RE: fallo al llamar a pppd con RDSI

2000-05-24 Thread Juanma
Madre del amor hermoso ¿de donde has sacado esto? Perdona por el comentario pero me pegué por lo menos dos meses de pelea en una de estas conexiones y despues de probar un montón de scrips me funcionaron unos que me pasaron y despues de leer la página de Arenaza. Mira, hay dos maneras de

Re: fallo al llamar a pppd con RDSI

2000-05-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 24 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 09:20:17 +0200, Juanma contaba: Busqué el archivo de las isdn4k-utils donde decía el lugar donde aparecían el options y con qué nombre) en mi caso era en etc/ppp/ippp0.d/options. Debo comentar que en mi caso el nombre de las opciones era options a secas y

El inicio de las X y exec

2000-05-24 Thread Hue-Bond
Buenas. En muchos sitios recomiendan que llamemos al window manager con un exec delante: xterm -ls xosview xconsole -file /dev/xconsole -daemon exec icewm Quisiera saber cuál es la diferencia práctica entre poner 'exec icewm' y poner sólo 'icewm'. En la

Virus chernobyl en linux (off-topic?)

2000-05-24 Thread Santiago Fernandez Lopez
Hola a todos, Se me ha estropeado el cacharro, que por suerte aUn estA en garantIa. AUn no esta muy clara la averIa: procesador, placa madre, etc... El caso es que el tEcnico de la tienda donde lo comprE dice que tiene la BIOS borrada, asI que llamO a su distribuidor para obtener informaciOn y le

Re: Virus chernobyl en linux (off-topic?)

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime Fernández Martínez
Sin ser un gurú en virus, sí que es posible que tengas el Chernobil u otro virus en tu equipo, que no en tu Linux y me explico. Si no recuerdo mal existen muchos virus de boot que afectan principalmente a los disquetes (Chernobil podría ser uno de ellos, pero no tengo documentación

Re: El inicio de las X y exec

2000-05-24 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, may 24, 2000 at 01:22:15 +0200, Hue-Bond wrote: Quisiera saber cuál es la diferencia práctica entre poner 'exec icewm' y poner sólo 'icewm'. En la página man de bash dice que con exec se sustituye al shell, pero de todas formas el resultado es el mismo: cuando

Conexión RDSI, ¿Novacom Mix?, ¿tarjeta?...

2000-05-24 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Holas, os voy a dar la paliza con RDSI un poco :-) Quiero contratar una conexión RDSI con: * Tarifa plana respecto a la transmisión de bytes. * Tarifa plana respecto a la conexión. * Conexión permanente con IP fija del servidor bajo Debian, como para poner Apache + servidor de correo para que

Re: Virus chernobyl en linux (off-topic?)

2000-05-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 24 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 13:47:35 +0200, Santiago Fernandez Lopez contaba: la BIOS borrada, asI que llamO a su distribuidor para obtener informaciOn y le dijo que tendrIa (en mi Linux -Only- Box!) el virus Chernobyl que parece ser que borra las BIOS. Que os parece? Yo te

Re: El inicio de las X y exec

2000-05-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 24 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 14:50:22 +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez contaba: Si no me equivoco la cuestión es que con exec se crea un proceso padre y sin el es un proceso hijo del shell existente. Bien, eso es lo que dice el man bash sobre exec. Pero yo

Re: Virus chernobyl en linux (off-topic?)

2000-05-24 Thread Santiago Fernandez
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jaime [iso-8859-1] Fernández Martínez wrote: Sin ser un gurú en virus, sí que es posible que tengas el Chernobil u otro virus en tu equipo, que no en tu Linux y me explico. Si, es posible, por eso ya he tenido y tengo cuidado. Si no recuerdo mal existen

Re: Virus chernobyl en linux (off-topic?)

