Linux Firewall

First, I want to thank everyone for their assistance, and I hope that I've added value to the team as well. I'm trying to figure out "ipchains", however, haven't found any documentation upon the www.debian.org website, or two of the mirrors I have checked to date. Does anyone know where I might f

Re: pathchar documentation

Guenther Koerbler wrote: > > Who has a description or documentation about pathchar, the program from Van > Jacobson ? > Especially what means the last output: pipes ? > I don't know the answer specifically to your question but I remember attending a talk which Van gave on pathchar last year. I'v

definitive answer on legality of apache-ssl for U.S. commercial use?

I've read in the SSLeay FAQ (http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/) that it is "probably" illegal to use it for commercial use in the U.S. Apparently, in order to make it legal, one would have to license the RSA algorithms. I read in a Usenet post (attached below) that Debian has somehow licensed

Re: help

Very funny, but I only trying send an msg. to server list, my only sin is wrong has not read the email regards, Hermes Master Tleilax John Lapeyre wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Kent West wrote: > > westk>On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Hermes > westk>wrote: > westk> > westk>> help > westk>> > westk>A litt

Re: Lower bogomips in debian?

The bogomips value you see at booting time depends only on the kernel, not on the distribution. Maybe that the bogomips calculation algorithm is changed from a kernel version to an other. And remember that the bogomips value is bogus ;) Michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said: > Well sorry for this questio, but what is GUS ?? GUS means Gravis UltraSound and is a sound card like the AWE 32. It is 'inclined' to play MOD files. > I need to load soundbanks and create them too. Im searching for a > program that can

Re: Is it possible to have a prompt with a dynamic clock ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I understand that setting PS1="[\t]$ " (in bash) will show me the time that > the prompt appeared. > Is it possible to have it advance the time as a regular clock would ? Sorry, but no. Bash can not do this. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Is it possible to have a prompt with a dynamic clock ?

I understand that setting PS1="[\t]$ " (in bash) will show me the time that the prompt appeared. Is it possible to have it advance the time as a regular clock would ?

Re: help

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Kent West wrote: westk>On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Hermes westk>wrote: westk> westk>> help westk>> westk>A little more detail might help. Are you wanting medical help, or help westk>with Debian, or help training your dog, or what? Looks like he's trying to get the help co

lots of man errors...

When I do a "man " the man command works okay, and displays the information I am looking for, but only after several pages of errors. Here is a copy of the last page of errors; errors coming before this are of a similar nature: man: warning: /etc/alternatives/b2m.1.gz is a dangling symlink man:

RE: Almost there. . .HELP

>Checking dists/stable/main/binary-i386. . .FTP ERROR - Can't call method Hey John. I just FTP'd to the server, and while I got in, and you have the directories correct, I will say the server is agonizingly slow. Of course, this results in many more debian users :) Frederic Breitwieser Bridgep

Re: Problem with MATLAB 5.2.1 and Debian 2.0

On 17-Aug-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Bill Blackwell wrote about "Problem with MATLAB 5.2.1 and Debian 2.0" >| Hi, >|When I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0, MATLAB died. I've taken >| >| Have any of you run into this? What's the fix? Mathworks is giving me >| the ol' "It works with Red

RE: Almost there. . .HELP

I was able to ping 130.207.7.21 as ftp.debian.org but when I run dselect, choose ftp access enter 130.207.7.21 as address, select anonymous login, the default directories and no proxies, I get the following: Using FTP to check directories. . .(stop with C) Connecting to 130.207.7.21. . . Login as

reports.h

HI, I'm trying to compile a program and I'm getting an error because of a missing file (reports.h). What package contains such file? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov.

RE: dual boot hardware problem

Many thanks to both Anthony Richardson and Nathan Norman for pointers to the right place to resolve my boot problem. An additional question would be "what else do I need to worry about?" Clearly, I will need to redo LILO, since the disk order will have changed. Devices listed in fstab may also n

Apache children getting out of control

Hi all, I don't know if this is some kind of DoS attack, and I haven't been able to grab apache-1.3.0-5 yet; as a matter of fact, I tried switching to the debianized 1.3.1 from slink, with no success. Sometimes, one (or more) of the apache processes grows abnormally in memory (from around 1.3Mb t

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 02:46:19AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > How do you guys sort all this mail? > > This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to. > I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail. > > I need to be able to put all the emails from debian

Re: svgalibg1 with mach64?

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 06:07:12PM +0200, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: > > Hi, > > one stupid question: > > Does svgalib support mach64 (it supports mach32)? The docs seem to indicate that although the code is there, it doesn't work :-( I've just uploaded 1.3.0 which you might have more success with

Garbled Characters even after terminal reset.

