[OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-14 Thread Will Trillich
i'm in a mixed marriage. i'm mac, my wife is windows (not that she likes it, she just invested all that time and doesn't want it to be for nothing). and we now have a new member on the team, of course: debian linux. works like a champ! but this is a very odd situation. in my home i've got linux a

Re: Strange message - eth0: too much work in el3_rx

2000-06-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:13:44PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > I'm getting strange messages on the console of my Debian machine, namely > eth0: too much work in el3_rx > Can anyone give me any hints as to (a) what it means, (b) whether it > indicates a problem, and(c) how to get rid of it (as

Re: debian packaging and /usr/local/bin

2000-06-14 Thread John Hasler
> Now if we are concerned about administrators being able to keep all > applications in the dpkg database, so as to insure system integrety, > could not some kind of generic .config script be written that creates > .deb files for non-supported applications. It's called debhelper, and most develope

Re: macintosh

2000-06-14 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:06:15PM -0400, wolf wrote: > I have an old macintosh performa 550 which was upgraded to a powermac LC > 550 is it possible to run and install linux on this machine? and if so > where can I find the download? > thanks : ) at http://www.debian.org/distrib/, there's useful

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-14 Thread Robert C. Ramsdell
I found the source of this last problem, It wasn't with the Rescue Disk at all, it was with my memory setting! I had been booting using the command: boot: linux mem=80mb When I tried booting without it (just hit [Enter] at the boot: prompt), I was able to complete the install! (Question: Is t

Re: /usr/src/linux/.config?

2000-06-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Where can I find the /usr/src/linux/.config that was used to make the > distribution kernel for slink? > Isn't it in /boot ? > Thanks, > > John > > -- > > John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.olliance.com/ > Olliance, 986 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050, 408.850.7

samba error

2000-06-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi when a normal user tries to change his/her passwd using smbpasswd or SWAT, they get the following error: "machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.). Failed to change password f

debian packaging and /usr/local/bin

2000-06-14 Thread tom
Recent discussions about netscape and other non-gpl applications prompt me wonder about the debian packaging system. In most unix systems software that is not part of the distribution is compiled and put into /opt or /usr/local or some similar place. Usually developers will have make files for o

RE: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-14 Thread Paul McHale
I know this isn't helpful, but here is some additional information. I have a P233 with a non-UDMA66 45GB hard drive. I get about 12MB/s. I question the utility of the hdparm performance. This doesn't appear to be random reads. Either way, I get much better performance with Storm (based on debi

Re: macintosh

2000-06-14 Thread ktb
wolf wrote: > > I have an old macintosh performa 550 which was upgraded to a powermac LC > 550 is it possible to run and install linux on this machine? and if so > where can I find the download? > thanks : ) > -- > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/m68k/install I imagine you can download at

using tcp.wrappers on echo server?

2000-06-14 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, have a customer who wants to use our echo server from two addresses only. have specified them in hosts.allow and hosts.deny as follows: /etc/hosts.allow echo: 203.6.6.6/255.255.255.255 /etc/hosts.deny echo: ALL should it be echo? or echo.d? or echod? for the other services you specif

macintosh

2000-06-14 Thread wolf
I have an old macintosh performa 550 which was upgraded to a powermac LC 550 is it possible to run and install linux on this machine? and if so where can I find the download? thanks : ) -- - "Do not judge me for

ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-14 Thread Wilson Yau
Hi, everyone! My system is Abit BP6 w/Dual Celeron 500MHz CPUs & 128MB PC-100 SDRAM on board. One 18GB IBM UDMA-66 7200rpm HDD (master) & One 20GB IBM UDMA-66 7200rpm HDD (Slave) connected to the first ATA-66 channel. I frist installed the Gentus Linux (Abit's RedHat-based distribution) from the

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:10PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi all, > > Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords? > One from the key and one from the login? > > Currently, I only need to enter the login password. > that is why I do not understand what are these keys >

Kernel oops.

