Unblinking block cursor

1999-05-04 Thread Randal Schoen
Hi gang, Is there a way to patch the kernel, or the necessary library, to have a solid, unblinking block cursor, rather than that annoying blinking underline (a.k.a., FreeBSD has the cursor I'm after)? This is for standard consoles, of course, not X. ;> Thanks in advance! Rnd. --- { in fact, th

Cobalt Qube

1999-05-04 Thread G. Crimp
Anyone know anything about the Cobalt Qube. I have someone asking me questions about setting up a Linux environment for himself (diskless, fanless box, remember ?). He specifically asked me about the Qube. There are a couple of things that I can't answer on my own. The specs on

Linux/VAX clarification

1999-05-04 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
hi there again i guess i was not very clear as to what i want to do. here's the deal. i have a fortran program that spits out a binary file on an HP/UX (i'm trying to rewrite the program in C++ on Linux). now a person in italy would like to use the binary output, but she's currently working on a

Re: Linux to VAX

1999-05-04 Thread ANShevin
Hi, If you are porting source written for x86 linux, endianness isn't a problem (the VAX is also little endian). Most C code won't have the problem anyway; sockets code should be using htonl and family. For the most part, DEC has gone through a lot of trouble to make porting easy. Paths can be

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #802

1999-05-04 Thread weim0404
It's not exactly what you are looking for nor perfect but man -k keyword or man --apropos keyword already is similar to what your describing. doug >> I will try to be explain. >> >> I am sitting in my imaginary system administrators office. One by one >> users come in and ask the same basic

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-04 14:46, Brian Servis wrote: > The HOWTO's are all converted to postscript which are nicely formated > and ready for printing. The mini-HOWTO's are not available as ps > though. Some are available in SGML which can be converted to ps(I have > not done it but it is possible some how)

I can't extract debian pakages from binary-i386.iso. Help!

1999-05-04 Thread soliman
Hello everybody! I have downloaded binary-i386-1.iso. I am trying to extract debian packages from it, but I didn't succed. I have tryed, tar -xvf binary-i386-1.iso. I have tryed, cpio -i < binary-i386-1.iso. I have tryed, making master cd under redhat 5.2, by using xcdroast. I have tryed dpkg, ds

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 12:26:38AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think all Howtos and mini- are a bit too much for printing... is there > any reseller who sells hard copies of the whole set? > Walnut Creek (www.cdrom.com) sells the biggest Linux book I've ever seen. It's

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread homega
I think all Howtos and mini- are a bit too much for printing... is there any reseller who sells hard copies of the whole set? Horacio. -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con la línea de asunto: Send a blank message t

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
"G. Crimp" wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:21:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which > > have a > > peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of > > course but I do > > know such heat sinks e

Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 1999 15:04:25 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >wrt no extant packages: > >Read the license - not very nice... you might > >take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server) > > I surely will. > > >wrt it not working: > >ah... you're on potato... > > Nope. Slink. Hmmm

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #802

1999-05-04 Thread Graham Ashton
On Tuesday 04 May, Tommy Malloy wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice if I could tell the following to everyone to type > "command keyword" or "command string", and a list of applications > related to that keyword or string would be provided. try this; % apropos foo where foo is your command or string.

some sound

1999-05-04 Thread David Bellows
I just finished installing Debian 2.1 the other day and promptly compiled a kernel 2.2.5 for it. Sound is compiled in (AWE 64 pnp) and allows me to listen to audio CDs. However, I cannot get any system sounds (from games or any other sound producing apps). This is the same kernel settings I am u

IDE for JAVA

1999-05-04 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All :) Is there anyone that knows of a good Java Programming Environment for Linux?? TIA, Brant

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #802

1999-05-04 Thread Tommy Malloy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan > I'm a little confused about what you're (Tommy) asking > here. I will try to be explain. I am sitting in my imaginary system administrators office. One by one users come in and ask the same basic question; "What application can I use to do foo". I should

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-05-04 Thread eric a. Farris
See my message posted to the list on Monday; i had the same problem and fixed it. Basically you have to do the same thing with xlib6g as you did with glib. (that is, extract it from the .deb manually, put it someplace, add someplace to soffice's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > Okay, I fi

