Re: Apache y CGI's

1999-07-18 Thread Han Solo
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 06:51:42PM +0200, Manuel Trujillo wrote: Buenas. ¿Sería alguien tan amable de refrescarme la memoria con el tema de los permisos y el usuario www-data para poder ejecutar cgi's de perl en Apache 1.3 (de la 2.1) Pues como no tiene mucha complicación, yo mismo.

Re: Paquetes y dependencias en potato

1999-07-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Jose C. Garcia escribió: Puedes crearte un paquete perl vacío tú mismo, de forma que desaparezcan esas dependencias. También puedes rehacer el paquete de perl5.005 para que indique el provides y mandar un mail al manteiner para que vuelva a colocar ese paquete vacío o el provides.

Re: ¿Cómo acceder a kernels y proyectos alpha?

1999-07-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz escribió: ¿Hay alguna dirección centralizada para desarrolladores o personas que quieran acceso a las últimas versiones de todo tipo de software para linux? Hmmm... no entendí la pregunta, pero tengo la corazonada que la respuesta es freshmeat[1], busca una

Re: Debian free pero ...

1999-07-18 Thread Antonio Castro
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Antonio Castro wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Antonio Castro wrote: Claro siempre se puede copiar paquetes y programas sueltos que sabes que son libres pero entonces habría que concluir que los

Re: dominio en CITIUS me sale .(none) junto al login

1999-07-18 Thread Antonio Beamud Montero
Si no recuerdo mal, para crear un dominio de páginas amarillas, habia que instalar el paquete nis y luego en el cliente algo como ' nisdomainname linux.di.es' o el que queramos para establecer el nombre del dominio que ibamos a usar, en el fichero yp.conf añadir: ypserver maq-remota Para

Offtopic === Servidor de news

1999-07-18 Thread xxx
Hasta ahora estaba usando un servidor de news pero no se que pasa que no funciona. ¿Alguien puede decirme de un servidor de news gratuito? Gracias -- Cada día, un nuevo día Y cada noche a dormir (¿o no?)

Problemas con UMSDOS

1999-07-18 Thread xxx
Quiero poner Linux en un 486 pero sin reparticionar el HD (solo particion swap), pero no se como instalarlo para usar umsdos ¿Alguien puede ayudarme? Gracias -- Cada día, un nuevo día Y cada noche a dormir (¿o no?)

¿Me he cargado el HD?

1999-07-18 Thread xxx
Tengo un problema, y es que con un 386 ejecuté el fdisk y borré todas las particiones, creando dos de nuevas y reinicié por error, sin formatear nada y ahora al arrancar el ordenador me sale nosequé de que no hay disco duro instalado, y usando un disco de arranque el fdisk me disce que no hay

RE: timofometro

1999-07-18 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Holas a todos!! Conecto siempre a Inet como root, aunque luego todo lo demás lo hago como usuario desde las X. Para conectar hago un 'su root' y escribo 'pon' y va todo bien, pero para que me aparezca el timofometro tengo que hacer antes del 'su' un 'xhost +localhost' porque de lo contrario el

Lío con gcc y egcc

1999-07-18 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Comenzaré por el principio. Instalé el gpc (compilador de pascal) de la slink. Intento compilar un programa muy simple y me dice que no encuentra el cc1. El cc1 estaba en el paquete gcc, supongo que habiendo hecho un enlace se habría solucionado, pero en lugar de eso instalé el egcc y como

RE: Internet muy lento!!!

1999-07-18 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Ya he conseguido conectarme a Inet con el Kppp pero me encuentro que va muy lento en navegar. Sabeis que puede passar? Tambien tengo problemas para recibir el correo, lo puedo enviar pero no recibir. Mi servidor es un pop.mx3.redestb.es. He leido gente que ha tenido problemas similares con el

Desinstalar programas

1999-07-18 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Hace no mucho se habló aquí de que cuando se desinstalan programas es posible que queden librerías que ya no son necesarias ocupando espacio. Voy a poner aquí fragmentos de unos cuantos mensajes de es.comp.os.linux porque creo que pueden ser interesantes. (Sobre el apt) [ Yo ] De todos modos lo

Re: ¿Me he cargado el HD?

