Re: Configuring daemons to autorun

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:43:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:42:19AM +, Erik de Castro Lopo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, In Debian, how does one configure the daemons which are autorun on startup. In Redhat the the setup program does this

Re: irq 7

2000-11-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:06:40AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I run a deb 2.2 system. When I try to print for the first time after boot , the system complies with the following message: parport0: detected irq7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation what does it

Re: NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-28 Thread dude
yes, i would lve to hear about i have a little experiecn in it, i have to run right now but ill wireet back and explain more On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about make ing your kernel. Do you know how to compile/make your own kernel? If

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 08:38:28PM -0800, hansen wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img or something close to that. and that is

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:07:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folloving giving instruction I formatted floppy disk using usual format command on my PC then I writed image of resque.bin using rawrite into this disk then I inserted this disk into MAC IIsi and powered it up MAC

Re: Info can't find info files in /usr/share/info!

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, I don't really like replying to myself, but... What I found was a shortened dir.gz file in /usr/share/info that was not on my other Potato machine. I removed it and info/pinfo now finds all the files. - Nate -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | None can love freedom

Re: irq 7

2000-11-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you! On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:46:58 +0100, Alson van der Meulen wrote: you should use echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq (maybe a bit different path, guess it's this one) don't ask me for the advantages of interrupt-driven mode, just telling how to enable it. Marcelo _ Marcelo

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Andrei Ivanov
To capture portscans, try portsentry. It'll dump warning messages into your syslog, and other log files, everytime a portscan trips it. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a

Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard. On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to Woody. As I've found some unofficial debian Woody CD images, I'd rather go that way, but if

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Back again... What about this section in exim.conf? local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} Did you try to change this? No, it's all there. What about

Re: Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, then look at X.log to see what it says ..maybe you set the wrong section of XF86Config to use 32bit (some XF86Config files have many different Ok. display sections to set color depth). since your using xdm i suggest stopping it first(close all your X apps then do /etc/init.d/xdm stop).

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
oh, yeah - i'm SURE ytuhjkbd will be HAPPY to pay the penalty ;-) On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Frodo Baggins wrote: urbanyon scripsit: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear IT Manager:

Re: Sound in Gnome

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Patterson
In order to make more space on my hard drive I recently created a new partition and copied /home over to this using the following: tar cSpf - . | (cd /home2 ; tar xvSpf - ) Now, running off my new partition as home, I've come across an error that I attribute to this change (as far as I can

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 28, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img or something close to that. and that is

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Albert
I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE cable and Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdhdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 {

PCI probs with Triton I

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Albert
Hi, 'users' ;-) i know most of you aren't so i dare to ask: My last Q to this list received no reply (PIIX, 82371 DMA probs). May be i should have added the hexdump of kmem to be more specific? Starring at the intel 82371FB docs and kernel-sources driver/block/ide-* and driver/pci/* for two

Re: sound volume

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Albert
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Well...there's volume knob on back of some soundcards :) Install a mixer app for X...or tehre's a volume controller in xmms. Andrei also lots of console mixer apps out there. try aumix for example. martin

NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
hi all, i have a 3com NIC (3CSOHO100-TX). i managed to find a driver here: http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x-2.3-changelog.txt thing is, i am a newbie with a capital N (well, maybe a little better than that, but not much). i have no idea how to get this thing installed (i have

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Patterson
I=B4ve succesfully installed Woody and XFree 4.0.1-8 last weekend. Only xdm shows a strange behavior. It starts nearly one minute after the system has bootet. It=B4s possiblke to login to a console, and suddenly xdm awakes. Any ideas? Regards, Sven I had/have the same problem. Probably not

scsii installation problem

2000-11-28 Thread Miro Maher
Hi all ! I am trying to install Debian 2.2 linux - standard kernel package - to an old IBM PC server 500 - that is a Microchannel machine. After booting from rescue floppy I use command: floppy0 no-hlt mca-pentium After a while the system stops after finding the SCSII adapter with following

Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Greg Strockbine
boy I can't believe this. My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this be? Debian potato, gnome desktop, 256 Mbytes of memory. gkrellm, the system monitor, was froze too, but the display showed the swap file was down to 0 bytes free. There was about 23 Mbytes of main

broken dist-upgrade potato woody

2000-11-28 Thread Giulio Morgan
I have been trying to upgrade (apt-get) to woody. The download process was interrupted several times, data sockets timed out, ppp connection fell, etc, and by following the try --fix-missing prompts, I ended up with a partially downloaded and partially installed upgrade. Then going back to

Re: apt-mirrors?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I found this one. The one I saw last time gave similar location as well as the Pipe it was on, average utilization, etc. Thus spake kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com): on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:42:47PM -0700, Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to find

Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
Well, if you're using mod_ssl, according to the fine documentation the SSLCertificateFile directive, which specifies the filename of the server certificate, can be place inside the overral server config context _or_ inside a virtual host context (ie. within the VirtualHost /VirtualHost tags).

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:58PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard. On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to Woody. As I've

RE: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Can't actually answer your question :) but with reference to the last bit, why does Mozilla have such a huge foot print? It takes up around 100 Mbytes while Netscape is down around 15 Mbytes. It doesn't actually. That's the same smaller chunk of memory

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:59AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: i have a 3com NIC (3CSOHO100-TX). i managed to find a driver here: http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x-2.3-changelog.txt Fine, but why don't you use the driver in the kernel? 3c59x.c seems to support your card. thing is, i

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:25:18PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 28, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc,

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: I assume you have got potato-CDs? Then just install potato and change your sources.list to the new paths (s/stable/unstable) and apt-get dist-upgrade. I would prefer not going through Potato, if possible (my Potato CD image was burned while potato

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:53:56PM +0100, thus spake Jonathan Gift: Hi, Back again... What about this section in exim.conf? local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true file =

Re: Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Jonathan Gift wrote: I thought I had removed it... I start X and am not using xdm. How do I remove it for good then? what i do to remove xdm is apt-get remove xdm dpkg --purge xdm the purge gets rid of the config files, links and init scripts(stuff in /etc/rc* mostly) nate -- ::: ICQ:

Boot fails

2000-11-28 Thread bloodshot
I'm running potato and everything's been fine for the last couple of months until the other day when I had to shut down for an evening. I have upgraded/installed several programs since the original installation, but unfortunately as everything seemed to function OK I never noted any details. I

Re: Boot fails

2000-11-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:22:52PM -, bloodshot wrote: I'm running potato and everything's been fine for the last couple of months until the other day when I had to shut down for an evening. I have upgraded/installed several programs since the original installation, but unfortunately as

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Colin Watson wrote: It used to be: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks like it

APOP with cucipop

2000-11-28 Thread martin
dear folks, i recently installed cucipop to have a APOP server other than qpopper, which does not work here... but this one gives an authenticatuion error whenever i try to use fetchmail with its APOP option on the server POP3 works fine,m but i'd prefer APOP for security reasons. tnx --

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:11:33PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: What about procmail? :0 * /home/user/mail I take that the above line is from your exim.conf? Are you absolutely wedded to the idea of a .forward file? Procmail is a much more useful tool. Try this:- Shove

Re: NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-28 Thread dude
Ok, Let says (as is the case here) that i have installed a pristine vanilla potato and then upgraded to woody. I have dselected the kernel source and all. and i want to run my TNT2 card work what are the steps in additon to what you wrote DO i have recompile my kernel? i have installed the

Serial Port 0 - Can you help?

2000-11-28 Thread Dave Bacon
I have referenced all of my Linux books on this one and still can't find a solution. So I am hoping you can help me. I need to find a way to prevent Linux from bringing serial line 0 up after a reboot. The ifconfig utility shows serial line 0 (sl0) as a PPP port set to an IP Address of

OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does). Do you think this *IS* an attack? I mean, should I report this as *AN* attack? []s, Mario

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
What makes you sure about that? Did you try to load 3c59x? What happened? well, somebody told me ;-). how do i try to load 3c59x? modconf? keep in mind i'm new at this (but i do follow instructions well). thanks for your help, -b On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Tue,

Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:50:55 -0600, Jorgensen, Jens wrote: I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. Well, if you're using mod_ssl, according to the fine documentation the Where *is* TFD after all?! I didn't find it?! To be specific I

Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. That is technically impossible. It can't be done. If you want multiple virtual hosts with SSL support, they need to be

Re: Serial Port 0 - Can you help?

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Dave Bacon wrote: I have referenced all of my Linux books on this one and still can't find a solution. So I am hoping you can help me. I need to find a way to prevent Linux from bringing serial line 0 up after a reboot. The ifconfig utility shows serial line 0 (sl0) as a PPP port set to

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:49:48AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: What makes you sure about that? Did you try to load 3c59x? What happened? well, somebody told me ;-). Do I need to comment this? how do i try to load 3c59x? modconf? keep in mind i'm new at this (but i do follow

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does). Do you think this *IS* an attack? I mean, should I report

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does). Do you think this *IS* an attack? scanning

Re: Serial Port 0 - Can you help? - RESOLVED

2000-11-28 Thread Dave Bacon
A very BIG thanks to Nate, I was able to locate the slip.o module right where he said it would be. Moving that module took care of the problem. Thanks again. Dave Bacon - OWLS Nate Amsden wrote: Dave Bacon wrote: I have referenced all of my Linux books on this one and still can't find

Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Igor Mozetic
Does anyone of you know how this is being done? I find the Apache-SSL docs very sparse in this respect. Is there a tutorial how to create the server key pair, how to self-sign it, etc.? How would I configure Apache so that it returns the certificate suitable for each virtual host? Install

Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On 28 Nov 2000 16:53:02 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have different server certificates for all NameVirtualHosts running on my external IP. That is technically impossible. It can't be done. If you want

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On 28 Nov 2000 09:58:02 MST, Gary Hennigan writes: Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does). Do you think

Gnome Sound Problems Continued

2000-11-28 Thread Arlen Carlson
Well I'm making progress on my Gnome sound problem...seems that esd is at fault. If I kill the esd process I get my sound back under Gnome. The big question is why? And how did this problem start? How do I prevent esd from running under Gnome, or do I need it?

Host sibdir permissions

2000-11-28 Thread Arlen Carlson
Just a quick question: What should be the ownership and permissions of /home ? --- Arlen Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a thing he tells you. This message was sent by XFmail (Linux)

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something

Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Humor me; I think I'm missing something and it's got me curious. In discussions about dealing with .deb packages, apt* and dpkg are mentioned almost universally. It's always been my habit to use dselect for basic installation and removal, leaning on apt* and dpkg for troubleshooting and

Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-28 Thread curro
Hi, I have been unable to configure my Linux box to print in a LexmarkZ32 printer connected to the serial port. I have installed in my 700MHz Inspiron 5000e laptop the Woody dist (It seems necessary to get X correctly configured) and everything else seems to work correctly (I didn't try

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Patterson
I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard. On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to Woody. As I've found some unofficial debian Woody CD images, I'd rather go that way, but if I

apache-ssl vs. libapache-mod-ssl (was Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:08:43 +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: [...] Install libapache-mod-ssl-doc - this contains very nice documentation. Thank you very much for pointing me at this package, and it's parent package libapache-mod-ssl which I was totally unware as of now, since I'm running

Re: Serial Port 0 - Can you help?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:45:32AM -0600, Dave Bacon wrote: I have referenced all of my Linux books on this one and still can't find a solution. So I am hoping you can help me. I need to find a way to prevent Linux from bringing serial line 0 up after a reboot. The ifconfig utility shows

Re: Apache-SSL: NameVirtualHosts: separate certificates?

2000-11-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Igor Mozetic wrote: Does anyone of you know how this is being done? I find the Apache-SSL docs very sparse in this respect. Is there a tutorial how to create the server key pair, how to self-sign it, etc.? How would I configure Apache so that it returns the

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes said: Hi, One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does). Do you think this *IS*

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-28 Thread Josh McKinney
The fact is that mutt doesn't get your mail, it is simply a reader, you must use fetchmail or something like that to get your mail from the pop server. On approximately Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:32:23PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: The truth is that I am not sure. I supposed that it was in

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does).

Re: Host sibdir permissions

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick question: What should be the ownership and permissions of /home ? Here's what they are on my machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -ld /home drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 1024 Sep 26 23:53 /home [snip long .sig] Cheers, -- Colin Watson

RE: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect? command tools give a little more flexibility. But the real reason is that most people hate dselect. It is a shame, but true.

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Brian McGroarty writes: Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect? Some of us intensely dislike the dselect UI. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, We crossed msgs back thee. I'm not sold on any forward file. I deleted it as requested and put in procmail your reference. No go. Mail still shows up in /var/spool/user... Shove this into a file called .procmailrc in your home directory :0: * /home/user/mail Any ideas? I had my

Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Kelly Corbin
I have seen several people state that they have been able to make mozilla and netscape work on the same machine, but I was wondering if anyone has been able to get both versions of netscape (not mozilla) to work. The problem seems to me, that they both want to access .netscape, but they have

LyX and HTML exports

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, I use LyX when I want some quick, nice results, and I'm very happy with it, but I have one problem: it does not interpret the lyxcode environment correctly. Instead of nice fixed-width output, I get the normal typeface in the final HTML. LyX uses tth, hevea or latex2html, depending on what

Re: Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
I think there is separate display depth and framebuffer depth (maybe there are other terms used instead of these, I don't remember exactly), one is what you see (24 in my case, voodoo) and the other one is internal representation on the card (32 on my system). erik Jonathan Gift wrote:

Re: Serial Port 0 - Can you help?

2000-11-28 Thread Dave Bacon
I just looked at the /etc/network/interfaces file and noticed that all lines are commented out. It doesn't look like sl0 was brought up in the interfaces file. Thanks for the additional information. Dave Bacon - OWLS Brian McGroarty wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:45:32AM -0600, Dave Bacon

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Stan Kaufman
Brian McGroarty wrote: Humor me; I think I'm missing something and it's got me curious. In discussions about dealing with .deb packages, apt* and dpkg are mentioned almost universally. It's always been my habit to use dselect for basic installation and removal, leaning on apt* and dpkg

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Pollywog wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes said: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine the running OS (something like nmap does).

De-selecting tasks?

2000-11-28 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I have a basic ( I hope) question on the 'task's that are available in Debian. Doing an 'apt-get install task-kde' installs KDE2 and all the dependencies (provided the sources.list is set up). But 'apt-get remove task-kde' seems to just remove the relatively small package

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-28 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root permissions. As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment variable to the

configuring the kernel

2000-11-28 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I'm searching for the IP_forwarding option in make xconfig to build up a new 2.2.17 kernel. The menu contains some IP forwarding experimental options, but I guess that is not what I would like to have. This mashine is supposed to enable other clients (on different C-class subnets) to access the

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
You can load modules by the command modprobe or insmod. The man-pages should tell you more. A simple modprobe 3c59x should work if the module has been compiled. Just try it. modprobe 3c59x doesn't do anything - or not that i can see. the machine hangs (not crashes, just hangs) for about five

RE: De-selecting tasks?

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Is there a simple way of doing this? I read thru the apt-get man page; but it's entirely possible I may have missed something. If it's in a specific man page, please let me know. there is no easy way. give deborphan a look though.

Re: configuring the kernel

2000-11-28 Thread Cheng H. Lee
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:27:28PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: I'm searching for the IP_forwarding option in make xconfig to build up a new 2.2.17 kernel. The menu contains some IP forwarding experimental options, but I guess that is not what I would like to have. This mashine is

Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg system

2000-11-28 Thread Benj
Hi, don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg / apt-get system. I will have to install everything I want manually from the source :/ So please tell me how, since I really have no clue how to do it. Here is an example of What I want to do. I have php4 package

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:15 AM 11/28/00 +0100, you wrote: Is there an appropriate selection of Debian packages for this? I wouldn´t know of one. I have an old serial terminal plugged into a null modem cable. It sits just to the left of my main monitor and in syslog.conf I have *.* /dev/ttys1 So all

RE: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Nov-2000 Benj wrote: Hi, don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg / apt-get system. I will have to install everything I want manually from the source :/ So please tell me how, since I really have no clue how to do it. Here is an example of What I want

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Kelly Corbin wrote: I have seen several people state that they have been able to make mozilla and netscape work on the same machine, but I was wondering if as long as you install both they both work, there's nothing special about it. anyone has been able to get both versions of netscape

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
IMO it has one of the worst UI I've ever seen. it confused the hell out of me when I was installing debian for the first time. that's from the vi enthusiast:-) I've been using aptitude lately. I also like the X programs (there are some gnome and kde ones) for browsing the installed packages,

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Michael Smith
Try ippl. It logs connection attempts. logcheck is a tool that scans your log files every hour and mails you the results. It's noisy to start with, but you can add events to your logcheck.ignore file to cut down on the false alarms for routine traffic. Willy Lee wrote: How can I tell when I

Re: configuring the kernel

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
check the howtos at linuxdoc.org (I used the one about firewalls, it specifies which kernel options should be set) erik robert_wilhelm_land wrote: I'm searching for the IP_forwarding option in make xconfig to build up a new 2.2.17 kernel. The menu contains some IP forwarding

Re: Point-To-Point Interface

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nate Amsden wrote: what do u mean by Point to point ??? i think you may be getting terms confused. if your I think he's talking about ppp over ethernet, that would be pppoe (IIRC), not sure how to set it up... thinking of using Peer to peer networking (Connecting 2 machines directly via

Fwd: [PATCH] G450 support for matroxfb

2000-11-28 Thread Josh McKinney
This is from the linux-kernel mailing-list, I thought some of you may be interested in this, since I see alot of talk about the X packages and Matrox Cards. - Forwarded message from Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:13:33 +0100 From: Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL

RE: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg

2000-11-28 Thread Wesley Wannemacher
I don't think you need to be a programmer, usually the following works for me to install from source: tar -xvzf tarball.tar.gz cd tarball ./configure --help ./configure --options=enabled --other_options=disabled make make install Normally one can also start by taking a gander at the README file

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
Frederik == Frederik Vanrenterghem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frederik On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: I assume you have got potato-CDs? Then just install potato and change your sources.list to the new paths (s/stable/unstable) and apt-get dist-upgrade.

mount ... not a block device

2000-11-28 Thread Jim Frey
Hello, I patched 2.4-test10 to test11. On booting, I got a corrupted superblock on /dev/hda6 (/). I booted with tomsrtbt and ran e2fsck on the partition. Created a mount point, and on mounting I get 'mount: /lnx is not a block device'. Is it due to test11 or is that a coincidence? Can I get

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg

2000-11-28 Thread Benj
- Original Message - From: Wesley Wannemacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Benj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: RE: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg I don't

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Gregory G Baker
Tried it, mail disappears as the others into the void. Same with the earlier attempts. If I remove the .forward, then it appears as normal in /var/mail/user. But I'm not even getting copies of the mails ent as I specified in Elm setup, I wonder if they're related? I checked dir permissions,

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:27:02AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: IMO it has one of the worst UI I've ever seen. it confused the hell out of me when I was installing debian for the first time. that's from the vi enthusiast:-) I'll admit it confused the hell out of me at first, then again, so

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg

2000-11-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Benj wrote: Ok thanks, and because I would like usually to upgrade stuff, am I sure that the new files will correctly overwrite the old files in their specific directories ? no! if you're going to upgrade debian pacakges, you'll do better if you dpkg --purge

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:35:14PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: You can load modules by the command modprobe or insmod. The man-pages should tell you more. A simple modprobe 3c59x should work if the module has been compiled. Just try it. modprobe 3c59x doesn't do anything - or not that i can

Scanners, how?

2000-11-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi What are the best models of scanners for Linux (debian)? May I connect it to an USB (or paralel) port? Or do I need an SCSI port? thanks, -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:15:39 -0600 (CST), Damian Menscher said: I usually do not report attempts to connect to single ports. You might want to keep in mind that scans of all ports are often just general curiosity about what kind of stuff a computer is being used for, while scans of a

Re: Gnome Sound Problems Continued

2000-11-28 Thread Adam Langley
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:08:29PM -0500, Arlen Carlson wrote: How do I prevent esd If you delete the binary I think you will get a lot of warning messages everywhere, so symlink it to /bin/true AGL -- There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. pgpkuZCJAAIgY.pgp Description:

Re: ipchains/syslog entry?

2000-11-28 Thread Adam Langley
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:38:22AM -, John Conover wrote: What does ICMP 8 to 0 do, as in: Nov 28 01:04:09 john kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=1 208.185.54.14:8 123.123.123.123:0 L=84 S=0x00 I=25881 F=0x T=52 (#86) where 123.123.123.123 is my box? 0 = Echo

dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi everyone, I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not as root. Thanks, Olivier

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