call for beta testing emu10k1 driver improvements

2023-03-04 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
moin, i did some hacking on the emu10k1 driver, and now need it tested on a variety of hardware. the cards still have a market value, so *someone* must be still using them, or at least have some in the basement ... the driver targets SoundBlaster Live! / 512PCI / Audigy and the E-MU

Re: KDM and ip aliasing

2001-09-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I tried setting DisplayManager.sourceAddress but this does not seem to change anything. which version of kde/kdm are you using? if it's = 2.2alpha2, the setting is in kdmrc, section [Xdmcp], key SourceAddress=true/false. otherwise i can only ask, if it works with plain xdm - if not, then i

Re: HOW to install StarOffice for mulituser

2000-09-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How do I install StarOffice 5.2 as mulituser from the download version. I know that the -net option for the setup program is the way to go if one has ha CD to install from. But this approach does not work with the so[...].bin file that I got from the StarOffice site. Can I somehow

Re: HOW to install StarOffice for mulituser

2000-09-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
When I execute the above command, I get the welcome and license screens and then a screen asking whether I want a Standard, user-definied or minimal install. That I understand is not the /net - install. i think, that this _is_ the right setup. i was a bit buffled by this, too, because it

Re: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?

2000-09-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Everyone says how easy it is to set up squid using YAST in SuSE Linux. Does anyone have any experience of setting up squid in Debian? Is it harder? iirc, it worked out of the box for me. possibly you have to adjust the acl. regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your

Re: udp or tcp?

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Sep 24 15:20:25 host kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 \ PROTO=17 10.209.80.109:68 255.255.255.255:67 \ L=576 S=0x00 I=9145 F=0x4000 T=32 (#11) proto=17 - look at /etc/protocols - yes, udp This seems to be a broadcast by the DHCP server of my cable provider, right? :68 -

Re: OT HTML tutorial?

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Can anyone recommend an HTML tutorial ? Thank for any thoughts on this ANY thoughts? so here we go ... http://www.teamone.de/selfhtml/ but it's in german ... :-)=) greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their

Re: Junkbuster not setting HTTP_REFERER environment variable

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How do I set up Junkbuster so that the HTTP_REFERER environment variable is set? in /etc/junkbuster/config: referer . good luck! -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can run to prove that it is working? cat /bin/bash /dev/audio :-)=) this sound really rocks! *lol* I seem to have four different possible sockets for the speakers. black, green, red, blue Any idea which of these is the one to use?

Re: Junkbuster not setting HTTP_REFERER environment variable

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
BTW, I am using JunkEx, your version of Junkbuster. cool - so somebody actually uses it :-)) What is the difference between this and the original version? it supports body filtering, i.e. cutting unwanted sections of text. so you may define some rules for the pages you often visit to make

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
cat /bin/bash /dev/audio :-)=) this sound really rocks! *lol* What does this sound like? similar to a modem ... I have no /dev/audio. What do I do? not good ... try /dev/dsp if you miss this one too, then something is wrong with your setup. then you should have a look at MAKEDEV.

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
However, the documentation does not give the default settings for I/O Base and IRQ. I think this is why the device is not configured. you say, it's an pci card. so it should be fully auto-detected. if it's not, then you probably use the wrong driver. sb16pci (aka sb128) needs the es1371

Re: xscreensaver password

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
This to me is not a good thing. What's the max length on a Unix password, 16? 128? 256? 8 unless you enable md5 passwords. don's ask me, what's the actual limit for md5, but theoretically there is none. regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!

