Incomprehensible CGI error

1997-09-16 Thread Dave Neuer
I am trying to get a CGI script written in Perl running, and I keep getting a wierd error that I don't understand: access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/testscript.pl failed for *machine name*, reason: Premature end of script headers Anyone know what this means? Other Perl scripts with similar

compiling debian packages (was Re: number of problems...)

1997-09-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, David wrote: Is there a window maker package for the stable release? for most packages in unstable, you can easily compile them for stable. i don't actually know of any exceptions, but i expect that there would be a few programs which absolutely depend on libc6 development

Re: Incomprehensible CGI error

1997-09-16 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Neuer wrote: I am trying to get a CGI script written in Perl running, and I keep getting a wierd error that I don't understand: access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/testscript.pl failed for *machine name*, reason: Premature end of script headers Anyone know what this means? Other Perl scripts

Re: Incomprehensible CGI error

1997-09-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Dave Neuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I am trying to get a CGI script written in Perl running, and I keep : getting a wierd error that I don't understand: : : access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/testscript.pl failed for *machine name*, : reason: Premature end of script headers : : Anyone know what this

xfishtank

1997-09-16 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Rick Hawkins writes: Has anyone else had a problem with this? It utterly hangs X, beyond restarting X. I can still telnet in, but halting the xdm daemon restarting isn't enough to recover the keyboard. For that matter, it requires an actual power down (but there are some

Re: Interface to the vacation program?

1997-09-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : So, my question is: does anyone know if there is a WWW interface to the : vacation program? I am thinking about a web page/CGI script that allows : the user to specify his/her e-mail address and the vacation message : and have the CGI run the vacation

mirror leaves ppp up on failure of mirror

1997-09-16 Thread Jameson Burt
My nightly cron job mirrors a debian site. Here is my cron job, which runs mirror if not already running, then turns off ppp with poff. if [ -z `/sbin/pidof -x mirror` ]; then (pon; sleep 120; /bin/mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt 2/dev/null; cd /mnt/mirrors; ./run-mirror; poff) ;fi

Brother HJ-400 Printer

1997-09-16 Thread bhaal
Has anyone Managed to get a Brother HJ-400 printer working with ghostscript? -- Living is just a state of mind... Everything is changing, yet, we have nothing to lose... The Lord Bhaal... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: decoding base64

1997-09-16 Thread Jim Pick
I keep getting e-mail through Juno from my boyfriend who is on an aircraft carrier. The last time, I used uuencode. This time it says base64. Can you tell my why they are coming to me encoded. Also, is there an easy way for me to decode this message. The uuencode doesn't work. Maybe it

Re: decoding base64

1997-09-16 Thread Jim Pick
Sorry to follow up to my own message - but mimedecode doesn't do what I though it did. I was thinking of uudeview from the uudeview package. Cheers, - Jim pgprEgZoU8oOP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Printer Advice: HP 870C or Epson Stylus 800

1997-09-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Civ Kevin F. Havener [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm contemplating buying one of the two subject printers. Has anyone out there used either of these two printers under Linux? Easy to use under Linux is the key criteria. Color printing is nice to have but most of my

samba install probs

1997-09-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I just tried to install samba on my Debian 1.2 system. I found that first I have to install a few libraries, among them: libpam0 and libpam-util But there is a problem: Package: libpam-util Version: 0.56-2 Depends: libpam0 (= 0.56-2), libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), libpwdb0 (= 0.54preD-1)

howto enlarge root partition by merging with other?

1997-09-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Well, I did it. There is only a few MBs on my root partition (which is also my usr partition). Now I simply killed my OS-half partition and converted it to ext2. So far so good. What I would like to do now is enlarge / by merging it with the newly created partition. Do I have to copy

Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold

1997-09-16 Thread Adam Heath
Hmm ... I have a SB16 and midi works fine without isapnptools, maybe that's the difference. You probably have a waveblaster extension mounted to i/o 330 using the MPU 401 interface. The SB 32 has a build-in (non MPU 401 compatible) Emu8000 waveblaster that need to be initialized to

Re: cdda2wav - cannot that deice sgb

1997-09-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! I have a little problem getting cdda2wav to work... when i start the program, i'm just told that it cannot stat device sgb ... If this is a 1.3.1 installation then the generic scsi devices are numeric rather than alphabetic. That is, the

Re: decoding base64

1997-09-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 06:03:11PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: I keep getting e-mail through Juno from my boyfriend who is on an aircraft carrier. The last time, I used uuencode. This time it says base64. Can you tell my why they are coming to me encoded. Also, is there an easy way for

