Re: problem ftpd

1997-04-26 Thread Peter Tobias
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. You probably used ftpshut. This program will create a

Re: Downloading Debain

1997-04-26 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Hi, I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems... I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com. The ftp client I am using is CuteFTP v1.8 The problem is that I can not download the links to the actual

Re: Downloading Debain

1997-04-26 Thread Kevin Traas
I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems... I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com. I've successfully used WSFTP as a Windows FTP client to download from both of these sites. (Right now, I've got

Re: wireless connection; cheapest solution?

1997-04-26 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can share his experience about this topic? Expected speed should be of order ~9600 bps and distance

Logging from perl?

1997-04-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Has anyone been able to get the perl5 SysLog module to work as advertised? I cannot get it to log anything. Grrr! -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.30t Have you seen the Emperor's new red hat? :-o -- TO

Re: year-2000 testing

1997-04-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year 2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea. Fortunately we don't have too many COBOL

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-04-26 Thread LinuxBOX
I would prefer to avoid a firewall. Infact that is why we have chosen a lynix box. We had a firewall solution before, but we anted to hook it up so that it will work as a notmal dialup conetion. On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: LinuxBOX wrote: I recently configured my linux

Debian PPP win95

1997-04-26 Thread Stephen Davey
I hope someone help I have managed to get a ppp session working for static ip address with windows 95 but dynamic addressing just will not work I am running that latest pppd-2.2.0f-24 and the kernal is 2.0.29. I am also having no luck at all in getting to linux boxes to talk with dialup ppp.

Re: Downloading Debain

1997-04-26 Thread Jim Smith
Turbo 'DanB' wrote: Hi, I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems... I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com. The ftp client I am using is CuteFTP v1.8 I used CuteFTP until I had PPP working on

Re: Debian PPP win95

1997-04-26 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Stephen Davey, you wrote: I hope someone help I have managed to get a ppp session working for static ip address with windows 95 but dynamic addressing just will not work I am running that latest pppd-2.2.0f-24 and the kernal is 2.0.29. I am also having no luck at all

Re: mh security

1997-04-26 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:41:10 -0400, Jason Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] I changed inc and msgchk to rwxr-xr-x (instead of rwxr-sr-x). Does anyone know if what I did could create any problems?? Yes, it will prevent MH users from reading new mail. Did I fix any problems??? No known

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 25, 1997 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Rick Jones wrote: Errr...I don't trust LBA. I ran LBA for several months and began to see a little corruption in my file system which began to propigate. Even though e2fsck came up clean programs began reporting missing files but an ls -al would show

2.1.36 kernel?

1997-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I finally got 2.1.36 compiled and running, including modules (still using modules 2.1.23 though, because 2.1.34's depmod doesn't seem to work). Now I can't login; it says error changing owner of /dev/tty1, 2 etc to whoever logged in. telnetting in works though. Back to 2.1.29 .. I have the latest

Re: problem with pcmmdl20.deb!! incorrect dependencies?

1997-04-26 Thread Dennis Groves
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to reinstall Debian on my Toshiba Portable using a mirror on one of our network servers. To do this I need PCMCIA facilities since my networkadaptor is a PCMCIA card. What I did is: * I first installed the base system using the regular set of disks

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-26 Thread Dennis Groves
A. M. Varon wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. If your motherboard is new, you could turn on lba in the bios of your computer. Linux has no problems accessing my 2.0 gb.

Re: LILO LBA mode.

1997-04-26 Thread Jim Pick
I know I could use LBA mode. I originally used LBA mode for months but noticed a couple of possible problems. I say possible since I can't prove they were caused by using LBA mode. 1. My drive seemed to fill faster as if the files were using more space than they should have. I have the

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-26 Thread Christoph Martin
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all Why don't we reorganize TeX for debian as follows: get rid of unneccessary older TeX packages (which I understand are buggy) and replace them with teTeX. That is, we use teTeX as the basis for debian TeX stuff. Then we could value add to teTeX

atd and hdparm

1997-04-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I really love `atd`! I can use `hdparm` to set a spin-down timeout for my harddisks, and they actually turn off now! Before, with `at` driven by `cron`, the drives never got a chance to spin down. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA

Re: 2.1.36 kernel?

1997-04-26 Thread Peter Iannarelli
I installed 2.1.36 yesterday and got the same message at boot time. ( changing owner of /dev/tty1, 2 ) I could however still log in. On a second machine, which is running 2.1.2, I tried to install 2.1.36. I came up OK but I got pppd errors and masquerading didn't seem to want to work. So I put

Re: problem with pcmmdl20.deb!! incorrect dependencies?

