Re: 10BT cables and lightning

1997-06-14 Thread Carey Evans
"Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Would running the cable thru some metal conduit protect me? Are there > devices similar to surge suppresors for ethernet cables? I was reading a section in an IBM manual about the requirements for running twinax (sort of like thick c

Boot linux from two linux partition

1997-06-14 Thread cheng
Hi. Sorry for this silly question. I am new to both Debian and Linux. My disk has following partions: /dev/hda1DOS /dev/hda2extended partion /dev/hda3swap /dev/hda4Red Hat linux /dev/hda5Debian 1.3 By installing debian, my

Bash 2.00 error in xterm

1997-06-14 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
I use startx to launch my xserver. A default xterm comes up with no error. However when I start a new xterm from the window manager, I get the following error: bash: /home/havenerk/.bashrc: line2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' bash: /home/havenerk/.bashrc: line3: syntax erro

Re: Upgrading 1.2 -> 1.3

1997-06-14 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or > > directory), skipping > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or > > direc

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread gvl
I would also start the search for a new ISP immediately. Except for the BIND error report it seems to me that it's also possible may have changed their SMTP implementation (maybe a move to NT) andt's not allowing some of the standard SMTP commands. But the lack of support for you, regardles

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: > > I need to be able to grab some images off of an X windows session. I > remember hearing hints that xv could do this, but I can't find any > information on the subject. > Can someone point me in the right direction? xwpick Tim -- (work) [EMAIL

Re: Installing Debian Linux

1997-06-14 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, Sound as if you might have the wrong driver for your 3Com card. What model is the card and what driver are you using for it? J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > > > > Works great, but seems to have some limits. I can't quite get the whole > > > screen in the selection box and get an image. Once I shrink the size o

Re: Installing Debian Linux

1997-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
When you boot up a base system there is a command line ftp and telnet client available. Can you ping ftp.debian.org from the base system machine? If you can't make the command line ftp client work: >ftp ftp.debian.org because of timeouts, but you can get to locations on the "local" net, t

Re: Release Date for Debian 1.3.1

1997-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Patrick Ryan wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > When is Debian 1.3.1 going to be released? When it's ready ;-) With luck that should happen sometime next week... > > What do you expect in Debian 1.3.1? > The major push for 1.3.1 is to fix probl

Re: gcc can't find stddef.h

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi, > > I'm having problems trying to compile some programs. gcc doesn't seems > to find stddef.h. As an example: You can always help gcc to find it by: gcc ... -I/usr/include/linux ... (substitute /usr/include/linux for any directory you want gcc to look for included .h files) Alex Y. --

Installing Debian Linux

1997-06-14 Thread Richard Harran.
I have been attempting to install debian linux onto my Cyrix 6x86 PC from the ftp.de.debian.org site. I successfully downloaded the installation disks (via windows 95), created a 300MB linux partition and a linux swap partition, and got the basic OS functioning. When I ran dselect, i got the e

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > Works great, but seems to have some limits. I can't quite get the whole > > screen in the selection box and get an image. Once I shrink the size of > > the selectio

Re: Release Date for Debian 1.3.1

1997-06-14 Thread Lawrence Chim
Patrick Ryan wrote: > > Hello, > > When is Debian 1.3.1 going to be released? > What do you expect in Debian 1.3.1? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Release Date for Debian 1.3.1

1997-06-14 Thread Patrick Ryan
Hello, When is Debian 1.3.1 going to be released? -Patrick = Patrick Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = = PGP keys available upon request. = -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Works great, but seems to have some limits. I can't quite get the whole > screen in the selection box and get an image. Once I shrink the size of > the selection box sufficiently it creates an image. What determins t

help with man pages

1997-06-14 Thread frankk
I have installed Debian 1.3 and have a problem to see man pages. If I try to see any man page (e.g man man), I can only see the following : > man man Reformatting man(1), please wait... and the screen remains blank. After pressing CTR+C, I get my Linux prompt back.