Re: decoding base64

1997-09-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I keep getting e-mail through Juno from my boyfriend who is on an aircraft carrier. The last time, I used uuencode. This time it says base64. Can you tell my why they are coming to me encoded. Also, is there an easy way for me to decode

Re: Token Ring

1997-09-16 Thread Terry Dawson
Greg Vence wrote: I've read the mini-FAQ on token ring and they don't talk about Debian. What are the steps to successful tr0 ? Greg, Have you checked the NET-3-HOWTO, was it any use? If not, please let me know why, I'm always keen to improve it. regards Terry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Best Ethernet Card

1997-09-16 Thread Bob Billson
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote: The other card I see mentioned a lot, but never see much as far as recommendations, is the Intel EtherExpress 100. Anyone have any thoughts on those? I'm using an EtherExpress 100 together with Linux. The only problem I've had, was finding the driver!

Detecting more than 16Meg's on a Compaq ?

1997-09-16 Thread OLH
Hi! I can't seem to make my Compaq recognize more than the first 16 MB. I have read the boot prompt-HOWTO, where it says, that I shall type type 'mem=XX'. Easy, except it boots up before I can type that. So, I looked a little on LILO, to try and find something about a startup delay, or telling

Where is routed/gated?

1997-09-16 Thread Fernando Fernandez
Hi! Am I doing something terribly wrong or there is no routed nor gated in the current distribution? I can't believe this so I must be wrong... :-) Can someone tell me waht package to install to get one of them? TIA, Fernando -- Fernando Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Despodata

Re: Incomprehensible CGI error

1997-09-16 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Dave Neuer wrote: I am trying to get a CGI script written in Perl running, and I keep getting a wierd error that I don't understand: access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/testscript.pl failed for *machine name*, reason: Premature end of script headers Anyone know what this

Re: Detecting more than 16Meg's on a Compaq ?

1997-09-16 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I can't seem to make my Compaq recognize more than the first 16 MB. I have read the boot prompt-HOWTO, where it says, that I shall type type 'mem=XX'. Easy, except it boots up before I can type that. If you want to get at the lilo prompt, you can hit scroll

Re: re-attaching a terminal to a disconnected process

1997-09-16 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Frank Sergeant wrote: :I'm thinking about a setup like this: our application would :run on a Linux box at the central office, one instance (process) :for each user. [...] :What happens to the remote user's process on the central Linux :box if the connection between the remote machine and :the

Re: Where is routed/gated?

1997-09-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hi! Am I doing something terribly wrong or there is no routed nor gated in the current distribution? I can't believe this so I must be wrong... :-) Can someone tell me waht package to install to get one of them? routed is in the package

Re: Installation Problem

1997-09-16 Thread Jens Kerle
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Chi Yung YUEN wrote: I tried to install Debian 1.3.1. I got cannot initialize swap partition error and it stopped the installation. I've already tried 3 rescue disks. I don't know what went wrong. Can anybody help? I'm using Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card, Quantum Viking

Debian and they Year 2000 problem

1997-09-16 Thread John Lines
The Year 2000 problem has been discussed extensively, but when anyone asks about Linux the answer is always 'The kernel is OK up till 2038, other than that it is an application problem' It seems to me that the Debian distribution, by breaking up the applications into a large number of manageable

Re: Incomprehensible CGI error

1997-09-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Apart from the other suggestions, there might just be an error in your : script that causes output from perl *before* you send the header. Or : maybe you'r running with 'perl -w' and have a variable that you use only : once. That causes output too

Re: Installation Problem

1997-09-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Chi Yung YUEN wrote: I tried to install Debian 1.3.1. I got cannot initialize swap partition error and it stopped the installation. I've already tried 3 rescue disks. I don't know what went wrong. Can anybody help? I'm using Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card, Quantum Viking 4.3G HD. I've had a

Re: Debian Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL

1997-09-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Otavio Exel wrote: I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 with an Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL SCSI card; while the RESC1440 disk is beeing loaded I get a lot of error messages; some of them are: - encountered spurious interrupt - failed to initialize module ? - In swapper task - not syncing

Re: howto enlarge root partition by merging with other?

1997-09-16 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Andy Spiegl wrote: What I would like to do now is enlarge / by merging it with the newly created partition. Do I have to copy everything to a backup, run fdisk and then copy it back? Or is there an easier method? (No, I don't just want to mount it) And is this process really all that easy?