I have a Pentium MMX-200 with a Matrox Mystique that has 2M of VRAM. I am running Hamm. If leave a console up and leave for a short while, the characters will get garbled. Not actually replaced with other charaters, but parts of the bitmap might be missing or more dots get placed in the bitmap.

smail relay

After a fresh install of debian 2 I decided to test if smail was vunerable to 3rd party relay using http://maps.vix.com/tsi. It says it is, even after commenting out /etc/smail/config #smtp_remote_allow=localnet So how do I turn off 3rd party email relay with smail 3.2.0.101-4.5? Thanks John

Re: almost there--getting local machine to start ppp at end of script

Yup. It looks like you're almost there. It looks like your chat script is waiting too long though because it's printing out the 'text' of the LCP configure requests the other end is sending. I'm guessing the other end is timing out. What's your chat script look like? Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wro

Large Paritions... advice?

Hello, I would like to install Debian 2.0 on a 3 Gig partition which I do not want to split further. 1. Are the problems of possible filesystem corruption realistic? 2. Are there any performance losses with ext2fs on a 3 gig partition? 3. For a single user workstation, hooked to

Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

Hi >There should already be something for the GUS. >If you only need to load soundbanks, simply use sfxload. Well sorry for this questio, but what is GUS ?? I need to load soundbanks and create them too. Im searching for a program that can do edition of soundbanks... if someone knows about one

Re: help with mouse

>>I am trying to install xfree86 and I can't get my mouse to work. I think >>I have just a regular mouse that plugs into the P/S 2 port. any >>ideas?? while running xf86config, you will be asked which mouse you have. Specify /dev/psaux, with your mouse plugged in, and you should be okay. /d

Re: Soundblaster setup

Firrst you need to know what sound card do you have. Sounblaster pnp 16? AWE32? pnp? ... And then if you have dos grab the settings for the card so you just putit in linux. With this information i can help you... Phillip Neumann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi, > >A question: > >How do i set up my s

Icon (the language) info wanted

I am looking for a good, in depth tutorial on Icon. Or maybe some programs/scripts written w/ it. Having read one or two tutorials for it, I still have questions. How does one open files? Then how do you write to them? How do I call non-Icon functions? System programs? Anyway, info desired.

Re: AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

Did you select "Additional low level drivers" from the sound menu? "AWE32 synth" is a suboption of that. On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 02:33:41PM -0700, phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I have try to do that. When i run the install script linux said: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/awedrv --> ./i

RE: Formatting a file with mkfs.msdos

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:39:25 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >But, let me make a few comments, which may help answer the question >anyway. Or, at the very least, explain a few things to people who didn't know that before. >Anything with "mkfs" as part of its name generally refers to a tool >used t

RE: Formatting a file with mkfs.msdos

> -Original Message- > From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 1998 1:05 PM > To: Debian-user > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Formatting a file with mkfs.msdos > > > Does anyone have a clue as how to format a file with mkfs

Re: help with mouse

Make sure that when xf86config asks for the location of the mouse you specify /dev/psaux. -Original Message- From: Charles Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users (E-mail) Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 12:22 PM Subject: help with mouse >I am trying to install xfree86 and I can't get

help with mouse

I am trying to install xfree86 and I can't get my mouse to work. I think I have just a regular mouse that plugs into the P/S 2 port. any ideas??

Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:32:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Yes, you can use it with cdrecord, but I think you have to use a switch to > say it is in intel byte order. Does that mean that "intel byte order" is the same as "host byte order"? The man page for mpg123 says its output

Re: Problem with MATLAB 5.2.1 and Debian 2.0

*- Bill Blackwell wrote about "Problem with MATLAB 5.2.1 and Debian 2.0" | Hi, |When I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0, MATLAB died. I've taken | care of the libraries: | libg++.so.27 | libstdc++.so.27 | libdl.so.1 | When I try to run matlab I get the following message: | Regex Error: Memory e

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

*- Marcus Brinkmann wrote about "Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)" | On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 11:38:11AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote: | > | > >How do you guys sort all this mail? | > | > Well, with Pine I'd reco

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

Thanks for the insight everyone! I take it that the slink version doesn't require any library changes to work (like some of the stuff post BO upgrade. (I just upgraded last week so I have not figured everything - or much of anything - out yet :). I have always used the version of programs that

Re: Yet another WindowMaker question...

