Re: raid 5 partition table example

2000-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya matt... you can see an example raid5 config files.. /etc/raid5.conf or /etc/raidtab if oyu are using 3 drives is one oyur system drive ??? and 2 data drives ??? - if you plan to use 3 drives for / ( root )... than you are asking for some serious/additional

PAM authentication of users on specific date/time

2000-11-27 Thread rp
Hi. Does any one knows of some pam to authenticate users and also to restrict login hours to some predefined date or time of the day? Otherwise, is there any other way to do this? Cheers, RP

Re: PAM authentication of users on specific date/time

2000-11-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:46:00PM +, rp wrote: Hi. Does any one knows of some pam to authenticate users and also to restrict login hours to some predefined date or time of the day? Otherwise, is there any other way to do this? Install the libpam-doc package and read up on the pam_time

Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread ytuhjkbd
Dear IT Manager: Please consider deploying our highly skilled off-shore programmers on your e-commerce and software development projects. They develop software for: ALL WINDOWS AND UNIX PLATFORMS databases, networks, and languages, plus Perl, Cold Fusion, WAP, XML, Java, ASP, MS Access, SQL,

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread urbanyon
isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear IT Manager: Please consider deploying our highly skilled off-shore programmers on your e-commerce and software development projects. They develop

Re: newbie question

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Gray
Pascal == Pascal THIVENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pascal I don't see any path inmy sources.list... So i created a Pascal link /cdrom - /mnt/cdrom to solve my problem. But i Pascal though there were a nicer solution. man apt.conf Cheers, Chris

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Nov 2000, Christoph Simon wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread Frodo Baggins
urbanyon scripsit: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear IT Manager: Please consider deploying our highly skilled off-shore programmers on your e-commerce and software development projects.

time-frequency analysis and Gabor spectrogram software in Debian?

2000-11-27 Thread Michael A. Miller
Is anyone aware of software available in Debian or for *nix at large that will allow me to calculate gabor spectrograms and do general time-frequency analysis on signal data that is not limited to audio file formats? Mike

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Sean Norris,,, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the really quick replies. Bud Rogers wrote: You probably need to add static to that line. And you will need to add at least address and netmask entries for that interface. Man interfaces for details. iface eth1 inet

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:21:32 -0500 (EST) , urbanyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On the contrary: The Debian Linux mailing lists accept commercial advertising for payment. We offer a fee waiver if you can show us

Re: cdrom error - not playing sound

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Gray
Yobb == Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yobb Help! Yobb My CDROM was working yesterday? I don't know what is Yobb happening now. I can access data disks on this devices just Yobb fine. When I put in a music CD and trying to play it use Yobb something like cdplay or

ht request a particular package

2000-11-27 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, Is there a (formal, semi-formal, informal) way to request that a certain package be created or is the only way to do this to volunteer to become a maintainer? Just wondering. New at this. Thanks, Glenn _

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Manegold
Gary Hennigan wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Nov 2000, Christoph Simon wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d.

Re: ht request a particular package

2000-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
Glenn Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a (formal, semi-formal, informal) way to request that a certain package be created or is the only way to do this to volunteer to become a maintainer? Yep - file a wishlist bug against the wnpp (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) pseudo-package

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Hennigan wrote: In the past there have been a few security incidents with things associated with portmap. I definately don't run it on my 24/7 system that's connected to the internet. If you do use it make sure you use tcp wrappers to secure it.

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-27 Thread John Bagdanoff
Now that I am using mutt and am too lazy to RTFM, could someone let me know how to wrap my mail so that it doesn't go over the sides thx. If it' vim, then: set textwidth=70 in your ~/vimrc john -- Using Linux

Re: mail address validation

2000-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody know a function in php4 to easily validate if an email adress give by the user is in the valid [EMAIL PROTECTED] form? or did anybody ever write a function for doing that and is willing to share it with me? Disclaimer: I don't know PHP, but ... The

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-27 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:17:42PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:50:15PM -0600, Joseph Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE

Re: mail address validation

2000-11-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:25:18 GMT, Colin Watson writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody know a function in php4 to easily validate if an email adress give by the user is in the valid [EMAIL PROTECTED] form? or did anybody ever write a function for doing that and is willing to share it with

installing .deb files

2000-11-27 Thread Christian Eckert
Thank you David Z.Maze for your advices but my problem is still unsolved. I followed trying dpkg-scanpackages but I ran into new problems, because I don' t know how to create an override file. So I read the manpage but it didn't help me. I am not sure but I believe that creating an override file

Re: CD burning mkisofs segmentation fault.

