Re: Log monitoring GUI program

1998-09-11 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: interface to manage/interpret/flag all the logging coming in. Has anyone heard of such a package? Especially a debianised one? There are two that I know of, XLogMaster and XLogMonitor. Try

Log monitoring GUI program

1998-09-10 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I seem to remember reading sometime (in comp.os.linux.announce I think) about a package that was something like a GUI that provided log-file (e.g. syslog written stuff) monitoring features. I've got to the point of having several machines syslog-ing to one central machine (as well as keeping

LRP offline

1998-06-02 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Anyone here know why the LRP (Linux Router Project) is offline at present? The URl is: http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ I desperately need to get to their pages - are there any mirrors? TIA -- 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and Debian of course)? We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a WWWcache which can

Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-21 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and Debian of course)? We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a WWWcache which can then be billed for). I was wondering if there is something

Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? TIA 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? i don't think

no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. The

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative

Two-monitors

1998-02-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have two video cards installed on my machine. I also have 2 monitors I'd like to have running. However I have not yet figured out how to get the system using the second video card. So far the only place I see any trace of the second one is in /proc/pci where it is listed as a PCI device. To

Two Monitors

1998-01-19 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Has anyone any experience in using two monitors on one machine. I'm thinking particularly of X. I can get a second video card (which I guess is mandatory or there'd be nowhere to plug the second one in right?). What I'm really interested in is getting the tow side-by-side and having X treat

Re: Install debian with serial port as console?

1998-01-07 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only console. I have used the serial-console patch

Re: tulip driver

1998-01-07 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Hi- I am having no luck getting a new ethernet card up. I just installed a new card with a DEC tulip chip and I can't get it working. Does anyone have a tulip card working? If so, could you share with me how you got it running? I am

Re: BIND 8.1.1 and IP aliasing in Linux

1997-12-18 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, dA' Phucilage Phactory wrote: I have several Linux DNS servers, two of which have IP aliases on one interface. Recently I upgraded from BIND 4.9.6 to BIND 8.1.1. One of the subtle problems I have noticed is now the machines that have IP aliases don't automatically

BIND 8.1.1 and IP aliasing in Linux

1997-12-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have several Linux DNS servers, two of which have IP aliases on one interface. Recently I upgraded from BIND 4.9.6 to BIND 8.1.1. One of the subtle problems I have noticed is now the machines that have IP aliases don't automatically update a zone when sent a notify by the primary server.

HP DeskDirect 10/100TX PCI LAN Adapter

1997-12-16 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Are there Linux drivers for this card? I'm about to get one (if there are drivers) and would like to hear of experiences... TIA 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phone: 07-838-4764 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Problem with booting after moving from 128 to 64M

1997-12-14 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: I had my system working fine for about 2 months but lately I have been experiencing problems. I initially thought it had to do with dirty filesystems. Now I have excluded that possibility. Now I wanted to test memory (128M) by removing 64M at a

Pentium II supported?

1997-11-27 Thread Richard L Shepherd
This may be a dumb question, but here goes: Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to putting the options in yet, or is there a

dhcpd config

1997-11-05 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Can anyone tell me if they've got dhcpd going on Debian? I'm continually getting the message: dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth0 in my logs when it tries to start, and it fails immediately. But I do have such a statement! What's missing? TIA

Re: Large buffers entry in free

1997-11-04 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Is there a bug somewhere? Yes. This is fixed in the procps currently in hamm, version 1.12.2.1. Are you using a hamm system that hasn't been updated for a week or so? I didn't think bo's procps had this problem too.. Oh yes it is! I have several bo

Netatalk, changing passwords

1997-10-29 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I am using debian netatalk 1.4b2, and have used it for some time happily. Until now I have always had Mac users who also had interactive accounts, and so could change their passwords at the shell prompt. However I am now setting up a couple of servers for users who may never log in. I notice

Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Not sure if this has been thrashed out before: Is Debian (or Linux in general) year 2000 *safe*? I'm not even sure what that means precisely, but I'm responsible for finding out round here and wondered if it's been discussed on this group. 8---8 Richard

Re: Sambades on non-us site

1997-10-15 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: The Sambades package on the overseas site has permissions problems. Anyone notice this ? Is it on purpose ? Matthew Yes, my mirror has failed to pick this up for the last 2 days because of this. I REALLY want it for about 3 servers here.

free command stuffed

1997-10-12 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have just updated my servers to the latest stuff in bo (arrived on my mirror on Saturday). The free command now gives weird output, like this: ns1# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:386536 380196 6340 22472 202704 -/+

Re: Debian Netatalk and Ethernet cards

1997-10-12 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote: Further to this problem I have experimented some more and have the following results, all on the one machine, using different cards, attempting to run netatalk on the same network: Card Description: Driver (Module):

