Script .... ¿perl?

2000-07-07 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola lista!! Necesito que alguien me de alguna sugerencia. Quiero hacer un script o algo así para el curro. Esto es lo que tiene que hacer: conectarse mediante telnet a un router (Cisco C7507), ponerlo en modo 'enable' (ejecutar un comando una vez en la sesión), sacar el 'show log' (otro comando)

Re: Intranet Linux

2000-07-07 Thread Peter Plys
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:33:05AM -0500, JFreak wrote: Para configurar la tarjeta ethernet tendrás que tener un fichero /etc/init.d/network tal que este: #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 `hostname` netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net 172.16.1.0

RE: Re: Intranet Linux

2000-07-07 Thread larocha
--- Original Message --- Peter Plys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:13:38 +0100 -- On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:33:05AM -0500, JFreak wrote: /etc/init.d/network tal que este: #!/bin/sh ¿y si en vez de una ip fija necesito usar la que me proporcione un

Re: Intranet Linux

2000-07-07 Thread Peter Plys
JFreak escribía... espero que puedas ayudarme, por lo pronto mañana voy a tener que reinstalar el CorelLinux en el servidor porque mi jefe olvido el password de root y sin ese no puedo cambiar algunas cosas que necesito, si sabes de alguna manera de obtener este password te lo

Re: Intranet Linux

2000-07-07 Thread Darlock
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, JFreak wrote: Antes que nada quiero darte las gracias por la ayuda, encontre algunos problemas en los que talvez puedas ayudarme: Luis Arocha -data- ha escrito: Para configurar la tarjeta ethernet tendrás que tener un fichero

Re: Intranet Linux

2000-07-07 Thread Darlock
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Peter Plys wrote: Si no tienes LILO instalado, usa un diskette o CD de arranque (de GNU/Linux, claro) y monta el sistema de ficheros raiz. Edita el fichero /etc/passwd con vi y elimina la contraseña de root. Te quedará algo así como

RE: Re: Intranet Linux

2000-07-07 Thread larocha
--- Original Message --- JFreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:53:19 -0500 -- Antes que nada quiero darte las gracias por la ayuda, encontre algunos problemas en los que talvez puedas ayudarme: ... hice esto pero ¿como puedo probar si mi tarjeta esta

Dos preguntas

2000-07-07 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Hola a tod*s, a ver, dos preguntas, creo que facilitas ... 1) ¿Qué fichero de configuración hay que tocar para darle permisos a mi usuario normal de trabajo para que pueda parar la máquina desde Gnome con el gshutdown? Se me ha ocurrido que podría montarlo con el sudo, pero supongo que debe

Re: Script .... ¿perl?

2000-07-07 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Juan Carlos Muro wrote: ... el tema está en conectar el script al telnet y capturar lo que me devuelve 'show log' a un archivo local (osea, fuera de la sesión telnet, donde se ejecuta el script). Como en perl siempre hay 50 formas de hacer la misma cosa, me imagino que hay varias formas, pero

Re: Ayuda con PCMCIA SCSI

2000-07-07 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Juan C. Amengual wrote: Hola a tod*s, estoy teniendo problemas con una tarjeta UltraSCSI Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480A. Os cuento. He compilado los fuentes del PCMCIA para el kernel 2.2.15 de la Potato, por supuesto activando soporte SCSI en el núcleo, pero sin elegir ningún low-level driver. En

Re: Dos preguntas

2000-07-07 Thread Luis Taboada
Hola Juan, Juan C. Amengual 2) Para alguien que trabaje con el kernel-package y tenga un portátil Juan C. Amengual ... ¿Cómo demonios conseguir que al ejecutar make-kpkg config_modules Juan C. Amengual conteste de forma interactiva a las preguntas de configuración para Juan C. Amengual compilar

[plip] Opciones en el kernel

2000-07-07 Thread Manuel Jiménez
Quiero conectar el portátil con el ordenador nodriza con un cable Laplink. Creo que entiendo lo fundamental del HOWTO. Lo que no tengo claro es si debo activar en el kernel opciones como el network_firewall. ¿Es mejor coda que nfs para montar sistemas de ficheros entre los dos ordenadores? Es

Migrando de NT a Linux?

