I use a squid cache, and I've lately been noticing that lots of web wervers
out there have stopped responding to pings. I guess becuase of the various
security holes related to pinging with large packetsand so forth. Since
squid tries to ping a host before it connects to it, this makes squid not
wo
I accidentally renamed my server and now ,Samba in particular, does not
work anymore. I removed Samba and reloaded it but it still does not work.
Any suggestions.
Keith
See section 6.27.7 of the NET-3-HOWTO for some helpful information.
I did this before I installed ethernet by using slattach + ifconfig to set
up the connection. With 16550A UARTs I was able to get a 115.2 kbaud
serial speed. slattach is in the netbase package and I don't recall if
that is in th
On 10 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain
> >about the program not being registered.
> >here's what happens when I try to mount nfs:
> >mount: RPC: Progr
On 09/10/98 at 03:59 PM, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:43:20PM -0400,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> What do you think of
>>these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that > if you have abit of
>>time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridicu
Dear Debian users,
how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I
can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed)
to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS
access methods?
Andreas Nolda
I just recently set up Debian 2.0, with icewm as my default
X-windowmanager. Everything was working fine. Then today when I went
back over to Linux (I have a triple-boot setup {WinNT, 95, & Linux}),
and typed 'startx', the screen went blank, but nothing else happened.
Eventually the command line
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain
>about the program not being registered.
>here's what happens when I try to mount nfs:
>mount: RPC: Program not registered
Either the portmapper is not running, or y
whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain
about the program not being registered.
here's what happens when I try to mount nfs:
mount: RPC: Program not registered
any hints?
Hello fellow debian users,
Has anyone else had trouble with getting xfig to work? When I try to start
xfig, I only get the following error mesage:
X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id in failed request:
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:43:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What do you think of these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that
> if you have abit of time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridiculously
> cheap!
> I saw a whole bunch of Digital Alphas Servers (Older ones, but s
What do you think of these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that
if you have abit of time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridiculously cheap!
I saw a whole bunch of Digital Alphas Servers (Older ones, but still), get
sold for like US $430!
Is there s
Hi,
Sorry for the off-topic question but since I am using Debian, I figured
why not.
I am trying to find the man page for the netdb reentrant functions, e.g.
gethostbyname_r. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be available in the
man directories. I thought that I had all of the man pages I neede
*sigh*
X was finally behaving itself, even for a couple of weeks. But no
longer :(
A busy netscape (something i hadn't done) or rvplayer can bring down X,
hard. Hard enough that it does the blink-screen-dance.
WHile i can still telnet in to kill X, i have to reboot before running
it again.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes:
> I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from
> another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the
> server?
It took me a moment to figure out what you were asking. The file
you're looking for is /etc/hostname, which is used in th
*- Lauer, Joshua PO2 wrote about "Unidentified subject!"
|
| seem to load great. but I tried to PLOG and it wouldnt start my modem (lt
| winmodem) could I possibly get some info on getting my connection going so I
| can ftp the files need for KDE. Im a very novice user!!
Sorry but a WINmodem will
I just checked: it is for 2.0, and it is available in HTML on the web.
Hank
> -Original Message-
> From: Damon Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 1998 9:32 AM
> To: Joey Hess
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: linuxpress rumors
>
>
>
> On Th
*-"Lauer, Joshua PO2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Could you give me some information about kde (K desktop environment) Im
| trying to install it but I cannot get it to download onto floppies (i dont
| have floppies big enough) I just loaded debian into my x86 computer and it
| seem to load great. but I
Could you give me some information about kde (K desktop environment) Im
trying to install it but I cannot get it to download onto floppies (i dont
have floppies big enough) I just loaded debian into my x86 computer and it
seem to load great. but I tried to PLOG and it wouldnt start my modem (lt
wi
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, ... wrote:
>
> If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the
> preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run
> apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect
> and dpkg -l
No, but it will u
> Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for
> that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at
> least have
> emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc
Yes, on a machine with broken emacs19:
emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.e
That is what they make boot disks for. When you reinstalled Win95, it did an
overwrite of lilo in your MBR. Now you need to boot linux with your emergency
boot disk (you made one didn't you) and reinstall lilo.
