Re: win95files names

1999-11-10 Thread aphro
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name arodri without the funny ~1 thing? arodri I have tried mount -t msdos , but this truncates the name to *~1. use -t vfat nate

Re: Wine

1999-11-10 Thread aphro
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Eric Hagglund wrote: eahagg I'm curious to know: is there yet a stable version of eahagg Wine that accesses all or most 32 bit Windows eahagg applications without stalling, thrashing, crashing or eahagg otherwise behaving badly? The closest I've gotten this i do not believe

Re: Clock problems

1999-11-09 Thread aphro
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb Do you have a clue to use the log files from xntp3 to correctly jybarb setup time TICK FREQ, in order to have quite a good time jybarb kept by the cmos clock on a machine which only works a few jybarb hours a day? jybarb no sorry, i dont

Re: upgrading libraries

1999-11-09 Thread aphro
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: afo I want to start upgrading hamm -- slink !! Too late ?? afo hope not never too late.. afo Anyway I dont want to do this all in one round? Any afo suggestions? Should I do it step by step or all in afo once?? i'd do it all at once, i ran dftp

Re: Disk partiotioning advice

1999-11-09 Thread aphro
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: michf i was wondering whats the larjest partition size that linux can deel with michf (and if there is still limitation on the size of the root (boot) partition slink is easily able to handle a 9gig drive, i recently installed it on a 10.1gig ibm drive

Re: Learning Debian GNU/Linux

1999-11-09 Thread aphro
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, frenche wrote: french Is there a place where I can download french Learning Debian GNU/Linux? buy it! support the project! i bought it..even tho ive been usin debian for a while..its a good book.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: web mail

1999-11-09 Thread aphro
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Charles Lewis wrote: lewisc I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on lewisc vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality? webmail is free.. http://webmail.wastl.net/ and there are debian packages for it. its not the greatest but

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: pbruts An out-of-date mirror. The one I listed above is much more up-to-date pbruts (and is the author's actual homepage). You should especially check pbruts http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_dlls.html and pbruts http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_obtain.html.

Re: MiroPCTV and ATI 128

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb When I watch TV (xawtv, KDE 1.1.2, kernel 2.2.12), sometimes, it hangs; jybarb evrything is stuck for # 7-12 seconds, then it goes on; I really mean jybarb goes on, because if I have a clock opened, the hand of seconds don't jybarb jump: it go

Re: 486 and printing

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
try going to /dev and typing ./MAKEDEV lp that should make the lp devices. nate On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda I've got a little 486 box here doing nothing but gather uptime, alisda and I'd like to set it up as a printer server. alisda alisda Unfortunately, it doesn't

ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
i was wondering (assume it is, but just incase) if it was possible to establish an IP tunnel between 2 locations for a 10.10.10.0 network (or any of the 'non registered' networks) the owner of one of the companies i work for wants more ips but the ISP won't sell them to him for any price (and for

Re: 486 and printing

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda alisda tried that already. alisda -- you using 2.2.x kernels? did u enable the parallel printer device support in character devices during config (i config my kerenels on my own never used the pacakged ones) nate

Re: Clock problems

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: kerrr Okay, so what do we do if the system time loses time when the computer is kerrr on? The hwclock is fine, but the system time keeps losing it. kerrr Thanks run a cron job for ntpdate, have it run every 30 mins, or every 60 mins..or every minute..xntp3

Re: Code Freeze for Potato

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
no i read that its been pushed back to jan 15-16 with reelease in mid feb. i for one am in no rush to upgrade my debian boxes :) its well worth the wait im sure. nate On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Account for Debian group mail wrote: debian debian debian Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 7 as

Re: lprng help

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
dont you need SAMBA installed/configed to print to a printer shared out over SMB(be it win9x nt or some other form of SMB sharing) i think so. could be wrong tho nate On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, tjm wrote: tmolli Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, tmolli an HP870, on an nt

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: jpb Look into vpnd and vtun jpb jpb They're both secure - there is no particularly good reason not to secure jpb the vpn. thanks i'll read into em. if its secure thats great too. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, esl wrote: esl It can be done. For a detailed procedure of doing it, please get the Advanced Linux esl Reference recently published by Walnut Creek (I bought mine from Borders Bookstore) esl and you will see it under a discussion on IP-IP tunnel. thanks! i'll see if i can

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-07 Thread aphro
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: pbruts It sounds like you need to upgrade you XAnim. I can very happily play pbruts Indeo 5 .AVIs under Linx with the latest XAnim. Note that I'm a known pbruts bigot for compiling stuff by hand - there are no known (to me, at least) pbruts Debian slink

