Re: ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-20 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Thank ! It was that. But the file is neither in the base file (base1_3.tgz) nor in base-passwd. (on ftp.debian.org) Are you sure this gets corrected soon ? Else it should be reported. bye, Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Christian Meder wrote: > On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote > > I reins

Re: (Fwd) What is System.map for ?

1997-04-20 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:17:02 - "Martin Bialasinski" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have build a custom kernel.deb package and successfully installed > it. The package also installed a System.map file. Obviously this file > has some symbol to memaddress infos and is different in a kernel wi

Re: ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Meder
On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote > I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't > connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. > > here is a transcript of a typical session : > > bash> ftp lebrun > Connected to lebrun.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de. > 220 lebrun FTP server (V

Re: /etc/inetd.conf broken (was Re: ftpd refusing connections)

1997-04-20 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
I tried with your conf file, I installed wu-ftpd. Nope, there is another problem thank you for trying. And perhaps it works for other .. Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Sorry I deleted the orig message but I just noticed that I was having the > same ftp problem someon

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-04-20 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Humm, this sounds familiar.. When I boot with the rescue floppy, or the standart kernel, it hangs the first time (perhaps warm boot). Then I reset and it boots. It's one of the unneeded drivers that hangs on autodetect, I guess. Then I recompiled the kernel with only the needed drivers, and everyt

/etc/inetd.conf broken (was Re: ftpd refusing connections)

1997-04-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Sorry I deleted the orig message but I just noticed that I was having the same ftp problem someone else was having. It looks like my /etc/inetd.conf got messed up after an unstable upgrade today. I replaced it with an old version and all is better now. I'll put up the old version on my computer

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-04-20 Thread LinuxBOX
Thanks for the help. I tryed that and it didn't seem to work. Perhaps if I included more information it would be easier to diagnose. If I don't physicla turn the machine off (reset doesn't work ether) it will hand on bootup. It hangs on the folowing line. 0:35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAXEREAL=8 I woul

ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-20 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. here is a transcript of a typical session : bash> ftp lebrun Connected to lebrun.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de. 220 lebrun FTP server (Version 5.60) ready. Name (lebrun:lebrun): 530 User

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > I was looking at how to recompile the kernel to get it to recognize memory > above 64M, > and it said you should have at least 512K of cache to do this... Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put "mem=128M" on the boo

(Fwd) What is System.map for ?

1997-04-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, as a newbie to linux, I have a question about the System.map file. I have build a custom kernel.deb package and successfully installed it. The package also installed a System.map file. Obviously this file has some symbol to memaddress infos and is different in a kernel with different .conf

ftp.debian.org - cannot assign requested address

1997-04-20 Thread Douglas L Stewart
get frozen/binary-i386/Packages.gz frozen/binary-i386/Packages.gz 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't build data connection: Cannot assign requested address. get contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't build data connection: Cannot a

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 20, Paul J. Clegg wrote > > I tried to move the 0setserial file out of rc.boot, but during boot I > still saw setserial assign everything. When I moved 0setserial back in, > setserial was called >twice setserial in any of the other rc*.d directories, nor in init.d. I tried > editing 0sets

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Paul J. Clegg wrote: > > No, it's irq2; I had to set the jumper myself. What you wrote is just the > defaults. I ran OS/2 previous to Linux, and you can't share irqs like > that under OS/2. :) > > ...Paul > > ...Paul, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://megadodo.com/~cleggp/ > 37 Briarwood L

Xresources

1997-04-20 Thread Jan Ramon
as a X newbee, i experimented with Xresources and succeeded setting my preferences. Everthing was ok for a few days. Today i downloaded pcmcia, booted linux, compiled pcmcia, and started X. from then my Xresources isnt anymore read correctly. xrdb gives the following error in .xsession-errors.