2000-05-24 Thread Santiago Fernandez
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Hue-Bond wrote: teniendo en cuenta que no tienen ni idea de informAtica!?? Si no tienen ni idea, ¿de dónde quitan que en Unix hay peores virus que para la-cosa? La ignorancia genera rumores, los rumores se propagan, se alimentan y crecen ... y es

Ayuda sobre semi-reinstalacion

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime Fernández Martínez
Por aquellas cosas de la vida he borrado parte de los ficheros de /usr/sbin, entre ellos inetd, useradd, MAKEFLOPPIES,... así hasta 52. Algunos los voy buscando entre los paquetes y los extraigo, pero ¿Hay alguna forma de reinstalarlo todo (empleé dselect) sin que me toque los ficheros de

fuentes del ghostscript

2000-05-24 Thread Miguel Rodriguez Penabad
Hola a todos. Me ha pasado una cosa rara con el ghostview. Estuve trasteando para tratar de configurar mi impresora hp690 con la version 6.01 del ghostview (no hay .deb que yo sepa, y usé las fuentes) y luego lo borre y volví a instalar el g-5.10. Pero ahora me da siempre error en /findfont, o

Re: El inicio de las X y exec

2000-05-24 Thread Danito
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:34:36PM +0200, Hue-Bond wrote: El miércoles 24 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 14:50:22 +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez contaba: Si no me equivoco la cuestión es que con exec se crea un proceso padre y sin el es un proceso hijo del shell existente. Bien, eso

Configuracion Modem

2000-05-24 Thread Anez, Alcira
Buenas tardes: El caso es el siguiente: Tengo un modem universal conectado a mi maquina al iniciar la sesión con Internet el modem da tono de marcado pero se desconecta y no vuelve a marcar. No hay conexión. Que tengo que hacer para hacer esta conexión posible Que pasos tengo que seguir para

Re: fuentes del ghostscript

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Miguel Rodriguez Penabad wrote: Hola a todos. Me ha pasado una cosa rara con el ghostview. Estuve trasteando para tratar de configurar mi impresora hp690 con la version 6.01 del ghostview Creo que estarás hablando de la versión 6.01 de ghostscript, pués ghostview no tiene números de versión

Re: make bzImage. Error al final

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Isaac Puch Rojo wrote: Gracias de mi parte también. Tenía el mismo problema y ... apt-get install bin86 Si usaran el método recomendado por debian para compilar un nuevo núcleo (kernel-package) no tendrían ese problema, pues la descripción de kernel-package dice: If you are running

Re: imagen de disco duro ¿cómo?

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Hue-Bond wrote: El martes 23 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 17:21:52 +0200, Juanma contaba: Si lo comprimo con tar se me queda en 240 mb y este tamaño parece más apropiado. Dirás que lo comprimes con gzip no? Tal vez está usando tar cvz directorio antes de copiar con dd. Jaime

Cómo vivir con paquetes binarios y código fuente.

2000-05-24 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Hola. Tengo la necesidad de usar por una parte paquetes binarios .deb y por otra librerías compiladas a partir del .tar.gz. El problema es tener la versión binaria de gtk 1.1 y la versión de código fuente 1.2.6. ¿Hay alguna forma de decirle al gestor de paquetes que se olvide de las

Re: Ayuda sobre semi-reinstalacion

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Jaime Fernández Martínez wrote: Por aquellas cosas de la vida he borrado parte de los ficheros de /usr/sbin, entre ellos inetd, useradd, MAKEFLOPPIES,... así hasta 52. Algunos los voy buscando entre los paquetes y los extraigo, pero ¿Hay alguna forma de reinstalarlo todo (empleé dselect) sin

Re: Cómo vivir con paquetes binarios y códigofuente.

2000-05-24 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: Lo que quiero hacer concretamente es quitar el binario de gtk 1.1, hacer un make install del 1.2.6 y ya está. Se me ocurre instalar el 1.2.6 en /usr/local y después usar update-alternatives para hacer que el binario de gtk sea el que está en /usr/local y no el

Re: Ayuda sobre semi-reinstalacion

2000-05-24 Thread Correcaminos
~ El miércoles, 24 de mayo del 2000, a las 09:40, Jaime E. Villate dijo: Re: Ayuda sobre semi-reinstalacion _ Jaime Fernández

Re: Conexión RDSI, ¿Novacom Mix?, ¿tarjeta?...

