for downloading CD images located at http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html: >-?- But what CDs do I need? >-!- If you want to install Debian, you should get only the "Binary-1" >CD for your platform (e.g. "i386" for IBM-compatible PCs). The

Re: Why no package seems to take care of the new /dev/console device?

2000-01-29 Thread Stephen R . Gore
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Shaul" == Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shaul> Is it simply a matter of rm slink /dev/console and MAKEDEV > Shaul> the new /dev/console and that is all? What will be the > Shaul> consequences of doing these rm and MAKEDEDV on a running >

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Also, hwclock --systohc disables the 11 minute update mode in the kernel, > > and ntp may stop updating the kernel clock because of that. > > Are you sure? I believe that updating the hw clock every 11min is not done > with newer kernels. Yes, I just t

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used > > > to > > > discipline your clock and will in fact keep the RTC in a short leash > > > updating it every 11 minutes. > It is my understanding th

DNS setup question

2000-01-29 Thread Alec Smith
Right now I've got my Debian-based server acting as a DNS cache. I'm in the process of moving a domain from one hosting company to another, and I'd like to be able to test things as if this domain was pointed at the new server instead of the old. I'm not quite ready to update the domain records

WindowMaker themes vanished?

2000-01-29 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; I upgraded to WindowMaker-gnome a couple days ago and everything works fine except my themes are no longer available. I didn't even notice it until yesterday when I went to change to a different theme. The only themes available for selection are the default 4. All my themes are still l

dselect would like to remove perl!!!

2000-01-29 Thread Alberto Maurizi
... and many othe essential packages! I upgrade/update potato daily. I use dselect just to see the new packages and "friendly" select them. However, the last upgrade attempt presented a very difficult situation of conflict. Many packages ar

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Actually, an end-user should have no business contacting public stratum 2 > > servers either, they should use their ISP's timeservers. But not many ISPs The operative word there is "should". > Uh Oh. I'll ask my ISP if

dselect problem with potato

2000-01-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
For some reason dselect wants to remove an awful lot of packages from my potato system: at, cron, debconf, exim, mailx, apparently all of gnome, and a bunch of others. When I run apt-get it seems perfectly happy with everything that's installed, and nothing seems to be flagged for removal in dsele

Installing to /dev/hde

2000-01-29 Thread Eric Wenger
My system is configured such that each of my four ide devices has its own IDE port.  The expansion card I use requires that hard disks be installed on the expansion board and cds/atapi devices be installed on the internal ports.  Anyway, when the root disk boots it recognizes the existence

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Actually, an end-user should have no business contacting public stratum 2 > servers either, they should use their ISP's timeservers. But not many ISPs > are this high-quality to offer timekeeping services... At the very le

ppp with different kernels

2000-01-29 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I have Debian potato on my laptop (Dell Latitude Cpt). I have 2 kernels, 2.0.36 and 2.2.13. For some reasons I had some problems with ppp, while connecting to my provider. Probably I made some mistake. Now the situation is quite strange (at least for me). Using kernel 2.0.36 the connection is OK,

Re: dselect making me INSANE!

2000-01-29 Thread paul
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, David said, > > Then it requests the contrib packages CD file, which I also find, but it > is 0 k and when opened in a text editor, is completely empty!!! What is > going on? Why does it want an empty file? > > Requests for: > > non-free > non-US > local > > packages, all

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:46:07AM -0200, > > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate and add the server(s) you selected. Remove > > > hwcloch --adjust calls in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh because it will bite yo

Re: Why no package seems to take care of the new /dev/console device?

2000-01-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Shaul" == Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaul> Is it simply a matter of rm slink /dev/console and MAKEDEV Shaul> the new /dev/console and that is all? What will be the Shaul> consequences of doing these rm and MAKEDEDV on a running Shaul> system? That's what I did

Re: odd xemacs behaviour when marking [SOLVED]

2000-01-29 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:11:46PM -0800, Bill Stilwell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble with marking in xemacs. The problem is identical in > both xemacs20 and xemacs21. It does not occur when run on the console, > only when in X. > > The problem: any attempt to mark/select text, either with

Re: crash diagnostics

2000-01-29 Thread aphro
try running your mahcine w/o a swap partition setup to see if the problem persists, (its just a shot in the dark..) you may have bad sectors on the drive where the swap partition resides. nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Werner Reisberger wrote: werner >I am still having occasional kernel panics and do

Re: Why no package seems to take care of the new /dev/console device?