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-20 Thread Paul J. Clegg
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Paul J. Clegg wrote: > > I finally determined that somewhere, my modem (cua2) was being defined as > > IRQ 4 (it's not, it's IRQ 2). > > I think you are mistaken. > > com1 = cua0 = ttyS0 irq4 > com2 = cua1 = ttyS1 irq3 > com3 = cua2 = ttyS

Re: setserial problems...

1997-04-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Paul J. Clegg wrote: > > I updated a bunch of stuff yesterday via dselect, and I rebooted this > morning to find problems with my modem. > > I finally determined that somewhere, my modem (cua2) was being defined as > IRQ 4 (it's not, it's IRQ 2). > > I tried to move the 0setserial file out of rc

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-20 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Dima wrote: > >> Nope, you can't rip it off any board. It's a tag chip and they come > >oh :( When I bought my mobo I had the choice of spending $30 (50 >guilders) extra for 256KB cache plus the chip... looking back, maybe I >should

setserial problems...

1997-04-20 Thread Paul J. Clegg
I updated a bunch of stuff yesterday via dselect, and I rebooted this morning to find problems with my modem. I finally determined that somewhere, my modem (cua2) was being defined as IRQ 4 (it's not, it's IRQ 2). I tried to move the 0setserial file out of rc.boot, but during boot I still saw set

Re: netstd_2.13-1

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Meder
On Apr 20, Adrian Bridgett wrote > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > /etc/inetd.conf gets wiped out by some package, but i still haven't > > figured it out which one is the culprit. this means that none of your > > daemons (telnet, ftp) get started, so you can't log in remotely. i >

Colors in elvis

1997-04-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening folks, the new elvis uses different colors if it thinks the file is a shell script. Unfortunately normally I don't like this. I'm annoyed by typing ":display normal" for each file I edit. Is there an easier way which I can put in my .exrc? The last way would be to redifine all col

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-20 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Dima> Anyway, it also depends on the m/b chipset, eg. on pentium >Dima> boards all three chipsets support >64M but only one (HX I >Dima> think) can cache >64M. Tom's hardware guide is a good

Re: Detached PGP signatures in mail?

1997-04-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Ron Murray wrote: >I don't know how the average Linux mailer handles these, but I use > Windows 95 (no, don't bother flaming) in my main machine, with Eudora as my > mailer. I'm getting a little tired of my attachment directory filling up > with little PGP signatures which

Re: netstd_2.13-1

1997-04-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > /etc/inetd.conf gets wiped out by some package, but i still haven't > figured it out which one is the culprit. this means that none of your > daemons (telnet, ftp) get started, so you can't log in remotely. i > don't think netstd is the problem, but i

Re: slackware,redhat->debian

1997-04-20 Thread Farzad FARID
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: > I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is > redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're > too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box > and installing from scratch

Re: CSLIP / TCP/IP Guru Needed

1997-04-20 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: >Here's my current configuration: > ><---A--->1<---B--->2<---C---> > >A is the IP subnet of my ISP >B is an IP subnet for a CSLIP link between 1 and 2 >C is the IP subnet of my LAN >1 is my internet "gateway" - running Debi

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-20 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
here it is : http://sysdoc.pair.com/ Alexandre On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Dima> think) can cache >64M. Tom's hardware guide is a good place > Dima> to read all about it. > > Could you send up the URL? I've lost it, it seems. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: ISDN Support

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

Re: netstd_2.13-1

1997-04-20 Thread Alex Romosan
/etc/inetd.conf gets wiped out by some package, but i still haven't figured it out which one is the culprit. this means that none of your daemons (telnet, ftp) get started, so you can't log in remotely. i don't think netstd is the problem, but i could be wrong. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment

Re: ISDN Support

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

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-20 Thread Dave Cinege
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slackware,redhat->debian

1997-04-20 Thread Douglas L Stewart
I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box and installing from scratch really isn't an option. Does anyone have any suggesti

Re: Detached PGP signatures in mail?

