Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread JonesMB
All this reminds me of my printer & Ethernet card woes during the weekend. I decided that I was tired of using Linux with very limited multimedia capabilities. It seemed to reinforce the notion my Windows friends have that Linus is for servers not workstations. I bought a SoundBlaster PCI128

preventing weak passwords

1999-07-07 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello all, im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of "dictionary cracking" my users passwords so that

Re: dhcp and dual-homed filtering host

1999-07-07 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> I have a similar setup. You just need to tell dhcpd which Jens> ethernet interface you want to serve up IPs for. This can be Jens> done by editing /etc/init.d/dhcpd. Here's the changes I made: You should also be able to do t

ethernet card probs

1999-07-07 Thread Ted Manka
I try to install the 3c59X and it just crashes!well it freezes. I have the 3com etherlink XL what should I do? ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Re: D-Link

1999-07-07 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 02:16:27PM -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > NIC card question . > > Does anyone know if the D-link DFE-530TX NIC > is supported ? > > Peter Someone has already told you this needs the via-rhine module, but I thought I'd note suse runs a hardware database w

Re: D-Link

1999-07-07 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > NIC card question . > > Does anyone know if the D-link DFE-530TX NIC > is supported ? VIA-Rhine driver. I have 12 machines with these in which are dual boot NT/Linux. So far we havn't run much stuff on them in Linux mode, but in NT mo

Re: I need help

1999-07-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ricardo "Domínguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi my name is Ricardo Dominguez Ezquerro, and i work in Anahuac Universityin > Mexico City, but i have 2 problems, the first one: > > I need install Linux at Sparcstation 4 but in all pages exist the sofware > for PC, but for Sparc nothing. >

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-07 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:47:06 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >> I think you don't get the point. >> >> He is trying to empty sendmail's queue, i.e. send pending messages to the >> receiver-MTA. > >So he is. My mistake. > >Why is the sending MTA attempting to send a blank message, then? (If that's >

Re: Fax

1999-07-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > How is it possible that you can't > fax in linux with a class 1 fax modem > Using mgetty+sendfax. As far as I understand the mgetty-documentation, mgetty cannot use class 1 fax modems. > > Does anybody know a way to send a fax > in linux with

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-07 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > >Rolf Edlund: > >> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v): ... Jiri Baum: > >3) you do know that this is a server, and that user-friendly mail > >programs exist, don't you? Ralf G. R. Bergs: > I think you don't get the point. > > He is trying to empty s

Re: Bind

1999-07-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Bind Date: Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 05:00:21PM -0400 In reply to:Brian Schramm Quoting Brian Schramm([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1. I do not have a network but I want > bind to handle caching of DNS inquires. I am doing this so I can use th

Netatalk

1999-07-07 Thread Alec Smith
I have a home LAN with a MacOS client that I'd like to give file and print access on onea of my Linux machines using Netatalk. The default configuration does not appear to provide for setting a Zone and the like. So, how would I go about using Netatalk on a Slink/kernel 2.0.37 machine to create a

Re: Fax

1999-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 06:33:50PM +0200, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > How is it possible that you can't > fax in linux with a class 1 fax modem > Using mgetty+sendfax. > > Does anybody know a way to send a fax > in linux with a class 1 fax modem I have never tried mgetty+sendfax, but hylafax

Re: netscape packages

1999-07-07 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 06:25:57PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > The netscape-smotif-ver packages depend on both No both but any of them :-)^ > communicator-smotif-ver and navigator-smotif-ver. Why would I want > to install both? -- |. ICQ : 25529539 |

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Just my opinion Date: Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:06:45PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > *- On 6 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Just my opinion" > > Ipswitch wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: > >> > >> > > th

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Thanks Date: Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:46:15PM +0200 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Max, > > IMO your problem with the installation CD´s can have one of two causes : > > 1. There is something in your already installed li

Re: Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation

1999-07-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't know but it's a bad idea ! > Wmaker, X11amp, gnome & wine depends on glibc2.1. So, if you install one of > these packages, you'll get the libc6_2.1 package. In other words, if you > have the glibc2.1, you can upgrade to potat

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1. There is something in your already installed linux that prevents the > install from > running again. This should easily be solved by formating the partitions you > are > installing to during setup ( = create new filesystem on partition Definitely doublecheck t