2000-11-27 Thread Brian McGroarty
I have been having some trouble with the mkisofs of the Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r0 (potato). When I try to create an image (of, say, my home directory) after a certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The interesting thing is that, this certain time varies every time I run the command!

Re: mail address validation

2000-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
Pascal THIVENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on http://developer.netscape.com, you can find a set of javascript function to check a form. These function are based on regular expression that can be reused with PHP. So, let's go to

Re time-frequency analysis and Gabor spectrogram software in Debian?

2000-11-27 Thread Paul Huygen
Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Is anyone aware of software available in Debian or for *nix at large that will allow me to calculate gabor spectrograms and do general time-frequency analysis on signal data that is not limited to audio file formats? I don't know what Gabor

Re: startx lxdoom - wrong colormap

2000-11-27 Thread Scott Patterson
Hi, There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato. I have installed lxdoom (the svgalib version of doom doesn't work for some strange reason although other svgalib programs like thrust work fine) on it and it works, however there is one problem: As the

Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-27 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 26 2000, Richard Cobbe wrote: You may well have checked this already, but what is your Netscape home page set to? (In Netscape's preferences box, the Netscape section, middle part.) Humm... I've seen this problem happen with Netscape when I was using Helix Gnome. I

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 27 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: [X 4 taking 80+MB of resident memory] Why Does that happen? I never saw that sort of thing before (maybe because I never had so much memory -- I bought more 64 Mb RAM some days ago...) Hi there, J. I've noticed the same situation

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-27 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 26 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:50:15PM -0600, Joseph Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError

Re: more apache/perl problems, premature end of script

2000-11-27 Thread Herbert Ho
i downloaded cgi-lib.pl and placed it in the same directory as my script. (from cgi-lib.berkeley.edu) it runs fine on the cmdline (both my box and my university's server) the error i get in /var/log/apache/error.log is (without the time stamp): Premature end of script headers:

missing files in libc6-dev package?

2000-11-27 Thread Pascal Hos
When trying to compile a kernel on a woody box, I figured out that there are no files in /usr/include/asm/ . When checking on one of my potato boxes it seems that they are part of the libc6-dev package, however this is not the case for woody. The package does contain the asm directory but no

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread Ray Percival
Good luck :) Ahh how I hate spammers. -- Original Message -- From: Frodo Baggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:36:07 +0100 (MET) urbanyon scripsit: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On Mon,

Re: missing files in libc6-dev package?

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Gray
Pascal == Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pascal When trying to compile a kernel on a woody box, I figured Pascal out that there are no files in /usr/include/asm/ . When Pascal checking on one of my potato boxes it seems that they are Pascal part of the libc6-dev package,

Re: installing .deb files

2000-11-27 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Christian Eckert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I followed trying dpkg-scanpackages but I ran into new problems, because I don' t know how to create an override file. So I read the manpage but it didn't help me. I am not sure but I believe that creating an override file is a task for a

Re: missing files in libc6-dev package?

2000-11-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:03:58PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: Pascal == Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pascal When trying to compile a kernel on a woody box, I figured Pascal out that there are no files in /usr/include/asm/ . When Pascal checking on one of my potato boxes it

Re: missing files in libc6-dev package?

2000-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to compile a kernel on a woody box, I figured out that there are no files in /usr/include/asm/ . When checking on one of my potato boxes it seems that they are part of the libc6-dev package, however this is not the case for woody. The package does

Re: Known Compile problems with 2.4-test11

2000-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
Brian McGroarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:23:36PM +, Adam Langley wrote: The GCC in unstable miscompiles 2.4-test11 - you have been warned. Any pointers to particulars on this? As I understand it, gcc-2.95.2 fails to compile recent kernels for i386, i486, and i586

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: Hi there, J. Hello Roger! I've noticed the same situation here. Either X 4 is really memory hungry (and this makes Linux swap a lot) or there are some very bad memory leaks that should be audited. Guess what? After quitting gnapster (gtk), X

Monitor rolling in X

2000-11-27 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone know of a larger X monitor database or source of info rather than the list that install with X? I'm looking for info on a proview monitor that is rolling in X. Right now I have it running at 1280X1024 at 60? Any hints or suggestions please?

HELP: woody-apache corrupt and non working...

