Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:05:17AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: Oct 18

Re: Network problem--cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:50:18AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: hi... i have sort of network problem here.. recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the machine following by its

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing dependencies for program design. Any good programs available for the job? Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works well for many types of graphs. It also has a nice tutorial. Look at its

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-19 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:32:18PM -0700, Wade Curry was heard to state: export QMAILINJECT=f The f is the problem. Get rid of it. Look at qmail-inject and qmail-headers for a detailed explanation of what f and the other switches do. The values in the first 2 variables are what is used

Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

1999-10-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Dear gnuplot developers, I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and reported to you) still exists. Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in the new version, but the bug's nature and the cure is still the same. I attach the gnuplot_bug.tgz file,

cron'ed, at'ed, exim'ed user limits

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How can I set user resource limits a la /etc/limits for the programs executed by cron, at and exim's .forward? This is to avoid possible DoS by massive resource grabbing by untrusted users. Thanks in advance for your help. -- p.

Re: Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

1999-10-19 Thread Lars Hecking
This bug in the pslatex driver should be fixed in the latest beta. Wojciech Zabolotny writes: Dear gnuplot developers, I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and reported to you) still exists. Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in the

passing parameters to a SSI in apache

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Varga
How can I pass parameters to an SSI (server-side include)? I invoke the SSI file from a server-parsed html file: test.shtml: ... --#exec cmd=cginame -- What I would like to be able to do is to either to set environment variables for the cgi invoked, or set command line parameters for it. I

netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., don't run good.

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Colin Marquardt
* jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? Do a man ls There, press / (for searching in the manual). Type -d (the text to search). Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext). See? The option -d is it. Also,

terminfo for solaris

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
greetings, while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my debian linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there is a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment variable has to be set to point to it. unfortunately, i lost the

retail set

1999-10-19 Thread tf
Hey guys, I was curious if the upcoming retail debian set will wait for potato? I was gonna get a potato CD anyway, once they are available. I may as well spend a little more, and support the team. (when can I start putting Debian/GNU Linux in my sig line?) -- -t

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:59:42PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: Ok, I'd like to create a admin group (adm), and have some questions. But first, my goals: You might want to have a look at sudo. 'man sudo' and 'man sudoers'. -- Mojahed

[Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and nice afternoon. OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter linux aha152x=0x340,11 it finds my Sony-CD-Rom at ID4. But if I bot from harddisk the aha152x is

/dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hi, I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy. All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, a new error msg is generated. How can I find out what is using /dev/audio? Thanks, MaryK

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: : Hello and nice afternoon. : : OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running : but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( : : If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter : : linux aha152x=0x340,11 :

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: : Hi, : : I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: : sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy. : : All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, : a new error msg is generated. : : How can I

RE: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
... If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter linux aha152x=0x340,11 Are you using a VLbus card with one of these built in? A something-or-other VL300? If so what is the ide controller chipset? (other than hopeless) But if I boot from harddisk the aha152x is

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: Hi, I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy. All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, a new error msg is generated. How can I find out what is

Re: netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., don't run

How to setup a printer?

1999-10-19 Thread peter karlsson
What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? I installed 'printtool' (mainly because it's the only Linux program I've ever used before to set up printers, on a RedHat system), but it just complains about startup encoding not set, and that doesn't help me much. -- \\// peter -

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread David Natkins
Look at the append parameter for LILO. Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello and nice afternoon. OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter linux aha152x=0x340,11

Re: How to setup a printer?

1999-10-19 Thread David Z. Maze
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PK What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? Probably the easiest thing to do is to install the 'lpr' and 'magicfilter' packages; the installation scripts of the latter will prompt you for all of the crucial data about your printer it

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream* -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I still get this when I do depmod -a. I have recompiled my kernel depmod: *** Unresolved

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: Hi, I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy. All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, a new error msg is generated.

Off bit question

1999-10-19 Thread Rajesh Mittal
Hi friends , I am really sorry for posting an offbeat question on this mailing list. I want to give facility of dial in on my sun machine.I am using solaris 2.6 What all I have to enable it. Thanks a lot. Rajesh Mittal

libapt?

