Re: oops

> > Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring loaded" to blame libc at > this point for any weirdies I see. > which helps nothing, to say the least about making an already overworked libc maintainer stop what he's doing and take time to investigate half-investigated bug reports... --

Re: latest libc does NOT fix everything

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:28:58PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > Exim is still broken. As a matter of fact, I had it working until I loaded > the latest libc tonite: > > I have a bazillion of these in my exim paniclog: > > 2000-09-30 21:25:09 queue run: process 31436 crashed with signal 15 whi

IGNORE latest libc does NOT fix everything

My bad ... jumped the gun.

oops

I guess I should have looked at it for more than three seconds :-) Those errors were from a kill sent to exim when it was stopped and restarted. I have a ton of connections to a site that is down right now and these got logged when exim shut down. Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring lo

latest libc does NOT fix everything

Exim is still broken. As a matter of fact, I had it working until I loaded the latest libc tonite: I have a bazillion of these in my exim paniclog: 2000-09-30 21:25:09 queue run: process 31436 crashed with signal 15 while delivering 13dnoh-xq-00

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:23:36 -0700 Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ihad the same problem a couple of days ago--the hard party was that the > library was > missing, so I couldn't upgrade to a working version. It tried to > preconfigure, and > then perl tanked with the same error messa

proposed 'bouncing email' procmail recipe

hmm. i'm wondering if there's a simple procmail recipe that'll head these bouncing emails off at the pass-- :0 H * ^From:.*(mailer|daemon|webmaster) * ! ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] { :0 B * ^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null } anybody else care to add some tweaks? (what'd i mi

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

Ihad the same problem a couple of days ago--the hard party was that the library was missing, so I couldn't upgrade to a working version. It tried to preconfigure, and then perl tanked with the same error message that you got. What I did was ftp to another machine, grab /usr/lib/libdb.so.3, and

bouncing mails, third instance -- fixable?

i'm getting bounces from ngi.de now -- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 15792 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2000 04:53:27 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 15763 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2000 04:53:26 - Received: from sam.julianhaight.com (207.12.88.58)

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

Gregory, It was all my fault. I pulled the plug out of the wall when the lamp was still on. Regrets, montefin "Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:33:55AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > [1] Debian Chaos Events are scheduled on a haphazard basis. We make no > > gurantees abo

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:33:55AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > [1] Debian Chaos Events are scheduled on a haphazard basis. We make no > gurantees about show times. Hey, don't drag me into this! I didn't do it!!! :-) Sorry, couldn't resist.

xfmail seems broken after Woody upgrade today

I upgraded libc6 and her friends a little while ago, and now xfmail starts but will not retrieve mail. Sylpheed is retrieving mail, so the problem does not seem to be my pop server. I get the same result with either qpopper or solid-pop3d. Any other xfmail users having problems after upgradin

Eterm, /dev/null, and segfaults

Howdy all, I just installed Slink onto an HP pentium 166 from CD. I'm using Windowmaker... When I tried to use Eterm as root, it worked... when I tried to use it as a normal user, it said something about /dev/null and segfaulted... /dev/null is set up like so... crw-rw-rw- xterm, however, worked

Re: machines (ii)

> > Do you have a link or know of a good book that describes how to do this? I'd > love to give this a try at my house. > > Jesse Well, I would first look at the CD-Writing-HOWTO which has some basic stuff on creating CDROMs and some information on making bootable CDs. Then I would direct yo

Re: machines (ii)

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > > I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server > > -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? > >(please explain how dumb it is, if so) > > > > How much power would

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, P.J.Walsh wrote: > dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg > -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? To find out which package it belongs to go to www.debian.org and go to the packages page. You can look up which package it belongs to.

Re: newbie: ps

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:47:29PM -0400, jason lee wrote: > hello all, > pls help a newbie -- i accidentally removed ps (and its manpages), how can > i get them back? (can't seem to find them on the debian homepage, or on the > CDs (official debian 2.2)). It's in the procps package Christia

quota utils don't show grace time

THe subject pretty much sums it up. When I run repquota or quota, the grace time column is always empty. Why ist this? Christian

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

On 30-Sep-2000 Ben Collins wrote: > > This is no longer true. Follow the threads. libc6 2.1.94-3 has zero > issues. Thanks, I will upgrade now. -- Andrew

newbie: ps

hello all, pls help a newbie -- i accidentally removed ps (and its manpages), how can i get them back? (can't seem to find them on the debian homepage, or on the CDs (official debian 2.2)). _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail

PS/2 Mouse

I just installed a new motherboard. I'm running woody on the only HDD. When i plug in the PS/2 mouse the system hangs during the boot strap process. If I unplug the PS/2 mouse it boots fine, but hangs when I use X-windows. Is this an irq issue or should i reinstall? Thanks In Advance, Jack

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:54:56PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 30-Sep-2000 P.J.Walsh wrote: > > dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg > > -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? > > It belongs to the libdb package but the problem is with libc6. > I had to revert

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

> > Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to another televised Major League Baseball > game. In an effort to match the viewership of Monday Night Football, now > that Dennis Miller is part of it, we looked long and hard for someone, > someone with a great personality, wonderful people skills, and above a

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > [1] Debian Chaos Events are scheduled on a haphazard basis. We make no > guarantees about show times. Coming soon, Watch the Amazing Horse that dives into a Package Pool!! See the unstable freaks who apt-get update every 10 minutes!!! Hear the weird wild

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

> > All my information dates from approximately 1997. At the time there were > many T1 cards with integrated CSU/DSU's in development, but I didn't > consider any of them quite ready for prime time yet. You might be able to > save more money by finding one of them. Sangoma makes a capable T1 ca

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using deb linux for some 5 years now and am quite happy > with it. It has been a webserver for me for only 1 of those years and > that is on a DSL. As it trns out, some of the people I've done some > contract work with wish to install a

Re: APT::Force-LoopBreak ??

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Okay, so I can't dist-upgrade because of a problem that I shouldn't work > around because it's "A GRAVE BUG" and I don't "-really- know" what I'm > doing -- so, what am I supposed to do? In this case you may activate the option, however, I recommend

RE: libdb.so.3 missing

On 30-Sep-2000 P.J.Walsh wrote: > dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg > -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? It belongs to the libdb package but the problem is with libc6. I had to revert to the previous versions of libc6, libc6-dev, and locales. The new lib

libdb.so.3 missing

dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? -- Patrick Walsh Edmonton AB CA

Re: Why isn't .Xdefaults read?

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:50:56PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Why do I have to run xrdb .Xdefaults manually when I start X ? Rename .Xdefaults to .Xresources and you won't. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

APT::Force-LoopBreak ??

After running an apt-get update in woody, I ran an apt-get -s dist-upgrade to see which packages were going to be upgraded, and I was given this error message: E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package libpam-modules due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This

Re: machines (ii)

It depends on how secure you want it to be if all you need is basic NAT and some packet filtering it is not a *really* bad idea. If you want anything more than that I would not do it. -- Original Message -- From: Mark Simos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 3

Trying to fix exim from woody upgrade

I am running the latest version of woody (including the brand new version of libc6 : 2.1.94-3). I am also running the latest version of exim (3.16-3.1). Ever since upgrading to this version of exim, I can't send any mail. When I try, this is what I get: 2000-09-30 14:42:10 13fSWQ-0001GF-00

Re: linux disk editor/fat tarbal recover [time running out :( ] (fwd)

While I'm at it: I expect it would make more sense to search for magic numbers for the tarballs. But how in the world would I do this. Does anyoen actually understand lde (it's man page doesn't have directions for what it claims to do through ncurses . . .) -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

Re: machines (ii)

shouldnt be a problem, most machines i build are very multipurpose and usually all have their own individual firewalls. e.g. my home network is 3 machines, with 1 of them acting as: firewall gateway(hooked directly to the dsl router) NAT NFS server NIS server www server POP3 server SMTP server DNS

linux disk editor/fat tarbal recover [time running out :( ]

Once more, I'm trying to recover data from a tarball on a fat partition, but time is running out--I have to file my tax return by October 15, and so I need to recover at least a week ahead of that (or I'll have to do it all again, and this is a big, ugly, return with lots of schedules :( ) Roug

Re: machines (ii)

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:13:47PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server > -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? >(please explain how dumb it is, if so) Well, if someone cracks your firewall then they'll also

Why isn't .Xdefaults read?

