Re: shared library not found

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: alex Hi all alex when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: alex libXpm.so.4 = not found wp6 needs libc5 ver of libXpm .. the libc6 ver wont do. install the libc5 packages xpm4.7 and libc5 and it should work nate

Re: Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
Cobalt is moving away from MIPS and to a K6-2 350 i believe? so it should be just like any other PC just a small physical size. nate On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, virtanen wrote: hvirta hvirta Hi, hvirta hvirta is out there anybody, who has got experience on using Cobalt Qube 2? hvirta (Internet

secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a secure conection via ssh. How do I implement the server? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Nagilum
Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display log messages? Also, does anyone know why Debian uses a symlink to tty0

Re: get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote: How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already installed on a machine? cat /etc/debian_version Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key:

Re: Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: j.l.go Hi! j.l.go I finally managed to get access to a CDR writer connected to the j.l.go Internet. I read the FAQ, but I think it is rather meagre in the information j.l.go it provides. I'd like to know what is the latest version of debian

debian on VME

1999-11-18 Thread Jim Ziegler
I am seeking suggestions on running debian on a VME system. I need a simple test system and have a VME setup with no processor board. I am looking for an inexpensive simple to boot etc. system that will run debian. Suggestions please?

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: : On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: : : Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which : makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package : suggests gimp-nonfree, which

Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ethan Benson wrote: hi, I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: this daemon does not create .pid files You don't

Re: get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Nov, Evan Moore wrote about get info on installed debian system How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already installed on a machine? cat /etc/debian_version And for all the packages installed: dpkg -l | grep '^.i' -- Brian Servis --

Re: Right List? First install.

1999-11-18 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I believe that you remember incorrectly. The NE2000 drivers (ISA and PCI) are not built into the installation kernel, but must be loaded as modules during the Configure Device Driver Modules step. Opps! It's been a while. Thanks for catching that. Finally, a few cards that claim to be

Re: get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Evan Moore
thanks for the info. On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote: How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already installed on a machine? cat /etc/debian_version Martin - -- If

Re: [Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

1999-11-18 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Wright wrote: - As you notice the number of cylinders are shown to be 8693, too large to - make lilo work. Obviously I failed to make the machine boot linux, except - through a boot floppy. Otherwise there are no problems during running. - -Do take a look at the

Mgetty+Cyclades

1999-11-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I'm trying to use mgetty to control my Cyclades ports to use a¨56K modem as dial in I used setserial so my serial on ttyC0 is set like that: ttyC0, Line 0, UART: Cirrus, Port: 0x, IRQ: 2 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: infinte, closing_wait2:

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:38:08PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? Don't know, I'm interested too ;) How do I implement the server? The qpopper package work perfectly for me (without touching any config file) JY --

Token ring error messages

1999-11-18 Thread David Kanter
I have compiled the 2.2.10 kernel for Token Rings with use of the Tropic module. I have an IBM ISA Token Ring card. However, the boot-up process freezes partway through the Token Ring phase. During boot-up, I can see messages like the Token Ring's hardware address, and something about 16MBps.

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting aphro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be john rearranged in the init scripts. i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a fact that the kernel incorrectly

howto run a process which respawn after death.

1999-11-18 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Is there a tool for start a proccess and after it dies the process respawn ? Just like init does but from the command line. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nagilum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display log messages? My understanding

Re: Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

1999-11-18 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
yeah its slink.. id advise burning the cd in linux, or in unix at least I can't do that, I have to use a box that runs on Win95. j.l.go download a version of potato (the official CD would be a slink based thing, dont know if u can d/l an iso of potato..as for slink you get main and

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:38:08 -0200 (EDT) Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a secure conection via ssh. How do I implement the server? Install the sshd (comes

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-18 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:52:03 -0500 David S Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my mails to debian-user. Basically, the procmail log messages get echoed back to the debian list server. I edited a line in /etc/exim.conf: A more

Re: xv instead of IM in mailcap?

1999-11-18 Thread Tom Allard
I manually exchanged ImageMagicks display against xv on /etc/mailcap. But every time I install an application which alters /etc/mailcap, display is again inserted. How can I prevent that? See the man page for update-mime(8). Basically, you create a file in /usr/lib/mime/packages . There is

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ -I./config -g0 \ -finhibit-size-directive

Re: Well, Corel is out

1999-11-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Tim Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Sytsma wrote: I've seen Corel's Linux out. It's 15$ to buy their cheap CD's, and ~50 to buy it in the box. However, I'd really like to see how good it is. Download it and find out! Sheesh. Has anybody here d/l'd the cdimages? Yes.

[ftp] ftpadmin user, private directories, incoming and not much more. . .