On 10-Sep-98 Micki Heyns wrote:
> My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95
>
Hi,
I have some troubles with xdm. When configuring to start with it
(/etx/X11/configure) I reboot and all start ok, except that X11 dont
read my link from .xsession to .xinirc. Sould i explicit said X11 to use
my .xsession file??
Thanks,
--
___
If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the
preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run
apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect
and dpkg -l
thnx,
I'm not sure I've seen this reported before (but I'm way behind on
list mail, and haven't checked the bug system for this specific thing)
> Cannot open load file: bytecomp
Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for
that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp sho
Hello,
I'm running debian hamm, with slink upgrade
Anybody know why /proc/net, /proc/sys /proc/scsi have theses permissions
:
dr-xr-x--- 2 root root
and aren't readable for all... ?
Thanks a lot...
--
-- Yoann
It is well known that M$ products do
The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his firewall.
That is how this message is getting out, my box masqerades as
vnet.ibm.com when sending mail externally.
--
Rick Nelson
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote:
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gene McC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi!
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Micki Heyns wrote:
> My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95
> When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again.
Boot from rescue disk (either from floppy or CDROM) mount the partition
where you have the root (/) part
Hello Gene:
I had the same problem. If you are using smail, in the /etc/smail/config
you can adjust the authentication for a specific IP addresses or subnets.
Thus your server receive e-mail from the location in question.
The line in question is smtp_hello_broken_allow
Peter
-Original Messa
I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a
firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the
sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in
the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with "501 Sender domain must exist".
The sender can't fix his
My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95
When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again.
I would appreciate it if you could help me
Miki Heyns
*+27 (021) 807 2271 (W)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
> hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent
> questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian
> packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in
> getting files that are symlinked t
Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
>
> > When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I
> > get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is
> > root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the
> > first line of text in the menu
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote:
> Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN package that comes
> with Debian? This issue is not addressed in the FAQ.
> In the Debian documentation, I read that isdnutils is all you need to run
> an ISDN connection.
AFAIK isdnutils in debi
> When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I
> get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is
> root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the
> first line of text in the menu (the smaller font size.)
ok, I
I have two boxes here which I upgraded (buzz to rex to) bo to hamm.
On both boxes, users without .xsession files just get an xterm
window with no window manager. /etc/X11/window-managers lists
a valid window manager (/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2) first,
and /etc/X11/Xsession exists and is the default.
Any
>I am about to try my first kernel compilation ever and I'd like to know
>wheter ISDN support should be compiled in.
I think so. You should compile the HiSax drivers in. But a current
Debian kernel should have ISDN support compiled in.
>Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN pa
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Norbert A'Campo wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux.
> No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first serial
> port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it in
> t
Windmodems don't work under anything except windows. A friend of mine
got caught out with a US Robotics one from dell. Hard luck 8-(
Brian Sheehan
Norbert A'Campo wrote:
> I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under
> Linux.
> No one program can recognize it. Kernel als
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:33:48 -0700
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> George Bonser wrote:
> > I hear that a new version of the Debian Linux user's guide is in the works
> > that covers 2.0. Any truth?
>
> Well, just to add to the rumors, I was reading that autstralian computer
> mag's artic
George Bonser wrote:
>
>I have modified a few packages in my day and make, for example, a modified
>package of vim with GUI support available on my FTP site.
I believe the current ("standard debian") version of vim is built with
GUI support.
Paul Slootman
--
home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMA
Hello all!
I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux.
No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first serial
port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it in
the default configuration and I have to specify its parame
I have a problem with XFREE86 configuration on my laptop (thoshiba
tecra730xcdt):
The svga chip is CT65550 with 2Mb VideoRam.
I have successfully set up for 8bpp up to 1024*768 resolution
I have tried with 16bbp and the 1024*768 mode has too high mclock
frequency.
I have tried to adjust if with
O
Dear Debianers,
I have just read the isdn4linux FAQ (suggested by somebody in this list)
and, since I intend to buy a PCMCIA card, I'd like to ask a few questions.
I have just installed Debian 2.0 on my IBM Thinkpad 760 CD, with a 120MHz
Pentium, 40 MB ram, and a 2.1 GB HD.
