Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-26 Thread Robert Moody
Gerardo Lamastra wrote: Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 and everything works right. I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: /sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS1

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:44:17AM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost

Macro expansion error in firewall.c (A variation on Signal 11 during kernel compilations?)

1998-02-26 Thread Raymond Rusk
Package: kernel-source-2.0.3 Version: 2.0.32-1 While testing my new Pentium II system for any occurrence of the signal 11 error that plagued my old 486 and one of my office P200 PCs, I have come across a most perplexing oddity. I see the macro expansion error in firewall.c problem that I

Re: Macro expansion error in firewall.c (A variation on Signal 11 during kernel compilations?)

1998-02-26 Thread Raymond Rusk
Sorry, the .config file that I attached to my previous message was from my office PC, not my Pentium II. If it is important, I can send the exact version. On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Raymond Rusk wrote: Package: kernel-source-2.0.3 Version: 2.0.32-1 While testing my new Pentium II system for any

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-26 Thread David Stern
On 25 Feb 1998 22:47:23 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: [..] This is why I was asking about dselect | ftp, because if I'm root, and I'm running ftp via dselect, then isn't this exactly what you're telling me not to do? Yes, but there is no

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: Running an ftp client as root seems to be an exception to the rule about not running as root. actually that rule isn't a general prohibition against doing anything as root. it is advice about only running as root for system maintainence tasks. upgrading

Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be working except ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions as described in the ftpd man page. When I type ls however I get: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. 226

trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i

Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-26 Thread shaul
I did not experienced with the kind of setup that you are talking about. However, I wonder, perhaps mgetty-voice has something to do with what you want ? Have you tried the mgetty mailing list ? If you look further into it, please keep us informed. Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

how to get packages

1998-02-26 Thread Mike White
Can someone point me in the right direction to download packages? I'm not sure how to use ftp because I don't know how to connect to the internet with Debian. I'm not sure what packages I should download first. Thanks for any help. John M. White Waco, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Alan Su
Richardson,Anthony wrote (Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:01:00 -0500 ): | |I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be |working except |ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions |as described in the |ftpd man page. When I type ls however I get: |

Re: error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)

1998-02-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
You provided the following partition table: Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 63 63 13097665457 82 Linux Swap /dev/hdc2 * 130977 130977 2588354 1228689 83 Linux native /dev/hdc32322431 2588355 6684362

Re: error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)

1998-02-26 Thread shaul
You probably have an old BIOS. Old bios is known not to recognize HD over 528M, unless special measures, such as LBA, are incoperated. Besides, I think that DOS would not recognize a partition that is over 2.1G. I use Linux with a HD that the BIOS sees as LBA. Does all this BIOS/DOS problems

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-26 Thread shaul
On a previous posting I said that I needed to run the mentioned cron script manualy. Now I found out when I had to run this script manualy. It turned out that it happaned after a shutdown command when I was logged to an xterm (and su to root). Prior to the shutdown I also had an xman

Re: HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-02-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: I got strange behaviour of xlock after recent updates of hamm. I lock the terminal in the night, everything looks fine, there is a password prompt and screensaver running. But when I come back in the morning screen is unlocked. Also for

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-26 Thread Britton
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I understand these gadgets right, the can

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-26 Thread shaul
I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. Is the modem on differenet tty ? Perhaps it is a PNP modem ? I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to

Memory Usage Reports

1998-02-26 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I'm not that clear on how Linux uses and organizes memory if anyone can provide some insight or other references. I'm using Debian Linux off the CD with the 2.0.30 kernel and no problems are noticed. Below are the results from 'free' with notes on which applications I have started.

man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I tried to install the man page package (got too tired doing gunzip -c |groff -Tascii -man), and received the following message from dselect. I had libdb1, groff, bsdmainutils already installed prior to installing the manpaged. positive messages deleleted Checking for languages ...

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-26 Thread rir
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gerardo Lamastra wrote: Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 and everything works right. I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: /sbin/genpowerd

Install Applixware on Debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? S. -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer

Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-26 Thread Paul Miller
Where is the mgetty home page? The site I found in the info file did not exist. Or do you know the mgetty mailing list address? Thanks -Paul On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not experienced with the kind of setup that you are talking about. However, I wonder, perhaps

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: ... However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two computers are

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-26 Thread Joel Klecker
At 03:19 +0100 1998-02-25, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:50:06AM +, Deniz Dogan wrote: Is there any other options to use as MDA? Preferably, how can I solve `connection refuse` problem? Sorry, don't know. Try to look hard at the various files in /etc, as /etc/hosts*,

