Re: OpenSSH-potato

2002-06-26 Thread Jay Barbee
I just installed the 3.3p1-0.0potato6, and did not have the X11 forwarding. So I changed... /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes /etc/ssh/ssh_config: Host localhost ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes All worked after that... Hope it helps, --Jay On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:08:04PM

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-23 Thread Jay Barbee
for a net upgrade. --Jay Barbee

Re: apt-get omit kernel-image 's

2000-08-17 Thread Jay Barbee
. Or use 'dpkg --get-selections package.list' Manually edit 'package.list' and put the packages you want on HOLD the use 'dpkg --set-selection package.list' --Jay Barbee

New Mutt for Slink...

2000-05-30 Thread Jay Barbee
I know that there has been some talk before about building a newer version of Mutt for stable slink. I have an up to date system, and I am still holing off with Potato's release. Does anyone have a Debianized Mutt v1.0.1i or v1.2? GnuPG support is my main concern. Thanks, --Jay Barbee

eBay Auction #34178744

2000-05-30 Thread Jay Barbee
next week (leaving Saturday), so there is not a rush in getting it here. I would, however, like to have the payment out to you before I leave so that the Palm Pro can be on its way. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you. You may contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Jay Barbee

Re: Configuration

2000-05-18 Thread Jay Barbee
might not find the exact lines as above, but you will find the lines which accomplish the same thing. ...or even simpler to look at /etc/init.d/samba. The /etc/rc?.d/S[whatever]samba is a link to the script in the init.d directory. --Jay Barbee

Re: Rename Workgroup,etc.

2000-05-17 Thread Jay Barbee
). --Jay Barbee

Re: cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Jay Barbee
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Emilis wrote: Maybe offtopic, what win util burns *.raw files ? Used for potato unofficial iso files. Rename to .iso. Any tool (EZCD, CDR-Win, etc.) should be able to burn it. --Jay Barbee

Re: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Jay Barbee
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:52:48PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: how do I enable ip aliasing you need to make you kernel and have CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y in the 'make config'. If you are totally lost view the Kernel HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html --Jay Barbee

Re: giving access

2000-04-25 Thread Jay Barbee
network. For the printer/disk shares can be done via Samba (if windows clients) and nfs, lpr (if UNIX clients). But be careful what you are granting. You are creating security holes. -Jay Barbee

Re: Archiving and Expiring Mail

2000-04-24 Thread Jay Barbee
of the mail file where your mail is stored. I will not take credit for this, I found it on a deja post: http://x41.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=529909910search=threadCONTEXT=956587245.1650458628HIT_CONTEXT=956585501.1607860225hitnum=4 Good luck, --Jay Barbee

Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Jay Barbee
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote: Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently installed on my 'puter? dpkg --get-selections --Jay Barbee

Re: Files with *strange* permissions

2000-03-16 Thread Jay Barbee
I had the same problem where I have two files in /usr/doc/mount/ that were block devices on the README.Debain.gz. They way I got rid of the files is to go into debugfs. Be careful with this util. You can use debugfs' rm and it will clear the inode. Problem solved. Hope it helps... --Jay

Re: Desperate Question...

2000-02-09 Thread Jay Barbee
Debian, I have been asking this question for a while now, on your newsgroups and the debian chatroom. And so far no one has even offered an answer. My question is this: Why is it that the gnome-apt package from the Potato, or Frozen, distribution is dependant on a package that

Shutdown on Root RAID

1999-07-15 Thread Jay Barbee
routines, and I do not see anything out of the ordinary. Anyone have any hints on how to get this volume to shutdown cleanly? Booting up into the rescue partition next time to run ckraid is not that fun. Thanks, --Jay Barbee

Re:[SOLVED] ipmasqadm question

1999-04-13 Thread Jay Barbee
that I have broken (not really but it bitches). If slink's netbase is not going to include ipmasqadm, then there needs to be a package for ipmasqadm. To go to potato's netbase cleanly, involves many iteration. Just my $.02 --Jay Barbee

Slink PPP with no defaultroute

1999-04-12 Thread Jay Barbee
I don't know if anyone else has seen this with Slink's PPP, but I installed a fresh system (didn't want to do an uprade) and PPP did not function properly. I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not

Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute

1999-04-12 Thread Jay Barbee
At 4/12/99 09:43 AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Jay Barbee writes: I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not setup the defaultroute?!?! Do you have an ethernet card installed? pppd won't override

Re: Where does my mail go?

