xntp3 replacement on Potato

1999-08-26 Thread Alec Smith
On Debian 2.1 systems I always used xntp3 to sync my system clocks. I've noticed Potato doesn't have a .deb for xntp3, and when I tried manually compiling from the sources used to build the 2.1 debs, I got an error I'm assuming is glibc2.1-change related. I've also tried ntpdate from the 2.2

Re: [SQL] a newbie's question on language syntax

1999-08-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jack Lee wrote: commands. The database I was working on is named mysql, but the prompt of the interactive mode is also called mysql: Be sure not to name your own databases mysql. That database is used by mysql to store its permissions information and things.

Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-26 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:42:57 +0800, Hans van den Boogert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I find that the hard drive is constantly accessed and reset. I mean that it seems the disk is being accessed for a second, then goes back to inactivity with an almost crackling noise. This most likely is the

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to

Re: xntp3 replacement on Potato

1999-08-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:31:08PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: On Debian 2.1 systems I always used xntp3 to sync my system clocks. I've noticed Potato doesn't have a .deb for xntp3, and when I tried manually compiling from the sources used to build the 2.1 debs, I got an error I'm assuming is

Re: xntp3 replacement on Potato

1999-08-26 Thread Ashley Clark
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Alec Smith wrote: On Debian 2.1 systems I always used xntp3 to sync my system clocks. I've noticed Potato doesn't have a .deb for xntp3, and when I tried manually compiling from the sources used to build the 2.1 debs, I got an error I'm assuming is glibc2.1-change related.

RE: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-26 Thread Bradley Bell
No, you don't need the installer. That's why we have debs... tdyc has everything you need, so just be patient, and I'm sure it'll be back up soon. -Brad On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now. When I did an apt-get update with that added, it

Re: Gdm is evil!

1999-08-26 Thread Bradley Bell
Yes, gdm is evil :) It is not finished software, don't let the 1.0 version number fool you. My advice is not to use it. period. The next release (gdm2 I think) should be much better. -Brad On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Haggerty wrote: I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting

Re: xntp3 replacement on Potato

1999-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:31:08PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: On Debian 2.1 systems I always used xntp3 to sync my system clocks. I've noticed Potato doesn't have a .deb for xntp3, and when I tried manually The package has been renamed to ntp. compiling from the sources used to build the 2.1

Dialin question

1999-08-26 Thread Douglas Eck
I'm currently using wvdial and like it. Now I only have one phone line with call forwarding and want to do the following with demand dialing (note, I know roughly about all of the packages required... I'd just like to get thoughts from anyone who has done anything this silly already ...) On

Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

1999-08-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, 26 Aug, 1999 à 11:49:05AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Recenltly, I repartitioned my harddisk. What I did is to delete the swap parttion(/dev/hda2), created a 2gig linux partition(/dev/hda2), then created a swap partition(/dev/hda3). [...] Anyway I did a

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It would have

compiling potato packages on slink (Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?)

1999-08-26 Thread navindra
. . . why? What's the purpose of making everything on machines running stable un-upgradable until some obscure Perl bug is worked out? I just don't follow. Which reminds me, building source packages is really not as easy as one would hope it to be. I had to go through some contortions to

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Pearson wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:34:34PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then,

wget unexpected EOF

1999-08-26 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am using SLINK and wget to retrieve netscape-4.6 standalone during the night. It takes 2 nights, and so I have to terminate wget at the end of the first night (14.4k modem). But when I tried to tar xvzf the archive, I got something like that after about 1 or 2 screens of stuff uncompressed:

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and unreproducibly, using version 4.5)

Re: how to create a dummy /dev/dsp

1999-08-26 Thread Daniel Payno
El Thu, 26 Aug 1999, dijo Stefan Langerman acerca de how to create a dummy /dev/dsp: I have slink installed on an old Pentium 75 box, WITHOUT a sound card. When I installed the system, it apparently didn't create a /dev/dsp. How do I create one that doesn't do anything? There's a script called

Fetchmail Errors in Potato

1999-08-26 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I was wondering if anyone has received errors when receiving mail through fetchmail (both version 4.6.4-1.1 and 5.0.5-1). When I upgraded to potato a couple days ago I having been getting the following error message from the fetchmail log: fetchmail: Starting

Help with compiling

1999-08-26 Thread Dan Smith
I have downloaded and installed g++ and binutils and all the packages they depend on. How do I compile and link a C++ program? e.g. what is the proper syntax of the c++ and ld commands? Please send answers to me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as I am not subscribed to the list. Thank you.

SNMP

1999-08-26 Thread Ken Long
Hello! I have a question about the snmp package in potato I just ran some package upgrades today and some of the packages that got updated were the snmp packages. (now at 3.6.2-8) I see that they now also mention something about being UCD. Well, my question is this...after upgrading the

Re: mounting problems

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 04:43:31PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Hi all, Been recompiling my 2.2.10 kernel to be able to use hp 8100+ CDRW. I think I got it all right but some strange things did happen. I can't mount my ordinary cd anymore! mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on

Re: Libraries

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:21:35AM -0300, Guilherme Balena Versiani wrote: Hello, I want to know how to make the name_pic.a format libraries found in Debian distribution. I want to create reduced shared libraries with these ones to make a small filesystem image for a boot/root disk.