On 17 Aug 1998, Waldemar [ISO-8859-2] ¯urowski wrote: > Hello, > I'm sorry for such trival question, but I'm really stuck. I just > deleted my ~/GNUstep directory, and now I don't know how to customize > popup menu. Until now I knew that I have to edit menu.hook > file. Unfortunatelly right now I

Netscape Seg. Faults after installing KDE1.0.

Hi. I installed KDE 1.0, and netscape won't work. I thought that my uptime was too big and rebooted, but it didn't help Here's what I get: $ netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 7: 351 Segmentation fault $nsremote -noraise -remote "openURL($url, new_window)" 2>/dev/null Segmentation fa

svgalibg1 with mach64?

Hi, one stupid question: Does svgalib support mach64 (it supports mach32)? Jens

Re: dual boot hardware problem

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: [ snip ] : But Debian sees the BusLogic card first and the Adaptec second and so : reverses the "boot order". I have searched under the general topic of : dual boot in the mail list archives but have not seen anything : referencing this type of problem

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

Yeah, I read that... that isn't what I wanted becuase I'd need to make too many protousers.. I want to manually specify the limits. -Paul On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > : > : Quota only displays user quotas. Edquota edits quotas,

Re: NCR53C700 SCSI adapter driver module

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Ken wrote: : I'm hoping if I can locate a copy of ncr53c7xx.o I'll be able to insmod it : from the shell option of the rescue disk and finish the installation. : : Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. If you told us where you got the driver source, perhaps someo

Re: ssh problem

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : : I have two systems that are fresh installs of Debian. I have installed ssh : on both. I can use ssh to get from one to the other without a password. I : can not go the other way. Both the /etc/ssh and the ~/.ssh directories and : the home directo

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: : : Quota only displays user quotas. Edquota edits quotas, but only with a : editor. It doesn't not accept command line arguments for soft/hard/etc. : limits. Wrong. RTFM `man edquota' and carefully examine the "-p" option. HINT: Create a "prototy

Yet another WindowMaker question...

Hello, I'm sorry for such trival question, but I'm really stuck. I just deleted my ~/GNUstep directory, and now I don't know how to customize popup menu. Until now I knew that I have to edit menu.hook file. Unfortunatelly right now I don't have any of such file - and I think that's good - but also

Re: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Huang Yan wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were > encountered: > > 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: >Primary IDE Master:4.3G (hda), LBA MODE >Primary IDE Slave: NONE >Secondary IDE

Re: X-server problem

The xserver doesn't support AGP cards. SuSE has an xserver that does support the AGP card. It is called xmach64.tgz. Go to their site and get it. I have an ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP and couldn't get it to work until I got this xserver. -Original Message- From: Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: help

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Hermes wrote: > help > A little more detail might help. Are you wanting medical help, or help with Debian, or help training your dog, or what? Assuming you're wanting help with Debian, are you wanting help installing, configuring, running...? What are the details?

Re: How to automagically indent all in PSGML-HTML mode?

Quoting Paul Reavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So, when you press on a line in [x]emacs' PSGML/HTML mode, it > indents that line correctly. But how can I indent all the lines > correctly at once (the equivalent of control-c control-q in cc-mode)? How 'bout (in xemacs): M-x mark-whole-buffer M-x i

Re: Lower bogomips in debian?

Christopher Barry wrote: > > I have a Pentium-MMX 166MHz overclocked to 200MHz and I get 399.77. I > believe 332.60 is the exact number I got to when I had it clocked at > 166MHz. That definately is a weird problem you've got. > > FWIW, > Chris > > none wrote: > > > > Hi, I just recently install

How to automagically indent all in PSGML-HTML mode?

So, when you press on a line in [x]emacs' PSGML/HTML mode, it indents that line correctly. But how can I indent all the lines correctly at once (the equivalent of control-c control-q in cc-mode)? Thanks. -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner

Re: [ale] SB16 PnP Problems

Benjamin Dixon writes: > > > I've never been able to get my SB16 ViBra Pnp to work. Using sndconfig I > alaways get "dsp reset failed". I'm pretty certain my isapnp.conf file is > set up correctly as I see information pertaining to it just before I see > the sound driver loading. When I try to pl

X-server problem

hello everyone, well here we are again. I have a new pentium II 300 with a ATI-Xpert-XL 4meg AGP2 with 3D and enhanced MPEG. Ok when I tried to run SuperProbe, SuperProbe did not recognize the card. The message that I got was: Before submitting a report, please make sure that you have the la

changing hostname for users

Is it possible to change the hostname reported by identd for the current user logged in (w/o affect other users)? If so, how? Thanks -Paul

Re: SSH for Debian/NT

Hi, Here are the ones that I know. There might be some more too. http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/1692/ssh-index.html http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University o

