Vote na Debian!!!

1999-04-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi gente, é só para pedir para vocês votarem na Debian como distribuição favorita de Linux na minha homepage. Senão, ela pode perder. :) Obrigado pela ajuda. A homepage do LinuxClub é: http://linux.cos.ufrj.br e a votação está no lado esquerdo. Abraços,

CD's (nao) oficiais

1999-04-29 Thread Marcus Vinicius Brito
Olá pessoal, Em especial, alguém responsável, ou que tenha algum contato com os mantenedores dos mirrors do Debian aqui no Brasil. Em um desastre recente, acabei perdendo todo o meu HD onde estava instalado o Debian; não seria tanto problema se eu tivesse o CD. Então, a pergunta: onde posso

MTA

1999-04-29 Thread debian
I have to say I am nearly converted user of qmail.. I installed qmail on my server at home, and I have to admit it is a sweet bit of software. Blows sendmail out of the water. Cheers Iodine (just another qmail user)

Installing via network

1999-04-29 Thread Javaherian, Benjamin
I need to install Linux on an embedded system with network connection and with no CD. Is it possible to install Linux from my local network. I have NT/95 (no Unix) system with CD driver on the local network? Thanks in advance, Benjamin

Re: sendmail/fetchmail

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
add|ct|on [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages it just sits there on the first one

apt-get and apt-cdrom

1999-04-29 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hello, I have a problem with apt-get. (Sorry for overlong lines in the following.) My /etc/apt/sources.list is set up with apt-cdrom, and that part worked correctly: | [...] | Writing new source list | Source List entries for this Disc are: | deb cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main

Trackball setup: Zenith laptop.

1999-04-29 Thread Paul Schwebel
I've installed Debian 2.1 on a Zentith Z-Noteflex 486. When trying to configure X in XF86Setup, none of the mouse drivers/settings appear to work with the trackball. Any ideas? Thanks, -Paul ___ Get your free, private email at

Re: apt-get and apt-cdrom

1999-04-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 29 Apr 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: Hello, I have a problem with apt-get. (Sorry for overlong lines in the following.) Older apt's had 'issues' with certain CD configurations. Grab the latest version from potato (I think that has all the fixes..) Jason

Re: ISA vs PCI Modem

1999-04-29 Thread Colin Tree
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Greg Scharrer wrote: My experience with PCI modems is that they are likely to be winmodems. My supplier stopped selling the ISA modems in favour of the new PCI modems, but now is restocking ISAs. I had problems with the PCI modems in Win 9598. Auto-locating the

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-29 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, I set up pppconfig, got pon and poff working successfully, set up diald.options according to Johns instructions then started up diald and went browsing, it connects then hangs up. here's some of /var/log/ppp.log - Apr 28 14:10:50 confluent pppd[418]: not replacing existing default

re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again

1999-04-29 Thread add|ct|on
the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd

stunnel and swat

1999-04-29 Thread David Hamilton
I'm trying to use stunnel to tunnel swat over SSL. Insert service name (https,spop3,ssmtp,snews,ssl-ldap,simap): swat Insert program name: /usr/sbin/swat Using existing certificate: /usr/lib/ssl/certs/swat.pem. I will add the following entry to /etc/inetd.conf: swat stream tcp nowait root

boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread scratch
Hi people, I've been extremely stupid a few moments ago. I did 'dd if=resc.bin of=/dev/hda' instead of 'of=/dev/fd0'. I accidentally rewrote the first data on my first hard disk!! This is what my partition table on /dev/hda was like: hda1 hda2. hda1: win95 partition (fat16), bootable, approx.

Re: Missing voices in Festival

1999-04-29 Thread Kent West
Joey Hess wrote: Kent West wrote: Within the last day or so someone asked on this list about a text-to-speech app and someone else suggested Festival. On a whim, I did an apt-get install festival and everything appeared to install okay. However, when I type festival, I get an error

Re: What is /etc/.pwd.lock for ?