Re: xscreensaver password

2000-09-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
8 unless you enable md5 passwords. don's ask me, what's the actual limit for md5, but theoretically there is none. Where would that be enabled? it's one of the first questions you must answer during the main potato installation. i have no idea, if i can be changed later without *big*

Re: install-mbr vs lilo

2000-09-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Note: Please let me know if this comes through as HTML (and accept my apologies) - I'm on a new email client that I'm unfamiliar with. no html detected :-) Can anyone explain to me the difference between install-mbr and lilo? the layout of a (pc) hard drive:

Re: Some questions

2000-09-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
What is the support status of slink (Debian 2.1)? debian-security-annouce (i think) says, that it is phasing out. due to user response they will partly support it till Oct 30 2000. Will packages for potato install on slink? Will they work on slink? sometimes ... the libs in slink are quite

Re: Allow port 113? / IRC question

2000-09-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Should I allow packets coming into my port 113? there was a big discussion about this about half a year ago. maybe you want to look at the archives. i reject these packets and it works. if some server denies you access because of this, you may run some fake ident server - i don't know, if

Re: Remove /lib/modules for old kernel?

2000-09-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
However, after updating I noticed that the /lib/modules/2.0.36/ hierarchy is still on my machine along with the new /lib/modules/2.2.17 hierarchy. Can I safely remove the old modules? unless you plan to run the old kernel - yes. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your

Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
netscape proxy settings to localhost, port 5865. Any site that i try to go to it just says that the remote site closed the connection. What have i done wrong? possibly your forward configuration is incorrect. this error indicates, that you can connect the proxy, but the proxy cannot connect

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file /var/state/apt/lists/lock W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files this is nothing you should really care about (it's only a warning, as far as i can see). the problem is inherent to the architecture of nfs. it can be

Re: I forgotten my root's password

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Is there a better solution? yes! :-)) at the lilo prompt type (hope, you did not protect lilo with the same password ;-)): linux init=/bin/sh (possibly also root=/dev/... AFTER init=) this will drop you in a password-free root shell. then run mount -n -o rw,remount / to make root writeable.

Re: I forgotten my root's password

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
mount -n -o rw,remount / Or simply do a linux 1 init=/bin/sh root=/dev/... mount rw No need to rerun the mount command. :-)) true! stupid me! :) but the remount ro is still necessary - except you like fscks ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!

Re: my puppy won't always go to sleep

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
#!/bin/sh [...] the spinup possibly comes from updating the access time of the just called apm command. so two suggestions: 1) use noatime in the mount options of / (or /usr - i don't know, where apm lives). however, this may be a bad idea. 2) remount all drives ro instead of doing the three

Re: Mozilla eats even more memory

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
surprised to see that with one browser window running, 5 (maybe 6, cant remember) mozilla processes were gulping up about 350MB!! do all the processes use exactly the same amount memory? if yes, then this are probably only threads, which have common memory. in this case it is wrong to sum up

Re: Mozilla eats even more memory

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
If they are threads then this would be a (serious?) bug in the graphical top-like tool I used. it's not a bug, it's a feature! ;-) under linux, threads are equivalent processes. the only difference between them and real processes is, that threads belonging to one program share their memory.

Re: Mozilla eats even more memory

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Right, so it's not a bug in my top-like program, just a bug in the kernel :-) some people really think this way. but linus insists on doing it his way - and he is right. :-) Mind you, if the memory space is always identical (surely position as well as size) then why is

Re: Mozilla eats even more memory

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Mind you, if the memory space is always identical (surely position as well as size) then why is it difficult to find shared threads? Very naïve of me I know, but surely you don't need to go too deep into the system to find the base address of a process. I'm not sure,

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I'd like to point out that (if the recipient is not a mailing list :) these messages are useful, they let you know your mail bounced and will not be read. This could be important information, under defferent circumstances... the point is, that it should be bounced to the mailing list, not

Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

2000-09-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried putting * * in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. -chris a single * _should_ work for both directions. to verify it, enable cookie warning in netscape and visit a page which will flood you with

Re: ripping audio CDs to soundcard

2000-09-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and cdda2wav. They both work, but they both spin the hard disk constantly when writing an audio file, even if the file isn't being written to the hard disk.

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
i said, they suck, not that they are bad. this means, that they are not that simple to use as diskedit for dos and lack the one or other interesting feature - at least the last time i looked out half a year ago. ;-) For one-use once, i'll put up with almost anything. I assumee I only

Re: can anyone explain why ??

