Re: hypercard like program

1998-11-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 06:21:15PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: It occurs to me that one thing I haven't seen is a hypercard-like program. I don't need anything fancy; the features of the original release would be more than enough (aside from taking over my whole screen :)

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 02:06:33AM +, Gossamer wrote: I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon does not. Very strange - it worked yesterday. I don't think I've changed anything

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Ok well...as xfstt maintainer I have to say I have never seen this before :) Usually if there is a problem...xfstt wont even run. ok found the problem :) xset fp

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:39:43AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon does not. Very strange

xfstt font database should be in /var

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
: On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Even more wierd: I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. /etc/init.d/xfstt start

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:34:44AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Close, but no cigar. syntax is: tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. To make a full backup I did: tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc (my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:31:20AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote: Ok Kenneth, I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is the requirment: I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to make two copies of that file, back on two

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 09:38:46PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The point Kenneth is making is true. However: You can't have two (or more) mail clients installed at the same time, ... There are at least half a

Re: stupid mistake: /usr/info/dir wiped out!

1998-10-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:38:29PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I did something stupid. I accidentally erased all but the *.gz files in /usr/info. Could someone please tell me how I can bring my /usr/info directory to a consistent state? I was intending to just erase the uncompressed

Re: /etc/shutmsg - a suggestion?

1998-10-23 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, the ftpshut command shutdowns the wu-ftpd service (not the process) by writting in /etc/shutmsg, the question is If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a

Re: Appletalk/IP

1998-10-23 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:19:41AM +0200, Robert Claeson wrote: Is anybody aware of whether it's possible to set up a Linux system to serve Appleshare over IP, as in Apple's Appleshare IP? I am inclined to belkieve netatalk can do it. I am running and have been runnign a netatalk server here

Re: /etc/shutmsg - a suggestion?

1998-10-23 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 03:23:10PM +0100, David Wright wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common practice to have /etc

Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.

1998-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:04:16PM +, Jim wrote: Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux. I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file. Of

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
Hope you don't mind... Out of my reply I have clipped a great many adresses. I would imagine Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds are very busy men and don't need my chatter :) - and the Debian-user list is the only one I am on that even seems mildly aprorpriate (btw sending it to multiple redhat adresses

Re: Thanks! Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:52:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for the quick replies, people. Now I get to play with several approaches. Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:35:49PM -0800, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: [snip] = try putting a send host-name statement in your dhclient.conf (see man 5 = dhclient.conf for details) = = I'd like to not even use the dhcp server

Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:07:14AM -0400, me wrote: Hi all--- I'm new to Linux, and in the process of hacking cluelessly with my hard-drive setup I've managed to trash some vital part of my hard drive. Here's the general setup: /dev/hda1 (~100MB) Win95, formerly bootable, formerly DOS

Re: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: I am trying to get to grips with Debian, and I'd like to browse through the documentation. The problem I have is that my Debian PC is at one home, whereas the PC where I have the most chance to read documentation, print things out,

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! Jeremy Blonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address

Re: Root password security

1998-10-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:36:13PM +, Thomas Lakofski wrote: Physical security of the box in question is the only real measure you can take (lock it in a box). Failing this, get a machine (some newer Compaq workstations have this) that lets you restrict floppy booting with BIOS and has a

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: Peter Iannarelli writes: You could put a directive in your crontab to issue a sync every 5 minutes of every hour of every day. That's not quite the issue - Linux syncronizes its buffers whenever it has a chance anyway.

Re: debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a networked station tied to my k6-233

Re: debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:56:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter said On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:44:06AM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: What makes you think this is a virus? I don't think you would be able to disinfect a Linux virus with 95. What is the process that is loading? On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote: ...and a fairly larger problem: I've

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:40:34AM -0400, Rob Collins wrote: It disabled writing to my floppy disk, for one thing. how so? are you sure thats not disabled in BIOS? can you describe the behaviour? maybe an example of what happens when you try? The ppid points to xdm. In fact, in top it

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:08:49AM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the

Re: X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:47:35AM -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote: I've just started initiating myself to Linux, and I have a few questions installing the XWindows system. My relevant system specs are: Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons Logitech mice rule ;) S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:13:24PM -0400, joseph evan porter wrote: Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use kdm without all that or is there

Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 03:49:00PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi debian users, I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well. Any hints? Have a nice day,

Re: ApplixWare

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:51:33PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there. I've created an entry in /etc/menu like: ?package(applix):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editors icon=none

HELP! Frozen e-mail barrage!

