woody smbmount smbmnt mount

2000-04-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
I can't mount samba shares anymore, somthing happened in woody not sure when 
maybe Sunday,

mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o username=elmo


mount error: Invalid argument
Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
smbmnt failed: 255
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
Could not umount /mountpoint: Invalid argument

It works with potato boxes.


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Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

1999-10-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:28:34AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
 Mike Barton wrote:
  
  Hi all!
  
  I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with
  256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec
  2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a
  really sweet server here except that I just noticed there are no /dev/st*
  for the tape drive. Anyone know at what point during the installation these
  get created? I've got another machine here with an SCSI tape with lots of
  /dev/st*. I'd sure hate to mknod 'em all by hand on the new beast.
  
 Your kernel is configured for SCSI tape support, right?  I don't think
 that's the default.  Do a 'make menuconfig' and look for it.  
 
 If it's there, I believe you can cd to '/dev' and do a MAKEDEV, and that
 will create all the proper devices for you automatically.
 
 Folks, isn't the kernel build process supposed to do this for you?  I
 remember having to do this myself, for a SCSI tape also, I believe.  I
 used make-kpkg, then installed the binary package.
 
 
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I had to MAKEDEV for ST* and SG*, maybe we need to re-vist the install scripts?

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Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:43:27AM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote:
 Hi
 
 If no-one objects, I'd like to do an NMU of MRTG early next week. The
 major reason for this is that the SNMP_Session Perl modules need to
 be split off into a separate package (a number of applications make 
 use of them and they are maintained independently of MRTG by a different 
 author). I have tried to contact the maintainer several times over the
 past two weeks, but he seems to be MIA and this update needs to go in
 before the potato freeze as it's delaying a number of packages that
 depend on SNMP_Session.
 
 I have packaged 2.8.8, which now depends on libsnmp-session-perl, closes 
 bug #44496 and is compliant with policy 3.0.1. I have put the packages 
 at http://www.edrc.uct.ac.za/~mj/debian/ for testing.  They work for me - 
 could anyone who uses MRTG _please_ test them and let me know if there 
 are any problems.
 
 Changes:
  mrtg (2.8.8-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
  .
* NMU to remove SNMP_Session modules (which are now to be found in
  libsnmp-session-perl).
* New upstream version.
* Upgraded standards-version to 3.0.1.
* Added dependancy on libsnmp-session-perl.
* Fixed cron script. Closes: #44496.
* Include more detailed sample configuration file (sample-mrtg.cfg).
 
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Hey take a look at the fact that MRTG and the latest snmpd in potato don't seem 
to work.
I pounded my head on that one for a quite a while, never figured it out, maybe 
a pair of fresh
eyes might be able to see what I am not
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Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:13:13PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote:
 On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:11:12AM -0700 Lawrence Walton wrote:
  Hey take a look at the fact that MRTG and the latest snmpd in potato don't 
  seem to work.
  I pounded my head on that one for a quite a while, never figured it out, 
  maybe a pair of fresh
  eyes might be able to see what I am not
 
 The primary reason is that the default SNMP configuration for ucd-snmp
 4.0 doesn't supply the network stats MRTG monitors - do an snmpwalk and
 you'll see what I mean.
 
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I did, :) if I remember, there was one or two that did not come up on the list 
but mostly 
THEY were there...

MRTG error:
SNMPGET Problem for sysDescr sysContact sysName sysLocation ifNumber 
sysObjectID on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ns:~$  snmpwalk  localhost public sysDescr
system.sysDescr.0 = Linux ns 2.2.12 #9 Thu Sep 23 08:37:24 PDT 1999 i586

ns:~$ snmpwalk localhost public sysContact
system.sysContact.0 = lawrence Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Voodoo Banshee + Debian = X == null ?

1999-10-09 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 09:35:47PM -0300, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote:
 
 Hi Folks!
 
 Well, I just bought a Blaster 3D Banshee AGP and to my surprise
 - or not, since neither 3Dfx nor Creative Labs. are known as linux
 supporting companies - I discovered that it just can't get along with X
 -- at least not with the one shipping with Slink ( do I need to say that
 i use slink? :-)  and not with the last stable one listed in
 www.XFree86.org.
 
 It seems that 3Dfx has a somewhat beta X server supporting
 Banshee and Voodoo3 chipsets but, from what I saw, they are distributing
 it only in RPM format. Ok, I know I can use Alien and convert it to .deb
 but I'm doubtful of how debian-compatible will this E.T. .deb be and how
 will it behave in my box ( redhat and debian environments are not equal
 and, the installation script, thinking it is in a RedHat box, may screw
 my Debian box... not a GoodThing (c)  ).
 
 So, if anyone can solve my doubts and fears concerning the
 suggested approach of converting the package or has any other solution
 to this problem, PLEASE, e-mail me!
 
 
 []s
 
 MaCa
 
 
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There is support in 3.5 I think there is a slink version out there..
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mrtg and the new snmpd in potato

1999-09-23 Thread Lawrence Walton
I can't get the new snmpd in potato and mrtg (any version) to play nice with 
each other.
I can get the correct information (sysDescr sysContact sysName sysLocation 
ifNumber sysObjectID) using snmpwalk and snmpget, but
mrtg refuses to work conplaining  error status: noSuchName.