2000-11-27 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, first update to woody i made some days ago trashed apache, but after reinstalling it completely (removed apache+php, installed apache+php) the machine resumed functionality... next machine i updated today... same: after the upgrade apache isn't working, tryed the same... nothing, the error

Re: Known Compile problems with 2.4-test11

2000-11-27 Thread Josh McKinney
I have seen the same post on debianplanet, and as far as I can tell this is OLD news. I am sure we all heard about the RH7 compiler gcc 2.96, it is unstable too, but does this mean that woody now contains the same compiler? As far as I can tell, it isn't. Also, it is rather annoying for

XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I'd like to upgrade to XFree86 4.0. The way I see it, there's 2 options: 1- package 2- tarball I'm running Potato, and don't really want to upgrade to Woody. Based on that alone, I think tarball is my only option, but I want to make sure of that. Which is the better way for me to upgrade X?

Re: Java support in Netscape 4.73

2000-11-27 Thread Frank Barknecht
Daniel de los Reyes hat gesagt: // Daniel de los Reyes wrote: I get an error saying java40.jar could not be found. How do I solve this? Install the netscape-java-47 debian paket. bye, -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __

apt-get upgrade = 2.2.2 CDs?

2000-11-27 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Hello This is probably rather obvious and stupid, but I'm going to ask anyway. I did a nice apt-get upgrade on my potato last night, installing all the new versions from the stable archives. Does this mean I now have a 2.2.2 system, or will I need anything extra off the CDs (when they get

XFree 4 connection prob

2000-11-27 Thread Stephan Koch | Nextweb
Hi all, I have stumbled across the following problem after upgrading to X 4 on my Debian/woody box: I used to run a monitoring app on another host and had it displayed on my X server using the --display option. It worked just fine until I upgraded to X 4. Now everytime I start the program, it

Re: apt-get upgrade = 2.2.2 CDs?

2000-11-27 Thread Stephan Koch | DICON GmbH
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:59:47PM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: no you don't need anything off the cds :) you're all set. Hello This is probably rather obvious and stupid, but I'm going to ask anyway. I did a nice apt-get upgrade on my potato last night, installing all the new

Re: Known Compile problems with 2.4-test11

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Josh McKinney writes: I have seen the same post on debianplanet, and as far as I can tell this is OLD news. I am sure we all heard about the RH7 compiler gcc 2.96, it is unstable too, but does this mean that woody now contains the same compiler? As far as I can tell, it isn't. No,

Re: XFree 4 connection prob

2000-11-27 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Stephan Koch | Nextweb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I have stumbled across the following problem after upgrading to X 4 on my Debian/woody box: I used to run a monitoring app on another host and had it displayed on my X server using the --display option. It worked just fine

Can't view web pages with Konquorer

2000-11-27 Thread tim
Verified that I have no problem reaching the web pages and can view them just fine with mozilla. Here is the error. Could not create view for text/html Check your installation -Tim. P.S. I like Konquorer, cause its small.

Re: XFree 4 connection prob

2000-11-27 Thread Stephan Koch | DICON GmbH
thanks a lot. well, that should certainly go in the README or doc somewhere... I sure can't say that I didn't try to RT(f)M but I didn't find anything about that. Maybe I missed that ? thx On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:29:57PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: Hello program, it gives me the

Re: apg-get: Can't exec /var/lib/debconf/config.88153: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188.

2000-11-27 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:17:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:47:31PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm getting a slew of these errors running apt-get upgrade on my Woody system right now. The problem appears to be a missing file,

lprng/samba/win98 problem, at a loss to know what to do

2000-11-27 Thread Robin Collins
I hope someone can help me figure out what's going on here. State so far: 1) printer is an OKI20, running native postscript. 2) lprng installed 3) magicfilter slected ps600 a) can print from Linux using lpr and also from Netscape b) can print from Win98 DOS box with captured lpt1: c) CAN'T

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-27 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:11 PM 11/27/00 +0100, you wrote: DG I was wondering what would be better to use in this situation. DG I want to basically be able to have read access to a particular LAN device DG on which the files are on a NT server and the client(s) that I want to be DG able to read files (mostly

Re: Configuring daemons to autorun

2000-11-27 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:42:19AM +, Erik de Castro Lopo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, In Debian, how does one configure the daemons which are autorun on startup. In Redhat the the setup program does this by setting up the correct symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc[0..7].d/. $ less

Re: CD burning mkisofs segmentation fault.

2000-11-27 Thread Daniel Ferrante
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Brian McGroarty wrote: I have been having some trouble with the mkisofs of the Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r0 (potato). When I try to create an image (of, say, my home directory) after a certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The interesting thing is that, this certain

Re: Re time-frequency analysis and Gabor spectrogram software in Debian?