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
I am trying to install gnome-apt, but it says its dependent on libapt-pkg2.5, which is not avalible. Where is this package? How can I get it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
hello, I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to: in redhat land the preferred way to manage the rc?.d symlinks was with chkconfig (more typing but works right) or ntsysv (don't work right most of the

Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)

1999-10-19 Thread Joe Block
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:08:02AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: Nathan, If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do the same thing in C :) This unfortunately relies on good coding practices by

mc, strange ftp behaviour

1999-10-19 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi folks, i found some strange behaviour with lovely mc. I use two (identical?) potato-systems, one of them two months old, the other just installed from scratch - was formerly a SuSE6.1. I saved the /home from the latter, and now maybe have some struggle with old config-files in my HOMEDIR.

ncurses driving me nuts

1999-10-19 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for help with ncurses programming (pls redirect me if this doesn't belong here), but the behaviour of ncurses is driving me up the wall here... For some silly reason, wmove() and mvwaddstr() doesn't seem to be functioning properly. The first one

Re: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
David J. Kanter writes: But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root all the time, how secure is it to run sudo on something like wvdial or slrnpull? wvdial should not require root if your user is in group dip (wvdial may also require 'dialout': pon does not). I've

MacOS and Intel Linux mixed network

1999-10-19 Thread Simon Hogg
I have an intel linux box, acting as a workstation (not a server), and the entire rest of the place runs on MacOS (well, more-or-less). Are there any tools that allow me to browse the network, mount shares, etc? I have appletalk installed, and that runs fine. The Macs can see my Linux box,

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about Re: can I list just the directories, executables? * jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? Do a man ls There, press / (for searching in the manual). Type -d (the

Re: Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Joe, Use cgiwrap. You can configure exactly how much cpu they get to use. I used it on a solaris machine that we were teaching a course on digital media on, and magically the load problems disappeared. There's a deb package for it too. The problem is that it has a not standard log

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 10/18/99 at 19:59:33, jh wrote concerning can I list just the directories, executables?: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? Also, is there a command that will list executable files. I just got debian installed from floppy so there is not too

Hiring Linux Developers and Specialists in the Bay Area

1999-10-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
Work for a Silicon Valley startup deploying and developing a solution based on Debian/Linux for eCommerce diagnostics. - Stockoptions - Moving Bonus - Competitive pay Information about Capital Technologies can be found at http://www.captech.com. Capital Technologies is an active supporter of

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-19 Thread John R. Sheets
Aaron Solochek wrote: I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious improvement. The first time I ran X everything worked fine. Then, out of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X. I get this

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
Turns out that AccelerratedX 5 doesn't mind slink's gpm, but won't work with potato's. So I just removed gpm from startup, and now everythings fine. Thanks to everyone who helped. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] John R. Sheets wrote: Aaron Solochek wrote: I just installed a potato

Re: X won't start (never mind)

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Forget this one. I don't know exactly what happened, but after rebooting X works again. Actually I had solved this before the message went out, however after the latest potato upgrade sendmail wouldn't restart until I edited sendmail.mc so I had a few days of outgoing mail in my queue. On Mon,

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread aphro
i have found that ulimit works very well with apache. i have my default ulimit set to a max of 12 processes per user, but with apache i gotta increase it to 40-50 before i start it or it may puke with cannot spawn child process on some cgis. nate

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Aphro, i have found that ulimit works very well with apache. i have my default ulimit set to a max of 12 processes per user, but with apache i gotta increase it to 40-50 before i start it or it may puke with cannot spawn child process on some cgis. How do you ulimit apache? Editing

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread d1temp
On 19 Oct, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about Re: can I list just the directories, executables? * jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? See? The option -d is it. To list just the

Re: qt2 packages?

1999-10-19 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Robert Rati wrote: The qt2 packages in potato seem to have been replaced with libqt2 packages, but when I unpack them, I get an error saying: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libqt2_2.0.2-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 10/18/99 at 19:59:33, jh wrote concerning can I list just the directories, executables?: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? I have done just ls -F | grep / in order to get a list of just directories, but it sounds so simple I think I

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread aphro
usually i just kill apache, set the ulimit (ulimit -u 40) and restart apache. you could prob do this in the rc script too. i'll check out the rlimit directives, but that sounds like an apache thing. i feel safer with a system level limiter. and kernel patches i have applied ensure they are

Re: kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Achim Bohnet
Stephen R. Gore wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install kdevelop (kdevelop_1%3a1.0-19991009-1_i386.deb) on a newly installed Debian potato box, and get the following: Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': at

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Todd Suess
If your shell is the bash (as I suppose), just press the TAB key twice. You´ll get a big list of executables in your path. (You can see what your path is by typing echo $PATH (without the quotes). HTH, Colin Interestingly enough, I hit tab twice as suggested on my system and bash

PCMCIA modem not identified

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Weil
I'm running Potato on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I've compiled a 2.2.12 kernel and the PCMCIA modules using kernel package. The system seems to work fine, except it no longer recognizes my PCMCIA card modem. When I insert the card I get a low beep than a high beep and it loads the memory_cs module

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: 2) As for SIOCADDRT: your /etc/init.d/network (or is it networks) route add -net 127.0.0.0 to: route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 lo I had the same problem (2.0.36-2.2.12) in my

Re: kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Achim Bohnet wrote: Stephen R. Gore wrote: Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. Are you sure /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp exists? Actually, I'm sure that it doesn't

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Weil
Can /etc/modules be deleted safely? After upgrading from 2.0.36 - 2.2.12 I noticed that /etc/modules was trying to load modules I didn't need/want. I ended up commenting everything out. Is there any reason not to delete the file? Richard Weil Hans Gubitz wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at

RE: Network Card on PCMCIA...

