Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache

2001-01-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:09:57PM -0600, ktb wrote: I've been searching for a while in the Apache documentation. I have heard it is possible to have a working setup where you have one ip and two domain names. Do I use aliasing with Apache to do this on the server side or what? The examples

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:58:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is really wrong. So now

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:39:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You contradict yourself - if you were tracking woody you were tracking unstable. Since you were tracking unstable before I don't see why it's such a big deal to track it now ... Maybe it's not worth a discussion, but when

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:50:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You wouldn't have these problems if you would ignore the damn code names and track the appropriate distribution. If you want to track unstable point to unstable, not woody. _Don't_ _use_ _code_ _names_. But I did not

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:07:45PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jason Mogavero wrote: If you use ssh to administer the machines that need to transfer files, you can use scp, which is an encrypted file transfer method using the ssh daemon. If you're transferring files

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:12:30PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: I'm trying to make sense of this thread, but I guess I'm too dense: exactly when would this boot logo show up? 1) post LILO but pre kernel load? 2) post kernel load but pre init? 3) Is it used as a background picture

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:15:53AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: Active Internet connections (servers and established) *:printer This is lpd. You only need this if your mascine has a printer atteched to it AND accepts print jobs from

Re: pump, dhcp question

2001-01-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:04:41PM -0600, Bill Bell wrote: Hello all, I have a box which is using mostly woody and I have a quesiton about using pump as a DHCP client. Documentation for pump is scarce, perhaps because functionality is limited. How do I run a script each time pump

Re: remote x via ssh question

2001-01-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:22:31AM -0500, D-Man wrote: This thread has invoked some curiosity in me. If I use ssh to forward X connections, does that mean I can use X through an IP masquerading router? Yup, if the box you're sitting at is inside the firewall. It's a bit trickier the other

Re: Tracking down IP's

2001-01-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:09:20AM -0600, will trillich wrote: i've got something quite similar to this, but mine's on INPUT-- Jan 2 01:18:48 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 172.156.51.114:10 224.0.0.2:0 L=28 S=0x00 I=8964 F=0x T=128 (#9) Jan 2 01:18:51 server

Re: sharing internet between WINDOZE and LINUX

2001-01-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:19:38PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, My family's crappy windows computer has this beautiful DSL connection, which I have lusted after for many months. Anyway, I can't steal the modem or anything, so I was wondering, is their a way to share a window's

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:16:59PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 xx.xx.xxx.xx:61662 172.16.72.113:161 L=106 S=0x00 I=7632 F=0x T=127 (#43) I don't know

Re: Xwoes continue: tried to apt-get install xserver-common, but...

2000-12-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 07:06:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: You've tried to configure your server first with, say, XF86Setup (for XFree86 v3, not sure for v4)? That would be dexter. XFree86 4.0 has run fairly well here FWIW (yes, I know it's anecdotal) Cheers, -- Nathan Norman -

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:13PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration I'm somewhat leery of removing the offending line, as it seems to be a security fix for cross-site

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:35:50PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:57:27PM -0800 or thereabouts, Nate Amsden wrote: [ 21 lines deleted ] not to discourage youb ut its pretty well known chroot() is not an ultimate solution for security, it has been in the past rather

Re: [OT] Hardware recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: Hi all I should buy a new SCSI harddisk. In the box where it should be used, there is an ultrawide Adaptec controller. Are there any disk which are recommendend, the size should be around 15 -20 gigabyte, the price doesn't play

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:02:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Norman, The name's Nathan ... I realize it's a difficult name to parse. As an unbiased observer I will comment on your comment concerning the quote/content ratio of the other poster. You have your preferences.

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:30:07PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: I think it would be wise (and more debian like:) to explain how to compile the kernel as *non* root using fakeroot. Furthermore I seem to recall discussions on

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:05:30PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: I think there's confusion between making links in /usr/include and links in /usr/src. The first is bad [0], the second is (afaik) not. Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include, AFAIK, is not

Re: 'testing' dep conflicts

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: Hello I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago. Two questions: 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? $ apt-get update apt-get upgrade [ snip ] The following packages have been kept back

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:40:23PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: In /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz: ...unpack your kernel somewhere. Preferably somewhere other than /usr/src/linux... Unpacking implies a directory, which is not the same as a symlink. Don't worry about this.