2000-11-27 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:26:22PM +0100, Paul Huygen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Is anyone aware of software available in Debian or for *nix at large that will allow me to calculate gabor spectrograms and do general time-frequency analysis on

Re: XFree 4 connection prob

2000-11-27 Thread Erik Steffl
it says so when setting up the package (during apt-get dist-upgrade or similar action). the implications might not be entirely clear (I don't remember the exact wording of the message) but the information is there. erik Stephan Koch | DICON GmbH wrote: thanks a lot. well, that

Re: seeking a quality bw / color printer that does duplex

2000-11-27 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 01:44:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: subject says it all -- I would like a printer which does black and white as well as color. Duplex support is also desired because I tend to print docs and hate wasting the extra paper. The poor-man's

Info can't find info files in /usr/share/info!

2000-11-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. I just discovered that, somehow, the info files installed in /usr/share/info cannot be found by either pinfo or GNU Info. I don't find a configuration option or an environment variable to set the info search path. Since quite a number of Debian packages are now putting their info files

Re: HELP: woody-apache corrupt and non working...

2000-11-27 Thread rp
Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello, first update to woody i made some days ago trashed apache, but after reinstalling it completely (removed apache+php, installed apache+php) the machine resumed functionality... next machine i updated today... same: after the upgrade apache isn't working, tryed the

Re: TTF - Fonts in KDE 2.0 apps

2000-11-27 Thread Manegold
Hi! Sorry I didn't explain that properly. I meant, that I have xfstt serving ttf fonts to X. This works fine with other apps (Nescape, Mozilla etc.), so the problem is not there. konqueror and the other KDE2 apps however do not see those fonts and do not offer them for selection. Why? TIA

Harddisk controller

2000-11-27 Thread Mathias Gehrung
Hi everybody! I've got a problem with my new computer, which has a Promise Ultra 100 harddisk-controller built in. My debian 2.2 Distribution doesn't recognize it, so I can't use the harddrive. I've got some kernel Patches for Red-Hat which were delivered witch the machine. So now i wonder how i

Re: Monitor rolling in X

2000-11-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:35:43AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: Does anyone know of a larger X monitor database or source of info rather than the list that install with X? I'm looking for info on a proview monitor that is rolling in X. Right now I have it running at 1280X1024 at 60? Any hints

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-27 Thread Jens Lauterbach
Hi everybody! I've got a problem with my new computer, which has a Promise Ultra 100 harddisk-controller built in. My debian 2.2 Distribution doesn't recognize it, so I can't use the harddrive. I've got some kernel Patches for Red-Hat which were delivered witch the machine. So now i wonder

Re: Can't view web pages with Konquorer

2000-11-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I had the exact same problem when I first installed KDE 2.0. I tracked the problem down to a missing /usr/lib/libkhtml.la file. That file is supposed to be created by libtool at buildtime (?) but was not. This may or may not be a bug with the Debian KDE packages. I did not check nor did I file

Re: apg-get: Can't exec /var/lib/debconf/config.88153: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188.

2000-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Damn, you're good: $ mount | grep '/var ' /dev/sdb6 on /var type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) ...I figured it was a security bonus -- no executables in variable content filesystems. I'll have to rethink that one, clearly. I would feel bad and offer

PHP4 mod kills Apache! WHY??

2000-11-27 Thread John Foster
I just recently installed php4 on my apache 1.3 server. When I tried to get it to restart or stop and start it is not running. All are from Debian stable. What gives?? -- John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Setting precedence/priority for a e-mail

2000-11-27 Thread Joao Luiz de Brito Macaiba
Hi all, does anybody knows how to set a message priority when we use sendmail directly ? The case is: I have an alias amigo-oculto. When someone sends a e-mail to this, a perl script is activated. The important part of this script is :

Re: Web pages with Konquorer

2000-11-27 Thread mattyt
Quoting tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: P.S. I like Konquorer, cause its small. I, too, like Konqueror overall, but I have some issues that keep me from using it. Informationally, I am running a fully updated Potato installation. 1.) Java and JavaScript don't work at all for me. 2.) I have my own

Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-27 Thread Stephan Kulka
i found this was a problem on a friend's helix gnome system, the script that helix gnome used to load netscape was broken. try to load netscape directly, i think it is in /usr/lib/netscape Ok, I will try this, because I am running helix gnome. At the moment I have no access to my

