Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-20 Thread David Charro Ripa
¿Alguien con un postgreSQL publico...? ¿un cvs para meter cosas entre varios...? ¿algun recurso por el estilo ...? Probad en www.f2s.com 20 MB de páginas, buen ancho de banda, postgresql, php3 y encima funcionan con debian y es gratis. En fin, una maravilla. Saludos

Squid

2000-07-20 Thread Jaume Sabater
Hola: He instalado squid en mi debian. En preferencias,proxi he puesto en configuracion manual en html y ftp localhost y como puerto 3128. Me conecto y intento cargar ,por ejemplo,http://www.debian.org, pero no puedo. Me dice algo asi como: Contol de confirmacion de aaceso previene su

Re: Squid

2000-07-20 Thread Eduardo Fernandez
En el squid.conf veras una seccion que pone # # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS # Yo tengo en esa parte: acl mired src 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 acl otrared src 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0 http_access allow mired http_access allow sodefesa http_access deny all En

bug del proftpd

2000-07-20 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. En la potato (a día de hoy 20-7-2000), viene el proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2. Según Security Focus, las versiones pre del 1.2 están afectadas por un bug que permite ejecutar código arbitrario. He mirado en el árbol de potato en security.debian.org, y no aparece ningún paquete de actualización del

Re: un script para lectores de LA y SL

2000-07-20 Thread Jaime E. Villate
¿Alguien con un postgreSQL publico...? lo tengo ¿un cvs para meter cosas entre varios...? lo tengo ¿algun recurso por el estilo ...? todo lo que querais; decidme el paquete de Debian que quereis que instale, fuera de lo que ya tengo. sourceforge.net? Aunque parecería abuso

Re: xsession errors

2000-07-20 Thread Jaime E. Villate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Si a alguien le sirve, ya se cual era el problema que tenia, que impedia que algun usuario no-privilegiado iniciara sesion en X. Me falta el archivo Xwrapper (no se donde debe de estar localizado, pero ya lo busque por todos lados). Pués no debe ser eso porque yo

Problemas con el crontab

2000-07-20 Thread Jaume Sabater
Güenas. A ver si me aclaro: En el crontab hay SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 25 6* * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 6* * 7 roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron

Re: xsession errors

2000-07-20 Thread estoy
Pués no debe ser eso porque yo tampoco tengo ese archivo en ninguna de las máquinas que uso y no tengo problemas de falta de autorización para ejecutar el servidor de X. Tienes mucha razon, lo que pasa es que lo lei en la FAQ de xfree86 y asumi que ese debia ser mi problema. Sin embargo

AGP.

2000-07-20 Thread Ricardo Adolfo Rodríguez
Holas a todos. Tengo una tarjeta de video Trident 970 AGP 4MB. Quisiera saber si linux, aprovecha todas las caracterisiticas del sistema AGP.. o es lo mismo que el PCI?, como aprovecho todas sus caracterisiticas?, que version del kernel necesito... yo tengo la 2.2.14. Otra cosa.. Pero no se si

[no subject]

2000-07-20 Thread Jaume Sabater
¿Alguien ha configurado 2 discos IDE en RAID 0? He mirado de bajarme los paquetes del raid (raidtools) y me dice que si quiero usar el nuevo estilo necesito librerias, mientras que si quiero usar el viejo... En fin, que me he instalado el raidtools viejo estilo. Ahorita me encuentro en que tengo

ppp y permisos del modem

2000-07-20 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hola todos: Tengo un inconveniente: Tengo un grupo de usuarios dialout, que pueden tener acceso al modem. Los permisos son drw-rw--- root,dialout /dev/ttyS2 Sin embargo cada vez que me conecto a internet, el ppp (que es set-UID) cambia los permisos por drw-- root,dialout

sendmailproblem

2000-07-20 Thread Henrik Andersson
Försöker få sendmail att vidarebefodra mail till min smtpserver (Netlink). Men det står sender domain must exist [EMAIL PROTECTED] eller något liknande. Kan jag fixa ett alias, eller liknande? -- Henrik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to install a fake package?

