Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading

1997-09-05 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 16:25:03 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: I'd stay away from sat until LEO stuff starts to come out.the latency is 500ms+ jumping out 33,000 miles. Yep... but from what I understand this is minimised by the two way connection. Commands (eg. FTP/HTTP 'get' commands) are sent

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-10 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:41:28 -0400 (EDT), Tommy Lakofski wrote: Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office The Grand Prix was a well know peice of shit, and is no longer made. They replaced it

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-10 Thread Dave Cinege
On 09 Sep 1997 15:07:41 -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat

Re: www.linuxhq.com

1997-09-10 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:31:49 +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Sep 08, Nils Rennebarth wrote On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: does anyone know what's happened to www.linuxhq.com? It appears to have moved to www.ecsnet.com, at least this is what altavista says. It's ping'able but http

Linux Router Project - Initial beta release now available.

1997-09-12 Thread Dave Cinege
After much work I have just made the first beta available. It is dubbed a developers release, but it is very much a usable product for anyone that needs to build a router/terminal server now. (I'm using it in my equivalent to a Portmaster 2e) What has been made is a networking capable minimal

Re: cdda2wav - cannot that deice sgb

1997-09-16 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:08:38 +, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! I have a little problem getting cdda2wav to work... when i start the program, i'm just told that it cannot stat device sgb ... Because it can't. : Are you using it with ide or scsi cdrom?

Re: cdda2wav - cannot that deice sgb

1997-09-16 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:50:21 +, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! Because it can't. : hahahahhah Are you using it with ide or scsi cdrom? ide ... I now have tryed -D /dev/hdd and that works ... well allmost! I get some errors when it running, but maybe thats because I have a 486

Re: Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:36:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Kevin Traas wrote: Hmmm. What's the netmask on the ethernet interface? If it's set to 255.255.255.224 then everything should work fine even though Yes, it is. Then NT's routing algorithm is wrong or there are other routes

Re: debian-disent

1997-09-22 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:45:44 +0200, Martin Str|mberg wrote: I remember a message saying that a new list debian-disent had been formed. Is that list archived somewhere, like the other debian lists at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/? http://www.psychosis.com/listarch/debian-dissent

Re: How many modems ?

1997-09-22 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:30:27 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 02:09:29AM +0200, dada wrote: : How many modems can attach to my computer controlled by linux? I don't know about a theoretical maximum, however, I've seen people comfortably use 16 or 32, using multiport serial

Re: How many modems ?

1997-09-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:49:22 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 03:05:35AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: : Do yourself a favor, if you want a terminal server, buy a terminal server. : : If you need a good number of modems, pick up a used Livingston PM2 or : PM2e. If you need

Re: Backup with DAT SCSI tapes

1997-09-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:27:51 -0700 (PDT), Oz Dror wrote: Hi, I am having problems using taper as the backup program for my DAT SCSI tape. It seems that taper cannot handle the large amount of data. it generates very large info files and then crushes. Incremental backup is also not working well.

Linux Termservers was:Re: How many modems ?

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:44:49 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 07:41:52AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: : [1] A studly enough box to support 48 modems. : : Depends on dump or smart serial board. Smart, 486 66 should be comfortable, : dumb, pentium class...maybe 100. 16MB

Re: serial port speed

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 01:23:03 +1000, Lawrence wrote: Anyone knows the default serail port speed? It is 38,400bps? Which file responsible for this setting? I want to increase it to 115,200bps. 38.4K, yes, /etc/rc.boot/0setserial, use the spd_vhi option.

Re: Multiple ethernets

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:48:48 -0600, Mike Patterson wrote: I added the line: append = ether=0,320,eth1 Try telling it the IRQ. Maybe they are too 'close'. Move it to a higher IO port. - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/

RE: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:06:17 +, Paulo Almeida wrote: Hi Mike! I have faced the same problem but with 3Com cards. There is only one solution for this problem: use 2 different network cards. There is somekind of bug in debian, I think, because it just doesn't support 2 or more same network

Re: serial port speed

1997-09-26 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:21:15 +0100 (BST), David Wright wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 01:23:03 +1000, Lawrence wrote: Anyone knows the default serail port speed? It is 38,400bps? Which file responsible for this setting? I want to increase

Re: Graphical User Interface

1997-09-26 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:59:04 -0500, Tony Koehn wrote: I have never seen linux operate on any kind of graphical interface like Windows 95. What GUI do most people use? How easy is it to install? Someone told me of a web site that had different GUI stuff for linux but I lost it. Anyone have

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:04:53 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: : I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself : i would press the alt key and the F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 to open a new window is : there a way to do this

Samba security hole....

