Re: [rferreiras@codetel.net.do: Problena]

1998-06-14 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
En mi Computadora no existe el directorio /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound tan solo /usr/scr y punto esta vacio no puedo configurar ningun dispositivo extra tampoco existe un archivo que se llame xconfig en nungun directorio podria alguien decirma como arreglo esto. necesito instalar mi Tarjeta

http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/libX11-XF3.3.1.tar.gz

1998-06-14 Thread J. Parera
Alguien puede pasarme la librería parcheada de tomas quinot? La lib5. http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/libX11-XF3.3.1.tar.gz Yo por muchas veces que lo intento no consigo bajarmela. Agradecería que me la pasasen por mail. Saludos, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

La impresora ha dejado de funcionar

1998-06-14 Thread J. Parera
La impresora, HP Deskjet 690C la tenía bien configurada, lo hice con el magicfilter, y me funcionaba pero de repente me ha dejado de funcionar y no se el porque. Al ejecutar lpr fichero el ordenador me devuelve, en unos instantes, el mensaje lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found. Ese

Re: apache suexec -- mode 0755?

1998-06-14 Thread storm
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: If you set suexec up in /etc/suid.conf then it wont mess with it afaik. Thats what suidmanager is for. no.. when updating apache, the installation script modifies /etc/suid.conf too... I think I'll send

Re: HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, Sorry if this bores you, but I have never used sed before and after reading this discussion I checked the man page for sed. What I would like to know is the following: On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: Try grep `date \+ %a %b

ISP Connection + Misc.

1998-06-14 Thread Dennis Dixon
For reasons explained later in this post I needed to reinstall Debian from scratch. This time around I had trouble connecting to my ISP. Although I finally fixed the problem it appears to be either a (sort of) bug or something nonstandard with my ISP. Anyway, I thought it was worth mentioning.

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Terence Kearns wrote: [snip] Are you using the Midnight Commander (MC) file manager? If so the easy way is to step into (using MC's VFS capability - with cursor line on tarball, press enter) the tar file on one panel so you can see all the

HELP! Spammer using my system !

1998-06-14 Thread matthew tebbens
I suspect a spammer is using my system to relay or queue spam ! I'm using smail 3.2-3. How do I check, know its being used as a relay ? How do I stop this ASAP ? How do I find the spammer ? Thanks, Matthew Some data from /var/log/smail/logfile might help

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
C vs. C++ aside, there's a real problem here. The symbols __libc_init_first and _environ ought to be defined in libc.so; I'd guess that gcc isn't telling the linker to pull in libc. What do you get if you do this: gcc -v -o hello hello.c [Note I'm not actually on the mailing list, please cc:

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:55:37AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: files/dirs in the other panel. MC should be required software, its that good. DEFINITELY! I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would

accessing an Authenticated proxy server

1998-06-14 Thread Chris
This is probably off the topic, but here goes I am trying to access an authenticated proxy server for doing a POST operation. I have done this using perl and a normal proxy server, by sending the following to the proxy: POST http://machine.edu/cg-bin/test.pl HTTP/1.0 Host: machine.edu

Re: Complex passwords

1998-06-14 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: that password again makes passwd accept it. This isn't so good - I'd like to force these administrators to choose complex passwords. As it stands, one can hit the enter key three times and passwd will enter a null password! I don't know of any

Re: Complex passwords

1998-06-14 Thread Troy Hanson
Only way I found: [not extremely hard, but not basic] Get the source - shadow_980403_orig_tar.gz in the file shadow-980403/src/passwd.c Change line 402 so that it looks like below(get rid of the I am root test part of the strength test). Then run the configure script, and rebuild the passwd

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread servis
On 13 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: C vs. C++ aside, there's a real problem here. The symbols __libc_init_first and _environ ought to be defined in libc.so; I'd guess that gcc isn't telling the linker to pull in libc. What do you get if you do this: gcc -v -o hello hello.c [Note I'm not

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:55:37AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: files/dirs in the other panel. MC should be required software, its that good. DEFINITELY! I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, and

Re: ISP Connection + Misc.

1998-06-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: 4) Which command starts XFree86, 'xdm' or 'xstart'? When installing XFree86 it asks if you want 'xdm' to start at boot time. Then warns that if the monitor isn't configured yet this could cause problems. Will answering yes actually bring up a

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:51:30 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: What do you get if you do this: gcc -v -o hello hello.c This is what I get: % gcc -v -o hello hello.c gcc version 2.7.2.3 [...] ld -m elf_i386 -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o hello

Re: e2defrag-problem

1998-06-14 Thread John Goerzen
First, I cannot verify this, but I am almost certain that you should UNMOUNT before running any defrag program! Secondly, there is no need for defrag on ext2fs systems unless you have a REALLY weird setup. John Wolfgang Gernot Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im having a problem with the

problem using staroffice 4 (fwd)

1998-06-14 Thread James A . Treacy
The following was sent to webmaster. Hopefully someone here on debian-user will be able to help them. Jay Treacy - Forwarded message from Phillip Neumann - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 13 07:52:08 1998 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP:

ipmasq w/ ipchains?

