Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:55:21PM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > "\e[H":beginning-of-line > "\eOH":beginning-of-line > "\eOF":end-of-line > "\EOF":end-of-line \E != \e. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs,

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-26 Thread kmself
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:17:54PM +0200, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: > > Well, I do not like writing too much, so I copy & paste... > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Antonio > > > Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.10) ... [...] > XEmacs exiting.Opening directory: No such file or direc

problem compiling a module!

2000-03-26 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I have a realtek 8139 compatible network card, and I downloaded the kernel 2.2.14 sources. And evrything compiled fine!..except that 'make xconfig' doesn't allow me to select the realtek 8139 as a module...it appears disabled!! How do I compile the rtl8139.o module???

auth_ldap

2000-03-26 Thread Robert Norris
Hello, Which package contains the Apache module auth_ldap? apache-common has the documentation for it, but I can't find the actual module. If it's not anywhere, why not? Regards, Rob.

x windows only allows root??

2000-03-26 Thread john smith
hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something?

printcap problems, please help

2000-03-26 Thread Steve Winston
I need a little help getting a printer working with Devian. On slink, I mistakenly erased my printcap while setting up an Epson Stylus 740. Because I also have Linux mandrake on the same computer with the same printer, I installed the mandrake printcap and then did /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig --f

Threads under linux

2000-03-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking to use threads for programing under linux. Is there any tutorial on the subject, or can anyone recomand me a book, or pointers to the library rutines so I have place to start? ( I have previous exprience with threads under windows, so I don't need something to start me from scrach).

kernel config question(s)

2000-03-26 Thread tjm
After looking through much documentation, I'm still not sure whether I have the info I need. Going through the config stuff to build a new 2.2.14 kernel (up from 2.2.11) I notice that the previous parameter of 'CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG' is now missing or not offered in this 2.2.14 kernel config. I

RE: connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Glen S Mehn
Run a `netstat -nr` and give us that output. Also the output from #ifdown eth0 #ifup eth0 The key should be in the errors (if any) that are there. It sounds like the gateway is not being added to the route table correctly: You could try # route add default gw 216.x.x.1 Checked for typos? If the

Re: connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why dhcp? I have a STATIC IP address on my xdsl connection. I > am NOT using dhcp on windows, and am sending this e mail out > right now on windows. Ahh. Missed you haveing a static ip. Sorry, I can really help you th

Re: TEX: tex.fmt, latex.fmt, jadetex.fmt missing.

2000-03-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I got it working. I just addedd the following to my /etc/apt/sources.list and did an "apt-get upgrade" deb http://www.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Brendan Simon. I'm not sure, but perhaps run fmtutil? Just a shot in the dark. Marshal > "Brendan" == Brendan J Simon <

Can't find ssl.h in stable

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Mail
I am trying to compile the apache-ssl-1.3.3+1.29 package. It is stopping, because it can't find the ssl.h header file. But I can't find that file in stable when searching on the Debian homepage. Where do I find the necessary package containing ssl.h and the remaining needed files? Stef

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 01:11:17AM +0200, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: > I have no idea, but what does it do when you press your E key while in the > middle of a command (while editing). > I am afraid it has the same symptoms. :-( PS: Please carbon copy messages to me. []'s -- Rodrigo Ca

Re: connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Why dhcp? I have a STATIC IP address on my xdsl connection. I am NOT using dhcp on windows, and am sending this e mail out right now on windows. --- Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I (finally) seem to

Re: Potato & Moneydance

2000-03-26 Thread jason
On 27 Mar, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: > You have to play with the CLASSPATH variable in one (some) of the scripts. > I had exactly the same problem, and I solved it that way. In fact, if I > haven't forgotten, it's simply a question of adding a line to the script > that states where it can find you

Re: connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It > works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, > Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the > networking configuration for m

Keymap problem when upgrading xfree86 in slink...