1999-11-18 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi List; This is my first mail here, so hi to all. . .I have a little problem, lack of knowledge is what I call it. Anyway, I have a public ftp server, and I need to create a special account for ftp administering (ftpadmin). This account can only be to accessed via ftp, to put files and take

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:37:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brought it up. And the FTP archive doesn't have a source package) :# dpkg-cross --install sysvinit_2.76-3.deb libc6_2.0.105-2.deb \ dpkg_1.4.0.34.deb mount_2.9g-6.deb ldso_1.9.10-1.deb :Building

Re: howto run a process which respawn after death.

1999-11-18 Thread Roland Mas
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a tool for start a proccess and after it dies the process respawn ? Just like init does but from the command line. $ while true ; do process ; done or $ (while true ; do process ; done) should do the trick.

Re: Compatible notebook

1999-11-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi Rajesh Mittal wrote: I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd on that. Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w card. or as a whole . Try the latest IBM thinkpad. I think it is also certified by RedHat though you

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can do it easily with stunnel as well. Here's my line from inetd.conf: pop3s stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/stunnel /usr/sbin/stunnel -p /etc/ssl/certs/imap4.pem -l /usr/sbin/cucipop -Yq You need to create the certificate using the openssl package's openssl program. Mario

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi Mario, The server should accept ssh and you should be able to connect to this machine using ssh without having to supply your password (using a .shosts or .rhosts file of instance). It should also accept pop-3 of course. ;-) A extended example, based on a example in fetchmail(1): poll

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Ookhoi
How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a secure conection via ssh. How do I implement the server? If you use ssh to connect to the pop3 server (as I do), you don't need special things for the pop3d. If you

Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: this daemon does not create .pid

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote: Hi Mario, The server should accept ssh and you should be able to connect to this Hi Remco, My problem is exactly in how to set the server to accept ssh connections. Which changes should I do, which packages should I install, in order to

OT/INFO: Number crunching processor

1999-11-18 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! We are considering buying a new computer for number crunching applications. So far, we have been using an ageing P200 with Debian 2.1/2.2 on it, but it's taking several hours to process some data and there's some money available X-). In principle, I have shortlisted two candidates for

problems

1999-11-18 Thread Brett Polach
hello, I am having problems making my site appear on Netscape, it has no proble appearing on Explorer, what could be the problem, any help would be greatly appreciated. http://www.ccypi.com Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compatible notebook

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: Rajesh Mittal wrote: I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd on that. Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w card. or as a whole .

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Install ssh on the server; apt-get install ssh, this includes the sshd daemon. See if it is running; ps axw | grep sshd, if not try running the init script; sh /etc/init.d/ssh start. Now you should be able to login with slogin; slogin localhost. On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 16:03, Mario Olimpio de

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Ian Winter
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:54:47AM -0500, Nagilum wrote: Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display log messages?

Re: process limits

1999-11-18 Thread Marcin Inkielman
thanks for your respose On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: marn fork fails in ~300 iteration marn i would like it fails in for example 3000 iter. may have to wait for 2.4 to do that.. even for more than 500 process in total for all users? check kernel source

Mysterious reset during dselect

1999-11-18 Thread Drew Bell
Any ideas on what would cause a spontaneous reset in the middle of the Install part of dselect? And, after said reboot, it's currently hanging on Calculating module dependencies. Install was in the middle of finding old versions of teTex. Drew Bell

Upgrade to X 3.3.4

1999-11-18 Thread Christopher Clark
I tried to upgrade to X version 3.3.4( samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ ) as per a recent mailing but failed. dselect returns the following failure: mv: `ld.so.1.9.10' and `ld.so' are the same file dpkg: error processing ldso (--configure): subprocess post-installation script

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:37:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brought it up. And the FTP archive doesn't have a source package) :# dpkg-cross --install sysvinit_2.76-3.deb libc6_2.0.105-2.deb \ dpkg_1.4.0.34.deb mount_2.9g-6.deb

Re: Upgrade to X 3.3.4

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Nov, Christopher Clark wrote about Upgrade to X 3.3.4 I tried to upgrade to X version 3.3.4( samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ ) as per a recent mailing but failed. dselect returns the following failure: mv: `ld.so.1.9.10' and `ld.so' are the same file dpkg: error

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Kevin Heath
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:59:58AM -0500, Nagilum wrote: I'm wondering how to get /dev/console to work properly in Debian. I'm running Debian 2.1 slink, and a 2.2.12 kernel. I've seen that the Debian distribution sets /dev/console up as a symlink to /dev/tty0, while slackware and Redhat

HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state is not very good, i lost X and the package list is a mess i admit that with all the tries to restaurate the system it went deeper and deeper in a worse fashion... e.g. trying to install the latest apt: dpkg -i

Re: HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
Have you tried to --force anything? You can probably force it to install the new apt, but who knows what it will do then. I bet it fixes the file list though. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state is

News Gateway for debian mailing lists to linux.*

1999-11-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Work is going on to get the news gateway functional again. Sorry I was hired by another company and did not have time to migrate the gateway yet. Talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any further comments or to apply for feeds of linux.* -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Nov

SLINK and SMP

1999-11-18 Thread Paul McHale
Does anyone know if Slink (2.1 on CD) has SMP support ? paul - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile: 937-371-2828 Fax:413-215-3232

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Nagilum
OK, thanks guys, I got it working. Yes I had been restarting syslogd... but it was actually my testing methods which were flawed. ;P I thought that if I echoed something directly to /dev/console it should work, but apparently that isn't the case. I had been using logger as you suggested with

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread Jeff Sciortino
(I don't think we've heard back from the original poster (Sciortino?) since making our suggestions.) I've been listening intently and learning a great deal. Thanks to all who've been helping me out. My progress so far: I've pretty much eliminated the possibility of an IRQ conflict between

Re: SLINK and SMP

1999-11-18 Thread jason
SMP support has to be compiled into whatever kernel you use, though i would recommend compiling the newest stable 2.2.x kernel, and upgrading if necessary to support it. -jason When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like

How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter suggests defining the variables proxy=true, proxy_ftp_port= and

mixviews or mix?

1999-11-18 Thread Ian Stirling
I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and where is the programme? I looked in /var/lib/dpkg for information but all I can find is the package name. The other problem is that I tried to

Crystal CS4235

1999-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
Has anyone got this on-board sound to work with alsa 2.2.x kernel? I've got an IBM PC300PL but the soundchip is a common onboard one (so I'm told) ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL

Re: mixviews or mix?

1999-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Stirling wrote: I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and where is the programme? mxv for information but all I can find is the package name. The other problem is that I tried

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter suggests defining the variables proxy=true,

Re: Corel linux

1999-11-18 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 03:45:00PM -0800, aphro wrote: anytime soon..i doubt corel is up to releasing it as GPL. chances are low Well all the GNU/Linux stuff will have to be GPL and it is. The rest is under a Mozilla-like license that Corel made up. It's pretty much free. I think Debian

fetchmail and email

1999-11-18 Thread John
My machine is a stand-alone unit, connected by modem to the Internet and I intend to rely on Pine for my email and newsgroup requirements. There are no problems sending mail, but the receiving aspect is presenting some. Most of the literature I've read appears to relate primarily to networks.

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look at the apt-move package in potato... it should do just about what you want using rsync (you'll need to upgrade rsync if you're running slink). The current version (3.0-7) has a few problems, but a fixed version should be uploaded either tomorrow or Saturday (I'm the maintainer :-).

Re: quota.group / quota.user

1999-11-18 Thread Brian May
aphro == aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aphro do these files need to be setuid ? i have my aphro homedirectories on a new server mounted on a filesystem aphro with nosuid,nodev,usrquota,grpquota and it doesnt appear to aphro like teh quotas..it spits out an error when trying

Re: fetchmail and email

1999-11-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
John: 1. It's called .fetchmailrc (note the leading period), and it's in your home directory (/home/user, most likely). You have to use the command ls -a to see files that start with a period. 2. In your exim.conf file, you must specify that localhost is a local domain: local_domains =

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Joe Block
Gary Hennigan wrote: Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at rsync and mirror. The documentation of Are you planning on mirroring all the debian distributions (slink, potato, sid) for

What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-18 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, A couple people here have mentioned that Corel Linux is a limited version of Debian with some enhancements added to it, including a different installer and KDE. Can anyone tell me what those things that were taken out might be? And if a new version of Debian comes out, will it be able to

Re: mixviews or mix?

1999-11-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Joey Hess wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and where is the programme? mxv Thanks Joey. Intuitively obvious isn't it given the package name?

xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues

1999-11-18 Thread Brian May
Hello, gpm makes it possible to cut paste between different console windows. When running XEmacs on a text mode console though, it grabs the mouse for itself (not sure how it does this). I suspect it might be via gpm. This has the following problems: - it is impossible to see what text I have

PLIP

1999-11-18 Thread Attila Csosz
I'd like to connect two computer ( on both debian 2.1 ) with paralel cable using PLIP. Should I give the command 'ifconfig ' 'route ...' on both or on one computer? If it possible I'd like to use two directional traffic. Thanks Attila -- --- - Debian

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