2000-01-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:10:31AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I have no idea what should be done, but if it's decided that > replacing the console device is correct.. > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 05:53:30PM +0200, Shaul Karl was heard to say: > > 2) Decide what current users (slink users) s

Re: Mirror updates?

2000-01-29 Thread Bruce Sass
ftp/www.ca.debian.org has been going through some changes recently (try: http://osource.org/), last week I couldn't use them at all, this week they are back (www.ca.debian.org looks like Debian again and the ftp.ca.debian.org link in the download pages works). -- On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman

Re: RPM vs. Debian package format

2000-01-29 Thread dkphoto
>You can find out how robust (and picky) debs are by packaging >something. A couple weeks and a couple hundred pages of >developer docs later, you'll appreciate what goes into a deb. >The alien command will convert between rpms and debs and >you can compare the results. Would someone mind explain

dselect making me INSANE!

2000-01-29 Thread dkphoto
Help! I have tried 7 times(!) to install with no success beyond the base system. (And why the (*&&(& doesn't this thing install at least SOME man pages with the base installation?) OK, here's what's happening; I tell dselect to install from a single CD (if I tell it to install from a CD set, i

Re: Mirror updates?

2000-01-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: : How often are the debian mirrors updated? Primary-push mirrors are updated daily. : I just installed potato a couple days ago, using the : Canadian pkg mirror at ftp.ca.debian.org. Today, I : ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade for the first : tim

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > >already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across > > >ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the > > > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update t

Re: hard disk error

2000-01-29 Thread Gerardo Garcia Alvarez
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I get this error when the kernel starts > > > > > > Partition check: > > hda: hda1 > > hdb:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hdb: set_multmode: err

Mirror updates?

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Sherman
How often are the debian mirrors updated? I just installed potato a couple days ago, using the Canadian pkg mirror at ftp.ca.debian.org. Today, I ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade for the first time, and got 0 packages updated. On a hunch, I changed my sources.list to point to http.us.debian.o

Re: hard disk error

2000-01-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I get this error when the kernel starts > > > Partition check: > hda: hda1 > hdb:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > hdb1 hdb2 > VFS: Mounted root

hard disk error

2000-01-29 Thread Gerardo Garcia Alvarez
I get this error when the kernel starts Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hdb1 hdb2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Linux is in /dev/hdb1 and works fine. I have mad

Re: Why no package seems to take care of the new /dev/console device?

2000-01-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
I have no idea what should be done, but if it's decided that replacing the console device is correct.. On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 05:53:30PM +0200, Shaul Karl was heard to say: > 2) Decide what current users (slink users) should do. Is it simply a matter > of > rm slink /dev/console and MAKEDEV t

Why no package seems to take care of the new /dev/console device?

2000-01-29 Thread Shaul Karl
This question bothers me lately, and it was brought up on debian-user few times. Yet, although I am trying to constantly update the packages I am using it seems that no package takes care for it. Further more, I believe that it will be raised more frequently once potato will become the current d

SCSI devices not detected

2000-01-29 Thread Geza GYORGYI
The Debian 2.0 rescue disk does, the 2.1 disk does not boot on a 1998 PC with on board aic7880 scsi adapter, one scsi hdd, and two cd drives. In v2.1 the controller and the hdd are detected but the boot process locks when it would come to detecting the cd-s. I compiled a few kernels with aic7xxx d

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-29 Thread Martin Fluch
An simple apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade should do all. Also there is no need to call apt first with a -d option and then again with the same comand, but without the -d option. apt-get allways downloads all files needed and after that installs them, whereby the net-connectio

Is this upgrade safe?