1999-04-05 Thread Jay Barbee
Hi, I have changed from using fetchmail/elm to using fetchmail/mutt, but now can not find the messages fetchmail receives. When I start Mutt, it goes to the /var/spool/mail/username box. Mutt claims this box is empty. When I change to ~/Mail/inbox, mutt also can not find any messages.

Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-26 Thread Jay Barbee
. It was link that in Hamm, and I believe Bo too. So if resolve.conf fixes your problem... what do you have in resolve.conf, that I do not have? What are the permissions? I still think it is a bug. Do you have a bug-track number for it? Thanks for the reply, --Jay Barbee At 3/26/99 10:45 AM

Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-26 Thread Jay Barbee
... --Jay Barbee Jay Barbee wrote: Hummm... I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It is odd that I also run BIND but only in a caching mode. My resolve.conf does not point to my box as being a choice for one of the name services, but it still uses server 0.0.0.0 (mybox) as the name

Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-25 Thread Jay Barbee
If I go back and add the old package (libc6_2.0.7t-1). I do not have this problem. I have installed SLINK from scratch on a laptop and a friend's system. I did not get these errors then, so why now? Is this a bug? Anyone else see this? --Jay Barbee

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-19 Thread Jay Barbee
- From: Jay Barbee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 5:12 AM To:Person, Roderick; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: grrr, No response from modem At 3/18/99 09:35 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-19 Thread Jay Barbee
Thanks for the note, And I just recieved a letter about my BIOS. I did check it, and I know they are not disabled, however, I wanted to check to make sure the IO Ports are matching. --Jay At 3/19/99 07:04 AM +0100, you wrote: Dear Jay, I have seen this discussion on the Debian users

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/17/99 07:58 PM -0800, Shanta McBain wrote: Jay Barbee wrote: First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will get nothing. Hummm, are you talking about the modem's

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Jay Barbee
v.everything 33.6. Humm! It honestly looks as if the serial port on the computer is not working. This would explain why I could never get apcd and upsd working about 4 months ago. --Jay Barbee

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Jay Barbee
). No mouse is attached to the system, but it is an ATX system with a PS/2 style mouse port. I am under the impression that these serial ports do not work. Thanks for your help, --Jay Barbee

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/16/99 08:07 PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jay Barbee writes: Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Modem should be in the first serial port. Any ideas how I can get this thing to talk

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Jay Barbee
not make a peep or even a blink. Very odd. --Jay Barbee PS: My computer has two builton serial ports listed as port1 and port2. setserial detects these as ttyS2 and ttyS3 (which I know are the 3rd and 4th serial devices). Mine is physicall pluges into port1, which I am seeing as ttyS2. But as I said

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Jay Barbee
Never on tried using a modem on this debain box. First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. I figured pretty standard modems. I was using the USR on a NT with all the same cables, so I know the cable and modem do work. --Jay Barbee At 3/17

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/17/99 05:53 PM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:48:39AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: Never on tried using a modem on this debain box. First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. What does cat /proc/interrupts and cat

SOLVED: How to correct suidmanager errors..

1999-03-17 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/17/99 08:12 PM +0100, Thomas Keusch wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:20:56AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: I get this cron error ever since I upgraded the LPR package. I didn't just want to run a chmod on it, but if someone could explain what has happened and how to handle it I would

How to correct suidmanager errors..

