Solved: Re: Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?

2001-08-29 Thread Art Lemasters
, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:40:08PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for a dialin account login? Do the @ and dots in the domain name need to be escaped somehow? My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus the change

Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?

2001-08-28 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for a dialin account login? Do the @ and dots in the domain name need to be escaped somehow? My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus the change from transmitting whole e-mail addresses instead of only usernames

Solved: Re: Solved: Now X-Windows Problem: Re: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory

2000-11-12 Thread Art Lemasters
and failure to process keyboard input. Please CC any replies to this address. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Alessandro Ghigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am using woody and I am having the same problem. Last Sunday I did an upgrade and got the new XFree 4. Since then quite a few things have been

/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory

2000-11-11 Thread Art Lemasters
that it will upgrade for the time being? Please reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, as I have no e-mail account that will handle the volume of debian-user, yet. Thanks! Art Lemasters __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized

Solved: Now X-Windows Problem: Re: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory

2000-11-11 Thread Art Lemasters
and send this mail. *...can't find any error messages* or anything. This has been happening since last night's upgrade (woody). ...any ideas? Please reply to this address as I am still looking for an outside account that will handle the debian-user volume. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Art Lemasters

Re: Solved: Now X-Windows Problem: Re: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory

2000-11-11 Thread Art Lemasters
I forgot how to list the startup information (errors, etc.) for X-Windows. ...anyone remember how to do this? ...might help with a solution. CC me with the answer, please. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Alessandro Ghigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am using woody and I am having the same

Woody Serious ISP Problem

2000-10-25 Thread art lemasters
four years. Please send replies to this address also, as I am not subscribed to the debian-user list right now. Thanks in advance! Art Lemasters = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish

Re: Printing

2000-06-01 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:54:36PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Is there an app which helps configure your printer for you? I can't remember what its called. Please 'CC' me on a reply. magicfilter might be the one you are looking for. ghostscript is another one you should download and

Re: Printing

2000-06-01 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:02:47PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:54:36PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Is there an app which helps configure your printer for you? I can't remember what its called. Please 'CC' me on a reply. magicfilter might be the one you

HP842C,HP932C,HP952C, Cannon 2100,3000,6000, Epson 740,860,895 Compatibility?

2000-05-31 Thread Art Lemasters
Have any of you successfully used the Hewlett-Packard 842C, 932C, 952C, Cannon 2100,3000,6000, or Epson 740,860,895 printers with Debian Linux, potato? All printers I've seen work with Windows, according to the documentation for them (while none say Windows only, as written in the hardware

lp: driver loaded but no devices found

2000-05-31 Thread Art Lemasters
When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, lp: driver loaded but no devices found If I try to print from mutt, the error message says, jobs queued but cannot start daemon This happens on a potato system. What's the answer? Is it in a config file related to kmod? Art

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

2000-05-31 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:37:57PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:23:56PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, lp: driver loaded but no devices found If I try to print from mutt, the error message says, jobs queued but cannot start

Driver for Lexmark Z11 Printer?

2000-05-30 Thread Art Lemasters
Has anyone written a linux driver for the Lexmark Z11 printer? _Art

Languages Mutt or Console

2000-01-30 Thread Art Lemasters
Languages other than English mail to and show in mutt here just fine, but fonts for such languages are garbled when forwarded by mutt. ...any of you know which packages I should download to forward other language fonts from mutt in a VC (virtual console)? Art

Re: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...

2000-01-29 Thread Art Lemasters
29Jan00, 02:45, Rocky Mountain Range Time I just now did an upgrade through dselect, apt, and chose the default in dselect (libc6). After the reboot, Netscape 4.7 worked fine--even with plugger reinstalled. Netscape accessed other sites well, too, so the 3c905tx driver is working here, too

Re: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...

2000-01-29 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:34:49AM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: It is understandable that the package info for libc6-bin would confuse (where it says replaces libc6), but the default action (libc6) in dselect kept this server run (installation of libc6 and removal of libc6-bin) kept

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-27 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:35:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind enough to tell

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-27 Thread Art Lemasters
I'll do that if no more reasonable solution is found, Bob. It's appearing to me that such is likely. Thank you for the reply and possible best solution. Art On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:31:28AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I never could get the permissions configured correctly on the Debian

Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-26 Thread Art Lemasters
Potato is running here. After trying to subscribe a new user to a list, majordomo told me MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! shlock: '.' is not writable by UID 30 GID 31 -- and of course, the user was not subscribed.