gcc can't find stddef.h

1997-06-14 Thread Emilio Lopes
Hi, I'm having problems trying to compile some programs. gcc doesn't seems to find stddef.h. As an example: gcc -O2 -g -Wall -c asmail.c -o asmail.o In file included from asmail.c:16: /usr/include/stdlib.h:34: stddef.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/st

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > I need to be able to grab some images off of an X windows session. I > > remember hearing hints that xv could do this, but I can't find any > > information on the subject. > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > Xv, click right mouse to ge

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Joost writes: > I think that it is however possible to fry hardware with linux: while > trying 1.3 I inserted a wrong module for the cdrom interface and it fried > the cdrom drive. IMHO anything that can be truly "fried" in this way (that is, physically damaged) is broken as designed. John Hasler

ip aliasing and virtual servers

1997-06-14 Thread keith york
I am new to Linux (just installed it a week since) and I want to get the machine to answer to additional ip addresses and run virtual servers with apache. Is there a comprehensive guide to this anywhere? I have read the mini-HowTo on ipaliasing but its not very clear to me (being a newbie!) a

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 13, Robert D. Hilliard wrote : I posted this on June 10, but have not had any response, so I'm : trying again. My ISP says "we do not offer support for linux mail". : I hope someone can give me a clue. I'm getting tired of going into ... probably the wrong ISP. (But not the help

Installing Debian Linux

1997-06-14 Thread Richard Harran.
I have been attempting to install debian linux onto my Cyrix 6x86 PC from the ftp.de.debian.org site. I successfully downloaded the installation disks (via windows 95), created a 300MB linux partition and a linux swap partition, and got the basic OS functioning. When I ran dselect, i got the e

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I need to be able to grab some images off of an X windows session. I > remember hearing hints that xv could do this, but I can't find any > information on the subject. > Can someone point me in the right direction? The current Linux Gazette Weekend Mecha

Re: auth.log: su(to root) fails 1000 times /min?

1997-06-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > >From my /var/adm/log.auth: > Jun 12 23:05:57 rulcmc su: FAILED SU (to root) joost on none > Jun 12 23:06:28 rulcmc last message repeated 552 times Looks like a program caught in an infinite loop. Check for processes under your user name that are

Re: Upgrading 1.2 -> 1.3

1997-06-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libpthreads.so (No such file or > dir

Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:37:12 +1000 (EST), Tim Bell wrote: >Rick Macdonald wrote: >> >> On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote: >> >> > So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I >> > did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. >> >> I had similar problems once, but nothing t

Big Problem in upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3

1997-06-14 Thread Chris Brown
I have a machine that I was using on my net here and I upgraded it from 1.2 to 1.3 over the last couple of days. When I rebooted this morning the machine came back up with my old 2.0.27 kernel but I can't get an aliased address on the ethernet port. The reason that it is a big problem i

Re: Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> I need to be able to grab some images off of an X windows session. I > remember hearing hints that xv could do this, but I can't find any > information on the subject. > Can someone point me in the right direction? Xv, click right mouse to get controls, click "grab" button just above "Quit" (Quit

Re: Tape backup

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 03:56:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > I am using an iomega "jaz" removable disk cartridge for backup. I got > the scsi internal version for $299 with one disk. The disks aren't > cheap: $100 for 1GB, but they are fast and much more convenient than > tape and useful for muc

Screen grabbers?

1997-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
I need to be able to grab some images off of an X windows session. I remember hearing hints that xv could do this, but I can't find any information on the subject. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > fit in the kernel. If you can tell me about the I/O ports of your network > > card we can give you magic words to put on the boot command line for that > > device that reserve its ports and prevent othe

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 04:39:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I rebooted to linux I noticed several network error > messages, and ping showed "Network is unreachable". > Apparently the rescue disk had confused my WD8013 ethernet > card. Then I booted do DOS -- and it complety hang afte

Re: 10BT cables and lightning

1997-06-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 08:59:32AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I would like to setup my home-net using 10bt cables between my linux and > windoze boxen, but the only way I have to run the cables is to run it out > a window, under the house, and back in a window. Is there any method of >