2000-07-07 Thread Diego Mariani
Hola a todos: Hace muy poco que estoy con linux y de ahi esta pregunta. Doy soporte a varias companias y todas ellas con Windows NT. Una de ellas debe regularizar su software (todo, luego de una inspeccion) costo total 27.000 dolares americanos, al dueño casi le da un infarto. Sugeri

Re: Compilando el Kernel para obtener sonido con oss

2000-07-07 Thread JFA
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:07:35PM -0700, Julián Armando Mena Zapata wrote: Hola a todos: Llevo unos buenos dias tratando de configurar la tarjeta de sonido, una AudioPCI (es1370). El nucleo 2.2.x soporta esta tarjeta y por tanto lo compile. Bajo la batuta de JFA logre obtener sonido,

Re: [plip] Opciones en el kernel

2000-07-07 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:35:00PM +0200, Manuel Jiménez wrote: Quiero conectar el portátil con el ordenador nodriza con un cable Laplink. Creo que entiendo lo fundamental del HOWTO. Lo que no tengo claro es si debo activar en el kernel opciones como el network_firewall. ¿Es mejor coda que

Re: Migrando de NT a Linux?

2000-07-07 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:27:36AM -0300, Diego Mariani wrote: Hola a todos: Hola Diego, soporte a varias companias y todas ellas con Windows NT. Una de ellas debe regularizar su software (todo, luego de una inspeccion) costo total 27.000 dolares americanos, al dueño casi le da un infarto.

Re: [plip] Opciones en el kernel

2000-07-07 Thread JFA
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:35:00PM +0200, Manuel Jiménez wrote: Quiero conectar el portátil con el ordenador nodriza con un cable Laplink. Creo que entiendo lo fundamental del HOWTO. Lo que no tengo claro es si debo activar en el kernel opciones como el network_firewall. ¿Es mejor coda que

redireccionar informacion de puerto serie a puerto tcp

2000-07-07 Thread Pablo Vazquez
es posible redireccionar un terminal que entra al linux por serie a un puerto de red ejemplo por el serie me conecto a un terminal de una central telefonica me gustaria direccionarlo a un puerto tcp para ,a traves de la red accederlo. espero se alla entendido Clave publica

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2000-07-07 Thread Diógenes Zárate
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Re: [[plip] Opciones en el kernel]

2000-07-07 Thread Pablo Faundez
Manuel Jiménez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quiero conectar el portátil con el ordenador nodriza con un cable Laplink. Creo que entiendo lo fundamental del HOWTO. Lo que no tengo claro es si debo activar en el kernel opciones como el network_firewall. ¿Es mejor coda que nfs para montar sistemas de

Re: Setting up network

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
maynord wrote: snip Also, I often find it necessary to use ctrl-alt-f1 to open a virtual terminal and do some work. I can never get back to the Gnome desktop. Any way to do that without shutting down X? You should be able to switch back to X by hitting alt-f7 (presuming you've not enabled

Re: Making my own /etc/init.d/local and setting up links

2000-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:27:10AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: Debian really should automatically set up for you, a /etc/init.d/local file with all the appropriate links to /etc/rc*, but it doesn't. So I want to set up my own. But I'm a bit unsure about what links I should put where. Can

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:02:39AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: I've heard it said that rlogin has security problems, but I don't understand why? And surely if there are problems, these would be fixable? Isn't Debian supposed to be extra security fix aware? the r* commands are flawed by

Re: a lazy question

2000-07-07 Thread john smith
Yes. I like it. Thanks From: Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: a lazy question Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:05:19 +0700 (JAVT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [202.155.50.3] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id