1998-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I have a headless machine here on my network (actually the one which provides the masquerading firewall etc) if I log into it and run sudo mailq it lists hoardes of e-mails frozen! The weird thing is that it is not a machine which is used for e-mail transfer! I have tried going into

Re: HELP! Frozen e-mail barrage!

1998-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
!) On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:52:31PM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: I have a headless machine here on my network (actually the one which provides the masquerading firewall etc) [my own problem snipped]

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:46:50AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: Hello, I'm running a hamm system and mostly login through a telnet window on my win95 machine (I have only one monitor as of yet). When I run vi in the telnet window, I get some strange behavior. Just about no matter which key I

Re: Change route from suid script?

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:52:08AM +0200, Jon Kaare Hellan wrote: I've got ppp interfaces defined for the workplaces of me and my wife, and use a small script to switch the default route to the interface that needs to be active. ok...sounds interesting... This works, but I have to be root.

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 06:31:55PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: Since 'rm' can be pretty dangerous sometimes, especially to new unix users, I was wondering whether there is something like a save rm out there. With feature similar to this list: - moving files to /tmp/trash instead of unlinking

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:49:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about Re: Safe rm available? | | heh Oh you wanna stick your finger in the light socket, ok well go ahead... | see hurt like a bitch didn't it? bet ya wont do that again. | Ha! The same could

Re: Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

1998-10-02 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:16:59AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 years) and he couldn't put

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: Braden N. McDaniel wrote: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:43:25AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains: #!/bin/sh ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Philip Thiem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to get around it then. Also if any one wants

Re: Dewbie Question: How can I install rpm package

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:08:36AM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: Hi all, I just download sybase ase, it is in rpm format. I do not know how to install it in Debian. I am using Debian 2.0. Any help would be highly appreciated. There is a debian rpm package but...it doesn't work on its own (not

Re: permissions of hosts.*

1998-09-28 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:41:05PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). hmm... well on MY system...all of them are: -rw-r--r-- Works for me. Any reasons NOT to have this the case? -Steve -- /* -- Stephen

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 02:55:08PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, but just

Re: Network debian with win 98

1998-09-23 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:41:25PM -0400, Collin Rose wrote: I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this? I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98 system. Ok... if

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

1998-09-23 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about it. What's going on? Do I need to

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

1998-09-23 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote: You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct doesn't exist

Re: Q:xfsft binary on debian system

1998-09-22 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:18:23PM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi, everybody -- has anbody tried to install the precompiled binary for xfsft (not xfstt) that is available from this site: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/xfsft.html I have NOT tried it (as the xfstt maintainer for

Re: Need help with resolution

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 07:46:54PM -0500, Ken Archer wrote: I currently have SuSE 5.2, Red Hat 5.1, Slackware 3.4 and Debian 2.0 on seperate partitions on a 10 gig hd. As you can tell, I am constantly looking for something better. From what I heard, I thought it might be Debian, but I can't

Re: Need help with resolution

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:43:35AM -0500, Ken Archer wrote: You are right. That SHOULD work, but I had already tried that and it didn't solve the problem. From what I can see, it seems to be a problem with the system only seeing 256k of videoram when it has 2 meg. I should normally be able

Q: MIPS machine + Linux?