1999-07-18 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, xxx wrote: Tengo un problema, y es que con un 386 ejecuté el fdisk y borré todas las particiones, creando dos de nuevas y reinicié por error, sin formatear nada y ahora al arrancar el ordenador me sale nosequé de que no hay disco duro instalado, y usando un disco de

mutt no carga los mensajes nuevos

1999-07-18 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Hola... no se si este mensaje llegará o no (si creo que los que mando si que van), desde que he actualizado a slink el mutt no me ve los mensajes nuevos, pero tenerlos los tengo o por lo menos mi directorio /var/spool/smail/input lo tengo abarrotado de archivos. Antes para ver si tenia archivos

Paquetes obsoletos

1999-07-18 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
El otro dia os preguntaba que hacer con esta peazo lista de paquetes obsoletos (la lista se me olvidó mandarla :-) ) -- ===NaClU2===IJAS _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Desde: 40º25'N 3º39'O _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/

Re: Las X no me arrancan fvwm95

1999-07-18 Thread IJAS
Muchas gracias por tu respuesta Cosme...voy a intentar solucionarlo y además actualizarme :-) La verdad es que la actualización a Slink me ha dado más problemas que el paso a hamm, por ejemplo te estoy escribiendo desde W98 porque me da la sensación de que tengo todo el sistema de correo hecho

Re: docs in /usr/doc not supported?

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog Where will documents go now? I cannot RTM if I cannot find it ;) /usr/share/doc In Policy 3.0.0, Debian has moved to FHS as the path layout. Install the debian-policy package. FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Ciao, Martin

Re: Security problems

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Andrei == Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can instead deny them telnet access in /etc/hosts.deny with something like: in.telnetd: ALL Andrei That would refuse telnet access to everyone, and she would not be able to Andrei telnet to the box from somewhere else to administer it

Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Andri == Andri Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andri Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing Andri scripts for the new user? I don't know any programm that does this. I think anyone uses a custom script, written especially for his needs, to add new users (and add

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-18 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: I'm trying to use any kind of txt-based one, preferrably the easiest. John Foster reccomended that I use exim (previously), Exim is a fine program but it's not a mail reader. I can't understand 1/2 the stuff the config file asks

Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
Well, that is because exim (nor sendmail, smail, etc.) does not do POP2/3 (or IMAP). The MTAs (exim, etc.) use SMTP or the UNIX pipe to process mail. To pick up mail from an ISP when you are an intermittent connection calls for a protocol such as POP and that function is supplied by another

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
This is true but also please try to appreciate the nature and the magnitude of the problem. Almost every distribution of Linux (and for that matter UNIX) have critical differences in the fine details of how certain tasks are accomplished. There is almost NO task that has only one right way to

pcmcia

1999-07-18 Thread Luis Erasmus Perez Moreno
hallo i try to install debian linux on a notebook Travelmate 5300 (from Texas Inst.), but (as i will install the debian applications from the internet) when i configure the pcmcia support in the dbootstrap, the computer freezes and the instalation is stopped my pcmcia ethernet card is a

where to get the gs-pdfencrypt deb ?

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
Does anyone know where I can get gs-pdfencrypt? It seems all the links to it are dead on the Debian site. -- Andrew

RE: where to get the gs-pdfencrypt deb ?

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jul-99 Pollywog wrote: Does anyone know where I can get gs-pdfencrypt? It seems all the links to it are dead on the Debian site. Nevermind folks. I finally found it on one Debian mirror. -- Andrew

need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error process for me, but I could not manage this one: ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/ Anyone care to enlighten me? Pointing to documentation would be sufficient. thanks -- Andrew

Re: Security problems

1999-07-18 Thread John Foster
lena wrote: Hello! I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems that got to do with security. I have 20 different users that got both ftp and telnet access to the server /using it for web publishing/. I would like to add they got access to their root

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:05:31AM -, Pollywog wrote: Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error process for me, but I could not manage this one: ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/ Anyone care to enlighten me?

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread John Foster
Pollywog wrote: Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error process for me, but I could not manage this one: ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/ ---

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:05:31AM -, Pollywog wrote: Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error process for me, but I could not manage this one: ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/ Anyone care to enlighten me?

Re: Security problems

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jul-99 John Foster wrote: That is all handled via granting permissions to their /home directories and establishing a path for these users that allows the access to only those prgs that you want them to use. If a user knows the path to some program that is not in their path, could they

Re: Security problems

1999-07-18 Thread Carl Mummert
Hopefully this gets back to whoever asked originally.. You could roll a solution using chroot() to move the user into their home dir - all it costs is the disk space to recreate the bin and lib trees. Carl

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:05:31AM -, Pollywog wrote: Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error process for me, but I could not manage this one:

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jul-99 John Foster wrote: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog I do notice that you have both stable and unstable sources in the same file Pollywog and I wonder how the system does not downgrade some of your packages. Because apt-get only considers the newest version of a packages found in multiple

What provides glib.h?