1997-10-09 Thread Dave Cinege
A few weeks ago I remebmer seeing that big hole was found in samba. As of what debian package version has this been fixed? - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214

Re: debian version 1.3.1 ?

1997-10-09 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:06:25 -0400 (EDT), Bob wrote: I recently add X to my debian box. My debian version still shows 1.3 Shouldn't this now read 1.3.1?? It should actualy read somewhere around 1.3.5, but some people in the project have found it to be more important to have a static rev number

1.2.4-ssl Re: Apache-ssl

1997-10-09 Thread Dave Cinege
On 06 Oct 1997 11:03:47 +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: It is a remainder. It will be removed soon. Look in unstable for an binary package. Any idea when 1.2.4-ssl will be available? - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/

Re: mysql deb package

1997-10-10 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:56:06 -0500 (CDT), Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, Would someone build the debian package for MySQL and other MySQL related such as mySQL-perl, mySQL-tcl, mySQL-JDBC, mySQL-ODBC on 1.3? I've downloaded the one in hamm/ and it requires libc6 which my debian box is not yet

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-13 Thread Dave Cinege
I build with all quantums now. They run good, fast and usually seems to be a good deal cooler then a seagate counter part. The main deciding factor is they have quick warranty turn. Seagates policy is CRAP! In the last 9 months I've used about 30 SCSI and IDE Fireballs, and half dozen 4gb

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:57:18 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Because you didn't contribute anything accept noise and dissent. I've yet to see Bruce refuse to allow someone to work on Debian, who actually had something to contribute. From Ian to me, and Bruces interjection 2 days ago:

The real Debian.org

1997-10-26 Thread Dave Cinege
Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the leadership of the Debian project. Personal attacks, compliants to your service provider, banishment from the project. They will gang-up on you and drive you away. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. If you are new to

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-26 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:25:56 -1000 (HST), Jimen Ching wrote: First off, I am not a developer of Debian packages and thus do not know how Bruce Perens manages the distribution. But basically I have two comments. 1. To DC, your first mistake was to post your request to all of the debian lists.

Re: IMPORTANT Correction: The real Debian.org

1997-10-26 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:54:15 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: 2. To the users, it's so pitiful that users of a distribution is so quick to kick out a DEVELOPER just because he disagrees with the leader. Please notice that Dave Cinege

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:43:56 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Thanks Dave, I needed a laugh to brighten up an otherwise uneventful day. And I thought all you had to do was mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with some technical details, I think I forgot to include the grovelling my email.. oops. Sorry Bruce,

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread Dave Cinege
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote: Here is some more information on my sad state! I'm coming into this late. Mail me if any of this does not make sence!! I'm assuming MS-DOS was on your primary C: drive partition. [All

start-stop-daemon blues. Perl is to big for my boot disk.

1997-04-08 Thread Dave Cinege
I would like to be able to use the standard Debian start-up scripts for my custom router bootdisk. (And it appears so would alot of other people) Unfortunately start-stop-daemon requires perl. All together perl and libs are about 500K (about 200K compressed)..a HUGH waste on a floppy. Is

Error patching to 2.0.30....anyone else?

1997-04-09 Thread Dave Cinege
I just tried to patch up to 2.0.30 and I got an error along the lines of hunk 1 of 1 failed. Rejected 3c59x.c... I restored 'pure' kernel 2.0.27 source off of the Debian 1.2.6 CD I have and tried itup to 2.0.29 no complaints, but it gets to 2.0.30 and I get that error. Anyone else

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 01:32:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 01:32:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to

ppp - can't route with anything but ttyS1

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
If I set pppd to dial out on anything but ttyS1, it won't route. The modem will dial and connect, but the routing table is not updated. What have I forgotten to change? Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (aka Psychopath #3)

Ping o' Death is killing pppd on my router.....

1997-04-15 Thread Dave Cinege
That just about somes it up If the router sends, receives or carries a ping flood (ping -f or ping -l 65510) pppd dies. I'm unable to hang-up the modem from anything I do in telnet. (serial ports have no DTR line) After I flash the power on the modem I can telnet in and /etc/init.d/ppp start

Re: Which pentium: 200, PRO 200, or MMX 200?

1997-04-16 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:32:07 -0600 (MDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: I might have to give my aging P133 to my wife and buy a new PC. :-) I stopped keeping cuurent with these things. Which runs Linux the best: 200, PRO 200, or MMX 200? Pro 200.