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

1999-11-07 Thread aphro
use dpkg -l nate On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: staron Hello, staron staron I have some trouble with dpkg because I need staron a listing with ALL installed Packages. staron staron What are the parameters to do that ??? staron staron I know only: staron staron $ dpkg -s

Re: PING error

1999-11-06 Thread aphro
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dodjee Or dodjee sendto: Network is unreachable. wrote hostname.bla.bla 64 chars, ret=1 ? dodjee when pinging to localhost or hostname sounds like a firewall is blocking it. reset your firewalls, (man ipfwadm or man ipchains according to what kernel

Re: Corel Linux

1999-11-06 Thread aphro
I only got beta 2 of corel linux (oct 22 1999 build) it appears that it may be compadible with slink package wise, although it seems QUITE limited in terms of binary packages compared to slink.. i was and still am very dissapointed with their lack of selection for applications. and fear that

Re: IP Aliasing on slink/2.2.12

1999-11-06 Thread aphro
im sure youve done this but have you updated the routing table for the new alias ? i use a perl script to add aliases, i just enter the domains into a file and it detects what can be added and adds them (it automatically ignores hosts that are already bound to another machine/network) if you

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-06 Thread aphro
don't hold your breath, apple has such a tight rope around their codecs nobody but them can play most of the qt files. not even 3rd party windows programs for the most part. and i havent seen anything that showed them willing to license the stuff to anyone for a reasonable price. same goes for

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
use 2.3.x kernel for ata/66 make sure there is no device on the 2nd channeln for the ata/66 or the machine will crash nate On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: thaths How do I compile ATA/66 support into the kernel? And what version of the thaths kernel should I use? The

Re: Printers..

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
andrew Also is it possible to set a printer on a Linux box on a LAN and have andrew the Win9x/NT machines print on it? If so is it really hard to setup? print sharing in samba is a snap, for me it was much harder getting my deskjet 500 to work in linux then getting it to print iover a network.

Re: Apache Listening on another IP...

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Brant Wells wrote: dafyre computer while it's running Debian) has the Apache web dafyre server. How can I make Apache listen to the IP address of you dont. if the ip is bound to another machine you cant listen to the http port on that machine from another machine. you may

Re: HD problem/kern.log.3gz

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
the hard drive is dieing..recover data from it while you still can. i had a root drive fail in a server a couple months ago(running slackware 3.2) it ran for about 3 weeks (barely, no new processes would spawn) while the drive was clanging away ..(i was astouneded) then it finally died and

Re: Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say arodri redirect it to hdb1? When I made the installation I also enabled booting arodri from hard disk. boot to dos, and use loadlin, which boots linux from dos, be careful

y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
the date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as opposed to date). see: galactica:/users/admin/aphro# hwclock --show ; date Fri Nov 5 15:31:12 1999 -0.478007 seconds Fri Nov 5 08:59:17 PST 1999 they are different now, and always have been and it has yet to cause a problem. i

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
) nate On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: thaths aphro proclaimed: thaths use 2.3.x kernel for ata/66 thaths thaths Does it support booting off a ata/66 drive? The patches for 2.2.13 say thaths that booting off of ata/66 drive is not supported. thaths thaths Thaths thaths

Re: y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
thanks for the tips! i can now rest pretty easy :)) nate On 5 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john aphro writes: john also, what are the chances that software on the system will check the john date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as john opposed to date). john john

Re: Scrollback default in terminal emulators?

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
be careful how big your scrollback buffer is. once upon a time i increased kvt's (KDE's vt based on rxvt i think) scrollback buffer to some insane amount each kvt consumed like 40megs of memory once enough stuff was in the buffer. ever since i stuck with the default buffer. nate On Fri, 5 Nov

Re: X-windows GUI utility for maintaining user accounts

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
kuser included with kde, guserman, included with gnome both seem to work ok although i admin ive never used them for other then just looking :) you can also use webmin (www.webmin.com) seems to work ok ..although i've only used that once or twice for user management. nate

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
i agree ..it looks great..if your willing to sacrafice the speed..for some its worth it ..its always nice to have the choice. i for use chose afterstep, and it flies. kde is a DOG compared to it..i havent tried E for a couple years back then it was pretty slow ..but was useable..never figured out

Re: newbie curious

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
no its not safe to assume if it works with mandrake it will work with slink, ESPECIALLY if it comes to graphics cards and sound cards, maybe even network cards. i bought that same book, its great, and the cd is great, i did encounter a problem that the install defaulted to kernel 2.2.12 and did