1999-07-18 Thread egm2
I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev packages, so I was wondering what package I'm missing. I tried a search, but the packages I came up

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/17/99 09:12 PM, egm2@jps.net wrote: I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev packages, so I was wondering what package I'm missing.

KDE: can't connect to X server

1999-07-18 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I'm trying to get KDE running, just to play a little bit. When I run kde from the command line, I am told that various kde components can't connect the X server, and it craps out, even as root. I have a fairly messy setup, and I am not sure what to try next. I've already

Re: KDE: can't connect to X server

1999-07-18 Thread Nate
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:06:29PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get KDE running, just to play a little bit. When I run kde from the command line, I am told that various kde components can't connect the X server, and it craps out, even as root. Add the following line to

motherboard temperature monitoring

1999-07-18 Thread Oz Dror
Is there a debian (linux) version for a motherboard temperature monitoring program like the MBM for NT -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread John Foster
Pollywog wrote: On 18-Jul-99 John Foster wrote: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only

Sort of a Debian question

1999-07-18 Thread John Foster
OK please hold the laughter, this is serious business.. I need a recepie book template or data base to use on my Debian Linux box. I am embarking on setting up a collection of family recepies, there are hundreds, and want some method of cataloging and organizing them. Any body have any

3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. It seems like it should not to hard to fix, but without any knowledge of how or where the network services are started / initialized, I don't think I will figure it out without help. I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect about a week

New MIRROR site

1999-07-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
A new mirror of ftp.debian.org is available for you at http://gusp.infogroup.it/debian or ftp://gusp.infogroup.it/pub/debian i386 part is already complete, while filling of alpha, m68k and arm is in progress. Mirrored distributions are stable and unstable. non-US is also available. Pf

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Jim! I have a standard NE2000 card (cheap one I got for about $20). Everything was working fine until my last moves that I described below. My network was working after the potato upgrade until I fixed the last two problems taht dselect caused. I rebooted, and the

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/17/99 10:48 PM, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. It seems like it should not to hard to fix, but without any knowledge of how or where the network services are started / initialized, I don't think I will figure it out without help. Hmm. I;m not

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if I was using module or kernel for the network card. I have had this system for awhile (potato is the third debian distrubution I have used, and the network settings were setup at the very beginning. How would I tell? The current kernel version seems to be

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Jim
The easiest way for us to fix this would be by running modconf. Hopefully nothing else is broken (which we'll find out soon). As root, run: modconf Then go to net and then ne and enable the module for your card. The reason you aren't detecting the card? modprobe will generally only detect PCI

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I went into modconf and select net and ne. It said that this module was currently installed on my system. It gave me two choices, Exit or Remove the module from the kernel. Where do I specify the io-0x300? I do not see anywhere in the modconf that allows me to edit anything. Doug Jim

Re: Lost PCI Network card after potato upgrade.

1999-07-18 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote Hello, I will try this question again without the attempt at humor... I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect 3-4 days ago. After the initalruns through dselect/install/config/remove there weretwo problems still

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-18 Thread Mike Brownlow
egm2@jps.net wrote: line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev ... /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory ... Eric G. Miller Powered by the A HREF=http://www.debian.org;POTATO/A! You

Re: stop gnome-session to record xterms?

1999-07-18 Thread Thomas
You might rather use XDM. - Original Message - From: Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 1:21 AM Subject: stop gnome-session to record xterms? Hello, i have the folowing problem: i can't log graphically on

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/17/99 11:59 PM, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok, I went into modconf and select net and ne. It said that this module was currently installed on my system. It gave me two choices, Exit or Remove the module from the kernel. Where do I specify the io-0x300? I do not see anywhere in

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for all of the help! I ended up removing the ne module and replaceing it with the io=0x300 irq=3 specified in the options. I can now telnet to my system, so I think its fixed! I will check it out the rest of the way in the morning, Doug THANK YOU! Doug Jim wrote: The easiest way

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread tyler spivey
hello, i am new to this list, and love debian. [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Thanks for all of the help! I ended up removing the ne module and replaceing it with the io=0x300 irq=3 specified in

Sound on Inspiron 3000

1999-07-18 Thread Nate
Any here have sound working on their Inspiron 3000? I have my BIOS audio settings as follows: Audio= Enabled SB I/O= 220h WSS I/0=388h Adlib I/0= IRQ5 DMA1 DMA0 When I modprobe cs4232 I get the following error:

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-18 Thread Mike Brownlow
Mike Brownlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: egm2@jps.net wrote: line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev ... /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory ... Eric G. Miller Powered by