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Michael Stenner wrote: > > On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote: > > >I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have > >installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new > >hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything > >spinning in

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Matthew Sachs
What about something that could search /var/lib/dpkg/available intelligently? ie: You can set regexes on each field (some fields would be better served by checkboxes or listboxes) and all packages matching those criteria (make sure that the ones with listboxes let you do the equivalent of OR [and

Re: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers

1999-05-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers Date: Tue, May 04, 1999 at 12:58:45PM -0300 In reply to:Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? >

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread G. Crimp
A person has to start somewhere. If your novice user knows enough to get by, they already have a tremendous advance over the absolute green horn. apropos only scans man pages, but that is a good place to begin. Of course, if the person doesn't know what they are looking for, they won't b

Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?

1999-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 4 May 1999 15:04:25 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >wrt no extant packages: >Read the license - not very nice... you might >take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server) I surely will. >wrt it not working: >ah... you're on potato... Nope. Slink. >runsocks works fine on glibc-2.0(slink)

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-05-04 Thread G. Crimp
You could also use sudo to let certain people have the privilege of running shutdown. They won't need to know the root password, only their own, and you could even set it up so they don't need their own password. Here's an example sudoers entry: = /sbin/shutdown -[hr] now

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread ye416
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:22:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've ran a few of these. > 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case > 2) Watch out for condensation >a) Can short the junction >b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for > a month w

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:21:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have > a > peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course > but I do > know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comd

Re: LDAP? What is it?

1999-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: : And what is it for? I'm interested in learning more. Where can I find : out more? If someone could explain briefly and then point to some docs : I'd really appreciate it. I just asked this question the other day; here's a summary of the response

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 04:08:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know > > I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room, > > but could that diskless box a

My scanner has stopped working in Linux?!

1999-05-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have *been* successfully using my scanner in Linux. I have an Agfa Snapscan 310 (SCSI) and it worked fine with the Gimp and SANE. Recently, however, it has just stopped responding. I go to 'preview' and the scanner light starts blinking and never stops until I switch off the scanner. I am current

LDAP? What is it?

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
And what is it for? I'm interested in learning more. Where can I find out more? If someone could explain briefly and then point to some docs I'd really appreciate it. -- NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpbhPcv5H7M

Re: ldap

1999-05-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote: > Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious the > machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse for > that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by > hand and I

Re: Apt and non-standard directory structure

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 May, Christo Barnard wrote about "Apt and non-standard directory structure" > Hi, > > Yet Another Newbie Seeking Help. > > I have a Debian mirror upstream from my ISP from which reasonable download > speeds can be achieved and the following directory structure: > > ftp://ftp.saix.net/p

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:46:36PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 4 May, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote about "HOWTOs to txt.." > > > > Just wondering if anyone has printed off howto pages? Is there any quick > > way to convert a full howto (ie.. all the pages) to a single file and > > print it o

Dialup question No2

1999-05-04 Thread Horvath Robert
Hi, All right, I have mgetty answer the phonecalls. What is the package I can start the PPP connection with? Is radiusd-livingston a package like this? If yes then where can I find documantation for it? If someone knows a package like that please tell me! Any kind of help would be appreciated. I

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 May, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote about "HOWTOs to txt.." > > Just wondering if anyone has printed off howto pages? Is there any quick > way to convert a full howto (ie.. all the pages) to a single file and > print it off? > > I've printed them in the past but simply saved each page to tex

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
> Just wondering if anyone has printed off howto pages? Is there any quick > way to convert a full howto (ie.. all the pages) to a single file and > print it off? Why don't you just download the text versions? ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/

backspace

1999-05-04 Thread pedro bastos - strm
hello... i would like to know if there's another way to get the backspace working in X, instead of xmodmap. thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers

1999-05-04 Thread Alec Smith
I use my DJ870Cse, which is very similar to the dj895c using Magicfilter. I believe its using the dj550c driver without difficulties. On Tue, 4 May 1999, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-05-04 12:58, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > Is there support for printing in HP 895 in

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-05-04 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of spelling errors, as noted below. Here are the errors I still get: SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/ SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/l

frame buffer & ati rage fury

1999-05-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
HI, I'm new with linux (3 weeks), and I wasn't able to set frame buffer with my ATI rage fury (rage 128 GL cpu) since 3 days. The text part is working very well (I respond 0x0317 to the "vga=ask" lilo line, and I get 1024x768x16 text mode Ok) The docs are not very helpfull, since, even together, I

X sudo?