Why do I have to run xrdb .Xdefaults manually when I start X ? -- Preben Randhol - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ ._. Debian 2.2 |"Don't think about domination, think about freedom, / _,\ Potato | it doesn't dominate." - Richard M. Stallman| (_./ GNU/Linux | To l

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > I am trying to configure Lucent Winmodem on my HP Pavillion (6735) box > with Debian 2.2. I have followed the instructions from > www.linmodems.org for installing the binary only d

Eterm, /dev/null, and segfaults

Howdy all, I just installed Slink onto an HP pentium 166 from CD. I'm using Windowmaker... When I tried to use Eterm as root, it worked... when I tried to use it as a normal user, it said something about /dev/null and segfaulted... /dev/null is set up like so... crw-rw-rw- xterm, however, worked

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:59:32 PDT, George Bonser writes: >On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them >> what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on >> your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 s

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:56:33PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update of 2000, welcome to our annual > > ritual. Please stay tuned during the next few months where we install a new > > gcc. This will be followed by

Re: machines (ii)

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server > -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? >(please explain how dumb it is, if so) > > How much power would I need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) > w

Re: half-installed packages

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > I was walking my gf through an install of Debian (it didn't scare her, > and she's no techie), and everything went fine until she tried > installing some stuff. > > Installing task-x-window-system basically choked, and now she is left > with a bunch of

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:33:55AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > If you had problems with the last few 2.1.94 packages (and even if you > didn't), get these. They are currently in incoming (to be installed later > this afternoon, then mirrors will get it some hours later). Make sure you > get the lib

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:00:59PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I thought this was chance, but Christian Kurz said the same happened > to him. It didn't happen to me. FYI, I am using postfix and not exim... Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:56:33PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update of 2000, welcome to our annual > > ritual. Please stay tuned during the next few months where we install a new > > gcc. This will be followed by

Re: DHCP renumbering and NAT

On 30 Sep 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > I can take it as a fact of life that I'll occasionally be renumbered; > I can deal with this. I guess my question is this: is the ipmasq > package clueful enough to recognize when this happens, and tweak the > firewall rules appropriately? (Experience this m

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them > what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on > your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 series for t1s. The 1600's are several hundreds of dollars

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

> Debian has a apt-cache program that works great for exactly > that purpose. Correction: it's called apt-proxy. apt-cache is entirely different. :) BTW, while I'm at it: You folks who wrote "sign me up" and "me too" - _ever_ heard of private replies? This isn't AOL, thank you very much.

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update of 2000, welcome to our annual > ritual. Please stay tuned during the next few months where we install a new > gcc. This will be followed by self inflicted pain of stricter C++ syntax, > macro collisions, binary

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:37:28PM -0400, Jim Lisi wrote: > > > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > Anyway, if anybody wants to give it a whirl, I'm open to some > > > beta-testing. > > > > > > - Joe > > > > Sounds interesting, I'd be willing to beta-test it. >

DHCP renumbering and NAT

I'm hiding a small apartment network behind a potato box running IP masquerading. This all works fine for the most part; I use dhclient and the ipmasq package, and everything just works. This morning, I couldn't reach the outside world. Some poking around revealed that I couldn't even reach the

Re: Print filter/tool recommendations?

Svante Signell wrote: > Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text? > > lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large. > lpf or pr is not much of use either. > > man -k print|grep filter gives: > lpf (1) - general printer filter > magicf

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > This is a nice idea. You are doing both http _and_ ftp, right? > > Not yet. Do you have any numbers on how many people actually use http for > dselect? Strangely, I've almost always used FTP for transferring files and > HTTP for transferring hypertext.

Re: bitchx and forward delete key

i've been using bitchx for many years and never had a need for either forward delete or ctcp cloaking. same goes for scrollz or ircii or epic4 .. nate On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, C. Falconer wrote: criggi >At 03:34 PM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote: criggi >>Is there any reason that anyone would object if I

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

>> Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you had problems with the last few 2.1.94 packages (and even if you > didn't), get these. They are currently in incoming (to be installed later > this afternoon, then mirrors will get it some hours later). Make sure you > get the libdb2 that goes

Re: HELP! xconfig won't give access to modules

did you enable expermintal driver support? that should make the rtl8139 driver show up ..i use htat card in a lot of systems too. nate On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Cam Ellison wrote: cam_el >I have an ethernet card that requires the rtl8139 driver. The driver cam_el >is present in the kernel source (2.

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 series for t1s. and i'd probably reccomend having the telco setup the CSU/DSU and have your isp setup the router.

Re: Problems with AC97 PCI sound card

Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FF> I own a AC97 PCI Audio sound card built in my main board. I've had decent luck with a similar configuration using ALSA, using the snd-card-via686a module. FF> I've tried to load the ac97_codec module with modconf. FF> Here is the list of my modules

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

good luck getting it to work, your best bet is to use the kernel that it is asking for 2.2.12-20 which probably comes with some version of redhat.. thats one of the problems with binary kernel drivers 99% of the time they do NOT work on other kernel versions, there is nothing you can do except dit

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> Can somebody explain the subject line to me please. I have read it in JS> a linux training document and it is not doing what the document says JS> it should do. What I do not understand and do not know where to find JS> documentation on it is the '\ver

Re: Print filter/tool recommendations?

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text? > > lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large. > lpf or pr is not much of use either. > > man -k print|grep filter gives: > lpf (1)

Customizing menus

Hello! I'm trying to alter what happens when I choose "Programs | XShells | Eterm" from my window manager's pop-up menu (sawfish) so it brings up a transparent Eterm with some other customizations instead of the themed Eterm that normally appears. What is _The Right Way_ to do this? The docs

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

> > Anyway, I have not done this before... maybe someone could point me in the > direction of a list of hardware needed.. CSU/DSU, routers, etc... > Thanks, > Jack Well, You can get a small Cisco router, say a 1600 series with a WIC card that has an integrated CSU/DSU. You just plug the T1 line

informazioni

Potete dirmi per piacere dove posso acquistaare in Italia i Vs. CD. Grazie Michele Savastano

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

Ben Collins writes: > I don't have time to list everything it fixes, but I can tell you that it > fixes EVERY issue that EVERYONE was having. Indeed, it's working perfectly here. Cheers! (I will no longer have to bug anyone about recompiling Perl...) > For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:37:40PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I know tr but what is '\verb|\|000'? And the use of |\|? First, there's apparently a bug: there should be a backslash before the 0s. That said, the "\verb|\|" is apparently redundant, since it appears at the same place in both set

machines (ii)

I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? (please explain how dumb it is, if so) How much power would I need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) work? I just browse at home and download the occasio

machines

I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? (please explain how dumb it is, if so) How much power would i need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) work? I just browse at home and download the occasi

Re: HELP! xconfig won't give access to modules

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:03:17AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > I have an ethernet card that requires the rtl8139 driver. The driver > is present in the kernel source (2.2.17), but xconfig (not to mention > config and menuconfig) does not make it available for selection, i.e. > it is greyed out. A

Re: stripping linux from a box

>I'm presuming that LILO wrote to the master boot record. So how does one go >about fully expunging Linux? fdisk /mbr to clen out the master boot record. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739

Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

Hi,I am trying to configure Lucent Winmodem on my HP Pavillion (6735) box withDebian 2.2. I have followed the instructions from www.linmodems.org for installing the binary only driver provided by Lucent, but still have problems in loading the driver.The following bits should tell the story.

Good Book for setting up T-1?

Hello all, I have been using deb linux for some 5 years now and am quite happy with it. It has been a webserver for me for only 1 of those years and that is on a DSL. As it trns out, some of the people I've done some contract work with wish to install a t1 line and run debian as the OS on all

HELP! xconfig won't give access to modules

I have an ethernet card that requires the rtl8139 driver. The driver is present in the kernel source (2.2.17), but xconfig (not to mention config and menuconfig) does not make it available for selection, i.e. it is greyed out. To forestall the obvious question, yes, I have a number of networking

ISDN/ipppd problems

Hi! I'm trying to configure my ISDN-Card with Debian 2.2 . I didn't have any problems until I tried to dial the first time. /var/log/messages tells me that "ipppd:no pap/chap-secrets defined for this user" although pap-secrets exists. Everything else looks fine. May be somebody could help me to fix

Re: Search for NAT or http proxy

thingels writes: > It's, in fact, no bigger problem than: > pppconfig > I want to set up my "modem" for automatic dialup upon detection of > non-local IP-requests. That is, make it act like a dialup router with > NAT, and there's something with the IP setup I can't get to work. Help, > anyone? N

Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

If you had problems with the last few 2.1.94 packages (and even if you didn't), get these. They are currently in incoming (to be installed later this afternoon, then mirrors will get it some hours later). Make sure you get the libdb2 that goes along with it. I don't have time to list everything it

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

Can't offer copious elucidation, but > Can somebody explain the subject line to me please. I have read it in > a linux training document and it is not doing what the document says > it should do. What I do not understand and do not know where to find > documentation on it is the '\verb|\|000' '\v

Print filter/tool recommendations?

Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text? lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large. lpf or pr is not much of use either. man -k print|grep filter gives: lpf (1) - general printer filter magicfilter (8) - automatic configurab

Problems with AC97 PCI sound card

Hi, I own a AC97 PCI Audio sound card built in my main board. I've tried to load the ac97_codec module with modconf. Here is the list of my modules loaded in my kernel Module Size Used by ppp_deflate38988 1 (autoclean) bsd_comp3828 0 (autoclean)

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

Willy Lee writes: > I installed magicfilter, set up the BJC-600 driver, scratched my head for > awhile, then installed a2ps and enscript, but now when I send off my > newly PostScriptized files to be printed, I get ... silence. I had to edit /etc/magicfilter/bj600-filter and add this as the last l

Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

An easier way then to manually add the user into dialup group is to adduser option in the pppconfig program. Start pppconfig and select "Advanced options," then select "adduser." Hope this helps! === John Kerr Anderson P

Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

Glyn Millington writes: > Now there's a thing! I did all that (and added myself to group > dialout) and when I tried to run "pon" I got this message > /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not > setuid-root Looks like a bug in the ppp package (and adding yourself to dia

Re: Search for NAT or http proxy

Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:41:42AM +, jblanche wrote: > > > Dynamic IP address) I would need NAT module for Linux PPPC which > > would work with dynamic IP allocations for ppp (The NAT rule cannot be > > static..) > > The standard Linux kernel NAT can do

Re: /var/spool/mail on NFS

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:12:18PM -0500, oneiros wrote: > Use nfs-kernel-server, the userspace nfsd does not have the needed locking > functionality. Plus, it's tons faster and a lot more reliable, which is > always a good thing(tm). Better yet, use Maildir mailboxes. Locking over NFS isn't re

Re: Search for NAT or http proxy

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:41:42AM +, jblanche wrote: > Dynamic IP address) I would need NAT module for Linux PPPC which > would work with dynamic IP allocations for ppp (The NAT rule cannot be > static..) The standard Linux kernel NAT can do this. If you tell the kernel to masquerade all

Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 02:02:20PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:38:36AM -0500, thus spake John Hasler: > > Martti Hamunen writes: > > > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)? > > > > By using the sudo command. man sudo. > > > > > I don't want to use the

Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:38:36AM -0500, thus spake John Hasler: > Martti Hamunen writes: > > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)? > > By using the sudo command. man sudo. > > > I don't want to use the netconnection as root. > > You don't need to. Pppconfig is just for configur

Canon BJC-1000 problem

Hello, I found archived posts to this list discussing this printer, which I happen to have been cursed with. Apparently this printer is supposed to work with the BJC-600 driver, but not for ascii. So I installed magicfilter, set up the BJC-600 driver, scratched my head for awhile, then installed

tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

Can somebody explain the subject line to me please. I have read it in a linux training document and it is not doing what the document says it should do. What I do not understand and do not know where to find documentation on it is the '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n' part. I know tr but what is '\verb

Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

Martti Hamunen writes: > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)? By using the sudo command. man sudo. > I don't want to use the netconnection as root. You don't need to. Pppconfig is just for configuring ppp, not for running it. To be able to use pon as a user to bring up ppp run

Re: lvm

> "JM" == Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> Hi all, JM> I have now a currently working Potato system organized in simple JM> partitions as I posted in another message. Well, my question is about JM> how can I use LVM. JM> Can I convert my current installation structu

Re :strange xkb problem

Hi! I had the same pb and I found a symbolic link that was wrong. I did : rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled ln -s ../../../../../var/state/xkb compiled and it works. Guillame B. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Pour dialoguer en direct avec vos amis,

Re: stripping linux from a box

DOS boot disk then fdisk /mbr Agner-Nichols wrote: > > My childrens' school has a machine with what looks to be a Debian > installation > with boot from the hard drive. They want to strip Linux from the box and > install the > other OS. Did the drop partition through fdisk. But on reboot, in

stripping linux from a box

My childrens' school has a machine with what looks to be a Debian installation with boot from the hard drive. They want to strip Linux from the box and install the other OS. Did the drop partition through fdisk. But on reboot, instead of getting a no operating system found message, LILO kicks in

Search for NAT or http proxy

Hi all I am new in this mailing liste. .. I am using LinuxPPC on Imac box and I have 3 other hosts at home. As I need to use all this hosts with only one PPP connection (and only one Dynamic IP address) I would need NAT module for Linux PPPC which would work with dynamic IP allocations for ppp

Re: PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

Set up pppconfig as root and then add each user to the groups dip and dialout. so adduser username dialout adduser username dip This allow access to the devices. Steve On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Martti Hamunen wrote: > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)? > (I don't want to

PPP problems with the Debian 2.2

How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)? (I don't want to use the netconnection as root.) Why gnome-ppp dial-up gives the message "the pppd daemon died unexpectedly"? I am a newuser with the Debian.   Martti Hamunen  

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > o It only tests ping times, not actual transfer rates of data > > Right, because ping times are a good first step. If the box pings really > slowly, the odds are the transfer rate will be greatly affected. > I don't care if the lines you and the m

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