1998-06-14 Thread Paul Miller
Does anyone have a modified version of ipmasq, which uses ipchains instead of ipfwadm for 2.1.x kernels? ... or maybe some examples on converting from ipfwadm commands to ipchains commands ... I'm not seeing any obvious equivalent arguments. Maybe it's too late. Thanks -Paul -- To

Re: HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-14 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Michael for a good explanation. Johann. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310

Re: HELP! Spammer using my system !

1998-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 21:07:32 -0400 (EDT), matthew tebbens wrote: How do I stop this ASAP ? killall smail Not quite the answer you're looking for, but it works. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus|

Install problem

1998-06-14 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi all Here is the problem I have been trying to install Debian from a set of floppies. Things go well until disk 5 is done and it try's to decompress the final file for install. It gives and error that it cant install the file and goes to the next step. I then reboot the system. It will go

Re: HELP! Spammer using my system !

1998-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 10:49:30PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 21:07:32 -0400 (EDT), matthew tebbens wrote: How do I stop this ASAP ? killall smail Not quite the answer you're looking for, but it works. ;) Actually, it probably won't, because the default way to run

Re: ISP Connection + Misc.

1998-06-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DD == Dennis Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DD I'm guessing that the first time I installed Debian I accidentally did DD something to ppp.chatscript to make it wait for the ISP to request the DD username, but this time the username needed to be in the ppp.options_out DD script also since by

can't locate module

1998-06-14 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi all. I've got a simple question for ya. I'v compiled a new kernel 2.0.34 When i boot with it all goes well, until it wants to load a module. At that point I get a message like: umsdos can't locate module umsdos How do I solve this ? Thanks in advance. Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: HELP! Spammer using my system !

1998-06-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
mt == matthew tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mt I suspect a spammer is using my system to relay or queue spam ! mt I'm using smail 3.2-3. The smail in hamm has anti relay measures. In the logfile you should see a Received FROM line for the [m0ykxmp-000NUHC] ID. If it is non-local, It is

swaping - raid

1998-06-14 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, To use kernel`s raid0 support for swap partitions, I added these two lines to /etc/fstab /dev/hdc2 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda1 noneswapsw 0 0 But boot messages says these partitions have different priorities (-1

netscape stuff

1998-06-14 Thread Andrew
I have Navigator 4.05, the standalone version, and also Mozilla (from the .deb package). Navigator 4.05 I installed with the provided script, as there does not seem to be a .deb package for the Navigator alone, only Communicator. OK, what I want to know is: How do I get Netscape to open an

Will the new ssh get into hamm?

1998-06-14 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. A new version of ssh was released (today or yesterday). Will it get into hamm? (BTW: Since it is the exam season, I unsubscribes (I can't cope with the bandwidth wile studying to exams) so please post answers to me too.) Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To

Re: Will the new ssh get into hamm?

1998-06-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : A new version of ssh was released (today or yesterday). : Will it get into hamm? Due to cryptographic laws in the USA, that's not as easy at it looks like. Anyway, it is currently at nonus.debian.org in the Incoming directory. Hope that helps,

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish wrote: I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate I think -- standard is for things which are standard on a Unix system, and should probably be as

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread servis
On 14 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:51:30 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: What do you get if you do this: gcc -v -o hello hello.c This is what I get: % gcc -v -o hello hello.c gcc version 2.7.2.3 [...] ld -m elf_i386 -dynamic-linker

Re: can't locate module

1998-06-14 Thread Troy Hanson
Sounds like you are trying to load the UMSDOS filesystem as a kernel module, but you didn't build and install the modules yet, or UMSDOS wasn't selected as a fileystem type in the config stage. Go through the kernel config ('make menuconfig' is a quick and easy text menu), go down to Filesystems,

fvwm95

1998-06-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've just run dselect to try to download xview (I'm running hamm) and it offered to install ~15-20 packages. I said go ahead, and now my system, which had had a nifty W$95 style desktop, seems to be running a blank X system with one xterm. I can use it to spawn new xterms and run netscape (which

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
It looks to me as if the gcc drivers aren't doing anything wrong. But this is a big fat clue: ld: warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so, may conflict with lib m.so.5 ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by /lib/libm.so.6, may conflict with libc.so.5 The linker called by gcc/g++ 2.7 is