2000-07-20 Thread Mike Johnson
I currently use debian2.2 , And I used Corel's CorelExploer And I want to be able to use it in debian. but When i use apt to install it , it gives me this error. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kde-corel: Depends: libapt-pkg2.5 I ln libapt-pkg2.5 to libapt-pkg2.7

help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is hamm. # date Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000 # date -u Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000 # touch /tmp/hello # ls -al /tmp/hello -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 20 05:59 /tmp/hello As you can see

Re: help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread Corey Popelier
Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there that says Set UTC to yes or no. Make sure this is set to no. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I am having some problems here with timestamp. The

Re: help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
It is set to no. Besides, I have even tried this in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh GMT=--localtime and it still does not work.. Thanks. Shao. Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there that says Set UTC to yes or no. Make sure this is set to no.

Re: Servlets and Apache

2000-07-20 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just http://jakarta.apache.org is the best way to go. Think about servlet will not have dependence with apache or any platform. Only think at the level-spacification of this one (i mean the lvl supported by the server u use). Seeya At 19.01

RE: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick?

2000-07-20 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick? Issue 1: I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux. I simply want to start from a shell and then enter startx when I want to get into a GUI. I've

Re: installation question...?

2000-07-20 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:49:47AM -0400, Ken Ebling wrote: does anyone know why it says it wants 2.2.17 when I downloaded it from the 2.2.16 directory!? Debian develops very fast. Maybe try an other disk-image or an other floppy disk. Floppy-disk are not very reliable. --

RE: images iso de debian linux ppc ?

2000-07-20 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: images iso de debian linux ppc ? Just try there: ftp.debian.org/debian-cd As a sidenote: I did not find them on any mirror so I assume it is not really a nice practice to download them at once since it could harm the server. HTH Thierry -Original Message- From:

Help with configuring X Server

2000-07-20 Thread Patrick J Draper
Help, I am a Linux newbie, I have gone through a Debian 2.1 installation, installed X Windows (X1186R6) and am now having extreme difficulty configuring and starting an X Server. I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done and the server trys to start I get an

Re: help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread Brian May
Corey == Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Corey Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there Corey that says Set UTC to yes or no. Make sure this is set to Corey no. You are thinking of potato. IIRC It is different in slink. This is hamm... Hi, I am having

Re: Servlets and Apache

2000-07-20 Thread Brian May
Alberto == Alberto Rodríguez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi guys I am looking for starting pointers on setting up Servlets on Apache. Anyone got some useful links handy for that? From what versions on is Apache servlet-capable? There is a Debian package (at

Re: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick?

2000-07-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:42:18AM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: Issue 1: I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux. I simply want to start from a shell and then enter startx when I want to get into

How to make a boot disk?

2000-07-20 Thread Marshal Wong
Hey all, You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't. So how do I do it? :) I heard of dd the kernel onto disk, but aren't there certain variables that are on the kernel, like the root partition, that must be changed? Any

Re: Help with configuring X Server

2000-07-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:56:37AM +0100, Patrick J Draper wrote: Help, I am a Linux newbie, I have gone through a Debian 2.1 installation, installed X Windows (X1186R6) and am now having extreme difficulty configuring and starting an X Server. I go through the graphical XF86Setup program

Re: help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corey == Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Corey Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there Corey that says Set UTC to yes or no. Make sure this is set to Corey no. You are thinking of potato. IIRC It is different in

Boot floppy [URGENT]

2000-07-20 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, I really need a fast help. I've to setup a debian box with a Compaq Array SCSI Controller. I downloaded the latest boot floppy for potato to install debian trough network. problem: the Compaq Array where root has to be mounted is loaded only like module. I was able to partion disks

Re: Help with configuring X Server

2000-07-20 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Patrick J Draper wrote: I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done and the server trys to start I get an error something like X11ConnectionUNIX cannot connect errno 111 Probably the point to start is to find out your videocard type. There is

Re: Problems compiling kernel...

2000-07-20 Thread Jason Quigley
Ouch! Thanks for the info Gary! Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, July 19, 2000 16:00 -0600 Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What could be happening? Nothing good. Read the signal 11 FAQ at http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11 Gary Hennigan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Copy paste with a mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Łukasz Walewski
Hi. I switched from RedHat to Debian some time ago. I've configured mostly everything I wanted, but copying 'n pasting with my mouse doesn't work. I use: * Slink 2.0.38 * XFree86 + KDE What should I do ? Thanks a lot.

