Re: Debian Installation

1998-02-25 Thread shaul
> I have the debian 1.3.1 cd and am trying to make a boot(Rescue)disk of > the file resc1440.bin with no avail. I keep getting a message stating > that the file is too large for a 1.44 floppy. I've tried new disks, > reformatted disks, different computers, and even tried downloading the > file from

Re: Connecting up of a dumb terminal.

1998-02-25 Thread shaul
I can't explain you that in great details, since I did not do such a thing. However, look at /etc/inittab. There is a commented (getty) line that should help you. i beleive it is quite easy. > I have managed to get my Linux side up and running. Boy is linux sure > great! I have an old 286 here

Re: 2.0.32 kernel a problem?

1998-02-25 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: > Will, > > There were memory leaks in the 2.0.32 kernel that could be causing the > problems. Try upgrading to kernel 2.0.33. Ok. I will. Is there a general mailing list for this stuff? How do you come accross this info?

Re: module configuration

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Just for completeness: After installation, you can still alter your choice of modules by running modconf. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-25 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
> "Carey" == Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carey> It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors, Carey> but pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the Carey> moment, IMO. Wouldn't it be sort of possible to plug in an ascii terminal to the serial port, hid

Re: module configuration

1998-02-25 Thread G John Lapeyre
What special hardware do you have ? Typically, you don't need any extra modules. Standard hard drives, and mice , and CD's don't need any modules. The video drivers are installed later (well not really 'intalled') with X A network card will need a module. ps/2 mo

Re: error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)

1998-02-25 Thread Jouni 'Jupe' Jukkala
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: > Here's a little more detail: > > At startup the BIOS recognizes the size of the first drive on the primary > controller correctly (519 MB), the second drive is a CD-ROM, and the first > drive on the second primary controller is another hard-disk, t

Re: module configuration

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:44:00 CST, "Daniel L. Grindstaff" wrote: > [..] > I am installing Debian from the Boot disc number 15. I am following the > installation instructions from the Boot magazine and am stuck at > selecting the correct modules. > > There are several categories to go through...'bl

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > The other way for someone to access your computer is by the programs > > you run to access Internet services. For example, if you select a > > link to a Postscript file and look at it using a viewer that allows > > file operations, it could try to appen

Re: Where did /usr/tmp go?

1998-02-25 Thread Behan Webster
Paul Rightley wrote: > > Last night, tripwire -initialize failed on me because I (suddenly?) > had no /usr/tmp directory. I swear I had one before. I made a > new one and chmod'ed it to 1777, but what happened to the old > directory? Does anyone have any ideas? You never actually had a /usr/tm

overriding the user that lpr sends

1998-02-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Is it possible to specify the user that lpr designates when sending to a network printer? For example, to always specify "rhawkins" rather than the actual user? I can't find any options for this, and it seems for the moment to be the only way to generally enable printing (the accounts on my m

pcmcia module trouble again

1998-02-25 Thread FizzyPop
I sent this afore but i know with the number of emails sent you can't respond to them all. So if I get no response I'll just drop it and switch to Win95 (trying to give you incentive (:) I'm trying to install the pcmcia module but when I run MAKE install it goes through some of th

Where did /usr/tmp go?

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Rightley
Last night, tripwire -initialize failed on me because I (suddenly?) had no /usr/tmp directory. I swear I had one before. I made a new one and chmod'ed it to 1777, but what happened to the old directory? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any information, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: 2.0.32 kernel a problem?

1998-02-25 Thread Steve Mayer
Will, There were memory leaks in the 2.0.32 kernel that could be causing the problems. Try upgrading to kernel 2.0.33. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Lowe wrote: > > I'm experiencing weird lockups on my linux box which has run very stable > for almost a year now. I've traced it down to

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Behan Webster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > > > >> I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > >> package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every > >> package I had installed sinc

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread servis
On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > >> I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the >> package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every >> package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I ha

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Jeff Alami
---Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are there any information resources I can look at which will show > >instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals > >for > >Linux? > > We have a 16-port BocaBoard, and there is a very handly little HOWTO for > setting up this

module configuration

1998-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Grindstaff
Hi I am installing Debian from the Boot disc number 15. I am following the installation instructions from the Boot magazine and am stuck at selecting the correct modules. There are several categories to go through...'block, cdrom, ls...etc.'...and under each one there are more subchoices. The i

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"Richard B. Talley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98: > > > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every > > package I had installed sin

SVGALib and Matrox Mill II

1998-02-25 Thread D. Hageman
SVGALib doesn't natively recognize my Matrox card and because of this ... I can't get the full performace out of SVGALib when playing games like Quake, Quake2, etc ... Is there a new version of SVGALib I can get ... or ... does someone have a configuration file we can use to control my Mill II? T

Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Well, I don't do anything like this yet (my modem isn't fancy enough), > but here's how I read the mgetty info pages: > > Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in? My modem > > su

2.0.32 kernel a problem?