Re: recording CD's

1997-04-16 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:29:58 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more converts. Question of the day: Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what software

Re: Compaq Smart Array Controller

1997-04-18 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:07:27 -0700, Thomas Harrington wrote: I need to put a UNIX on a Compaq Proliant 800. I use Debian 1.2 at home love it, but I have a question about hardware compatibility. Has any installed Debian on a Compaq server with a SMART2/P Array Controler? Who makes it and what

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-20 Thread Dave Cinege
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Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On 20 Apr 1997 04:49:53 -, Richard Sharman wrote: Kevin Traas writes: I have a Motorola Bitsurfr Pro (external). It works fine under Linux; it looks like a modem. (It has a zillion AT commands.) Thanks for the info. Just a couple of questions grin What type of serial

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:03:21 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: We ended up getting a Zyxel TA128U. It's an external and we're only using one channel and it works just fine. Any external should work as long as it supports PPP Sync-to-Async conversion. You just set up a dial script and once you get

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-21 Thread Dave Cinege
On 21 Apr 1997 03:58:51 -, Richard Sharman wrote: Dave Cinege writes: Until recently I just used the built-in serial ports, which are 16650a limited to 115000 bps. I have recently bought a Byte Runner card and am talking to the Bitsurfr at 230400 bps. Have I noticed a big

Re: CD-ROM authoring tools

1997-04-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:35:12 -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hi Steve: There is a cd authoring tool called xcdroast. Go to the debian HOW-TO pages. There is a HOW TO doc on authoring CDs. In that page you can find out where to get xcdroast. I have it but I haven't been able to get it to work

Re: 16650 - Found a patch!

1997-04-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 03:24:11 -0400 (EDT), Steve Hsieh wrote: I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner 16650 card and ISDN TA in a about a week. Something to think about before getting a 16650 card... From the 2.0.30 kernel serial.c: Hmm this is not good,

Re: Problem with cdwrite, Help needed bad

1997-04-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:04:41 -0500, m* wrote: Bruce Perens wrote: There is a support list for cdwrite. Send subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Then send your question to the list. quickly: has anyone ever burned cd's using the HP4020i? I use a Philips CDD2000, which is the same drive as

Re: wireless connection; cheapest solution?

1997-04-25 Thread Dave Cinege
On 25 Apr 1997 14:48:58 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can

Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-02 Thread Dave Cinege
I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? (actually maybe just lilo) Problem: partition and drive shift Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-03 Thread Dave Cinege
May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? (actually maybe just lilo) Problem: partition and drive shift Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days How: Read

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-05-07 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 7 May 1997 18:36:00 +0100 (BST), G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi , Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config for the matrix millenium graphics card ? Make sure you are using at least XFree 3.2.this should all be set-up for you.

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-05-07 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 7 May 1997 18:36:00 +0100 (BST), G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi , Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config for the matrix millenium graphics card ? Make sure you are using at least XFree 3.2.this should all be set-up for you.

Re: backspace/delete at the console

1997-06-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 31 May 1997 08:03:31 -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote: donk wrote: Deciding to try out debian I installed 1.3 and recenly discovered delete doesn't work as I hoped. Delete is mapped as ^[[3~ which produces simply ~ and a beep. I don't know what the ESC sequence is about (though it smells

Re: ISP conn.

1997-06-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:09:40 -0500 (CDT), Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I've tried EXACT procedure described in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and I failed to connect to my ISP from the Debian/Linux box. Jun 3 02:02:16 Tcphan chat[921]: expect (name:) chat is looking for name: Jun 3 02:02:21 Tcphan

Unidentified subject!

1997-06-04 Thread Dave Cinege
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion First if there is such a project already please point me towards it if not here are my ideas: LInux is a fine vertical network application OS, but hand building and maintaining it from scratch is pain staking. I would like to form the

*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion

1997-06-04 Thread Dave Cinege
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion First if there is such a project already please point me towards it if not here are my ideas: LInux is a fine vertical network application OS, but hand building and maintaining it from scratch is pain staking. I would like to form the

Re: *RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion

1997-06-05 Thread Dave Cinege
One of the people that responded to me has setup a mailing list. Thanks Jerry! Linux Router Project - to subscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the message body put: subscribe The people responding to my initial query are very willing to get something going, and

*Help!* Where is device partition info stored?

1997-06-11 Thread Dave Cinege
I was playing in fdisk, and like an idiot deleted an extended partition. This is a brand new set-up that I just finished, and I didn't save a map of the partitioning yet, so I need o layout to build rebuild. Where does the kernel keep the partition info? I looked all in /proc and couldn't

Re: *Help!* Where is device partition info stored?