I am about to try my fi
Hi,
Sorry to hear problems continue. The version I built was
xfree86_3.3.2.2-4.dsc debian 2.0 CD ( from linux central) The ftp
site is now 2.0r2 and X is 3.3.2.3-1 I think . The changelog does
say that xfree86 was updated with an upstream patch. Maybe there's
a new problem. :( Don't know wh
Hi,
I have upgraded to tin 980226-3 (hamm) and need to do one or other of
the following
+ change my charset to iso-8859-1, or
+ change my bitrate to 7bit
in order to post messages (currently I get the error msg that the
posting is not us-ascii.
Does anyone know how to do one of the above? (And wi
Matthew,
My harddrive is 128MB. As to the install, I do the following:
-boot from the low-mem disk
-partition harddrive ( 3 partitions: 32MB swap, 3 MB minix, the rest as
native)
-activate and initialize swap
-activate temp root partition
-exit (the system then asks for the Rescue Disk
I found some references to this in the July and August archives,
but has no fix been found for the emacs19 & emacs20 packages?
My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I
did not find in my search.
As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by
removing certain o
Simon,
I tried your fix last night. I re-installed the whole thing and then
rebooted with the lo-mem disk in. I got as far as menu option 4 on the
low mem disk (Exiting). When I did that, the following happened:
Action: 4
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly
mounting /proc
hi,
I've just got debian 2.0 on cd from lsl (http://www.lsl.com.au)
and main, contrib and non-free are on separate cdroms.
how do I setup apt to handle this?
my current sources.list is
deb file://cdrom/debian stable main
deb file://cdrom/debian stable contrib
deb file://cdrom/debian stable non-
Oliver Thuns wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal
> Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following
> error message:
>
> Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable...
>
> I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-)
>
I haven'
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:07:57PM -0700, Armando Cerna wrote:
> I am running hamm and i can't find a program that suppports an ide cdrw
> drive can someone please reccomend me one
First, your need kernel with SCSI cdrom, SCSI generic and
SCSI-ATAPI host adapter emulation but *without* IDE(ATAPI
Pete> I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be...
Odd isn't it.
I finally compared my /etc/X11/Xresources with the one from the
distribution. I had
*VT100.Translations: #override Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\
Home: string("\033OH")\n\
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:48:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a
> PS/2 mouse?
>
> I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the
> PS/2 mouse it doesn't work.
>
> Am I overly stupid?
Hi all,
I have installed a debian 2.0 slink with kernel 2.1.120.
On this system, but the problem was still in 1.3.1 or 2.0 hamm, I have a
strange behaviour of xterm.
When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I
get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only ha
> I am trying to add a logical partition for anonther OS but
> my linux boot disk expects my swap and root partitions to be
> in the same spot.
>
> Linux root and swap are hda7 and hda8 respectively. I create
> a new hda7 that changes the linux root and swap devices to
> be hda8 and hda9 respect
On: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:29:00 -0500 Rick Knebel writes:
>
> Hi,
> Is there anyway in wmaker 0.91-1 to put something like slrn in the
> dock and assign an icon like news.xpm without changing every other
> xterm icon to this icon?
I have the following in my WMState:
Applications = (
On: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:28:03 +0530 (IST) XRDLAB writes:
>> 1) As root run ldconfig.
>>
>> 2) Upgrade to xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 (it4s in hamm).
>>
> I have it installed.
>
> Any other clue?
I had the same problem with 0.19.1. I upgraded to xlib6g-3.3.2.3a-1
(note the a in the version number) and th
Just to followup on my own message, it's probably not a bug in xterm
because bo's xterm binary misbehaves identically when copied to slink.
--
Pete Harlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous
> Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before.
>
> What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key ("windows 95")
> keyboard, the "windows" key produces Meta and the Alt key produces Alt
Hey Joshua,
You may have a winmodem version if it's an internal plug and pray card.
There is no support for winmodems in Linux. If you are not sure run
pnpdump and it will tell you if it is.
John
Joshua Wilson wrote:
>
> I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time
>
I seem to remember reading sometime (in comp.os.linux.announce I think)
about a package that was something like a GUI that provided log-file (e.g.
syslog written stuff) monitoring features.