2000-09-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
When I'm ripping a CD with cdparanoia my dialup ppp connection doesn't work. I don't seem to be able to transfer at all. The link stays up but no or very little data seems to be able to flow. But if I stop cdparanoia everthing is fine. This is on a debian woody system running

Re: can anyone explain why ??

2000-09-16 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 05:27:14PM +1100, Simeon Simes wrote: When I'm ripping a CD with cdparanoia my dialup ppp connection doesn't work. I don't seem to be able to transfer at all. The link stays up but no or very little data seems to be able to flow. But if I stop cdparanoia

Re: Port 118

2000-09-16 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
What's port 118 for? I can't find it in /etc/services though I have it in my logs as a denied (outgoing) packet (destination port is 118). nmap-services says sqlserv #SQL Services regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-16 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the middle? you mean even if it wasn't the START?, right? the answer is yes. just verified this. And now that I think of it, someone mentioned that

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On an unrelated note, I'm *fairly* new to Linux (or UNIX in general), only having been using it for about a year. In the DOS command-interpreter 4DOS, I could refer to parent directories as . and .. as is the norm in DOS and UNIX. But I could also type, say, cd , which would be

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
i know - i'm replying to my own post ... :) pedant unquoted lines are changed cd() { local p=$1 while :; do local np=${p//.../../..} test $p == $np break p=$np done builtin cd $p } /pedant greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature,

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
It was a brand new partition, and only two files should ever have been written there (tars of /home and /etc), so I presume that they were written continuously. probably ... Any suggestions on how to recover these? recover with dd. the better question is, how to find them. if you've

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I guess that's the big question: what *is* the tar magic that I'm according to /usr/share/misc/magic gnu tar archives contain the magic ustar. however, i found, that it's not at the beginning of the archive. the archive starts with the name of the first archived file/directory padded with a

Re: File format of audio CD's ? [Formerly Re: superformat?]

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How can I read the data from my favourite audio CD and send it to the soundcard? try cdda2wav or cdparanoia -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Become

Re: Last attempt, Debian 2.2 with X, on a UltraSPARC 5, with a Type 6 keyboard

2000-09-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I've heard on the grapevine, with very little detail, that there isn't a problem with Type 6 keyboards under Redhat, so what's the problem with Debian? 1) grab the keymap file from redhad (or maybe from woody?). or 2) make heavy use of xmodmap (see /etc/X11/Xmodmap) both should work ... hth

Re: DNS -- caching server inside firewall?

2000-09-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Dumb question dept.: Is there anything I have to restart on the OpenBSD box to update the resolver settings after editing /etc/resolv.conf? (i think, that ...) the resolver is part of the c library, so programs started after the change should already use the correct config. the network

Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem

2000-09-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Organization: Hewett Packard ^ you're really sure, that this is correct? ;-) not that i would care much ... in regard to your question: maybe adding the host to /etc/hosts would help - at least the server from the log does not exist in the world-accessible dns, what could

Re: missing fonts in X

2000-09-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
[please wrap lines at column 72 (or at least less than 80)] X refuses to load now, complaining that it cannot find it's default font, `fixed'. apt-get install xfonts-base regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
question 1: install a scsi-enabled kernel package. configure it add the new drives to /etc/fstab question 2: to get this working, you need a primary partition, where you can install lilo on. 1) boot linux from the floppy. 2) install lilo to your root partition (hda6 - this is a problem. it

Re: [OT] bash/awk question

2000-09-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I understand the correct way to do this is probably awk, or perl or sed or ... but i would use awk, too :-) but not sure how to make it work in this case. For example, I could put the code in a bash function, but then how do I access the function from inside the awk command? you could only

Re: Exim rewrite question

2000-09-12 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi there, inspired by the remote_smtp config at http://web.inter.nl.net/users/jws/mysystem.html i created a similar system: change the rewriting rule at the end of exim.conf to [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\

Re: eterm/mutt manual?

