Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter. anyway, i just installed potato on my girlfriend's perario. it's a piece-of-shit computer that i wouldn't force feed to my dog, but it's not SO evil that bios flashes when it sees linux. i find that VERY hard to believe; almost absurd.

security question: running a public ftp server

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm playing around with putting up a public ftp server on my woody box. i know that ftp has its security problems; in fact, the beowulf cluster i managed at school was broken into via a wuftpd vulnerability. can someone point me to documentation specifically aimed at beefing up

interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, when i run xmcd, it reports: xmcd Fatal Error: Xmcd binary permissions error: It should be setuid root. Please have your system administrator correct this. even though: % ll /usr/bin/xmcd -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 1223 Nov 21

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
yup. i racked my brains on this; i sent in a bug report. it happened right after woody was updated, so it prolly had something to do with that... p On Sat 16 Dec 00, 12:32 PM, Eric G . Miller said... Are you a member of the group audio? -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net -- To

Re: gtk-config and glib-config?

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev On Fri 15 Dec 00, 12:58 AM, Ken Weingold said... I am trying to install gaim, but configure can't seem to find gtk-config and glib-config. What packages do these come with? I am wondering if I don't have them. -- Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission

mkttfdir is segfaulting on me

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, mkttfdir is segfaulting on me. i'm posting this before contacting the package maintainer. i think i recall reading a post that truetype fonts can't have internal spaces in their names. is this true? could be caused by entries in font.dir like: suckgolf.ttf -misc-I suck at

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i would've suggested this to, but he did say that CD's played under windows. wouldn't windows need a cable from the CD player to the sound card too? pete On Fri 15 Dec 00, 2:36 PM, Chris Gray said... Andrew Perrin writes: ap Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i wrote a very nice piece on the System.map file. you can find it at my personal website, along with other bits and pieces of linux knowledge: http://www.dirac.org/p/linux/systemmap.html what's most likely happening is that the System.map file that klogd is finding is in

Re: libpcap.so.0 or libpcap.a?

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
to read about static and dynamic libraries on linux, go to: http://www.dirac.org/p/linux/libraries.html pete On Wed 13 Dec 00, 11:17 PM, Tor Slettnes said... meepmeep == meepmeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: meepmeep I'm trying to compile dsniff and when I try to configure meepmeep

Re: Filenames

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
does xfstt need the filenames to be all lowercase? how about X's truetype font serving module? does that need the file to be all lowercase? pete On Wed 13 Dec 00, 11:34 PM, kmself@ix.netcom.com said... on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:35:27PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
, 4:10 PM, Pollywog said... On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:07:18 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman said: i wrote a very nice piece on the System.map file. you can find it at my personal website, along with other bits and pieces of linux knowledge: http://www.dirac.org/p/linux/systemmap.html

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 13 Dec 00, 11:28 PM, Ethan Benson said... On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:07:18PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i wrote a very nice piece on the System.map file. you can find it at my personal website, along with other bits and pieces of linux knowledge: http://www.dirac.org/p

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
and another kernel with sound completely turned off. peter On Thu 14 Dec 00, 2:50 PM, Christoph Simon said... On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:35:50 -0800 Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 13 Dec 00, 11:28 PM, Ethan Benson said... On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:07:18PM -0800, Peter Jay

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ethan, i had another thought about this issue. you claim that: my system finds System.map-kernelversion just fine. i think that's inaccurate. looking over what you _actually_ said, i think what you actually meant to say is: nothing seems to complain about not finding a

Re: mouse attention problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
is gpm running? do you see any gpm messages in /var/log/messages? do you see any wierd messages on the console that you started X from? pete On Thu 14 Dec 00, 11:22 AM, William Heindl said... I tried this on debian-laptop and got no response, so I'm trying here I have a problem

Re: Manpages

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 14 Dec 00, 6:36 PM, Chris said... Hello, I am new to Debian. I have installed the base system. From here I want to learn and am told the manpages are a good start. When I type: man apt-get for example, the system replies that Bash does not know what man is. hi there,

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ok, ethan. you've made some very good points on all counts. i concede and have changed my knowledge base accordingly. :-) pete On Thu 14 Dec 00, 5:41 PM, Ethan Benson said... On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: Actually, I did use this since quite a

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i think here is the source of the confusion: X 4.0 does NOT need a truetype font server to display true type fonts. however, it will take fonts from wherever you tell it to, so if you tell it to look for fonts at ports A and B (which happen to be bound against xfs and xfstt) then so be it. for

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
... PJS == Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PJS i don't think software is the answer here; there's no magic PJS involved with overburning. it's like saying that formatting PJS a floppy at 1.680 MB is more special than 1.44 MB. PJS PJS are you sure it's

Re: SCREENSHOT - what software/method to use

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
try gimp pete On Mon 11 Dec 00, 11:05 PM, Osamu Aoki said... I am looking for screenshot program/method for X in debian potato distribution. Just give me a pointer where I can find how to do it. Please indicate that method/program is usable in 24 bit per pixel mode. Asking this silly

Re: help...