RE: Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

2000-07-20 Thread Dimitris Dracopoulos
Hi Ignasi, Thanks for your email. Did you actually use FAT or FAT32 for the other OS and was the other OS WIndows98? I tried to wipe out the disk and create tha FAT32 partition using the fdisk of the Windows98 startup disk but when I rebooted to Debian, the Debian cfdisk was exiting with a

Re: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick?

2000-07-20 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:38:20PM -0400, mhf wrote: Hello debian-user, Issue 1: I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux. I simply want to start from a shell and then enter startx when I want to get into a GUI. I've

Re: help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:04:37PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote Hi, I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is hamm. # date Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000 # date -u Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000 # touch /tmp/hello # ls -al /tmp/hello -rw-rw-r-- 1 root

Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

2000-07-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi Group, I tried to contact the amanda-user mailinglist first, but that does not seem to be on-line. Hope this is no too off-topic... I was hoping for some Debian-amanda user who might be able to give me a suggestion. - Forwarded message from Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: help on installing (starting) staroffice

2000-07-20 Thread Tan Soo Eng
I did the installation. GNOME + StarOffice. Works fine. A trick handled. Create a User, not root, install the SO under /Home/user, get the SO executable file into Startup directory, change the rights on user to allow others to access.

Re: How to make a boot disk?

2000-07-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The simplest way is to dd the kernel to the floppy disk, and then set the root device (partition). dd if=/path_to_your_kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/your_root_partition You can verify that the root device for the floppy disk kernel is set correctly by using this command: rdev

Re: Copy and paste with a mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Bobby Dowling
Try either reconfiguring gpm (gpmconfig) or removing it: apt-get remove gpm (or dpkg -r gpm) If you remove it though, you may have to change mouse type to /dev/psaux in XF86Setup from the gpm node.

lilo + ata/66 + kernel 2.4 problem

2000-07-20 Thread bobby dowling
Installed slink and installed 2.4 kernel for ata/66 support. I installed to /dev/hda, but when I changed the drive over to ata/66 controller, it became /dev/hde. So, I changed /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf to reflect this, but when I do a /sbin/lilo, I get error messages that reference hda.

Re: Help with configuring X Server

2000-07-20 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Patrick J Draper wrote: I have gone through a Debian 2.1 installation, installed X Windows (X1186R6) and am now having extreme difficulty configuring and starting an X Server. I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done and the server trys to

Network/Server CRC Errors on large compressed files.

2000-07-20 Thread Pete Foley
Hey!, I have a little server set up in a home office running Potato. It is an AMD 233, 20GIG IDE Western Digital HD, 64 Ram system that acts as a gateway/firewall, print and file server. However, I am having a very odd problem with it. I often deal with large compressed files (10 megs or so

Re: staroffice

2000-07-20 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Nick Croft wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly well though. It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and turn it into

trouble with make-kpkg

2000-07-20 Thread Jens Arvidsson
Hello readers of the list, I have run into trouble trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.16). After running make xconfig, I did a make-kpkg clean per the instructions in the kernel-package README. This however doesn't seem to work, dpkg is complaining that it can't find the compiler. Is this a

Re: Copy paste with a mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Lukasz Walewski
Thanks for reply. I just didn't use the Emulate 3 Buttons option during XF86Setup. Cheers Lukas Lukasz Walewski Centrum Onkologii Instytut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

2000-07-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Erik Dear Group, I feel that I have come quite far in setting up Erik amanda on my Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 system. I seem to be able to Erik connect from client to server, access the tape drive (SCSI Erik /dev/nst0) and such. Erik However, since I am still testing I have not yet set up the Erik

UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

2000-07-20 Thread Juan Alejandro Diaz Muñoz
drivers please

voodoo3 + 3dfx.o module source

2000-07-20 Thread bobby dowling
-Trying to get Quake3Demo to run full-screen and faster than .1 frames/s When I run the demo it starts, but gives this: ** - Initializing Renderer --- - R_Init - ...loading

Debian won't find my mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Trevor Ramoutar
I installed Potato last night, everything went great, but when I tried a startx it crapped out on me saying that it could find my mouse (which is a PS/2). Can somebody help? Thanks in advance. Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications - http://comm.lycos.com

Re: voodoo3 + 3dfx.o module source

2000-07-20 Thread John Gould
Hi Bobby, Looks like there is no 3dfx.o module in your /lib/modules/kernel_version/misc directory. You can either compile the module and do a make install and check that it's in the right place. Or, alternatively get the driver from 3dfx's site and debianise the rpm with alien and

Re: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick?

