Re: getting around a firewall?

1999-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a little dilemma.  My work PC (windoze) is on a (gov't) network.  The firewall blocks all ports save http, ftp, telnet, and maybe a few others  -- ssh is most certainly blocked.   I want to be able to securely connect to a remote

registrarse

1999-06-04 Thread Miquel
hola a todos he visto que alguna gente pone en su firma que es usuario registrado de linux. ¿qué sentido tiene registrarse? Igual la pregunta es un poco off-topic. Si es así, pido disculpas. un saludo, miquel

Re: fstab, nfs

1999-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johan Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have put this string in my fstab: localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir nfs But it does not work! (I can mount when type mount -t nfs localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir) NFS mounting through fstab is done very early in

Re: help: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random. Doesn't matter how long it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right. But sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets,

Re: Need Apache with proxy support

1999-05-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Slink and am in need of a version of Apache that has the proxy module compiled-in (the supplied version hasn't). Is there a fully enabled version available somewhere, or do I need to compile it from sources myself?

Re: where can I get hamm packages?

1999-05-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy C.Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running hamm but I don't have the cd; I do have the slink cds. Where can I download hamm's apt-get so I can upgrade to slink? The 2 things that the apt from slink depends on that are not in hamm are libc6 (= 2.0.7u) and

Gnome: compilación para Debian

1999-04-29 Thread Miquel Escarrà
dice que la version de libz que tengo no es correcta. Saludos y gracias Miquel Escarrà

Re: Apache?

1999-04-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ying shang wrote: When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I can not find out where is the home directory of the apache. The command 'which' will show the path to the program, for example used with the

Re: VB asp on Apache

1999-04-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can apache serve VB asp pages? Sure, apache can serve them, but there is no VB interpreter for Linux so the output will look not quite the way you intended it. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of

Re: System.map (fwd)

1999-04-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fethi A. Okyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. DO I need a separate System.map file for each kernel that I compile, cause each time it also spits out a new System.map file. Well, things like klogd and ps like to look at the System.map of the running kernel to be able to

Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ralf G. R. Bergs: Ok, now that I corrected /dev/console and started a getty on /dev/ttyS0 my setup is working almost as intended with one exception: If I include append=console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 in my lilo.conf EVERYTHING that one would expect gets output to the

Re: minicom crashes after upgrade

1999-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gopal Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded one of our machines to slink from hamm. The upgrade went well. But after the upgrade I keep getting segmentation violations when I run minicom. We use minicom to talk to another local machine through the serial

Re: Writing CRON job to null.

1999-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nidge Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When running fetchmail from CRON, how can I write the output to /dev/null to save the CRON job spamming me with mail. I have tried adding /dev/null to the end of the cron line, all to no avail. Try command /dev/null

Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. That should work. The guy who wrote the serial console kernel stuff, also wrote

Re: Pine 4.1

1999-04-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marlon Urias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure you've installed the 'ncurses3.4-dev' package, which will give you the appropriate headers and (static, I think) libraries. No, for Debian 2.1 that's libncurses4-dev Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to generate the NIS maps. Ah yes, a possibility is to include the password in /etc/password, and then filter that out again for shadow-capable hosts

Re: NIS documentation (nis 3.3.1-1)

1999-04-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prashanth Mundkur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded my lab machine today to slink. The NIS docu suggests ---[/usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz] 2. HOW TO SPECIFY WHAT RESOURCES TO USE FOR NIS: 2.4.2 For libc6 applications: Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and

Re: Hashed mailspool on procmail and qpopper

1999-04-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have managed to get procmail to use _only_ the hashed mailspool, but haven't been able to get qpopper to compile (missing a mailock.h file as referenced in pop_dropcopy.c). To compile qpopper you need to install

Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

1999-04-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked (and hope to be corrected) but I couldn't find _ANY_ reference to requiring the -lm option to enable math functions. Try KR Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Re: utmp wierdness

1999-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I attempt to run 'login' from the prompt, I see: 'No utmp entry. You must exec login from the lowest level sh ' Use exec /bin/login instead. This is strange because I vividly remember running login before. What have I done to cause

Re: oddness from getgrnam()

1999-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was testing a program and to see how it handled an invalid group I did: gr = getgrnam(bob); Now obviously this failed. However the string from perror() states: Could not find file or directory The manual page for getgrnam(2)

Re: How ro set cmos clock to system time

1999-04-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it may be a bad idea (and most likely unnecessary) to update the CMOS clock every 11 minutes. These things have a finite write life (or used to, anyway). The slink /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script will copy the system

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After my initial posting in this thread I must say that Debian, and maybe Linux in general, has a complicated, not very user friendly, way of handling loading of drivers and programs at boot. Both DOS/Windows and OS/2 handles

Re: WTF is the difference between SysV and BSD was:[Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?]