Re: SSH for Debian/NT

On Mon 08 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a debian 2.0 box, which requires SSH to get into, since I disabled > telnet :) Smart, right? Except my SSH eval for NT expired. Does anyone > know of a freeware SSH client? I searched the web, and the ones I found > s

New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were encountered: 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: Primary IDE Master: 4.3G (hda), LBA MODE Primary IDE Slave: NONE Secondary IDE Master:SONY CD-ROM(CDU611) Secondary IDE Slave:

SSH for Debian/NT

Greetings, I have a debian 2.0 box, which requires SSH to get into, since I disabled telnet :) Smart, right? Except my SSH eval for NT expired. Does anyone know of a freeware SSH client? I searched the web, and the ones I found seem to expire in 15-30 days :( Thanks in advance Frederic Brei

Re: Soundblaster setup

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote: > Hi, > > A question: > > How do i set up my sound card in linux / x-windows ? > I re-compiled my kernel... In X you should try: make xconfig It is a script in TCL-Tk and works fine. Daniel. __

Soundblaster setup

Hi, A question: How do i set up my sound card in linux / x-windows ? Kind Regards, Arijan

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

On 15 Aug 98 09:13:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Thistlethwaite) wrote: >I have been trying to dig up information on installing XFSTT on my >upgraded HAMM system so my Netscape will look better. > >I downloaded the relavent dpkgs and everything seemed in install >correctly. I looked in the DOC'

Re: xemacs error with ctrl-z!

> "tlg" == the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tlg> My xemacs 20.4 has a nasty characteristic when I hit "Ctrl-Z" to tlg> suspend it. The cursor jumps to the bottom of the screen, and tlg> everything moves up one line. Typically, as with plain emacs, I get a tlg> prompt, but

Re: fstab

"C.J.LAWSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > Is it possible to specify which mount commands in my fstab should > not me mounted at boot time. Or am I just going to have to resort to a > seperate script for this If I correctly understand your question, you want to specify a mou

Re: fstab

> > Hi everyone, > Is it possible to specify which mount commands in my fstab should > not me mounted at boot time. Or am I just going to have to resort to a > seperate script for this Yes, just add `noauto' to the options in the line describing the device that should not be mounted by mou

pathchar documentation

Hello Who has a description or documentation about pathchar, the program from Van Jacobson ? Especially what means the last output: pipes ? Thanks ___ Guenther Koerbler - STF 114 - TIPHON ETSI - 06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - France Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 4

Problems with 2.0 upgrade (hardware?)

I've just got the Cheap*bytes Debian 4 CD set (from the Linux emporium in the UK - ordered Thurs am, received Fri am!). Yesterday tried to upgrade my bo system. I ran into the problems that others have found with the cd_autoup.sh script, as well as

fstab

Hi everyone, Is it possible to specify which mount commands in my fstab should not me mounted at boot time. Or am I just going to have to resort to a seperate script for this Thanks -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

On: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 15:02:09 -0400 Hank Fay writes: > > Cool. Thanks. > How would I hook this in to run whenever I come out of X? If you call x using startx, just create a alias. alias startx="/usr/bin/X11/startx; " Torsten

help

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Stable hamm & PCMCIA network cards...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have one Toshiba Portege 610CT (Pentium 90MHz, 24M memory, 512M disk and broken LCD) with 3c589C PCMCIA network card. I installed stable release into it and hoped that it would run as smoothly as all previous releases. However at least one problem that I seem

Re: X-windows

On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Roy Ayres wrote: [snip] > I tried alot of the modes given in the modes section (up as far as > 1024x) but I got the same resolution for all of them. I'm > guessing that it was 320x200, cos it looked so bad, and from looking at > the XF86Config file. In case it's any help here'

Audio Stufffff

Hi, I had problems with putting AWE32 support in my kernel. AWE32 is a patch for it, and as one, it needed (to work the patch script)to be installed the patch package. It was not installed in my system, until i realized. Now it's all ok. (Maybe this could be in the AWEHowto...) Well now i

RE: Debian linux 2.0 Base installation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1   Sorry, I forgot that...   hda ... <--partition check stuffhdb ...hdc ...ide0 at ...ide1 at ...Floppy drive(s): ...FDC 0 is a post-1991 82071md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8   [hYpNoTiK**]__- -Mensaje original-De: Ralph Winslow <

Re: audio problem

When Jens Ritter wrote, I replied: > > Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've re-built 2.0.34 to support sound and installed bplay > > and splay and installed rvplayer. When I > > bplay /usr/lib/exmh/clink.au > > it responds with > > bplay: /dev/dsp: Device not configured > > ls -l

Re: Lower bogomips in debian?