1999-05-04 Thread William R Pentney
At times I find myself wishing for a root login in X without using a terminal, such as when run wine on my mounted DOS partition, or edit the KDE menus. Does anyone know of a good sudo/su type program with an X/KDE/GNOME interface? (I switch to GNOME now and then ...) - thanks, Bill

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John Galt wrote: : : Most certainly, the "F" is for floppy boot, the "4" is for booting from : /dev/hda4, and the "A" is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. : The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to : /dev/hda--no booting off /dev

Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?

1999-05-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
wrt no extant packages: Read the license - not very nice... you might take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server) wrt it not working: ah... you're on potato... runsocks works fine on glibc-2.0(slink), but fails with glibc-2.1(potato). Note that you can use NEC socks to socksify, at

Apt and non-standard directory structure

1999-05-04 Thread Christo Barnard
Hi, Yet Another Newbie Seeking Help. I have a Debian mirror upstream from my ISP from which reasonable download speeds can be achieved and the following directory structure: ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/main/binary-i386/. Notice the missing dists/stable between debian and m

Re: network printer problems

1999-05-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: network printer problems Date: Mon, May 03, 1999 at 02:17:41PM -0500 In reply to:Marc Mongeon I am not, by any means a printer guru, but. I installed magicfilter and the printcap I made using it, allows me to do: lpr hellow.ps No sweat, no strain. HTH Quoting Marc M

Re: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers

1999-05-04 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-04 12:58, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? > How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Check out magicfilter and in particular hpdj (either unspec or 850c). For multi-page printing consider mpage,

Re: Linux to VAX

1999-05-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 4 May 1999, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > hi there > > i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask > anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX > machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on > these machines. does anyb

How to build socks5 for Debian?

1999-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! Highly astonished I discovered today that there is no Debian package that provides socks5-compatible clients. So I went out and built socks5-v1.0r9 from the NEC web site. Configuring, building and installing went fine. However, runsocks does not seem to work though: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/ma

Re: Using linux to protect a DSL connection.

1999-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
> How should I protect these systems from outside hack attacks? Use Bridging http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge.html http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge+Firewall.html and IPChains http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html > If I add a second network card to the linu

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
Most certainly, the "F" is for floppy boot, the "4" is for booting from /dev/hda4, and the "A" is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb at all. It was in the docs the last time I chec

Unidentified subject!

1999-05-04 Thread Daniel Wesslén
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #801

1999-05-04 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
- > > Subject: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers > Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:58:45 -0300 > From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all, > Is there support for printing i

Using linux to protect a DSL connection.

1999-05-04 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I am about to get a DSL connection for my home. I have two systems at my house (debian linux system and a windoze 95). Both of these systems are currently connected to a pipeline 50 (ISDN) router and the pipeline will be replaced by a DSL gateway. My ISP will give me two fixed IP addres

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Would it be too hard to add a "verbose" type flag that tells exactly | what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd | think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a | "pass-through" switch to turn on verbose reportin

Linux to VAX

1999-05-04 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
hi there i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on these machines. does anybody how make these conversion and/or know where i can ge

Re: LinuxBerg??

1999-05-04 Thread Marek Habersack
* Person, Roderick said: > Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. > > I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a > windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That > cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to

LinuxBerg??

1999-05-04 Thread Person, Roderick
Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to find anything fro linux. I'm I jus

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks, Nathan On Tue, 4 May 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: > > : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get > : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? > > It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . > > -- > Nathan Nor

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
Would it be too hard to add a "verbose" type flag that tells exactly what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a "pass-through" switch to turn on verbose reporting with not too much hassle. On Tue, 4 May 1

Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Clyde Wilson
If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable?