Debian Netatalk and Ethernet cards

1997-10-09 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I happily use netatalk on 3 debian machines using ethernet cards which all use the wd driver module. Today I go to set it up on a DEC XLe6180 which has a builtin Intel EtherExpress 100 card in it. The IP drivers work great at both 10 and 100 Mbps. However Netatalk just isn't happy, it can't see

Re: Debian Netatalk and Ethernet cards

1997-10-09 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I happily use netatalk on 3 debian machines using ethernet cards which all use the wd driver module. Today I go to set it up on a DEC XLe6180 which has a builtin Intel EtherExpress 100 card in it. The IP drivers work great at both 10 and 100

Re: Debian Netatalk and Ethernet cards

1997-10-09 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Further to this problem I have experimented some more and have the following results, all on the one machine, using different cards, attempting to run netatalk on the same network: Card Description: Driver (Module

SCSI support

1997-09-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Hi, does anyone know if there is support for: Initio PCI 9100U Ultra Fast SCSI Host Adapter Kit within the standard debian kernel-source packages? Or any linux support for this card at all? TIA... 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Best Ethernet Card

1997-09-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On 12 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote: The other card I see mentioned a lot, but never see much as far as recommendations, is the Intel EtherExpress 100. Anyone have any thoughts on those? I have the Intel EtherExpress 100 Pro, which is different from the regular one (requires a driver that is

Max Process size

1997-07-30 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Can anyone tell me where in the kernel sources are specified any of the following: max size of a process max number of processes I once knew, but alas that was a long time ago...! I have kernel-source-2.0.29-7 installed 8---8 Richard

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

1997-07-28 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: why Debian 1.3.1 includes kernel 2.0.29 and not 2.0.30 (that is in this Debian 1.3.1 but don't is preselect the first time that I install the system).? Is there any problem whith 2.0.30 kernel? Apparently, there was some of the 2.1.x code that

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: I'm using debian 1.3 with samba 1.9.16. When my main workstation was running Win95 I could connect fine now I'm running NT 4.0 and I can browse the to my linux box but I'm getting a login error that says: The account is not authorized to login from

latex2html and lyx

1997-07-23 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have installed both lyx (0.10.7-3) and latex2html (96.1.h-3). I wish to write documents in lyx and reproduce them in HTML via latex2html. Trouble is: when lyx makes a nice latex file instead of {\bfseries bla bla} it produces \bfseries bla bla\mdseries which latex2html then munges into Bbla

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-07-11 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, dpk wrote: I don't have much experience with having two ethernet cards in a machine, I've a little now that I've had to play with a few machines (one has 4 ethernet cards and 1 radio card!) My ifconfig also says 10mb because the tulip driver first probes 10mb. However,

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-07-10 Thread Richard L Shepherd
get huge packet loss, presumably due to the speed mismatch. How do you get the cards to go at 100Mb? On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: This is just a quickie, and I'm sure it's an easy one too: Does Linux support any/all 100 Mbit capable ethernet cards? i.e

Re: [Off-topic] AIC 7880 supported?

1997-07-09 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On 9 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: sorry for this off-topic question. If someone provides me with the mailing list I should subscribe to ask these kind of questions I will be very grateful... I want to know if the AIC 7880 Ultra Wide SCSI adapter is supported by Linux. Also, is there any

Re: Switching IP aliases

1997-07-02 Thread Richard L Shepherd
, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I wish to have 2 nearly identical machines. Each will have it's own IP number plus an IP alias. The idea is that I wish to occasionally take 1 down and give it's IP alias over to the other machine, so that there is no visible change to any clients. The problem

Re: Switching IP aliases

1997-06-29 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: Richard, Would it fix things if you were to ping a non-existant host, thus causing a broadcast from your box? Maybe ping to various subnets as required? Good idea. I now have two debian linux machines passing an IP alias between them. I get the

Switching IP aliases

1997-06-28 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I wish to have 2 nearly identical machines. Each will have it's own IP number plus an IP alias. The idea is that I wish to occasionally take 1 down and give it's IP alias over to the other machine, so that there is no visible change to any clients. The problem is that machines on the localnet

100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-06-18 Thread Richard L Shepherd
This is just a quickie, and I'm sure it's an easy one too: Does Linux support any/all 100 Mbit capable ethernet cards? i.e. is it possible to use 100 Mbit ethernet with Linux? I have no such machines (though I have some that drive 100 Mbit capable cards at 10 Mb, since that's what the nets