1999-03-16 Thread Jay Barbee
I get this cron error ever since I upgraded the LPR package. I didn't just want to run a chmod on it, but if someone could explain what has happened and how to handle it I would appreciate it. --Jay Barbee Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject

grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-16 Thread Jay Barbee
) is a 16550A Modem should be in the first serial port. Any ideas how I can get this thing to talk? I am out of ideas. --Jay Barbee

LPR gives suidmanager errors

1999-03-15 Thread Jay Barbee
I updated my Hamm's LPR and now I am getting a cron error when suid manager runs. Below is the actual cron error. How is this corrected? --Jay Barbee Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

2 Official CDs...

1999-03-09 Thread Jay Barbee
What is contained on the 2 Official Debian Binary i386 CDs. I was thinking that disc 2 would be all the KDE/Gnome and X stuff... but I am not sure. Anyone know how the CDs are laid out? --Jay

Reoccuring Problem with network

1999-03-08 Thread Jay Barbee
is not connected Mar 8 11:05:57 torch wu-ftpd[686]: FTP session closed This has happened two other times, and I have noticed it after 16 days of uptime on my client box (home dial up). A reboot will fix the problem, but I would like to know what is going on. --Jay Barbee

Strage Problem with FTPd and Telnetd but not SSH.

1999-02-17 Thread Jay Barbee
systems in my local home network can get to the Internet with all of their clients (telnet, ftp, etc.) through the troubled server without a hitch. Strange, but I am not sure how to correct this problem or go about troubleshooting my home linux server? Any ideas? --Jay Barbee

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
. Good Luck, --Jay Barbee At 2/14/99 05:31 AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Yes, it is on of these 3Com hubs. The Port status section of the leds remains light on the 100 section for both cards. The Network Utilization section of the hub leds consistently blinks, on the 1% led of the 100

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
you have CAT5 throughout your connection. That means if you have modular jacks (as in a wall jack) it needs to be CAT5 rated. Distance (If I remember correctly) is 90m or about 300ft. Good luck. --Jay Barbee At 2/14/99 05:58 PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
At 2/14/99 01:36 PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Why kind of wire, I seem to remember them labled

Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Jay Barbee
Hey all, I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. Thanks, --Jay

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Jay Barbee
At 2/3/99 04:03 PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote: Jay Barbee wrote: I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records

no subject (file transmission)

1999-01-30 Thread Jay Barbee
and PARPORT_PC into the kernel. I simply tried PARPORT but LP was still not found. I still have lp as a module. My lilo.conf passed the following: append = ether=0,0,eth1 aha152x=0x340,11 lp=parport0 parport=0x378,7 And all works... Thanks all for your help! --Jay Barbee At 1/29/99 10:05 AM -0500, you

[SOLVED] 2.2 with IPmasq and LP

1999-01-30 Thread Jay Barbee
and PARPORT_PC into the kernel. I simply tried PARPORT but LP was still not found. I still have lp as a module. My lilo.conf passed the following: append = ether=0,0,eth1 aha152x=0x340,11 lp=parport0 parport=0x378,7 And all works... Thanks all for your help! --Jay Barbee At 1/29/99 10:05 AM -0500, you

Re: 2.2 with IPmasq and LP

1999-01-29 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/29/99 01:47 AM +0100, Dietrich Kraus wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:56:50AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I felt very newbie-ish upon

2.2 with IPmasq and LP

1999-01-28 Thread Jay Barbee
My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I felt very newbie-ish upon the problems. IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore and I needed to use ipchains.