UCD snmpd version 4
debian package snmpd 4.0.1.-2

Does anyone have any ideas?
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non-free

1999-09-11 Thread Lawrence Walton
Is non-free broken?
The potato/non-packages.gz file appears to be empty.
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Re: StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

1999-07-29 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:36:51PM -0700, Dave Dash wrote:
 I am running potato and during the last week Star
 Office fails to run and gives a segmentation fault. 
 Anybody else get this?
 
 
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Yes the last libc upgrade; it seems to of killed Star Office 5.1 for me. :
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Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread Lawrence Walton
Rather sounds like a dessert...
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Re: cold fusion linux

1999-07-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:33:55PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote:
 I've heard of a product called 'php' which is supposed to be good, but
 don't have any experience using it.
 
 FAQ is at http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3
 
 Chris Dion
 
 Benjamin E Frame wrote:
  
  I'm a big fan of Linux w/Apache, but at work we use Allaire's Cold Fusion
  (WinNT) for web-database interaction.  Has anyone found a way to use Cold
  Fusion with Debian (or another dist.)?  If so, what packages do you use?
  I've heard about cf_anywhere, is it any good?  Allaire's site says that
  they plan to offer support for linux in the future, but as far as I can
  tell, they don't yet.
  
  I'd appreciate any information on Cold-Fusion like products for Linux that
  you might have.  Thanks!!!
  please send any responses to  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
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Has anyone looked at zope? http://www.zope.org it's gpl, and looks kinda cool 
for dynamic webpage stuff.
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Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
 I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and
 supports bookmarks.  Something like gFTP or IglooFTP.
 
 gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any
 operation. I'm using the latest version, 2.0.2, but have noticed
 this with all other versions I have ever used.
 
 IglooFTP is somewhat more stable, but still not enough to be useful.
 This morning, it kept dying of a broken pipe.  I had to boot to
 Windows and run CuteFTP to find out that the site I was uploading to
 was full.  I can't believe that IglooFTP couldn't handle that gracefully.
 
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Try WXFTP
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Re: Samba and mount

1999-07-01 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:53:25AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
  I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount
  a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message:
  SMBFS: need mount version 6
  mount error: Invalid argument.
 
  I am using the same command in another linux box with slink
  and kernel 2.0.34 and there is no problem.
 
  mount -V for both machines gives 2-9g. I find it difficult to
  believe that slink would have version 2-9.g if version 6 is
  available. Am I misinterpreting the error message? Where
  do I get the latest version of mount? Will it create other problems?
 
  Thanks
 
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You have the new 2.x.x SAMBA installed, look for the new smbmount 
smbmount-2.2.x
The comandline has changed also try smbmount-2.2.x //yourmachine/yourmount -c 
'mount /winnt' -U username
This is not a documented as well as I would like. : 
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Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:50:55PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote:
 On 22 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 SNIP
  
  Of course, wmaker 0.60 is now available in .deb format, so perhaps it's
  easier to just download the .debs :-)
  
  --tim :-)
  
 SNIP
 
 and while we're on the subject of wmaker 0.60 debs...
 
 does anyone else using them have root menu weirdness like this:
 
 Debian
 Debian - Debian
   Apps
   ...(etc)...
   Workspace - Workspace
Appearance - Debian
  Appearance - Appearance
Background
...(etc)...
 
 That is, some of my menus (the Root menu for one) have only one choice
 on them, which leads to the other choices that used to be there.

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Yes I am having this problem also, it's damn annoying, but that's what I get 
for running potato.
If anyone knows the fix please post to the list.
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Re: Cron Job

1999-06-16 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:18:21AM -0700, ASHA TARACHANDANI wrote:
 Hi,
 Can you give me how to set up a cron job on Solaris 5.6. Or refer me to
 some site where this is explained.
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Um, this is a Debian-user group for Linux and Hurd, why ask here?

PS. man cron
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gtcd seems to of disappeared in potato

1999-06-16 Thread Lawrence Walton
The topic says it all.
The last round of gnome packages broke a bunch of stuff, and I can't seem to 
find
gtcd any more.
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Re: glx and potato and g200

1999-06-04 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 11:53:49AM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 09:07:45AM -0700, Lawrence Walton wrote:
  I have installed the glx-g200_0.0.19990602_i386.deb   
  libgl1_0.0.19990602_i386.deb
  libgl-dev_0.0.19990602_i386.deb debs and am not having any luck getting 
  them to work,
  the module and path is listed in the XF86Config, anyone have a idea why 
  glx.so is not
  loading?
  My Box is Potato-fied to the newest release, the debs came from 
  www.nonus.debian.org/~crow/ .
  Any hints would be appreciated.
 
 Do you have MesaGL 3.x installed? It's required for the GLX module...
 
 One thing to check, which happened to me, is that the install script modifies 
 the XF86Config to load the module, but the Start/End modules section was 
 commented out (the actual part for glx.so was not commented) and that was 
 causing X to not load the glx module.
 
 Try reading through the FAQ at 
 http://www.on.openprojects.net/glx/g200-faq.html if you haven't already.
 
 If you've tried this, post the output of the failing programs to the list and 
 we'll see what we can come up with.
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glx and potato and g200

1999-06-03 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have installed the glx-g200_0.0.19990602_i386.deb   
libgl1_0.0.19990602_i386.deb
libgl-dev_0.0.19990602_i386.deb debs and am not having any luck getting them to 
work,
the module and path is listed in the XF86Config, anyone have a idea why glx.so 
is not
loading?
My Box is Potato-fied to the newest release, the debs came from 
www.nonus.debian.org/~crow/ .
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su is broken on potato?