1997-06-11 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 23:00:44 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 01:48:52 CDT Dave Cinege ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was playing in fdisk, and like an idiot deleted an extended partition. This is a brand new set-up that I just finished, and I didn't save a map

Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:37:12 +1000 (EST), Tim Bell wrote: Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote: So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a

Need a Debian 1.3 CD *ASAP*!

1997-06-17 Thread Dave Cinege
I have an order in with I-Connect, but for some reason it is taking them a long time to get me a CD out this time. I CAN'T wait any longer. I have 5 servers sitting here and my deadline to deliver them is quicky approaching. If I don't have a Deb 1.3 CD in my hands by Friday I am screwed. I

Big Bad Bug - adduser truncating files from /etc/skel.

1997-06-21 Thread Dave Cinege
I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server. Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets hacked down to one line. I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened. .bash_profile: -- # ~/.bash_profile: executed by

Ian Jackson, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: * D, like the d in day * e, like the e in pet * b, much softer than the b in bass * i, like see * a, like a in father (american english) * n, like in now for me (i'm on the middle atlantic seaboard in the US, south of

Re: Ian Jack....uhm Murdock, a question for you.....Re: How does Debian sound?

1997-06-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 08:47:21 -0400 (EDT), Shaya Potter wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: * D, like the d in day * e, like the e in pet * b, much softer than the b in bass * i, like see * a, like a in father

Re: Debian books

1997-06-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:15:41 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few quirks, but it really isn't possible to say that one *nix is _standard_, so you might say

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:38:28 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadowconfig off'

What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa=ls -a it would be useful. How is this any good? alias a alias alias loada 'source ~/.alias' alias loadalias loada alias

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: I haven't played with the source yet. I was hoping not to. I'm trying to put together an 'instant ISP' type system, complete with a linux based term server. I use the SDL WAN cards, with the builtin csu, so I'm also building a

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:05:25 -0400 (EDT), Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa=ls -a it would be useful. How

.csh_alias - Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-25 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:23:31 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: :It is good because it contains csh/tcsh aliases, not bash aliases. A :slightly different beast. : :Ah. :Next question.why is it not named .csh_alias ? Well, most likely because the C Shell was the first to support

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-27 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:02:51 -0400, Clint Adams wrote: sometimes it's useful to listen to the silly ones just to see what they're saying. Perhaps derogating this guy's views as stupid or silly serves no constructive purpose, especially when there is some validity there. Compaining about

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-27 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:40:34 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: I was browsing a few newsgroups over lunch, and I ran across the following URL: http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ The owner of the page compares RedHat, Slackware, and Debian. He's very pro-slackware, lukewarm on

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: So, let me see what we have here. I don't think the following is any exaggeration. I've seen some of these points in this thread alone: o Within Debian, we're a happy lot except there's no concensys on issues such as dselect, base

pon and poff -- need to be updated....

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
Shouldn't pon/poff contain the following instead of full scripts? pon- /etc/init.d/ppp start poff- /etc/init.d/ppp stop Seems strange to duplicate what /etc/init.d/ppp (using start-stop-daemon) does. -- Elite MicroComputers

Re: pon and poff -- need to be updated....

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:20:24 -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Jun 30, Dave Cinege wrote Shouldn't pon/poff contain the following instead of full scripts? What about those of us who don't start PPP at boot? /etc/init.d/ppp works fine either way. Take a look at it. I edited pon and poff on my router

Re: pon and poff -- need to be updated....

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:10:43 -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Jun 30, Dave Cinege wrote Shouldn't pon/poff contain the following instead of full scripts? What about those of us who don't start PPP at boot? /etc/init.d/ppp works fine either way. Take a look at it. No, it doesn't. It exits

Debian Amiga...

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On 1 Jul 97 18:44:13 +, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi! Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to the ISP? (using ppp chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). How is Debian Linux running on your Amiga? I have two 3000's here that I've been having a hard time selling

Re: pon and poff -- need to be updated.... Dean Carpenter when you mail someone include a return address!

1997-07-01 Thread Dave Cinege
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Idea for deity. (dselect) Security hole alert system.

1997-07-02 Thread Dave Cinege
How about this Future dselect has a feature that will query a database on the net (you set the server) and come back and mark all packages that are listed as security concerns. This would be done by linking right into the security/bug reporting systems. It would also be nice to be able

Re: Idea for deity. (dselect) Security hole alert system.

1997-07-02 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 23:07:37 -0400 (EDT), Alex Yukhimets wrote: No I'm not willing to work on it, and no I have not thought out the fine details, but I think it would be very useful and give Debian another sticking point as the 'De Facto Linux ISP Distribution'. Chew on it and see how it

Athena95 replacment pointers gone with 1.2-1.3

1997-07-02 Thread Dave Cinege
One thing I noticed with a new install, and an ungrade to from 1.2 to 1.3, is that under X the pointer function changed with the aw95 replacment lib. When I installed this in 1.2 I used to be able to go over a scroll bar (for instance xterm) and grab it with a left click. Now I must use the

Re: Debian GNU/Linux in the German press!