New Potato Netscape Bus Error

2000-01-22 Thread Art Lemasters
Netscape Communicator 4.7 (smotif) was running fine until I upgraded potato (one week since the last upgrade) tonight. Now, Communicator dies with a bus error before it appears. I don't know how to get more error message output for Netscape, because there is no documentation for it in

GIMP Dying with File Saves

1999-12-28 Thread Art Lemasters
The GIMP program is dying here most times when file saves are attempted. I'm running GIMP 1.1 with Potato. Is anyone else having this problem? Art

Re: GIMP Dying - Error Messages

1999-12-28 Thread Art Lemasters
Here's what the .xsession-errors file said. - Message: Passed serialization test gimp: fatal error: file gimpdrawable.c: line 240 (gimp_drawable_gimage): assertion failed: (GIMP_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)) gimp (pid:349): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace

Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Art Lemasters
Composer (an HTML editor) is WYSIWYG, and it comes with Netscape for Linux. Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Is there any HTML WYSIWYG creator for Xwindows under Linux, or something similar? I would like to be able to create web pages w/o needing to

Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Art Lemasters
...correction. That might only come with the whole Communicator package (instead of just Netscape). _Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 07:56:58PM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: Composer (an HTML editor) is WYSIWYG, and it comes

Download Whole Directories from Apache?

1999-12-24 Thread Art Lemasters
I run an Apache Web server. How can I allow someone else to download a whole directory of HTML files from my site with just one command line? Is there a module, existing command, configuration or other Debian Linux program that will facilitate this? I am running Potato here, with kernel

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-24 Thread Art Lemasters
And what are the great points about Opera? Is it distributed under a GPL? Art -- Fathers' Rights Network http://www.hky.com/frn/frnhome.html

Off Topic - Journalist Slams Linux

1999-12-14 Thread Art Lemasters
Dwight Silverman, who writes about high technology for the Houston Chronicle, (Denver Rocky Mountain News, 12-13-99) called Linux the geek fad du jour. He said quite a few negative and inaccurate things about Linux...seems to be on a crusade to increase MS profits at the expense of the

Fwd: FRN Fwd: Linux on RS6000 F40

1999-12-13 Thread Art Lemasters
Someone recently asked this list about whether or not Debian/GNU Linux can be run on the IBM RS6000, but I cannot find the original post. ...from a friend of a friend (below), and thanks to Albert (who is an excellent UNIX systems admin.). Now we know. Art - Forwarded message from

Re: rs6000/7013

1999-12-09 Thread Art Lemasters
Here's an interesting note for you, Albert. James, I'm not sure Albert can answer your question, but he has worked with IBM AIX systems, and if I remember correctly, isn't the rs6000 a system that houses IBM AIX sometimes (and other times, that horrid other proprietary OS...VMS or

Re: Gateway name servers IP addresses

1999-12-08 Thread Art Lemasters
Here they are. Art - From whois gateway.net|mailx -s ns [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Registrant: Gateway 2000, Inc. (GATEWAY16-DOM) [address and other impertinent info ommitted] Domain Name: GATEWAY.NET Record last updated on 04-Nov-1999. Record created on 23-Sep-1997.

Re: Mailing list archives search always fails?

1999-12-08 Thread Art Lemasters
I have not even seen such a search engine. In the meantime, though, you might try searching the archive of your choice page by page. In Netscape you can use edit, then find, and in lynx you can use / (the foreslash, for search), then enter keywords. Art On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:10:35PM

Re: [OT] Re:

1999-12-08 Thread Art Lemasters
Try entering commands on the command line to start these programs. Enter the commands with a -v or -V following each command in order to get verbose error reporting. Maybe someone else on this list can offer perameters that give good error reports in many programs. Then send the

Re: Quick X questions...

1999-12-07 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Carmine Lucarelli wrote: Hi all. Couple of questions regarding XWindows in Debian. I installed and configured xfree86 on my system, and now it boots directly into xwindows instead of the console. What file can I modify so I boot into consoles and

Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???

1999-12-07 Thread Art Lemasters
Are there any drivers for the ASUS P5A-B in the kernel 2.2.12 (or elsewhere?)? The mainboard has the ALi 1542 AGPset and ALi 1543C chips on it. I did notice older chip numbers in the kernel config but was afraid to try those. BTW, I'm running an AMD K6 2/450 CPU on the board. I'm

Re: Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???