2000-03-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I've just reinstalled my system, and something strange happens... (I'm running slink on a Pentium II) I have a S3 Trio 3D/2X video card... Which is not supported by xfree 3.3.3 (which came with slink 2.1). So I first installed slink, then upgraded xfree86 from: deb http://www.debian.org/~v

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Mackan" == Mackan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 26 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: >> > "Mackan" == Mackan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian >> > cd's. I know of the debian-cd package, but s

connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for my network card. IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1 broadcast 216.xxx.xxx.255

Re: Authentication...? RADIUS ?

2000-03-26 Thread The_Phantom 74
Hi Thanks for the reply... But what about on the server which authentictes the users as they dial in! I am planning to have several boxes, 1 as the authenticator (preferably 2 for redundency, is that even posible??) 1 for the mail and web pages 1 for the name server 1 for the dial up cards (pl

NFS from selected hosts

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can NFS be completely disallowed from selected hosts, like the TCP wrappers do for TCP services? My new cable modem provider doesn't allow any servers, so I need to block it. I still want to use NFS on my LAN though. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > | - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no > | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux > | D). > > Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, b

Authentication...? RADIUS ?

2000-03-26 Thread The_Phantom 74
Hi I am trying to set up an ISP, and RADIUS has been sugested for the authenication and billing of the users on the dial up servers. Any one have any recomendations?? Also WHERE can i find it??? It was not listed under dselect But then I'm new to all this so I could be doing it wrong!! _

Re: Potato & Moneydance

2000-03-26 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
You have to play with the CLASSPATH variable in one (some) of the scripts. I had exactly the same problem, and I solved it that way. In fact, if I haven't forgotten, it's simply a question of adding a line to the script that states where it can find your classes.zip file CLSPATH=${CLSPATH}:/your/p

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Mackan
On 26 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > "Mackan" == Mackan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian > > cd's. I know of the debian-cd package, but since my machine runs > > Slackware at the moment it isn't much of h

Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Here's how my system is setup. Hopefully, it will help. I have Partition Magic's Boot Manager (actually, I think it's the OS/2 boot manager) on /dev/hda. My DR-DOS and Win95 partitions are marked a bootable on /dev/hda. Debian GNU/Linux is on /dev/hdb. The root partition is /dev/hdb1. During

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread rodsc
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:13:25AM -0800, David Benson wrote: > I only have one debugging idea, but your problem sounds > like no fun, so I hope this helps... > > Try running ``strace bash'' to see whether the key-event > is making it to bash. > > If so, try other libreadline-based progra

Potato & Moneydance

2000-03-26 Thread jason
Has anyone had any luck getting moneydance to work with potato? I have the following packaged installed: jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, jdk1.1-native & jdk1.1-native-dev. Where the 'native' packages provide the native linux threads extensions to the standard jdk. The version of Java installed as part of pota

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Mackan" == Mackan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody! > I'm new to this list - and also new to Debian. I have used > Slackware for years, but decided to give Debian a try. > I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian > cd's. I know of the deb

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Samuel Tardieu
| - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux | D). Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, but I'll try anyway. bash man page reports that /etc/profile is read first. What d

Re: mknod -- minor device no.

2000-03-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number > is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like > this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for > my minor device number. dmesg tells the devices major number, cluster, > and n

Would you like to save 30% on your phone bills and...

2000-03-26 Thread jeffallen
To be removed from this mailing list immediately press reply and enter REMOVE on the subject line. Would you like some information on saving 30% on your Phone bills each month and how to get up to 8% back each month on your Utilities including phone. This service works for both business and re

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Richard McNally writes: > Debian, I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. Don't believe everything you read on IRC. > I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. The > product hangs and gives a message like"a problem occurred when installing > Base System.

mknod -- minor device no.

2000-03-26 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for my minor device number. dmesg tells the devices major number, cluster, and nice,

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Mar-2000 19:16:30 Ernest Johanson wrote: > You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also > set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above > that point. Is this what is called "chroot"? -- Andrew

Re: XFree 3.3.6 SOUND problem (?)