2000-06-14 Thread Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva
Hi all, I seem to have a kernel error here. It usually happens when cron.daily is running. The screen sometimes freezes (if I in X) and my keyboard dies. So I have to reboot using the reset button (argh!). I am using 2.2.15 with ide patch applied. I have an ALI V system. At the end I'll show my

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-14 Thread ktb
Fish Smith wrote: > > Is there a way to boot the install system from the > hard disk? Of a pre-installed debian system I mean, I > know how to do it from an msdos/win system I'm going > to install over. > > I made a few mistakes in install and I want to revise > my selections. I don't particul

Debian Potato & NIS+

2000-06-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am working in a new network operations center that needs to standardize on a linux distribution, currently it seems to be leaning towards debian potato as thats what the unix admins want.(either that or mandrake) I'm wondering what kind of support(if any) potato has for NIS+ (NIS w/shadow passwd

Re: network

2000-06-14 Thread Felix Natter
"Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to get either a UMAX 250TX 10/100 pcmcia network card > or a 3COM 3CCFE574BT pcmcia network adapter to work in debian? > > And just for my own knowledge, Why are WinModems not supported by Linux, > Besides the fact that they suck.

Re: vol command?

2000-06-14 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0700, Fish Smith wrote: > Is there a command to unsplit a file from multiple > floppies, similar to the minix vol command? i.e. if I > were to write a package using using msdos fdvol to > span multiple floppies and I wanted to read it into > debian. If there is

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-14 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi all, Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords? One from the key and one from the login? Currently, I only need to enter the login password. that is why I do not understand what are these keys for? Nitebirdz wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On W

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-14 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:26:55AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > hi All, > > > > I'm still confused about the keys file. > > > > I ran the ssh-keygen on machine-1 with passphrase > > and it created two files in > > $HOME/.ssh/identify > >

Re: Where is module_file?

2000-06-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
/lib/modules/ where section is fs or misc or net or wherever you would expect to find them. -Dan On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:24:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need some help with the modinfo program. When I run lsmod I get: > > ModulePages Used by > serial

Where is module_file?

2000-06-14 Thread henrymar
I need some help with the modinfo program. When I run lsmod I get: Module Pages Used by serial 8 2 (autoclean) cdrom 1 0 linear 1 0 So this means that I have 3 different modules installed in my kernel, right?

RE: librep problems

2000-06-14 Thread Kristian Rink
> > problem is...i've installed the gmp library. Any ideas?? > Hi, Justin... Stupid question: did you install the gmp devel files? If you built it from the sources, you'll probably have, otherways could be that the header-files of the gmp library are missing, so you might want to check your di

RE: TNT2

2000-06-14 Thread Kristian Rink
On 14-Jun-2000 cam_random wrote: > > My video card is a nVIDIA TNT2, however when i configure XF86 I can't > find my card in the database. any ideas? > > Justin > Hi, Justin... The TNT2 chipset is listed as RivaTNT2 (chipset # 412 when using xf86config in Xfree86 4.0). As an alternative, you

samba auto-unloads

2000-06-14 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, I've been using the samba client to mount NT drives to my linux box for some time without any problems. Now, on my home linux box, I'm mounting drives from my linux box at work. It works very well at first. However, when I come back the next day, the mounted drive produces I/O errors. I

Re: TNT2

2000-06-14 Thread Bolan Meek
> cam_random wrote: > > I have an nVIDIA TNT2 video card, but I can't find my card in the > database when I configure Xany ideas? > > Justin Since NVidia's NV1/STG2000 and RIVA 128 chips were supported in xserver-svga, my bet is that TNT2 is, also. Have you used xf86setup (or is it XF86Setu

Re: mounting root via NFS

2000-06-14 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 14 2000, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > Is it possible to do this? I would like to set up an ``almost > diskless'' workstation, having only the kernel and a swap partition > on the local HD. Not only possible, but a very common setup for some places. In fact, in some places I've

SSH access between a Debian 2.2 box and a RedHat laptop

2000-06-14 Thread Oliver Hingst
Hello again, I have finally come to the conclusion that Telnet is inferior and I have chosen to install SSH. I have installed SSH 1.2.x (OpenSSH ?) from the UK Debian mirror (client & server) The Debian machine will allow SSH access from a RedHat 6.1 laptop. On the laptop I installed newest RPMS

Re: librep problems

2000-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
"cam_random" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm currenlty trying to install Sawfish and to do so I need several = >other files (such as librep) However, when I try to ./configure librep = >i get this error message: > >checking for mpz_init in -lgmp... no >configure: error: cannot find GMP library > >