Re: VIM

1998-06-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 10:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Nick Moffitt writes: On 12 Jun 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: It is a very useful feature called backing up files ;-) You can convince vim to not create these files by either editing /etc/vimrc (for all user) or ~/.vimrc (on a per-user basis) and

Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Something keeps splatting my poor daemons. lpd tends to die within a day or so, and pland dies within minutes, announcing (incorrectly) an application logout. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread servis
On 14 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: It looks to me as if the gcc drivers aren't doing anything wrong. But this is a big fat clue: ld: warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so, may conflict with lib m.so.5 ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by /lib/libm.so.6, may conflict with libc.so.5

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:39:30 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: It looks to me as if the gcc drivers aren't doing anything wrong. But this is a big fat clue: ld: warning: libm.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so, may conflict with l ib m.so.5 ld:

Re: swaping - raid

1998-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 14 Jun 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote: : Hi, : : To use kernel`s raid0 support for swap partitions, I added : these two lines to /etc/fstab : : /dev/hdc2 noneswapsw 0 0 : /dev/hda1 noneswapsw 0 0 : : But boot messages

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread dg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Shanta McBain wrote: I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as

Re: swaping - raid

1998-06-14 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, Nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Nathan Yes. Using RAID0 on swap partitions is more or less a Nathan waste of time, since the kernel supports round robin Nathan swapping. You need to add a pri=number to the options Nathan field in /etc/fstab.

Re: swaping - raid

1998-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 14 Jun 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote: : Hi, : : Nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : [...] : : Nathan Yes. Using RAID0 on swap partitions is more or less a : Nathan waste of time, since the kernel supports round robin : Nathan swapping. You need to add a

perl broken install (bo)

1998-06-14 Thread Marco Frattola
Hi all, installing bo on a rex machine left me with this problem: perl won't install, saying that subprocess post install script returned error 123 or something like this. What's error 123 and how can I fix it? without perl, other packages are left uninstallable. Thank you. -- |||| |||

Re: apt weirdness

1998-06-14 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:56:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing 'apt-get update' and it dies saying: Get ftp://ftp.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 31% [Packages 2920/21.4k 13%]Uncaught exception from user code:

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread servis
WE HAVE A WINNER!!! SEE BELOW!!! On 14 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: /usr/lib/libm.so - /usr/lib/libm.so.6 /usr/lib/libm.so.6 - /usr/lib/libm-2.0.7.so /usr/lib/libm-2.0.7.so /usr/lib/libm.a /usr/lib/libm.so - /lib/libm.so.6 /lib/libm.so.6 - /lib/libm-2.0.7.so

XFree86 problems

1998-06-14 Thread Matt Kopishke
I have been having problems with X, the last time I installed Linux, I installed the XFree86 packages that as far as I can see are required to run X (the Standard Fonts, FVWM, the svga server, and what ever eles dselect told me I needed), but after runinng XFree86Config, when it goes to

libBrokenLocale - what is it?

1998-06-14 Thread Adrian Monk
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:11:40 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: (snip) The install of the Slackware package has overwritten the file permissions of apparently several files and directories. and Steve Lamb wrote: Stupid question, is your passwd file there? That is about the only time I ever see

Home Network TCP/IP with PPP ?

1998-06-14 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi, Can anyone give me a concise description of how to set up a home-network of a linux machine (with modem) and Windows 95 machine, so that the Windows 95 machine can access the internet through the PPP connection of the linux machine (start it and stop it if necessary). I have the two

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:46:45 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /lib/libc.so - /lib/libc.so.5 ^^^ MAY-DAY! MAY-DAY!!! /lib/libc.so.5 - /lib/libc.so.5.4.36 /lib/libc.so.5.4.36 /lib/libm.so - /lib/libm.so.5 /lib/libm.so.5 - /lib/libm.so.5.0.9

Re: apt weirdness

1998-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 334 Carp::croak('Timeout') called at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 1060 I'm sure Manoj can say more, but it sounds to me like this is a perl FTP library glitch - doesn't handle timeouts

GECM.COM: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed

1998-06-14 Thread Paul Miller
Either debian.org or someone on this list has or relays to a system called 'gecm.com'. I've been receiving lots of messages saying that a delivery has failed, which is not true. These messages are usually over a day later than when I sent them, have been successfully received by the

Re: Home Network TCP/IP with PPP ?

1998-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Cormac McGuinness wrote: Hi, Can anyone give me a concise description of how to set up a home-network of a linux machine (with modem) and Windows 95 machine, so that the Windows 95 machine can access the internet through the PPP connection of the linux machine (start