2000-05-24 Thread JFA
3.- Si quiero conectar una intranet através de la conexión RDSI, ¿necesito un router?... esto es de principiante lo se pero ya que hay gente en la lista trabajando hace años con este tipo de conexiones mejor que lo pregunte aún cuando yo haya leido ya suficientes COMOS y

Re: El inicio de las X y exec

2000-05-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 24 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 19:47:14 +0200, Danito contaba: Puede que ahorres un poco de memoria utilizando exec xq quitas de memoria el proceso del shell. Pero no creo que sea mucha la que ganes Sí, a eso me refería yo. Un meguilla de nada. preocupate por otras cosas en

Re: imagen de disco duro ¿cómo?

2000-05-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 24 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 21:10:19 +0100, Jaime E. Villate contaba: Dirás que lo comprimes con gzip no? Tal vez está usando tar cvz directorio antes de copiar con dd. Posiblemente, pero él dice que tiene una imagen de 850 Mb, por lo que usar gzip es más

Re: Cómo vivir con paquetes binarios y código fuente.

2000-05-24 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:59:16PM +0200, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: Lo que quiero hacer concretamente es quitar el binario de gtk 1.1, hacer un make install del 1.2.6 y ya está. El problema es que el gestor de paquetes se vuelve loco al desinstalar gtk, y seguirá loco cuando intente

Re: Re: Sobre Teclado e Idiomas :-)

2000-05-24 Thread yashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BSD On 23-May-00 Correcaminos wrote: Fijo que hay más programas de este tipo. Pruebalo y nos cuentas ;) estuve viendo ese prog que me dijiste pero no tiene soporte para hebreo :-( japones, ruso, turco, etc pero no hebreo seguire buscando. lo

Re: Conexión RDSI, ¿Novacom Mix?, ¿tarjeta?...

2000-05-24 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola El 24 May 2000 a las 03:19PM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez escribio: Quiero contratar una conexión RDSI con: * Tarifa plana respecto a la transmisión de bytes. * Tarifa plana respecto a la conexión. * Conexión permanente con IP fija del servidor bajo Debian, como para poner Apache

Re: encrypted perl scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have got a perl script that are encrypted. It looks like something like this: #!/usr/bin/perl use Filter::decrypt ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^C6oxOp=9p(35p+=8p:-^^7L^D-;?p=(^UE_Ap:-^^;^WE$^Y6R/^_!7L^F,=

Re: lp.o module will not load

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
Try modprobe'ing instead of insmod'ing (assuming you've done a depmod on the new modules0. Or insmod parport first; I think that is where the unresolved symbols point to. Or possibly parport_pc. At 10:12 PM 5/23/00 +, Pollywog wrote: I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a

Re: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-24 Thread Rob Rati
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I seem to have moved the SCSI Ids around and dropped the transfer rate and it appears to work great. Thanks again! Rob Andrew Weiss wrote: ID of 0 is usually reserved for a boot drive in many SCSI bios'es. Don't use 0 with a CDROM. Make that hard

RE: Modem Setup

2000-05-24 Thread Jay Kelly
I need help in getting my potato box to see it. When I run wvdialconfig it only checks com 1 and com 2. How do I get linux to look on come 3 and 4? -Original Message- From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:56 PM To: Jay Kelly;

Re: dhcp cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp? If you are going to have two have two ethernet cards in your machine, this is fairly easy and a number of responses have already touched on how to have

Re: Crash-URL

2000-05-24 Thread Shao Zhang
try this: HTML BODY a href=c:\nul\nul hello, please click me!! /a /BODY /HTML Regards, Shao. Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I once saw a link on a page that caused windows to crash immediately when clicked on. It was stated on that very page that this would happen. So then

Re[3]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match the beginning quote. See example below: $hello =~ s{ \hello world }{ hello

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-24 Thread deja luser
Where can I find more info on ext2? I'm mainly interested in max fs size and max file size. I checked the usual suspects: howto's, man/info pages, /usr/doc/ and /usr/src/linux/Documentation . On a system with stable slink I able to make 1gig files, in an otherwise empty 3.8 gig partition, but

kdm-i18n login fails

2000-05-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Debs, I've just installed the i18n version of KDE (ftp://ftp.kde.gr.jp/) and now kdm refuses to let me log in. Previously I have used the standard KDE packages (ftp://kde.tdyc.com/) without any problems. I'm sure it is not me mistyping the password. I can login on the con- sole and xdm. I

Re: apache on debian frozen!