2000-07-20 Thread Roberto Magana
Easier still, as root cd /etc/init.d; mv gdm '#gdm' On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:42:18AM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: Issue 1: I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux. I simply want to start from a shell

Re: Debian won't find my mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Bolan Meek
Trevor Ramoutar wrote: I installed Potato last night, everything went great, Congratulations! Welcome Aboard! but when I tried a startx it crapped out on me saying that it could [not] find my mouse (which is a PS/2). Can somebody help? check `dmesg | more`. Did your /dev/psaux get

cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

2000-07-20 Thread Pollywog
I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and I need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module. Enternet PPPoe and Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL working is to get this ppp version to compile. Anyone know what I am missing?

RE: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

2000-07-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote: I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and I need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module. Enternet PPPoe and Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL working is to get this ppp version to

Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail

2000-07-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to. -chris 09:33:06/usr/sbin$ sendmail root aoeusnaohe 09:33:20/usr/sbin$ smail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC 09:33:43/home/krzys# cat

emails wont send out-

2000-07-20 Thread Tom Warfield
We have clients using Outlook (yes i know what losers) and were running sendmail on debian. Okay so this is the problem, when they send a email in Outlook to a email address (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Outlook wont let them send it out. Its not the message or anything like that because if i

Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:39:08AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. Invoking the sendmail binary gets you the same MTA but it bypasses many of the checks MTAs perform It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to.

tail -f termination, after ppp established.

2000-07-20 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the List. The script below is user to establish dial-in. #!/bin/sh # connect to IP through Lucent WinModem echo echo Inserting Winmodem Lucent Tech ltmodem.o driver /sbin/insmod -f ltmodem pon $1 tail -f /var/log/syslog

RE: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

2000-07-20 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote: I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and I need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module. Enternet PPPoe and Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL

Re: Debian won't find my mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Dan Poulsen
Are you running gpm? I had problems with my mouse being jumpy until I removed the rc2.d/K20gpm link and rebooted. On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Trevor Ramoutar wrote: I installed Potato last night, everything went great, but when I tried a startx it crapped out on me saying that it could find my

X with shadow-passwords

2000-07-20 Thread estoy
Could anybody help me? I can't start an X session as unprivileged user. Using xdm neither unprivileged-user or root can login Using startx just root can login I read in the LinuxFAQ that it might be due to use of non-shadow password programs (as startx, X, xinit, etc). Since I'm using

firewall got silly after apt-get upgrade

2000-07-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I did an update/upgrade a while back, it was a large one too, took a while on my 56k modem. I'm running the 2.2.14 kernel and have potato loaded here. Before the upgrade, my sshd was available, no telnet cuz I shut it off. Now however, I can ssh myself but users outside the firewall

Re: X with shadow-passwords

2000-07-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:13:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anybody help me? I can't start an X session as unprivileged user. Using xdm neither unprivileged-user or root can login Using startx just root can login I read in the LinuxFAQ that it might be due to use of

Re: tail -f termination, after ppp established.

2000-07-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the List. The script below is user to establish dial-in. #!/bin/sh # connect to IP through Lucent WinModem echo echo Inserting Winmodem Lucent Tech ltmodem.o driver /sbin/insmod -f ltmodem pon $1 tail -f

Re: X with shadow-passwords

2000-07-20 Thread Bolan Meek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I can't start an X session as unprivileged user. How are you attempting to start an X session? (Answers may be below, but I am confusing myself with the differences in syntax, so just to be clear...) What error messages are you getting? Try `startx startx.log` .