1999-12-07 Thread Art Lemasters
Here are the relevant (and not so relevant but interesting) lines from a dmesg run, 'phro (and thanks for the reply). If there are any other relevant lines or files, I'll spew those, too. During the kernel config process, I found no driver clearly defined for this chipset (not ALi 15xx, but

Re: What do I REALLY need for Potato upgrade?

1999-11-11 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 11:29:54PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get a relatively solid Potato build? Download all of the base packages for

Re: don't make it a black box please

1999-11-11 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Fethi Okyar wrote: [...] Will anybody hear this outcry out there? The reason I moved to Debian is cause I was thinking I would get more control as to what I would be installing on my machine and all the other configuration issues. I don't want

What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux? I searched /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf but did not find any icmp port. Art

Re: What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:22:28PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux? It doesn't. Ping uses ICMP, which does not have ports. Thanks, William. I've learned. But I am trying to ping

Re: What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:57:37PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: If you are using single address NAT, it should just work. If you are using multi-address NAT, it will probably never work. Can you ping out from the Linux system to the rest of the world? Yes, I can ping out to the rest

Re: What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:57:37PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: If you are using single address NAT, it should just work. If you are using multi-address NAT, it will probably never work. Can you ping out from the Linux system to the rest of the world? Maybe the command syntax for the

Re: What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 09:10:09PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: Just a question... why are you trying to do this? You can ping out so obviously you have connectivity. I want to make sure that the nameserver is answering remote servers on this hostname and IP. Sendmail is not recieving

Thank You All! Re: What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
Thanks to you all for the tips on ping (ICMP)! I don't understand it well enough but will be reading more about it. The problem here was solved (turned out to be a bind misconfig. that was not a syntactic error, thus hard to find with all the bind differences in doc. examples out there).

Re: slink--potato (or apt-get rules!)

1999-11-10 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:59:47AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I used apt via dselect, too, and the upgrades have been smooth since slink with very few forced overwrites. IMO, the move from hamm to slink was much more difficult. Art Last night I decided I'd attempt to upgrade a

LINUX-GENERAL: How the Corporations See Linux

1999-11-09 Thread Art Lemasters
This is a bit off-topic but the sort of news that appears on the list from time to time. It's about an article in Computer Edge, a free weekly that's distributed in various offices of computer and network related corporations around Denver, Colorado, US. It is also dropped at newsstands

Re: LINUX-GENERAL: How the Corporations See Linux

1999-11-09 Thread Art Lemasters
BTW, I was referring to the Nov. 1 issue of the magazine. What bugged me the most was the author's declaration that Linux is ...more likely to be on someone's mind than on someone's server. The magazine is also distributed in San Diego. Art On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:07:28AM -0700, Art

Re: I worked it out :)

1999-11-09 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 06:40:08PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: [...] Is there anyway to specify that a log file is to be a daily-rotated one rather than a weekly-rotated one? [...] See man logrotate and /etc/logrotate.conf Use the directive, daily. Art

Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net alsomy.otherdomain.net) so that this machine accepts traffic on my.domain.net while appearing to be alsomy.otherdomain.net to anyone who accesses it via the webserver or

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:09:32PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would be preferred over the other. The

IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I use one IP address and one domain name to exchange all kinds of server traffic for another domain name? IP-1stDomainname--2ndDomainname In other words, I have one IP address delegated to a domain (e.g., hidden.static.domain.name.net). I want all traffic (on the same

Re: IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Art Lemasters
. Art On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:45:57AM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: How can I use one IP address and one domain name to exchange all kinds of server traffic for another domain name? IP-1stDomainname--2ndDomainname In other words, I have one IP address delegated

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:11:59PM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: Is anyone else having conflict problems with enlightenment? Yes...and most likely the same problem. I am running potato and am upgrading with apt in dselect. To remedy the situation here, I have been selecting the desired

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:24:21PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: nope. i think the new version of e includes BrushedMetal theme as default, as well as dox and stuff. that's why they're conflicting packaged. I spoke too soon. :-) After upgrading again, the e-packages work as you

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Art Lemasters
Yes. Either the Debian listserver has a problem (although I've received posts from it...very few posts over the past day, though), or the rootservers are being reconfigured, or many users are having DNS problems, or there are telephone service line problems somewhere,... I'm running

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 06:25:54PM -0500, David Punsalan wrote: The installation program that comes with the debian base disks shows that 3c59X is for the 3c509 ...so I guess it's okay to use the driver for 3c59x. Those darned model numbers are confusing, aren't they? ;-) I'm running the

Re: Will 2.2.13 be packaged for potato ?