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 11 Dec 00, 10:29 AM, Dale Kosan said... I have installed Debian and now have my network card working,still no sound but that is not important right now.The problem is my display,when I get into x my screen is bigger than the monitor and I have to move the mouse to the left and down

Re: Sorry

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 11 Dec 00, 11:36 AM, Dale Kosan said... Pete, Thanks for your help, sorry I did not know I had to watch my format of sentences and paragraphs.I will be more careful in the future. : ) well, you don't really have to do anything you don't want to. right now, you're using

how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
when i do a dpkg -l *netscape*, some of the output looks like: Name VersionDescription pn netscape-java- none (no description available) pn netscape-java- none (no description available) pn netscape-java- none (no description available) pn

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i don't think software is the answer here; there's no magic involved with overburning. it's like saying that formatting a floppy at 1.680 MB is more special than 1.44 MB. are you sure it's not the quality of your cd? i use cdrecord (no need to use xcdroast; cdrecord is a no-brainer) and

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
we were talking about audio tracks, but if you want to talk about an iso filesystem, it's as simple as simple can be: mkisofs -r -o /home/p/thisone.iso /usr/local/share/directoryofstuff -r == rockridge extension. -o == output to this file (like gcc -o) note that if you want to copy a

OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i made an astonishing discovery: device-3dfx (3dfx.o) is only needed for glide applications. and then, only if you want to play the glide game as non-root. quake3 plays just dandy as non-root. in fact, i have a question about this. i do a lot of benchmarking, and i've found that quake3 plays

linux tips and trick and setting up MTRR's

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, two questions. 1- is there a resource on the web that explains how to correctly set up your MTRR's? 2- i remember seeing a linux tips and tricks page. it was specifically set up because of the mindcraft fiasco. i know there are tons of tips and tricks sites, but this one was a

Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
rick, netscape does see TT fonts. i can verify that. simple test: write a small webpage using a tt font that you know you have. view it with netscape. also, gimp has access to my TT fonts as well, as does star office 5.2 (both the spreadsheet and wordprocessor.) pete On Mon 11 Dec 00, 7:52

Re: linux tips and trick and setting up MTRR's

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 11 Dec 00, 7:44 PM, Nate Amsden said... Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, two questions. 1- is there a resource on the web that explains how to correctly set up your MTRR's? didn't know you had to..i just enabled support and left it at that :) after digging around

Re: The shithead damn it thingy - please cool down people

2000-12-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 10 Dec 98, 10:55 AM, Mac said... (snip) BTW, if he would be such an ignorant person why isn't he flaming your replies and starting a real flame war? Looks like he is polite and mature enough to be a Ph.D. and to not behave this premature way. i am nearing a phd in theoretical

Re: voodoo5 and debian

2000-12-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi reiner and all, thanks for replying! i have console and 2D X going perfectly. unfortunately, my system seems to hang when quake 3 loads in. i'm praying that you can tell me what might be wrong. i ... need ... quake ... i'm running 2.4.0test11. kernel config options are shown below:

where's the modelines in X 4.0?

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i got woody a few days ago. the screen is a bit narrow, so i went to edit the modetimings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. but they're not there! where is X getting the modetiming definitions from? the old XF86Config file? pete pgp4ImauJSZqq.pgp Description: PGP signature

setting the number lock in X

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i know how to set the number lock in console, but can't figure out how to do it in X. i would've thought xset, but the man page makes no mention of the number lock... thanks! pete pgpRchWGpWPZd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sound

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 08 Dec 00, 1:21 PM, Eileen Orbell said... Hi, I am having problems with sound. I installed a sound blaster 16 card and then recompiled the kernel and when I run startx and gnome starts up I get a error message saying: Cannot connect to Sound Daemon the Sound Daemon can be started

dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i've always wondered... 1. equivalency of updating the system is dselect's update EXACTLY equivalent to apt-get update? does one of them update the other? if they're not equivalent, how are they different? 2. intelligence of dependencies and conflicts are dselect and apt-get equally