Re: Downgrading potato -> slink

1999-05-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
What version of netscape are you running? I am running the Debian packaged 4.08 (smotif) on a potato system and it has been extremely stable. I had problems with 4.51 and the downgrade of navigator to an earlier version made quite a difference. Gnome applications are a different story, however (

RE: ftp.us.debian.org downtime

1999-05-04 Thread Baraka
Please revise your reply list as we received 1444 of your email yesterday and today. Thanks . Baraka ltd. -Original Message- From: Dpk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 10:19 AM To: Debian User List Subject:FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime For those of

FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime

1999-05-04 Thread Dpk
For those of you who use ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu), for ftp/http/rsync access, downtime has been scheduled: Wednesday, 5-5-1999 8-10am EST Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread William R Pentney
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one feel very silly, and can be quite fr

HP 895 e 4 pages by papers

1999-05-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Thank you, Paulo Henrique

Re: Routing problems

1999-05-04 Thread Craig Hancock
Loek Engels wrote: > I'm having some problems getting my local network up and running again ever > since I've upgraded my system from RH5.1 to Debian 2.1. Even ping cannot get > throught to my local network... here's my routing table and eth0 configuration > > Destination Gateway Genma

Re: DNS time to live & lookup delays...

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Your TTL already seems to be zero (note the second field in the answer record): chilin$ dig stream.klaradio.com ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> stream.klaradio.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSW

ldap

1999-05-04 Thread Craig Hancock
Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious the machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse for that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by hand and I want to know what ourthe advantages of having a database for ldap well

Re: Xwrapper

1999-05-04 Thread Wayne Cuddy
No, I did not get any help. I will copy the list in on this in hopes of getting some. Wayne On Tue, 4 May 1999, Andreas Kahari wrote: > Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:07:28 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "[ISO-8859-1] Andreas Kähäri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've ran a few of these. > 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case > 2) Watch out for condensation >a) Can short the junction >b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for > a month with the fan fallen off, before it started si

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 May, Allen B. Riddell wrote about "xhosts question.." > > Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account > and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use > xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... > > Anyway -

[SOLVED!!]:Kernel Source Installation Probs

1999-05-04 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Y'all :) Thanks for the help. It worked!! I don't know what happened--I had the source code installed perfectly before, and then it just went crazy on me... Oh, well--I'm back in business. Thanks! TAL [Thanks A Lot!], Brant

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Allen: In your $HOME direcotry, edit the file .xinitrc In this file somewhere should be a line that says something like: xhost + blablabla. If you have no need for security (in a small home network like mine...) you can just add in: xhost + and and that should solve the problem. I thin

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread ivan
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:14:53AM -0400, Tommy Malloy wrote: > Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with > applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The > new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get > by. Good

tcplogd causing firewall/proxy to crash

1999-05-04 Thread scratch
Hi, I'm running a small local net, masqueraded behind one linuxbox, extra. Earlier today, it seems I got portscanned (judging from the logs). Tcplogd (afaik part of Wietse Venema's tcp_wrapper), that is installed with Debian by default logged the attempts nicely, but the logs also show this: [--

Re: Archives

1999-05-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 14:28:21 +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > I would like to know if this mailing list is archived somewhere or can we > browse it somehow. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interest

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with > applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The > new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get > by. > Is there a simple way for that user to find every available app

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
dpkg -l | less Fernando T. C. Brandt Instituto de Física | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. de São Paulo | www: http://satie.if.usp.br CP 66318, 05315-970 | tel.: (55) 11 8186718, 99356907 São Paulo - SP - BRAZIL | fax: (55) 11 8186715

Archives

1999-05-04 Thread Urban Gabor
HI, I would like to know if this mailing list is archived somewhere or can we browse it somehow. At the present there are some postings that are uninteresting for me, but it can be important in the future. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2

Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
Do you have ncurses-dev installed? That output looks like what happened to me when I forgot to install ncurses-dev before building my kernel with menuconfig :( On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy All: > > How are ya? > > Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sour

Unstable help.