1999-10-28 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:25:07AM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Will 2.2.13 be part of potato ? I think so. The 2.2.13 sources are in the archive now. Guess the image will soon follow. You were right. It has arrived.

dhcpcd, 2.2.12 Configs for It

1999-10-28 Thread Art Lemasters
The only way I've gotten dhcpcd to work with the Cisco 675 here is to do (after the long wait for booting) dhcpcd -r -R with the dhcpcd -r being the key difference from the documentation statement about it working with 2.2.x kernels? Maybe someone can help with further understanding of this.

Re: Help Please, potato ne2000 install problem

1999-10-28 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: 3) I would try the Ethernet HOWTO. I noticed that the metalab.unc.edu/LDP site (which is www.linuxdoc.org) is down tonight. You can also find the Ethernet How-To at

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-28 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:10:00PM -0400, Michael Hammonds wrote: what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card 3c59x, 3c9xx, something like that (I think it says both). It's in the custom kernel compile config. Someone here will correct me if I'm wrong. ;-) Art

Re: potato boot hung at Starting printer spooler:

1999-10-27 Thread Art Lemasters
Thanks, Greg. Those were some great ideas (especially in re. boot sequences). I've just gotten DSL to work in the client mode and am working on getting it going in server modes. Setting up the DNS will be the tough part. ...haven't the slightest about how to write the bind configs or which

potato boot hung at Starting printer spooler:

1999-10-26 Thread Art Lemasters
My potato system is stopping for a very long time at Starting printer spooler: then, after 15 minutes or so, 1999-10-25-18:05:08.036 Get_local_host: hostname 'heart' bad it spits out a few more lines, then hangs for half an hour or so at: Starting Samba daemons: nmbd then indefinitely at smbd

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. Enlightenment probably. I run enlightenment. In an Eterm (or xterm), try gnome-panel ...not sure, since I don't have the panel installed again, yet,

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape to crash at least once every time I sit

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On a most recent upgrade, I noticed that there was a question posed by the system on modutils, along with a prompt to say no or hit enter. ...sorry, but although I remember there was a notice about involved config files being replaced, I did not jot it down. I chose enter, to make the

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
/etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils were replaced on this machine (potato) two days ago. /etc/modules.conf.old was made on the 19th (six days ago). Art

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-24 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:55:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? See and edit the

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-24 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:55:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? ...not sure whether you

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in

Correction: Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:17:00PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the best way to go with those if you

How to Access ttyS2 device?

1999-10-20 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I access a device through ttyS2 (serial line from mainboard 9 pin serial port) with telnet (or any way)? The device (that darned Cisco 675 router/modem, yet) has no documented IP address preset, and the MSWin info (I'm in Linux 2.2) says to simply open a term program and push the

Warning - ipmasq

1999-10-19 Thread Art Lemasters
I installed ipmasq and lost connectivity to the Internet with its default configuration. ...another lesson to read before I install. ;-) Art

Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Art Lemasters
I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard and router) have the same IP address...two have private addresses and one

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Luc wrote: Art Lemasters wrote: I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system

How to Access 2nd Serial Port Cisco 675?

1999-10-14 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I access my Cisco 675 modem/router through the second serial interface? ...anyone have experience with the 675 or at least with access any device through the second serial port? Art

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded, running dselect with the apt method, I get asked Do you want to erase the downloaded .deb files (Y/n)? On the other system, I am not asked, but I would like to change

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Its been a while since I've used the debs. I install netscape into /usr/local and get the same annoyances that Ian complains of. Maybe the netscape installer fixes things. Who knows? ...could be. I installed 4.61 with the debs,

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-13 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:23:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: [...] BTW, what is ipchains? Is that the equivalent of ipfwadm? [...] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html Art

Re: dpkg procedure

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:44:12PM -0700, bwarsing wrote: [...] feasible, but I am rather apprehensive as to what will happen after I complete the install. For example: If I do... dpkg -i nmap_2.12-3.deb ...from a users home directory will it install it and configure it properly, or

nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
Do any of you see any potential problem with putting the 'nosuid' option for the '/' directory in /etc/fstab? I'm trying to follow a Linux security How-To, but am less encouraged to implement it after reading more about it (e.g., that it might be less secure to do so with perl-suid

Re: Hi Joey, I have I hope temporarily quit trying to use debian.