1997-04-26 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Dennis Groves wrote: now my problem was that everthing worked but ifconfig and route add were not run automagicaly :( can anybody help me? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suppose 'automagically' means 'at boot time' in this article ? If so, you have to edit /etc/init.d/network

What gives? --- [vonhagen@les01.supelec.fr: Re: exp(x**2)*erfc(x) not correctly plotted]

1997-04-26 Thread adavis
I did try the procedure mentioned below in gnuplot. An apparent error does happen to me, something similar to what is mentioned in the below. Is this indeed an error in linux? If so, traceable to what? Alan Davis -Forwarded message from info-gnuplot mailing list. I'm using gnuplot

Can't login to bo

1997-04-26 Thread Richard Jennison
After upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3 I cannot login to the system. Each time I type root at the prompt and then password there is a short pause and then I am returned to the login promt again. None of the other passwords work either. Dselect seemed satisfied with the installation after about

Re: What gives? --- [vonhagen@les01.supelec.fr: Re: exp(x**2)*erfc(x) not correctly plotted]

1997-04-26 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Hi. I use gnuplot 3.5beta6.328-1 , with a bo install. By me the following problem does not appear. ( the curve is smooth for x 27 ) So it's probably not a 'linux' problem, but an installation issue. Alexandre On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did try the procedure mentioned

Filter

1997-04-26 Thread JADiaz
Where can I get A FILTER to stop SPAM Jorge -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Filter

1997-04-26 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get A FILTER to stop SPAM Jorge Hoye .. If the spam can be detected by looking at the mail header (ie the From: field, the Subject: , etc.), it is possible with procmail. procmail will analyse your mail following rules you give it

Setting Up btmp

1997-04-26 Thread Paul Serice
There was another question in the list regarding logging, and it got me to wondering about my setup. When I did lastb, I got a message about /var/log/btmp not existing: Perhaps this file was removed by the operator to prevent logging lastb info. So all I did was drop down to /var/log and touch

Re: Filter

1997-04-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
In my .procmailrc: :0: * ^FROM:.*(@spam1.com|@spam2.com|\ @spam2.com|@spam4.com) * !^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (formail -r -APrecedence: junk \ -AX-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; \ echo Mail refused. All mail from this domain is being rejected; \ echo by a spam filter. Have a nice day :-); \ echo

Re: year-2000 testing

1997-04-26 Thread Behan Webster
Michael Alan Dorman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year 2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea.

Re: 2.1.36 kernel?

1997-04-26 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 05:13:55 EDT Peter Iannarelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed 2.1.36 yesterday and got the same message at boot time. ( changing owner of /dev/tty1, 2 ) I could however still log in. There's a bug in 2.1.36 in fs/inode.c. There's one line patch somewhere on the

INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Pavel Galynin
Hello, I'm about to install Debian on my Pentium 200Mhz, 32MB RAM, 2*3.1 GB IDE western Digital HDDs. I have to use Win95 to do work for school (everything is submitted on floppies in Word for Win 6.0 format, and presentations in Powerpoint). The ? is: is it safe to dual-boot? I am going to

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Rick Jones
Dual boot is ok. I think just about all of us use it. On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: Hello, I'm about to install Debian on my Pentium 200Mhz, 32MB RAM, 2*3.1 GB IDE western Digital HDDs. I have to use Win95 to do work for school (everything is submitted on floppies in Word

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Pavel Galynin
Hello, Rick Jones wrote: Dual boot is ok. I think just about all of us use it. So, do I use lilo, or are there any special tricks? And, before you ask, NO, I'm not just another lamer. If i had an ASM source to Win95, I would know how to do it. But I have no idea where win95 puts its loader.

Re: year-2000 testing

1997-04-26 Thread Bruce Perens
Did anyone test _emacs_ for year-2000 problems? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null, since there is no mouse, but figured it would be petter to remove it altogether. I am trying to remove it with gpm --purge, but get the message: dpkg error

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
Get the LILO+Win95 mini-HOWTO. On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: Hello, Rick Jones wrote: Dual boot is ok. I think just about all of us use it. So, do I use lilo, or are there any special tricks? And, before you ask, NO, I'm not just another lamer. If i had an ASM source

Need SCSI Module (scsi_mod.o, sd.o) Driver

1997-04-26 Thread jongmook
Hellow, Does anybody have moduluar SCSI divers for kernel 2.0.27 ?. What I need is two SCSI drivers such as scsi_mod.o sd.o. These modules will be used to drive SCSI Iomega zip. I have downloaded Debian 1.2 from www.debian.org and the kernel version is 2.0.27. I have tried to compile these