Re: libungif.so.4

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
eeks, you need to turn some wrap margin on! in a hurry! anyway... # dpkg -S /usr/lib/libungif.so.3 libungif3g: /usr/lib/libungif.so.3 # dpkg -S /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 libungif4g: /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 i'm running woody, but maybe the package is called the same thing on potato. pete On Fri

Re: Music CD's

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
eileen, is capitol college in DC? anyway, a scanning error for audio cd's is very odd indeed. it might help if you posted the error messages that most likely accompany this ill-desired behavior. they might be in /var/log/messages. peter On Fri 08 Dec 00, 9:31 PM, Eileen Orbell said... Hi,

Re: Music CD's

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
your system seems to think this is a normal IDE cdrom which is the slave on the 2nd IDE chain (IDE1). can you verify any of this information? what kind of cdrom drive is it? also, what is /dev/cdrom linked to? /dev/hdd? pete On Fri 08 Dec 00, 9:56 PM, Eileen Orbell said... I edited my

voodoo5 and debian

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi there. i had a perfectly good voodoo3 in my woody. a minute ago i installed a voodoo5. i can't find any instructions on voodoo5 with debian. does anyone know how i can get this voodoo5 working? much thanks! pete -- linux

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just removed netscape from my system. an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't be deleted, but i

Re: X4.0 after upgrade

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 11:31 AM, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira said... Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! there's probably a better answer than this, but in case nobody replies, if you delete the line FontPath unix/:7100 # local font server from the

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 12:47 PM, Kenward Vaughan said... On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:57:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: ... On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: ... i maintain that dselect should be showing me these errors. and barring that, i maintain

OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i know how to search for palindromes, for instance, a 3 letter palindrome: \(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1 recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using regex only, to express a palindrome of arbitrary letter length? i've used some grey matter, and the answer seems to be no, but there's

mutt question

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, this is a pretty complicated question... when i get spam, i like to send complaint letters to the people responsible for the ip and/or zone that the spam came from. i also like to use traceroute to send a complaint to the system upstream from them, since that usually belongs to the

OT: codefusion

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i was asked to review codefusion for a linux magazine. i guess i'm a good candidate to write this thing, since i'm a hardcore console/vim/gcc/gdb programmer. i've always felt lost with IDE's, so this may be a good test of how easy codefusion is to use, and their documentation. so

why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i just removed netscape from my system. an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't be deleted, but i don't know which one or why. at the very least dselect should prompt you to enter a key when an

where is mkfontdir? bleah...

2000-12-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i just upgraded to woody. it was very cool, but i lost access to my true type fonts. here is output of startx: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/truetype). the trouble

mutt question

2000-12-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
while in the index of a mail folder other than /var/spool/mail/me, say $HOME/Mail/mysavedmsgs, i'd like to bind the left arrow key to bring me back to the index of /var/spool/mail/me. can't figure out how to do that. anyone know the answer off hand? thanks! pete pgpO8itSS49CU.pgp

truetype fonts and netscape css

2000-12-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i still have three problems with my newly installed woody: 1- netscape is ignoring all CSS. any suggestions? i have javascript and style sheets enabled. i'm using woody's 4.76. any suggestions? 2- some of my truetype fonts are being ignored. for instance, i can use 1979.ttf

Re: Sound Card

2000-12-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
any sound card based on the ensoniq chipset is pretty darned easy. the most popular of these cards is the famous creative pci-128. note that pci soundcards in general don't support midi. midi needs to be emulated by something like timidity for pci sound cards. the drivers for these cards is

why doesn't modprobe log errors?!?

2000-12-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, 1. whenever i boot, i get warnings that modules rtl8139, ppp and sg can't be found by modprobe. for example: Calculating module dependencies done Loading modules: ppp modprobe: Can't locate module ppp 2. presumably, this is because they were once

why doesn't modprobe log errors?!?

2000-12-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
sorry if this is a repost; i just installed a firewall and had to reconfigure exim. my helo was all screwed up and i didn't see this email come back via the list. dear all, 1. whenever i boot, i get warnings that modules rtl8139, ppp and sg can't be found by modprobe. for example:

Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

2000-11-30 Thread Jay Ford
/gpmdata. Meanwhile, X is told that the mouse is a PS/2 mouse via /dev/gpmdata. (The ZAxisMapping 4 5 Buttons 7 are to enable the mouse wheel.) Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services University

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Griffith Feeney wrote: Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:21:05 -1000 From: Griffith Feeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UNIX help Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:38:22 -0800 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Access under Linux