Samba Headache

2000-07-07 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, Well Im still working on getting samba to work with Windows 98. I have configured the smb.conf to share my home directory on the linux box. Then I open Network Neighorhood in windows and can see the linux box. I then try to Map a drive on the linux box and get a error. Windows pops up

RE: Samba Headache

2000-07-07 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
Which version of Samba are you running...I would suggest that you use the latest (2.0.7) as I understand the earlier versions had some problems..similar to what you have described! Cheers -Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:26 PM

RE: Setting up network

2000-07-07 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
Firstly, if you are using Debian, all you need to edit are the following files:- /etc/networking/interfaces you should include the proper lines so that the system can locate your eth0 eth0 inet static (I think I am missing another part here)

malloc failed

2000-07-07 Thread Nick
what does this mean: VM: Killing process malloc failed: Cannot allocate memory maybe out of ram or swap space?? thankx

RE: Setting up network

2000-07-07 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
As for returning to X, use Ctrl F7 Oops or is it Alt F7! It's been awhile since I have used the Penguin! -Original Message- From: CHEONG, Shu Yang (Patrick) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:52 PM To: 'maynord' Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'

Re: menuconfig won't start

2000-07-07 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just install the ncursesX.XX-dev (current X.XX version). U can see on the descripton ion the package just is the header and developments files. seeya At 02.32 7/7/00 +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: Hello, I just wanted to get a new kernel for my

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013

2000-07-07 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: You should have the disk with drivers for your card. On that disk could be something called ezstart (or of the kind), thats a program to setup the card. Andrew OK I'll try to find that disk. But at this place it will be difficult. (Nobody wants

Re: anyone know ipmasqadm

2000-07-07 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Check the PATH It's posible ipmasqadm reside in a directly which is not on your path. have u check with 'locate'? 'which or just trying to execute the command it's not as u must look for a program. Seeya At 18.53 6/7/00 -0700, Bob Nielsen

explanation pls on postscripts,ghostscripts printing

2000-07-07 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, Can someone please enlighten me regarding these subjects? I know that postscript is a programming language that describes the appearance of a printed page developed by Adobe in 1985 etc, and Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language, but how do I use it for printing?,

RE: Samba Headache

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Jay First of all, I'd recommend subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a general mailing list for SAMBA-related issues, and the people on it r very helpful (generally :) ). Ok, when you ran sambaconfig, did you specify the INETD option or to 'run as daemon' option. In your case, if you're

Re: explanation pls on postscripts,ghostscripts printing

2000-07-07 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Joseph, On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: Can someone please enlighten me regarding these subjects? I know that postscript is a programming language that describes the appearance of a printed page developed by Adobe in 1985 etc, and Ghostscript is an interpreter for

Helix Gnome Updater

2000-07-07 Thread Mark Herrick
I've installed Helix Gnome on my potato system using: apt-get install task-helix-gnome and it works great, but does anyone know where I can get debs for the helix-updater? -- Mark Herrick - Liverpool - England mark at blacksky dot co dot uk Pick two: Good, Fast, Cheap

Re: menuconfig won't start

2000-07-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:37:22AM +0200, Alberto Rodríguez Ortega wrote: just install the ncursesX.XX-dev (current X.XX version). U can see on the descripton ion the package just is the header and developments files. It was called libncurses5. Now it seems to work fine. Any ideas, why this

host.conf vs nsswitch.conf

2000-07-07 Thread Markus Stausberg
Hi List, I'm running a debian 2.1 system and found that the resolver has redundant configuration information in 'host.conf' and 'nsswitch.conf' . The documentation describes both properly but I found no hint which one is the relevant. regards, Markus

named.conf vs named.boot

2000-07-07 Thread Markus Stausberg
Hi List, I found redundant information in the BIND 8 Configuration Files '/etc/named.conf' and '/var/named.boot' (or other files included in the latter). Which is relevant ? Why does the other one exist ? What role plays the (undocumented) program 'bindconfig' ? regards, Markus