1998-02-25 Thread Will Lowe
I'm experiencing weird lockups on my linux box which has run very stable for almost a year now. I've traced it down to one or two things: 2.0.32 kernel -- after I updated I've noticed the crashes X (S3_V) -- always a possibility xntpd -- again, the problems began shortly after I installed this c

xfstt

1998-02-25 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
Has anyone used xfstt on a regular basis? I've gotten Netscape to work using TT fonts, now I'd like to get other X applications to work and I want to know what other's experiences are. Any comments? -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: fetchmail quit after upgrading smail

1998-02-25 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello friends, == > I decided to tackle my fetchmail/smail upgrde today. I am running > a hamm system but had put smail on hold because it messed up fetchmail. I > have searched the debian user mailing list arhive and tried the various > suggetions with no luck. I was awaiting

Re: Perms on LPRng

1998-02-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Peter Paluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > > I have problem with LPRng - as normal user I can't remove my print jobs > even if they were sent by myself. I can do it only as root. Here is what > is says when I try to remove some job (printing ext2.ps): > > kn

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
On 22 Feb 1998 20:04:41 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > > What I'm trying to do is make my ppp connection as secure as possible, > > and one of the first things I realized is that whenever I'm running > > dselect, I'm root, and that I might be connected to

Re: Sendmail...

1998-02-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one > > >I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network >arrives. This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on >the gateway)

error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)

1998-02-25 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hi! Thanks for your help! Bob> What is your current status? Is anything already installed on Bob> this disk? If not, all partitions should be removed and recreated. Not really, I can delete everything on the disk again. Bob> If some things are installed that need to be saved, it would be

IBM Token Ring Card [does not work]

1998-02-25 Thread dg
Hello all ! I' trying to configure a IBM Token Ring card with Debian GNU/Linux. I have built the kernel with Token Ring support, and have the IBM Tropix driver built as a module. Now look whats happening, when I try to use the card. - root session transsc

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every > package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked > it for). > > I know I'm doi

Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
On 25 Feb 1998 11:52:11 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > > My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a > > search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or > > Netscape) setup with mime-types for the vario

Frame Grabber memory access (off topic)

1998-02-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I know this is off topic, but I haven't access to news to post to comp.os.linux.* So, if somebody can help me, please! I writing a little program to operate a frame grabber board (it's a Targa+ 32 - 1MB - ISA). So far, I can access the board's register trough the i/o

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98: > The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs > currently installed that have been deselected by the user. > > Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and > choose *install*. Th

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

1998-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz (not that one would think of looking there, but this has been seen while building kernels) g) dpkg-gencontrol fails if LC_ALL is set to de_DE. Actually, I can't really confirm this works for anything except en_US. This is true as of

X Windows problems

1998-02-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I having some problem in configuring X to work properly with my video card. It's a Diamond Stealth 2500 (Alliance AT24 chip). The screen is stretched vertically so I can't reach the bottom; the fonts are distorteds, it's a ugly view. I can switch resolutions up

Re: Dvorak keybindings in X

1998-02-25 Thread Keith Beattie
Adam Shand wrote: > > A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working > fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X. How did you do that? > > Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as > well? > One way is to use xmodmap, t

Re: IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

1998-02-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO. It does a very good job of explaining the basics. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: > > To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: > > Network firewalls > IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? > IP: f

Re: problems while updating packages with dpkg

1998-02-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcía Pacheco wrote: > Hello, > Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working > with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud > of myself ;-)). > Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Luke Bussanmas
> I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed > bo/hamm system. I can't explain your problem but the debian package works > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a > full-duplex card). If its 16-bit doesn't that mean 2 channels consisting of 8-bi

IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

1998-02-25 Thread matthew tebbens
To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: Network firewalls IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? IP: firewalling Is forwarding/gatewaying required for filtering packets ? Is forwarding/gatewaying required for masquerading ? Can someone be more specific on

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Steve Mayer
Richard, You can do a 'dpkg --purge Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard B. Talley wrote: > > Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98: > > > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect r

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Benoit Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so > easy with a sniffer. > can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, > it send all my user name and password in ascii code. > wow!! I don´t k

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98: > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every > package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had > asked it for).

Knowledge Base Applications

1998-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Could anyone tell me if there is a good Knowledge Base Application for Linux? Knowledge Base for Help Desk Personal that consist of technical notes on Microsoft, Novell and other Company. _ .__.

HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-02-25 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I got strange behaviour of xlock after recent updates of hamm. I lock the terminal in the night, everything looks fine, there is a password prompt and screensaver running. But when I come back in the morning screen is unlocked. Also for some reason the list of authorised nodes, which I set

Re: Cyrix 586/100

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 24 Feb 98: > Can anyone tell me if this processor is compatible with debian, and if > any special installation procedures will be required? from installing debian ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Cyrix CPUs an

Re: Sendmail...

1998-02-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one > > > I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network > arrives. This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on > the gateway), but also must forward an

Re: IMAP quirk

1998-02-25 Thread Bill Leach
Dale; I can't help you with imap as I don't use (and have never used) it. However, this does sound like a 'permissions' problem. Understand again that I don't _know_ that this is relevent when using imap but you need a netscape mail directory in your home directory with permissions like: drwx--S

dpkg-buildpackage

1998-02-25 Thread Jens Christian Lisner
Hi! I've got a problem with building Packages with dpkg-builpackage. I thought it should be possible to rebuild Packages from their sources who were extracted from *.orig.tar.gz with dpkg-source -x. But instead dpkg returned vampira:[xldlas-0.85] # dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc no utmp entry availab

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Norris Preyer
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry if this is not specifically Debian related (but this seems > to be a wholely polite mail-list - a rarity lately). I have an > up-to-date hamm installation. I sometimes work on a RedHat machine > (through an 'X-terminal' Sun running Sparc linux).

A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one

How do you re-create the status file dselect uses?

1998-02-25 Thread Jon A. Bakken
I accidentally deleted the status file that dselect uses to determine what is installed on my machine. I managed to recover using one of the numerous backups of the status file that dselect keeps when it updates software. By issuing several dpkg commands, I think I got back a status file that corr

Re: Can't install samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (the one in hamm)

1998-02-25 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : No, ksmbfs is an old name for smbfs. samba contains the smbclient program : and the samba server. smbfs contains the smbmount and smbumount programs. Correct. ksmbfs must be removed from Hamm before 2.0. smbfs replaces ksmbfs and it contains only two b

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

1998-02-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Just to confirm that the aic7xxx docs *are* correct, this is from the AIC FAQ: * The AHA-2920 appears to be a Future Domain controller (Adaptec bought out Future Domain) and is not supported under the AIC7xxx driver. > > >What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller? > > > > The har

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
cat /proc/interrupts bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, I don't do anything like this yet (my modem isn't fancy enough), but here's how I read the mgetty info pages: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in? My modem > supports 'readable format' (#CID=1) and 'ascii printable characters

Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I > > wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also. > > Connection is refused. Any ideas? > > Comment out

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
> You need to set up XKB properly for XSuSE. There should be some sort > of error message about this when you run startx. The fix is basically > making a link to a directory. After you do this, everything will work > properly. It worked for me! Thanks Ben, I had XkbDisable i

cross-compiling from LInux to SCO with Oracle 7.3.2.2.0

1998-02-25 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all I'm trying to know if it is possible and how I can cross-compile from Linux to SCO using Oracle 7.3.2.2 Production Release for SCO Unix wich I run successfully with the iBCS module... If I succesfully achive it, I will make a mini-HOWTO to the communit

Sendmail...

1998-02-25 Thread Chris
Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network arrives. This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on the gateway), but also must forward any other mail on to another internal server for

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all! On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a > > > full-duplex card). > > > > The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver > > for it is not full-duplex cap

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 03:32:07AM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a > > > full-duplex card). > > > > The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver > > for it is not full-duplex capable? > > err, what? si

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-25 Thread Kevin Cheek
Robert Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with > Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a > client. I would recommend also taking a look at Best Power's products http://www.bestpower

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
> > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a > > full-duplex card). > > The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver > for it is not full-duplex capable? err, what? since when? this is a two plus year old, standard sb16 card, i'm pretty sur

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, First day on the list, first posting :) >Are there any information resources I can look at which will show >instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals >for >Linux? We have a 16-port BocaBoard, and there is a very handly little HOWTO for setting up this little b

IMAP4-4.1 Broken

1998-02-25 Thread Dale Harrison
Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. Bug? Feature? D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 03:28:26AM -0500, Benoit Joly wrote: > hi, > i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so > easy with a sniffer. > can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, > it send all my user name and password in ascii code

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a > full-duplex card). The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver for it is not full-duplex capable? Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two things... first, are use sure that you have to recompile? I thought > that this was just a change to the fvwm2 config files. This change was made upstream between 2.0.45 and 2.0.46. And it is not a config option,so yes, you have to recompile the fvw

Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a > search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or > Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and > locations. However, he would like a leaner,

Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I > wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also. > Connection is refused. Any ideas? Comment out any rule in /etc/hosts.deny and try again. If this works, then

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I edit > > a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX > > menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' > > pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [.