Re: Can't view web pages with Konquorer

2000-11-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:44:20PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I had the exact same problem when I first installed KDE 2.0. I tracked the problem down to a missing /usr/lib/libkhtml.la file. That file is supposed to be created by libtool at buildtime (?) but was not. This may or may not

Re: more apache/perl problems, premature end of script

2000-11-27 Thread will trillich
welcome to the club, you've been initiated. On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:34:40AM -0600, Herbert Ho wrote: i downloaded cgi-lib.pl and placed it in the same directory as my script. (from cgi-lib.berkeley.edu) it runs fine on the cmdline (both my box and my university's server) the error i get

Partition mount options (was Re: apg-get: Can't exec /var...)

2000-11-27 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:51:10AM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Damn, you're good: $ mount | grep '/var ' /dev/sdb6 on /var type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) ...I figured it was a security bonus -- no executables in variable

password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Would someone indicate the exact structure of the lines in .muttrc to be added that handle the server, username, and password for mail server? Thanks

RE: Partition mount options (was Re: apg-get: Can't exec /var

2000-11-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I suspect this isn't something Debian can fix and make go away. Following discussion here a few weeks ago, I tweaked several of my partition mount options, specifically disallowing suid, dev, and exec privileges on a number of partitions. I suspect 'noexec' is going to be a bit

Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?

2000-11-27 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've set up XF86Config to run at 32 bits, which my ATI XpertPlay 98 accepts in W98SE. Only when I use xwininfo I see that I'm still running at 24 depth. Since I know my card accepts this, is it Blackbox, or does it default to 24? Thanks, Jonathan

Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-27 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I put in the exim .forward recommended in man pages notes and no go. same for the other suggestions and the Tips help. Anyone have any ideas on getting my mail from my /varspool/mail/user to /home/mail/inbox? Thanks, Jonathan

nameservers in bind

2000-11-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am trying to configure my dns so that a www query to my domain will be handled by another nameserver. Yet, I have the following line in /etc/bind/db.domain: www IN NS 202.67.129.130 but when I do a nslookup with q=any, it gives: Non-authoritive answer: www.domain.com

Re: Emacs shell with ^M's ???

2000-11-27 Thread Hubert Chan
Jonathan == Jonathan D Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:38:06PM -0600, Timmy Douglas wrote: :i Jonathan think this is because these commands (ls) output return carriages Jonathan i :think. Jonathan The puzzling thing is that this doesn't

DESTROY

2000-11-27 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I've lately been noticing this 'DESTROY' message coming up when I apt-get a package. I am not sure what it is or what it means. Can anyone give me a hint as to what this means? 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 246kB of archives. After

Re: integrating latest matrox driver

2000-11-27 Thread Damien
I have the new Matrox G450 card and have copied the new driver to mga.o but am unable to get the xfree86-4 server to boot...just hangs a blank screen. The driver readme says it supports the g450 card. Has anyone got this card working in 4.0 or any clues on how you got the G400

PPP keeps on acting *strangely* ...

2000-11-27 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi folks, *sorry* for bothering again with that ppp stuff, but even after all trying out the helpful tips I recieved here, ppp still acts strangely... Here's another logfile piece which made me think that there is something broken: --snip-- Nov 27 17:17:24 straylight chat[1054]: -- got it Nov

apache 1.3.12 sources + dpkg-deb

2000-11-27 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
Hello, I downloaded the apache 1.3.12 sources and wanted to make a deb from it but dpkg-deb -b apache-1.3.12 says: dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory I rename apache-1.3.12/debian to DEBIAN and then the same command

Oracle8iR2 install problem on Debian potato

2000-11-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
I can't get oracle to install on a debian potato system. The problem is that the installer will not run. What I get is Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait... (that should be one long line...) Then the

Re: PPP keeps on acting *strangely* ...

2000-11-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: --snip-- Nov 27 17:17:24 straylight chat[1054]: -- got it Nov 27 17:17:24 straylight chat[1054]: send (ATDT0192666210^M) Nov 27 17:17:25 straylight chat[1054]: expect (CONNECT) Nov 27 17:17:25 straylight chat[1054]: ^M Nov 27 17:17:52

Re: Dia Won't Save files anymore

2000-11-27 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Well, nobody has responded to my earlier posting below. Does this mean that nobody else uses Dia? If not, what do you use instead? Anyway, I purged both dia-common and dia-gnome from my system and installed helix's dia .deb instead and it worked fine so if anybody else wants to use dia, that's

How do I Remove the Sl0 Port?

