What can I dump

1997-05-21 Thread gvl
OK, I'm a bit low on space and can't dump DOS/WIN due to other users. What can I get rid of from my Debian installation and still retain my connectivity and the ability to compile a kernel if necessary. Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb1

Re: Unknown error when I plug cable into NE2000 NIC

1997-05-21 Thread Kevin Traas
> When I plug an RJ45 cable into my NE2000 card I get the following error > over and over again until I remove the cable - "eth1: Command unit > stopped, status 4040, restarting." Has anyone else seen this, and were > you able to fix it? Scott. Do you have multiple ethernet cards in your machine

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Francois Gouget
On 21 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have the same setup as Benjamin T except that I have two Linux > > machines. I could not prove it right now because I have installed a DNS > > server on the Linux doing the masquerading but if I remember

Unknown error when I plug cable into NE2000 NIC

1997-05-21 Thread Scott
When I plug an RJ45 cable into my NE2000 card I get the following error over and over again until I remove the cable - "eth1: Command unit stopped, status 4040, restarting." Has anyone else seen this, and were you able to fix it? Scott. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Debian 1.2 and XFree86 X-Server 3.2

1997-05-21 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi, Please forgive me if this question has been answered before. Is there anybody out there running XFree86 server with Debian 1.2 on a ThinkPad 760E in 800x600 mode? Or Accelerated X-Server from X-Inside? Regards, Chris -- Chris Osicki ([EMAIL PROTECTED])GfAI - Group for Applied Informati

Re: hdb trouble

1997-05-21 Thread John Maheu
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > > > >I just upgraded to frozen. I rebooted and I noticed syslogd and kmsg took > >a long time to load. Then I had some trouble reading /dev/hdb(my linux > >drive) and I found this in /var/log/messages: > > I would check your CMOS to make sure that you ha

DES Solnet package available

1997-05-21 Thread Jim Pick
Hi. I've packaged up the client for the SolNET DES Challenge Attack. I noticed that the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" entry is currently at position #2 in the e-mail stats, so I must not be the only one participating! I'm trying to upload it to os.inf.tu-dresden.de (non-US), but that site seems to be hav

Re: Multiple NE2000 card

1997-05-21 Thread Scott
Adding the line you suggested to /etc/modules worked - thank you very much for your help. Scott On Wed, 21 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 20, Scott wrote > > I am having a hard time getting LINUX to recognize that I have two NIC's > > in my computer. I have two Novell NE2000 card

It works! (was Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help)

1997-05-21 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Dear friends, Thanks a lot for your great help! This problem was solved due to your consistent assistance. Sincerly, Eugene On Wed, 21 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 21 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Eugene Sevinian wrote: >

Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-21 Thread Eugene Sevinian
> On Wed, 21 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > Ping to linux machine's IP gives reasonable results. The same with > > w95 pseudo IP address. However ping doesn't see any other machines in LAN. > > The result is: > > > > Request timing out. > > > Ok, here's a q

Re: automatically tracking just a few unstable packages

1997-05-21 Thread Roderick Schertler
I wrote: >> >> My system is mostly bo, but I've installed a couple of packages out >> of hamm. I have my dselect access method set to ftp and pointing at >> the bo Packages files. I'd like a way to know when the hamm packages >> I'm tracking are updated. Does the system have a way to do that? "

Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-21 Thread Kevin Traas
> Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > I think the difficulty is on the Win95 end at this > > > point. When you bring up the connection from the Win95 end can you > > > ping the IP of the Linux box (the IP for the dialup)? > > > > > > > Ping to l

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same setup as Benjamin T except that I have two Linux > machines. I could not prove it right now because I have installed a DNS > server on the Linux doing the masquerading but if I remember well my 486 > was able to do DNS resolution

Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > I think the difficulty is on the Win95 end at this > > point. When you bring up the connection from the Win95 end can you > > ping the IP of the Linux box (the IP for the dialup)? > > > > Ping to linux machine's IP gi

Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)

1997-05-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hi Adam, you go through the install again by choosing your keyboard, activating your swap drive, mounting your hardrives and then choose to configure your device drivers. I hope this helps Paul On Wed, 21 May 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Hi. > > I was getting a new unix trainee to install debian

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread jghasler
Lars Hallberg writes: > As I understands it this is a problem allot of peple on this list have > and I wonder: Do You know a way to 'cleanly' configuer diald/pppd? Or do > You know a less expensiv/ugly workaround? Have you tried request-route? John HaslerThis posting is in the pub

bruce back from vacation

1997-05-21 Thread Bruce Perens
I am back from vacation. If you have Debian issues for me, please send them to my address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint

Re: login installation weirdness?