2000-09-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Anyhow, when I hit F1 in eterm, it brings up a menu block rather than the manual for mutt. Any way around this? look for bind anymod 0xffbe in /usr/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm/theme.cfg and comment it out. good luck! -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real

Re: vga-alike x11 font wanted

2000-09-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
so my question is: does anybody know a 8x16 font with iso8859-1 encoding and a vga-alike look? http://boogie.cs.unitn.it/dz/debian/packages/xvgafont_1.0_all.deb thx - this is what i've been looking for ... but this font does not have the line drawing characters needed for mc, etc... :-(

Re: muttzilla

2000-09-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I'm trying to get muttzilla to work with netscape. I'm running version 4.75, and slocate shows I have libc6 in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6, when I click on a mail-to url, nothing happens. Anyone have this working? I've checked, but there's no man page for muttzilla. ... but there is info

vga-alike x11 font wanted

2000-09-09 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi there, i found two fonts, which partly meet the criteria: * vga - this one looks good and has the right proportions, but has a wrong encoding (pc437) for a west-european xterm, so umlauts, etc. are messed up. * -etl-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1 - it has the right

Re:auto-login patch for xdm-Buggy and locked Linux

2000-06-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
So.it's a good thing I have experience on how to boot in runlevel 1 run fsck and keep track of all changes.:-) :) You can guess already that things didn't worked.Shortly ,after all the modifications done to kdm so you patched and compiled by hand, right? if so, how did you compile? using

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I agree, we could start xdm in rnlevel 3 and su someuser startx in runlevel 4. Great,I'll keep an eye and try it as soon as it's done.Thanks. why do you want to wait? ;-) i attached my auto-login script again. now it has the auto-relogin problem nicely solved. if the server crashes,

annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it seems not to be directly

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, i became interested in automatic login, too. Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they want an auto login? Whats wrong with using startx instead?! i've written a auto-loging script

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
There is something that I always asked myself about the differnet display managers. Why do they not handle the login window as an external application ? you can find something like that on freshmeat (XDM-External Greet), but the url is dead ... -( however, the external greeter concept of xdm

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I have this script as /etc/init.d/startmyx. It auto-logs me in on tty9, and xdm can still run on tty7. so you have this script and xdm running at the same time. this is not a problem, but i like having everything in one place. It could be modified to run xdm after startx finishes. you

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level. this is not hard to do. you can specify the config file to use with the -config switch. so you could specify a config file with auto-login options and alternatively a

Re: X HELP

2000-06-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
/etc/XF86Config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.kreaper /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config all wrong. on debian it is /etc/X11/XF86Config ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: shared interrupts

2000-06-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
The machine in question already has Windows98 and I noticed that it shares interrupts between various devices. Specifically the Ethernet card and the on-board sound system as well as at least one other pair. if your bios setup offers this option, then try to remap some of the irqs. moving

Re: Remote X app over openssh-1.2.3 problem

2000-06-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Using a compression level of 9. this _may_ be your problem. how long did you wait for something to show up? remember, that ssh is much slower than a non-encrypted connection, especially with high compression (at least, if you have a fast connection and relatively slow cpu-s; on a slow

Re: sendmail problem

2000-05-31 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
showed an error message: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(nielsen): cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied i have the impression, that your sendmail is not setuid root anymore. look, to whom it belongs and what are its permissions. possibly you should have a look at the suid.conf man page. -- Hi!

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-30 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
do I need to create /vmlinuz and link to the kernel image (ln -s 2.2.15-idepci /vmlinuz)? you may do this, but this is not the way it should be done. Really? It's the way kernel-package does it ... aifak, the kernel creates /boot/vmlinuz, not /vmlinuz. however ... who cares? -- Hi!