1999-05-04 Thread David R. Kohel
As with another user I've had problems with unstable. I killed X windows with 3.3.3-1, and can't seem to get it back with 3.3.2. XF86Setup just blanks the screen; returning to the tty1 I just find a segfault message. How much do I need to downgrade? Advice? Secondly, on my laptop, I lost log

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Jean-Marc Bourdaret
A 07:14 04/05/99 -0400, vous avez écrit : > Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with >applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The >new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get >by. >Is there a simple way for th

finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Tommy Malloy
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-04 Thread jesus duran
for the neomagic cards on compaq presarios(i have the 1680) you can now use the svga serverget it from the unstable tree or get it from xfree86.org..there will be no new neomagic-xserver i think because the hardware specs were released to the xfree86 people so they incorporated it int

Corrupted mouse pointer

1999-05-04 Thread Alex Lee
Hi, I'm new to Linux and Debian. I've just recently installed Debian 2.1 and XFree86 3.3.3.1. I had everything running great until I did something. Of course I don't know what! My mouse pointer is now a strange "square box" with vertical lines in it. It moves and works okay around XWindows apps

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-04 Thread Randy Edwards
> Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic > package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable > distributions? Hmm, neither could I! But I'm not making this up, seriously! :-) The package itself is "xserver-neomagic", a non-free/x11 extra package maintai

Routing problems

1999-05-04 Thread Loek Engels
I'm having some problems getting my local network up and running again ever since I've upgraded my system from RH5.1 to Debian 2.1. Even ping cannot get throught to my local network... here's my routing table and eth0 configuration Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref

Re: Gnuserv and emacs20

1999-05-04 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Sat, 1 May 1999 14:22:24 +0100, Ian Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ian> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: >> >> I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4) >> work with emacs20 (package version 20.3-7). Emacs message: >> >> error

Re: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2 [SOLVED]

1999-05-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Printing now works again, after I disconnected the cheap parallel port scanner attached to the same port as the printer. Seems the parport module handles this in another way than the old 2.0 kernels because they did not have problems to shuffle the print data through the scanner first as the 2.2 ha

Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
Shao Zhang wrote: > ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 > > I got the following messages: > > SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operatio

W3C needs help to defeat a patent!

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
See the www.w3.org, and check out it's problem with P3P technology. W3C is working to keep this important security technology in the public domain. They need everyone with the time to research the prior art for this technology in order to get the patent claim rejected. It is currently owned by

Downgrading potato -> slink

1999-05-04 Thread Henri . Bergius
Greetings! This question might be stupid, but... Is there a sensible way for downgrading from unstable distribution back to the stable one. This is because web browsing is very important part of my work and Netscape keeps on crashing on potato (propably due to the new glibc?) Also any other sol

Re: dosfsck - "Root directory has zero size."

1999-05-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. > Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. You will need dosfstools-2.0 (potato) for making and checking Fat3

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-05-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:32:38PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > If you want anybody to shutdown without password, make > /sbin/shutdown a suid executable. Make shutdown a menu choice > in your window manager for user friendliness. > > Don't do the suid thing unless *anybody* logging into your m

Re: Need Project development Software

1999-05-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 01:08:09 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type > that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team > members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web > environment. I find this

Re: Debian 2.1 install help!

1999-05-04 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.1 on a DX2 100 MHz labtop. I am encountering two > problems after the installation, and would appreciate your help. The > first one, I first used a 3Com ethernet/modem combo card to do ftp > install, but since I do not have a permanant IP

Need Project development Software

1999-05-04 Thread John Foster
I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web environment. This is to be used for developing several items of software and other projects.

Debian 2.1 install help!

1999-05-04 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi all, I just installed Debian 2.1 on a DX2 100 MHz labtop. I am encountering two problems after the installation, and would appreciate your help. The first one, I first used a 3Com ethernet/modem combo card to do ftp install, but since I do not have a permanant IP, I am actually using the mode

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread ferret
I've ran a few of these. 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case 2) Watch out for condensation a) Can short the junction b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for a month with the fan fallen off, before it started sig11-ing and I checked inside. I

Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Thank you. ip muiticasting fixed the problem. Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 04 May 1999 13:18:45 +, Shao Zhang wrote: > > >I think I am missing something in my kernel. > > Single NIC? You you have multicasting turned on? > > Multiple

Help on configuring the mailserver.

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am trying to configure my system to have smtp & pop3. But when I try to send the mail to the machine, I get the following: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 203.63.219.177 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 551 '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> not matched: (ERR_104) security v

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