2000-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
don't install wine just to run access. 1. use ODBC to connect to the database. 2. i believe you can connect to .mdb files using starbase/staroffice. pete linux To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
.// \\ ^^ ^^ The best way to accelerate a win95 system is at 9.81 m/s^2 rules On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Martin Fluch wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:20:00 +0200 (EET) From: Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian user mailing list debian-user

XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I'd like to upgrade to XFree86 4.0. The way I see it, there's 2 options: 1- package 2- tarball I'm running Potato, and don't really want to upgrade to Woody. Based on that alone, I think tarball is my only option, but I want to make sure of that. Which is the better way for me to upgrade X?

offtopic - confused about the voodoo 5 development

2000-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hola, i've been doing a lot of reading about the voodoo 5 card, and can see there's a lot of confusion and chaos out there. unfortunately, the only definitive source of info is very imprecise in their choice of words, making things even more confusing. according to linux.3dfx.com, there is a

Re: eth0 on kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
in general, ethernet interfaces are not implemented as files in /dev/. there's no need to create one. if you want to use your ethernet card, make sure: 1. the proper module loaded correctly 2. the kernel has the correct nic built into it either case, dmesg | less should tell you

where does debian hide its iso images?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i've just spent over 5 minutes searching for ISO images on the debian website. this is a long time for web browsing! i'd like to burn the r1 (or upcoming r2) version of debian 2.2's ISO. the problem is, the ftp sites have snapshots of the disks, but i can't find any sites that hold ISO images

Re: sound delays

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i just read linuxtoday.com, and there was an article there in audio latency and how to fix it. you may want to start there. i'd give you the details, but i haven't read the article yet. pete On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, I Wonder if someone can help me with

how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? pete

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
, Pollywog wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:59:52 -0800 (PST), Peter Jay Salzman said: bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? I

RE: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Jay Ford
. Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 319-335-, fax: 319-335-5505

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Jay Ford
. Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 319-335-, fax: 319-335-5505

how to load modules at boot time

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd like to load two modules -- 3dfx.o and tulip.o (voodoo3 and ethernet cards) at boot time rather than modprobing them every time the system boots. i could do that by adding them to a local startup script, and that's the way i've done it for a long time. but if i wanted to be more

Re: soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i used to have the same card. it's a good card, but doesn't do midi natively (most PCI sound cards don't). the driver i used was either es1370 or es1371. you can find out which one by doing an lspci. for details on how to do this, do a make menuconfig, go to the sound section, and read the

Re: Newbie sound help

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
peter, step 1 is to figure out which driver you need. here are various things you can do to that end: a. go to deja.com's power search and do a search on linux crystal sound and see what turns up. b. go to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and do a grep Crystal *. c. install the

help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: =libsdl1.0 which debian provides sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide currently, the only way to get sdl_image and sdl_mixer on a debian system is to compile it

Name server

2000-11-05 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all, Im running bind and apache on the same box. I use to host my web but have moved it over to another hosting co. I have removed the entry in named.conf but when I try to open the url I stll am getting it from my apache server and not the new host co. I have also changed the name servers

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ethan, it's been my experience that some tarballs don't respect where you want to locate them in the sense that they spew binaries, links and libraries wherever they please. i've seen many games install themselves in /usr/local, like i told them to, and then just push their libraries wherever

attention: voodoo3 owners

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear fellow voodoo3 owners, the debian driver for your card will NOT work with 2.4 kernels. not even if you compile it from the source code. the file operations table is an array of pointers to functions which implement file operations which would be useful to a device, like reading and

Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-03 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, Im running apache and need to add Java 2 Runtime Environment v 1.2.2. Is there a debian package I can use via apt-get install ? any tips you can give me on installing it would be appreciated. Thank you

Sendmail account setup

2000-11-01 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I have a question on Sendmail. I would like to give out email accounts but do not want to give them a debian account. All I want them to have access to is email. Can this be done? Now when I add a new email account I have to use adduser which creates a home directory. What are ISP's

man page question

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i have a cryptogram solver that i want to release to freshmeat (it's a console/ncurses application). i'd like to write a man page for it, but don't want to learn troff. are there any applications that lets you write a text, latex or staroffice file and turn it into a man page? pete ps- if

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dave, this isn't the reply you wanted, but fwiw, i can't get the 3dfx driver to work for the life of me. i've been at it for a couple of days now. i emailed the packager, steve hasam(sp?) twice, and he hasn't replied at all. not even a RTFM. (i'll leave my opinion of his maintainer's status

ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
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 something called netfilter. just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it really replaced by netfilter?