Mutt & PGP & Debian User Mailinglist

1999-07-07 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
P. van Tilburg writes: > 1) I use mutt to read the debian-user-digest. It lists all attachments >nicely in one mail. But how do I reply to a message. I can go in the >attachment-list and save the mail I want to reply to, but that isn't >very handy either ;) You can use the "view

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

1999-07-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > > That is not a standard e-mail feature. There are a VERY FEW Microsoft-ish > > e-mail clients that have a "Request return receipt" feature, but that ONLY > > works when the receiving mail client supports that feature as well, and > >

Re: Exim troubles

1999-07-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:01:29PM -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > What upgrade? From which version to which? > The latest in unstable The configuration file format has changed a bit since 2.x (the version in Slink). The automatic script should handle it without any problems (it worked for me), b

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Brad
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > My idea was to partition as follows: > > #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb I'd recommend putting all of / except for /usr, /var, and /home (and any other nonstandard /dir) here. 100M should be fine for that; my system has that setup

Re: KDE : why not in Debian?

1999-07-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 16:46:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Probably because Debian doesn't want to force KDE on people who like GNOME. Definitely not. The whole of the X environment (with the exception of xlib6g), is optional, let alone any particular applications or desktop environments

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux (IDE/IDE quirks)

1999-07-07 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:28:59PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:07:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > > The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would an IDE CD-RW be > > easily used in Debian? Also, which drives are recommended? I'm more > > interested in burnin

Re: D-Link

1999-07-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Does anyone know if the D-link DFE-530TX NIC > is supported ? Yes, it uses the VIA RHINE chipset, I am not very fond of it though, it gives lots of odd dmesg output :| Jason

RE: accessing the dos partition

1999-07-07 Thread Person, Roderick
When you use dselect, did you chose to install from a existing partition/filesystem? > -Original Message- > From: pplaw [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:38 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: accessing the dos partition > > hello debian commun

Re: accessing the dos partition

1999-07-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > hello debian community, > > i've installed the base system from the net. however, i cannot > access/mount the dos partition, which is where i've downloaded other > packages. (i've tried "dselect" and "apt-get".) > > ...any suggestions. > > thx. > > bentley taylor. Create a mount partiti

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 07:03:27AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > My idea was to partition as follows: > > #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb > #2 ntfs or vfat 4-5gb for windows > #3 swap (128 -256mb) does 2.X support max swap size > 128mb now? > #4 ext2 / rest of the disk (mo

accessing the dos partition

1999-07-07 Thread pplaw
hello debian community, i've installed the base system from the net. however, i cannot access/mount the dos partition, which is where i've downloaded other packages. (i've tried "dselect" and "apt-get".) ...any suggestions. thx. bentley taylor. //

D-Link

1999-07-07 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: NIC card question . Does anyone know if the D-link DFE-530TX NIC is supported ? Peter begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+ 416 929 1056 tel;work:1+ 416 929 1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.GenXl.com org:GenX Internet Labs.;Operations adr:;;238a Gerrard St. East ;Toronto

Re: Bind

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Schramm
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "Brian" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1. I do not have a > Brian> network but I want bind to handle caching of DNS inquires. I > Brian> am doing this so I can use the sendmail gen

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread Doug Dine
Max, The whole point is that things can work just fine. It does take a little patience and there's lots to learn. When it comes to documentation there is alot available and not just online. The Debian Users Guide is a must and there are many other books available too. Also, the Debain user help

Telephony Apps

1999-07-07 Thread Alex McCool
Hi All, Anyone know of any telephony apps, possibility to replace an aging automated answer service? TIA Alex McCool Cadscape Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Max; Yes, if you want to use /dev/hda5 as the /usr directory then you must choose to initialize "another partition" during the installation otherwise all of the files normally destined for /usr (quite a few) will be copied to /usr on the root filesystem. If you were to later initialize /dev/hd

Re: ultra ata/66 controllers

1999-07-07 Thread Varga Robert
> > I've got one of Promise's Ultra/66's running just fine here at work. We've > got it running under kernel verion 2.2.6 with a patch for the controller. > Patches against 2.2.10 are at http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma. I use a 2.0.36 kernel and would not like to upgrade to 2.2 yet.