2000-01-29 Thread Johann Spies
I want to use newer version of wxpython from potato, but I have a slink system. At the moment I work with the wxpython (from wxPython-2.1b1-2.i386.rpm) which I installed several months because I could not get the debian package for slink at that time. Apt-get reports the following: ---

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Debian-Users! On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Also, hwclock --systohc disables the 11 minute update mode in the kernel, > and ntp may stop updating the kernel clock because of that. Ops. That should've been 'stop updating the RTC because of that'. -- "One disk to rule t

Yamaha sound card LWHA151910

2000-01-29 Thread Greg West
Hi am looking for the site to download this LWHA151910 yamaha card as I lost my disc   Gregory Jonathan West Looking for info on the families:FISH - BUCHANAN - HARRISIn Parry Sound - Brockville - Sherbrooke/Haldimand near lake Erie.From early 1800's up to the WWII.ICQ- 16939283EMAIL- [EMAIL

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:46:07AM -0200, > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate and add the server(s) you selected. Remove > > hwcloch --adjust calls in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh because it will bite you > > soon

can't compile ksymoops

2000-01-29 Thread Werner Reisberger
Compilation of ksymoops fails with oops.c:42: bfd.h: no such file or directory I am in troubles to find the reason for occasional kernel panics. Before the last crash an oops happened and I hope to find any hint why my system crashes (the kernel panics itself doesn't deliver usable data). I am

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:46:07AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate and add the server(s) you selected. Remove > hwcloch --adjust calls in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh because it will bite you > sooner or later. Just out of curiosity, what kind of problem

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-29 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:56:39PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Just install in slink apt, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt can > find potato (add a line http/ftp site potato main contrib non-free), and > remove the 'stable' line. > > Now you do: > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrad

Urgent: Can't upgrade from slink to Potato/Frozen!!

2000-01-29 Thread S. Salman Ahmed
Ok, this problem has me totally stumped. I have upgraded from slink -> potato twice in the past without any problems. But on this new installation of slink, after I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to look like: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror conta

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used to > > discipline your clock and will in fact keep the RTC in a short leash > > updating it every 11 minutes. > > I don't believe ntp is what Patr

Re: problems with remote printing & lpr

2000-01-29 Thread Alberto Maurizi
I'm not a guru, and printing always causes some problems to me. However I use lpr (the good old lpr) and printtool and all seems to work. I found printtool very useful for configuring remote (and local) printing and avoiding headaches. Enjoy! Albert

Re: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...

2000-01-29 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:34:49AM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: > It is understandable that the package info for libc6-bin would > confuse (where it says "replaces libc6"), but the default action > (libc6) in dselect kept this server run > (installation of libc6 and removal of libc6-bin) kept t

Mail front end

2000-01-29 Thread Timothy Bedding
Hello. I am trying to get Ishmail to work. If Phillip Deackes or anyone else with experience with using Ishmail, can help me, I would be grateful. Ishmail seems to require popclient to get mail but on my system popclient is just a symbolic link to fetchmail which is quite a different program. Ho

Re: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...

2000-01-29 Thread Art Lemasters
29Jan00, 02:45, Rocky Mountain Range Time I just now did an upgrade through dselect, apt, and chose the default in dselect (libc6). After the reboot, Netscape 4.7 worked fine--even with plugger reinstalled. Netscape accessed other sites well, too, so the 3c905tx driver is working here, too

Re: Who serves with Debian?

2000-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Kallstrom wrote: > I'm doing a migration justification report, so I need a few examples of large > and/or popular sites that run on Debian. > > I do know that Ebay uses it; are there any other well knowns? Slashdot does (http://slashdot.org/faq.shtml, search for "What is powering the sh

rv50_redhat5xi386_rpm

2000-01-29 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, Could anyone point me to a location where I can get this rpm file, rv50_redhat5xi386_rpm apt-get keeps asking for it every time I use apt-get. Thanks Rajesh

Re: Woody? when did this happen? - when "stable" must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)