1999-04-29 Thread G. Crimp
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 10:23:53AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: Is it not a lockfile for vipw or other similar utils which are used to change the /etc/passwd cleanly ? I don't think so. If it were, I would expect that vipw or other utils (eg., adduser) would delete it upon finishing

2 of 100 can be a matrix look and see

1999-04-29 Thread firelight50
I am writing you because we have spoke in the past if this has reached by error please let me know and im sorry! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST please take the time to read this it really worked for me and Ill tell you how to do it right!!If you're like me and wish to work in

re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again

1999-04-29 Thread add|ct|on
the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd

Installing Debian On MacIIci

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Ivery
I am trying to install Linux on my old MacII ci but have really no luck. I have tried several times and failed miserably, can anyone give me some advice. I have about 100MB space available for the system so want to see what Linux is like but the installer seems to be very flaky, sometimes

PCMCIA warning

1999-04-29 Thread marvin stodolsky
With a 2.036 kernel and a US Robotics 33.6 modem + ethernet PCMCIA card, the warning below (marked by ) during boot, and as later displayed by dmesg. Manifest decrease in functionality is not evident, but it would be nice to understand it. Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5 kernel build: 2.0.35

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Colin Tree writes: Do I need proxyarp? No. What does it do ? Makes the machine at the other end of the ppp link appear to be on the local ethernet. Useless 99% of the time. I don't know why it is in the distributed /etc/ppp/options. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

cs: warning: no high memory space available!

1999-04-29 Thread marvin stodolsky
During boot of a Dell Inspiron 3000 laptop with a 2.0.36 kernel, the warning (indicated by below) is recorded by dmesg. While there are no manifest performance defects, I'd like to understand it. - Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5 kernel build:

Re: IRQ and PS/2

1999-04-29 Thread JW Park
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:51:23 -0500 (EST), you wrote: *- On 28 Apr, Lazar Fleysher wrote about IRQ and PS/2 Hi everybody, I have run out of IRQs. Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-04-29 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:46:53PM -0400, Jason Murray wrote: dpkg: error processing libtiff3g-dev (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libtiff3g-dev E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Any hints?

Apt is misbehaving

1999-04-29 Thread Stuart Ballard
My apt and dpkg seem to be very confused. I just finally got hold of a slink Official CD set and installed it on my new computer. The installation process went off with hardly a hitch - a first for me with Debian ;) What follows is pretty much the first thing I tried to do after finishing

Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread Benoit.Joly
hi, maybe you should look at the partition-rescue howto... http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue.html if you still can access your linux partition, i think your partition table is ok. did you try to reinstall lilo and try to boot dos with it? maybe by chance you just lost the

Re: Apt is misbehaving

1999-04-29 Thread James Mastros
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:01:40AM +, Stuart Ballard wrote: [butchered] instability, but I do want to be able to show off gnome). Just out of curiosity, I typed apt-get update; apt-get -s dist-upgrade to see exactly how huge a download would be needed if I were to try to do it all at once.

Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread Benoit.Joly
it's me again... go in linux and enter in fdisk... send us the output of the partition table (p key) benoit On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, scratch wrote: Hi people, I've been extremely stupid a few moments ago. I did 'dd if=resc.bin of=/dev/hda' instead of 'of=/dev/fd0'. I accidentally rewrote the

Re: serial port problems

1999-04-29 Thread Juan Concha Murray
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Are you sure setserial sets the IRQs for the ports correctly? setserial can only guess the IRQ for a given port but if it isn't the 'standard' value then it will not be correct and you won't pass data. Mark Ewing wrote: I am a new Debian user and am having

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Dave Whiteley wrote: I have made the user shutdown's shell a script which calls the shutdown command. However xdm does not seem to run this script. Thats because X does not run the shell that is specified in /etc/passwd. Instead, it starts the first window manager in

Linux as NFS...