2000-05-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Thomas Braun wrote: hello group i use the htpasswd from apache for my squid password list with ncsa_auth authentication ! my password is 9 characters long but if i typed only 8 it is ssuccessful ! htpasswd in apache by default creates crypt

Re: encrypted perl scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I still think it is encrypted. You can tell that Joey's signature is proper perl code. But the one I posted is not. It uses Filter::decrypt to process it, which makes it very slow. I wish there is someway that I can get the original source back.

Re: root can't view manpages (incl. strace)

2000-05-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type man ls as root, I get the following: man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but i am

Re: encrypted perl scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Brad
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:52:34PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Now, I have two questions: 1. how did they do this? They encrypted it ;) 2. Is there a *way* to get the original source back?? Do you have the source of Filter::decrypt? If so, perhaps you can hack it to print

Re: encrypted perl scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dude, it was a joke. On the non-joke side though, are you able to look at the source for the Filter::decrypt module? Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I still think it is encrypted. You can tell that Joey's signature is proper perl code. But the one I posted is not. It uses

Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread Wan Hing Wah
Is it any method that I can check whether the user is a local user (that mean use the computer by sitting in front of the computer physically).It maybe useful so that I can make a program which is setuid to root and check whether the user is local and grant permission to some physical device...

Re: Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection

2000-05-24 Thread Davide Libenzi
Check XMail : http://www.maticad.it/davide/xmail.asp It can use RBL ( rbl.maps.vix.com ) and RSS ( relays.mail-abuse.org ) as long as many other MTA can. It then have a file that hold Your own list of spammers IPs and has a file that holds IP connection rules ( ALLOW, DENY ). Davide -- Feel

Callback HOWTO ?

2000-05-24 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hi there, I am urgently searching any documentation regarding the creation of a callback server and the client fitting to this... Do you know any location where I may obtain this documentation / HOWTO ? Best regards, Oliver --- Mit freundlichem Gruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver

Mutt configuration

2000-05-24 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I love Mutt as an e-mail client. A few things I have not been able to sort out yet. Any suggestions would be welcome. - I would like to have prober IMAP support. I use Mutt on a local machine, for remote access I use Netscape (IMAP) over LAN, and IMP (also IMAP) over Internet. I have not

Re: Check whether the user is local user

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

3C905 with AsusTek K7V

2000-05-24 Thread Nolan Clark
My 3C905 nic does not seem to work with the K7V motherboard. The card works fine in windows, but it will not work in redhat or debian linux. Redhat didn't have much in the way of errors, but debian produced some very interesting things during boot up: --normal boot stuff-- /dev/hda3: clean,

Re: 3C905 with AsusTek K7V

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

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote: The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match the beginning quote. See example below: $hello =~ s{ \hello world

Squid's log

2000-05-24 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I got this number: 959159565.669 from the first column of Squid's log (/var/log/squid/access.log). I believe that it's the date and time of the client access expressed in Unix time. What is the simplest way to convert it to a readable format? Perl function perhaps? Thanks in advance, Oki

firewall-scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Andreas Loosen \(CRW.NET\)
Hi, All, what is the recommended way to include my firewall scripts in potato? In slink I used to place it in /etc/init.d and started it from /etc/init.d/network. Regards Andreas

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-24 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: packages are required: libz1 and libxpm4. I searched for them in the we had this topic already several times on this list ... seems to be quite common. I guess, my problem is caused by the fact that I use dpkg to investigate dependencies

Re: Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread Wan Hing Wah
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Is it any method that I can check whether the user is a local user try man utmp. for scripts: the output of who has a non-empty last field, if the user is non-local. however, this may vary from configuration to configuration. -- Hi!

ghostscript message

2000-05-24 Thread Agner-Nichols
When running gv (as a replacement for ghostview), I get a Ghostscript message '/invalidfont in findfont' (specifically, Times New Roman). Any ideas about where to get additional fonts and how tomake them available for ghostscript? (running debian slink, kernel 2.0.36 on a cyrix 486 dx).

