Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... dear all, i'm compiling portsentry on my system which has a 2.4.0-test9 kernel. when i compiled the kernel, i didn't see an ipchains options; it seems to have been replaced by

Re: GeForce2 GTS X 4.0.1c

2000-10-28 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Recently I installed Branden's debs for X 4.0.1c (deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/) because, frankly, vga16 @ 640 x 480 sucks with a GeForce2 GTS card. So, now, woohoo, the desktop looks great and

Re: Boot Problem

2000-10-28 Thread Ray Percival
I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it looks like to me. -- Original Message -- From: Janos Kramar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:52:14 -0400 After installing Debian without any apparent problems and

netscape bookmark.html

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me can use the same bookmark file. the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, the symbolic link is erased and

Re: mount permissions

2000-10-28 Thread Shaul Karl
when my FAT32 file systems are mounted at boot time the owner and group are root. As a regular user I can read files but not write them. I have the user option in my /etc/fstab file like so: /dev/hdc6 /matrox/mx6 vfat defaults,user 0 2 so I can `umount' and then `remount' as a regular

Re: ssh and no controlling tty

2000-10-28 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Timo Benk wrote: I'm building a two disk boot/root disk set. My Problem is that ssh and ftp are not working. If I try 'ssh 192.168.0.2' I got the message: no controlling tty. If i try 'ssh 192.168.0.2 -i /root/.ssh/identity' I got the message: wrong passphrase

Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-28 Thread Jarkko Niemi
I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. I'm able to switch to a different console by cntrlaltF1-Fn, but I'm unclear how to get xdm get running on all the consoles. I played with this briefly, could point you in a direction though I'm not sure it's the right

a question about internal modem

2000-10-28 Thread ljoasis
my laptop has an internal modem,when i use lspci command it shows me the modem is PCTel INC HSP Micromodem 56 then which module should i insmod and which /dev/ device does the modem take?? i think internal modem will not occupy an com port -- »¶Ó­Ê¹ÓÃ

Re: security questions

2000-10-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:06:56 PDT, Peter Jay Salzman writes: also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of /bin/false: ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with /bin/false. can't seem to figure out what it

Re(2): Boot Problem

2000-10-28 Thread Janos Kramar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it looks like to me. After installing Debian without any apparent problems and rebooting the computer without the boot disk, it says: MBR L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 ... and so forth. It works fine

Re: TAR Syntaxe

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Pierre GAILLY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the syntax of the exclude option with tar tar czvf /folder/file.tar / --exclude=/proc:/share this expression doesn't exclude /proc from the source. Have a look at tar's infopage, node Excluding Some Files. It says that the syntax is:

Help: Ne.. modules problem during instalation

2000-10-28 Thread André Esteves
I'm installing Debian Patotoe in a Pentium 75 Mhz with 8 Mb RAM and an MDA graphics board, it has two ne2000 ethernet cards, one ISA another PCI. 1. During module configuration (wich runs slowlyyy... probably the 8mb..): If I insert the ne module (with the correct configuration parameters) it

Re: locatedb?

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Stephan Kulka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is locatedb or locate? Where should I start reading? Have a look at the manpages of locate and locatedb. locatedb is the database created by updatedb and used by locate. it holds a list of filenames, then you can quickly search with locate for files.

Do I need 'apt' directories, or can I delete them?

2000-10-28 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is full. Do I need the contents of the following directories, or may I delete them? /var/cache/apt 6 MB /var/state/apt/lists 3.7 MB /var/lib/dpkg/info 4.6 MB /var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd 1 MB Thanks for suggestions. --

dpkg-preconfigure: No such file - pls help!

2000-10-28 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I partially upgraded my glibc2 from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2, I received an error message at upgrading 'libc6-dev'. After that my system was broken (it's a slink version). I can't compile anything now with gcc. Now I try to upgrade to potato. I can use dselect, but after 'Install' I receive the

Re: Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread André Esteves
Steve Juranich wrote: Every once in a while, @home has a service outage (a little more frequently in my case since I live out in the sticks). Of course, when the net connection is down, I can't ping my router, or gateway, or anything other than my local box. The problem is that it seems

Re: dpkg-preconfigure: No such file - pls help!

2000-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Gyulai Mihaly wrote: I partially upgraded my glibc2 from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2, I received an error message at upgrading 'libc6-dev'. After that my system was broken (it's a slink version). I can't compile anything now with gcc. Now I try to upgrade to potato. I can use dselect, but after

Sorry about that..

2000-10-28 Thread sena
Sorry about the multiple copies of the message I sent just now... Badly configured MTA.. :) Won't happen again... Regards, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://decoy.ath.cx/~sena/

Re: How to download a free Linux?

2000-10-28 Thread Rob
http://www.debian.org/distrib/ On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 10:11:45PM +0600, tim456 wrote: From: Timur Kenzhebaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:11:20 -0700 (MST) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread sena
I heard that Steve Juranich wrote this on 28/10/00: So, I know that one way to fix this problem is to reboot my box, but I don't want to have to do that every time @home drops my connection. I use NetCabo (a portuguese cable internet provider). We sometimes have this problem, as NetCabo

Re: Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-28 Thread Kevin Dalley
With the unstable version of pcmcia packages, you should set DHCP to y in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You may need to set DHCP_HOSTNAME as well. DHCPCLIENT and PUMP are no longer used. The current /etc/pcmcia/network unfortunately uses only the first one of dhcpcd, dhclient, or pump which exists

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
PJS == Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PJS just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it PJS really replaced by netfilter? Yes. PJS i assume the yes was to the 2nd part of the or. :) Yes. g We're both a little fuzzy today, huh? (Although there