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:30 AM 25/04/97 +0300, Daniel MOSMONDOR - Mosh wrote: Hi! I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject is running around for some time. I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests

Re: Need SCSI Module (scsi_mod.o, sd.o) Driver

1997-04-26 Thread Rick Jones
When you compile use make zlilo - for the kernel. It will put the new kernel in place. The problem is that you are using a 27 kernel and compiling 28 modules. Just recompile the kernel with the above instead of zimage and it will put the new kernel in place and make all the needed

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:12 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I don't think so. I've seen this behaviour before. The wtmp code didn't change between 2.69 and 2.70 - the utmp code did (but very slightly, and I still can't find anything wrong with it). Anyway for 2.71 the new code will be used for utmp

Re: Setting Up btmp

1997-04-26 Thread Vebjorn Forsmo
Paul Serice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've since deleted /var/log/btmp to get back to the Debian default. Knowing nothing about anything, I was wondering if someone could fill me in on why Debian defaults to no btmp. I don't know anything about why the Debian crew decided to remove btmp,

smartlist question

1997-04-26 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
I'm trying to use smartlist (3.10-14). On the first message I send to the test list testing, I get this error (through smail): |- Message log follows: -| flist: Couldn't exec ../.bin/procmail |- Failed addresses follow:

Debian and SBC's or PC-104's

1997-04-26 Thread Rob Browning
Has anyone here had any experience running Debian on one of the Single Board Computers (like the Ampro LittleBoards), or on PC-104(Plus) boards? Just wanted to know what might be involved, and if it was possible. The boards look like they have more or less compatible hardware, but I figured

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Pavel Galynin
Hello, Well, I looked at it already, but it caused my question: How to dual-boot reliably? Paul Bob Nielsen wrote: Get the LILO+Win95 mini-HOWTO. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: atd and hdparm

1997-04-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Nikolaj == Nikolaj Richers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nikolaj Hello Karl, On 26-Apr-97, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote I really love `atd`! I can use `hdparm` to set a spin-down timeout for my harddisks, and they actually turn off now! Before, with `at` driven by `cron`, the drives

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:12 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I don't think so. I've seen this behaviour before. The wtmp code didn't change between 2.69 and 2.70 - the utmp code did (but very slightly, and I still can't find

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:26 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Oh great, you can reproduce it. Can you tell me 1. which logfile gets corrupted Both the wtmp and utmp. 2. When (before login, during session, after logout) Upon login it seems fine, but upon logout it seems to write two enteries into

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Rick Jones
Yes. Use lilo. Here's a copy of my lilo.conf. boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda2 read-only compact install = /kernel/boot/boot.b map = /kernel/boot/map vga = normal prompt timeout = 300 image = /kernel/vmlinuz label = Linux image = /kernel/vmlinuz label = Rescue root =

Double messages?

1997-04-26 Thread Pavel Galynin
Am I the only one getting double messages? Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Linux kernel V. 2.0.27 does not boot; SCSI-trouble

1997-04-26 Thread Werner Joerling
Dear Linux-friends, I am using a 486-VLB-System with an Adaptec AHA2842 (2xHDD (id0 and id1), 1xCDROM (id 2)) and I cannot install the Debian-distribution V.1.2.8 because the kernel V. 2.0.27 does not boot. I have a lot of older kernels and they all boots fine on my machine. The following

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Rick Jones
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: Yes. Use lilo. Here's a copy of my lilo.conf. boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda2 other = /dev/hda1 label = Windows table = /dev/hda Much snipped, sorry I didn't clean the last one I don't know if it needs mentioning or not, but

ppp with 0.0.0.0 as local ip

1997-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Dear fellows, does it make any difference if I set localip to 0.0.0.0 or don't specify it at all in the command line of pppd? Thxn, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've never had any problems with: 1. LILO 2. Partition Magic's Boot Manager 3. DOS config.sys menu+LOADLIN (I used this with a disk that had DiskManager, as I wasn't sure whether it and LILO would try to write to the same point on the MBR.) In any case, making boot/rescue floppies for each o/s

Re: How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null, since there is no mouse, but figured it would be petter to remove it altogether. I am trying to remove it with gpm --purge, but

Re: How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
That took care of it. Thanks Bob On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null, since there is no mouse, but figured it would

Re: How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-26 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote That took care of it. Thanks Can you tell me which version of gpm you used? I just spoke to James Troup who is the new maintainer. He has a different solution to the problem but there should be no problem anymore. Regards... Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian