Backup packages

2000-11-28 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello List, I have several HDDs on my system and use one of them for on-line backups. I was about to start writing a script that I could execute periodically via cron to 1. copy nominated files that have been modified and 2. copy new/modified files in nominated directories to this on-line backup

Re: DRI and X 4.0.1 (G400)(update)

2000-11-28 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Hans, I've continued to try to achieve a working/useable DRI/X4 setup for my G400 and last night I got a combination working with my 2.4.0test5 kernel by doing the following:- 1. I downloaded the mga_drv.o driver from the Matrox web site and replaced the version that came with X4 -

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-28 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
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. He-he. Some lines from my .muttrc: ## The following options are only available if you have ## compiled in POP support set pop_delete set

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Stan Kaufman
John Hasler wrote: Brian McGroarty writes: Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect? Some of us intensely dislike the dselect UI. Granted, the UI is butt-ugly. But it does the job effortlessly, once you get used to it. For me that's the important thing. YMMV.

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:59:04PM +, Pollywog wrote: If someone scans several ports, I usually do report it to their ISP, sending them log excerpts that include the time they occurred and also my time zone as reported by my computer. The ISP would probably warn the customer and even

Re: dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:31:30PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote: I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not as root. No, there is not and it would be dangerous if such a way would exist. Imagine some user on your system could replace some libs... But there is a way

Re: Backup packages

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:26:33AM +, Lee Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello List, I have several HDDs on my system and use one of them for on-line backups. I was about to start writing a script that I could execute periodically via cron to 1. copy nominated files that have been

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:13:58 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: I mean, should I report this as *AN* attack? yes. [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:53AM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: boy I can't believe this. My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this be? Yes. Debian potato, gnome desktop, 256 Mbytes of memory. Similarly, 256 MB, recently upgraded from 96

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:24:02 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: 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

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:59:04 GMT, Pollywog writes: I usually do not report attempts to connect to single ports. Me neither, except special ports like ftp, linuxconf, netbus, where nobody at no fscking time has anything to look for for a goodvalid reason. rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner |

Re: dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Olivier Billet
I have no manpage for fakeroot on this system. In fact I just need a way to compile, say for example the eterm package and use it just for me (that is because the root dont want to take the time to do it or dont want it wide system installed). So, if this depends on the Imlib package, I'm fooled

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:41:54 +1300, C. Falconer writes: 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

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:23:34 GMT, Pollywog writes: Of course, a connection to a single port on a single machine is probably just some idiot who mistyped an IP address exactly, and I don't want to cause trouble needlessly. In my experience, when this is the case, people just say that and

Avance Logic ALS4000 chipset support...is this possible?

2000-11-28 Thread Walter Tautz
just wondering if this driver exists...some websearchs suggest it might not. -walter

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Brian McGroarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:48:40 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: Do you live in the USA? How do ISPs handle customers who portscan? I know that in Germany most big ISPs don't give a what their customers are scanning. Then .at seems somewhat different from the rest of the german-speaking world.

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be taken seriously by $attackers_provider (and it can save you from a lot of embarassment if you´d misjudge something). In other

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

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
What do the logs report? Did you try the magic-sysrq? which log should i look at? and what is magic-sysrq?

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm

2000-11-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: 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.

Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I want to configure xfree86 4.0.1 on my desktop. Currently I'm having to use the old xserver-svga and it's config file. If I try to move the config file to XF86Config-3, and the new Xserver it says no screens found and exits. Is there something that needs to be changed or a tool to configure

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:18:34 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be taken seriously by $attackers_provider (and it can save you from a lot

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:53:13AM -0600, Kelly Corbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 anyone has been able to get both versions of netscape (not mozilla) to

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:37PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:18:34PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be taken seriously by $attackers_provider

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:03:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:53AM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My system totally froze up, apparently to memory exhaustion? Can this be? Similarly, 256 MB, recently upgraded from 96 MB. First

Re: Partition mount options (was Re: apg-get: Can't exec /var...)

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:42:22AM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:57:53PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I suspect this isn't something Debian can fix and make go away. it would be non-trivial and wouldn't create much benifit. That's a

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:33:18 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: I want to configure xfree86 4.0.1 on my desktop. Currently I'm having to use the old xserver-svga and it's config file. If I try to move the config file to XF86Config-3, and the new Xserver it says no screens found and

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:39:42PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:03:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:53AM -0800, Greg Strockbine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My system totally froze up, apparently to

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

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
one more thing that may be of interest: % modprobe -c found this: alias eth0 off and also # Options options 3c59x 3c59x options=4 options 3c59x 4 the latter (Options) correspond to what i entered when trying to load the 3c59x module using modconf. the system hung for so long (30+ minutes)

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:37PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: ... Nevertheless I tried to use ssh on the local mashine called MINI while logged in as user rland and using one of the xterm's: ssh -l root MINI - the system then prompts me for the password and I keyed the root

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

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Benj wrote: Hi, don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg / apt-get system. Just describe the symptoms - someone will be able to help sort out the problem. Regards, Mark

problem building the lm-sensors adn i2c packages

2000-11-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I did manage to build the pkg once, bbut then, after getting a differente kernel, it didn't work. I did as the documentation tells: - Install lm-sensors-source, i2c-source - Go to top of kernel source tree - Use make-kpkg to build the kernel Since I did a make-kpkg clean, I did: -

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

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:22:35PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: What do the logs report? Did you try the magic-sysrq? which log should i look at? and what is magic-sysrq? /var/log/syslog less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt

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

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:40PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: one more thing that may be of interest: % modprobe -c found this: alias eth0 off If your card is working you can place an alias for the modul, not needed by now. and also # Options options 3c59x 3c59x options=4 options

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from $evil_provider? Phil Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS Show me the ISP that is willing to take these steps because of a

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Brian McGroarty wrote: 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

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

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
/var/log/syslog nothing in there that i can decipher - sorry. less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt don't have the file - /usr/src exists, but is 100% empty.

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

2000-11-28 Thread urbanyon
See, I really don't know this card and don't know what options should be given. Is it a PCI-card or ISA? PCI If PCI, what does lspci -v say? command not found

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:08PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from $evil_provider? Phil Domain-level blocking

Re: problem building the lm-sensors adn i2c packages

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28 Nov 2000 18:03:49 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini said: And it didn't work... I think taht's what I did the first time, but it doesn't seem to work a second time... This is what happened: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/lm-sensors' dh_testdir

Woody broke XScreenSaver ?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did a dist-upgrade on my woody box and now xscreensaver says it can't find libGLcore.so.1 and checking the debian packages on www.debian.org doesn't find anything. Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris|

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
Change the first line of /etc/X11/xserver to: /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 and run dexter. On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:33:18PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: I want to configure xfree86 4.0.1 on my desktop. Currently I'm having to use the old xserver-svga and it's config file. If I try to move

Possibly OT: g77 warning message

2000-11-28 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello, I'm getting a strange message when I try to compile Fortran programs with g77. It says /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/libg2c.a(open.o): In function 'f_open':open.o(.text+0x637): the use of 'tempnam' is dangerous, better use 'mkstemp' I have never seen this message before until I

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:07:15 +0100, Robert Waldner said: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:59:04 GMT, Pollywog writes: I usually do not report attempts to connect to single ports. Me neither, except special ports like ftp, linuxconf, netbus, where nobody at no fscking time has anything to look

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:10:10 +0100, Robert Waldner said: That´s great for general purposes alone, but it doesn´t mail you and say: hey, someone just port-scanned you or the like. and that´s what I think Mario had in mind. Logcheck and Portsentry, used together, will do that. --

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:18:34 +0100, Philipp Schulte said: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be taken seriously by $attackers_provider (and it can save you

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Some of us intensely dislike the dselect UI. Stan Kaufman writes: Granted, the UI is butt-ugly. I have no idea what ugly means when applied to a UI. But it does the job effortlessly, once you get used to it. I've been using Debian since 1.1 so I've used dselect quite a bit. I

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
Holy Iguana Droppings... Ok, I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the author of Dexter a virtual 6pack. I have NEVER had configuring X so easy before. And this is on my laptop. I'll be doing my desktop as soon as this other job finishes. Thanks alot! Robert Thus spake Bob Nielsen

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Stan Kaufman, Granted, the UI is butt-ugly. But it does the job effortlessly, once you get used to it. For me that's the important thing. YMMV. It's not a problem for most people, but it performs very poorly on low memory systems (~8M). When using it on such a system, expect it to take

preventing my external users from accessing my network

2000-11-28 Thread Samuel Augustus Hathaway
Hello, I am a university student, and I have a couple linux boxen. Most of my friends have shell accounts on my server, from which they can surf the web, participate in USENET, etc. Recently it has come to my attention that it is contrary to my school's ResNet acceptable use policy to provide