Re: named.conf vs named.boot

2000-07-07 Thread Darlock
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Markus Stausberg wrote: Hi List, I found redundant information in the BIND 8 Configuration Files '/etc/named.conf' and '/var/named.boot' (or other files included in the latter). Which is relevant ? Why does the other one exist ? What role plays

Re: Setting up network

2000-07-07 Thread maynord
Mike: Yes, I am setting up a variety of machines where I need to do things like change the default screen resolution for X. I need to be able to try XF86Config without re-booting the entire machine. I am using Gnome in multi-user mode. Hopefully, I will be able to close Gnome, re-open and

Problems Installing PHP 4.0

2000-07-07 Thread Antxon Alonso Lopez
Hi I'm triying to install in my Debian system PHP4 with Apache and Interbase support. I follow the Installation Instructions for PHP 4.0.: $gunzip php-4.0.x.tar.gz $tar -xvf php-4.0.x.tar $./configure --with-interbase --with-apxs $make install Then I modify httpd.conf adding the following

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:02:39AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use ssh, or telnet, if you must (although that's just as risky). I've heard it said that rlogin has security problems, but I don't understand why? And surely if there are problems, these

Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: Markus Fischer wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get connected automatically to naur. All of the account info is (I presume) stored on naur as well.

mod_backhand on Debian

2000-07-07 Thread George Chavdarov
Any one have expirience with compiling and using mod_backhand with debian ? George ChavdarovSystem Administrator - www.dir.bg

Soundblaster and a Firewall

2000-07-07 Thread Peter O
I installed Corel Linux and would like to install Soundblaster drivers so I can play my CD Roms. Anyone know where to get the drivers? I would also Like to set up a firewall, anyone know where to get the software? Thanks. -- Peter __ FREE

Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Walter Williams
Good Friday Morning Does anyone know where I can find info on how to make my own /dev entries. I am trying to setup an old 386 as a 4 port print server and would like to create an lp3 device file. I am only asking for someone to direct me to the instructions, this way I will learn more on the

Re: Soundblaster and a Firewall

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Peter O said: I installed Corel Linux and would like to install Soundblaster drivers so I can play my CD Roms. Anyone know where to get the drivers? I would also Like to set up a firewall, anyone know where to get the software? Grab some kernel source and rebuild it with support for your

Re: Soundblaster and a Firewall

2000-07-07 Thread Frodo Baggins
Dave Sherohman scripsit: Peter O said: I installed Corel Linux and would like to install Soundblaster drivers so I can play my CD Roms. snip Grab some kernel source and rebuild it with support for your sound card and IP firewalling. Hi, sorry, but... why firewalling? could you

Re: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:21:01AM -0600, Walter Williams wrote: Good Friday Morning Does anyone know where I can find info on how to make my own /dev entries. I am trying to setup an old 386 as a 4 port print server and would like to create an lp3 device file. I am only asking for

Re: Soundblaster and a Firewall

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Frodo Baggins said: Dave Sherohman scripsit: Peter O said: I installed Corel Linux and would like to install Soundblaster drivers so I can play my CD Roms. snip Grab some kernel source and rebuild it with support for your sound card and IP firewalling. Hi, sorry, but...

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Walter Williams
Just makedev lp3? This is the part that I am a little vague on. Isn't there parameters to include with this? How does it know how which piece of hardware it is intended for? Or am I making this harder (in my head) than it really is? And you said FreeDSB? I'm wanting to do this in Linux.

