Re: email to fax

procmail and/or a .forward file? forward the email to a script that dials and sends a fax. On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email > address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken > by em

__STDC__

Why does gcc not predefine the __STDC__ macro now? Almost anything I try to compile is broken by this. kronstadt:/usr/include$ gcc -E -dM -xc /dev/null #define __linux__ 1 #define linux 1 #define __i386__ 1 #define __i386 1 #define __GNUC_MINOR__ 95 #define i386 1 #define __unix 1 #define

Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98. This network has (over the same ethernet cables) computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks as follows [first 2 digits altered], 10.129.206.0 10.129.207.0 10.129.2

RE: What drive is the dir on ?

Run df -h. Sorry but I have not used mutt before > -Original Message- > From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 9:32 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: What drive is the dir on ? > > Hey Guys, > I have two ide drives install an

RE: samba Passwords

I have always found SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) to be very handy when it comes to managing your smb.conf and smbpasswd. Give it a try Cheers. Patrick My apologies to the person who coined this but I LIKE IT... Where do you want to go today?

laplink for dos

do you have the laplink for dos ? you can send me ? i am from Brasil and my inglish is no good sorry an tank you very much Paulo Brasil

checksecurity script

The script checksecurity which creates the setuid.* log file and is distributed with cron doesnt have a whole lot of documentation. How does it log? Can it be made to log through syslog? Also, I'd love to see this distrubuted in it's own package, so that it may be build upon further to do md5 che

ethernet card

Hey guys. My apologies if this is really basic, but I'm having a problem getting Debian to detect my new Soho PCI ethernet card on boot. What's the proper module name that I need to configure for this card, or how can I find out? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22,

Emacs ps-print-buffer omits a line

Just a minor problem I've experienced with printing from Emacs. Perhaps I've misconfigured, please let me know if so. Details below. Thanks. Nick Packages: emacs20 20.5a-1.99, emacs20-el 20.5a-1.99, emacsen-common 1.4.8, lprng 3.5.2-2, gs 5.10-9.1. Kernel is 2.2.14. Printer is an Epson St

Re: reboots while backing up

you can get it from "http://www.mrbean.dk/sitback"; i can backup the local /usr directory fine which is about 660MB but it reboots when it tries to backup an AIX samba shared directory of about 2Gig worth. Weird. Pperhaps i should try nfs sharing the AIX directory instead of samba sharing it.

Re: reboots while backing up

It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a source tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf. Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/07/2000 12:49:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reboots while backing up I

Re: email to fax

Chris Mason wrote: > > Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email > address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken > by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. > You could set up an alias on the email s

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

I changed my line to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "Won't work" (The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's dutch..) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del."

Re: Floppy/NFS Install Problem

> I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines. I can't > use a CD as neither of them have drives. The floppies are ok as I have > managed to install the base system ok on one machine. The other is an old > Intel machine at least 10 years old. It has a SCSI card and 1MB

Re: reboots while backing up

I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I have a new server whi

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:35:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > (if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot > /sbin/shutdown -r now) The hard drive spun, a beep was emitted, and the process ground to a stunning halt. I am deciphering the error messages now. All kidding as

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

Bob Bernstein wrote: > I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without > the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo? I'm not sure if this would work, but perhaps changin

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

Hi! On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended." > (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in > /etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?) May I quote the man page[1]? [...] If shutdown is called with the -a argument

reboots while backing up

Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called "sitback" which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the co

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:27:20PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown > >has -rwxr-xr-x perms? > > Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't > do anything useful.. Ummm...yup. And with that I have met my quota for dumb qu

Re: file permissions in /var/log

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? > Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed > unexpectedly / unintendedly? > > I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed som

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without > the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) you could put one of the system account names in /etc/shutdown.allow say bin wh

Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall

Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to open if this is the case ? Thanks Guys -- It f

Using modconf

Hello All, I wanted to use modconf to add printer support to my potato box, but when I run it all that is in there is net options. How do I add more module options ? Is this down though the kernel ? And if so what do I need add to the kernel for printer support ? Thanks Guys -- It feels so good

Re: Font corruption under X

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:51:19PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > > Looks like that's it, alright. I just popped my case to > > > double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the > > > SVGA server. ::sigh:: > > > >

ssh and extended keys

I've got two machines here and frequently hop between them with ssh. When I open a terminal window (Eterm or xterm) on one and ssh to the other, home, end, and the numeric keypad don't work. If I open another term window from within the ssh connection, they work just fine. How can I get ssh to p

Re: older packages

have a look at: http or ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/ - Bruce -- On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian > mirrors with old packages there. > - Original Message - > From: "Marcin Kurc" <[EMA

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in >> >/etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?) >> >> Simply don't use the -a switch then. > >I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without >the

modem driver for linux

I run linux redhat 6.2 as gnome work station. I have on board "rockwell HCF 56 k data fax PCI modem" Is that compatible with my red hat linux 6.2? I appriciate you rhelp. Thanks in advance By Abdi Ismail Get Your Private

Re: email to fax

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:26 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one > email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow > orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not > have email. Interc

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 05:45:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is > the least of your worries, they could simply enter "shutdown -r now". > Or "rm -rf /". Or "echo 'toor::0:0::/:" >> /etc/passwd. Or I guess I ha

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

Mike Werner wrote: > > Ethan Pierce wrote: > > I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ > > should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any > > ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan > > Make sure that you are using the correct + key.