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
Seriously, Mike, bleeding edge hardware and software will be either more expensive or more difficult to install. I choose the slightly more difficult route to getting work done, because high market profile tools (like Bill's favorites) are too expensive and lacking in security for

Re: Hi Joey, I have I hope temporarily quit trying to use debian.

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:11:41AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: Art, dimly reminiscing of having used his birdbrain and beak to peck the enter key repeatedly for a 1.0 install on older hardware... ...or maybe it was 1.2 (rex?). Anyway, my point was that installs have been fairly easy with older

satan - Anyone Else Using It?

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
While trying to run satan here, I received a _compilation_ error message. Have any of you tried satan in potato (as I have) and received the same message (or not)? Art

More: Re: crontab reports: ....

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
Allright, so what about the following? Do programs sometimes need to be unregistered as well? Is the following a security problem on my system? /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: suidregister: /var/list/.bin/multigram registered but not installed suidregister:

How to Remove kernel-image-2.2.9 with Buggy Script?

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
When I try to remove an old kernel-image, the following error occurs. Can't return outside a subroutine at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111 How can I efficiently remove it? ...tried dpkg --force- and that didn't do it. Art

Re: Smail rewrite From address

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
I once used smail (use sendmail now). If the From header rewrite problem is the same as it was, you can go to the www.debian.org site, follow the Documentation link, then follow the FAQ-O-MATIC link to find your answer. Yes, you can change a smail configs to rewrite the From header to get

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
Netscape does not remove all cache through the browser preferences, as far as I've seen. Just do rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape/cache (careful, and include /home/username/.netscape/cache in your path to avoid deleting other important directories!) then mkdir

...Bridging or Routing - Which With DSL?

1999-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
I have a Cisco 675 modem/router on the way for the DSL line here. Should I run it as a bridging or routing (PPP) line? Or do any of you know of any concise documentation that would help me decide? Art

X Windows Security With 2nd Session

1999-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
In order to run a second X Windows session, I was advised to add :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 -bpp 16 to the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. What about security for the second vt session (local/ external Internet)? Should I add some lines to the /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config file--lines that

Re: ...Bridging or Routing - Which With DSL?

1999-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: I have a Cisco 675 modem/router on the way for the DSL line here. Should I run it as a bridging or routing (PPP) line? Or Ask your ISP. They should tell you how to configure it, the same time as they give you your IP address, DNS

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory X is running in? You might check the X docs on this. Art On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, as a

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
Sorry, but I did not know Xinit would work globally, and I stand corrected on that, but you do need to put your window manager entry into the Xinit or .xinitrc before it will start your window manager, unless something has changed on this recently (with slink or potato, if so?). Art On Sat,

Re: kernel-package 6.24 broken?

1999-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
I wouldn't be sure the problem's with kernel-package either. The same sort of error messages came to me (when I made 2.1.132) when my system lacked a _package_ (program) that was needed to do the make. ...hope this helps, and maybe someone else will shed more light on this topic for us. Art

Re: qt2 trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0

1999-10-08 Thread Art Lemasters
I did dpkg --force-overwrite -i with qt2. Tell me which packages its libraries serve (so I can try those packages), and I'll let you know how they work. Art On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 04:04:13PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: Installing the qt2 package give the following error: dpkg: error

Re: Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)

1999-10-06 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:16:59AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] I'm not strongly for or against. I could certainly live with another mailing list, but whatever we do, lets leave debian-devel to the developers. I agree, Ed. ...developers and future developers. :-) Hmmm. A new

Security UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread Art Lemasters
One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user directory permission looked thusly: drwxr-sr-x 16 user user 1024 Sep 29 18:00 user

Best API for g++?

1999-09-28 Thread Art Lemasters
What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Also, what's the command and arguments for compiling hello world in Linux with g++ (just to get me

Satan Bug?

1999-09-22 Thread Art Lemasters
--- heart:#satan syntax error at ./satan line 83, near (Might be a runaway multi-line string starting on line 78) Execution of ./satan aborted due to compilation errors. ...anyone know anything about this one?

Re: Satan Bug?

1999-09-22 Thread Art Lemasters
from a superuser. I'll see what I can find on my own, though, until someone else enlightens us. Thanks for the reply. Art On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:59:54AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: --- heart:#satan syntax error at ./satan line 83

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO [long]

1999-09-21 Thread Art Lemasters
Those who want to build Debian Linux systems for simple users may do so. The tools to do so exist. Some systems could be built for such users, some to accomodate NT admins. and yet others for and by UNIX admins. BTW, I recently worked a contract for a corporation that uses nothing but

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