can't locate module ppp0

1999-03-13 Thread Pollywog
Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 We are

Re: ssh problem on potato

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
FK == Ferenc Kiraly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FK I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to FK the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an FK error message like this: FK Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. Maybe you installed glibc2.1? Check with

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Also, upgrade your kernel when you reinstall - a

Awk scripts Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work. Doing some research I found that the boxes have different versions

gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-13 Thread Holger Mense
Hello... I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the potato directory. Can someone help? CU,

Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 07:16:32PM +, Holger Mense wrote: Hello... I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x

Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work.

Re: Floppy Drive Problem.

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Floppy Drive Problem. Date: Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:23:24AM -0500 In reply to:Person, Roderick Quoting Person, Roderick([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey guys, The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy drives. When I first installed debian, I had

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:57:58PM +0800, ivan wrote: Check out sci.math the sci.math FAQ (lost the url-sorry) - the faq has extensive descriptions of several different algorithms for calculating pi. I don't know if it's there, but I like the Monte Carlo method the best. You draw a circle

Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-13 Thread Brian Almeida
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Debian can make sure all the packages for gnome/gtk/imlib work together, and working packages will be uploaded, not broken ones. In the meantime, you can

Re: lilo.conf problems

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nicholas W Kopan wrote: I am having problems configuring lilo to dual boot to debian and win98. I have two hard drives: Primary /dev/hda, one partition, /dev/hda1 = win98 boot FAT32 3.2Gb Secondary /dev/hdb, two partitions, /dev/hdb1 = linux boot 4.0Gb [snippage] Here is lilo.conf

new user unable to install Slink

1999-03-13 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of cd and hard drive) (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0)

Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
I believe you only need to install the gawk package (from the /interpreters section) to get what you want. You will have to repair any explicit references to awk (changing them to gawk), but that should be enough to make the scripts work. I got bit by mawk myself. Also, I believe that mawk/gawk

newbie unable to install Slink

1999-03-13 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of cd and hard drive) (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0)

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's empty. I looked at

Slink CDs.

1999-03-13 Thread shaul
1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required inspite the inclusion of apt ? 2) Some CD vendors say that their CDs include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free. Others only mention non US.

Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:25:15PM -0600 In reply to:Stephen Pitts Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I have some small scripts that keep a log file of

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Don Erickson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Then they typically use a rootkit to get root access and replace files, just as you've seen. ls is usually the first one they hack. Thanks to all for the good advice, I'm using this as an excellent excuse to upgrade my creaky 486 and start over with a

Re: kernel Image Size.

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all Try installing the kernel-package

ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
My local mom 'n pop ISP (brainiac) was sold to a large ISP (who shall for the moment remain anonymous) that - I *think* - engages in the practice of logging users out after a certain period of idle time. (I'm waiting for their support to get back to me on this question.) I know folks have devised

Re: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-13 Thread thomas lakofski
there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': pppupd - Keeps a ppp connection alive PPPupd, is a simple daemon which maintains a dialup PPP connection. PPPupd is able to: + Execute a redial script, should the connection drop. + Send out periodic pings to keep a connection up, which

Re: lilo

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: lilo Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 06:51:33PM +1100 In reply to:Shao Zhang Quoting Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I have got a 4.3GB harddisk, and due to that, lilo cannot see my kernel which is stored outside 1024 cylinders. The following is my configuration

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread thomas lakofski
Probably a good idea long-term to subscribe to BUGTRAQ, or at least, debian-security-announce. usually you'll have some leeway between discovery of an exploit and potentially being attacked with it, but if you're wide open for weeks it's definitely asking for trouble. it's also worth shutting

Re: auto sorting mail clients

1999-03-13 Thread John Leget
Hmmm, would this sort of set up work for netscape, then i can just set up a cron to fetch the mail and have it ready when i get home ;0). To read with netscape say. cheers Nicolas PROCHAZKA wrote: Try procmail, it's very good stuff, and it's independant of your email client , an example of

HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE

1999-03-13 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded Debian 2.1 onto a 80386 with 250 MB of disk space for / and a 30 MB swap. I want to get X

elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread Max Kamenetsky
I just upgraded my potato system to the latest version of libc and exim, and I'm not faced with the problem of elm sending blank e-mails. If I send a test message or reply to someone else's e-mail, the message comes out blank. The mail buffer gets written to a file in /tmp just like it's

Re Installing X to Debian for a Newbie

1999-03-13 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I will mail an answer to you if I can find one. And if you find out could you mail how to me? -James

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread John Goerzen
Max, I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an unstable and development kernel could have its risks. Have

Re: Slink CDs.

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:56:27PM +0200, shaul wrote: 1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required inspite the inclusion of apt ? The problem is that even Just main is bigger than 1 CD

Re: HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE

1999-03-13 Thread servis
*- On 13 Mar, Robert Aisenberg wrote about HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE Hi- I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was empty. I took a look at

ether= parameter doesn't work

1999-03-13 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I am using 2.2.1 kernel and I have 3 Ethernet cards in my Linux box (all are Realtek 8029 PCI). The 3rd was added recently. I wanted to preserve my settings - I knew that adding the 3rd card would change my present eth0 and eth1 name-to-adapter assignments. So I added an append

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On 13 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an unstable and development

SMP with kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Has anyone here tried running an SMP system with kernel 2.2.3? If so, can you get it to use both processors? For some reason, I can get it to recognize two processors (this shows up in xproc), but top shows that at most 50% of the CPU is getting used, i.e. only one of the processors. At first I

Re: which package provides ldd

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:01:39AM +0100, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar, 1999 à 10:46:59PM -0500, dyer wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal

freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-13 Thread Pollywog
This is odd. freshmeat.net crashes my Netscape 4.5 (on Debian Hamm) and has been doing so for at least a week. Anyone else have this experience? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
This is odd. freshmeat.net crashes my Netscape 4.5 (on Debian Hamm) and has been doing so for at least a week. Anyone else have this experience? me too BUT only on 1 box my other box is fine (altough it's slower) netscape 4.5 on a PII233 with 256Mb of ram will crash displaying freshmeat

Re: Upgrade to 2.2.1 kernel, sound problems

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 10:32:04PM -0600, Mark Panzer wrote: I upgraded to the 2.2.1 kernel (it should be somewhat stable being an even release number) and my AWE 64 sound card now fails to work. I have isapnp installed to configure the soundcard on bootup, that works fine (prints out board

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