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:03:08 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from $evil_provider? Phil Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS Show me the ISP

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:14:47 GMT, Pollywog writes: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:07:15 +0100, Robert Waldner said: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:59:04 GMT, Pollywog writes: I usually do not report attempts to connect to single ports. Me neither, except special ports like ftp, linuxconf, netbus, where

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:25:54 GMT, Pollywog writes: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:10:10 +0100, Robert Waldner said: That´s great for general purposes alone, but it doesn´t mail you and say: hey, someone just port-scanned you or the like. and that´s what I think Mario had in mind. Logcheck

scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? i.e. tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz

SOLVED! Re: ppp doesn't work with kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Phillips
I worked out what the problem was. I omitted to select one of the necessary options when I was compiling the kernel. I needed to select the PPP_ASYNC option or something like that. Now it all works fine. Cheers, Mark. Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:59:28AM

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #676

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Patterson
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:28:17 -0800 From: Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at

RE: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-28 Thread Manegold
On 28-Nov-2000 curro wrote: 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 Do you really mean serial port? I seem to remember that the Z32 does not work under Linux. At least I think that is what

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: - dselect's update is (or wasn't) quite synched with apt, which means/meant that a seperate [U]pdate step is/was required. This can be time-consuming on a = 56K line. I've configured dselect to use apt-get. I update both databases

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
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:-) And vi was intuitive and easy the first time you used it? For that

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

2000-11-28 Thread Benj
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Benj wrote: Hi, don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg / apt-get system. Just describe the symptoms - someone will be able to help sort out the problem. Thanks Mark, but I think I have no choice but to reinstall

RE: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-28 Thread curro
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28-Nov-2000 curro wrote: 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 Do you really mean serial port? I seem to remember that the Z32 does

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian McGroarty wrote: Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? i.e. tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz Not according to its manual page. Try this: tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat outfile.tgz (You put the remote command in

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:37PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: 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 location of that file). Then you can just run X programs while

Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas Halahan
Anthony, I, too, have this Esoniq card. I have also had exactly the same problem of not getting any sound out of it. Could you tell me what, exactly, you did to make it work. What is this OSS software? How can I install it and what is it called? Tom My sincere thanks to all who've

Re: apache 1.3.12 sources + dpkg-deb

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas Halahan
Gabor, I had *exactly* the same problem with gs-aladdin from woody yesterday. I am new to source debs, but also tried to build it with pdpkg-deb -b and got the same sequence of errors. As you did I removed the spare line, and put in a version number, but the dependancy line foxed me. So

gs-aladdin source - how do i compile?

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas Halahan
Deb-users, I want to compile gs on my box because i want to add in new drivers. However I am having trouble understanding how I can introduce my new c source code before compiling. There is no obvious source tree (like for a src-tar.gz). Where do i slot in new code and how can i play with

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

2000-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Benj wrote: Reading database ... dpkg: error processing php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb (--install): files list file for package `kernel-image-2.2.17' is missing final newline Errors were encountered while processing: php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. You

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:11:11PM +, thus spake Mail Delivery System: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:45:56PM +0100, thus spake 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

blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

2000-11-28 Thread Adam Shand
hey. one of the recent debianplanet articles prompted me to tidy up an email i've had as an on going work for a couple years. basically everytime i convince some one to give debian a try and i have a little cheat sheet i mail to them to help them get started. it's got useful basic dpkg and apt

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

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:13:54PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: /var/log/syslog nothing in there that i can decipher - sorry. What about posting the relevant parts? less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt don't have the file - /usr/src exists, but is 100% empty. Install the

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-28 Thread iwrigb
snip Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will make the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at my asus a7v mb) snip That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux isn't installed yet. (obviously once it is installed you can

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

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:14:46PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: See, I really don't know this card and don't know what options should be given. Is it a PCI-card or ISA? PCI If PCI, what does lspci -v say? command not found apt-get install pciutils

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:38:11 -0800, Bob Nielsen said: Change the first line of /etc/X11/xserver to: /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 and run dexter. I changed that line in /etc/X11/Xserver but that did not fix the problem. I also had to change the symlink /etc/X11/X to point to the XFree86

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:57:46 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: Holy Iguana Droppings... Ok, I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the author of Dexter a virtual 6pack. I have NEVER had configuring X so easy before. And this is on my laptop. I'll be doing my desktop as soon as

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:10:17PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? i.e. tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz I think not directly, but you could try: $ tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'umask 077 cat

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:38:43PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:18:34 +0100, Philipp Schulte said: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to

RE: blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
/var/lib/dpkg/info location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffile lists, etc. auto-apt useful tool, play with it and document it here your data on dpkg --set-selections is wrong: sudo dpkg --set-selections

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:24:15PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:08PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:02:52PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:03:08 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from $evil_provider?