HD Troubles

2000-07-07 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I have been having a odd hd problem. I have a machine that has 2 Promise Ultra 66 cards installed plus the on board interfaces. The first card (hde - hdg) works fine. The second card (hdi - hdl) on the other hand does not. When booting the kernel finds the card, and the hard drive attached

RE: Problems Installing PHP 4.0

2000-07-07 Thread Jason Holland
Hey, PHP needs the apache source dir to properly compile. Your php configure line should look more like this $./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.12 --with-interbase --with-apxs $ make $ make install You then must tell apache to use the php4 module $ cd ../apache_1.3.12 $ ./configure

RSAREF

2000-07-07 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
I am looking for the RSAREF library source. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanx! Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ftape woes

2000-07-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I compiled ftape into my kernel (actually as a module). I have an Eagle TR-3 type drive on my floppy controller which is the on-board unit (can handle 2.8 mb floppies). The ftmt status command never completes, taring a backup to the tape drive doesn't work either. What happens is that the tape

Drivers

2000-07-07 Thread Alwahab, William
Looking for drivers NuSound that work with WINNT 4.0 if any. Regards Alwahab, Wm. S. MCP Tech Tools.gif Description: GIF image

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: Just makedev lp3? This is the part that I am a little vague on. Isn't there parameters to include with this? How does it know how which piece of hardware it is intended for? Or am I making this harder (in my head) than it really is? And you

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Walter Williams
So it sounds like there are files containing pre-defined information for making /dev entries. I would therefore conclude that it knows that lp3 would be a printer port and configures it accordingly. That helps immensely, thank you I would presume that to learn more about this subject I would

upgrading postgresql 6.5.3 - 7.0.2

2000-07-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I successfully built postgresql 7.0.2 from source (dpkg-source -x postgresql.dsc; debian/rules binary). Now I would like to upgrade the existing version (potato - 6.5.3). What's the best and smooth way to do this? I've tried dpkg -i all_postgresql_stuff.deb

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: So it sounds like there are files containing pre-defined information for making /dev entries. I would therefore conclude that it knows that lp3 would be a printer port and configures it accordingly. files in /dev are special files. if you ls -l

Re: apt-move, merge ??

2000-07-07 Thread Jarkko Niemi
But here's the deal. I have multiple debian (potato) machines on my network, and only one with the disk space for a mirror. It's a server and doesn't have X installed. However, pretty much all the other Linux boxen on the net will have X installed. [snip] apt-get wouldn't work in the first

getting data into mails

2000-07-07 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all If I wanted to put some lines of text from, say a manual page, into an email that I compose (in mutt/vi), how would I best / most easily do this? I know about vi's :r! command which places the output of a program into the current file. I'm not using X here, just plain console with exim

What to use as an MTA

2000-07-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello folks, in the exim Texinfo file it says: Exim is designed to work efficiently on systems that are permanently connected to the Internet and are handling a general mix of mail. My question is: If I have a machine that's _not_ permanently connected to the internet, ie. if I'm using

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hello folks, in the exim Texinfo file it says: Exim is designed to work efficiently on systems that are permanently connected to the Internet and are handling a general mix of mail. My question is: If I have a machine that's _not_ permanently connected to

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: If I have a machine that's _not_ permanently connected to the internet, ie. if I'm using dial-up, is exim still a good choice, or are there better MTAs for that purpose. Are there alternatives that work best with demand dialing with

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: So it sounds like there are files containing pre-defined information for making /dev entries. I would therefore conclude that it knows that lp3 would be a printer port and configures it accordingly. That helps immensely, thank you I would presume

apt-get upgrade: now I can not login at ALL!!!help

2000-07-07 Thread Jose M de Aguiar
Help! I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. During the process I answered ALL QUESTIONS WITH KEEPING THE INSTALLED CONFIGURATION.(Default=N) . Once finished the upgrade, I was not able to use Real Audio. My default windows

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Viktor Rosenfeld said: in the exim Texinfo file it says: Exim is designed to work efficiently on systems that are permanently connected to the Internet and are handling a general mix of mail. My question is: If I have a machine that's _not_ permanently connected to the internet, ie.