Re: mysql-server root password

2000-07-20 Thread Kirt Runolfson
I ended up being able to set the password via some select commands. Here are those commands if anybody is interested. mysql -u root mysql UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD ('new_password') WHERE user = 'root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; The password was blank but for

Re: simple grep command twister

2000-07-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:39:47AM +, john smith wrote: Hi! mind twister break? how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? grep can't do it, since wc -L reports that the longest word contains 24

Re: emails wont send out-

2000-07-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it's outlook try it with another client and i bet it works. http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/telnet.html or telnet to your SMTP and try it manually it should work i have my server page my attt phone daily. nate On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Tom Warfield wrote: twarfi We have clients using Outlook

Re: emails wont send out-

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:58:12AM -0500, Tom Warfield wrote: We have clients using Outlook (yes i know what losers) and were running sendmail on debian. Okay so this is the problem, when they send a email in Outlook to a email address (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Outlook wont let them

scanning physical disk to retrieve file

2000-07-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Agh. this was low priority, and just went really high . . . I almost managed an rm -r *~ to get rid of the backup files from emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself. As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a

Re: scanning physical disk to retrieve file

2000-07-20 Thread Ethan Pierce
if its a fat filesystem I got the tools you need...email me back quick! gotta head to work - Original Message - From: Richard E. Hawkins hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:16 PM Subject: scanning physical disk to retrieve file Agh.

Re: Help with configuring X Server

2000-07-20 Thread cls--colo spgs
i usally get a basic x with non-graphical xf86config. i can usaually get x up and running; although, the font size may be too big, so i tighten it up with XF86Setup. (once you have a working x, you shouldn't get the dreaded errno 111. then you should be able to use XF86Setup.) with xf86config,

Re: How to make a boot disk?

2000-07-20 Thread cls--colo spgs
# cd /boot mkboot /boot/vmlinuz[or the name of your kernel] hth. bentley taylor. // Marshal Wong wrote: Hey all, You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't. So how do I do it? :) I heard of dd the

Re: tail -f termination, after ppp established.

2000-07-20 Thread John Hasler
Bob McGowan writes: There are surely other, perhaps simpler ways,... Yes. Just put #!/bin/sh kill `cat /var/run/plogpid` rm -f /var/run/plogpid in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzkillplog and change your script to put the pid of the plog process in /var/run/plogpid. (And you probably want to

Fwd: New Findout About Anyone Fast Now!

2000-07-20 Thread Ethan Pierce
Just wanted to let you all know I reported this spammer to his domain and they have removed his acct. ---BeginMessage--- Thank you for your Posting and feel free to post again. In addition to Free For All Links, Classifieds and Search Engine Listings, here is something else we can offer you: If

RE: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

2000-07-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Jul-2000 Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote: I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and I need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module. Enternet PPPoe and Roaring Penguin

PS2 mouse and gpm

2000-07-20 Thread Ethan Pierce
There was some talk on the list earlier today about removing gpm to get better results with the paste feature. I plan to try this later when I get home from workbut does anyone know if taking out gpm will mess up the x server? My main goal is just to get my middle mouse button working on my

[no subject]

2000-07-20 Thread estoy
Hi I just read you installed Xfree4.0.1 with no problems at all. I just update my 3.3.6 earlier version now when the boot process reach the xfs level the system just freezes up at the point it shows something like this: xfs: XFontServerCacheInitialize: hi=1048576 lo=786432, bal=70 What could

Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail

2000-07-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
You should try reconfiguring smail - there's probably a program called smailconfig in /usr/sbin that will do that for you, or failing that removoing and reinstalling should do the trick. If smail doesn't configure itself I'd try another MTA (exim is the default choice for recent Debian

HP DesignJet 750C plotter support?

2000-07-20 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, I work for a small, marine surveying firm that uses the above mentioned plotter. I am setting up a potato server to handle various tasks, among which should be serving print jobs to the plotter via Samba. I've been scouring the 'net and deja.com for help in configuring this without much

Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail

2000-07-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
Bwahahaha upon removing smail apt-get installed sendmail which comes with its own e-z konfiguration skrypt and runs great. Can't see why anyone would want to use anything else. Can't see either why anyone would want to have a mail daemon on their box other than for mailing cron output, given

Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:39:40PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Aha, smailconfig. OK, I tried reinstalling smail before and now running smailconfig, same error. Guess I'll try exim next. exim is the standard MTA for Debian these days - in fact, smail was removed from potato due to a number of

Re: HP DesignJet 750C plotter support?