Re: Security

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
best way is to get a drive that physically supports read only via a jumper, or some bios's support setting the drive in read only mode.(ive seen this feature on some single board computers ive been testing) many scsi drives have a jumper on them for read only operation. software read only is

Re: set coredumpsize in bash?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
i use ulimit to do the job. i believe the command is ulimit -c ..it would apply to all shells .. (man ulimit or man builtins or man bash it may be in any/all of those man pages) my defaults for ulimit: core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks)

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
yeah that would work fine, point 1 domain at 1 ip, or point a million domains at 1 ip ..its all the same ..now if your doing it for web hosting, e.g. http://www.aphroland.org and http://yahoo.aphroland.org and http://comedy.aphroland.org are all the same ip (208.222.179.35) however they are all

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Tom Gray wrote: Rotten I have a few questions about installing Debian Linux 2.0 (NOTE: I am using the Debian CD, and am currently running Windoze 98): Rotten Rotten 1. When I run the boot.bat file it always says that I don't have enough memory available. I find this odd,

Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
debian debian What could have caused this I/O error anyway? almost anything, if the system crashed, or had some bad physical sectors on it ..or a program crashed while it was writing to disk may of curropted some stuff..hard to tell. you can always avoid a reboot and you can always (i believe)

Re: Bug in smbmount?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Debian Mail wrote: debian I again have an debian ls: n: Input/output error debian Now I'm quite sure smbmount is causing these troubles. Anyone debian experienced similar problems with smbmount? debian yes, i experienced that problem often when using smbmount, i attributed

Re: Installing Debian slink (X)

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Daan van der Sanden wrote: d.a.m. d.a.m. But when I choose IntelliMouse en /dev/pcaux (or something) The system d.a.m. crashes, and my computer doesn'respond to anything. I also tried another d.a.m. combinations, but everytime the system crashes. d.a.m. try choosing IMPS/2

Re: StarOffice and /opt?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
i just make /opt a link to /usr/local ..works good. nate On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, John Gay wrote: John_G John_G John_G I recently got a copy of StarOffice from the cover CD from PCPlus Magazine. It John_G came as a .rpm file. I tried to use alien -i to install, but first I got loads John_G of

Re: aliases,hosts

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
man hosts, aliases, works fine for me HOSTS.EQUIV(5) Linux Programmer's Manual HOSTS.EQUIV(5) NAME /etc/hosts.equiv - list of hosts and users that are granted trusted r command access to your system ALIASES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual ALIASES(5)

Re: Secure Networks?

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
www.ipsec.com im sure its $$ but its the new standard. no more PPTP bullshit. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/

Re: GUI for Samba

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
it comes with one, SWAT (Samba web admin tool) if you have it installed launch yer browser point it at http://localhost:901 and enter the root password when prompted for a login/pw works good for me (samba 2.1.0-prealpha a CVS version from a few months bakc) nate

Re: Debian and the Pine license

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
i think it has something to do with them not allowing modified binaries to be released, plain binaries are fine i believe, most other distros have them..i remember slackware had it. not sure what all patches debian developers add to pine .. nate

Re: installation and such

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
order a cd !! my first debian install took 3 days due to bad cds and broken mirrors. i have found that ftp.fuller.edu is a good mirror site, metalab's mirror was BADLY broken (had about half of slink) and i think cdrom's was too. www.linuxmall.com has good quality slink cds. cheap too. there

Re: USB support in Linux?

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
check this site out http://www.linux-usb.org/ hope it helps :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett,

Re: hall of mirrors

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
i just re checked my debian cds to verify, thats just cuz debian is a link to . the real stuff is in debian/dists (or if you prefer just dists) lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root1 Sep 8 14:35 debian - . dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Sep 3 10:00 dists dr-xr-xr-x 4 root

Re: telnet not working on home LAN

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
well, 2 t hings is your work outside your 10.X network ? i hope your on the same network as that machine :) second ..the machine may be trying to resolve your ip ..or something. i have this problem too, and it goes away when i remove the default gateway. if the gateway is there and is

Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
you try running a e2fsck on it ? run e2fsck -c too, i think that is the option to check for bad blocks. if its on the root partition you'll have to bring the box down, fastest way is to init 1, mount -o remount,ro / and run e2fsck on it then mount -o remount,rw / and init 2 to get back to normal

Re: starting ssh port forwarding from inetd

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
i see 1 rproblem there there is no POP3 server on the pop3 line so there is no way to read mail without the actual pop client. if your that paranoid go with something like IPSEC, or use a POP server that supports APOP(obsolete?) or SSL. as for SMTP ..well use IPSEC. i hope your not planning on