Partitioning a 34GB Harware Raid

1997-06-14 Thread Markus Diesmann
This is a follow up to my last weeks question. I was not able to create a 34GB ext2 file system on a primiary partition using fdisk and mke2fs. However, when I first create a 1GB primary partition and a 33GB logical partition. It works. I was able to create a 33GB file system on the logical part

Re: libXt.so.6

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
It's still an aout file, therefore you need the xcompat package for the aout libs. HTH, Shaya On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'. I am > hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually > solve the problem

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel because the rescue disk is built for every scsi and ethernet card we could fit in

installing debian onto a new partition w/o rebooting

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
I have a machine thas has been running as a diskless box that mounts / over nfs. I now have an 800 mb drive to put in it, so I want to use that to install debian on the machine. Since this computer is also a headless box, I'd prefer to be able to accomplish this without hooking a monitor up to it,

Master.debian.org

1997-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
master.debian.org down?? I can't even ping it! -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

securing my X server

1997-06-14 Thread HenSiong Tan
Pardon me, I have Debian 1.3 installed, and are trying to start the X server with /usr/bin/X11/xinit -auth $HOME/.Xauthority This works ... . But when I provide the remote host, a Sparc machine running solaris 2.5, with my magic cookie (xauth add $DISPLAY . x cookie ) and ex

Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote: > So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I > did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a network card. It turned out that lilo.conf wasn't pointed at the partition that I thought it

checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the following kind of messages : cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/ make -fmkvisu -k checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X

Re: [Off-Topic] Making FLI's

1997-06-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:25:31 MDT "Marcelo E. Magallon" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, sorry for posting this here, but since xanim supports FLI's, I hope > somebody here knows the answer. Does anybody here know if there's a Linux > program for making FLI's? In the Povray homepage I found a ref

Help NT4.0 -> Linux Printing fails

1997-06-14 Thread Oz Dror
I have linux (debian 1.2.8 Kernel 2.0.30) machine as server (192.168.0.1) and NT4.0 workstation as client (192.168.0.3) I setup the NT machine to print using lpd (port 192.168.0.1:lp4) lp4 is my linux printer (HP660c). The NT machine uses its own driver for the printer. When I tried to print a

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : ) but I'd like to know why > people would want to do this [switch from Red Hat to Debian] I've looked > briefly at Debian and it seems quite attractive, but I'm using RH at the > moment and it works pretty well,

xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. Contact your administrator. Well... I asked the package maintainer (i

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread Victor Torrico
W Paul Mills wrote: > > This all seems to have something to do with libc and a wg15-locale > package. Do you have anything in /usr/share/locale. Most seem to > start having this problem if they install StarOffice which has you > set LANG=us. It really does not seem to hurt anything other than > al

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Al Youngwerth
Just something to try... post.metrolink.net does not have a dns MX record. I don't think smail should give you an error if your smarthost doesn't have an MX record but it might. Try changing you smarthost to metrolink.net (it resolves to post.metrolink.net) and see if it helps. I assume your name

Re: xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello! :) On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and > xemacs became 19.14.1. > I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years, > and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on th

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Joey Hess writes: > Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address. And this is supposed to make it unique? Somehow I suspect that mine is not the only machine with IP 192.168.1. /home/john hostid -v Hostid is 8323328 (0x7f0100) John HaslerThis posting is in the public doma

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
What package is it in? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> I tried installing netbase 2.13-1, and recieved this error: > > Setting up netbase (2.13-1) ... > /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file > dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors wer

Re: read news on/off line

1997-06-14 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: ... > Secondly, would some one please point me to the doc./pointers to > setup the Debian system to download the news onto my local drive > for later use? Thanks! > Try leafnode, there is a debian package in section news. Alexandre > -- >

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Joey Hess writes: >> Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address. > >And this is supposed to make it unique? Somehow I suspect that mine is not >the only machine with IP 192.168.1. RTFM?! The man page says that hostid is _normally_ set t

Re: Mail broken :(

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tim O'Brien: > My email system on my Linux box at work has broken. It just stopped a few > days ago. I've also noticed several runq zombies. > > When ps is used repeatedly, I can see that there's one copy of runq going > with the same process number, and another that keeps restarting and > increme

Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
> > There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while > > ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... > [...] > > I have it working now... There is the tn3270-510.tar.gz package > at sunsite with an a.out tn3270 binary that works when > termcap-compat is installed

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tim Sailer: > I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet > to see a dupe. Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

ack, never mind

1997-06-14 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
Sorry, I figured it out. Just needed to upgrade dpkg. joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread Norris Preyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I was using xemacs in conjunction with Latex in debian 1.2. > > I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and xemacs > became 19.14.1. > > I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years, > and do no

Unresolved symbols with ibmtr_cs PCMCIA module

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Further in my attempts to setup up a Thinkpad 760CD... When attempting to load the ibmtr_cs.o mdules under the standard 2.0.30 kernel, I get the folliowing unresolved symbols. netif_rx_R9117ffb8 dev_alloc_skb_R24e337ab dev_kfree_skb_R7a61ae71 dev_tint_Rcc72f6b2 unregister_netdev_Re5a9d51a regist

Re: kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Niels wrote: > BootPart: > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm > > More instructions: > http://ledoux.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/~agoon/windows/dualboot.html > > to save AltaVista the hits :-) Thanks for the info... NT's boot manager now handles linux Now I just

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Alan Dorman: > > The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is > > still needed. > > The installation process deletes the uncompressed image. > > It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the > compressed image for that, though. Would it so

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is > still needed. The installation process deletes the uncompressed image. It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the compressed image for that, though. Mike.

Firewalls

1997-06-14 Thread dgolpira
Anyone running a debian-based firewall out there? Does anyone have any experience with the TIS firewall toolkit package for Debian? How about setting up firewalling in the kernel? What are the pros and cons of each method for building a Linux firewall? Thanks. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UN

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > In article <"tW1_d.0.lw2.Vy5ep"@debian>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Michael Shaw") writes: > > > > I'm planning to convert my home systems to Debian Linux from RedHat and was > > wondering if there was anyone out there who had performed this task before? > >

netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
I tried installing netbase 2.13-1, and recieved this error: Setting up netbase (2.13-1) ... /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered

Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 13, Hanno Wagner wrote > Hi, > I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It > works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me > following: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock > xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. > Contact your administrator. > -

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is still needed. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to > link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the > following kind of messages : > > > > cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/ > make -fmkvisu -k > checkergcc -Wall -g -I/us

checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
(sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.) Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but at the execution I have : visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ?

Re: Running boa using inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > So the question is, how do I get this to work. Boa complains that there is > some other process listening to the port and exits with an error. > Alternatively > is there some other way of having a small server that can only be accesed > from t

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: > > > > llug:~> uname -a > > Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown > > llug:~> hostid > > 0xc782f032 > > llug:~> > > > > So there is a debian command for it! Well, it doesn't come from hardware > in linux and isn't guara

Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Shaw
Anyone know if there is a "Linux Unleashed" book/CD available for Debian 1.3? I'm trying to find a place to get a CD at a decent price, but so far the really cheap places(CheapBytes, Tri-Linux) seem to have problems with their cut. I am now considering PHT or InfoMagic, but if I can get a book

why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
If I use "make-kpkg -r=box.1.0 kernel_image" to make a custom kernel package, I see it includes: -rw-r--r-- root/root327834 1997-06-13 17:15 boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30 -rw-r--r-- root/root816421 1997-06-13 17:15 boot/vmlinux-2.0.30 Why include both files? Is there any way to turn that off and ju

Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mgetty. The only bad thing > which I noticed so far are the short pauses (~1-5 sec) during the > sessions. Unfortunatly, to say the least of it, the quality of telephone > lines is not very good. However I wo

Re: Master.debian.org

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, master is down at the moment. Mike will bring it back as soon as he can. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a > > way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten? > > Hmm. Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out > of luck. When you clobbered the old fil

Re: Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 12 June 97, at 22 h 40, the keyboard of "Benjamin T. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what > gives? The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is > delivered Anyway, I seriously suggest you

BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-14 Thread George Bonser
Better take this SERIOUSLY folks, it is a VERY big bug ... major security hole. It allows a server to see EVERYTHING on the client filesystem. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:06:45 -0500 From: Francisco Benavi

Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread George Bonser
> (So can everyone stop using rows of dashes!! :-) > > -- David Pfitzner > > ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your mail reader? Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread David Pfitzner
> ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your > mail reader? Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig The digest separator is 28 dashes. Anything over that seems to cause a problem. It probably has to start at the start of a line, too. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

[Off-Topic] Making FLI's

1997-06-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, sorry for posting this here, but since xanim supports FLI's, I hope somebody here knows the answer. Does anybody here know if there's a Linux program for making FLI's? In the Povray homepage I found a reference to a DOS program (DTA was it?) but I'd like to stick to Linux. TIA, and apologies a

XPilot-package and sound

1997-06-14 Thread Marc Saric
Hi, I don´t know if the maintainer of the Xpilot-package is reading this mailing-list, but if so, he/she might be able to answer my little question: After trying to get the sound-thingy running with XPilot, I failes to do so, and I´m asking myself if there is sound-support at all compiled into th

FWD: Debian Linux prob

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Perhaps some other developer is better-suited to deal with this than I, who don't even have a CD drive. :-) -Forwarded message from Myopsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:07:55 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Myopsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debian Linux prob Mime-Ve

Running boa using inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, following the recent thread about dwww, I decided to try it out. I installed boa as a web server but was trying as someone suggested in that thread, to run it through inetd. The idea is that I want to disallow all non-local connections to the http server. Unfortunately I have deleted those mess

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread W Paul Mills
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 12 Jun, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > > I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us > > > when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice. What am I > > > overlooking? > > > >

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
There is no real easy way. However, if you have enough disk space, you can make a new partition, or use an old one, install debian on it, and migrate all your config date to the debian side. YOu can then wipe redhat, and install all the packages you need from debian. Shaya On 12 Jun 1997, Mich

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and > libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on > the client machine: > > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > ~> su rover > su: user rover does not ex

can qmail be run from inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
I have a small system that has qmail installed, and doesn't get much mail, so it's really a waste of memory to have the various qmail daemons running all the time. Is there a way to set up qmail so it gets run from inetd? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Bell
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote: > > > So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I > > did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. > > I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a network card. > It turned out that lilo.conf wasn't poi

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Ciccio
> I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to > link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the > following kind of messages : > > > > cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/ > make -fmkvisu -k > checkergcc -Wall -g -I/us

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> (sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.) > > Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but > at the execution I have : > > visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' > visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' > > Aren't standard? Do you see wha

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices > on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card > instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel > because the rescue disk is bui

Re: How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 13 Jun 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. Yah, whassup wit' dat? I had problems with dselect's 'install' option, and with chat2.pl. I copied a missing module from elsewhere, re-ran dselect, tried to install something new, and ran into ano

Re: routing question

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Pete Templin, you wrote: > > > Hi there, > > I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router > (with one modem and one network card). Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem > to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up. > >

routing question

1997-06-14 Thread Pete Templin
Hi there, I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router (with one modem and one network card). Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up. The question is this: I've compiled a lean, mean kernel with

Re: parallel port zip drive?

1997-06-14 Thread gvl
Dave campbell's page is gone. I've sent mail to one of the other developers asking how to get the latest driver. On 10 Jun 97, Albatross wrote regarding: __ Re: parallel port zip drive? __ > Hi, > > >> Could anyone point me to information about using an Iomega parallel port > >(Not > >> SC

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
I have yet to see any books on the market that do more than mention Debian. That is why I am working on the Debian Book Project. I am still in the begining stages now but I am hoping early next year .. or arround the Debian 2.0 release to have the book published. I have had offers from at least

Help configuring rlogin

1997-06-14 Thread Scott Smith
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:06:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help configuring rlogind I am trying to remote login between two linux boxes - but I don't think that the server is set up properly (there is n

Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, On Jun 13, Christian Hudon wrote > Maybe check the permissions on your /etc/shadow file. It should be: > > -rw-r- 1 root shadow897 Apr 6 03:40 /etc/shadow Well... mine was only readable for root and group was root, so... But now it works - thanks! Ciao, Hanno -- | Han

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