Re: Mutt & PGP & Debian User Mailinglist

1999-07-07 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 05:14:35PM +0200, P. van Tilburg wrote: > > Hi all! > > I am sometime on this list now, and I have some questions. > > 1) I use mutt to read the debian-user-digest. It lists all attachments >nicely in one mail. But how do I reply to a message. I can go in the >at

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

1999-07-07 Thread Christian Lavoie
> No flames to you:-) > My personal experience differs from yours. However, recognize that X is a > network GUI as opposed to Windowz which is an "integral" GUI. > Even on a single workstation X is running as a client/server model. > Essentially every keystroke, mouse event, screen draw act

Re: ultra ata/66 controllers

1999-07-07 Thread Ares
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Varga Robert wrote: > > Does anyone have some experience with ultra/ata 66 controllers? > > Do they operate under Linux, if they do, do I need to use some special > drivers to them, or they work out of the box? > > If I do need, where can I find them? > > What are the experienc

Re: nfs-client -- Solved

1999-07-07 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 06:42:06PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was upgrading my potato box and got this as the nfs-client was being set > > up. > > I also get an error message about this when I am rebooting. > > >

ultra ata/66 controllers

1999-07-07 Thread Varga Robert
Does anyone have some experience with ultra/ata 66 controllers? Do they operate under Linux, if they do, do I need to use some special drivers to them, or they work out of the box? If I do need, where can I find them? What are the experiences with Promise Ultra/ATA 66 and with the Abit Hot-Boar

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

1999-07-07 Thread Bill Leach
No flames to you:-) My personal experience differs from yours. However, recognize that X is a network GUI as opposed to Windowz which is an "integral" GUI. Even on a single workstation X is running as a client/server model. Essentially every keystroke, mouse event, screen draw action, etc. m

Re: debian-user split

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jul, Jonathan Sharp wrote about "Re: debian-user split" > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > > I thought I should add my comments to this subject. I can appreciate that > a newbie list is not disirable since it would be newbies leading newbies, > but at the moment there is so much

Re: nfs-client

1999-07-07 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I was upgrading my potato box and got this as the nfs-client was being set up. > I also get an error message about this when I am rebooting. > > Here goes: > > Setting up nfs-client (1.4.3-2) ... > Starting NFS client se

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 7 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh, and as to your modem problem : Which kernel are you using? The > /dev/ttyx becomes obsolete with the 2.2.x series, replaced by /dev/cuax. This is exactly reversed. The /dev/cuax devices are obsolete. You should always use the /dev/ttySx devices. See,

Adding a second Nic

1999-07-07 Thread Rick Salvador
Is the proper way to add a second nic to a debian 2.1 system by adding it to the files in /etc/modutils ? In /etc/modutils/modconf I have the following: alias eth0 3c90x alias eth1 eepro options eepro io=0x300 irq=5 I have a 3com905b PCI and a ISA intel EtherExpress pro The 3com card lo

Fax

1999-07-07 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, How is it possible that you can't fax in linux with a class 1 fax modem Using mgetty+sendfax. Does anybody know a way to send a fax in linux with a class 1 fax modem Cuno

Re: Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation

1999-07-07 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:19:02PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some > packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so > that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without being asked to download > 63.1M

BUG ??

1999-07-07 Thread Sami Dalouche
In the debian installation, it asks if we prefer having the time in GMT or in LOCAL format. But There is a confusion. GMT is used instead of UTC. Here is the difference : GMT is based on the earth rotation, so it's not regular. UTC is the universal time and is very precise. see http://opda

Re: debian-user split

1999-07-07 Thread Jonathan Sharp
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote: I thought I should add my comments to this subject. I can appreciate that a newbie list is not disirable since it would be newbies leading newbies, but at the moment there is so much activity that I don't have time to read the 100 odd articles that come to

WINS server

1999-07-07 Thread Tri Johan F
I have network configuration like this Net1--10.14.200.0/24 -[Router]---Net2--10.14.4.0/24 | | | | | -> 10.14.4.1 >10.14.200.202 I set up Router using Debian Linux

Re: Samba 2.0x on Slink

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jul, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote about "Samba 2.0x on Slink" > > Hi, > > I need Samba 2.0.x on my Slink system. Do you know some URL where > I can get debs for it? > If not, can I compile the source from potato in a slink system? > Some problem with this? Will it fail? >