1999-04-29 Thread Brant Wells
Hi All I was just wondering if there was a way to set Linux up as an NFS server without all the hassle of creating an exports file, etc. etc... Just one that I can install go...??? Thanx, Brant

Re: IRQ and PS/2

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Lazar Fleysher wrote: I have an older type pentium with AT-style board ( i think it is called that way, it has one 5-pin keyboard connector). I do not recall seeing Tis indeed The motherboard itself has four pins sticking out and it says PS/2 mouse. So I thought, I

Socks

1999-04-29 Thread segyetrading
SEGYE YANG HAENG CO.,LTD. Has been established in 1994 Korea to produce high quality of socks and tights in Korea. And also, we are exporting $4,000,000 annually for Japen, U.S.A and E.C market. Even small quantities, we are willingly supply socks and tights with your logo image, after

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

1999-04-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ralf Comtesse wrote: Hi, I just installed KDE from ftp.kde.org. It is the slink version. My box is running potato. The main problem at the moment is, that on startup neither my .Xdefaults nor my .xinitrc is read. I applied the changes to /etc/X11/Xsession as

Mail folder sharing in Windoze Linux

1999-04-29 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, My sister is a Windoze user. But since I always have linux running, rebooting into windoze is a pain to do. So I am thinking of having a mail folder in FAT, so that my sister can check her mail from both linux and windoze. Well, at least I cannot see any problems

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: Wasn't there a 'how to make a machine really secure' thread on this list a little while back (probably around the last time one of these data viruses exploded)? If I remember correctly suggestions started with using 'tripwire' software, progressed

Re: PCMCIA warning

1999-04-29 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:51:58PM -0400, marvin stodolsky wrote: With a 2.036 kernel and a US Robotics 33.6 modem + ethernet PCMCIA card, the warning below (marked by ) during boot, and as later displayed by dmesg. cs: warning: no high memory space available! ... You left out the

Re: GNOME install

1999-04-29 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I run slink and would like to know the best way (and easy) to get gnome : installed. : Are there .deb packages for gnome 1.0.x? : May I just get the .debs and install on slink or I need potato? Check out this url:

Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
Searched info on usermod and passswd and couldn't figure it out. How do I force a user to change password the next time he logs in? Thanks a lot! -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYDE

Re: Linux as NFS...

1999-04-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hi All I was just wondering if there was a way to set Linux up as an NFS server without all the hassle of creating an exports file, etc. etc... Just one that I can install go...??? How would you tell the server which directories to serve? The exports file is

Re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
add|ct|on [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd Since you are running it as root, it will attempt to delive the mail from your ISP to root user. This is a bad practice. My .fetchmailrc

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: man shadow Thanks. I still have a question though. Example: testdummy:mbjdfWfNf6Eto:10710:0:0:7::: implies that the user's password expires after 0 days. But in practice this means that the user will have to change his password every day (time?) he

Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread scratch
Hi, I already tried to guess the partitions with fdisk, so i don't have the partition table anymore. Anyway, i KNOW what i wrote to it. I did dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/hda, so it's the debian rescue disk that was written to the beginning of the hda drive. -- nico On Wed, 28 Apr 1999,

Re: Mail folder sharing in Windoze Linux

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
I use netscape mail in Windows and Linux, with a common mail directory on the windows partition (which is mounted by fstab). This seems to work fine, and has the advantage of having the same MUA on both OS's, although using NS for mail doesn't seem very Linux'y! (OT, similarly, I have a single

testing... ignore

1999-04-29 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipaccounting

1999-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:39:34AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's from the ipac package. You probably don't need it on your desktop, so just remove it (dpkg --remove ipac). The version in potato doesn't do this any more. It's upset that you don't

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Arcady Genkin wrote: Searched info on usermod and passswd and couldn't figure it out. How do I force a user to change password the next time he logs in? If you are using shadow passwords (/etc/shadow exists) look at `man 5 shadow', otherwise look at `man 5 passwd'. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Network newbie

1999-04-29 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi 1: run modconf as root, go into the subdir net an press enter on the ne200 module, the module should prompt you for a io adress enter io=0x300 or 330 depending of what you have. Then hopefully you can read Installation successfull on the screen. 2: Configure the network (/etc/init.d/network)

help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x

1999-04-29 Thread Daishi Harada
Hi, I appear to be having problems either identical or very similar to the one described by [EMAIL PROTECTED] previously on this list. The symptoms are: ppp connects just fine. name resolution, ping, traceroute work fine (udp stuff) tcp, however, doesn't. This seems

pcmcia-source: what is it puking on?