1999-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: Well, Linux is not BSD or SvsV but the GNU commands (ps, df, and the like) take, for the most part, Berkeleyesque command options. POSIX mostly. $ ps -ef UIDPID PPID C STIME

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in the absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two startup file layout standards haven't been designed to be intermixed,

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It will probably be abstracted and have

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It will probably be abstracted and have

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote: Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear. How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be loaded before any disks are mounted)? /etc/rc.boot and

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? NO /etc/rc.boot and rc.local are totally different things. If you do not know what you

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What RH package there is which has no Debian equivalent? 2. Why should Debian be RH-compatible? If someone switches to Debian from RH s/he should be prepared that some (re)adaptation will be necessary. The guys from the

Re: Debian and Kernel Releases

1999-03-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: If you follow the kernel mailing list you'll see that even the current 2.2.3 kernel still has quirks. On some machines here I can't even run it, the NFS server keeps dying

Instalacion de XBF

1999-03-21 Thread Miquel
Hola a todos: Recientemente, he instalado la versión Debian 2.01 Hamm y me he encontrado con el problema de que no puedo configurar correctamente la XFree porque tengo la APAC Intel 740A. He leido todos los mensajes referentes a este tema sobre configuración del server, etc. En un FTP he

Re: Debian and Kernel Releases

1999-03-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tommy Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release, and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel 2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is between debian

Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent

1999-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 9 Mar, ragOO wrote about Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent Person, Roderick wrote: I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. The Debian equivalent of rc.local is rc.boot As George said

Kernel 2.2.1: últimos pasos de instalación

1999-03-07 Thread Miquel Escarrà
. Pido ayuda para que alguien me indique cuáles son los últimos pasos, teniendo el kernel compilado con make bzImage para poner el sistema a punto y además tener el arranque dual estable. Saludos y gracias Miquel Escarrà

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: : As root, I typed the following: : : chsh /bin/usr/tcsh when I meant chsh /usr/bin/tcsh. : : I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not :

instalación del wine

1999-02-18 Thread Miquel Escarrà
correctamente, o reinstalar sin que conlleve problemas Saludos Miquel

instalación del wine

1999-02-17 Thread Miquel Escarrà
correctamente, o reinstalar sin que conlleve problemas Saludos Miquel

Re: sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its me quoting myself. I've had a look at sulogin.c and discovered that the max. pass-string-length is about 15 characters. Is there anyone to patch that ? (I guess MD5 allows max. 127 characters) so the only thing to do

Re: where is rc.local

1999-02-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last thing /etc/init.d/rcS does is look for a file called /sbin/setup.sh and if it exists, it runs it. I put all my local stuff here. Ugh .. that's quite wrong. That hook is there only for the initial installation

Re: how do I use UID setting?

1999-02-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I execute this program after su nobody the copy reports it doesn't have the permissions to do the create side of the copy built in. Here's the listing: 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp Here's the

Re: perl script

1999-02-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [about CRLF at the end of a line] vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't. vim -b file :%!col -b Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Re: NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)

1999-02-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is : Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd... You don't need a

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Diego Delgado Lages [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat file-name | wc -l I always wonder why people insist on doing cat file | otherprogram instead of just otherprogram file Which is exactly the same, but saves processing time. Even DOS people do

Re: ATX autopowerup [was: [whine] Power down. vs System halted.]

1999-02-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], trio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else run into this related problem? Basically i want to run server machines. That means i have them on a UPS. But there are times when the power is off even longer than the UPS

Re: Problem installing minicom

1999-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michelle Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O.K..I can't seem to connect to my ISP, so everyone's telling me to use minicom. Fine. So I downloaded minicom*.deb DIRECTLY on floppy (Was I supposed to rawrite it?)..O.K so I specified 'floppy' as the access method in

Re: Debian GNU/Linux a TCP Workhorse?