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to install the man page package (got too tired doing gunzip -c |groff -Tascii -man), and received the following message from dselect. I had libdb1, groff, bsdmainutils already installed prior to installing the

Re: Dvorak keybindings in X

1998-02-26 Thread Adam Shand
A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X. How did you do that? it's an installation option. i can't remember what the name of the executable is if you want to run it again, but it walks you through

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-26 Thread Adam Shand
If its 16-bit doesn't that mean 2 channels consisting of 8-bits each The kernel code may not be full-duplex but I thought the card was again. that's not what i thought... but i'm willing to be wrong ;) Thanks, I do now get audio through speak-freely. However, it seems to break up

symlink error while unpacking -- why is this happening

1998-02-26 Thread Anibal A Acero
Hi folks! I'm using the hamm distribution and lately I've been getting alot of the following: dpkg --unpack jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (Reading database ... 100469 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking jdk1.1-dev (from jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))

1998-02-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote: As a matter of interest, who is using SVGATextMode with an S3 ViRGE and a 1024x768 capable monitor? if I try to go above 80x30, the characters on the left hand side of the screen get all screwy, and sometimes the left of the screen is

Re: symlink error while unpacking -- why is this happening

1998-02-26 Thread Scott Ellis
You ran into a problem with the mid 2.1.8x kernels, upgrade to 2.1.88 or downgrade to 2.1.7x On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Anibal A Acero wrote: Hi folks! I'm using the hamm distribution and lately I've been getting alot of the following: dpkg --unpack jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (Reading

Smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-26 Thread alemas
Daniel offered a solution that seems to me to work very (bo used on this box, so check it) well, except that I changed the smtp-rewrite in the /etc/smail/routers file to match what it calls in the /etc/smail/transports file (smtp-remap). I think I typed both in as smtp-rewrite. I use

Re: two monitors

1998-02-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a multimon kernel patch that has compiled

Re: Smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-26 Thread alemas
To clarify something from my last message in regards to the subject (subject this message, also) at hand, my _machine name_ is alemas. ipa.net is my ISP's domain. Therefore, my full domain name on this machine is alemas.ipa.net. My numerical domain address (e.g., ###.###.###.###) is a

trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
My Debian-1.3 came about a week ago. It didn't take that long to figure out the installation procedure; it is similiar to FreeBSD that I've used for around 3 years. However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I

dump aborts on /var scsi filesystem only

1998-02-26 Thread Jameson Burt
Over 4 months, I used dump to successfully back-up 5 filesystems in this order / /usr /var /home /usr/local Now, for two weeks, I have gotten no successful backup. dump always goes wild on the /var filesystem. With the exception of an Atapi CD, all other such hardware is attached to an Adaptec

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall

Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Anyone? Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit-

Re: Free X servers for win

1998-02-26 Thread pai
Thanks to all who responded. The Mix server works just fine. In fact Netscape on X works faster than on Win. I teach UNIX. My assignment was to port an entire syllabus from SCO to Linux. I have started by installing just a simple Slackware to teach shell scripting, C, C++, and elementary Perl.

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:36:07 +0900 Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: at some point around Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... -- Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI) |

Re: xfstt

1998-02-26 Thread Ender Wigin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- - -K Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ewigin.home.ml.org Do the Free-Ride free-ride.home.ml.org On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: Has anyone used xfstt on a regular basis? I've gotten Netscape to work using TT fonts, now I'd like to get other

ethernet card (hamm)

1998-02-26 Thread Jonas Bofjall
I have decided to install something unixish on an old 486/33 which just sits in the lab, which has a crashed MSwin311 installation and no one uses it. I don't have much info on hardware but I've figured out most of it. The network card has `SMC' printed on it so I choose the first SMC driver (I

[CWJKGMQP@aol.com: X Window]

1998-02-26 Thread Martin Schulze
-Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from debian.novare.net with smtp id m0y7tAm-001MslC; Thu, 26 Feb 98 03:35 MET Received: from

Pentium-II

1998-02-26 Thread Clement
Many users of Cyrix CPUs have had to disable the cache in their systems during installation, because the floppy disk has errors if they do not. If you have to do this, be sure to re-enable your cache when you are finished with installation, as the system runs much slower with the cache

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-26 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
This discussion starts to be out of list's topic, sorry. I'll send further responses only by e-mail. If the power instalation is properly designed, it should be no problem. However I, personally, would always prefere two have an additional zero current ground wire dedicated for computers only.