1999-06-02 Thread Lawrence Walton
I potato-fied (French fried) my system yesterday, and ity seems that su is 
broken.
I am not getting any error messages in /var/log/*, and it appears not to be 
Segfalting.
Hints would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:57:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
 I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past
 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape working fairly well, and only in the
 past few weeks gotten WordPerfect working fairly well, and etc. 
 
 One of the big things I've noticed coming from a Windows world is that the
 fonts tend to be UGLY and hard to read. This has been true on the 4 or 5
 different machines I've tried.
 
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I have about 125 postscript fonts and another 200 Truetype fonts installed,
Look at the freefont package as an example or make sure you have the other
font packeges installedi, or install xfsst and get some truetype fonts. 
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Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-25 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
 I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would 
 like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something 
 like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in 
 getting an address and starting diald if it didn't.
 
 Good luck,
 
 Justin Hagemeier wrote:
 
  I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would 
  like to use.
  1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv
  2. PPP daild
  3. None at all
  is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this 
  kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts 
  sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was 
  not it would start daild instead of DHCP.  I have no idea where to begin on 
  such a thing though.  Any thoughts?
  Thanks in advance,
  Justin
 
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Well I sort of do this allready I have a laptop that has the Potato distro on 
it, I use both ethernet and ppp,
I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no 
ethernet connection, then no IP is assigned
to the eth0 interface, essentially no route. I just use PPP normaly.
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Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-25 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Justin Hagemeier wrote:
  Well I sort of do this already I have a laptop that has the Potato distro 
  on it, I use both ethernet and ppp,
  I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no 
  ethernet connection, then no IP is assigned
  to the eth0 interface, essentially no route. I just use PPP normal.
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 How do you get over the problem with dhcp(potato) hanging when there is no 
 net connection?  
I don't it does not hang on my system, it does try to configure it's self, but 
does not hang.


dhcpcd just sits there if it cannot find one. (or at least I have never been 
patient enough to wait it out, I give it about 30 s and give up) just 
installing both would be great for now if that worked.

At least on my system it does work, kinda cludgy but it works. You can always 
take the card out.

 
 Although, I would like a scheme where it starts the right daemon because it 
 could potentially less time and memory than starting both.  Jens you are 
 right about error trapping kernel message would be brain dead.  However 
 ifconfig STDOUT does give you how many packets are received, if you sent 1 
 and did not receive any in reply the
 you have a smarter way of knowing whether or not you have a live line.  You 
 could use regex to parse that ifconfig STDOUT in the script.  I am reaching 
 here.:-)

I think, that the DHCP, should time out, after a arbitrary amount of 
configuration requests, like 100 or so. 
A more elegant solution must be out there; I know that 95/98/NT have this 
problem also, so it's not easy.
 
 What do you think?
 
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Re: counting traffic

1999-05-10 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:20:16PM -0700, Vaidas wrote:
Try mrtg. As an example www.debian.org/mrtg

 Hello!
 
 Does somebody know the simple way to count traffic bytes in/out debian
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Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?

1999-05-05 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
Try 'df -h'

 Hi,
 
 This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the 
 answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free disk 
 space, just type dir and the amount of free disk space is shown at the bottom 
 of the list. Now I have installed Debian on a 850 MB disk and I realy have no 
 idea of how much free disk space I have.
 
 What command do I need to use to find out how much free disk space I have 
 left?
 
 TIA,
 
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Re: ldap

1999-05-05 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
Not sure you can do that; Openldap uses a custom binary database, it uses the 
.ldif format to 
import data.

 
 When using ldapadd I want to know would it be eaiser to add all of my stuff 
 with
 MySQL and then have ldap read from that databse
 
 
 
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  On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
   Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious the
   machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse for
   that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by
   hand and I want to know what ourthe advantages of having a database for
   ldap well ion actual atabse then by entering or configuring the the ldap
   databse by hand
 
  LDAP is a database. What exactly do you mean by adding the entries by
  hand ?
 
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Re: ldap

1999-05-05 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:34:03AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
 Lawrence Walton wrote:
 
  On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
  Not sure you can do that; Openldap uses a custom binary database, it uses 
  the .ldif format to
  import data.
 
  
   When using ldapadd I want to know would it be eaiser to add all of my 
   stuff with
   MySQL and then have ldap read from that databse
  
  
  
   Ben Collins wrote:
  
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote:
 Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious 
 the
 machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse 
 for
 that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by
 hand and I want to know what ourthe advantages of having a database 
 for
 ldap well ion actual atabse then by entering or configuring the the 
 ldap
 databse by hand
   
LDAP is a database. What exactly do you mean by adding the entries by
hand ?
   
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 OK so open ldap inn itself is a databse then I presume

More and less yes, think of it being in it's most simple form, Yellow pages, in 
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Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?

1999-04-26 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 04:55:38PM +0200, Larry de Graaf wrote:
I am rather fond of the Symbios 875 they are cheap, they are fast, and the 
driver
is very stable.
I have heard great things about the newer versions of this card also, don't 
know how 
cheap those are though.


 I'm using a Buslogic BT-958 for more then a year now. I'm very happy with.
 At that time I choosed it instead of Adaptec because of a lot of problems
 people had with Adaptec cards. I don't say there are still problems with
 Adaptec but my next card will be Buslogic (Mylex).
 
 For the record: I don't own any shares of Mylex. Just a happy user.
 
 
 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:53:03 -0400 (EDT)
 From: David B.Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel.
  I want to upgrade my system to the following:
  
 12..18Gb HD
 DAT Tape Backup system 
 SCSI card for connecting both.
  
  Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported?
  Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian?
 
 Ries,
 
 Adaptec cards are everywhere, and are supported by everybody.  My
 problem with Adaptec cards is that they are very sensitive to
 cable troubles. I have replaced cables more times than I would
 like to admit. If you do use an Adaptec card, use the very best
 cables money can buy. 
 
 Or you can use Mylex (aka Bus Logic) cards which are reputed not
 to be so sensitive to cabling. Linux does support them. I think
 Windows 9x also supports them, but someone else will have to
 confirm that. 
 
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Re: How unstable is unstable?

1999-04-23 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 06:06:29PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have have been using Debian for a couple of months and I am happy with how
 it runs.
 
 As a new user I wonder about stable vs unstable. I often get in trouble 
 because
 I need to compile software that for instance depends on libc6 or a newer
 versions of GTK. The result is that I have been updating parts of my system to
 be able to run certain applications.
 
 So my question is: Does unstable mean
 you will have all kinds of crashes and unexpected behavior, or does it mean
 that some programs might have more bugs than running in the stable
 distribution?
 
 I mean, if unstable means it has as many bugs as Windows, the
 whole world could actually be tricked into using it ;) (see: MS Market
 policies). But I assume higher standards here, and wonder how unstable it
 actually would be on my box?
 
 I know stability is essentila to people using Linux as for instance web 
 servers,
 and that 92% uptime is MUCH worse than 98%. But for me, a normal business 
 user,
 the only thing that really conserns me is if running unstable means I often 
 will
 loose data or that I will have to go back to work like I did with Win 98: 20%
 of my work day dealing with rebooting.
 
 It is almost too easy to do: apt-get dist-upgrade. Should I? :)
 
 Advice would be greatly appreciated. 
 
 
 
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packages.
I have not filled out bug reports so I will not name names, except maybe Satan. 
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Re: Matrox G200 and X

1999-04-23 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:05:21AM -0400, Dpk wrote:
I have a faily vanilla slink box in front of me with a g200.
Performance seems pretty good, to get it to work I used a .deb from 
http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xserver-svga_3.3.3.1-0_i386.deb

 I have downloaded the latest SVGA driver from Xfree86 [1] for my new
 video card - a Matrox G200.  However, I am getting poor performance,
 like 320x200x256.  I have used both XF86Setup and xf86config without
 success.  I have had no problems with Diamond and Matrox cards in the
 past, but this is my first AGP... I don't believe that makes a
 difference though. (let me know otherwise!)
 
 I did notice my Video and Network cards share the same IRQ, 9... Would
 this affect it?  I have never been a PC hardware guru, but if this
 could be the problem, could someone give me a pointer, webpage, or
 HOWTO for resolving this?
 
 Thanks,
 Dennis
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 College of Engineering, MSU
 
 [1] 3.3.3.1, and I would have used the debian packages for 3.3.3 from
 ~vincent on master.debian.org, but I receive this error from apt-get:
   [snip]
   Fetched 1607kb in 8s (197kb/s)
   E: Size mismatch for package xlib6g
 
 
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Re: hard drive test

1999-04-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Pere Camps wrote:
Try Bonnie, and make the test-file size LARGE.

 Hi!
 
   I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of
 my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has
 happened.
 
   Does anyone know of any program that would do the job?
   
   TIA!
 
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Re: Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Brad wrote:
 On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bernard wrote:
 
  As far as I remember, version 0.70 (or so) is included in slink but does not
  support kernel 2.2. For kernel 2.2, you need version 1.3 (or so). This 
  version
  can be found somewhere on the net (maybe you need to run alien to a redhat
  package).
 
 You can get version 1.3 from potato. i haven't had any trouble with using
 it. The only problem could be if it's compiled for the new glibc
 version 2.1 and you still use the 2.0 from slink... i suppose the thing to
 do there would be to get the source and recompile it for yourself. There's
 a good readme in one of the pine packages on how to do so with the Debian
 diffs and dsc files.
 
 
 
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recompile, and add two functions other
then that, it was a no brainer. If the maintainer is listening; thank you.
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ftp.debian.org

1999-04-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
Is ftp.debian.org down? is there a mailing list for the ftp admins? I do a 
mirror of slink and potato i386.
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A CVS like server

1999-03-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
Is there a CVS like server for only binary files? It could be much simpler all 
I realy need is a secure way of checking in and out binary documents over the 
net, and version control. :
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Is ftp.debian.org down?

1999-03-09 Thread Lawrence Walton
Yes I know that slink was released but

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do I need to tell any one....

1999-03-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
Do I need to tell anyone that I am going to mirror
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian? this is not a high bandwith link mostly for
private use. Can someone do a df -h on ftp.debian.org? I am guessing
3 or four gigs of stuff in /debian/ am I off?

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Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
Try ircII with a script. Or even better irc-EPIC.

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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Sorry about that (), but even if the program itself is damn good, the docs
 and /help really suck... further more, #bitchx SUCKS.
 
 I've been desperately trying to get help around, and even went to #bitchx at
 irc.chat.org, just to be kicked out every time I try to join it, the reason
 being spammers, flooders, and cloners, oh my!.
 
 It's fair if you are said to RTFM when there's one FM to be read, but bitchx
 docs are, to say the least, the most helpless docs I've seen around.  Then,
 /help gives you help on some fancy stupid commands, but for most commands
 you just get no help available.
 
 Oh well, since they seem not to like most ppl using that program, fair
 enough, could you suggest any good irc client in Debian, please?
 