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

1999-01-26 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/25/99 08:36 PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.: There is a precompiled binary of xntp3 for NT if you want the NT box to be a time server that sync's to the Debian box. It you just want the NT box to be a client, I

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-22 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/21/99 04:21 PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: Could anyone tell me how to make my DeskJet 870 operate under Debian? For example, a filter for Magicfilter or whichever. My Djet 870Cxi is on a NT system that Debian still accesses via LPR. But I did at one point have it hooked up and shared from

Fwd: Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-19 Thread Jay Barbee
Resent-Date: 14 Jan 1999 23:05:22 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:03:18 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Raoul Boenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Optical Jukebox support in Linux

1998-12-03 Thread Jay Barbee
At 12/2/98 10:08 PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to ... Anybody have any experience with this or could point me

Re: Linux mirror on a second hd

1998-12-02 Thread Jay Barbee
, or tar could get the job done. --Jay Barbee

Optical Jukebox support in Linux

1998-12-01 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all... I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to hold 1.3G Optical media. The system has 4 dirves in the base of the jukebox to read/write the 1.3G media. On the SCSI lookup it is all

Fwd: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-12-01 Thread Jay Barbee
I didn't see this come through the first time, so here is a repost. --Jay Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:42:10 -0500 To: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading At 11/30/98 02:42 PM -0500, you wrote: Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over

Fwd: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-11-30 Thread Jay Barbee
Just sharing with the list... --jay At 11/30/98 02:42 PM -0500, you wrote: Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help? You need to set up on

Re: Linux to NT Server printing

1998-11-10 Thread Jay Barbee
At 11/10/98 08:57 PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Debian Land, I would just like to know if any one has been able to print from a Linux machine to a printer attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based machine. I have been able to print to the printer, a HP Laserjet 4, directly from

Re: 128M memory

1998-10-07 Thread Jay Barbee
At 10/7/98 10:23 AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I was wondering when you use lilo to manage your boot do you need to add the line append = mem=128M to your win95/98 partition for it to use the memory beyond 64k or is this only needed when a linux partition is booted? That is simply passed

HTML form to email

1998-10-05 Thread Jay Barbee
Is there a package out there that will take a HTML form to be filled out via the web and when it is submitted, it will be bundled into an email and sent? I imagine there are CGI programs that do it. Any pointers? --Jay

Re: NIS Installation problem

1998-10-02 Thread Jay Barbee
At 10/2/98 02:39 PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, I'm having some troubles into getting NIS into one server and some clients. I step by step followed de Debian NIS HowTo and the NIS HOWTO, but I can't login into a client. In NIS

Samba: Passwords to print??

1998-09-18 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello, Can I let everyone in my office print to a Samba printer share, and not have them authentic as a user. I would rather allow every IP in my Domain/Subnet to print without asking for passwords. And then I can deny the rest of the world. Again, I only want to do this for printers, not all

Re: Define printer

1998-09-16 Thread Jay Barbee
? Next type: lpr -Pprinter name file It should print. I am assuming this is all a local printer and not a remote printer. --Jay Barbee

Magicfilter error lpd cannot execv filter

1998-09-14 Thread Jay Barbee
I just installed Magicfilter to start printing to a local Deskjet connected to LPT1. I get an error off the initial install. ---Error in syslog Sep 13 18:58:08 host kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Sep 13 19:18:23 host lpd[29223]: cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter ---My Printcap is:

Re: Magicfilter error lpd cannot execv filter

1998-09-14 Thread Jay Barbee
to that program. Does it exist? What are the rights on it? Can you exec it from the command prompt? On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:03:43 -0400 From: Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Magicfilter error lpd cannot execv filter Resent

Re: NetWare Volumes

1998-09-09 Thread Jay Barbee
Thank you all for replies to my question about keyboards in XWindow. I have another quite important question: is it possible to mount Novell Netware 3.12 disk partitions under Linux? What software do I need for it? I really mean the physical disks which were installed in Netware servers and

Monitoring upsd

1998-09-01 Thread Jay Barbee
I just hooked my Linux box upto a UPS (APC SmartUPS 900) and I have the serial link hooked up. When I run /etc/init.d/ups start, it runs, but the following error is logged: /sbin/upsd: log: UPS_ERROR The daemon is still running, but I am not sure if I can determine what is going on with the