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Carey Evans hat gesagt: // Carey Evans wrote: Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have the hdimage there :( Am I missing something? I've inspected the dosemu_0.66.3-1.deb package it contains : -rw-r--r-- root/root 28011 May 5 13:36 1997

DEBIAN or REDHAT ?

1998-02-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've never used

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread John Spence
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 02:20:42PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have

RE: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I'd forgot about the shared library stuff. I'd expect we'd also need ld.so in lib and to set up the library cache file in etc. This doesn't seem too easy ... Are we missing an easier solution? Perhaps a statically linked ls is the way to go. Thanks Tony -Original Message- From:

Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?

1998-02-26 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:00:30AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially

Re: gpc linking problem

1998-02-26 Thread Tobias Peters
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote: $gpc hello.pas -o hello ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory Add a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8 \ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/libgpc.so Tobias -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

RE: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Run ldd on ls. For example, ldd /bin/ls (you need the absolute path) You should get output like: libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever

Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --

1998-02-26 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi everyone, I wote some code to manage a data aquisition device in the labs. It runs for a while (say 24 hrs, gathering data every 6 secs [x 50 data points]) then it crashes, crashes bad (segmentation fault) /dev/ttyS0 input overflow ... does anyone know what is causing this?? I

Re: Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --

1998-02-26 Thread Ossama Othman
I can't help you with the device problem. However, if you do a: man fflush You will get a manual page of the fflush C function for the particular UNIX or UNIX-like system you are using, presumably and hopefully Debian Linux since you posted to this Debian mailing list. In general, all

forwarding pop3 over ssh

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:08:10 +0100 Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Carey Evans hat gesagt: // Carey Evans wrote: Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Pere Camps
Joey, I doubt it, I have a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who starts dosemu when his system boots, and never closes it. I haven't heard about periodic hangs. I'll run some tests... Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_

Re: Install Applixware on Debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Adam Shand
Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? yep it works fine. i found the easist way to do it is to use alien to convert the rpm's into deb's. this works great so long as you don't mind it installing to /opt (which i don't)... just make sure you have enough disk space on your root

Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
No-one on this list uses Debian as a news server? Nobody's running SMP? There's no interest whatsoever in tech support for Debian? (I know Bruce posted something about it a while ago ...) I'm disappointed. If the folks who are in the know have all unsubscribed from this list and hang

Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?

1998-02-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being

RE: Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --

1998-02-26 Thread Lewis, James M.
I don't know about your first problem... fflush() will flush your stream to the system buffer cache. sync() will cause the buffer cache to be posted to disk. Unless linux crashes, the sync call should not be needed. jim -- From: C.J.LAWSON[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: Install Applixware on Debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Bill Leach
Yes, several times. Use the 'rpm.deb' package. I know that I have installed it 'just by copying' but the last time that I tried that applixware had some problems with 'license files' (somewhere in /etc) and it was just not worth the trouble (to me) to spend anytime trying to figure it out when

/etc/cron.daily/wn error

1998-02-26 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type file too large. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wn exited with

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Bill Leach
This is just some quick 'off the top of my head' sort of things... First, the 'ramdisk' problem. This is probably not caused by anything associated with the booting process (though _can_ be--at least when using LILO) but rather that the kernel is configured to use a 'ramdisk' as root (/). I use

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to

Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type

Re: ethernet card (hamm)

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP,

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 You

Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error

1998-02-26 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type

Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-26 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:56:05PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Where is the mgetty home page? The site I found in the info file did not exist. Or do you know the mgetty mailing list address? Thanks -Paul http://wais.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or to join: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: No-one on this list uses Debian as a news server? Nobody's running SMP? There's no interest whatsoever in tech support for Debian? (I know Bruce posted something about it a while ago ...) I'm disappointed. If the folks who are in the know have

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hamish, So I have a cronjob to kill dosemu daily, and dosemu runs from a script which just runs it over and over again. Same as the power reset on the old machine, but nicer. You could also have an external event from your mailer to run EXITEMU instead of the kill. My system survived ok for

SOCKS5 and Secure Shell Packages

1998-02-26 Thread Paulo Jorge de Almeida
Hi! I am looking for pre-compiled ready-to-install SOCKS5 1.0r4 and Secure Shell debian packages. I already have the source code, but since I am installing these aplications on quite a few machines, it would make my job easier if I could install them directly without having to compile

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nathan E Norman wrote: No-one on this list uses Debian as a news server? Nobody's running SMP? There's no interest whatsoever in tech support for Debian? (I know Bruce posted something about it a while ago ...) ... Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:14:22 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan E Norman