 TIA,
 
 Horacio
 
 
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Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
Well I have to say that setting up ppp in debian was the easyist, of all
the Linux distros and any other OS I have installed.

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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:

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  I think these criticisms are overstated in many cases.  Ever try to get
  ppp running on Solaris? I have installed many distributions. The initial
  install is only a portion of the problem. The rest comes in getting the
  system configured the way that you need it.  That is where Debian excels.
 
 Yes, I have gotten Solaris's PPP configured and, yes it did suck
 royally. But that's not the point, Debian does have short comings, and
 poeple are aware of them. No matter how much they overstated it, we
 need to address these issues.
 
 I personally don't think that the PPP setup needs work.  I found it
 quite simple.  So simple that the first time I set up Debian I missed it and
 feel like a complete putz.
 
 Windows PPP setup is harder because it is in several different and
 non-obvious places.  Sure, Debian may have problems, but this isn't one of
 them.
 
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slink iso images

1999-02-26 Thread Lawrence Walton
Are there any out there?

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I think this is a atempted hack...

1999-02-24 Thread Lawrence Walton
Some one tried to hack couple of my systems I think, but there is no
buffer-over-flow in telnet is there?

daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:53:24 ns in.telnetd[22276]: connect from
usrtc1-61.midtown.net
daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:53:29 ns telnetd[22276]: ttloop:  peer died:
Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character 
daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:54:20 ns in.telnetd[22277]: connect from
usrtc1-61.midtown.net
daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:54:25 ns telnetd[22277]: ttloop:  peer died:
Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

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Re: HP Web Jetadmin

1999-02-23 Thread Lawrence Walton
I tried; I got it to run to a degree but the services/rc was more than a
small pain to fix. I gave up.

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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bruce Jackson wrote:

 Has anyone managed to get the HP Web Jetadmin for Redhat to work under
 Debian?  I would appreciate any help you can give.
 
 
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Re: Setting up FTP

1999-02-19 Thread Lawrence Walton
I rather like proftpd; be sure to get the newist off of ftp.debian.org
though.

fairly easy to configure,and  security (cough cough... now.) is good.


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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:

 I'd like to setup my slink box as an FTP server.  What do I need to know to
 get this started?  I've never set up an ftp services before, just http.
 
 Which package(s) do I need?
 Is it fairly easy to setup user restrictions for anonymous and regular user
 logins?
 
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RE: Setting up FTP

1999-02-19 Thread Lawrence Walton
There is a file to edit /etc/proftpd.conf.

There are many many options take, a look at www.proftp.org for the docs.

My main issue was chroot (Not letting real users get above a specific
directory.)

I created a specifc group for these users, and specifed then in the .conf
.

The only odd hiccup was that by default Debians .conf did not allow
overwriting of files.

The install if I remember did create a /home/ftp dir.

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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:

 I've got the latest proftpd now.  I looked at the manpages and the --help,
 but am still unsure what I need to do next.  Is there a file I need to edit
 to set default ftp directory or anything like that?  Can I just start
 posting to a specific directory?
 
 What else do I need to do?  I'm still fairly new at Linux and haven't
 touched my box in about a month.
 
 Brian Morgan
 
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  To: Brian Morgan
  Cc: Debian User Group
  Subject: Re: Setting up FTP
 
 
  I rather like proftpd; be sure to get the newist off of ftp.debian.org
  though.
 
  fairly easy to configure,and  security (cough cough... now.) is good.
 
 
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  On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:
 
   I'd like to setup my slink box as an FTP server.  What do I
  need to know to
   get this started?  I've never set up an ftp services before, just http.
  
   Which package(s) do I need?
   Is it fairly easy to setup user restrictions for anonymous and
  regular user
   logins?
  
   Thanks for any help you can give.
  
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Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Lawrence Walton
I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and
addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement.
Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping.

/Blatant Debian plug/
Also I almost alway agree with Debian's file placement.

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On 15 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:

 Dan Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 |  Just how closely does Linux match with Unix?  If I know Linux and sitdown
 | in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie
 | file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost?  I think
 | I already know the answer but would like confirmation. Thanks.
 
 Almost without exception Unix is Unix at the user level, especially
 basic commands and tools, e.g., ls, df, du, awk, grep, etc. Things can
 vary more at sys admin level though. For example, even among Linux
 distributions there's the variation in init, with some distros using
 SYSV and others using BSD style init schemes. Even at this level
 though there's usually a root commonality. For example I don't think
 I've ever run across a Unix system that didn't use /etc/passwd.
 
 Even with this variation at the sys admin level, once you've learned
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Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

1999-02-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
HAMM install disks should see it right off the bat.

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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

 Hi!
 
 How can I install Debian on a system with Symbios 53c875 SCSI?
 
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Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

1999-02-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
hmm not off the top of my head, the driver when it loads should give a
driver version (I don't use .34 anymore but I did) ; ie 

Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11, 
function 0 
Feb  4 08:37Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 
11, function 0 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c8xx: 53c875J detected with Symbios 
NVRAM 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: rev=0x04, base=0xe500, 
io_port=0xd000, irq=10 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, 
Fast-20, Parity Checking 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: initial 
SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex) 05/46/80/00/00/24 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: final   
SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex) 05/46/a0/00/08/24 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: on-chip RAM at 0xe480 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: requesting shared irq 10 
(dev_id=0xc03b8080) 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: resetting, command processing 
suspended for 2 seconds 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: restart (scsi reset). 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: enabling clock multiplier 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c875J-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS. 
Feb  4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f 
^
  
Could it be a termination or hardware interupt problem? I have 6 of these
cards in various Linux servers, and have never had a problem with hamm.