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:28:08PM +, Esdras Beleza de Noronha wrote: > I'm having a very, very strange problem with XFree 3.3.6. > > I have a SiS 6326 (it uses the XF86_SVGA server) and a CMI 8330/SB16 > soundcard, and they're configured. > When I run X using the 16 bpp resolution, my sound

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:09:34PM -0600, Richard McNally wrote: > Debian, > I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. Well you were right then. > However, I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. > The product hangs and gives a message like"a problem o

Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Hi, got a problem... I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and a swap file I created with partition magic. I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver and then loaded Debian from the CD. Everything went well. The installation "f

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Ernest Johanson
You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above that point. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:51

CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Mackan
Hi everybody! I'm new to this list - and also new to Debian. I have used Slackware for years, but decided to give Debian a try. I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian cd's. I know of the debian-cd package, but since my machine runs Slackware at the moment it isn't much of h

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread ktb
Sugar will get you a lot more help here than vinegar. This list *is* top notch support. Report exactly what the error that is occurring is and someone will be able to help. kent - Original Message - From: Richard McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000

debian install

2000-03-26 Thread Richard McNally
Debian, I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. However, I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. The product hangs and gives a message like"a problem occurred when installing Base System..." Any suggestions? I bought  O'Reilly's "learning Debinan"

fsck error message

2000-03-26 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
I type in 'fsck' at the root prompt and get this message: Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999) WARNING: bad format on line 2 of /etc/fstab My /etc/fstab looks like this: # /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda12 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 # mounts /dev/hda12 partition as the /h

slrn/leafnode timeouts

2000-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm currently using fetchnews and slrn and frequently have the NNTP connection timeout while composing longer articles, with the result that slrn decides it can post the article and I have to reload it from slrn-failed-posting.txt. While that works, it's a royal PITA... Looking through the config

Re: SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:26:35PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Is there a SMP-howto? See: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.tex (although it is pretty deep stuff, at least my my standards) (if you don't have tex stuff installed, just browse the file) > Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a d

Re: Help! Memory gone missing...

2000-03-26 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:06:28PM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > This is new. When I upgraded 128 -> 192, the full 192 meg was seen > correctly (no need for append line in lilo.conf) Hi, I have never been able to figure out why some folks need the append line and some folks don't, but it sound

Re: SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi there > Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. > Is there a SMP-howto? > Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual > PII-350, 256ram? > (yes, I'm new at this ;-) > Regards > Vitux > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/SMP-HOWTO.txt.gz in the doc-

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Peter Wintrich
you must have a boot partition comlete into the lower 1024 cyl. On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone > here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. > > i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor

Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

2000-03-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read a few kernels ago that you needed the following in > /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules, depending on where you are in the > Debian versioning): > > options sound dmabuf=1 > > I have had this set for some time and have had no problems since wi

Re: SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:26:35PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Hi there > Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. > Is there a SMP-howto? > Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual > PII-350, 256ram? > (yes, I'm new at this ;-) > Regards > Vitux Basically you need to recompile your kerne

'line monitor': solved

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff Gordon
This worked: tcpdump -a -i ppp0 -l -vvv -w dat.file Later: snort -dv -r dat.file (More info than I needed arrived in dat.file, but it did include the specific info I was seeking. I expect 'sniffit' would've worked, but apparently it needs for a particular SysV switch to have been include

emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-26 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
Well, I do not like writing too much, so I copy & paste... Any help will be appreciated. Antonio Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.10) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:20:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, George Bonser wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > > > > > > > > Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? > > > > > > > I could tell you ...