Netscape Feedback

1999-08-26 Thread Ryan Chouinard
Hey, Well, I got quite a bit of feedback on Netscape, and I have to agree that it, like any other applications, has it's bugs. However, Netscape Communications is a commercial company, and as such they are usually expected to produce higher quality products. I can see that with Linux this is

PPP speeds; nice-ness

1999-08-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Whenever apt-get is scarfing files by ftp, it seems to take much of the bandwidth of my 33.6 modem. Fetchmail is often running very slowly, while apt may run at 2K or even 3K, according to it's own reports. This prompts me to ask, is there a concept of niceness for TCP/IP connections? How

Re: SNMP

1999-08-26 Thread David Engel
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 04:42:33PM -0400, Ken Long wrote: I just ran some package upgrades today and some of the packages that got updated were the snmp packages. (now at 3.6.2-8) I see that they now also mention something about being UCD. The new SNMP packages are built using the UCD SNMP

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

1999-08-26 Thread shaul
I am new to this stuff but it seems to me that somehow I have to tell pppd that it has to use my Ethernet card and not a serial device. That is, I need the pppd output to go into my Ethernet network (which is only composed from my machine and the router), and not to a modem or other low speed

Tightening security

1999-08-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I got a question about security. I'm currently running libc2.0.7u, with 2.2.11 kernel, and apache. To protect from possible attacks I minimized the number of ports open and put up a portsentry. However, when I nmap myself, I see a port 6000 listening for connections. I believe that is X.

Re: considerations for kernal upgrade

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 03:12:52PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i am running debian ver 1.2 which uses libc5. I need to upgrade to libc6 in order to install the latest smail package so that i can control relay spamming. Would i need to install a more recent version of debian so

make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I actually managed to successfully build 2.2.11 with make-kpkg on the first try. Hours later, the .12 patch came out, and I applied it in / usr/src/linux, and tried again. But it bombs with: if test -f debian/official -a -f debian/README.Debian ; then \ install -p-o root -g

Re: postgres

1999-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:55:14AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hallo all, I've just installed the postgres stuff ok, but I thought I'd check out a thought before I upset something. I understand that user 'postgres' is the dba for postgres. It is user postgres who adds and deletes

Re: PPP speeds; nice-ness

1999-08-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- If you were to run two simultaneous downloads of any significant size, you'd notice that over time they'd balance out and use up about the same bandwidth. You're seeing long fetchmail times because it has to open a connection to the mail server and negotiate

Re: Gdm is evil!

1999-08-26 Thread Chris Schleifer
Hi, Check /var/state/gdm/:0.log. If it says something like: AUDIT: Wed Aug 11 20:55:24 1999: 174 X: client 1 rejected from local host Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Then check bug #42636 : http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/42/42636.html

Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewa

1999-08-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
Is there something more I should have to use the potato apt with 2.1? I installed and configured apt as below. I can fetch via http proxy just fine. But immediately after fetching, apt (or dselect?) returns with /bin/sh: /bin/sh: cannot execute binary file and E: Write error - write (32 Broken

Re: SNMP

1999-08-26 Thread Ken Long
On 26-Aug-99 David Engel wrote: The new SNMP agent uses a different configuration file format from the old one. The default configuration only allows access to the MIB2 system group. You will need to edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf to allow greater access. Well, since reading your message, I've

Re: hardware...

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:43:18PM -0500, Don Custer wrote: To the good folks at Debian... I have two short questions which I hope can be answered with two short answers. I failed to find pertaining answers in the FAQs. 1. I am going to buy a new computer (to replace my 1991 dinosaur).

Help with apt

1999-08-26 Thread Ryan Chouinard
Hey It's me again, but this time with a question. Debian.org offers updates on software packages, but are there archives elsewhere with other packages? I hear people talk about using apt (Something I, regretably, have yet to play with) and using different sites and archives. I'd like to

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread John Carline
Ed Cogburn wrote: You know, I'm starting to think NS Communicator has some deep, evil magic embedded in it. Till now, I've only noticed one problem with NS, that being it would crash if I tried to use more than one browser window. This thread prompted me to check again, and

Re: mounting problems

1999-08-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Thu, 26 Aug, 1999 à 04:43:31PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Hi all, Been recompiling my 2.2.10 kernel to be able to use hp 8100+ CDRW. I think I got it all right but some strange things did happen. I can't mount my ordinary cd anymore! mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on

Re: SNMP

1999-08-26 Thread David Engel
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Ken Long wrote: Well, since reading your message, I've been trying.pretty unsuccessfully, however. I notice with the default configuration, I can't even connect from the localhost! I don't suppose there's a nice little HOWTO file somewhere, is

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