Debian download

2000-06-14 Thread Charley Bolen/R8/USDAFS
I have tried four different times to download the Debian Official CD Image. After going through their "pseudo-image" process and the rsync process, I get 99% of the file, along with a "corrupt file" error message, followed by the question "File changed during transfer?" I can tell I'm not getting i

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-14 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do you happen to know whether ps2ascii is safe ? Look for yourself :-): `which ps2ascii`

librep problem

2000-06-14 Thread cam_random
I'm currently trying to install Sawfish, however in order to do so I need librep.  When I've tried to configure librep i keep getting the same error message:   checking for mpz_init in -lgmp... no configure: error: cannot find GMP Library   I've installed the gmp library...several times.  an

TNT2

2000-06-14 Thread cam_random
I have an nVIDIA TNT2 video card, but I can't find my card in the database when I configure Xany ideas?   Justin

Re: System with 2 hard-drives

2000-06-14 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:23:48AM -0400, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "PM" == Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PM> I'm having trouble understanding this, but, um, you're Linux > PM> fits on a floppy?? > PM> > > No, not quite. Its just the boot sector that I am copying to

Re: The ALSA driver in potato is very outdated :-(

2000-06-14 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:09:16PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > I had some troubles with ALSA drivers, provided with potato. > I sent a message to one of their developers, and this is what I received: > > > you are using a very old version of ALSA. > > please upgrade your drive

Re: init question

2000-06-14 Thread Tom Glass
Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Glass wrote: > > > I'm attempting to modify runlevel 5 to start my own app. As a start, I > > deleted all links from /etc/rc5.d and replaced them with links copied in > > from /etc/rc1.d. (i copied rc5.d into my home directory first in case I > > n

Re: xisp and kppp and gnome-ppp and ...

2000-06-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Alberto" == Alberto Meroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alberto> I added the user to the group dialout and dip and the user Alberto> can log to the provider with pon and logout with poff but... OK, this is good. He should then also be able to use any other pppd frontend. Alberto> He cannot read

TNT2

2000-06-14 Thread cam_random
My video card is a nVIDIA TNT2, however when i configure XF86 I can't find my card in the database.  any ideas?Justin

librep problems

2000-06-14 Thread cam_random
I'm currenlty trying to install Sawfish and to do so I need several =other files (such as librep)  However, when I try to ./configure librep =i get this error message:checking for mpz_init in -lgmp... noconfigure: error: cannot find GMP libraryproblem is...i've installed the gmp library.  An

mp3-encoder

2000-06-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
There has been some discussion about this as part of the recent 'flame war' about no-free. In short, due to patents covering mp3 encoding debian will NOT have any mp3-encoder software in the distro. It could be put in non-us IF a site could be found in a country that thumbed it's nose at softwa

boot install from HD

2000-06-14 Thread Fish Smith
Is there a way to boot the install system from the hard disk? Of a pre-installed debian system I mean, I know how to do it from an msdos/win system I'm going to install over. I made a few mistakes in install and I want to revise my selections. I don't particularly want to make all those floppies

Re: Changing alternatives

2000-06-14 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:51:09PM +0200, Joost Claessen wrote: > back to less. How can I keep pager on most and not having to set it to > manually ervery time? If you don't want less, then why not just uninstall it? Cheers, Tom pgpuAm1GVSRFp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: use second hard drive to boot from?

2000-06-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joe Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Physically, I have a CD drive, a CD-R drive and a 3.5 floppy. I have a bay > right under the 3.5 drive which is the same size as the 3.5. Could I fit > the second hard drive in there? Yes, it's conventional to stack floppies and hard drives in the same

Re: non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joe Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > during boot up, I see my hard drive is 9.7 % non - contiguous. I'm not sure > what this means. > What then is the difference between non-contiguous and fragmentation? Is > one worse than the other? How can my hard drive be 9.7 % non-contiguous if > t

Re: kernel stuff

2000-06-14 Thread mcclosk
Gijs van der Brugge wrote: |> Firstly, what it says is that i ought to replace kerneld with kmod |> and a link to information is given. To me this wasn't very clear so |> i ask your help how to replace kerneld with kmod. Secondly, there |> are some messages about kernel modules not being able to

Unidentified subject!