1997-05-21 Thread Bruce Perens
There's something like /etc/inittab.real, diff it against inittab. This is a result of a failure in an installation script that should have moved inittab.real to inittab . Probably you control-C-ed out of the root-password-setting process at the end of installation or something similar. Th

moving to 2.1.xx?

1997-05-21 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I'm interested in moving to the 2.1 series kernels. There are a number of things I need to upgrade besides the kernel itself, and I'm wondering if there are any debian packages built to do those upgrades. According to Documentation/Changes, I need: - Kernel modules modutils-2.1.34

diald runs ip-upp twice

1997-05-21 Thread Lars Hallberg
Randomly diald reports New addresses twice and runs the diald.ip-up script twice. this makes fetchmail fail (started twice). This happens maybe one time out of ten. Any ide? May 21 12:49:45 zita pppd[12805]: remote IP address 193.45.137.28 May 21 12:49:46 zita diald[500]: New addresses: local 194.

Re: where is xload? (dpkg improvment?)

1997-05-21 Thread Lars Hallberg
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott K. Ellis" writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > > Hi Dirk, > > > > funny thing! The same happened to me when switching to frozen. It's in > > the xproc package. I do not understand what is happe

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Lars Hallberg
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig San ders writes: [...] > IMO, the benefits of having a local caching name server far outweigh the > "difficulty" of installing it. [...] > BTW, if you're using diald you'll probably want to configure it so that > it doesn't bring up the link every time you want

Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-21 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Then try to point Netscape (or telnet) > to some "digit" location. I tried to ping from w95 using "digit" location. Ping to linux machine's IP gives reasonable results. The same with w95's pseudo IP address. However ping doesn't see any other mach

Re: libc6-dev

1997-05-21 Thread joost witteveen
> How do I put libc6-dev on my system with libc5-dev You should not do that. they install the header files in the same locations, so they mess eachother up realy good. > without having > to reinstall all my other -dev packages? If you install libc6-dev, you'll also have to install the libc6 com

Front Page Extension

1997-05-21 Thread I.N.A. SpA - Agenzia Generale di Pontedera
Can I find front page extension for Debian 2.0.29 with Apache 1.1.3? Francesco Direzione Commerciale Ufficio Relazioni Esterne - Web Promote Gruppo I.N.A. Sede di Pontedera Via ToscoRomagnola, 120/a - 56025 PONTEDERA PI Web http://www.ina.pontedera.pisa.it E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +39-

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Francois Gouget
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > > > **I can not do domain name resolution with my new setup** The ip [...] > DNS is one of the limitations of masquerading. It doesn't work. I have the same setup as Benjamin T except that I have

Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)

1997-05-21 Thread Tomislav Vujec
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question is: Is there any way to get back to the screen with the menu > interface for loading modules into the kernel once you are done with the > install or is it a once only sorta thing? Run /usr/sbin/modconf. It's from package modconf, which is requ

Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)

1997-05-21 Thread George Bonser
I found it pretty easy: look in /lib/modules/2.0.30/net and see if the module that you need is there, if it is, edit /etc/modules to comment out the incorrect module, enter the proper one on a new line and reboot. If it is not there and if you have kernel source installed, go to /usr/src/linux/d

Re: Multiple NE2000 cards

1997-05-21 Thread ioannis
On May 20, Scott wrote > I am having a hard time getting LINUX to recognize that I have two NIC's > in my computer. I have two Novell NE2000 cards installed. I have already > tried the 'append = "ether=0,0,eth1" ' without any luck. On boot-up LINUX > probes and finds the first card - but not the

Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)

1997-05-21 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
The utility for loading modules is called modconf. If you run it in an xterm be sure to have #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif in your $HOME/.Xresources and have your TERM environment variable set to xterm-color. Adam Shand wrote: > > I was getting a new unix trainee to install debia

Newbie Question (sorta :)

1997-05-21 Thread Adam Shand
Hi. I was getting a new unix trainee to install debian today for the first time. They muffed choosing the right module for the ethernet card and made it all the way through the install. The question is: Is there any way to get back to the screen with the menu interface for loading modules into t

libc6-dev

1997-05-21 Thread Eric G. Stern
How do I put libc6-dev on my system with libc5-dev without having to reinstall all my other -dev packages? If I select libc6-dev in dselect, I get 10 or so conflicts of packages that it wants to remove before it will allow me to put libc6 on. Thanks,

Re: Network Driver Suggestion.