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 28, Willy Lee did write: Robert == Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:51:09 +0100, Svante Signell writes: Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are vulnerable? 12345 is NetBus (according to www.snort.org), vulnerable

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-28 Thread Jens Lauterbach
snip Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will make the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at my asus a7v mb) snip That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux isn't installed yet. (obviously once it is installed you

Re: apt-get, allow only one connection

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Phillips
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any way to restrict apt-get to download one file at a time only? When it downloads two files at a time, this means there are two lines in /etc/apt/sources.list corresponding to the two files. The only way I can think of of forcing it to download

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 28, Damian Menscher did write: 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

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: 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:-) And vi was intuitive and easy the

question on DHCPD

2000-11-28 Thread Nick
I have a user on my network that keeps trying to manually configure access to my gateway, for internet access. Is there anyway to setup the dhcp server to give a bogus alocated gateway. So far I have used the option to lock down a specific address for the client using the MAC address, but how

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Kelly Corbin
Well, I got it to work by running it as root in an eterm. I had never run Netscape 6.0 as root, so its .netscape directory was never 'corrupted'. This brings up another question: Has the XFree86 architecture changed from 3.3.6-4.0.1 which allows a non-owner of a terminal to open up an x

Re: dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote: I have no manpage for fakeroot on this system. In fact I just need a way to compile, say for example the eterm package and use it just for me (that is because the root dont want to take the time to do it or dont want it wide

XF86Config-4 for medion laptop?

2000-11-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, tryed to install Xfree86-4 on my laptop and failed... i get a screen with mutliple columns of copies of the screen... same as if the screen was redrawn multiple times with an offset Since i do not kneo how to fix that does somebody has a Config file for this sort of laptop?

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:08:43 +0100, Robert Waldner said: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:25:54 GMT, Pollywog writes: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:10:10 +0100, Robert Waldner said: That´s great for general purposes alone, but it doesn´t mail you and say: hey, someone just port-scanned you or

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-28 Thread iwrigb
snip Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will make the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at my asus a7v mb) snip That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux isn't installed yet. (obviously once it is

Re: dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Olivier Billet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not as root. Not unless you build them from source yourself. Installing packages from the archive into your home directory and having them work has been on the dpkg wishlist for a long time,

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I've dealt with a number of software packages which have an upgrade path but for which older versions may be required for various compatibility or interoperability reasons. Ultimately, mature products tend to go for configuration files of the form:

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
Karsten == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Karsten on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Brian McGroarty Karsten Con: Karsten - Presenting a noncollapsible list of 4k packages is Just Plain Karsten Wrong[tm]. Incidentally, capt repeats this mistake, though it's

smartlist exim problem

2000-11-28 Thread Justin Maurer
hey guys, i have this tiny problem where exim (presumably) is stamping on a Resent-To: header with the names of everyone on one of my smartlist-based mailing lists. i searched on the web and found more people with this problem, but not m^Hany with the solution. if anyone knows how to disable

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:46PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:57:46 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: Holy Iguana Droppings... Ok, I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the author of Dexter a virtual 6pack. I have NEVER had configuring X so easy before. And

/var/log/messages questions

2000-11-28 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, 2 strange (to me) messages appear in my /var/log/messages file. Any ideas on these? First, simply: Nov 28 10:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 11:01:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 11:21:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 11:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 12:01:52 blackbear -- MARK --

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
Noah == Noah L Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Noah I checked out aptitude (or was it capt?) and didn't see anything nice Noah about it that dselect hasn't been doing for years. Other than Noah alternative interfaces, do any of the other dpkg/apt front ends offer Noah real

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2000-11-28 Thread Jack Lawler
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Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 anyone has been able to get both versions of netscape (not mozilla) to work. The problem seems to me, that they both

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