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-24 Thread Philip Lehman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess, my problem is caused by the fact that I use dpkg to investigate dependencies and to install packages and not apt-get (I must admit, that I positioned it low priority on my installing list. Since setting it up didn't work

Re: Check whether the user is local user

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

Re: Squid's log

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

Re: ghostscript message

2000-05-24 Thread Philip Lehman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Agner-Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When running gv (as a replacement for ghostview), I get a Ghostscript message '/invalidfont in findfont' (specifically, Times New Roman). Ad you don't get that with ghostview? Both are just frontends to gs and this is an error message

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote: The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match the beginning quote. See example below:

cd-rw for old cdrom drivers (8x)

2000-05-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Speed isn't your problem. Selecting the speed in cdrecord on changes how long the disk took to burn. Older CD rom drives can't read CD-RW disks, period. The reflectivity of CD-RW's is quite low, lower even than CD-R media. The optics and electronics of a CD rom reader must be able to 'see' the

Re: can't print

2000-05-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I'm far from the most expert on parallel ports -- until recently, I hadn't touched one in years -- but I did just have to get a parallel printer working on a potato server. I did it by (manually) insmod'ing parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o Most of the printing docs I've seen

Re: Crash-URL

2000-05-24 Thread Tony Crawford
No crash. Opera 3.62 for Win32 says, Could not open file. T. Shao Zhang wrote (on 24 May 00, at 14:37): try this: hello, please click me!! Regards, Shao. Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I once saw a link on a page that caused windows to crash immediately when clicked on.

RE: Crash-URL

2000-05-24 Thread Dominic Blythe
clever ol' opera. it certainly crashes ie4, 5. -Original Message- From: Tony Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2000 13:46 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Crash-URL No crash. Opera 3.62 for Win32 says, Could not open file. T. Shao Zhang wrote

RE: Crash-URL

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

Re: dhcp cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-24 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: (snip) 2 - If your other DHCP server is *not* the linux box that is going to be talking to the cable-modem, then just hard-code 1-to-1 mappings in your dhcpd.conf file so that it only gives out certain IP's to hardware addresses that it recognizes.

howto

2000-05-24 Thread Charles Stephen
I have installed to ethernet adapter cards but only one is being detected. I was able to gather some information on what should be done when you install two or more ethernet cardsin the same machine from the fllowing site http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO-6.html Which indicates that if

Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I have a small number of machines which are currently running slink. I'd like to upgrade them, at least to frozen and possibly even to woody. The simple answer is apt-get (dist-)upgrade. However, there are a couple of issues with this. First, I pay for internet downloads, so I want to

Re: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Christian Surchi
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! bye Christian

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm not myself a SCSI expert. I sought advice on what to buy (before I purchased my LVD drive) from the aic7xxx mailing list and was told specifically that I should buy an LVD drive to get more performance later on when if I get a new controller (perhaps with a new computer). I was assured

Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hi there, does anyone of you know how to accomplish the transfer of a log file from one server to another ? For example, I have stored the local files of the server mail.bla.org in the absolute path /usr/logs. Besides I am running the dialin.bla.org whichs /var/logs/messages-file I would like

RE: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Christian Surchi On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! That seems to work based

Re: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Moore, Paul said: The only difficulty I have is with step (2) - is it enough to transfer the /var/cache/apt/archives directory? If not, what is the best way? Almost, but not quite. I share /var/cache/apt over NFS here and it works, provided that I do an apt-get update on each machine. If you

RE: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Pichai Asokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have done precisely this. That's good to know. Looks like I may have guessed right... However, I ran the apt-get update on all the machines. I do not know exactly how to duplicate that on other machines. I'm guessing that I copy

problems with some WWW sites

2000-05-24 Thread Vicente Torres
I am running a potato with netscape 4.7 and I can not access following URLs: http://www.upv.es http://www.sony.es I have Java and javascript enabled. any idea? (any other URL seems to work OK) -- .'/,-Y ~-. Vicente Torres Carot

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Oliver Schoenknecht said: For example, I have stored the local files of the server mail.bla.org in the absolute path /usr/logs. Besides I am running the dialin.bla.org whichs /var/logs/messages-file I would like to grep and put in the /usr/logs of mail.bla.org... got the idea behind this ?