1997-05-21 Thread George Bonser
Well, it looks like the 3c59x module was there all along :( I just didn't know it was there. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: hdb trouble

1997-05-21 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 09:44 PM 5/20/97 -0400, you wrote: > >I just upgraded to frozen. I rebooted and I noticed syslogd and kmsg took >a long time to load. Then I had some trouble reading /dev/hdb(my linux >drive) and I found this in /var/log/messages: I would check your CMOS to m

Network Driver Suggestion.

1997-05-21 Thread George Bonser
Had some trouble with Frozen. No driver for 3Com PCI network card (3C590C). This is a very handy card as it has all three interface connectors for ethernet. Luckily I had a NE2000 sitting around so I am grabbing the driver and kernel sources via FTP. Is it possible to include an option to the c

Re: Which program 'owns' srm.conf?

1997-05-21 Thread Rick Jones
localhost# dpkg -S srm.conf apache-modules: /usr/doc/apache-modules/examples/srm.conf-fcgi apache: /usr/doc/apache/examples/srm.conf On Tue, 20 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > Hi, > > During a recent cron run, I got a complain about the file > "srm.conf"... Could someone tell me which progr

Re: Where is xev?

1997-05-21 Thread Rick Jones
It's in the xcontrib package. On Tue, 20 May 1997, David S. Zelinsky wrote: > I have Debian v1.1 installed, and a CD with Debian 1.2 (haven't yet upgraded), > and I can't find xev (or equivalent?) anywhere. Can anyone explain why, or > tell me where to find it? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- >

Where is xev?

1997-05-21 Thread David S. Zelinsky
I have Debian v1.1 installed, and a CD with Debian 1.2 (haven't yet upgraded), and I can't find xev (or equivalent?) anywhere. Can anyone explain why, or tell me where to find it? Thanks in advance. -- David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: www chat system

1997-05-21 Thread George Bonser
Try the one from Quaterdeck. It They sell the server and give away the client. I am not sure if they have a Linux client but they were working on one. On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > I have been asked to provide a web based chat system for a client at > my ISP. I tried to talk him in

Re: www chat system

1997-05-21 Thread George Bonser
Uhm, If you do not HAVE to physicly have the chat server on your machine, I know a company that will provide private web-based web chat for your application (help desk, whatever) and the user client program (it is a java applet that downloads the first time you use the chat) for web browsers. The

hdb trouble

1997-05-21 Thread John Maheu
I just upgraded to frozen. I rebooted and I noticed syslogd and kmsg took a long time to load. Then I had some trouble reading /dev/hdb(my linux drive) and I found this in /var/log/messages: May 20 20:33:03 macrae kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } M

Re: Metrolink Motif

1997-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Yukhimets: > > > Suprisingly, alien_5 didn't work for this purpors. It does not > > > convert .tgz packages properly. (after installation I still have /install > > > directory). - Does anyone have any idea why? Fixed in alien 5.2. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: Metrolink Motif

1997-05-21 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Alex Yukhimets: > > I myself got some strange numbers instead of some real users (like root) > > and groups (like bin). It happend with both rpm and tar archives. > > After I upgraded tar from 1.11.8-11 to 1.12-1 I managed to get reasonable > > ownerships (bin/bin) but only with tar archive. r

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Ben White
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > > > **I can not do domain name resolution with my new setup** The ip ... other stuff deleted ... > > The kicker: booting with my old slackware setup fixes this problem, > > without changing anything on the

Re: Metrolink Motif

1997-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Yukhimets: > I myself got some strange numbers instead of some real users (like root) > and groups (like bin). It happend with both rpm and tar archives. > After I upgraded tar from 1.11.8-11 to 1.12-1 I managed to get reasonable > ownerships (bin/bin) but only with tar archive. rpm still give

Re: Which program 'owns' srm.conf?

1997-05-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
-- Jaldhar On Tue, 20 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > Hi, > > During a recent cron run, I got a complain about the file > "srm.conf"... Could someone tell me which program uses this file? There's > no manpage for it and dpkg -S doesn't know about it. > Apache or NCSA httpd. -- Jaldhar

Re: Metrolink Motif

1997-05-21 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Gernot, I also got Motif 2.0.1 from Metrolink and I actually have different question to you. What moitf archive you decided to install: rpm or tar? In any case, cpuuld you please check the user/group ownerships of the files from this motif archives. (like ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/Motif.*