1999-04-29 Thread Adam Shand
hi, i've got the pcmcia-source 3.0.9-3 installed and debian/rules binary-modules works just fine but when i try to run debian/rules binary-cs it always pukes like this (it's linking against 2.2.7 but it's being doing agains 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 as well): if anyone knows what is causing this it would

PS2 and gpmconfig

1999-04-29 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
I recently bought a PS2 mouse and a PS2 adapter. I fitted the PS2 adapter on the motherboard,and connected the mouse. Went to the bios and enabled PS2 mouse. When I rungpmconfig the keyboard locks, when i go to the bios and try to use the mouse, the keyboard locks. And yes I'm sure I put the

X freezes!

1999-04-29 Thread Stefano Stabilini
I am a brand newbie to Linux. I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in partitions hda3 (linux) and hda4 (swap), the first two partitions are Dos16-big and host win 95. I successfully configured LILO

Re: Why does ppp stall for no reason on 2.2.x kernels?

1999-04-29 Thread John Leget
Hmm, interesting i have been experiencing similar performance , potato, 2.2.6-ac2, 56K the bits burn down the line then suddenly fizzle, then pick up then die, may just be coincidence ie maybe just my isp acting up. Im rather trying to sort out another problem :) Brian Servis wrote: Ever

DMA memory shortage

1999-04-29 Thread John Leget
Running 2.2.6-ac2, potato , ASUS P2B-DS Dual 450, 128Mb, SCSI Disks ,IDE CDROM (hda ),ZIP (hdc) In my continuing crusade to get info from my CDROM for mp3's :), ive just come across the following Apr 28 21:33:22 gabriel kernel: DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA This

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you create a user, touch a file in their directory called .newuser In the .bash_profile or .profile or .cshrc or whatever have the script check for the existance of this file. If found, it execs the passwd command and then delete the .newuser file.

Re: Real need for upgrades?

1999-04-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Apr 1999, Helge Hafting wrote: As I see it, releasing new versions can take place more than twice a year. While ppl are waiting for the next official release, they keep gradually upgrading their systems from the ftp server, so by the time the new release is official, they already

Re: New mailing-list created: debian-japanese (was Re: New mailing-list request (debian-japanese))

1999-04-29 Thread Francisco Limonche Valverde
Do`nt send me more messages¡¡¡ Fumitoshi UKAI escribió: At Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:58:34 +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you create new mailing-list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] New mailing-list debian-japanese@lists.debian.org has been created. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I

setting domain - name

1999-04-29 Thread Thorsten Manegold
HI! I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess that's ok as I'm only using PPP? Does the local mail-delivery work without a fully qualifide name? From my SuSE experience I know, that pine constantly complains

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to bug you again, but I am still looking for the password change solution... The .bash_profile solution works, but then if the user changes his default shell from bash to smth else, I won't be able to force password change anymore... Is there any

Re: PS2 and gpmconfig

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: I recently bought a PS2 mouse and a PS2 adapter. I fitted the PS2 adapter on the motherboard,and connected the mouse. Went to the bios and enabled PS2 mouse. When I rungpmconfig the keyboard locks, when i go to the bios and try to use the

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
How about using 'chage'. I think you probably need to play with the -M and -d switches. BTW chage is in the passwd package. HTH Rich Arcady Genkin wrote: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to bug you again, but I am still looking for the password change solution... The

Re: sendmail/fetchmail

1999-04-29 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 06:23:13PM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages it just sits

Socks

1999-04-29 Thread segyetrading
SEGYE YANG HAENG CO.,LTD. Has been established in 1994 Korea to produce high quality of socks and tights in Korea. And also, we are exporting $4,000,000 annually for Japen, U.S.A and E.C market. Even small quantities, we are willingly supply socks and tights with your logo image, after

OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity

1999-04-29 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Hi HELP! I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719) sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and

Re: PS2 and gpmconfig

1999-04-29 Thread Jim Foltz
I've experienced lock-ups when installing Debian on a system with a ps2 mouse. I have to remeber to not move the mouse until I get the psaux support loaded (kernel module) and before running gpmconfig. You may have to rebuild your kernel for this support. The kernel module is called psaux. On

[SOLVED] Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread scratch
The Partition-Rescue HOWTO wasn't very useful to me, but I solved my problem while finding gpart, a system util that I found on ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems. It tries to guess your partition table from the raw data on your HD, comparing it to conventional disk partition

Hey, Y'all, check out my new improved Free Software Research Paper Project web site!