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I went to the MIT flea market yesterdy. (last one this year is next month!) I only bought 1 thing, a DECstation 5000/133. I was told this is a MIPS machine,it has some RAM (NFI how much) and no hard drive (yet). No video card but I got a vt320 terminal for it. I seem to remember that there is a

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it is why is it not the defacto standard --Jonathan Well...I use tar... In fact I

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 03:26:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter said On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why

Re: Install problems

1998-09-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 12:55:58PM -0500, EGRET Lures wrote: Just a note... I use Mutt...and when it recives no messgae and an HTML attachment it runs lynx to read the message... this makes replies VERY hard and is a PITA. Please refrain from posting HTML to the group...text replies are

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 02:52:15PM -0300, Adam Greene wrote: What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc?? hmm well... I have no idea :) What is this standard? Is there a pointer to it? If the standard is

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:06:14PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: Hi Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? I searched through Debian package lists nothing even mentions COBOL. I personally doubt that sucha beast exists. Ive never actually heard of anyone who actually LIKES COBOL. If the

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:33:52AM -0600, John Larkin wrote: No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, it restores the

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:31:49PM -0700, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating

Re: CDE for Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:03:44PM -0500, Matthew A. Reklau wrote: Is there a version of CDE available for Debian releases and if so where and cost please. Well The Debian Project is devoted to Free software and CDE is not free so it is not part of debian. ALso...There is no version which is

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the harddrive so I can

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #include stddisclaimer.h LILO: linux /bin/sh [...] hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-11 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Greeting everyone, Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Hmm well personally I DO want my computer online all the time whether I am

Re: Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-10 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors (obviously) Did you try the linear

Re: Net Auction Krizms?!!!!!!!!!

1998-09-10 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:43:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think of these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that if you have abit of time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridiculously cheap! I saw a whole bunch of Digital Alphas Servers (Older ones, but

Re: 2.1 kernel

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 03:12:46PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Kay Nettle wrote: Is anyone using a 2.1 kernel? Which version is the most stable? We have people complaining about slow NFS service and we want to try NFS version 3. Thanks, Kay Wait. 2.1 is

Re: 2.1 kernel

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 07:29:43PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Wait. 2.1 is supposed to be released RSN as 3.0. I think the latest devel kernel um AFAIK it will be 2.2.0 NOT 3.0.0 I thought I saw Linus make a comment

Re: Apache / SSL

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:43:38AM -0300, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: Hi, I've compiled Apache with SSL support, but I'm getting the follow message (when I start it): Skip first time initialisation What is it? There is a apache.deb with SSL support? Check out

Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I decided since i was moving into a new apartment and planning on working towards that lofty goal of having my network connected to the net 24-7 (if I could only convince my girlfriend that $70/month is not too much $), It is time to move the modem out of MY workstation and into another box. I

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:03:28PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: Ok, don't kill me.. i know you all are probably tired of/avoiding/irked with/ frothing at the mouth because of the whole y2k compliance bruhaha. I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: Actually, i did check the debian web page. Unfortunately, i don't have the resources necessary to go on a long hunt for the information and it didn't seem to be readily noticeable on the site. Perhaps i'm smoking crack.

Re: GPL'd/free driver for Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card

1998-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:53:30AM +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote: Hi, I would like to know where can I get a GPL'd or free driver for the Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card for x86 architecture. I've checked out the OSS/Free page and it seems that their free version does not support this (and other

Re: procmail

1998-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:42:30PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: What's the best recipe to use with this list for procmail? Depends :) I like mail through the list to go into one mailbox and mail directly to me (whether to thte list or not) to goto thje list box...so... :0 * ^X-Mailing-List:

Re: Debian manual -- printed.

1998-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: Since, I decided to use debian instead of Slackware or Red Hat. I have noticed something. I can't find a book devoted to it. Well www.cheapbytes.com ...they sell the: Debian User's Guide *ED1* Close-out price W/2 CDs From the

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:01:48AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen black, machine locked ? When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 09:22:00AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: M.C. Vernon wrote: Hmm - is beowulf a .deb? and if so, is it in /slink/non-free It seems to be available as RPM's. You can use alien to get it installed. I am tossing around the idea of a cheap beowulf cluster...junked PCs

Re: file-rc vs. sysV init (was: enabling bootpc at startup)

1998-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:20:28PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes: On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the sysV style init scripts and

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: Hi, I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a debian list but here goes anyway. Welldon't expect un-biased opinion :) I myself am very biased :) (but shouldn't you expect thatI am a package

Re: What is a magic number?