1997-04-20 Thread RL Deppeler
Just a comment... I am trialing the new IE4 in my position as admin and as supplied it appears to recognise the PGP messages but is unable to decode them. (Not implemented.. not installed maybe??) The point is, at this time, all I can do is just delete these messages :-( Other mailers appear to

netstd_2.13-1

1997-04-20 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I just updated netstd from 2.12 to 2.13 which seems to prevent anyone from logging in remotely. Downgrading fixed the problem. Has anyone noticed this and/or figured out why this problem occurs? Thanks.. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Detached PGP signatures in mail?

1997-04-20 Thread Ron Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 22:30 19/04/97 -0400, you wrote: >...apparently under the impression >> that we're all going to take the time to check whether or not it was really >> you who sent that embarrassing message. > >Not at all. The point of PGP/MIME (I believe that's what it's call

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-20 Thread Richard Sharman
Oops! I wrote > > The Linux Journal usually has an ad for an internal ISDN board > with drivers for Linux; Spellcaster - http://spellcast.com . That should have been http://www.spellcast.com/ I don't know anything about the card, but they do support Linux: >From their web page: Novemb

Re: ISDN Support

1997-04-20 Thread Richard Sharman
Kevin Traas writes: > > I have a Motorola Bitsurfr Pro (external). It works fine under Linux; > > it looks like a modem. (It has a zillion AT commands.) > > Thanks for the info. Just a couple of questions > > What type of serial port do you have? 16550? How fast are you running t

Re: Comparing HD to dpkg

1997-04-20 Thread Carey Evans
"Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > I just ran that command with BASH; it works just fine. The process > substitution notation is the same. Bash supports this notation. AFAIK it doesn't support =(...) though, which is useful for gv =(zcat /usr/doc/xv/xvdocs.ps.gz). > Bette

Re: Detached PGP signatures in mail?

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 20, Ron Murray wrote >It seems a few of you are using a mail agent that's capable of > generating a detached PGP certificate of your message and including it as a > MIME type of application/pgp-signature, apparently under the impression > that we're all going to take the time to check wh

Detached PGP signatures in mail?

1997-04-20 Thread Ron Murray
It seems a few of you are using a mail agent that's capable of generating a detached PGP certificate of your message and including it as a MIME type of application/pgp-signature, apparently under the impression that we're all going to take the time to check whether or not it was really you who s

Re: Comparing HD to dpkg

1997-04-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Philippe" == Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Philippe> $ find / | sort > /tmp/on-disk $ cat Philippe> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sort > /tmp/dpkg $ diff Philippe> /tmp/{on-disk,dpkg} Philippe> Or a zsh one-liner: $ diff <(find / | sort) <(cat Philippe> /var/

Help with sed!

1997-04-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Could someone explain this to me... To automate the configuration of some of my debian packages, I need to be able to replace the first (or second, etc.) line in a file by a line I supply. Now it would seem that this is a job for sed. But the sed 'c' command expects "\\\n" (i.e. backspace, newline

Re: Memory Gobbler

1997-04-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dima> Anyway, it also depends on the m/b chipset, eg. on pentium Dima> boards all three chipsets support >64M but only one (HX I Dima> think) can cache >64M. Tom's hardware guide is a good place Dima> to read all about it. Could

Re: fvwm2 menus burned

1997-04-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dima> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dima> you wrote: >> But now something keeps adding a DestroyMenu MainMenu to the >> "/etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook" file, so my premainmenu.hook >> stuff gets wiped out by it. It started

Re: Differences between run levels 2-5?

1997-04-20 Thread Brian N. Borg
Putting the nfs server in runlevels 3 and higher is something of an industry standard. To be more precise, rl 2 is intended to be for network client applications and rl 3 and higher for network server apps. I think it would be appropriate for Debian to follow suite. Brian. Sam Ockman wrote:

Re: Wild DMA (was Re: Unidentified subject!) (fwd)

1997-04-20 Thread David B. Teague
Accidental repost of Niels article, I apologise for waste bandwith . --David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights & software patents make [EMAIL PRO