I have a Pentium-MMX 166MHz overclocked to 200MHz and I get 399.77. I believe 332.60 is the exact number I got to when I had it clocked at 166MHz. That definately is a weird problem you've got. FWIW, Chris none wrote: > > Hi, I just recently installed debian 2.0 on my pc at home and I just > not

newest distribution?

What is the newest unstable Debian distribution? I've lost trake of everything since all the ftp sites were trashed... Where should I point apt? Here is what I'm currently using: deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable mai

Re: Connection problem

I was having connection problems to certain remote servers.The problem is solved. I could connect to certain problem sites with Win95, but not debian. So probably not an ISP problem, right? WRONG (embarassment is acute). I had switched ISP's, but edited the wrong chatscript in debian so was still

Error compiling Kernel

Hi all, I was recompiling the Kernel for the current stable Hamm (d/l'd from the FTP site this weekend, along with the rest of my system), just setting some IP flags etc. for IPMasq, and got the following error: *** output of make zImage 2>errormsg In file included from /usr/src/kernel-s

RE: Goodbye

Keith, we had the first meeting of the LUG Nuts (Linux User Group of Naples Und Towns Surrounding) and are tentatively planning on having another in September, to share how far we haven't gotten. Are you general free early (7 pm) on a Friday night, or should we look for another night so

Installion: Uncorrectable Error

I am trying to install debian onto a partition on my second hard drive, I get finished installing, and making my boot floppy, by i get a lot of error messages,when I reboot to continue installion. There are so many messages after a while the computer just sits there, and doesnt do anything. I trie

Sound configuration in 2.1.115 kernel

Installed sound as a module in 2.1.115 using kpkg with an ALS110-based ASOUND+ card. It works partially, but will not accept the mpu401 irq and the second dma in the waveaudio module. If I use the compile-in-kernel alternative and run "make menuconfig", these parameters are requested but the card w

can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?

I did some recording on my own of some songs, and then compressed them to mp3 files for storage reasons. I want to burn them on to a cd, and make an audio cd. I did the following: mpg123 -s mysong.mp3 > mysong.raw Can I use this raw sound file with cdrecord to make an audio cd? Or do I have to

xemacs error with ctrl-z!

My xemacs 20.4 has a nasty characteristic when I hit "Ctrl-Z" to suspend it. The cursor jumps to the bottom of the screen, and everything moves up one line. Typically, as with plain emacs, I get a prompt, but with the xemacs I have installed, this does not happen. I can type away, anything, to

Kernel-WhyTo

I am curious about why there are 9 Million different kernels. I was examining the 2.1 kernels and they number all the way up to .115. What is the point of this? If .95 is obviously an improved and better version than .94, why are people still trying to work bugs our of .95? Why not go on to the

Re: PPP wont work!!!!! please help!

>> "D" == Dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> i ran pppconfig, and wvdial config when i installed... when i do 'pon' D> it dials, connects, and i stay connected, but i try to test the connection D> by pinging several hosts, but it always says: 'yahoo.com: unknown host'. Looks like a routing

Re: PPP wont work!!!!! please help!

>> "D" == Dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> ps: i also would like to know how to decompress a file in *.deb and *.rpm D> format, being a slackware user, i have always tried to stay away from these D> two... No idea about rpms, but for debs, you can do ar -x debian-package.deb tar -xfvz d

Goodbye

-- Thanks, Keith http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux Debian GNU/Linux

Re: PPP doesn't work anymore.

>> "SHW" == Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SHW> I copied my ppp scripts from my old harddisk, and I inserted the ppp SHW> module into the kernel. If I want to fire it up now, it starts, but SHW> network connection doesn't work. After 30 seconds the other side hangs SHW> up. Th

Re: xterm-debian

On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 05:16:33PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > I solved the same problem I had with TERM=rxvt by copying the rxvt > entry from Linux to /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r directory in Solaris. > Another way to do this is to use TERMINFO variable and set it to e.g. > $HOME/.terminfo a

/var/spool/mail --> ~/Inbox migration: how with smail?

I have a pretty vanilla Debian 2.0 setup as of now. I installed smail as my mta (or is it mda?). I would like to change the default inbox from /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Inbox. I've never used smail at all, and I find mail systems very complex and daunting. Any hints? Thanks!

qmail package for debian?

Is there a qmail package for debian? I've installed it on my slackware system in the past, and would like to install it on debian. I believe it is supposed to be one of the safest mail programs... but is Debian's default smail secure enough? In other words, is it worth the trouble to migrate f