Re: SOCKS5 and Secure Shell Packages

1998-02-26 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 04:05:52PM -, Paulo Jorge de Almeida wrote: I am looking for pre-compiled ready-to-install SOCKS5 1.0r4 I can't find a socks5 package. If you are interested in making a package for it, please check out http://www.debian.org/devel/help.html . and Secure Shell debian

Re: IMAP4-4.1 Broken

1998-02-26 Thread David Gaudine
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Dale Harrison wrote: Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. IMAP4-4.1

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-26 Thread Lee Bradshaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Art, I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will eventually show up in the archive, but

keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, Anyone know of a nice way to keep different CVS servers synchronized with each other? bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: IMAP4-4.1 Broken

1998-02-26 Thread Timm Gleason
My officemate and I had similar problems when we switched to Outlook. I do not know what version our IMAP server is running, but the problem seemed to go away once we bumped the timeout up to 3 to 4 minutes. Timm Gleason Hardware Engineer N2H2, Inc -Original Message- From: David Gaudine

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-26 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Sorry for the previous empty message. Art, is your local user name alemas? My problem is that if I use my isp for the visible name, I get a from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Notice there is no colon after the from. This is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately my email address is lee.bradshaw and my login on

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Verify that /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist exists go to /etc as root do a $ rm -f conf $ ln -s /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist conf and that should do the job ! Dear Jean-Michel, thanx a lot, that was the solution. Gernot --

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's

RE: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I had already done what is suggested below, but no luck. The following: chroot /home/ftp /bin/ls gives chroot: cannot execute /bin/ls: No such file or directory (using ls or bin/ls instead of /bin/ls gives the same message). I've got all the libraries copied to /home/ftp/lib, but still no

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-26 Thread Jeff Alami
Well, I recently found out that the Equinox Megaport 8CS is not a dumb UART board--not supported by Linux. If you're looking for a multiport serial board with support for Linux, you have two recommended options. If the computer you connect it to is fast, and you want to save money, you can

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I haven't used SMP. I know it needs the 2.1 kernel series. I believe that you may be incorrect. We have someone running 2.0.33 with SMP enabled since he has 2 Pentium II processors in his system. If you need SMP, you will probably have to recompile the kernel source manually. Do your

Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?

1998-02-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Thaths -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Tim Sailer
Ossama Othman wrote: I believe that you may be incorrect. We have someone running 2.0.33 with SMP enabled since he has 2 Pentium II processors in his system. If you need SMP, you will probably have to recompile the kernel source manually. Do your make {menu,x}config (whichever you use).

RE: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow what it says? FROM LINUX FTPD MAN PAGE --- In the last case, ftpd takes special measures to restrict the

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file

Question

1998-02-26 Thread Erik Rodríguez
Hello: Can anybody help me? I have Windows NT Workstation and Debian Linux installed on my computer, usually i download files from Internet in Windows 95 (at the office), today i downloaded the java-linux package but i have it in Win 95, how can i put it in my home's linux machine, the

Re: Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?

1998-02-26 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello! On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Thaths I asked that sometime

Keyboard + Terminal settings

1998-02-26 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All ! I have been trying to make my TTY work with accented characters. So far, I have loaded a keymap that is essentialy us.map modified with dead_letters where the accents are supposed to be. (I have compared to pt.map - portuguese map and things look more or less the same,

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Gary Kline
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I

Re: traceroute program?

1998-02-26 Thread Jose Luis Garcia Pacheco
Maybe netstd? bash-2.01$ dpkg -S tracer* scotty: /usr/doc/examples/scotty/traceroute.1 netstd: /usr/doc/netstd/examples/traceroute/mean.awk scotty: /usr/doc/examples/scotty/traceroute netstd: /usr/sbin/traceroute netstd: /usr/doc/netstd/examples/traceroute/README.awk netstd:

Problems with libc6

1998-02-26 Thread Robson Francisco de Souza
Hi all, I have been trying to upgrade a friend's system from Debian 1.3.1 to Debian 2.0 (hamm) and although every program compiled for libc6 are working fine, many, but not all, programs compiled for libc5 don't work. For those programs when I use ldd I get an output like

RE: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I'm not chroot'ing to /bin/ls but to /home/ftp. The reason I tried to chroot to /home/ftp and run ls is to troubleshoot the anonymous ftp login problem. It's a lot easier to just make changes and use chroot than to ftp/login/check/logout. I figure the chroot problem and the fact that ls

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Alan Su
Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST) ): |Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically |does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an |excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow what it says? | Tony was trying to diagnose

Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?

1998-02-26 Thread Ian Eure
Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm.

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