2000-06-14 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
Hi, I'm shopping for an Apple PowerBook 500MHz 128MB 12GB hard drive. 1- can anyone suggest where to buy it at lowest cost? 2- any suggestions on installing and running debian? thank you for your help. from tucson-:)) harold

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2000-06-14 Thread Ray Sheehan
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Re: SSH again!

2000-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:26:55AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > hi All, > > I'm still confused about the keys file. > > I ran the ssh-keygen on machine-1 with passphrase > and it created two files in > $HOME/.ssh/identify > $HOME/.ssh/identify.pub > > I copy the identify.pub t

Re: nextawg-0.5.1-34 vs. nextaw-0.8-2

2000-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > What's the difference between these two nextaw packages ? It seems that > only 1 of these can be installed at any time. nextawg is obsolete. The package has been renamed back to nextaw, and no longer supports libc5 applications. The ftp site has not yet been updated thou

Re: FW: IMAP + QMAIL

2000-06-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Did you make sure to compile courier-imap with PAM support? I don't remember from when I compiled it but you probably have to specify this. This is what I'm using. Your AUTHMODULES should contain authpam. It would seem that authshadow should've worked but it wouldn't if you're using md5 passwords (

Athlon and debian

2000-06-14 Thread Jerry Williams
Please tell me if your product works well with a 650 athlon and 751/756 chipset thanks Jerry

/usr/src/linux/.config?

2000-06-14 Thread John Conover
Where can I find the /usr/src/linux/.config that was used to make the distribution kernel for slink? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.olliance.com/ Olliance, 986 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050, 408.850.7500

mp3-encoder

2000-06-14 Thread Dietmar
Is there no mp3-encoder in Debian ? dietmar

init question

2000-06-14 Thread Tom Glass
I'm attempting to modify runlevel 5 to start my own app. As a start, I deleted all links from /etc/rc5.d and replaced them with links copied in from /etc/rc1.d. (i copied rc5.d into my home directory first in case I need it later). I thought when I did this that init 5 would now behave exactly a

RE: video

2000-06-14 Thread Wayne Sitton
>The SVGA xserver in version 3.3.6 supports Lynx chipsets. >Just use one of the X config tools to get it running. > >Jo I've tried that, I get an error saying modes not available. The only thing I can think of is trying XF86 4.0 wayne

Changing alternatives

2000-06-14 Thread Joost Claessen
Helo ppl, Ive got a problem whith the alternative system. I have less and most both installed which both provide pager. I like most most more as a pager then less. Since less has a higer priority then most, less is choosen as pager. So I update-alternatives --config pager and choose most. But ever

Re: masqmail - really a good & safe solution for DIP connected box?

2000-06-14 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
> The problem is however, that the providers' smarthosts complain > about the sender's hostname (because it contains my "unofficial" > domain name), and this results sometimes in rejection of my message > at the adressee's mail server. Have a look at "rewrite configuration" section in /etc/exim.c

blackbox background image

2000-06-14 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
hi debian users i've got a problem with blackbox... i've been trying to setup a background image but i can't load it can anyone tell me how to do it? i've been trying this rootCommand bsetbg -full /home/path/to/the/jpeg.jpg but i think i got no bsetbg command can anyone tell any other

Re: non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread ferret
Also, if you happen to have a file larger than approx. 8MB (at least with 2.0-compatible fs) it WILL be fragmented, because the inode tables and block groups are laid out on the fs at 8MB intervals. Not sure what it is on a fs made for the 2.2 kernel options. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbrait

vol command?