Re: can't install Netscape

2000-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:02:43PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: I read somewhere that if I put the Netscape gz file in /tmp then dselect will figure out to install it. That doesn't do it. I'm trying to install 4.75. What's the procedure? apt-get install netscape-browser-475 Related question,

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:36:08PM +0200, Stefaans Mostert wrote: But the mbr IS overritten and the floppy gone! can't get in! What now Does the new mbr at least allow you to boot to windows? If so, do that and head on over to http.us.debian.org. Grab rescue.bin and rawrite2.exe. Use

Weird Gnome problem, wm acts non-compliant when non-root

2000-12-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi, Running woody with Helix Gnome packages. I use gdm as my display manager, gnome-session as my session manager, and sawfish as my window manager. For the past week or two I've had this weird problem: if I log in as a normal (non-root) user, the window manager acts non-gnome compliant - the

Re: crontab

2000-12-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:16:18PM -, Ari Sigurðsson wrote: how do I get crontab -e to use my favorite editor? Set the environment variable EDITOR to your favorite editor, e.g. EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi or EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs (If you're using csh do five hail marys and alter the above

Re: Weird Gnome problem, wm acts non-compliant when non-root

2000-12-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:52:56PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: Keep in mind that the Helix packages aren't part of Debian. Unstable seems to have had pretty current GNOME packages for a while now. Yeah, it was with some trepidation that I went with Helix in the first place. All in all I've

Re: playing sounds from command line

2000-12-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:37:17PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Stupid Question: I'm used to other distros having a 'play' command to play sounds from the command line. Does Debian have a similar tool, or am I just missing the package with the play command? I believe sox has a play command.

Re: exim outgoing addresses...

2000-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:36:59AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I have my system setup as a satellite, which forwards all email to a sh\marthost, who delivers it. But when it arrives, I'd like the addresses to show where they came from, e.g. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of

Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:18:27AM -0500, D-Man wrote: For one thing, the user's home directory must be excecutable (otherwise apache can't cd to it). Also, apache must be configured to know which directory in $HOME is the magic one. I believe that public_html is the default. Also,

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:56:54PM -0800, Henry House wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:07:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lsmod gave bash: lsmod: command not found 1. You must be root to run lsmod I don't think so. You do need to have /sbin in your path or call out /sbin/lsmod

Re: Can't see 192MB of memory

2000-12-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:56:04PM -0600, Pradhan, Ravi wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.2. I just upgraded from 64MB to 192MB, and added the line append=mem=192M to lilo.conf. However, Linux continues to see only 64M (checking with top). What else do I need to do? Did you actually

Re: Finding and installing lp.o from 2.2.15

2000-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 02:28:39AM -0600, Gordon Pedersen wrote: (Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to debian-users. Thanks.) What are my options? If I were you I'd install the kernel 2.2.18 source, the kernel-package package, and build a kernel. yes. it's a bit daunting the

Re: dhcpd problem

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:44:00AM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: hi, i have a problem with the dhcpd: nt clients get a correct ip address, the name servers, the subnet mask and everything but the default gateway my dhcpd.conf as follows: opition domain-name office.factline.com; option

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:27:55AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. Debian keeps the zone files under /var/cache/bind I believe this is where zone files retrieved

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:13:26PM -0500, David Teague wrote: I am not a networking authority, so I asked a colleague (Mark Holliday) who is. He says http is optimized for relatively small files, mainly web pages, which are not terribly large, (what? 2 or 3 K?) whereas ftp was designed to be

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:37:40PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load aic7xxx. I try from the boot prompt and then also from a prompt from within the install, but it says that it can't

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 06:15:07PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: On Thu, Dec 7, 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:37:40PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load

Re: modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:30:06AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: this relates to a problem i've been having as well - do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x

Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: Hi! Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with nvidia... If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. To

Re: Wanna run potato X 4.0.1?