How much shoud be in /var/log/messages

1998-09-01 Thread Jay Barbee
abnormal? --Jay Barbee

Re: ZIP Disk mounting: still no answer...so reposting

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
Simply treat the ZIP as another Drive (floppie, hard disk). You need to know what device your scsi card detected it at (ie /dev/sd??). I have a ZIP that happends to be my D drive so my mount command go like: mount -t vfat /dev/sdd4 /zip ...You can even go into fdisk and repartition (so that

Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
, and rebooted for safe measure. Last works fine now. One thing I noted, and I am not sure if this is how it shoul actually work, but when I am logged in as root, last has several entries, but when I am logged in as a user, it only shows a couple if any at all. --Jay Barbee I have 4 machines running

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
at the LILO boot prompt you can type: linux single To boot your linux kernel. --Jay folks, after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0, i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am now unable to login at

Howto have Xterm backspace send CTRL-H

1998-08-26 Thread Jay Barbee
-onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke Any ideas? --Jay Barbee

Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?

1998-08-25 Thread Jay Barbee
to not just my work box, but other legit domains without a problem. I could even configure my work box so that it acted as the smarthost or relay or something along those lines. --Jay Barbee

New SMB Timeout...

1998-08-25 Thread Jay Barbee
. Connections worked a-okay with my Bo setup. I currently run smbd and nmbd as daemons. Any ideas on the hangup? Encrypted passwords? This NT box getting to my Linux server works fine (printers, apps, shares, etc.). --Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sending via SMAIL from dialup connection and private network

1998-08-25 Thread Jay Barbee
would like to know how I can setup my home system to send mail to not just my work box, but other legit domains without a problem. I could even configure my work box so that it acted as the smarthost or relay or something along those lines. --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-24 Thread Jay Barbee
a /etc/hosts entry for that machine and try it again. If it take the same about of time, then not resolution. If it is quick then you know you have a problem with resolution. --Jay Barbee

Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders

1998-08-18 Thread Jay Barbee
to open a mail folder that has hundreds of messages. Any advice? --Jay Barbee

Turn off Console Screen Blanking

1998-08-11 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello All, How do you shutoff the console's screen blank? I would like to be able to just boot up and not have the console blank out. Thanks for your help in advance! --Jay Barbee

Re: xdm doesn't start properly

1998-08-06 Thread Jay Barbee
make sure /etc/init.d/xdm is not zero lenght (ie: nothing in the file). As dumb as it sounds I kept typing '/etc/init.d/xdm start' and nothing was happening. Dumb mistake, but it can happen. If it is zero you probably need to reinstall the package again (xbase if I am not mistaken.) Good

cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all, I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that cd_autoup.sh is not an executable. I copied the script to /root and did a chmod u+x

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Hello all, : : I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to : up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. : : After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that : cd_autoup.sh

[Solved] cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:50:07AM +, Jay Barbee wrote: Can't find ../debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb! aborting upgrade. --- It is true my official cd does not have: /debian/hamm/hamm/binary- i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb It's not you, a couple of packages

efax printing PS code..? [solved]

1998-07-17 Thread Jay Barbee
= POSTSCRIPT %!PS-Adobe-3.0 ---SNAP--- Once I removed the top three lines so the file starts with %!PS-Adobe-3.0 it worked fine Thanks, --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

efax printing PS code..?