Re: Best Ethernet Card

1997-09-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: How does one determine from minimal catalog info what cards are Tulip-based? I've been trying to figure that out for a while... Jeff Noxon wrote: They use the DEC 2104x (10 Mb/s) or 2114x (100 Mb/s) chips. Just look at the card or the specs on the box. DEC,

Re: Debian Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL

1997-09-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Otavio Exel wrote: I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 with an Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL SCSI card; while the RESC1440 disk is beeing loaded I get a lot of error messages; some of them are: - encountered spurious interrupt - failed to initialize module ? - In swapper task - not syncing

Upgrade from an older Debian system ??

1997-09-16 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, Thanks to everyone willing to reply to (sometimes annoying ?) questions ! I am not a newbee to Linux, but somewhere in between I guess ... My system is Debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27 and a pcmcia 3c562/563 33.6 LAN/modem card (Olivetti echos p100d). Heaving read the Web page about upgrading

Re: Configuring Qpopper

1997-09-16 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hmmm; I already compiled qpopper, following the HOWTO, and it worked *almost* perfectly. The problem is qpopper did not recognize shadow passwd. A user that has a X in passwd password, simply doesn't have pop access. Did you have the same? What's for qpopperauth? Thank's a lot Bruno At 11:19 PM

Re: Detecting more than 16Meg's on a Compaq ?

1997-09-16 Thread Shaleh
Not meaning to try the obvious ;-), but does the machine itself register all xxx megs of memory. I have seen Compaqs, Packards, etc. that need a jumper to go past xx amount of memory. Perhaps this is the problem. If not, everyone else can just store this little snipet of info. -- TO

Re: Upgrade from an older Debian system ??

1997-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Sep 16, Marc Fleureck wrote My system is Debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27 and a pcmcia 3c562/563 33.6 LAN/modem card (Olivetti echos p100d). [...] I had just installed pcmcia-cs 2.9.5-3. Before there was no pcmcia package installed. Now I have trouble starting the PCMCIA Card Services (it

Re: Token Ring

1997-09-16 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I got it to work with IBM's internal tokenring network. Whats the problem ? What have you tried so far ? Matthew On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Greg Vence wrote: Hello, I've read the mini-FAQ on token ring and they don't talk about Debian. What are the steps to successful tr0 ? Thanx --

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-09-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, George Bonser said: George One of the points raised was that even though there is a George filesystem standard, there is still too much leeway in that George some things like system initialization files and how they George are arrainged can differ widely from one

Re: xfishtank

1997-09-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
rob writes, Rick Hawkins writes: Has anyone else had a problem with this? It utterly hangs X, beyond restarting X. I can still telnet in, but halting the xdm daemon restarting isn't enough to recover the keyboard. For that matter, it requires an actual power down (but

Re: switching from ide to scsi

1997-09-16 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I decided to go the right way with one of my server and use scsi disk instead of ide. That machine has already got a scsi controller (aha2940) that drives a dat tape, so I only need to buy a scsi disk. That machine is using debian 1.1 on

kerberos debian

1997-09-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
has anyone converted the mit kerberos packages to debian? I've taken a couple of not-so successful stabs (actually, for afs, but they're interwtined). Alien reports a gaggle of unusual executable locations while executing. Also, i'm worried about the lack of debian dependency information; as

Re: kerberos debian

1997-09-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: has anyone converted the mit kerberos packages to debian? I've taken a couple of not-so successful stabs (actually, for afs, but they're interwtined). Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] is continuing the packaging started by another maintainer. I may be

downgrading ldso 1.9.2-3 to 1.8.10-2

1997-09-16 Thread Alexander LIST
Hi, I accidentally installed ldso 1.9.2-3 when trying to test some unstable packages. The rest of the system is still a bo. How dangerous is it to downgrade ldso? Thanks for any hints... -- Maenner der Wissenschaft! Man

Re: Where is routed/gated?

1997-09-16 Thread Kevin Buhr
Fernando Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am I doing something terribly wrong or there is no routed nor gated in the current distribution? I can't believe this so I must be wrong... :-) There's a /usr/sbin/routed in netstd, version 2.13-1 (stable/bo). I don't think anyone's packaged gated

depmod/modprobe error

1997-09-16 Thread Steve Hsieh
Anyone know how to solve this one? raindrop:/etc# depmod -a modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory I'm not sure if this is related to the fact that I built my own custom kernel (using make-kpkg). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Xemacs and cperl-mode

1997-09-16 Thread Carl Johnson
(Let's see if Debian-user will accept it this time.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: Carl == Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl I have recently been trying to edit some perl scripts using Carl xemacs, so I tried using the cperl-mode instead of Carl

/tmp changing its permission

1997-09-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I sometimes have the problem that the permissions of /tmp has changed (while booting?). From the normal rwxrwxrwt they change to rwxr-xr-x. Does anyone has an idea what is causing this? /tmp has an own partition and is mounted while booting using mount -a if this is important. Thanks for your

Re: root access via telnet?