Re: Re: a question about internal modem

2000-10-28 Thread ljoasis
yeah,i've found the driver,and i installed it,modprobe it,no errors, but i use kppp,it should choose a device ,what device file (/dev/???) should i use??? //bow all again Its probably a WinModem, and is not compatible with Linux. To be sure, check www.linmodems.org On Sun, 29 Oct 2000

Re: Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread mike
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:35:11 -0700 (PDT), Steve Juranich said: Every once in a while, @home has a service outage (a little more frequently in my case since I live out in the sticks). Of course, when the net connection is down, I can't ping my router, or gateway, or anything other than my

Solved: Re: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

2000-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: Another two programs that gave me a lot of pleasure on slink, do not work on potato: zgv and dvisvga or tmview. All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all. My problem was solved by experimenting with

Zope newbie can't log in

2000-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
I am a newbie as far as apache and zope is concerned and would like to get to know these two programs. I can log in on Zope as superuser and create a new user. But I can not log in as that user although anything is correct as far as the login name and password is concerned. I have removed

Re: netscape bookmark.html

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me can use the same bookmark file. the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, the

Re: Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at one. Of the three, IIIP/4MB (I think this is the maximum it can take?). My LaserJet IIP PS/4MB works

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-28 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, USM Bish wrote: I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the command ls -d */ on my home directory. Only the sub dirs are displayed. your solution is more elegant than what i have put together with a find call. however

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-28 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, although in

Value too large for defined data type

2000-10-28 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings everyone. Long story short -- a friend, via ftpd on my OpenBSD box, send a file slightly larger than two gigs to my Debian machine. The OpenBSD box nfs mounts its ftp stuff from my Debian machine. I now get errors of the sort: $ ls -l ls: mydocs.zip: Value too large for defined data

Re: Value too large for defined data type

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Seth Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have suggestions on how to remove this thing? :) echo mydocs.zip; rm mydocs.zip ? moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */

Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
debian-user restored to recipients. reply-to set to list. Please don't cc: me on list mail. on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:37:18PM +0300, Jarkko Niemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. I'm able to switch to a different console by

/bin/false

2000-10-28 Thread Flavio Alberto
I'm find /bin/false for intall in my Debian box?

Problems installing device3dfx

2000-10-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello! I am running potato with the original 2.2.17 kernel and I would like to use my Voodoo 3 2000 with Mesa. I installed kernel-source-2.2.17 and of course device3dfx-source. I untarred both in the /usr/src directory and made a symbolic link from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 to

Re: /bin/false

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 07:27:56PM -0200, Flavio Alberto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm find /bin/false for intall in my Debian box? If you're looking for the package in which it's included: $ dpkg -S /bin/false shellutils: /bin/false The file itself simply returns an exit value of 1.

Re: Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:08:58PM +0200, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at one. Of the

Re: /bin/false

2000-10-28 Thread Adam Lazur
Flavio Alberto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I'm find /bin/false for intall in my Debian box? apt-get install shellutils .adam -- [[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ icq #3354423 | lazur.org | clustermonkey.org ]

Re: Do I need 'apt' directories, or can I delete them?

2000-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
Gyulai Mihaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GM I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is GM full. Do I need the contents of the following directories, or may I GM delete them? GM GM /var/cache/apt 6 MB GM /var/state/apt/lists 3.7 MB GM /var/lib/dpkg/info 4.6 MB GM

RPMS in debian

2000-10-28 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to install the mysql-php-apache rpm from mysql.org Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

/bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of /bin/false: ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with

Re: RPMS in debian

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to install the mysql-php-apache rpm from mysql.org 'alien' can convert RPM = DEB. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ *

Re: RPMS in debian

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 06:25:21PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to install the mysql-php-apache rpm from mysql.org man alien (that's the manpage for alien, not men are an alien species,

gtk-script: where and what is it?

2000-10-28 Thread Mr. Strockbine
I was attempting to install netferret but it complains that it can't find gtk-script. I did a find on my whole system and found other gtk- stuff but not that. can any one clue me in? - greg s.

cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread csj
I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is even simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian. Here is some of the info I have been able to gather about my current setup. debian:/dev# lsmod Module Size Used by serial

Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread mike
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:40:04 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is even simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian. Here is some of the info I have been able to gather about my current setup.

Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
What does cdrecord -scanbus say? You should see something like: Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM

Re: gtk-script: where and what is it?

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
Mr.S == Strockbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mr.S I was attempting to install netferret but it complains that Mr.S it can't find gtk-script. I did a find on my whole system Mr.S and found other gtk- stuff but not that. can any one clue Mr.S me in? Are you sure it wasn't

Streaming MP3 server

2000-10-28 Thread Joel Dinel
Is there any Debian packages out there to turn my box intoa treaming MP3 server? I know of Icecast and Shoutcast for the actual atream server, and I suppose there is plugins for XMMS or MPG123 out there. Having .DEBs would really make it easier. Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Streaming MP3 server

2000-10-28 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:31:48PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: Is there any Debian packages out there to turn my box intoa treaming MP3 server? I know of Icecast and Shoutcast for the actual atream server, and I suppose there is plugins for XMMS or MPG123 out there. Having .DEBs would really

Re: gtk-script: where and what is it?

2000-10-28 Thread Pollywog
Mr.S == Strockbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mr.S I was attempting to install netferret but it complains that Mr.S it can't find gtk-script. I did a find on my whole system Mr.S and found other gtk- stuff but not that. can any one clue Mr.S me in? You need to install

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