Re: .htaccess

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
first, make a .htaccess file e.g. AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd AuthName My protected pages AuthType Basic require valid-user -- next ..make the password cd to /path/to (or wherever your password file is stored) and run htpasswd -c username ( dont use the 's of course) it will prompt for

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
just make sure xntp3 is running, you can test it by telnetting to port 37 on the ntp server, it'll spit out some garbage and drop you thats normal. then setup a cron entry i suppose to synch the time every 12 hours or something.. my ntp server is rarely more then 0.001 seconds off from the servers

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:04pm up 74 days, 10:31, 1 user, load average: 1.75, 1.79, 1.72 On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Iain Lamb wrote: aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just make

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA

Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
2.2.10 works great as for wine, the wine released on 1030 seems to work ok, the one that came out in sept was badly broken. but all i run in wine is cdrwin .. still tryin to get unreal or somethin runnin under wine, everytime i run it it just chews up 500+mb of memory and dies. :( nate

Re: IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
if i understand what your asking all you want to do is have your machine recieve requests for mymachine.domain.net, so if someone types in http://mymachine.domain.net they hit your machine, or if they email you at mymachine.domain.net it comes to you .. ?? just set a domain up and point the

Re: Potato: MAKEDEV doesn't recognize ht device

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
I'm not using potato but maybe i can help .. you may be able to copy this to your MAKEDEV script and run it with the ht option .. ht) major=`Major ht0 37` || continue # Only one IDE tape drive is currently supported; ht0. makedev ht0 c

Re: Setting up LAN and ppp

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
sounds like the ipfwadm package acting up .. i'd suggest removing it. check your firewall rules when you ping i bet icmp is being blocked. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail

Re: revisions of slink?

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
its just minor updates ..might as well do it if you got the time .. i use dftp getnew --ftpsite ftp.fuller.edu i'll play with apt someday .. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
what is the character(s) in your QP encoding ? that would help debug the prob :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
sounds like some delays on your mail server, i have been recieving a steady stream of mail. sometimes i do get bursts though with a lot of messages. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
ldd may show all the libraries but there may be conflicts.. hard to explain cuz i hardly understand myself, but i will say that my wordperfect8 was broken for several months(as was realvideo player and other libc5 apps) because of misconfiguration of libc5, eventually i started playing with it,

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
sounds like a routing problem, i remember this one well from my 8 hours strugglign to get online with slackware a few years back. try adding the default gateway route add default gw ip of the gateway where the ip of the gateway is that other ip you can ping. nate

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
no idea how redhat works but im sure ..(comment cut out here) debian defaults to runlevel 2 (which is a low runlevel no doubt) to disable XDM for starting erase /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm (it may be named something else like S98xdm but the 'xdm' is the key here) next time you enter that runlevel, X

Re: ProFTPd; how to set up write access for home dirs

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
proftpd, like most ftpds use filesystem permissions when dealing with normal users, proftpd has the option to deny overwrites, which i (think?) is default(see /etc/proftpd.conf) for the anonymous user permissions it is treated as the user 'ftp' in most cases, and the root directory for anonymous

Re: any need to upgrade kernel

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
is that security hole that packet thing , shit i forget the name, it was in 2.0.35 then backed out of .36 because of compadiblity issues ?? please specify the hole..i use 2.0.36+securelinux. am testing 2.0.38+ow4 (http://www.openwall.com/linux/) as a replacement for 2.0.36+securelinux. i am very

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: what is the character(s) in your QP encoding ? that would help

Re: ProFTPd; how to set up write access for home dirs

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:53pm up 74 days, 2:20, 1 user, load average: 1.75, 1.58, 1.54 On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote: aphro wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote: I checked

Re: dselect

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
it would be helpful if you noted what package(s) were being instaled. in slink XFREE86 is spread accross a vast number of packages according to what they are used for. if you told it to install XFREE86, i find it highly unlikely it is installing something other then XFRE86 :) something else is

Re: Gpm in notebook (psaux)

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
after you made the changes did you reload gpm ? try this: gpm -k gpm -m /dev/psaux -t imps2 does the mouse work ? you may have the right port, but are using the wrong protocol(or in gpm.conf the wrong type) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice

Re: Problems mounting second hardisk, partition

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
use the absolute path when mounting. i.e. mount /dev/device /mountpoint if you use mount /dev/device mountpoint and you are in say, /tmp and mountpoint doesn't exist, it won't work. if mountpoint is in / and you are in / when you issue the command it will. nate

Re: idle user

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
idled does it. edit /etc/idled.cf or remove it :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: Help: Bookmarks history in NS