1998-07-16 Thread Jay Barbee
to print via efix, I get ps code? What is it that it wants from me. I cannot make the postscript files with 'fax make fax.ps'... it will make a 2 page postscript file baloon into 19 pages of postscript code. Any ideas --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
been reading this thread on the list. What I have done (I am not sure if this is bad or not) is copy the .config from the old kernel to the new one? I was going to can this and start from scratch. Could this be the source of so many peoples (including mine) problems? --Jay Barbee

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
Try: clock -w This will write system time to the CMOS clock... make sure you have the correct time and use -u for GMT. --Jay Barbee Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0400

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Jay Barbee
the kernel. Perhaps I simply don't understand what you are telling me to do with this kernel-package when I go to install or test a new kernel. --Jay Barbee Ya know, The 'kernel-package' package automates all of this for you. I had troubles getting modules to work even though I thought I did all

wu-ftpd hangs in local network

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all, I cannot figure out what is wrong with my two debian systems at home. It seems that whenever I FTP into that it connects almost instantly, but hangs for about a minute or two before the login prompt appears. Name resolution is not the issue, what is? --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Efax setup in inittab

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
it is locked or not (/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1). I have tried -w -s -x options via command line and in inittab. Not much success. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
Jieyo, Add the 'clear' command to your .bash_logout file. I would like to see this in the debian dist by default. ...added to /etc/skel. I think it is very handy. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Linux print server, windows machines

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
, was Win98 packaged with a LPR utility yet? Thought since NT 4 does have the support maybe 98 did. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Jay Barbee
Also just to add to what Michael said... If you have any errors with your boot disks, you should try the floppy=thinkpad at the boot prompt. My thinkpad will not work without it (750) and I am pretty sure you will need the same think. As for the compressed Win95 drive... I would backup all

Date-stamp in filename for a script

1998-06-23 Thread Jay Barbee
Excuse my ignorance in shell scripting, but I wanted to create a file that actualy had a filename that contains the date in the format: backupYYMMDD.tar.gz I can do: date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz which give the correct output for the filename. If I assign that to an environment variable such as

2.0 Beta Party...

1998-06-23 Thread Jay Barbee
I heard about the Debian 2.0-beta IRC party on slashdot.org... I was wondering at what stage is this debian group going to create the Official CD for 2.0? Will 2.0-beta be included? I would love a Hamm CD ASAP! And how does its frozen state differ from being beta software. After all, both

AFIO usage...

1998-06-19 Thread Jay Barbee
I was wondering how I would use AFIO to replace they way I use tar. Here is a sample: tar c -X /root/backup/exclude -f /mnt/scratch/linux/backup.tar / What I do not know how to do is exclude several file which are listed in the file exclude which looks like: --- /cdrom

Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]

1998-06-17 Thread Jay Barbee
Well the good news is, My Debian system has been up handling daily routines (and running RC5 challenge they whole time G) for the past 93 days. They only thing that shut it down was a scheduled poweroutage for a weekend repair. The bad new is, 93 days later, I am poking around and I noticed

Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]

1998-06-17 Thread Jay Barbee
/etc/init.d/* is all there as far as I can see. File-rc 0.4.1 is installed but does not have any description in dselect. I am going to remove it and reinstall it. Did you install the file-rc package? Is /etc/init.d/* still there? On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: Well the good

Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]

1998-06-17 Thread Jay Barbee
are recreated in their respective run level directory. I don't ever remember touching this package before (file-rc), what is it's story? is it needed? Should I hit reinstall in dselect? --Jay Did you install the file-rc package? Is /etc/init.d/* still there? On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jay

Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]

1998-06-17 Thread Jay Barbee
JB == Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JB I don't ever remember touching this package before (file-rc), what is JB it's story? JB is it needed? Should I hit reinstall in dselect? file-rc is an approach to handle the scripts in init.d in another fashion then trough the symlinks

Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]

1998-06-17 Thread Jay Barbee
I accidently installed this package once...be very carefull. last I used it (accidently installed it) it wasvery broken. It was not unmounting filesystems and remounting them read-only before halt/reboot ing. I tried to figure out what was wrong (not knowing that file-rc existed, much less

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Jay Barbee
If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the and then type in address my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My resolve.conf has nameserver 127.0.0.1 next DNS last DNS. I have a running DNS, but when I tried to point the nameserver to 127.0.0.1, it also

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