Waveform editor / Python graphics library

2000-03-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Does anyone know of a graphical waveform editor where you can edit the actual numerical values of each sample, or draw it? I want to make some samples for some MODs I would like to do, but I don't have a good waveform editor. If not, does anyone know of a good Python drawing library I can use so

Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello Sorry for asking again about my problem but I can't make my letter E work in bash (neither in console nor xterm). See what happens: - "E" is treated like a dead key. It is not showed at first time, but when you press another key after "E", it beeps - "E" works in other programs and

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink > doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever > unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but > when I try to s

SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Vitux
Hi there Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. Is there a SMP-howto? Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual PII-350, 256ram? (yes, I'm new at this ;-) Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-fre

Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

2000-03-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > Does anybody know how to get around the sound dma buffer problem? I > > am pretty sure the problem is that the system can't find any free > > memory in the bottom 16MB. I think that there is a way to lock in the > > dma buffer, but I don't remember how, and I haven't managed to find > > the r

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:48:52AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact > > which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being > > able to reach the 'Net. > > Tell him he got kicked off for downloading too much pr0n

mail server wishlist

2000-03-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have exim mail server installed in a Debian machine and want to know how to do the following: I need a mail server that can on a per-user basis: 1. Take a message local generated or received from SMTP To e-mails in the localdomain and To people in other domains a

Help! Memory gone missing...

2000-03-26 Thread Jonathan Heaney
A curious thing happened recently (don't know exactly when, just noticed it) Debian (potato, custom 2.2.15pre15 kernel) seems to have 'lost' 128meg of memory. I've got 192 in my system (recently gone from 128 which went OK) cat /proc/meminfo gives:- total:used:free: shared: buf

Problems getting files from distribution sites.

2000-03-26 Thread Kevin A Smith
New installation. Go the base system up with floppies ;-0 Now running dselect, getting numerous failures when trying to download packages either with http from "llug.sep.bnl.gov" or ftp from ftp.debian.org. Errors I'm getting with HTTP method: "overly long header from webserver" and "bad header

RE: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-26 Thread Onno
Can you give me any figures? Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 3/26/00 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: >I disagree with your disagreement -grin- > >Plain ACLs are too slow especially on a large and/or busy cache. > >-- >From: Onno[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, 26 March 2000 12:58 AM >To:

"line monitor" for Linux...?

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff Gordon
Under OS/2, a nifty utility called Poor Man's LIne Monitor (PMLM) was included with Ray Gwinn's SIO com ports drivers. PMLM allowed one to watch was passing through the serial port during online conversations -- very useful for debugging connections and for retrieving forgotten encrypted passwords,

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread spectral
> Don't set LC_CTYPE or any of the other LC_* variable, and just set > LANG=. It should exhibit the correct behaviour then. All of > the LC variables will "inherit" values appropriate to the locale if just > the LANG variable is set. The only problems are then "inheriting" > behaviors for monetary

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:42:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > I think the problem comes from having LANG="C" but > > LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1". Try setting your LANG environment variable in > > /etc/environment to something that uses iso-8859-1 (en_US, en_UK, and > > most? western

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread spectral
Hello, > I think the problem comes from having LANG="C" but > LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1". Try setting your LANG environment variable in > /etc/environment to something that uses iso-8859-1 (en_US, en_UK, and > most? western European languages). The iso-8859-1 character set defines > twice as many chara

DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Mark Beverage
Does Debian currently support or is there a way to import support for an Intel Pro/DSL 2100 internal modem for a PC. Thank You Mark Beverage [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread paulwade
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > > > > > Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? > > > > I could tell you ... but then I would have to bill you. That works out okay because if Dan gets this ISP with 100k accounts to hire

RE: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? If you want to create something like Hotmail, have you tried IMP: http://www.horde.org/imp/ -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https:

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:04:10PM -0800, George Bonser generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > > > So far you've recommended sendmail and exim as servers. What about web > > clients? Any ideas? > > Netscape, MSIE, Opera, Lynx, whatever. > Ok, how about s

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Dan Melomedman
So far you've recommended sendmail and exim as servers. What about web clients? Any ideas?