Mutt & PGP & Debian User Mailinglist

1999-07-07 Thread P. van Tilburg
Hi all! I am sometime on this list now, and I have some questions. 1) I use mutt to read the debian-user-digest. It lists all attachments nicely in one mail. But how do I reply to a message. I can go in the attachment-list and save the mail I want to reply to, but that isn't very hand

Re: g++ & -lcrypt

1999-07-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jaycee wrote: > linker, it says there are undefined references to char *crypt. > This same program compiles perfectly under gcc. > any suggestions? > char* crypt is not declared extern "C"? OK

nfs-client

1999-07-07 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I was upgrading my potato box and got this as the nfs-client was being set up. I also get an error message about this when I am rebooting. Here goes: Setting up nfs-client (1.4.3-2) ... Starting NFS client services: rpc.lockdlockdsvc: Function not implemented rpc.statd. Whar does this mea

Setting up additional domains.

1999-07-07 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, we have installed Debian slink on our web server. It has been running like a dream! Now we want to host two new domains on this server. Which files do we have to change to add the new domains, and where can I find documentation (for non Linux guru's) on how to do this on Debian? Also, do we

Re: printing from WP8

1999-07-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
That did it. I used just the simple Apple Laserwriter. Thanks! Bob Nielsen wrote: > > What I did was to select a PostScript driver (one of the laserwriters) > and print to lp. It works fine with magicfilter. > > Bob > > On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:23:19PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > > I've s

Re: hardware block size on scsi cdrom

1999-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Strange, I thought the default block size for an ISO9660 filesystem was 2048. I'm not sure what this block size refers too. I'm not sure what exactly would happen if you changed it. Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > I have a scsi cdrom (Plextor) and a scsi cdwriter (Yamaha). They both > have a jumper

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Max, IMO your problem with the installation CD´s can have one of two causes : 1. There is something in your already installed linux that prevents the install from running again. This should easily be solved by formating the partitions you are installing to during setup ( = create new filesystem

Re: dhcp and dual-homed filtering host

1999-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I have a similar setup. You just need to tell dhcpd which ethernet interface you want to serve up IPs for. This can be done by editing /etc/init.d/dhcpd. Here's the changes I made: helios$ diff -c /etc/init.d/dhcpd~ /etc/init.d/dhcpd *** /etc/init.d/dhcpd~ Tue Feb 25 20:05:56 1997 --- /etc/init

Caller ID + mgetty

1999-07-07 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, We are running small ISP. Recently I tried to get Caller ID of PPP dial-up users. As I had read from mgetty documentation the #CID=1 modem command (with nomder of rings set = 2) switch on this mode. Howevery it does not work for me, though this Acer modem support it. Where can I find more info

Re: Samba 2.0x on Slink

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Stoev
There is such thing in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/ There are several parts of Samba in different packages. Probably you don't need all of them: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/samba-common_2.1.0alpha0.19990412-1_i386.deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/ex

Re: Samba 2.0x on Slink

1999-07-07 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I need Samba 2.0.x on my Slink system. Do you know some URL where > I can get debs for it? http://www.samba.org > If not, can I compile the source from potato in a slink system? > Some problem with this? Will it fail?

Re: SQUID FILTER LIST SITE

1999-07-07 Thread Jonathan Hall
Go to the squid web page (I don't remember the URL right off hand). There is a page of "Related links". On that page are links to many squid redirectors--extensions, if you will, to squid, that allow for that sort of thing. Take a look at squidGuard--that's the one I've configured (but then deci

Re: Alternastive to using squid

1999-07-07 Thread Jonathan Hall
Probably just IP Masquerading. There should be a HOWTO about it. On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a P200MMX with 32MB of RAM and 2 NICs that I want to use as a gateway > machine to the Internet. > > I do not need the caching, etc. that one gets with squid. What do

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jul, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Huge hard disk...how to partition" > I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to > potatoe when it is released. (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb > now that REAL smp is in the kernel). > > My question is how to partitio

Samba 2.0x on Slink

1999-07-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I need Samba 2.0.x on my Slink system. Do you know some URL where I can get debs for it? If not, can I compile the source from potato in a slink system? Some problem with this? Will it fail? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's hea

finding corrupted files

1999-07-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
After some experimenting with apm to have my noisy harddisk spin down using apm -s, somehow one of my glibc6 library files was corrupted, causing programs using that library to exit with a segmentation fault. This happened in a library used by syslogd, and as a result my system would enter runlev

Re: Netscape .debs conflict with perl5.004?