2000-01-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "Lewis, James M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Because it doesn't work for local mirrors. > Actually, it does work IF > you make a link called frozen that points to potato. > Remove the link before running the rsync (or whatever) > and replace it afterwards. When potato becomes stable, >

Re: Debian 2.0 tetex not OK

2000-01-29 Thread Brian May
> "Suresh" == Suresh Kumar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Suresh> Hi, I installed debian 2.0 successfully with tetex. When I Suresh> compile a package with seminar package used, it says Suresh> seminar.cls not found. But I have installed the tetex-src Suresh> package and seminar

spammer lurking

2000-01-29 Thread Jim B
This list is definitely being used to harvest e-mail addresses. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are two of the addresses from which I supposedly received mail on this address, which obviously I only used for subscription to this list. I'm not on the list at the moment, if anyone needs to

odd xemacs behaviour when marking

2000-01-29 Thread Bill Stilwell
Hi, I'm having trouble with marking in xemacs. The problem is identical in both xemacs20 and xemacs21. It does not occur when run on the console, only when in X. The problem: any attempt to mark/select text, either with the mouse or C- results in this error: unrecognized selection-conversion typ

ipmasq chain policy

2000-01-29 Thread Ethan Benson
I have noticed a problem with the ipmasq package, by default it sets all chain policys to DENY, however I have noticed that when my modem connection drops out and I get a new IP address upon reconnect any ssh or irc connections i had going on machines behind the firewall completely hang, for a ver

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > >already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across > >ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock.

Re: mail filtering techniques

2000-01-29 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ethan Benson, > I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter > your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such > techniques of dealing with several high volume lists) I'm on a couple of high-volume mailing lists, easily getting over 100 mails a

problem with slocate upgrade (potato)

2000-01-29 Thread Pollywog
(Reading database ... 54101 files and directories currently installed.) updatedb will not work, and when the slocate package was upgraded, I got this: Unpacking slocate (from .../slocate_2.1-2_i386.deb) ... Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.old by slocate' Leaving `diversion

Re: I almost have sound working

2000-01-29 Thread Tassilo von Parseval
Hi there, Well, perhaps I can tell you what I did because I also use a mad16 card. I have the most recent stable Kernel installed and compiled OSS support into the kernel and built the support for the cards as a module. What I did then was pnpdump -c >/etc/ispnp.conf . I did it with the -c flag b

Re: help with displaying true type fonts via xfs font server

2000-01-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:28:53PM +, john smith wrote: > I havee been able to successfully install and verify that my xfs font server > is working via the command > > fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 (run as user shell) it displays all the fonts > that are available but when I have added it to

Bad 3c59x Module in Jan 27 Potato

2000-01-29 Thread Clyde Wilson
Looks like the module for 3c59x in the last Potato release (Jan 27) is flaky. Also the generation of /etc/init.d/network seems to be messed up.

X and terminals and that galderned backspace key

2000-01-29 Thread Mark Symonds
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am lazy. :) In X, backspace doesn't work properly in terms. it gives a strange code value similar to ^]]GF or something. ^H works as a backspace. But since I use windows some of the time (please don't waste your time flaming me for that) I'm used to the backspace k

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > When I try to compile 2.2.12 at gateway2000 (pentium 200 with MMX), I got the > following message, I install hamm on it, and upgrade it to potato now. But I > failed in kernel compiling every time. I try 2.0.36 2.0.38, but fa

Re: I almost have sound working

2000-01-29 Thread Kent West
Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > Thanks to all of your help, I almost have sound working. My CD player will > play music, but I have no sound in Linux programs. I went into sound section > of the Gnome configuration tool, and when I tried to play a sound, nothing > happened. I turned the soun

Re: keyboard repeat rate

2000-01-29 Thread Saisanthosh B
Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I set the keyboard repeat rate and the speed? kbdrate -r -d -- saisanthosh

apt-get -s -u dist-upgrade

2000-01-29 Thread Alfred Munnikes
Hello First, I have the system backuped up. Than with apt-get the Potato Packages file catched from the ftp site. apt-get -s -u dist-upgrade And that give's some trouble, I think. Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: balsa eeyes enlight