Re: problems with some WWW sites

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
What happens if you do: nslookup www.upv.es nslookup www.sony.es ?? Ron Rademaker On Wed, 24 May 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: I am running a potato with netscape 4.7 and I can not access following URLs: http://www.upv.es http://www.sony.es I have Java and

How to properly Gnomeify Storm Linux?

2000-05-24 Thread John McBride
Hello, I have been using Storm Linux, but am tired of KDE. I installed potato, and the helix-gnome, as well as some of the window managers. Here are my questions: 1) I tried a bunch of window managers and the helixcode stuff, and now my destop is broken (I think WindowMaker did...something.

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
You could make the logfile in /var/logs a symlink to where you want it. I guess that'll work. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Hi there, does anyone of you know how to accomplish the transfer of a log file from one server to another ? For example, I have

Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
Another question on apt... I've downloaded a lot of .deb files from various places on the Internet, and I'd like to put them on a CD or something for safekeeping. It strikes me that the best way of doing this would be to put them in some sort of format which would allow me to use apt to install

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-24 Thread ferret
Not a driver bug. Western Digital's technical support spake thusly. Foo. OTOH, a Tekram DC390U2W dual-channel would knock me back about $160. Kernel config suggests this should be an NCR 8xx-based controller, so I'm happy with that. On Wed, 24 May 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I'm not

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 24 May 2000 16:26:34 +0200, Ron Rademaker writes: You could make the logfile in /var/logs a symlink to where you want it. I guess that'll work. I think Oliver has two physically different machines, so it's either nfs- mounting symlinking or syslogging directly to the other machine (man

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the mirror and the directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you don't all have, however if you don't need them that's not a problem. Ron Rademaker

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
I think logging everything to another server via syslogd is quite a good idea - I have just tried it and everything seems to work fine ! Thanks for the hints :-) ! Now, has anyone of you an idea how to set up a callback-machine :-))) ? --- Mit freundlichem Gruss [EMAIL

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

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

RE: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the mirror and the directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you don't all have, however if you

/dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on replies. -- Michael Meskes

RE: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should check the manpage of deb-control. Ron Rademaker PS. You could also keep all the .deb's and install them, if needed, using dpkg. On Wed, 24 May 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know about a normal modem, but AFAIK there is some kind of callback function in isdnutils (but that will only work with ISDN). Ron On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: I think logging everything to another server via syslogd is quite a good idea - I have just tried it and

Re: can't print

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Just to add some (perhaps) useful information: On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I did it by (manually) insmod'ing: parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o Only an issue with kernel 2.2.x and higher. With kernel 2.0.x it's a bit different. I found that

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter? Can you

gpm as repeater for X11

2000-05-24 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi What causes the following error? I'm using the frozen (potato) distribution. GPM is configured as repeater and ps fax shows me that it's running as -Rmsc mouse works on console. Whenever I try to start X as user or root I get: Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid

Re: Mutt configuration

2000-05-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 09:47:55AM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Hi, I love Mutt as an e-mail client. A few things I have not been able ... - I would like to be able to use a different name in the From: line than my linux account name. My account is 'erik', but I have an alias

Re: 3C905 with AsusTek K7V

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
I seem to recall problems with older 3c59x.o modules and newer 3C905 NICs. Newer kernels have a module that works; older ones need to have the newer version of the module (available from Don Becker's site, http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html) patched in. SInce you don't say what version of

Re: howto

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
Installation of modules is an area in which the various Linux distributions differ quite a bit. The HowTo you read doesn't reflect this variation. For a Debian install, just add this line to /etc/modules ne io=0x240,0x260 At 01:07 PM 5/24/00 +0100, Charles Stephen wrote: I have installed to

Re: /dev/hda10

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

Re: cpu arch performance

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Lee, On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: Hello list(s), Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running Debian on m68k. The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 650MHz

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:39:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want. Could be, but why would you want 10 partitions? :)

Re: /dev/hda10

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

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-24 Thread John Bagdanoff
I guess, my problem is caused by the fact that I use dpkg to investigate dependencies and to install packages and not apt-get (I must admit, that I positioned it low priority on my installing list. Since setting it up didn't work right from the beginning, I skipped it for later experiments. As

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