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:19:10 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz wrote: Ah. But someone somewhere is offering them for $5 right? I know I didn't imagine that. Still even at $50 Debian is a bargain. I've cut a few official CD sets to give to various people I work with and the response has been quite

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:42:01 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? (Note, this is a 905, not a

Re: How can I set up BBS with Debian Linux?

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 22:44:16 +0200 (CEST), Cheng-Chang Wu wrote: Hello, I need to set up a BBS for my company. Does anyone know, what kind of software do I need? Thanks a lot. You would do this just like you are setting up an internet site, but make everything local. You could set-up regular

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 -0500, m* wrote: Dave Cinege wrote: I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put the words and 3c90x on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone submit a patch. I don't know how) are the 90x cards even supported yet

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 04 Jul 1997 01:00:34 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 CDT m* ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dave Cinege wrote: I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put the words and 3c90x on the vortex driver line in the configs

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:36:29 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: I installed using May 30 diskette set (Debian 1.3.0, Kernel 2.0.29). From there, I chose the 3c59x module (I got this information from the above URL - like Dave mentioned, this should definitely be identified in modconf). I tried setting

I broke 'whatis'. How do I fix it?

1997-07-05 Thread Dave Cinege
I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works. But whatis always returns Nothing appropriate. Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0 install, but I have installed quite a bit of extra junk.

Re: enlightenment (was Re: Licenses)

1997-07-06 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 5 Jul 97 21:28 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: From: Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] one could argue the GPL is not free as it doesn't allow me to create a derivative work with a different copyright, if we want to go to terms. Are you being facetious? There's not much point in writing a

Re: I broke 'whatis'. How do I fix it?

1997-07-06 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:23:36 +, Christian Hudon wrote: On Jul 5, Dave Cinege wrote I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works. But whatis always returns Nothing appropriate. Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0 install, but I

Anybody get berolist to work with smail?

1997-07-07 Thread Dave Cinege
Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 5 Jul 1997 20:48:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by hiway1.exit109.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA09525; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 20:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat

Apache 1.2 deb package? Any time table?

1997-07-08 Thread Dave Cinege
-- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Apache 1.2 deb package? Any time table?

1997-07-08 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:39:24 +1300, Adam Shand wrote: It's available now (and has been for over a week) in experimental. Is hamm considered experimental? 1.1.3-6 is still the newest in hamm. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Need to talk with a smail guru about my smail list manager add-on

1997-07-09 Thread Dave Cinege
Well low and behold smail supports lists. Nice to find out since I couldn't get berolist to work : P What it does not have is a system to manage subscribtions, etc to the list, so I wrote one. A few things I can't figure out: How can I grab the orginal message and read it? (Like grabbing the

Re: Is Your Web Site A Secret?

1997-07-09 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 19:51:18 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is your web site the best kept secret on the Internet? Jesusnot even the lists are safe anymore. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214

Re: Certification

1997-07-09 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 20:05:56 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Tebbens wrote: I kinda like the idea myself. I don't think we could create a LINUX-Certified or should, but what about a Debian Certification ? Think about it, If Debian were the first to come out with Certifications, it might improve Debian's

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-09 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 12:44:03 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Joey Hess wrote: I've got sysklogd 1.3-17 and it's made /var/log/messages no longer be world readable. Is there some security problem with letting any user read it? /var/log/messages can also find my login and

Re: adduser problem

1997-07-12 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:04:29 -0400, Paul Miller wrote: when I type adduser username in Debian 1.3.1, it only copies to first line of each of the /etc/skel files what is wrong? : P This not fixed in 1.3.1??? Grab the new version of adduser in hamm...

Re: adduser

1997-07-12 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:59:41 +0200 (CEST), Remco van de Meent wrote: Hey I just installed Debian 1.3 ([stable contrib non-free]). And to me, it looks like the adduser scripts isn't working properly.. in fact.. it doesn't act like 'group homes', though this is specified in adduser.conf. Just

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:41:04 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. No it does not. Check the files it copies from /etc/skell. Yep, it only copies the first line. -- Elite

Linux Router Project -- About to get working and need more people!

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
Linux Router Project -- About to get working and need more people! The Linux Router Project is about to begin work on our minimal root fs. Very crucial to this are people that truely understand the dependencies of networking functions and utilities. I'm looking to use Debian 1.3.1 as the base

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