1999-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to find references to examples of Debian GNU/Linux systems handling heavy Internet or other network traffic. Can any of you give me any URLs or anecdotes? How many simultaneous accesses have your servers

Re: qpopper quota

1999-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Ol=EDmpio_de_Menezes?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Debian box as a pop3 server for some users at the Dept. The server has one scsi disk, with three main partitions (/ /home /other). This is a poor design, but was done some years

Re: qpopper quota

1999-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: 3. Is there some other pop server that behaves different? No, unless you move to maildir format, which isn't supported by most of the debian mailers and none of the pop servers. None

Re: Enmascaramiento del dominio y sendmail¿¿?¿?

1999-01-17 Thread miquel
tampoco sé cómo solucionarlo. Javier ¿lo has resuelto? Gracias Miquel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysvinit: rc vs. r2d2 bahavior

1999-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Rosenfeld wrote: Another question about runlevels: Is there any chance to preserve locally preserved changes? For example I changed the links (in reality I use runlevel.conf instead but this doesn't matter) to

Re: libodbc PostGres SQL

1999-01-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jose Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm using the Postgres SQL database under Debian, and would like to convert my machine in a Database server. I would like to serve other machines which run under Win9x . One solution for this is via odbc. However,

Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?

1999-01-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, folks The subject says it all. Depends on the script language. With plain shell scripts I use sh -x script to debug. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Re: Suck/INN Configuration Problem: Can't Post

1999-01-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get inn to stop putting references to every article it receives from suck (via innxmit) in /var/spool/news/out.going so that rpost won't try to post it back to my ISP? You need to put the Path: header element of your

Re: NIS and /etc/hosts

1998-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I get the most bizarre problem with NIS. If I put ypserver 192.168.1.2 in /etc/yp.conf everything works just fine. If I put ypserver mynishost in there, I get lots of YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound errors. Sounds

Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very

Impresora conectada a través de unidad zip

1998-12-21 Thread Miquel Escarrà
¿Alguien sabe si me va a dar problemas una impresora que esta conectada al puerto a través de la unidad zip? Es el paso siguiente para ir entendiendo cómo funciona linux. Vicios de Windows. Saludos Miquel Escarrà

Re: Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a crash course on Linux drivers. I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't allow direct access to audio tracks. Well, it does. I've created my own audio CDs under Linux. You just need the right

Re: Serial consoles

1998-12-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shane Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a vt100 terminal. Someone replied suggesting I replace the linux image provided with a

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I put these lines echo \n fortune -a echo in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the newlines instead of the contents of a file: sos:~ less ei The two party system ... is a triumph

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft

Re: shutdown -r instead of reboot? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Besides, it is good practice to use shutdown -r now instead of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls the command shutdown -r now

Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0

1998-12-08 Thread miquel
Ramiro Alba Queipo ha escrit: miquel wrote: ¿alguien ha instalado la versión de KDE 1.0 que distribuye este mes Linux Actual (en el CD de debian contrib)? Resulta que en algunos menús falta el archivo con el icono, y en su lugar sale un cuadro negro. En concreto en las ventanas de

Re: upgrading libc6

1998-12-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to upgrade libc6 from 2.0.7t to 2.0.7u to use apt and wine. But when I type: dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb , it prompts libc6 conflicts with sysvinit ( 2.75) sysvinit (version 2.72-3) is installed. dpkg: error processing

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. That's not completely true. Debian has an /etc/rcS.d/ which is a general equivalent to rc.local. No, it is something COMPLETELY

Re: Debian Linux 2: shutdown unmounts unclean!

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastian Canagaratna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I recently upgraded to Debian Linux 2: the upgrade at home went smoothly, but I had a problem at office. I seem to be solving most problems, but this one I do not understand: When I shutdown with shutdown -h

Re: yp libs?

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daryl Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks, i am trying to find a yp library (for linux) to link against. specifically i am looking for the following functions: yp_get_default_domain yperr_string yp_match any ideas, tips, faqs, rtfms (with a pointer to the fm)

problemas con aliases

1998-11-22 Thread miquel
news, o pra que lo haga rapido? 2) alguien sabe si existe alguna lista de correo, grupo de news o web que trate sobre la catalanizacion de linux? gracias y hasta pronto miquel

Re: Daemon rpc.nfsd dies / GLIBC bug

1998-11-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a known problem -- the problem has to do with a bug in the glibc code, and not rpc.nfsd. You have two options to avoid this bug. The first is to use the old rpc.nfsd from the bo distribution, which uses libc5 instead.