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Boonstra
Everybody, Thanks to Bob and Brian for the help. Bob is right about the safety -- a late-night session with dselect over the weekend totally screwed up my system (which I had pointing to unstable in order to fetch some drivers I needed). I recommend removing unstable from your sour

Re: Alternastive to using squid

1999-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:35:49PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a P200MMX with 32MB of RAM and 2 NICs that I want to use as a gateway > machine to the Internet. > > I do not need the caching, etc. that one gets with squid. What do I need to > do just to have internet access vi

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

1999-07-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > Can somebody point me to the place where an standard for > automatically acknowledging/confirming email (that is, I want to know if > my email has been read by the receiver) is -it there exists one-? > > I'll be also be very grateful if you point me

Perl problem

1999-07-07 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, I get big problems with perl using potato and apt. I suppose it is due to a new version which brings conflicts. I tried a few tricks, but nothing works. I suppose other persons have the same problem as me, and had a look on the web debian-user mailing list archive but it was last updated M

Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to potatoe when it is released. (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb now that REAL smp is in the kernel). My question is how to partition the disk. I probably need to dual boot with windows 95 or NT (probably will use NT d

on Compaq FORTRAN: help to put pressure

1999-07-07 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha as well. Below is a response I received from the Compaq code developers at University of New Hampshire who are working on the port of the FORTRAN/C compilers to Linux Alpha. For my particular appli

Re: Alternastive to using squid

1999-07-07 Thread Angel Parra Cerrada
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a P200MMX with 32MB of RAM and 2 NICs that I want to use as a gateway > machine to the Internet. > > I do not need the caching, etc. that one gets with squid. What do I need to > do just to have internet access via this machine? > > Patrick > > -- >

sloooooow apache

1999-07-07 Thread rnewton3
Any Apache geniuses have an idea about this; I want to create a strictly limited access web server, available only to selected IP addresses. >From the Apache documentation I understood that you could allow specific IP addresses using the 'allow from' line. So I changed the access.conf file from or

Re: Exim, Pine, and smtp-server

1999-07-07 Thread Dpk
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: Hi, I use exim as the MTA and the relay_domains option is not set (commented out). When the smtp-server parameter is configured in pine to be that for the machine running the MTA, I get an error whenever I send mail to non-local addr

RE: Configuring two networks with the same interface card

1999-07-07 Thread Vadim Solonovich
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 2:26 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Configuring two networks with the same interface card > It has nothing to do with this, but I have the same error when my > IS

Re: SQUID FILTER LIST SITE

1999-07-07 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hello Thomas, > How can I put a list of the URLs where my clients can't access and there are > these list in internet. I'm administering a Squid proxy for my company, and I'm using such a deny-list. Here are the relevant lines from my squid.conf file : ---

Exim, Pine, and smtp-server

1999-07-07 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I use exim as the MTA and the relay_domains option is not set (commented out). When the smtp-server parameter is configured in pine to be that for the machine running the MTA, I get an error whenever I send mail to non-local addresses. The error says that the administrator has set up

Re: Alternastive to using squid

1999-07-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a P200MMX with 32MB of RAM and 2 NICs that I want to use as a gateway > machine to the Internet. > > I do not need the caching, etc. that one gets with squid. What do I need to > do just to have internet access via this machine?

SQUID FILTER LIST SITE

1999-07-07 Thread Thomas Cavinato
How can I put a list of the URLs where my clients can't access and there are these list in internet. thank you also for my English.  Thomas Cavinato  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  INFOLOGIC S.R.L.  http://www.infologic.it  Via Vecchia 43  I-35127 Padova ITALY  tel/fax +39 49 8022139

Re: Alternastive to using squid

1999-07-07 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:35:49PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I do not need the caching, etc. that one gets with squid. What do I need to > do just to have internet access via this machine? Take a look at tinyproxy... It should do what you're after (it's just a proxy, no caching). Or you could

Re: Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?