2000-06-14 Thread Fish Smith
Is there a command to unsplit a file from multiple floppies, similar to the minix vol command? i.e. if I were to write a package using using msdos fdvol to span multiple floppies and I wanted to read it into debian. If there is such a command what package would it be in? Thanx. = Fish of Bo

Re: non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:00:56AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > "Joe Smith" wrote: ... > > What then is the difference between non-contiguous and fragmentation? ... "Non-contiguous" simply describes what the term "fragmentation" really entails when you look at how a file is written onto a d

Re: serial mouse

2000-06-14 Thread Randy Edwards
> I'm having problems setting up x with this serial mouse. For an MS Mouse, a typical setup in /etc/X11/XF86Config would be: Section "Pointer" Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" EndSection Of course, /dev/mouse is simply a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 (for COM1; or li

test 'Debian User List'

2000-06-14 Thread Steven Satelle

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-14 Thread Randy Edwards
> Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the > case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security > bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security? This is what I was thinking if/when potato ships with 2.2.15. Potential new u

Re: non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Joe Smith" wrote: > I know Linux uses the ext2 filesystem which is supposed to be > anti-fragmenting. It fragments when it has to (as opposed to `always' like windows). > during boot up, I see my hard drive is 9.7 % non - contiguous. I'm not sure > what this means. I assume that 9.7% of

non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread Joe Smith
Hello everyone, This is a question I've had for a while. I know Linux uses the ext2 filesystem which is supposed to be anti-fragmenting. Once in a while, when I boot up, I get a message saying I have reached maximal mount count and I have to sit and wait a few minutes before I can continue w

serial mouse

2000-06-14 Thread ddsmith
Hey there again. I'm having problems setting up x with this serial mouse. It's an MS serial mouse. I specified MS mouse on ttys0. That's serial A right? I don't think I'm losing my mind. There isn't a map in fstab that I'm supposed to specify is there? Thanks again

Re: use second hard drive to boot from?

2000-06-14 Thread Joe Smith
Hello, I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into my box to boot from.> Is it possible to install a second hard drive into something like the floppy drive bay?> > Thanks Yes you can in

SSH again!

2000-06-14 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi All, I'm still confused about the keys file. I ran the ssh-keygen on machine-1 with passphrase and it created two files in $HOME/.ssh/identify $HOME/.ssh/identify.pub I copy the identify.pub to machine-2:$HOME/.ssh/m1.key on machine-2, I ran the command on machine-2 to logo

Re: netdate missing in potato?

2000-06-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
There's ntpdate which as the name suggests uses ntp and there's also rdate now which utilizes the simpler FRC868 protocol. Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I don't seem to find netdate in potato. I am pretty sure it was there > in slink. > Is there any replacement for it? > > Sebastian Canagara

Re: Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Steve Rothanburg
OK, it looks like the subnets are fine on the debian box. How is your Cisco configured? It should have the x.y.26.46/28 subnet assigned to the ethernet and the x.y.26.0/27 and x.y.26.32/28 subnets should have static routes to x.y.26.61. Andreas Palsson wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ron Rademak

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-14 Thread mheyes
I thought it might be bios related. The drive mode and type were set to "auto", so I set the mode to"LBA". PM then saw the remaining ~1.7G, but had bogus numbers on the size. I tried to create a file system there, but the only FS type was "unformatted". I'm using PM 4.0. Does anyone else have a

Re: your mail (netdate)

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
I used to use netdate also, but I found a fine replacement in rdate ;) Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > The command netdate found in slink seems to be missing in > potato. A search for this in potato at www.debian.org shows that it > is not there, while it is th

Re: Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
First of all, I guess you'll want ip masquerading, you'll have to put that on in your ipchains. Can je ping outside from x.y.26.62 ? This is also the box you really should set up masquerading! Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Some b

Re: The ALSA driver in potato is very outdated :-(

2000-06-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > So now I have two questions. > 1) How can I upgrade the ALSA drivers in potato so that I wouldn't break >the debian packaging system (Is there something like kernel-package >available for them)? Add the apt source.conf lines for woody, run

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the > case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security > bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security? The real problem with 2.2.1

Re: Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Andreas Palsson
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Some background: I got a range IP:nrs from x.y.26.0 to x.y.26.63. The Cisco is located at x.y.26.62. I've divided the whole net into three parts, 0->31, 32->48 and 49->63. The debian-box is supposed to be located at x.y.26.61. I understand that I have to

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-14 Thread mheyes
Thanks to all for your suggestions! My new 10G disk is now working fine. Now, if I can just figure out why PartitionMagic won't recognize anything beyond the first 8G . . . mike

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2000-06-14 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
The command netdate found in slink seems to be missing in potato. A search for this in potato at www.debian.org shows that it is not there, while it is there in netstd in slink. Is there any equivalent replacement potato? Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ad

Re: mounting root via NFS

2000-06-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michal F. Hanula ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is it possible to do this? I would like to set up an ``almost diskless'' > workstation, having only the kernel and a swap partition on the local HD. All this and more, in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.gz Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:

Re: Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
What does your route tables looks like, what does ifconfig give, what does ipchains -L give as output?? Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Hello. > > Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? > > I have a Slink-box that is supposed to route traffic be

Re: mounting root via NFS

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Check out hte package: diskless Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > Is it possible to do this? I would like to set up an ``almost diskless'' > workstation, having only the kernel and a swap partition on the local HD. > aTdHvAaNnKcSe >

Re: startx command

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Those are: /etc/init.d/xdm and all symlinks in /etc/rc.d that look something like Sxdm (the Kxdm are responsible for stopping X when you shutdown..) Ron Rademaker PS. You can probably do anything you want, whatever it is you want with only /etc/init.d/xdm (except if you want xdm to run in some ru

Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? I have a Slink-box that is supposed to route traffic between 3 networks. It's equipped with 3 3Com cards and on of them is connected to a Cisco-router (Internet). Everything works between the two networks, but I can't get any tra

Re: squid errors

2000-06-14 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all > > i cannot work out why squid is having problems opening these swap > files...see below : > > # tail messages > > Jun 14 17:12:05 server last message repeated 20 times > Jun 14 17:12:05 server squid[31630]: storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open > swap > f

The ALSA driver in potato is very outdated :-(

2000-06-14 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I had some troubles with ALSA drivers, provided with potato. I sent a message to one of their developers, and this is what I received: > you are using a very old version of ALSA. > please upgrade your driver/libs from www.alsa-project.org > > all azt2320 cards are well supported now. So

mounting root via NFS

2000-06-14 Thread Michal F. Hanula
Is it possible to do this? I would like to set up an ``almost diskless'' workstation, having only the kernel and a swap partition on the local HD. aTdHvAaNnKcSe Miso&Frankie

startx command

2000-06-14 Thread ddsmith
Hey there folks. Maybe I just woke up too early this morning, but I'm having some problems here. I'm looking for the line(s) responsible for starting my X session automatically when I boot this machine. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks

Re: eqlplus...

2000-06-14 Thread Robert Varga
I tried but it did not work. Probably my ISP did not provide the connection bundling service for PPP. I have even found some mail regarding eql not working in 2.2 at all. Regards, Robert Varga On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jason Quigley wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone tried to use eqlplus with Debian (2.

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Oke, I've edited some things, try it... Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > > > problem: > > > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba w

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-14 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hey, Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security? I can imagine someone who read the security alert (and didn't read carefully that

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Sven Burgener
> > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > > problem: > > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this > > > password (and user of course ;)) > > Done. > > No success. :( When reconnecting d

Resizing volumes?

2000-06-14 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hello everyone, I've got a a short (and hopefully precise) question : Is it possible to resize the space of partitions after installation ? For example taking 500 MB from /home and giving them to /usr ? Best regards, Oliver --- Mit freundlichem Gruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hmm, what does the smb.conf look like?? Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > problem: > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > Done. > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba wi

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Sven Burgener
> Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > problem: > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a Done. > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this > password (and user of course ;)) No success. :( When reconnecting drives at logon, I still ge

Re: video

2000-06-14 Thread Jo Hoffmann
> > I'm setting up potato on a clone laptop. My only problem so far is the > > video chipset. It's a Silicon Motion Lynx family. Anyone ever heard of it, > > or know how to config the XF86 to use it? > > > > Wayne > > > > I had the same problem with my Viper II - no support for > the Savage

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-14 Thread Felix Natter
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any > > Postscript file to PDF. > > ps2pdf is only a wrapper around ghostscript: > > ,[ ps2pdf ] > | [...] > | # Doing an initial 'save' hel

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-14 Thread Martin Waller
Current stable versions of Debian won't install on AHA2940s as I have found - allegedly it is a bug. Use another distro or get the bug fixed (I believe there's a page where updated boot disks can be downloaded with a fix, but this posted to the list maybe a year or more ago so good luck finding

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the problem: - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this password (and user of course ;)) Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Did you use smbpasswd?? Th

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