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 07:54:24PM +0800, htyj wrote: I've seen the term magic number in many documents, I wonder what it is, and how to get it(calculate it?)? TIA. A magic number is basically an identifier... for exampleif I am sniffing ethernet (ie taking in raw ethernet packets whether

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:35:12AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}. I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over clear connections unless it

Re: What is a magic number?

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:32:05AM -0700, Michael Rudmin wrote: More specifically, a magic number is an identifier described in the Point-to-point protocol. It is a specific packet that is used to determine when a system is looped back to itself. hmm oh... that too :) same principal :) I

Re: QUESTION

1998-08-25 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 Hmm okthe short answer is NO...but fear not :) There is a DOS emulator for DOS programs and there is WINE (Wine Is Not and Emulator ;) ) which impliments the Windows

Re: QUESTION

1998-08-25 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 09:55:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about Re: QUESTION | On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: | HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 | | Hmm okthe short answer is NO...but fear

Re: Second drive for DOSEmu?

1998-08-25 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:34:24PM -0700, Paul Marxhausen wrote: After reading through all the DOSEmu info, I'm sorta-kinda-nearly grasping this issue, but I still want to ask: I'll be converting a utility PC from MS-DOS over to Hamm soon, and will be running at least one DOS program under

Re: diskless systems

1998-08-24 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems? My tests have worked well :) I plan to get a very high performance system for myself and wanted to set-up a diskless terminal for my daughter that would have full access

Re: Help with Kernel configuration

1998-08-24 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Hofman, J.A.M.H. wrote: Hi All, Last week I installed Debian 2.0 on my system. All worked well and it was possible to acces my VFAT partition on the harddisk. Yesterday I installed the kernel-source-2.0.34 package to build a custom kernel and tried

Re: diskless systems

1998-08-24 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
my docs initally very very good doc.. I planed on giving him credit (Richard Kaszta was the first person to offer me help when I anounced my doc!) I just need to get around to it much like everything else -Steve Proinnsias -Original Message- From: Stephen J. Carpenter [SMTP

Re: sendmail bug?

1998-08-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:03:42AM -0700, David Stern wrote: $ man aliases [..] Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. [..] Loops cannot occur, ... So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I

Re: Which MTA?

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:24:00AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Ken Chew wrote: Also would it be possible to create email account without actuall adding user account on the system. Currently what we do is 'adduser' for every user account. Is this necessary?

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:10:20AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites using - such identd will be K:-lined. - - hey that's not very nice. Besides, it appears that changing the ident is - not possible without

Re: CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:04:41AM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote: I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. Does anyone have any experience with these drives? Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be getting

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:20:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kennedy Mutio writes: I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:22:52PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Yes, no, and not unless you want to. Even without enabling the generic command server and the @SH processing, the rules file for mailagent is a full fledged state

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - if anyone will find he's usiong fake identd ppl will k-line him... - IRC is not made for putting bots and bots abuse IRC. if someone wants to - abuse IRC he will be banned. - - Well I have to agree... - I personally

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 01:40:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Stephen == Stephen J Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen I missed most of this discussion but... whats wrong with Stephen the old standby procmail? Nothing, if you do not find it under powered. hmm

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:46:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated that since the source code was available that it was very unsecure. He mentioned something

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:54:52AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:46:20AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: currently xfstt bombs out if it gets a connection of a differnt endianess than the system it is on...I have been meaning to fix that but maybe the PowerPC

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:22:37PM +, George R wrote: On 08/18/98 at 11:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, George R wrote: I know you are talking about NT vs Linux; but does anyone know how well Win95 password protection works? It doesn't the morons made the default

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

1998-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 09:46:00AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Liran Zvibel wrote: I have one question, though, NT has an option to be installed and configured from the network (I don't mean installing via NFS, but actually get all the installation profile form

Re: CDE

1998-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:57:47PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joe Stewart wrote: Chris, Try xfce http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/xfce/en/index.html. It does include the window manager xfwm, but does not require it. It is a toolbar which resembles cde. The

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