1999-07-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 18:59:44 GMT, you wrote: >It looks like klogd on startup reads everything that is already in the >kernel ring buffer and dumps it off to syslog before going to its >normal operation mode. Okay, now a different question. I see that not all boot messages are written into syslog.

Alternastive to using squid

1999-07-07 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have a P200MMX with 32MB of RAM and 2 NICs that I want to use as a gateway machine to the Internet. I do not need the caching, etc. that one gets with squid. What do I need to do just to have internet access via this machine? Patrick

Unable to start X11 - XF86Config FILE

1999-07-07 Thread Artur Correia
Once again, thank you! Before showing you the content of my config file, i should tell you that my monitor is rather "conflituous", meaning that, although in it's manual it says it's SVGA compatible, under windows for instance, it simply won't run on a 800x600 definition or anything above t

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:07:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would an IDE CD-RW be > easily used in Debian? Also, which drives are recommended? I'm more > interested in burning CD-R discs than the ReWrite capabilities. With the right kernel options,

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

1999-07-07 Thread Ted Harding
On 07-Jul-99 Pere Camps wrote: > Jonathan, > >> That is not a standard e-mail feature. There are a VERY FEW >> Microsoft-ish >> e-mail clients that have a "Request return receipt" feature, but that >> ONLY >> works when the receiving mail client supports that feature as well, >> and >> has it ena

Re: Netscape and X resources

1999-07-07 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Gregan wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > Does anybody know where I can find a list of the X resources that Netscape > (4.61) supports? I've had a good look around and come up with nothing (except > one .Xdefaults file which doesn't do what I want). > > Specifically, I'd like to change the fo

Re: Configuring two networks with the same interface card

1999-07-07 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Vadim" == Vadim Solonovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vadim> Hi ! Vadim> I want to set up my Debian to work with two ip addresses on Vadim> different networks with one ethernet card. Asuming two Vadim> different physical networks 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0 : [...] V

Re: The vexed 2-CD problem...

1999-07-07 Thread Ray
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 03:47:20AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Now as to the abovementioned 'vexed problem,' since I'm the resident Debian > advocate where I hang out, has any progress been made on the two-cd thing? Do > they work now? I tried it a while back and it seemed to work but I t

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 03:04:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > To all-- I have 2 Linux books, and before I even began I downloaded and > printed the the users guide, GNU Installation guide, and the Debian > Tutorial. Maybe I'm just slow. My guess is that maybe you're just trying to abs

my arrow keys kill shells?!

1999-07-07 Thread Geocrawler.com
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi all, When I use the tab-key, escape-key or any of the arrow-keys I kill my shells in X11. And I logout if not in X11. Could anyone point me to what logfiles etc I can check on

Configuring two networks with the same interface card

1999-07-07 Thread Vadim Solonovich
Hi ! I want to set up my Debian to work with two ip addresses on different networks with one ethernet card. Asuming two different physical networks 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0 : # insmod ip_alias.o # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

1999-07-07 Thread Pere Camps
Jonathan, > That is not a standard e-mail feature. There are a VERY FEW Microsoft-ish > e-mail clients that have a "Request return receipt" feature, but that ONLY > works when the receiving mail client supports that feature as well, and > has it enabled. That's why I was asking. Too bad.

Re: Exim troubles

1999-07-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => Man! Exim is really pissing me off! I just upgraded and now I can't => send mail => to any addresses at my ISP, I have to "masquerade" my box as my ISP => so mail => will get through to any addresses but if I do exim doesn't query the => "Smart => host" for

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Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread maxalbert
>Mmm, Buy a Linux book download the debian users guide and print it. >Turn your PC off. >Go sit in a chair and relax and forget the past. >Read the users guide from A to Z and from Z to A. >Several day's or weeks later you turn your pc on. >And you will see, debian isn't that difficult. > >Oh, yea

XBanner on remote display?

1999-07-07 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi all, I have just set up xappeal (the DOS program that change PC into X-terminal) on friend's computer and he can now log-in into my Debian 2.1 box in graphical mode. There is only one problem -- on my console xdm login screen looks nice thanks to XBanner, while his screen is just plain (like xd

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-07 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:12:59 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >Rolf Edlund: >> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v): >> >> 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".". >> >>> . >> >> And it just sits there, doing nothing ? [...] >3) you do know that this is a server,

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