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:55:15PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: It seems that Branden, Debian's X maintainer, may be considering uploading XFree 4.0.1 packages compiled for potato to his homepage (http://people.debian.org/~branden/), in a handy apt-get'able format. No,

Re: One more question

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:43:55PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: Jim Lynch wrote: What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. is that abnormal? i dont have /usr/tmp either ..doesn't seem to cause a problem. It'd be abnormal if you had it as it violates FSSTND/FHS

Re: exim doesn't deliver

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:49:16PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in

Re: 3Com network card

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:11:19AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:12:32AM -, Robert Feri wrote: I've heard somwhere that you must firstly disable pp mode under DOS and then try to install it under linux. No, not in DOS. The setting you are talking about is

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:53:01PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: Nope. We have to use some C or C++ system/function call. Our programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being available. I doubt there is such a system call

modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: this relates to a problem i've been having as well - do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x module (if any)? i have a 3CSOHO100-TX card. modinfo -p 3c59x -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today

Re: kernel-module confusion

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:29:01PM +, maart wrote: Hai all. This is my first ever post to a newsgroup, so please forgive me if I do/say something weird... I use potato, and have been trying the 2.4test-kernels for a couple of weeks. I have trouble using modules that I compile with

Re: Routing question

2000-12-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:55:58PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Hi all. I have a subnet with real IPs and I want configure a firewall with two interfaces, the first one (eth0) connected to the router ant the other (eth1) connected to the hub. Two interfaces have the same subnetmask.

long fsck [was Re: Apt should be called inapt (rhymes with inept)]

2000-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
with the original topic anyway? -- Nathan E Norman Eschew Obfuscation email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net/~nnorman pgpNAqdj25brH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: inetd in netbase package

2000-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
an upgrade. HTH, -- Nathan E Norman Eschew Obfuscation email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net/~nnorman pgpKRyivs0lXJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pronounce

2000-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
it is help :) -- Nathan E Norman Eschew Obfuscation email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net/~nnorman pgp8sUa1CV0OA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
in the event of partial corruption is crap. It just needs good design. [ nice quoting. lotus notes sucks big time ] You only need a shell to edit a text file. You also only need to read and understand pseudo-english. -- Nathan E Norman Eschew Obfuscation email:[EMAIL

Re: auto power off

2000-08-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
and is well documented. For the RTFM impaired, here's a _brief_ synopsis: a) make menuconfig b) make-kpkg clean c) make-kpkg --revision=custom.2.2.17-0 kernel_image 3) Make sure you enable APM support, and enable the power off at shutdown option. HTH, -- Nathan E Norman

Re: auto power off

2000-08-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:40:50AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:20:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: 3) Make sure you enable APM support, and enable the power off at shutdown option. The option is calld something like Use real APM mode ... and I have seen

Re: block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
to the net. However, there are two ways to do it that I can think of: 1) RTFM ipchains (for 2.2.x kernels) or iptables 2) Look through /proc/sys/net/ipv4 and learn about sysctl. Deliberately vague, -- Nathan E Norman Eschew Obfuscation email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:01:03AM -0700, Mike wrote: I do have the PARANOID option set but I also have the ip address of the local machine in hosts.allow. Shouldn't the hosts.allow entry negate the PARANOID option for the specified ip addresses? Also, the service does start eventually,

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Mike wrote: Try disabling IDENT in the FTP daemon and see what happens ... the -I option does this for wu-ftpd. Assuming this works, what are the ramifications of disabling IDENT? If something's wrong with my resolving setup, I'd like to fix it.

Re: Please Help: Configuring a Debian station for work with DHCP

2000-08-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:17PM +0300, Aviv Gurwitz wrote: Hello, I am part of a system administration team. We have recently moved our network to a DHCP-based configuration. One of our clients is using Debian 2.1 and I would like to know what changes I need to make on his computer in

Re: (3Com) Ethernet card 100Base-only capable?