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-07 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:29:16PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: My question is: If I have a machine that's _not_ permanently connected to the internet, ie. if I'm using dial-up, is exim still a good choice, or are there better MTAs for that purpose. I am using the combination Exim /

su question

2000-07-07 Thread tom
howdy guys, This is one of those things that has been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I edit files that require su privilages? (like /etc/fstab). I usually su from eterm and jed filename. can I su from within emacs? nedit? thanks! -tom -- -tom

Re: su question

2000-07-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
Perhaps sudo can help you, with sudo you just do: sudo command and it's executed with root privileges (after ofcourse you have given the user permission to use sudo). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, tom wrote: howdy guys, This is one of those things that has been pestering me. while

Re: apt-get upgrade: now I can not login at ALL!!!help

2000-07-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try booting with the lilo option: init=/bin/sh This will provide you with a root shell where you can try to fix things... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jose M de Aguiar wrote: Help! I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run apt-get update then apt-get

RE: su question

2000-07-07 Thread Walter Williams
When you bring up your xterm window you first have login as su then give the root password. The system is done this way because Linux is a secured system, that and you don't want regular users messing with necessary system files like /etc/fstab in a LAN environment. Walt -Original

RE: su question

2000-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Sorry for messing up the thread, I accidentally deleted the original post. I was going to suggest chgrping everything to staff then add yourself to group staff, but that would mess with stuff in groups: dip, shadow, ... and result in breakage. How much would this break? chown -R

Initial Load, X Issues

2000-07-07 Thread Ethan Pierce
Greetings all, I have just installed Debian via the apt method. Im not even sure what this did but it seemed to go right into the compilation where dselect from the cdrom was near impossible for me to figure out. Anyhow, while it was compiling it kept asking me if I wanted this WM or that, I

RE: su question

2000-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: How much would this break? chown -R operator /etc/* ; adduser someluckyguy operator Doh! Forget it, please :). I guess one cup'o'coffee ain't enough. - Bruce

Unresolved Symbol?

2000-07-07 Thread Thorsten Clever
Heyja! I just build a 2.4.0-test2 kernel by doing the usual make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install, then i copied the image and the System.map file to /boot an reran lilo. While rebooting with the new kernel i got a lot of 'unresolved symbol' error on pretty

Re: Unresolved Symbol?

2000-07-07 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Are you running on IDE? IF yes: SHUTDOWN AND PRAY immediately :) Maybe the information hasnt so wide spread yet but test2 is bound to corrupt your filesystems. take care, Rolf On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Thorsten Clever wrote: Heyja! I just build a 2.4.0-test2 kernel by doing the usual make dep

Brazilian mirrors (was: Re: Kernel Source Code [New User])

2000-07-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jul 04 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: :: On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:18:33 -0300, Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Roger. Hi, Jeronimo. Don't use that site. Use ftp://ftp.xx.kernel.org/ instead (where xx is your country code) to let the community mirror it

Re: apt-move, merge ??

2000-07-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jul 06 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using debs downloaded by apt-get is right on. Indeed it does. It's a great idea to manage debs downloaded. That means that it also saves me from typing apt-get autoclean. :-)

Re: su question

2000-07-07 Thread gianluca
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:14:55PM +0200, tom wrote: howdy guys, This is one of those things that has been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I edit files that require su privilages? (like /etc/fstab). I usually su from eterm and jed filename. can I su from within

apt-get upgrade problems

2000-07-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
I just did an apt-get upgrade (to frozen) for the first time in several months. Unlike most of the people who say things like that around here, everything is still (mostly) functional, but it has acquired a few unpleasant quirks... 1) I used to have SSH set up so that I could jump between the

Re: su question

2000-07-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:22:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:14:55PM +0200, tom wrote: howdy guys, This is one of those things that has been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I edit files that require su privilages? (like

Re: apt-get upgrade: now I can not login at ALL!!!help

2000-07-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 12:44:17PM -0700, Jose M de Aguiar wrote: Help! I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. During the process I answered ALL QUESTIONS WITH KEEPING THE INSTALLED CONFIGURATION.(Default=N) . Once

Re: apt-get upgrade problems

2000-07-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just did an apt-get upgrade (to frozen) for the first time in several months. Unlike most of the people who say things like that around here, everything is still (mostly) functional, but it has acquired a few unpleasant quirks... 1) I used to

Sparc SUN

2000-07-07 Thread Malishkin, Jake
does debian have a sparc version for a ultra1 sparcstation... if it does where can i get it from and how do i put it on..