Re: gated file

1997-06-06 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have now compiled gated (tried on another machine and it went no problems, thought they were the same configstrange), and got it running---good. I have installed it on our internet exchange and it listens to BGP nicely, including supernets---very good (no other OS's can do that, that we

gated

1997-06-04 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Does anyone know of a good set of sources AND patch(es) (if necessary) for gated for linux? I mirror the gated sources here and have just tried building it on Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.29 (from bo) using the patches for gated 3.6A2 I got some time ago from ftp.redhat.com. I guess it would be even

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Toens Bueker wrote: On May 23, Richard L Shepherd wrote $ unset termcap Sorry to say but that doesn't do it either. Any other ideas? NB: It goes fine from a virtual console and an rxvt, just not an xterm. I'm guessing that it's the colors that an xterm

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: $ unset termcap Sorry to say but that doesn't do it either. Any other ideas? NB: It goes fine from a virtual console and an rxvt, just not an xterm. I'm guessing that it's the colors that an xterm is not capable of that is the problem.

Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: On May 22, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote : I'd need to get a finer split in traffic list, I'd need to get an : accounted list indicating each service and each new destination : separately. Is there a package to do that yet? Try net-acct.

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-23 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Richard == Richard L Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to use Richard a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang from Richard reporting the error: Terminal not powerful

Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to use a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang from reporting the error: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang and failing there? I just did an update through dselect (using stable) and got a new version of lynx which told me to

Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-18 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On 18 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I make a living off Open Groups DCE (used to be OSF), and billing it as an NIS replacement is akin to comparing a pocketknife to a thermonuclear device. It would be arguably more accurate to say DCE is nothing like NIS. Say what you

Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: Hi... Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a mangled passwd field) - is

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-05-07 Thread Richard L Shepherd
At 09:20 AM 4/21/97 +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put mem=128M on the boot line). I'm not sure that cache isn't the problem, though. It went so well for 3 weeks, then started to go downhill. This w/e it killed itself

Re: Wavelan cards and PCI ethernet

1997-05-06 Thread Richard L Shepherd
1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I am trying to install a wavelan card into a linux box. The setup is: Digital Celebris XL 5166 Digital DE450 PCI Combo Ethernet Card (using tulip driver) Western Digital (wd8003) 8-bit (el-cheapo) Ethernet card (using wd driver) Built-In NCR SCSI Host (using

Wavelan cards and PCI ethernet

1997-04-24 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Hi, I am trying to install a wavelan card into a linux box. The setup is: Digital Celebris XL 5166 Digital DE450 PCI Combo Ethernet Card (using tulip driver) Western Digital (wd8003) 8-bit (el-cheapo) Ethernet card (using wd driver) Built-In NCR SCSI Host (using 53c7,8xx driver) Adaptec 2940

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote: I had similar problems with the kernel on the install disks. If I let the system sit for a day or so (386 with 8M), I would get a bunch of Couldn't get a free page messages. After rebuilding the kernel for my hardware, the message hasn't come back.

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: I was looking at how to recompile the kernel to get it to recognize memory above 64M, and it said you should have at least 512K of cache to do this... Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put mem=128M on the boot

Memory Gobbler

1997-04-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have 128MB RAM and 256KB cache. My machine has been up 32 days. For the first 3 weeks it went really nicely, didn't get anywhere near using any swap. However this week it's usage has got over 100MB (now up to 120MB, after deducting buffers and cached, i.e. the second row of free output) and

Linux in an NT domain

1997-04-16 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Does anyone know if Debian has packaged the package which allows a Linux box to participate in an NT domain? I read somewhere once that such a package exists, but am very vague as to the details of what it did. NB: it's not samba, it's do with sharing the user-space/passwords etc. Any ideas?

RE: Linux in an NT domain

1997-04-16 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail) wrote: Yup - I think it's called smb-NT-verify.1.1.tar.gz. I don't remember exactly where I got it, but here's the authors name from the nt-linux.readme file ... Christopher Burke| Unique | Web: http://www.mindware.com.au Mindware

Re: 'Frozen' boot disks

1997-04-14 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: The reason I put this copy up was for testing. For the first round of testing, people were picking them up from sites that only had modem bandwidth. Yes, ftp.debian.org is the authoritative source. If you want to play with the new toys before the store

Re: 'Frozen' boot disks

1997-04-13 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Lamar Folsom wrote: Is anyone else having trouble finding the disks for 1.3? I'd appreciate any pointers. The 'bo/disks-i386/1997-04-04/' directory seems to be empty. I have the same problem. I had thought it may be because I mirror a mirror (which in turn may not

Re: 'Frozen' boot disks

1997-04-13 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: 4/6/97 I put a copy at ftp.greenbush.com, look in /pub/bodisks. The files are dated by time of transfer, but they are the 4/4 set. I have the same problem. I had thought it may be because I mirror a mirror (which in turn may not directly mirror