2000-07-20 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Matthew Thompson wrote: MT Hello, MT MT I work for a small, marine surveying firm that uses the above mentioned MT plotter. I am setting up a potato server to handle various tasks, among MT which should be serving print jobs to the plotter via Samba. MT MT I've been

Re: Copy paste with a mouse

2000-07-20 Thread Nick Croft
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-2] ?ukasz Walewski wrote: Hi. I switched from RedHat to Debian some time ago. I've configured mostly everything I wanted, but copying 'n pasting with my mouse doesn't work. Run mseconfig. It's graphical. You get to choose which button is which. If you have

Re: staroffice

2000-07-20 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package? I searched the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not the 5.1. Thanks! David Teague wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Nick Croft wrote: ? On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote: ? ? ? On Tue, 6 Jun 2000

Intrusion

2000-07-20 Thread marco presi
While using XChat I received this message: eris.bt.net/Wallops- Remote CONNECT irc.u-net.com 2310 from ChrisN after this, no connection was logged by my system. Some ideas?? Tnks -- Ciao Ciao Marco

gkrellm

2000-07-20 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, Are there any gkrellm version 0.7.5 compatible themes around anywhere? Or are there instructions for upgrading potato to woody libs so version 0.10.4 can run on it? -- David S. Jackson[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Flood can I

dlopen oddness

2000-07-20 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ Sorry about the wide bandwidth, if there's a better forum, please feel free to refer me to it. I've got an application that calls dlopen(SO_NAME, RTLD_LAZY). dlopen is returning null and dlerror returns undefined symbol. The manpage basically says dlopen with RTLD_LAZY shouldn't have

Re: staroffice

2000-07-20 Thread Morten Liebach
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package? I searched the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not the 5.1. Thanks! I don't think you can. It's easy to install the file you download

using inetd to run arbitrary programs

2000-07-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm running a couple of tcp-pipes (ssh -L ...) to get around the fact that my ISP is not on the same network as my news/imap/ provider and so on. I've been starting these pipes at boot time (by calling the appropriate script in /etc/network/interfaces) and that works fine. But I thought I'd get

Forwarding sent email-

2000-07-20 Thread Tom Warfield
I know that procmail can go through and forward someones email to them at another address while it still delivers it to there email box. But i am wanting to do the same on outgoing as well. Once someone sends out a email i want it to forward a copy of that outgoing email to another email

Rescue Disks

2000-07-20 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, I have been upgrading Xfree but something obviously went wrong as when I boot up now it hangs at the starting Xfontserver startup and does not even get to the login prompt. Before I blat over and reinstall debian is there an easy way of creating a set of rescue disks ? I just need to edit a

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

2000-07-20 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Juan Alejandro Diaz Muñoz wrote drivers please Buckleys, sorry. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin support:technical services

Man command

2000-07-20 Thread Patrick Howden
Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the man command on my system anywhere. This means that I can't read instructins for any packages which I download. Is there somewhere where I can download man (the

Question about MASQ chain behavior in ipchains

2000-07-20 Thread Stan Kaufman
I'm confused by a couple points in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO (http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4). Hope someone who understands this can clear this up. In the Serious Example, the Internal network is masqueraded to External via a chain jumped to from the FORWARD chain:

Re: Man command

2000-07-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Do man man, or info man Patrick Howden wrote: Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the man command on my system anywhere. This means that I can't read instructins for any packages which I

Re: Man command

2000-07-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:23:37PM +1200, Patrick Howden wrote: Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the man command on my system anywhere. This means that I can't read instructins for any packages

Re: Install-boot failure

2000-07-20 Thread Tom Hoover
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:21:26PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: When I try to boot from the debian slink or potato cd, the boot process apparently hangs with the following line: FDC 0 is a post - 1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 The interesting thing is ,

Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I've been poking around Freshmeat and the Debian package list for Woody, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. What is it, you ask? I was wondering if there was a calendar/planner software that would allow one to enter appointments and tasks, then on any given day, print out a

waiter, potato to woody please, thank you

2000-07-20 Thread Nick
hello list, how can i upgrade 2.2 (potato) to woody (2.3??) source list and any suggestions that would make the transition happy. thankx, have a good weekend! -nick0

Re: waiter, potato to woody please, thank you

2000-07-20 Thread Corey Popelier
I did a straight replace of potato to woody in my sources.list for apt, then did an apt-get upgrade, followed by an apt-get install of all the packages remaining that weren't upgraded. And that worked perfectly fine for me. I believe the only possible issues in this is an Apache-SSL conflict

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