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Bacon
Every time I restart my Debian Linux Server, ifconfig reports an Sl0 (es, el, zero) port that is conflicting with eth0. The port eth0 will not communicate with our Internet connection until I run ifconfig Sl0 down which temporarily removes Sl0 from the ifconfig listing. Where, or how, do I tell

Re: PPP keeps on acting *strangely* ...

2000-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Kristian Rink writes: Especially the marked line seems *strange* to me, what the h__k happens here? The modem's echo of the dial command appears to be being overrun by its CONNECT 115200^M message. I'm guessing that you have chat looking for 'CONNECT' but because of this overrun (which may be

Re: PPP keeps on acting *strangely* ...

2000-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Damian Menscher writes: ...tells you how fast it connected CONNECT 115200 (115.2k, including hardware compression, etc) No. That is just the speed of the serial connection to the modem -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: nameservers in bind

2000-11-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: Hello, I am trying to configure my dns so that a www query to my domain will be handled by another nameserver. Yet, I have the following line in /etc/bind/db.domain: www IN NS 202.67.129.130 but when I do a nslookup with q=any, it

Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

2000-11-27 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, I once needed the listmaster intervention to subscribe myself. I tried to unsubscribe myself temporarily but neither through mail or web is it possible to unsubscribe myself. Question to the listmasters: does the subscription/unsubscription mechanism for debian-user really work? Note:

Kernel source upgrade while maintaining configuration?

2000-11-27 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, I have the package kernel-source-2.2.14-5 installed on my machine. If I upgrade this package to 2.2.17-x, is my kernel configuration maintained? Ringo -- ** Ringo De Smet Ringo.DeSmet AT bigfoot.com **

Hacking possible with interface down?

2000-11-27 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, I recently acquired an ADSL connection. As long as my security hasn't been configured correctly, I was thinking of bringing the NIC interface to the ADSL modem down. Does this prevent hackers to reach my machine in any way? Ringo -- ** Ringo De Smet Ringo.DeSmet AT

No keyboard activity in KDM2.

2000-11-27 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, When my machine starts, it launches KDM. However, my keyboard does not react on input. What configuration file do I have to look into to fix this? BTW, what are the semantics of the different run levels under Debian. KDE2 seems to launch KDM even in runlevel 2. Ringo -- ** Ringo De

Re: Dia Won't Save files anymore

2000-11-27 Thread Brian McGroarty
I haven't updated my dia and now I'll wait. Have you filed a bug report on this? That's your surest way of fixing this. There's no guarantee that the dia maintainer is watching this list. On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:50:22PM -0800, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Well, nobody has responded to my earlier

Why is it so hard to connect to ISP in Debian 2.0?

2000-11-27 Thread a
Thanks! It doesn't work. I can't follow your instructions exactly because I use Debian 2.0 and pppconfig has not a Change entry. I recreate a connection and choose Chat instead of PAP and change login prompt to username. Below is that part of ppp.log: Nov 28 06:01:21 debian chat[214]: abort on

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-27 Thread Gregory G Baker
I put in the exim .forward recommended in man pages notes and no go. same for the other suggestions and the Tips help. Anyone have any ideas on getting my mail from my /varspool/mail/user to /home/mail/inbox? I *think* | cat /home/mail/inbox will do it. If not, you should be able to muck

tcpdump died :(

2000-11-27 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
as root: tcpdump -i ppp0 tcpdump: Symbol `pcap_version' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking tcpdump: unknown data link type 0xc I know tcpdump was updated not long ago for potato, did this break it or was it due to me removing the old qt libs leaving only 2.2.2-0? tnx

How to set up ISA SCSI card.

2000-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
Briefly, does anyone know how to set up a jumpered ISA SCSI card properly? I have the I/O and IRQ settings on the card, but don't know where to put the information. The card itself (Adaptec 1502) is listed in the Linux Hardware HOWTO as supported, but I don't know what modules to load, what

Re: Hacking possible with interface down?

2000-11-27 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:56:23PM +0100, Ringo De Smet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I recently acquired an ADSL connection. As long as my security hasn't been configured correctly, I was thinking of bringing the NIC interface to the ADSL modem down. Does this prevent hackers to

Re: How to set up ISA SCSI card.

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Briefly, does anyone know how to set up a jumpered ISA SCSI card properly? I have the I/O and IRQ settings on the card, but don't know where to put the information. You first need to figure out what module you need. The Hardware HOWTO was the right

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