Another question I have to the greater Debian community is what version of
the kernel is in slink? I am not suggesting slink to install just to
trouble shoot.  

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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

 Hi!
 
 Well, here is my screen's snapshot:
 
 
 
 
 This disk uses Linux 2.0.34 (from kernel-image-2.0.34_2.0.34-4)
 
 Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot!
 boot:
 Loading root.bin.
 Loading linux..
 
 [...]
 
 ncr53c875-1: restart (scsi reset).
 ncr53c875-1: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ...
 SCSI host 1 abort (pid 22) timed out - resetting
 SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0.
 ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=22 reset_flags=2 serial_number=59 
 serial_number_at_timeout=59
 ncr53c875-1: restart (scsi reset).
 ncr53c875-1: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ...
 SCSI host 1 abort (pid 22) timed out - resetting
 SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0.
 ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=22 reset_flags=2 serial_number=60 
 serial_number_at_timeout=60
 ncr53c875-1: restart (scsi reset).
 ncr53c875-1: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ...
 SCSI host 1 abort (pid 22) timed out - resetting
 SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0.
 ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=22 reset_flags=2 serial_number=61 
 serial_number_at_timeout=61
 
 [...]
 
 ncr53c875-1: restart (scsi reset).
 ncr53c875-1: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ...
 SCSI host 1 abort (pid 22) timed out - resetting
 SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0.
 ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=22 reset_flags=2 serial_number=130 
 serial_number_at_timeout=130
 
 
 and so on...
 
 
 Any clue?
 
 
 
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  HAMM install disks should see it right off the bat.
  
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   How can I install Debian on a system with Symbios 53c875 SCSI?
   
 
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RE: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
please look at this page for driver info.

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html


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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:

 
 On 15-Feb-99 David Webster wrote:
  Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not
  directly supported?
  
 
 When I am unsure I compile all the ethernet drivers in and see if any 
 succeed. 
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Re: Find

1999-02-10 Thread Lawrence Walton
I rather like rgrep

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:

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 Does anyone know if there's a program like the find program in
 windows?  It  allows you to search for a key word in most windows you
 have open, it finds the word, takes you to the word and highlights it.
 
 Do you mean in text files?  grep
   
 
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Is somthing up with ftp.debian.org?

1999-02-09 Thread Lawrence Walton

can't seem to be able to find /debian

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Re: FTP security question

1999-02-04 Thread Lawrence Walton
I used proftp with some configuration; mostly creating a seprate ftp
group, and editing the proftpd.conf.

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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Peter Iannarelli wrote:

 Hello all:
 
 Does anyone know how to prevent one from 
 CDing out of there home directory from within FTP.
 Or can someone tell me where I can read up 
 about this.
 
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Re: gnome

1999-02-02 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have some of the gnome stuff running.
gnome-session works sort of.
Gnome Control Center works.
gcolorsel works.
gfontsel works.
gsearchtool works.
gshutdown works sort of.
guname works.
gw works.
gsearchtool works.
gtkfind works.
gstripchart works.

balsa is broken.
gtt is broken.
gnomecard is broken.
gnomecal is broken.
gmc is broken.
wmakerconf is broken.

Some of the packages installed are;

 Req base libncurses4  4.2-3   none   
   
  *** Req base libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-1   none  

- Obsolete/local Optional packages -
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section admin ---   
   
 *** Opt admingnome-admin  0.30-4  none   
   
 *** Opt admingnome-gxsnmp 0.30-4  none   
   
 *** Opt admingtop 0.28.1-5none   
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section devel ---   
   
 *** Opt develgnome-hello  0.30.1-5none   
   
 *** Opt devellibglib1.1.1 1.1.13-1none   
   
 *** Opt devellibglib1.1.1 1.1.13-1none   
   
 *** Opt devellibgtk1.1.13 1.1.13-1none   
   
 *** Opt devellibgtop1 0.26.2-4none   
   
 *** Opt develliborbit00.3.91-2none   
   
 *** Opt devellibwings-dev 0.20.3-1none   
   
 *** Opt devellibwraster1- 0.50.2-0.0. none   
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section doc --- 
   
 *** Opt doc  gimp-manual  1.0.0-1 none   
   
 *** Opt doc  gnome-dev-do 0.99.4-2none   
   
 *** Opt doc  libgtk1.1.13 1.1.13-1none   
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section games ---   
   
 *** Opt gamesgnome-games  0.30-5  none
 *** Opt gamesgnome-games  0.30-5  none   
   
 *** Opt gamesgnome-gnomin 0.30-5  none   
   
 *** Opt gamesgnome-gyahtz 0.30-5  none   
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section graphics ---
   
 *** Opt graphics eeyes0.3-3   none   
   
 *** Opt graphics imlib-progs  1.9.2-1 none   
   
 *** Opt graphics libjpeg626b-1.1  none   
   
 *** Opt graphics mesag3   3.0-1   none   
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs ---
   
 *** Opt libs libart2  0.99.4-2none   
   
 *** Opt libs libesd0  0.2.6-4 none   
   
 *** Opt libs libglib1.1   1.1.3-2 none   
   
 *** Opt libs libglib1.1.1 1.1.12-1none   
   
 *** Opt libs libglib1.1.1 1.1.13-1none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgnome00.30.1-5none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgnome31   0.99.4-2none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgnorba27  0.99.4-2none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgtk1.11.1.2-2 none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgtk1.1.12 1.1.12-1none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgtk1.1.13 1.1.13-1none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgtkxmhtml 0.30.1-5none   
   
 *** Opt libs libgtkxmhtml 0.99.4-2none
*** Opt libs libgtop0 0.99.2-0.2  none
  
 *** Opt libs libwraster1  0.50.2-0.0. none   
   
 *** Opt libs libzvt0  0.30.1-5none   
   
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section net --- 
   
 *** Opt net  balsa0.4.6.2-1   none   
   
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Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have found almost miraculous performance gains.