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you > > might break things. > > which is? See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > i've had bad luck in the past with non primary partitions. i try and avoid > them w

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
> I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you > might break things. which is? > I don't recall what the limit is, but with a large partition that may > contain many small files, you're likely to run out of inodes. And that's > no fun. I'd suggest breaking up var into

Re: Can't extract base2_1.tgz no matter what

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:47:43PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: > So the question is what are the minimum/maximum sizes for a > partition. I can't imaging 240M being too small for root. Is it? I had > a 3GB partition for /usr which I tried to set under 2G but the disk > partitioning software resulte

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:26:40PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone > here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. > > i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i > like to keep everyth

Re: floppy doesn't work since upgrading to 2.2 [solved]

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
sorry to follow up my own post but i finally figured out what i'd changed since this last worked. i was incorrect it wasn't the 2.2 kernels, it was that shortly after upgrading to 2.2 i added "floppy=thinkpad" to my lilo.conf (cause i have a thinkpad). i removed this and rebooted and it's all wo

floppy doesn't work since upgrading to 2.2

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
ever since i upgraded to 2.2 i've had very sporadic sucess using my floppy disk on my thinkpad 390. sometimes it seems to kinda work but most of the time it doesn't work at all. i'm currently trying to create a boot floppy for a potato resuce disk and getting this error: heyzeus(larry)$ sudo dd

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:51:06PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > i'm not sure what you're options are for samba as i haven't used it for a > long time ... > > for ssh you have two ways. give them a shell which is useless (/bin/false > or /bin/true or make your own, eg. /usr/local/bin/nossh). then

Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirements

2000-03-26 Thread dan
Wonder if anyone has experience with very high-volume web-to-mail services, or just have any recommendations at all. We are going to be working on a 100,000 user web-to-mail gateway system similar to Hotmail. Every user will have a 50 MB mailbox. At this point this is a one-person job, and quite fr

Re: Good Imap mail server?

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
> I think I want to install an imap mail server on my linux server. Can > someone recommend a good one that is debianized? Here is why I want > one. I'm using several different computers on my home network, and want > to be able to read my any of my e-mail from any computer here. I > believe t

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
> I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed > telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh, > some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user > access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access > through ftp?

Re: Can't extract base2_1.tgz no matter what

2000-03-26 Thread Josh Kuperman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:16:48PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: > > I have a Dell Dimension XPS 466, with 64M of RAM and two old SCSI > > disks. I have tried downloading CD-images from ftp.eecs.umich.edu and > > using the cd-image ma

problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i like to keep everything) is just over 10Gb. when i boot it hangs on the message: /dev/hda

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:46:00PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Percival, > > I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed > > telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through > > ssh, some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off > >

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Percival, > I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed > telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through > ssh, some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off > user access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:25:20AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have seen this discussed earlier, but i can't remember what to do about > it. > > When i start perl it says: > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (

Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

2000-03-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had the same problem with some kernels, but with 2.2.14 it works > fine. > I saw that there is a patch at www.alsa-project.org , maybe thats what > you > need. I read a few kernels ago that you needed the following in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules, depending

Good Imap mail server?

2000-03-26 Thread Chris Hoover
I think I want to install an imap mail server on my linux server. Can someone recommend a good one that is debianized? Here is why I want one. I'm using several different computers on my home network, and want to be able to read my any of my e-mail from any computer here. I believe this is what

RE: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-26 Thread C. Falconer
I disagree with your disagreement -grin- Plain ACLs are too slow especially on a large and/or busy cache. -- From: Onno[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 26 March 2000 12:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:Re:

weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread spectral
I have seen this discussed earlier, but i can't remember what to do about it. When i start perl it says: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "iso_8859_1", LANG = "C" are supported and

Re: modules not working please help

2000-03-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you sure there's nothing else use htat io port?? Check your /proc/ioports to see if it'w free. Ron On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, bacterium wrote: > I have just installed Debian potato (2.2.14). The installer gave an error > when I tried to install the modules for my network cards. I know for > cert