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
do you have the override option set in your NS preferences? I'm not sure about 4.5 but 4.7 has this option: Always use my colors, overriding document it may be that those pages you visit define their own colors as to what is shown for links and such. nate

Re: Apache and SSI

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
give sample code as to what your trying to execute on those .shtml files. I use similar settings in apache 1.3.9 (self compiled) with SSI and it works fine. you may also have to add access to type Includes to access.conf. example: Directory /users/virtual/aphroland.org/ AllowOverride

Re: segmentation fault

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
soudns like a seirous library problem, only time i've seen that is when libc was royally screwed, a reinstall may be in order here. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail

Re: mouse

1999-10-31 Thread aphro
try XF86Setup... ?? For ages i tried xf86config, and never figured it out, then i found XF86Setup, which seems to be..rather poorly documented as its so rare to see someone using it. it should autodetect it if its a MS serial mouse (ps/2 is not autodetected by xf86setup) nate

Re: matrox - openGL?

1999-10-30 Thread aphro
http://glx.on.openprojects.net/ g200 is supported, reports are OpenGL in linux runs faster then in windows on the G200 series. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet

RE: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
computer) and I was wondering which company currently offered RAID 5 solutions with source code drivers (or included in the latest stable kernel). -Original Message- From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 27, 1999 3:16 PM To: William T Wilson Cc: debian-user

Re: installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster) (fwd)

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
to be able to boot win98 as 'default' again try running the command fdisk /mbr you should install a boot record on the partition where linux installed if you wish to boot off of it(either directly or indirectly via some boot manager like lilo, system commander nt boot manager etc) you don't need

Re: ipchains

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you can't compile ip forwarding into the kernel in 2.2.x, you gotta enable it manually by echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward that should allow you to add forwarding rules, you may not be able to to ipmasq unless you got all the right kernel configs set. nate

Re: 270Mb xdm.log file and keeps growing :(

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
i know this isnt a real fix but you could make xdm.log a pointer to /dev/null (link it) so the log messages go to hell and never come back .. saves space..at least right? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations

Re: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
pay attention to what the memory is being used for. take this for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games/quake2] free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:253224 250956 2268 79044 72144 77588 -/+ buffers/cache:

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you can add the other ips, i think you can have a max of 4. but unless the isps are controlling access to their DNS (most don't for normal queries) there's no need to add the other ips if your just using as a temp measure. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you need someone to host the domain, you can host it, even on a dialup, although i wouldn't reccomend it. then you can have the domain point to your ip..and off you go ..don't need 2 computers..i run an isp and for almost a year we had about 40 domains with only 1 machine :) nate

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
try bootin form a boot disk and hittin sys a: c: and fdisk /mbr again (from boot disk) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
the program may not know where to look try this: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for bash^^) setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for everything else? ^^) and make again. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
i have never heard of a linux virus, don't think one exists.. there are worms, backdoors, exploits ..but virus?? nh. you should take this as a sign, drop win* and use linux :) (saw you had probs with debian, maybe try something else first? debian is hardly for beginners) nate

Netscape vs. ie

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
there was a few mails passed, i dont remember who all sent em but one of the guys said that MS was well known to fix bugs and the same bugs come back to haunt em (security bugs i.e. serious bugs, no pun intended) heres an example, a new ie5 security problem! (oct 28 1999)

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either that or firewall port 111. or both you can never be too paranoid. nate

Re: startx

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
run startx X.log and post the full output of the log (cat X.log) what you gave isn't enough information (for me at least) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet

Re: bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
the ata66 controller is only supported by a 3rd party kernel patch. some people say it works, others say it doesn't .. i have a BP6 myself, the thing is unstable as hell in SMP (fine in UP), but i use SCSI only no IDE. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
looks good to me ..although you don't need the route line for linux 2.2.x it adds it automatically. doesn't hurt to have it though. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
-0700, aphro wrote: its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either that or firewall port 111. or both you can never be too paranoid. nate

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 29-Oct-99 aphro wrote

Re: ipfwadm rule

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
set your default policies to DENY (instead of ACCEPT) and try again ..everything will be blocked except what you specifically state should be allowed in (dont try this from remote! you may lose access to the machine) (use ipfwadm -p DENY) nate

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-28 Thread aphro
i have yet to even touch apt ..whats so good about it ?? i always have used dftp to update my stuff ..works great. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

Re: Microsoft Joliet

1999-10-28 Thread aphro
all recent 2.0 kernels and 2.1/2.2 kernels have joliet built into the iso9660 driver.. it should autodetect a joliet cd..at least it does for me.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/

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