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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 |2.2.0 will be available in deb packages, Real Soon Now (tm),
 | I'm sure.  Since slink is now in 'frozen' status, the kernel will
 | show up in potato, not slink, I think.
 
 Thanks to the many people who responded to my earlier question about
 things to watch for in compiling and installing 2.2.0.
 
 Those of you who have moved to 2.2.0---have you noticed serious
 improvements in performance over the 2.0.xx kernels?
 
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RE: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Lawrence Walton
That is the libc6 version, it is sometimes called glib (GNU_lib).

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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:

 The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2
 version under:
 ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/
 I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site.  Am I looking in the
 wrong place?
 
 Brian
 
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  To: Debian-Users
  Subject: Re: netscape
 
 
  Brian Morgan wrote:
  
   I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it.
   When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site -
  v4.5), I get
   the following error:
   can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
   How can I fix this?
   I'm running slink, icewm, gnome.  Tried finding libXpm.so.4
  using dselect in
   the frozen dist.  No luck.
  
   Thanks,
  
   Brian Morgan
  
 
 
  What you've downloaded is the libc5 version of Netscape, but
  you're system is using libc6.  Netscape requires some of the X
  libs to, themselves, be compiled under libc5 for NS to work.  So,
  there are libc5-built libs in the oldlibs section in dselect.
  Specifically:  libc5, xlib6 and Xpm.
  A better solution is to get the libc6 version of NS from
  ftp.netscape.com.  This won't require any older libs to be
  installed.  On ftp.netscape.com, look for the 'development' tree
  (instead of 'shipping') for the libc6 versions.
 
 
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apache-common 1.3.4

1999-01-29 Thread Lawrence Walton
Anyone know where the package for apache-common 1.3.4 is?

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Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
I hate to disagree but... the symbios cards are great and they are
generaly cheaper, faster and less trouble.

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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote:

  On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Odin wrote:
 
 snipped for obfuscation
 
  Can you recommend an inexpensive PCI SCSI card to go with a Yamaha? Right
  now, I have two ATAPI hard drives and an ATAPI DVD drive connected to a
  motherboard IDE controller. I was planning on purchasing a HP ATAPI
  drive, but after hearing about several bad experiences with ATAPI
  drives, I'm interested in a SCSI-based external one. 
 
 Well, I can't in good conscience reccommend anything but an adaptec.  I've
 heard (but not experienced) that a zip-plus will erase data on a scsi hdd
 when not connected to an adaptec.  There are other reasons, though, like
 support, speed, _very_ nice bios, etc.  You'll pay for the niceness, but
 in my opinion, well worth it.  If you're planning on just using your CD-R
 on your SCSI chain, then you don't need Ultra Wide or even SCSI-3, just
 get yourself a good SCSI-2 (you don't even need that, but room to expand
 is good, and good luck finding a Narrow SCSI-1 anymore.)  If you're not
 buying for a corporation, my suggestion would be to watch the online
 auctions, sometimes they have adaptec cards.
 
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gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have been meaning to ask this for a while; I have installed what I
believe are all the most recent gnome libs and apps from potato.

The apps that I would like to use the most are gnomecard and balsa
both range from moderately broken to just broken. I got the cvs versions
of both and tried to compile them, they both stop when they look for
gnome.h what package has it?

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Re: root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread Lawrence Walton
Agreed most people login as a normal user and then SU.

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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:

 - How to make telnetd accept root login ?
 
 are you nuts ?
 use ssh at least...
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Re: day planner/scheduler program

1999-01-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
I used to use Ical it worked... now that I have a Netscape Calendar
server in office (NT bleh) I use Netscape Calendar for Linux.

I like the look of gnomecal but I have not realy given it a full work
out yet.

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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm looking for a simple program (like plan) that would send me reminders 
 about meetings and things like that (paying apartment rent in time turns out 
 to be quite challenging for me).  I was using plan, but it's daemon can 
 spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason.  So I'm about to give 
 up on it.
 
 Another nice feature would be ability to handle computer shutdowns, so that 
 program figures some message was not send because of the shutdown and sends 
 it 
 later once rebooted.
 
 Any recommendations?
 
 Thanks,
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Re: day planner/scheduler program

1999-01-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
Supposedly there is a calendar server for Linux in beta; wish I had it.

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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote:

 At 01:22 PM 1/13/1999 -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote:
 I used to use Ical it worked... now that I have a Netscape Calendar
 server in office (NT bleh) I use Netscape Calendar for Linux.
 
 I also use Netscape Calendar. Kindda klunky in some ways, but functional.
 Again, it's running on an NT Server, simply because we haven't found a
 Linux version of the Calendar Server (although it's available for some
 other *NIXes).
 