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On 28 Oct 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: 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. i assume the yes was to the 2nd part of the or. :) PJS i'd like to learn how

RE: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Pollywog wrote: just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it really replaced by netfilter? It is possible to keep using ipchains by compiling the appropriate kernel module. I was using it until I got iptables working. cool - i'd like to do this

security questions

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i just installed a host security checker, tiger (TARA?) which is more or less along the lines of what i remember from dan farmer's COPS (a lng time ago!) it had a number of complaints about accounts which were disabled but had valid shells. like this one:

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

Basic Kernel Question

2000-10-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I keep running into a problem everytime I upgrade my kernel. Before I upgrade I can place a floppy into the drive and type mount /dev/fd0 /floppy with no errors. After the upgrade I do the same command I get an error about needing to specifiy the file format. What am I missing when I

Can I use sendmail with having a console login

2000-10-25 Thread Jay Kelly
hello guys, Im running sendmail and would like to give email accounts to my entire office but do not want to give them a login to access the server via console, ftp, ssh etc. Can this be done? Can I give a email account without a home directory account? Thanks

Re: XF86Setup

2000-10-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
paul, this won't be of much help, but here it is. get *ANY* mode under the resolution you want, say, 1024x768. that's 90% of the battle. then use xvidtune to tune the screen. you'll recognize which modeline in xf86config from the output of xvidtune. just look for the same numbers. don't

Re: IMWheel help

2000-10-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
rob, i'm sure people will barf at what i'm about to say... i've found imwheel to be a bad program. i had trouble with what got wheel focus. for example, if netscape worked with the wheel, then my xterms wouldn't, and vice versa. here's a better idea: 1. put a z-axis mapping line in your

what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i've never got this straight -- 1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? 2. which applications use this configuration file? and when? only at boot time? 3. how is it generated? always wanted to know this... thanks! pete

Re: HELP - voodoo 3 trouble

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
... right? :) i really appreciate this! pete On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, when i try to run test3Dfx on my dual celery550 (debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.0-test9), it reports: 1) run it as root, does it work? If so, then it's a module problem

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ok, so modules.conf is created by a call to update-modules. suppose i compile a new kernel. where along the process is conf.modules updated? all i ever see 'make modules' do is compile, and 'make modules_install' simply moves stuff around. surely, this file has to be modified when you

how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole system to woody. can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386

Perl Scripting Help

2000-10-19 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello, I have been trying to run a perl script that I was told requires Extended Tcl/Tk to be installed. Im very new to perl and have now idea what this is. I need Tcl/Tk v8.0. for this to work. When I installed debain I didnt included perl. What will I need to get for the to work? Sorry if this

Syslogd

2000-10-19 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, When I bootup my system hangs on Starting System Log Daemon Systlogd how can I troubleshot this to see whats happening? Thanks

RE: Syslogd

2000-10-19 Thread Jay Kelly
server. I will have to look into that more.. Thanks -Original Message- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:49 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Syslogd On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Jay Kelly ([EMAIL

HELP - voodoo 3 trouble

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, when i try to run test3Dfx on my dual celery550 (debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.0-test9), it reports: test00: Clear screen to blue 2.60.00.0415 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board

Re: System.map problem

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
it's a list of the addresses of kernel exported variables. mostly not needed except by kmod and a few strange apps like dosemu. see http://www.dirac.org/p/linux for more details. pete linux To err is human, to forgive

crypt() woes - error in man page?

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i think there's an error in the man page for crypt()... usage: char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt); from the man page: salt is a two-character string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]. This string is used to perturb the algo- rithm in one of

crypt() isn't generating a valid md5/shadow password

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
sorry, but i'm trying to write some tools for beowulf administration. consider the program: #includestdio.h #includestring.h #includecrypt.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { char password[50]; char salt[50];

FTPD configuration

2000-10-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All Where would I change the root directory for FTPD. I also want to add a user that has only access to one directory and cant see anything else. How is this doen? Thanks

Ftpd setup

2000-10-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, I have FTPD installed and was wondering how I change the default directory. Also how can I add users just for the ftp and not to have access to login via ssh or something. I looked for the man pages but there are none installed for it. And help on where the config file are kept and on

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
you can use split. you can also use tar -M linux To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ To oink is porcine, to meow is feline.http://www.dirac.org/p._. To neigh is equine to howl is lupine,

gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread E. Jay Berkenbilt
the October archives of this list before posting... Thanks -- E. Jay Berkenbilt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | http://www.ql.org/q/

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