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have > been scanned > I assume it shows up in the log files. The package courtney can do this monitoring. It will report to syslog and also mail root about an incid

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
> Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have > been scanned > I assume it shows up in the log files. not necessarily. if you are running tcplogd (from the iplogger package) then you get a line like below for every tcp (this does NOT get ucp or icmp packets) conne

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
Benoit Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so > easy with a sniffer. > can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, > it send all my user name and password in ascii code. Get ssh from a Debian n

Re: POP

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
"Johan Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are different users on the win clients and therefor different > E-mail accounts out on the internet and I would like to have my > Linux box fetch ALL the users E-mail by using POP3 to the > different E-mail servers out on the net. Then I want to

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > strace -p -f didn't trap the bdflush process. bdflush() is a system call, not a program. See the bdflush man page, and /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c. I thought bdflush() only wrote dirty file system buffers, so another process (or kernel task) must be dirtying them.

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a >> icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use >> ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port >> scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it. >> >>

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Chi Wong
I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it. > > > > > Is th

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-25 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is >> overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the >> specific cards. As far as I know the Millenium II also works with MetroX, and yet again it is not free but it is a good package, and ver

Re: new hamm nmh breaks header rewriting, isp becomes irate

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:43:39 EST, wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > The most likely explanation is that nmh has started adding Sender: > lines; this is in general a good thing - we just need to be careful to > take them out or rewrite them nicely on the way out. It may be that >

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Pure Energy
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Ian Eure wrote: > You might want to look at Abacus Sentry- you can get it from www.psionic.com > > matthew tebbens wrote: > > > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! > > >

security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code. wow!! thanks Benoit Joly email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Paul Huygen
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I edit > a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX > menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' > pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no > such menu when editing a LaTeX file.

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: : Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? : : Thanks, : Timothy cat /proc/interrupts : : > Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see : > exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, a

Server Questions [mildly offtopic]

1998-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
We are looking at purchasing a new server to add to our stable, and I'm looking for some feedback/opinions/experience with news and/or SMP systems with Debian Linux. Private email is welcomed, since this isn't really list material (sorry) What I'm looking for is this: If you're running SMP, does

Re: Swap disk size

1998-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Clement wrote: > When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything > 128MB, > and install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB. Is 128MB the limit of > swap disk for Linux? Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is > recommended. swap partitions are limited to 128MB each.

Sound

1998-02-25 Thread Wojciech Zukowski
I have a sound card Aztech SGBXII...i've compiled new kernel with sound support built-in (no module). when i was trying to compile this as a module i can't stard sound. alltime messages no such device (but i've had module sound loaded). with sound built-in kernel al is good..but i can't play mp3,

Swap disk size

1998-02-25 Thread Clement
When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything > 128MB, and install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB. Is 128MB the limit of swap disk for Linux? Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is recommended. Regards, Clement web URL

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
> > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! > > Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way. tcp-wrappers will not stop you from being scanned. even if the port is wrapped it will stil

APC UPS

1998-02-25 Thread adavis
I have a small APC BackUPS Pro working with debian linux. The genpower debian package is really easy to get working for that unit. Alan Davis -- "Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed bo/hamm system. I can't explain your problem but the debian package works fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). Adam. Internet Alaska

re: wwwcount from hamm

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
> I called the cgi script like that: (Debian hamm / Apache) >Does NOT work !! > > BUT: > http://my.ip.addrr/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat";> > WORKS fine > > Can anybody tell me what i did wrong i'm guessing but you may have hit the 'anti-counter terrorism' mechanism. the coun

Dvorak keybindings in X

1998-02-25 Thread Adam Shand
Hey, A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as well? Thanks, Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

IMAP quirk

1998-02-25 Thread Dale Harrison
I've got IMAP4 (imap4-4.1) installed and it seems to work well.. I'm using Netscape 4 as the mail client, I can retrieve/send mail fine. WHat I can't do it delete messages. It moves them into the trash folder, then barfs that it could not delete the source file [the actual message I assume] So it

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-25 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 and everything works right. I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: /sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS1 apc-advanced

POP

1998-02-25 Thread Johan Berglund
I´m sorry but this might not be a Debian-specific question, but I don´t know where to ask it and you out there on the list seems to be nice people ;-) I have a Linux box at home serving a couple of windows 95/NT clients with SMB resources, telnet and POP mail. I also have a dialout modem for conne

Re: BGP

1998-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stephen" == Stephen Zedalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: >> Nope. You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all >> (including in non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the >> licence (and you can't just have "someone else" sign the l

Re: SyJET driver

1998-02-25 Thread aqy6633
Hi. You might need to feedle with options in your SCSI adapter BIOS. (like "enable motor spin-up", play with "map removable as fixed", etc). What scsi adapter are you using? It always a good idea to get more up to date driver. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-

Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-25 Thread maor
Hi Art, I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will eventually show up in the archive, but it wasn't there yet. Thanks -- Lee Br

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