I've got to the point of having several machines syslog-ing to one central
machine (as well as keeping loca
On Wed, 09 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote:
> I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root,
> connect, log back out, log in as a regular user...
>
> But, now I want to be able to receive e-mail. I have installed SMAIL. I
> believe I have all the config options set correctly.
I am trying to install Debian Release 2.0 (hamm) on my PC -- 4 MB of
memory, 1.2 MB floppy drive, 40 MB hard drive for MSDOS, 120 MB hard
drive for Linux.
When I previously performed a successful installation of Debian Release
1.3 on my PC configured with 4 MB of memory and a 1.2 MB floppy disk
dr
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 05:15:27PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> > Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on
> > a Debian 2.0 system?
>
> just add
>
>
> xfs-start-server
> start-xfs
>
> to /etc/X11/config
>
> prior to starting up xdm
>
> rick
I see the test for st
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote:
> I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal
> Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following
> error message:
>
> Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable...
>
Someone can probably answer this better, but I've run i
Preston Landers wrote:
>
> David R Baker wrote:
>
> > I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's
> > I think just before yours.
>
> I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as
> what's on the CD.
>
The version you are using has a new pat
Remo Badii wrote:
>
> Dear Debian TeX/LaTeX users,
>
> I have just installed the revtex library under $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, as
> in my previous Linux system (2 years old, S.u.S.E. 4.2), under Debian
> 2.0. Although I have set the variable TEXINPUTS to include
> $HOME/tex/sty and $HOME/tex/sty/rev
I am trying to install Debian Release 2.0 (hamm) on my PC -- 4 MB of
memory, 1.2 MB floppy drive, 40 MB hard drive for MSDOS, 120 MB hard
drive for Linux.
When I previously performed a successful installation of Debian Release
1.3 on my PC configured with 4 MB of memory and a 1.2 MB floppy disk
dr
David R Baker wrote:
> I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's
> I think just before yours.
I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as
what's on the CD.
> cd "wherever"
> dpkg-source -x blah.dsc
> debian/rules clean
> debian/rules bui
Read /usr/doc/ppp/SETUP.gz Actually the Debian package sets things up a
bit differently than this, but you should be able to understand the
procedure from this document. The files you need to set up are
/etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider.
Bob
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Joshua Wilson
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
[ snip ]
: > Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos
: > program PKZip. Install the unzip & zip packages, then `unzip filename'.
: I guess my question was what are the packages names.
unzip and zip, in section no
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote:
> > I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the
> > roms with? It seems they are zipped with
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote:
> I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but
>
> Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the
> roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for
> gzip or uncompres
Hi Joshua Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time
> getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at
> /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked
> at the files in /etc/ppp. Every
Hi,
I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's
I think just before yours.
After some time comsuming experimentation (it's big!) and finding
libraries I did not have -dev versions of (joystick and libz), I
found the following sequence to work for me:
cd "wherever"
dpk
I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time
getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at
/dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked
at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run
pon my modem does not dia
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Keith wrote:
> I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server
> onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server?
hostname is the command the file you can change is /etc/hostname
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Keith
> MCNE
> ***
I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but
Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the
roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for
gzip or uncompress. Thanks for any help
I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server
onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server?
--
Thanks,
Keith
MCNE
Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.n
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive?
> : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> (obviously)
>
> Did you try the "
Andy Spiegl writes:
> > This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is
> > still alive and well.
>
> >-m interval
> > The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The
> > default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20
> > mi
Well, there is a workaround. Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by commenting
out all scanners which you do not have on your system. There is a bug
somewhere in 0.74, but I haven't found a fix for it yet.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a UMAX Astra 1200s: When using sane 0.74-1 my GIMP lock
Alex pointed that out to me. I added the symlink on my system to avoid
re-writing make files. Forgot that Debian did not ship it that way.
BTW the link is NOT supposed to exist according to the FSSTND we have
been following, so Debian is following standards rather than standard
practice -- usual
I am running hamm and i can't find a program that suppports an ide cdrw drive
can someone please reccomend me one
Ok, setting the lib path to /usr/X11R6/lib worked. Guess Debian doesn't have
'X11'
symlinks in /usr.
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:56:46PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> 1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib.
> 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so ->
> /usr/X11R
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