Kernel problems (was: Re: Unresolved Symbol?)

2000-07-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:11:01 +0200 (MET DST), Rolf Schillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Oh, well, I suspected it could be the kernel. Indeed - I tried test2 twice, and had some serious filesystem problems at both times. I also thought it could be UDMA66 (I'm now using that new VIA IDE driver

software watchdog

2000-07-07 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it will freeze completely. The only thing working is ICMP, I can´t even get a TCP connection open, the screen is frozen, neither mouse nor keyboard will generate any event. I´ve already tried changing all I have on

Re: Samba Headache

2000-07-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
include your smb.conf with a report like this and include settings from file/print sharing on the win98 box. nate On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: neutec Hello All, neutec Well Im still working on getting samba to work with Windows 98. I have neutec configured the smb.conf to share my home

apache segfaults

2000-07-07 Thread Marcin Kurc
Does anyone have problems with apache after todays upgrade? It segfaults for me while running php-mysql scripts. I've noticed that libmysqlclient9 was updated today, could it be its fault? I'm running libmysqlclient9 3.23.20-1 php44.0.1-2 php4-cgi4.0.1-2 php4-mysql 4.0.1-2

Re: software watchdog

2000-07-07 Thread Jeff Green
Have you checked the processor fan? Jeff Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it will freeze completely. The only thing working is ICMP, I can´t even get a TCP connection open, the screen is frozen, neither mouse nor keyboard

Re: software watchdog

2000-07-07 Thread paul
rw wrote: Hi! My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it will freeze completely. Is there anything consistent about the behavior? How long between reboot and freeze? Are there any error messages during startup? What applications are running when the

samba Passwords

2000-07-07 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, Well thanks to the list I got Samba working for the most part. It seems I didnt have the smb.conf configured right. I have a shared directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the /home/user directory I am promt for a password. I then enter the password but it fails. I

Re: Sparc SUN

2000-07-07 Thread paul
does debian have a sparc version for a ultra1 sparcstation... if it does where can i get it from and how do i put it on.. Read: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/install This doc should answer your questions. -- ptw miscelaneous endeavors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

equivs problem-o

2000-07-07 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I'm trying to use equivs to update the debian database so that I can once again use apt-get. Essentially, I have an NVidia card so I had to install XFree86 4.0 and NVidia's OpenGL implementation. I use equivs-control to build a ctl file. I remove the Readme, Changelog, and Extra File

strange problem with man

2000-07-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
Hello, if I try to load a man page that does not exist I do not get the usual No manuel entry for XXX but this: nepomuk:~# man foo man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/cvsconfig.1.gz: whatis parse for cvsconfig(1) failed Terminated What's going in here? And what has CVS to do with it? Thanks, Phil

need help with installing potato(on line)

2000-07-07 Thread Kahro Raie
System: I have a 200mmx pentium dell network card: NE2000 compatible all the installation seems to go well except for thenetwork d and sound card. What I did/do? I downloaded all files form /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386 then copied the inside folder current to my harddisk Then I did boot

Compaq Armada 1750

2000-07-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all Debian users, I have to install Debian at a Compaq Armada 1750. I cant get the network pcmcia card to work. Anyone can help on this? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: samba Passwords

2000-07-07 Thread C. Falconer
1) As root, runsmbpasswd -a newusername That will add newusername to the smbpasswd file and set the password for you. 2) CDROMs Make sure your /etc/fstab contains a line like this /dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 then make sure theres a section like

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