1997-09-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Is it possible to allow root access via telnet? It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is *not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important data, so security would not be a problem. The server is

Re: /tmp changing its permission

1997-09-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 16 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: I sometimes have the problem that the permissions of /tmp has changed (while booting?). From the normal rwxrwxrwt they change to rwxr-xr-x. Does anyone has an idea what is causing this? /tmp has an own partition and is mounted while booting using

Re: cdda2wav - cannot that deice sgb

1997-09-16 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:08:38 +, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! I have a little problem getting cdda2wav to work... when i start the program, i'm just told that it cannot stat device sgb ... Because it can't. : Are you using it with ide or scsi cdrom?

Re: downgrading ldso 1.9.2-3 to 1.8.10-2

1997-09-16 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:30:24 +0200 Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED] raz.ac.at) wrote: I accidentally installed ldso 1.9.2-3 when trying to test some unstable packages. The rest of the system is still a bo. How dangerous is it to downgrade ldso? Perillous. Just don't do it, it will break

Re: cdda2wav - cannot that deice sgb

1997-09-16 Thread Michael Legart
Hi! Because it can't. : hahahahhah Are you using it with ide or scsi cdrom? ide ... I now have tryed -D /dev/hdd and that works ... well allmost! I get some errors when it running, but maybe thats because I have a 486 dx2-80. My cdrom is a e-ide 12X Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW

xdm, xinit and startx problem

1997-09-16 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Hi, With regards to your xman problem, have you checked the permissions of /dev/null? I had exactly the same problem and messages from xman with an installation of Slackware - it was because /dev/null only had root permissions. I had to chmod it so that everybody could use

permission on dos filesystem

1997-09-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root using chown

xscreensaver

1997-09-16 Thread TJM
Hi. Trying to run xscreensaver and I get the following messages: Xlib: connection to 0:0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display :0.0 Running fvwm95...43a and x 3.3-3, kernel 2.0.27, xscreensaver 1.27.1. thanks, tjm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdda2wav - cannot that deice sgb

1997-09-16 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:50:21 +, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! Because it can't. : hahahahhah Are you using it with ide or scsi cdrom? ide ... I now have tryed -D /dev/hdd and that works ... well allmost! I get some errors when it running, but maybe thats because I have a 486

Re: permission on dos filesystem

1997-09-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: : I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use : very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the : directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the : ownerships had changed to root.

Re: locales

1997-09-16 Thread Dale Martin
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to make lftp work, I'd downloaded the version in hamm. This called for a new lic5 which caused the removal on damn near everything. Included in that was the locales package. I've restored almost everything, with the exception of the locales

Re: permission on dos filesystem

1997-09-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the ownerships had changed to root. I

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-09-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [linuxconfig stuff snipped] Kai == Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kai So we can attack this problem right there -- convince the Kai linuxconfig people not to use their own /etc/rc* scheme, and all Kai will be fine. For this problem. Kai Have I been talking foolish things?

Help, delivery errors connected to debian-user?

1997-09-16 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
I'm sorry to get bandwith with a pretty big attachment, but this thing really deserves the gurus' attention. These days I get quite a lot of delivery errors about messages usually reaching their goal: I see them regularly come back, resent from the mailing list server. I was thinking of

/etc/X11/XF86Config for Trident tgui9440

1997-09-16 Thread Ralph Winslow
Would someone who's using the above card at 800x600 (or better) please forward a copy of their configuration file to me? I'd appreciate it deeply. TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ

SMP CMP Usage?

1997-09-16 Thread Brian White
Is there any way I can tell how each CPU on a multi-processor system is being used? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.02.

Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config for Trident tgui9440

1997-09-16 Thread John Maheu
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: Would someone who's using the above card at 800x600 (or better) please forward a copy of their configuration file to me? I'd appreciate it deeply. TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

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1997-09-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I am getting bounced back messages every time I post to debian-user. The bounced message says that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unknow user. Is it just me or everybody is having this problem? Thanks, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela

Re: depmod/modprobe error

1997-09-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Steve == Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve raindrop:/etc# depmod -a modprobe: error reading ELF header: No Steve such file or directory Steve I'm not sure if this is related to the fact that I built my own Steve custom kernel (using make-kpkg). This is a problem with the