Re: Debian Printing Again

Hello, This will be the first time I have installed a printer on the machine. I ran Modconf and didnt see anything for a printer. All I see is Ipv4 and net drivers. What am I doing wrong ? I am running potato but I dont think that should make a difference. Thanks On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:44:56PM

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

Ethan Pierce wrote: > I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ > should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any > ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan Make sure that you are using the correct + key. The one at the right end of the

Xfree Mode Switching?

I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan

RE: Debian Printing Again

I just installed the ljet4 driver for my printer and used magicfilterconfig to do it. I think you mean modconf rather than modconfig and you should not have to do anything with it if you already had another printer working. If this is your first printer, you might have to use the command modconf

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes >me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent >whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is prec

Floppy/NFS Install Problem

Hello, I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines. I can't use a CD as neither of them have drives. The floppies are ok as I have managed to install the base system ok on one machine. The other is an old Intel machine at least 10 years old. It has a SCSI card and 1MB

email to fax

Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 4

Re: Cant find bzImage

* Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're > connected to the internet. There are security risks with > 2.2.15.

Re: Cant find bzImage

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:39:57PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello all, > I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're connected to the internet. There are security risks with 2.2.15. > option I want, I type >

file permissions in /var/log

Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly? I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions with my logrotate.conf. This is what I have currently: # ls

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:33:42PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > > i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this > > out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine > > uncleanly... > > No, it certainly won't. When

Re: Cant find bzImage

Jay Kelly hat gesagt: // Jay Kelly wrote: > I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the > option I want, I type > make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install > then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. > I looked in the

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

Hi, actualy, it depends on how your distrib is configured: sometimes, it does nothing, sometimes, it reboots cleanly your computer. There's a file to change but I don't remember which one. "They were at the wrong place in the worng time. N

Re: older packages

Hello! You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian mirrors with old packages there. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: "Marcin Kurc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 10:20 PM Subject: older packages > Where c

Solution: Re: "apropos" won't stop

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > if I start "apropos [some command]" apropos just won't stop writing > what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate > it. > "whatis" works fine. What might be the problem here? I found some old posting in Dej

Re: networking questions

Am Sam, 08 Jul 2000 schrieb Franco Cone: > Howdy! > >I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2 > networked machines (win98 & debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet > 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are: > > 1.how do I let win98 see the debi

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to >> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: >> >> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. >> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

On 08-Jul-2000 Charlie Kroeger wrote: >>If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one >>of those partitions empty, > > Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the > earlier generations? What ??? 8 GB limit in the kernel ? Huh.. The 8 GB limit applies o

Swat too slow

Hi List, it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client, it takes a very long time til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat normally. Can anyone help me? thanx

dhcp network

I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running Storm2000 to my  existing network. There already is a router (Linksys BEFSR41) used to connect my DSL modem to the network and act as a fire wall. Could you please tell me how to set the Debian Linux to get the IP address dynamically from my r

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . I won't be running X and will just need to use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel port modules. Have gone through the installation steps from floppy to the point w

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook

The following is advice for anyone who runs into the syslinux problem (rescue disk doesn't boot, computer screen displays "boot failed") when trying to install a Debian installation from floppies (maybe some other distributions, as well). The machine here is a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486,

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

i like to remap ctrl-alt-del to go to runlevel 1, i set: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/init 1 i find it quite useful if something in startup hangs i can just go straight to runlevel 1 or if something crashes i can go there easily too, much faster then a reboot for me(it takes my machine a full 2 min

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

On Jul 08 2000, Charlie Kroeger wrote: > Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of > the earlier generations? If this limit does exist, nobody told my kernel about it. :-) Seriously, though, I have a 12GB partition in this system where I'm composing

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to > simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now i am uncerta

(solved) Re: simple dhcp questions...

Thanks for the help! For the record, to get it to work I had to do 2 things... 1. Add an entry in my ipchains rules to allow broadcast input over eth0 to pass through. (I had been previously dumping them since they seemed suspect). 2. Move all references in the dhcp.conf from freindly names to nu

Re: HW for UPS

Slightly OT. I recently bought a MGE Pulsar Ellipse, the software it is certified to work with Debian 2.0, I have it working with Slink (though the cfg app segfaults, manually edited the config files). The software requires libc5 and ncurses3. I haven't put it completely through its paces though