1999-04-29 Thread R. Brock Lynn
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3328/paper/ That's the address. Give it a click! It's not the prettiest web site for sure, and it's not nearly even cranked up yet... so beware the rough edges... they are sharp. But have a look. I'd like to get some good feedback. Criticisms and

Re: slink dir: binary-hurd-i386?

1999-04-29 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read binutils 2.9.1-0.2 is broken or faulty, and the suggestion is to get 2.9.1-0.3 I found the package in ftp.debian.org/.../sid/main/bin/binary-hurd-i386 what's the reason behind adding hurd to binary-i386? hurd-i386 is the dpkg

smail/exim/qmail/zmailer/... which MTA?

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Laing
Can someone make a recommendation to me of which to use? I am going to be handling email for 30-100 busy users. There are 3 domains, but only one user list, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using smail right now and a text '/etc/aliases' file, generally there is one

Re: Linux as NFS...

1999-04-29 Thread Brant Wells
Hey :) Thanx! I read the man pages on the exports file I couldn't understand it... I think I see what I need to do now :) Thanx! Thanks Brant Wells Mitch Blevins wrote: How would you tell the server which directories to serve? The exports file is already there. Just type the name of

I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
hello, never, never do : chmod -R o+r .* anywhere. (I do it in /home). After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for users. user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib . is there a way to solve this ? using apt-get and force to download all my

Re: X freezes!

1999-04-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
Stefano Stabilini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --D78322D6E3F8F4EE1691F9D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am a brand newbie to Linux. I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
Am I being stupid? What about chmod -R u+w .* ? Or probably safer to do chmod u+w .* in individual directories. Are you sure that command below caused this problem? I would have thought that adding others read permissions would have no effect whatsoever on users write permissions. It

Re: X freezes!

1999-04-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: | Stefano Stabilini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am a brand newbie to Linux. | | I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect | afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in | partitions hda3 (linux)

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: hello, never, never do : chmod -R o+r .* anywhere. (I do it in /home). Yes, never do this. The problem is that the expression .* matches the . directory (current directory) and .. and directory (one level up from current). The problem just gets worse

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Collins M. Ben
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:18:14PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: hello, never, never do : chmod -R o+r .* anywhere. (I do it in /home). After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for users. user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib . is

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:08:44PM -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote: So even if you do have a data backup your BIOS is probably fried. For more information see: http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/cih.htm It was only a matter of time before a virus came along which could flash your BIOS. I'll tell

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 04:16:40PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote: It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb. (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's real-mode

Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread wolfgang zeikat
hi scratch, you didnt include debian-user@lists.debian.org in the To: or Cc: headers of your mail, so it was impossible for my email client to sort your incoming mail into the debianuser list folder i assume you just put us listers in Bcc: i get a lot of mail (incl. the hundreds here) so it

Sound?

1999-04-29 Thread Greg Vence
What are the new sound cards supported by Linux? i.e. Blaster 128 and up or Yamaha... Thanx -- Greg. -- Build an On-line Store http://www.Countdown9199.com/ Referral: Greg Vence IBO: 2712303 If you like it, lets talk get you an IBO.

SOLVED: Re: compiling with vfat option (fwd)

1999-04-29 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Thanks for all the help and suggestions. It turned out I had compiled my kernel with fat,msdos, and vfat built as modules, and I was attempting to load vfat before I loaded the others which were like prerequisites to vfat, thats why I was getting the kernel complaint at boot-up.

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Excuse me for the previous mail, I get Panick. I solved it by typing : chmod -R o+r .* the first time to solve it I do only : chmod -R o+r * the solution is the solution of the problem. but it is always true : never use the .* without care. thanks and sorry.

Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

1999-04-29 Thread William R Pentney
Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one as a Debian package? - Bill

Advanced Printer Control?