Re: card selection in X for HP Kayak XC

1998-12-17 Thread Lawrence Walton
cat /proc/pci is your friend

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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:

 
 I installed debian on a professor's  machine yesterday, but have hit a 
 barrier:  we don't know what the video card that it uses is.  Unix/
 linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he 
 asked me for help).  It can't even tell us what card type to use in 
 configuration.  The best he could come up with is that matrox usually 
 works.  However, we've hung the machine (not just X) three times this 
 way.
 
 Does anyone know what setting to use?
 
 rick
 
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snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg

1998-11-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
The combo of snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg, is causing a small problem, snmpd
is not reporting outgoing information on my servers just incoming. Does
anyone have ideas to why? /proc/net/smnp is giberish to me.


Re: ftp daemon

1998-11-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
Oh? I am running two FTP servers with the 2.1.12* kernels... what is the
security feature?

Linux version 2.1.127 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Thu Nov 
12 06:41:24 PST 1998

and

Linux version 2.1.126 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #8 SMP Mon Oct 
26 
17:46:37 PST 1998

And am getting this message:

auth.log:Nov 16 12:53:28 ns proftpd[29299]: module linuxprivs: capabilities '= 
cap_net_bind_service+ep'

On 21 Nov 1998, Carey Evans wrote:

 Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I upgraded the proftp package, and now when I boot, I get this error
  messaage:
  
  module: linuxprivs: kernel does not support capabilities, disabling.
  
  What capability is it talking about and when do I need to inlcude in the
  kernel?  Tia.
 
 capabilities is a new security feature in the development (2.1.x)
 Linux kernels.
 
 proftpd is probably trying to use these for extra security, but will
 be the same as before if you're running 2.0.35.
 
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Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Lawrence Walton
We have it installed, and working; the only caveat was starting it in the
init.

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:

 When Sergey V Kovalyov wrote, I replied:
  
  Hi,
  I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to
  install it once, but the package seemd to be broken.
 
 I, too, tried to install it and found that it wouldn't simply install.
 Since I just wanted to look at the documentation to see whether I was
 useful for me, I simply removed it and plan to wait for a later release.
 I recall an E: something_or_other error.  This is just an FYI.
 
  Installation script
  complained about absence of /etc/dhcp directory but refused to create one,
  so I had to do it by hand and reinstall. Then the daemon itself could not
  create a socked - it requested type 17, which even did not have a name and
  hence the kernel tried to load non-existing module, something like
  net-11 Finally, I gave up.
  
  So I wonder - did I miss something, or it is indeed broken?
 
 My guess is broken since I have a bare Hamm system and couldn't install
 either.
  
  Thanks,
Sergey.
  
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Re: WMaker

1998-09-21 Thread Lawrence Walton
Make sure that the package 'menu' is installed, it should fix your
problem.

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Cristov Russell wrote:

 Hi all.
 
 I think I've almost got my hamm installation finalized but I've run into a
 few small problems.  This one involves wmaker.  When I click on a blank part
 of the screen I get a very short menu with 3 items.  When I installed bo and
 used wmaker I had a much fuller list that gave me games, window mangers,
 graphics, etc.  Is there a simply way to have wmaker create these lists.  I
 didn't have to do anything at all with bo?
 
 TIA
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Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
You might take a look at this before saying that. 

http://www.xfree86.org/sponsors.html

Lawrence Walton
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote:

 ATI does NOT support Linux or Xfree in ANY way.  All users should
 boycott them in general.  Besides, the cards are CHEAP not inexpensive. 
 There is a difference.  Spend the 20 extra bucks for a Matrox.  Or
 someone else's card.  The ATi all-in-one wonder card can not be used in
 Linux because they refuse to release any specs.  That is from Alan Cox,
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Re: URGENT: support for Symbios Logic (SCSI) ?

1998-07-06 Thread Lawrence Walton
Symbios AKA NCR is supported in the newer kernels, the 875's are great.

Lawrence Walton
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Network Manager
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:

 
 Hi,
 
 I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make. 
 The PC will be running Debian (ofcourse :-).  I got a quote
 from a company for a PC featuring an Intel Nightlight motherboard
 with
 
Symbios Logic 53C875JBE  UW SCSI controller onboard
 
 I couldn't find any Symbios SCSI board in the Hardware-Compatibility-list.
 Does anybody have any experience with this chipset.  Will it work?
 Where can I find drivers?
 
 Nico
 
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Re: ASUS SC875 and debian 1.3.1 install problems

1998-07-02 Thread Lawrence Walton
This might be a kernel thing; last time I installed Debian on a box with
the 875 I had to compile a kernel with newer drivers, grab the Debian-
HOWTO install for instructions, and compile a newer kernel for this box,
and go for it.
The 875 is a great card. Bonnie ( a benchmark program ) has given me some
of my best test scores with the 875 and U/W HD... over 16 megs a second on
one. 

Lawrence Walton
Otak
Network Manager
425.739.4247

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Lee W. Glenn wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I'm a newbie to linux, or trying to be since I have not been able to
 install it on my system.  I have the install/bootable CD but since my drive
 is SCSI it will not boot.  So I rawrite2'ed a rescue floppy to install
 from.  It detects the sc875 SCSI controler as an NCR875, which I believe is
 correct for the controler chip.  Then leaves the following 2 messages and
 hangs:
 
 SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
 ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi bus reset)
 
 Any ideas on a work around?  I downloaded the Caldera minimal install and
 it installs fine and detects the SCSI controller correctly and I can access
 the CD fine.  I have the full version of debian on CD and would like to use
 debian.  I'm a newbie at Linux so talk in small words please.
 
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