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Ray
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:48:53PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: The error messages during the configureation of setserial said that my modules needed to be updated and to run update-module force and run configure again. Well, I did this and the These days the Debian way is to create

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
... You have glib.h. The error is saying it cannot find glibconfig.h. I had the same problem just now. A search yields: $ dpkg -S glibconfig.h libglib1.2-dev: /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h So the answer to this is to add /usr/lib/glib/include to our include paths. For

Re: Sort of a Debian question

1999-07-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Sort of a Debian question Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0500 In reply to:John Foster Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK please hold the laughter, this is serious business.. I need a recepie book template or data base to use on my Debian Linux

Re: Sound on the Inspiron 3000 (cs4232)

1999-07-18 Thread Nate
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:03:21AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: I am fairly sure that Dell has pulled a similar fast one as they did on booting CDs (supported in bios but does not work). My search for sound on this laptop still continues, but mine boots cd's with ease. Hmmm... very strange...

why so much hate?

1999-07-18 Thread altag
hi. from Altag. I can't figure out why Dselect package ,loving debian so strong, is so antiquate and really unfriendly. from debian-developers really nothing better? Alex - Get free personalized email from Lycos at

kde problems

1999-07-18 Thread Chris Hoover
When I run kde as a normal user and change the panel settings, it is not saving them. Is there a way to kde to remember the changes I make the next time I login? Thanks, chris -- Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.

RE: why so much hate?

1999-07-18 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Hmm, While I agree that dselect could use some functionality to help users who screw up dependancy's It's far from antiquated. In fact, as a former RedHat (RPM) user, I can say that the debian package management system (and it's frony end, dselect) is very advanced. Keep in mind, dselect is the

Re: Sort of a Debian question

1999-07-18 Thread John Foster
Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Sort of a Debian question Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0500 In reply to:John Foster Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK please hold the laughter, this is serious business.. I need a recepie book template or data base to

modules

1999-07-18 Thread tyler spivey
ok, i am mailing fgrom a shell accout,. and, why does it give me the error: init_modtp.dtpc.o: init_module: device or resource busy ? i am trying to find a module-able bootdisk ith the 2.0.36 kernel so i can test dtpc.o on my 386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System -

GTK front end- WAS: RE: why so much hate?

1999-07-18 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Jul-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: Hmm, While I agree that dselect could use some functionality to help users who screw up dependancy's It's far from antiquated. In fact, as a former RedHat (RPM) user, I can say that the debian package management system (and it's frony end, dselect) is very

debian

1999-07-18 Thread tyler spivey
as most of you know from irc, i am a blind user using a terminal. thats why i need a linux boot disk with module support 2.0.36 so i can test a driver on my old 386 without overwriteing dos. [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work. I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid. Everything worked fine under slink. If I remember correctly, part of the instructions on the old setup was to remove password encryption so windows 95

Re: debian

1999-07-18 Thread Leen Besselink
http://www.toms.net/rb/ is what you are looking for. it's the best in town. IMHO. On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, tyler spivey wrote: as most of you know from irc, i am a blind user using a terminal. thats why i need a linux boot disk with module support 2.0.36 so i can test a driver on my old 386

Re: Sort of a Debian question

1999-07-18 Thread John Foster
John Foster wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Thanks John, now I'm not the only one! My wife wanted one also, so I started working on an Mysql solution one for her. __ Hey Wayne; if you had any luck with MySql for implementing it as a document storage

GTK front end- WAS: RE: why so much hate?

1999-07-18 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Pollywog writes: GTK front end? Where can I find this? gnome-apt in potato -- it's still unstable. I don't know if anyone is using it yet, so beware! Some of the GUI functions are placeholders still. You may get more mileage out of dselect at this point after a careful read-through of

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
Yes; but /usr/local/bin should precede /usr/bin and /bin. On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: Better write your own poff version, which does the stuff you want and then calls poff and place it into /usr/local/bin. If you change poff directly, the changes will be

Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-18 Thread André Bell
Hi Patrick Kirk, you wrote on 7/17/99 4:20:11 PM: http://opensrc.org/dlite/dlite.html is a debian for ISPs distro. Thanks Patrick, I'll start comparing what is in the distro with what I've already installed to see if I have those packages already. I've installed of debian 2.1 (except for

Re: Security problems

1999-07-18 Thread Ernest Johanson
You can do this with proftpd. There is a DefaultRoot directive that will chroot to a dir on a per-group basis. I have the same situation with a group of web publishers. The first step was to define a virtual host (this particular server is restricted to internal use only). Then each user is added