Re: Help on qpopper

1998-11-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wilson Tuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of my network with just a single posting. Read the docs in /usr/doc/qpopper/ Mike. -- ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,

Re: libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb safe on hamm?

1998-10-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting errors with MH mail. Mail is sent, but bounces back with DNS errors likes: Oct 29 11:14:43 mixing sendmail[1752]: LAA01744: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1000/1000), delay=00:00:04,

Re: exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork - reboot

1998-10-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hannu Koivisto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new processes can't have been started. vfork: resource temporarily unavailable is what my shell (zsh)

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can turn off the portmapper vi /etc/init.d/xinetd stop or /etc/init.d/inetd stop. This however is not recommend because any requests comming in on ports will not be serviced. Note. portmaps are used to save system

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Peter Iannarelli: I am sure you are right. I'm running xinetd for the added security. When I read my /etc/init.d/xinetd -- stop) It shuts down the portmapper. start) starts up the portmapper. It is true that it does not have to be run however, and correct me if I'm wrong it

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the local drive is read-only and the writable stuff is on a server. They must have a haul-ass network since netscape uses the cache extensively. With lots of people browsing

Re: NIS

1998-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using NIS with hamm? I'm trying to set it to work against a Solaris NIS server and it doesn't work. I've got everything up to the point that ypcat passwd indeed cats all the passwd file from the NIS server (with the

Re: dhcp and/or nis questions?

1998-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nis specific problems: When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info, but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I guess the file doesn't need to change, but the value returned by (nis)domainname isn't

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're using Debian workstations in our labs, and as expected they rarely get shut down properly, many times they are just reset or switched off, either due to ignorance or not caring. Wire the reset button through the keylock

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Touloumtzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time: most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If this file exists,

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

1998-10-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Nemec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I couldn't find any documentation about using a proxy as a client within the docs coming with debian. Is using a proxy a thing that can only b done by the individual programs? It would be a great thing, not to have to

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. In general, you cannot guarantee pauses in a multitasking system like Unix or Linux. Pauses can be set in microseconds using usleep(), but not in

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I clean up the boot process of these old first install modules..that arnt needed anymore and my present kernel handles fine ? edit /etc/modules Mike. -- Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will? --

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Spiegl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. (side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) Well, after the reboot

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains: #!/bin/sh ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0 and then in /etc/rcS.d/ I made a symlink to that script called: S60wmnetstartup

Re: DATING SERIOUS ASIAN GIRLS

1998-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.floor-kramer.nl Only for SERIOUS Dating. Sorry for this, as a service to our customers (and a convienience to the debian developers at cistron) we have local *only* newsgroups for several mailing lists. Unfortunately one of our

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? cat will do this after changing the console font to a font that will properly display all of the extended ASCII

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's a kernel

Re: [CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?

1998-09-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horacio M.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I make a key combo work? # What to do when CTRL-ALT-END is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltend:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now which was just a guess, and obviously didn't work. I suppose I should first of all configure

Re: NIS groups HOWTO?

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put netgroups: nis on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,) in hamm's /etc/netgroups That's wrong. The syntax is

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the Debianized one. well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the kernel to work (e.g. : /boot/SystemMap) That's nonsense. I have never used

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support for the ext2

Re: How to get a screenshot?

1998-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually to convert it to a .gif file. I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything

Re: yp and nfs not registered?

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I got nfs mounting to work, but the yp stuff still doesn't work. I just make hosts.allow = all and hosts.deny = blank. What do I have to do to add NIS to portmapper? Read /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz It might have to do with the

Re: Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the newer kernels? Yes, I have ;) You mean the 2.1.x kernels I presume? I'll talk about that. BTW, there is a backport of the 2.1.x serial console stuff to 2.0.x at

Re: A question on runlevels

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Tremblett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debian 2.0

Re: Installation troubles

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large root

Re: yp and nfs not registered?

1998-09-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain about the program not being registered. here's what happens when I try to mount nfs: mount: RPC: Program not registered Either the portmapper is not running, or your

Re: 2.1 kernel

1998-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I saw Linus make a comment to someone that That feature is going to have to wait for 3.1, this kernel is frozen with regard to new features or something along those lines. If the next devel kernel is 3.1 then I assumed

Re: Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all Win95/98/NT

Re: debian 2.0 stable?

1998-09-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too often with debian 2.0 I think they have a library problem, or a ld.so problem. Don't know what causes this though. Is debian 2.0 stable or

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