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:18:18AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Now, this 3Com card sitting in this box I got given from a friend. From what dmesg says it looks like it's a 100Base-only card ...? (It certainly hasn't a BNC plug on it) There isn't any LED lighting up on either the card or

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the Hrad Disk Upgrade Mini How-To claim about this or very similar one that Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use tar to copy the

Re: Dual-Boot Win2K Debian

2000-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:29:11PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: The question I have is, how to properly dual-boot Win2K and Linux? Does 2K act more like 95/98 which is easy to dual-boot from LILO, or is it more like NT in which you edited the boot.ini file and could boot Linux from the NT

Re: Passwords longer than 8 chars

2000-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:48:04AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 07:05:36PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I want to setup a Debian server and abilitate passwords wih more than 8 chars. Where I have to setup this? Potato asks you during

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:06:42PM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this concern for providers. I wish we used it. Tell

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents PPP from doing the same thing? Dialup is point-to-point, hence the natural application

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:56:35AM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: ... Apparently some of their initial customers were setting up home networks and not masking the machines behind a router(of whatever sort) and so their machines were each grabbing an IP address. This was quickly eating up their

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:03:57PM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: Also, as you mentioned, kernel 2.4 is out now, however many known problems it has, it is out. 2.2 has known problems as well, it just has less of them. However, 2.2 in some incarnations has proven useful and stable. The evidence

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:09:28PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: If I am right, then to keep users, you should try to update kernels in minor releases. The kernel is upgraded in point releases when justified (an exploit for example). However, there's no way Debian can release a new major kernel

Re: Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian.

2000-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:21:46AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: Hey all. I'm picking up a new computer tomorrow, that will be a fileserver on my home network. One of the things I need it to do is share files/printer with Windows (samba) and Macs (netatalk+asun). I've setup and run both of

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: I'm still very much getting used to Debian, however, and the long time between releases is stopping my Dad from switching, since he wants to switch to the most updated release possible if he switches, but even Potato's just

Re: ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

2000-07-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:03:11AM -0200, John Leuner wrote: Then I tried to extract a tar.gz file from an NFS mount onto my (reiser) home partition. Worked fine, but when I tried to build the application (dosemu-1.0.1) the configure script got stuck and filled up the entire 2.5 gig partition.

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:31:05AM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: Yah. I have an RTL8139 based card as well. I think the problem is in linux, not the card, as I have them also in several other systems (running Windows95 and Windows2000) and they work great there. No, it's the card. Reading the

Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-07-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:03:21AM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:08:02AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: Q: what's the 224.0.0.0 ip/netmask for? That's for multicast. I don't know much about multicast, maybe someone else can help there. According to Stevens TCP/IP

Re: Compressed mailboxes with mutt

2000-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 08:25:02PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all, Anyone using compressed folders with mutt? My mailboxes are getting out of hand. I have a couple that are fast approaching the 10 meg point. I read a thread on comp.mail.mutt that says one can utilize compressed folders

Re: Loopback in interfaces Wrongly Commented on Upgrade

2000-07-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:27:16AM -0400, Jameson Burt wrote: As I upgraded from slink to potato, I believe an interactive comment mentioned that 2.2.* kernels (I run kernel 2.2.16) need no explicit loopback. Because of my selection, the upgrade script produced a file

Re: PS2 mouse and gpm

2000-07-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:02:07AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: Ethan Pierce wrote: There was some talk on the list earlier today about removing gpm to get better results with the paste feature. I plan to try this later when I get home from workbut does anyone know if taking out gpm

Re: xfree86 4.01

2000-07-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:26:12PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: The deb packages for xfree4 dont seem to be out yet...will it happen do you guys think? This is becoming a FAQ. Unfortunately, I don't know where the answer is. Somebody will

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:59:13AM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: First: The 10.x.x.x network range is, due to standard ip ranges, class A. You have used a subnet mask to divide it into 2^16 sub-ip-ranges, using four of them. So a simple solution might be (i've not actually done this) to

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 02:33:58PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: Don't networking configuration tools default to using the Classes for computing netmasks, unless they are specified? ... and Ciscos default to using stupid proprietary protocols when you set up a circuit. How are stupid defaults

Re: IMP issue

2000-07-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:05:14PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf look like? Is it only using DNS for host name resolution? If so, 1) insert files before dns, or 2) is there any internal nameserver for your LAN? One that'll

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:39:20AM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in