1999-04-29 Thread Marc Lepage
I'm configuring a print server for remote clients. I've set up a Debian machine with an HP LaserJet 4000 hooked to it via parallel cable. I've installed lprng and samba, and can print to it from two types of client: 1) From Linux using BSD-style lpr. Text (notwithstanding line feed issues) and

Re: Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
William R Pentney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FTP search for wine_0.0.990328 produced a screenful of results. Try it for yourself. ;^) Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one as a Debian

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

1999-04-29 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/29/99 12:06:22 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The best solution I've found: Create an applink in Desktop/Autostart (i.e. New-Application). In the Execute line put xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults and another one for .xinitrc. By the way, xrdb -merge

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-04-29 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/28/99 11:34:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not a Bad Idea (tm) but I dont use xdm. kdm has a button Shutdown which kinda makes it easy. I do like the shutdown button of KDE - but it would be more useful if you didn't have to log out

ICQ-Java not working after upgrade

1999-04-29 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
I've updated my system to potato, but now Icq-java doesn't work anymore. When I call it it gives the following message: $ /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i586/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i586/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol:

request...

1999-04-29 Thread Stephanie Seago
Hello. My name is Stephanie Seago. I'm inquiring about some information for my client that is putting on a trade show in June 1999. Here's the scoop: They are giving away key chains with their corporate logo on it. They will be placed in a little box and when they open that box, they want

X over network

1999-04-29 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
What client software do I need to run X over the network? What are the hardware requirements? Is there a good HOWTO on running X over networks? Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

1999-04-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/29/99 12:06:22 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The best solution I've found: Create an applink in Desktop/Autostart (i.e. New-Application). In the Execute line put xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-04-29 Thread Bill Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not a Bad Idea (tm) but I dont use xdm. kdm has a button Shutdown which kinda makes it easy. The Gnome menu has a Settings- Shut Down or Reboot option which pops up a window saying you must be root to do this. Since I run Gnome as a user as one should, does

Compiling keyboard maps...

1999-04-29 Thread friddell
I finally figured out why I was missing so many necessary files. I ommitted downloading the 'devel' directory because I thought it was only developement tools like compilers and such. Plus the fact that it's the largest dir there at 208 mb. Now that my OS is up and running fine I have been

Invalid TSS:0038 installing slink on ASUS P5A-B/K62-300

1999-04-29 Thread Jim Skea
I'm trying to install slink on the following system MB: ASUS P5A-B, Bios 1008 Beta 2 Processor: AMD K6-2-300 HD: Seagate Medalist 4321 (Model ST34321A) Video: Trident TVGA 8900 CL-B, IMb The BIOS was flashed from 1007 to 1008B2 to get round a problem with boot-up errors caused by incorrect

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please..

1999-04-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:08:44PM -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote: So even if you do have a data backup your BIOS is probably fried. For more information see: http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/cih.htm It was only a matter of time before a virus came along which could flash your BIOS. I'll tell

Re: X over network

1999-04-29 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: What client software do I need to run X over the network? What are the hardware requirements? Is there a good HOWTO on running X over networks? yes, there is a mini-howto, it's called: Remote-X-Apps Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law

RE: pcmcia-source: what is it puking on?

1999-04-29 Thread Shaleh
On 29-Apr-99 Adam Shand wrote: hi, i've got the pcmcia-source 3.0.9-3 installed and debian/rules binary-modules works just fine but when i try to run debian/rules binary-cs it always pukes like this (it's linking against 2.2.7 but it's being doing agains 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 as well): if

Re: Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

1999-04-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one as a Debian package? Updates to wine are posted at a rate of about 2 per month, .deb's come out not quite as often. I always grab the source and

Apache Server

1999-04-29 Thread Javaherian, Benjamin
Any idea roughly how much disk space I might need to install Minimum Debian configuration and the Apache server ( to run the Apache server) Thanks, Benjamin

Re: Network newbie

1999-04-29 Thread Robert Kerr
Hey, that worked wonderfully. Now I have another question: I can telnet from one machine, running Debian 1.3, to another, running 2.1, and everything acts normally. When I do it the other way, from the Slink machine to the Bo machine, it takes forever to get to a login: prompt. What might be

Re: X over network

1999-04-29 Thread David Z. Maze
Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PNP What client software do I need to run X over the network? Any X client (e.g. xterm, fvwm, xemacs, netscape, ...) can run remotely over the network. You also need an X server, which is the same X server you'd install to run X locally. It's also

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