Re: Floppy

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Dear, Sir ... and madam. :) How are you do we really need smalltalk? ;-) any to floppy , I use (cp filename /dev/fd0).. after that , if I (umount ahh ... i have the impression, that you missed the idea of mouting ... use cp filename /floppy -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me

Re: Floppy

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
any to floppy , I use (cp filename /dev/fd0).. after that , if I (umount ahh ... i have the impression, that you missed the idea of mouting ... use cp filename /floppy btw: from the fact, that you are able to write to /dev/fd0 i conclude, that you are probably working as root ...

Re: Secure Shell Login

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
directory called .ssh in my home, it has permissions 711 700 should be enough, i think. (chmod 600 authorized_keys). But I dont know how to place the key in that file(authorize_keys). simply paste the contents of the public key file. it should be a single line, which is in the same format, as

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
do I need to create /vmlinuz and link to the kernel image (ln -s 2.2.15-idepci /vmlinuz)? you may do this, but this is not the way it should be done. you should reconfigure your /etc/lilo.conf (and run lilo afterwards). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Today I noticed the following: 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron zombie) Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume this applies to UNIX in general. zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof do not wait() for them, but exit()

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Today I noticed the following: 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron zombie) Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume this applies to UNIX in general. zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof do not wait() for them, but

Re: Changing my hard disk setup

2000-05-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Recently somebody suggested that it may be my setup that is causing the problems and that it is better to have the two hard disks on the same cable and the two CDROM's on the other. sound sensible. this was my first thought, too. :-) /etc/fstab is necessary for the system to shutdown

Re: external clock sync

2000-05-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How to sync. my hw. clock to an external source? I tried 'rdate -a time.kfki.hu' but this isn't set my clock. Runnig 'date' I got the same time as before using rdate. You need the timeserver daemon. Take a look at 'xntpd'. i think, that this is overkill - at least for a home system.

Re: Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse cursor in X freezes and won't move. When I stop GPM, mouse access is lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life. I've never before seen GPM cause the mouse to stop working in X... what could cause

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status deleted! can i rebuild it?

2000-05-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
- Is there any way to rebuild the 'status' file which contains = information about all packages installed? well ... you have a status-old and many more backups - if you did not delete them, too. otherwise you could use a trick somebody on the list mentioned a few weeks ago: nearly every

Re: Dial-up access

2000-05-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How do I give dial-up access to standard users accounts? add them to the dip group. ps: this question should be added to the list-faq. *gg* -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: Trying to figure out trigger for diald callouts

2000-05-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I do have wwwoffle running in autodial... well - this is probably your problem. the two triggers are a dns-query and a http-access. www-access needs both of them ... so probably you've got to check your wwwoffle config. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
(Maybe allowing someone to type in a date, if it is possible at all, is somehow insecure, but I am the only user at the console). try this in your ntpdate startup script: if ! ntpdate timehost(s); then while :; do read -p ntpdate failed. please enter date by hand: date date -s

Re: POP3 server problem

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
As an aside is there anyway in Linux of finding what files are in use or locked by a process? As I mentioned nothing shows up regarding this file in the process table. lsof or fuser looking in /proc helps also (for the hard-liners) *g* -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your

Re: HELP

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I have just installed debian on my i386, with 'older' bios. I have a 170 meg hd. I am up to making the boot hd/floppy. It will not do either of these. On the hd, it brings up a message about a small 5-10mg boot sector. And on the floppy it gives a message about, make sure the disk

Re: Howto find out why a connection is opened....

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
look at the system logs. *possibly* you could set up verbose ipchains rules, to see, which service is tried to be accessed. but i have no idea, how dial on demand works, so this idea may be useless. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the

Re: PPP problem

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I have two Debian. One is Slink second is Potato. Between them is leased cuper line and two modems set-up for leased line. Wehen I start pppd (noauth persist) ppp0 starts. I have ip number, connection seems to be ok but it does not ping. On that Slink I have oter connection set-up the

Re: global undefines in kernel modules 2.2.15

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I downloaded the src for 2.2.15. Ran make menuconfig, dep, bzImage, modules, modules_install. The installed modules have undefined symbols for __global_cli, __global_save_flags, and __global_restore_flags. All of these symbols are defined in arch/i386/kernel/irq.c. Anyone else seen this?