1999-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-99 Brant Wells wrote: Howdy Y'all I'm doing an installation of Debian for a friend. He's got an IBM Thinkpad 360Cs w/8 megs of ram a 165 meg hard drive. I need to get the TrendNet PCMCIA network card going, so I can mount the Debian CD that's on My linux box... Help! go

New modules.conf + sound...

1999-10-19 Thread Chris Mayes
Hi. Well, after running another system upgrade a couplea days ago (on Potato, of course), I seem to have broken my sound configuration again. I am not sure if it was this upgrade or a previous one that shifted module configuration from conf.modules to modules.conf (or whatever they're called)

How to diable mail relaying in smail

1999-10-19 Thread Tom Kuiper
I need to disable mail relaying on my system. I have smail 3.2.0.92-3, which came as the default with my Debian system, installed. We cannot figure out how to turn off mail relaying (an institutionally required anti-spam measure), since smail does not use a sendmail.cf file. Can anyone advise?

RE: runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-99 Ethan Benson wrote: hello, I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to: welcome aboard (-: I have found and RTFM on update-rcd but it does not seem to be really equivalent to

Re: How to diable mail relaying in smail

1999-10-19 Thread Joe Block
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote: I need to disable mail relaying on my system. I have smail 3.2.0.92-3, which came as the default with my Debian system, installed. We cannot figure out how to turn off mail relaying (an institutionally required anti-spam measure),

Re: runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: I have found and RTFM on update-rcd but it does not seem to be really equivalent to chkconfig (only works to add a symlink not change existing ones nor list the status of a service for a specified runlevel...)

system parameters

1999-10-19 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
How can I display the actual values of system parameters? something like sysdef -i on Solaris. Is there a file to change them? or a command? something like /etc/system on Solaris

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Mark M
Hi, You may want to try the patch Alec suggested. HTH Mark On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:55AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: ftp://ftp.x.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ (where x is your favorite mirror) There's some updated IDE patches there from Andre Hedrick, the guy who

cron error message

1999-10-19 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I keep on getting this message and i am not too sure why that is : /etc/cron.daily/smail: /usr/lib/smail/checkerr: /dev/null: Permission denied Any thoughts?? thanx

group productivity software thoughts

1999-10-19 Thread Robert de Forest
I appologize if this is an old idea. I admit I don't read the lists much, and I haven't checked to see if this has already been discussed. I've observed that there is a LOT of group productivity software becoming available. Specifically, the combination of the Imp (http://horde.org/imp), ezmlm

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and thanks to all, which had helped me. (7 and some doubled Mails). Please one more time: I am on the List and I do not like if I get all Answers as CC two times. The entry 'append' was not in the /etc/lilo.conf and I have added them in a new line as

nntp-inews

1999-10-19 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm looking for an inews program that can post via nntp (for use with uqwk without needing a local news server), but I can't seem to find any. Slackware does have one which I have hacked around a bit in at the moment, but it does have no monetary gain-licensing in part, which means that it

Re: kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Achim Bohnet
Stephen R. Gore wrote: Achim Bohnet wrote: Stephen R. Gore wrote: Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. Are you sure /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp exists?

Re: Red Hat Linux

1999-10-19 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, DeGroat Fredrick (Wade) CONT INHD wrote: Need Help! I have setup an anonymous ftp server using Red Hat Linux 6.0 . When I ftp to this server from another client logging in as anonymous I can connect and browse the home directory. But when I try to upload a file from

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-19 Thread Steve Stancliff
I have my machine set up so that ctrl-alt-end shuts down. Add the following lone to /etc/inittab (comment out any existing kb::kbrequest line): kb::kbrequest:shutdown -a -h now I think the default combination for kbrequest signal is alt-uparrow. To change this, you must modify

Ftp problem.

1999-10-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am not able to login to my machine with ftp anymore. I get a connection to the server, but whatever user/password I use I get: 550 Authentication failure I get this on all accounts with the right use name and password combinations. Telnet works fine. Can anyone tell me where to start

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