Re: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:03:43PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: There is an option for Compaq Smart Array support when compiling kernels, so you may need to compile a kernel with this support

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything was going fine, until I got a dependency error that

Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:02:34PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I created a boot floppy during my kernel upgrade, but I would like to create another copy-backup in case a problem occurs with my only boot floppy. I am not sure how to do it, I read that: 5.5.4.1 Writing Disk

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:56:11AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I am a little confused about how the external services thing works. Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your computer. I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line: login stream tcp

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)

2000-07-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:53:30PM +0300, virtanen wrote: 2) dmesg: wd.c. presently autoprobing (etc) eth0: WD80x3 at 0x200, 00 00 CO AO 6C 66 WD8013, IRQ7, Shared memory at 0xc800 0-0xcbfff (In my opinion) this means that the card is working anyway? Yup, the card is there. That's

Re: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:27:00AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote: I have a new Compaq ProLiant ML350 server. It has a Compaq Smart Array 431 Raid Controller. It also has a NC3123 Fast Ethernet NIC PCI 10/100 Wake on LAN card. Is there any hope for installing Debian on this? The default 2.1

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)

2000-07-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:49:58PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an ethercard as shown on the subject line. Can't get it wortking. Somebody else has got the same or knows, what is the problem. Hard to say since you didn't tell us what the problem is. Please do a

Re: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:03:43PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: There is an option for Compaq Smart Array support when compiling kernels, so you may need to compile a kernel with this support. There seems to be a catch-22 situation here though - you compile a kernel with Smart Array support, but

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:02:17PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: Hello the list: Anybody in this subject category? Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe

Re: Compiling the Kernel.

2000-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:21:40PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: At 14:21 19.06.00, you wrote: Better yet: apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-package make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=local.kernel-version kernel_image dpkg -i

Re: rmagic trouble [better explained]

2000-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:13:19PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: Hi I'm trying to install rmagic from frozen dist. this pkg has dependencies in libgd-graph3d-perl (not avaiable) and libgd-graph-perl (avaiable) but has dependencies on libgd-text-perl (also not avaiable:( So how can I install

Re: Storm vs Slink syslog problem

2000-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:33:24AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: I have an older slink system which was replaced by a new storm system. I copied the /etc/syslog.conf file from slink to storm. My router logs to both IPs. Slink works fine but storm doesn't log any messages. Directory

Re: majordomo gone?

2000-06-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! It seems that the majordomo-package is no more on the mirrors, neither in the stable/unstable/frozen hierarchies...it gets listed if you do a search via www.debian.org, though. Majordomo had a security gig, and due to its

Re: is the potato apache built using dso?

2000-06-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:06:17PM -0500, John F. Davis wrote: Hello I am interested in testing jserv. The installation instructions say you do not need to rebuild apache if it was built with DSO support. Is the potato apache deb built using DSO? How can I tell if it supports DSO? It

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:10PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi all, Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords? One from the key and one from the login? Currently, I only need to enter the login

[OT] Stupid sendmail question

2000-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've got one box running sendmail to support some legacy configs. Several clients connect to this server but travel through a PIX firewall to get there. It seems that the PIX gets pissy about allowing ident requests from the sendmail server abck to the client. I'm trying to determine whether

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Nathan, and what about a mirror config file to mirror this. Can you (or other) send it for me? I use rsync. However, I don't have a 386 only rsync config handy ... sorry. Perhaps someone

Re: /var/log/syslog entries

2000-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:57:32AM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: Hello, I'm getting TONS of this: Jun 12 06:36:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56673 F=0x T=64 (#5) Jun 12 06:39:03 doma kernel: Packet log:

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:05:04AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:08:59PM -0400, eric a . Farris wrote: i think that'll be the kicker. those of use with (slow|no) connection at home will pay a price, either through long download times, or having to find/burn our own non-free CD. i would hope that, if non-free (and i assume contrib

Re: PPP Server (PPP HOWTO very poor)

2000-06-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:38:17AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I have to setup a PPP Server but the PPP HOWTO is very poor. Only 4 pages for this topic. Anyone knows any doc in the Net explaining better how to do this? Install the mgetty and

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