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
If I want to edit my kernel what command do I use. I tried make menuconfig but that doesnt work. Any help would be great... Im using slink could you say _precisely_ what you have done (commands, output)? the normal procedure to configure and compile a kernel is: - download the kernel source -

Re: Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Is it any method that I can check whether the user is a local user try man utmp. for scripts: the output of who has a non-empty last field, if the user is non-local. however, this may vary from configuration to configuration. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature,

Re: 3C905 with AsusTek K7V

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
[...] i don't know, what the problem is, but possibly it can be fixed by using the 3com drivers from their web-page. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
However,does it work if people from remote login to my machine,and then type telnet 127.0.0.1 to login again? well ... then then host field would be the local address. but it would be non-empty. as i already said, this may be configuration-dependent. just try it. -- Hi! I'm a .signature

Re: Squid's log

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I got this number: 959159565.669 from the first column of Squid's log (/var/log/squid/access.log). I believe that it's the date and time of the client access expressed in Unix time. What is the simplest way to convert it to a readable format? Perl function perhaps? possibly not the simplest,

RE: Crash-URL

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
clever ol' opera. it certainly crashes ie4, 5. possibly opera has a work-around for it, but basically this is no browser issue - it's a winDOS (=win9x) one. you could theoretically make the same by opening c:\con\con from the file manager or something. on securityfocus (don't remember, which

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Now, has anyone of you an idea how to set up a callback-machine well ... could you tell precisely, what you mean by that? *stunned* -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could be, but why would you want 10 partitions? :) i've see that ... And does the kernel support this (yes I know fdisk can easily support something like this, but that doesn't mean the kernel does). according to devices.txt up to hd?63 would

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
In an ls -l you get the # of hard links on the right side of the permissions. How do I find where all of those hard links are located on the harddisk? ls -il gives you the inode-numbers, so you'll see, which files are hard-linked. if you need to search the whole disk, then you want to use

Re: kdm

2000-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I'm running potato. When I run kdm, it doesn't read my .xsession file. How can I correct this? in /etc/X11/Xsession.options: allow-user-xsession should do the job. Also, some of the instructions given for installing kdm don't fit with the debian file layout. Where can I read about debian's

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
packages are required: libz1 and libxpm4. I searched for them in the we had this topic already several times on this list ... seems to be quite common. libz has the confusing name zlib1g. libxpm is xpm4g. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is

Re: fetchmail: removing stale lockfile

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, 22 May 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm getting the message: fetchmail: removing stale lockfile ...every time I run fetchmail (5.3.4-1) on my system. I just checked and I'm running the most current version. Running strace, I find the following:

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
It's possible to make .plan or .project to be named pipes, which means that the act of reading them can cause code to be executed. If finger executes suid root, then said code can execute as root. The potential for mischief should be obvious. could you explain this a bit? from my knowledge

Re: Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
/var/spool/exim/messaglog: 2000-05-21 22:27:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: local_delivery transport deferred: Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post /var/spool/mail/admin.lock.alpha.cs.mum.edu.3928a93a.0ac9 i had a similar problem. is solved it with chmod 3777

Re: reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading correctly at boot. Thanks look at /var/log/kern.log - at least on potato module output it there. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your

Re: reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Quoting Kelly Corbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading correctly at boot. Thanks Shift-PageUp (and PageDown) but note, that this works only, if the virtual

Re: How did I break su??

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
When I now su, it says, after I've entered the password: su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted It used to work just fine, and I just can't think how I've done anything that influences su ... probably it isn't setuid root anymore. make sure, that ls shows something like that:

Re: problems with fetchmail eand exim

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
And then it stop itself (One time it said something like : unable to connect to localhost) is your loopback device set up correctly? (output of ifconfig lo?) have you a user fayard is localuser in your fetchmailrc? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If

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