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Doug; I would suggest that you do through the debian-user and debian-devel message archive lists (ie: on debian.org). You have probably been hit by the perl problem. An apt-get upgrade may or may not (at this point) bring things to a sane point. Those of us that are using potato in

Re: Sort of a Debian question

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John them. Any body have any suggestions? Please hold off on the John Gourmet GEEK jokes. I've heard them all. Hmm, never heared of such jokes. Dare to post two o three? :-) Ciao, Martin

Problem with mkfs

1999-07-18 Thread Jor-el
Hi, My /dev/hdb was partitioned into /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 primary partitions. I used fdisk to repartition /dev/hdb1. What I did was (1) delete /dev/hdb1 (2) Create an extended partition replacing the space occupied by /dev/hdb1 (3) Create two logical partitions in that space :

Re: KDE: can't connect to X server

1999-07-18 Thread G. Crimp
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:28:05PM -0700, Nate wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:06:29PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get KDE running, just to play a little bit. When I run kde from the command line, I am told that various kde components can't connect the X server, and

Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
You should be able to add dlite to sources.list and use apt to get the lot. Or am I overestimating my favorite tool? Patrick - Original Message - From: André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, 18 July 1999 17:27 Subject: Re: What software to use for

Re: KDE: can't connect to X server

1999-07-18 Thread Nate
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:00:29PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: Is there an ftp site where I can get the debs for kde and qt (with matching version :)). You can get qt1g (which is qt-1.4) from the following...

Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread André Bell
Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea. I'm guessing there must be a way to get

util-linuxi

1999-07-18 Thread Nate
I'm having a hell of a time patching util-linux to mount crypt modules. Anyone have compiled util-linux (international version) that can support the kerneli modifications? Thank you. -- _ NatePuri (natedawg) o m p a g e s . c o m Certified Law

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread egm2
You should always use one of the following (where you need to be root): $ su -c '/sbin/halt'# To shutdown immediately $ su -c '/sbin/reboot' # To reboot the machine immediately $ su -c '/sbin/shutdown other arguments' # To shutdown or reboot sometime in the future

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
poweroff shutdown (with some args, check the man pagesdopn't have my Linux box infront of me) reboot Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount all the partitions). Andrew

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Brad
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: poweroff shutdown (with some args, check the man pagesdopn't have my Linux box infront of me) shutdown -h now is good. Remember to run it as root. reboot Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's

[Application] sjis-euc converter

1999-07-18 Thread Nguyen Hai Ha
Hi all, I'm wandering if there is any sjis-euc converter going around. Would anybody kindly give me some information about this. Thanks in advance. -- Nguyen Hai Ha, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Brad
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say the system was

wordperfect problems

1999-07-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have noticed people talking about having wordperfect installed, and I finally got around to downloading it from cdrom.com yesterday. However it does not run, I go through the installation stuff (the text version, since the graphic version won't load) and when it gets done installing everything

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jul, André Bell wrote about Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian? Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Andri == Andri Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andri Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off Andri debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted Andri properly. I don't use any commands to shutdown debian, I just Andri use the on/off switch when I'm finished.

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount all the partitions). This should already be in place on a Debian system ;) You never know. When I upgraded to 2.2.10 from 2.0.36,

problems with startx

1999-07-18 Thread twleung
Hi, I'm having some problems with startx: If I log in and type startx, X starts but doesn't start the window manager. If I ctrl-alt-backspace out of that, here's the messages that startx spews:

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Brad
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount all the partitions). This should already be in place on a Debian system ;) You never

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Brad
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote: The -a option will allow other non-root users to shutdown the machine with the Ctrl-Alt-Del key press. You will need to create and add the non-root user names to the /etc/shutdown.allow file, again see the man page for shutdown. IIRC, -a in this

Re: wordperfect problems

1999-07-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:25:53PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: However it does not run, I go through the installation stuff (the text version, since the graphic version won't load) You need to install xpm4.7 from oldlibs. That should fix the problem. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread tyler spivey
ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place? the command is as root: shutdown -h now [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Kent Hayden
Tyler: Some of this stuff isn't entirely intuitive to us newbies, you know. Maybe this should be placed in the installation documentation, because when you're new to Linux (or Unix) it almost seems like powering off is the only thing you can do, unless you have a collection of Linux books at

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine off in Linux. I use halt...which no-one here suggested. Is it not the most logical way to halt a system? Patrick - Original Message - From: Kent Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, 18 July

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-18 Thread egm2
On 18 Jul, tyler spivey wrote: | ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place? | the command is as root: | shutdown -h now This is rude and uncalled for. Everybody has to start somewhere. Comments like the above help no one. Better to let someone else respond if

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