Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Romeu writes: > So, you're telling that the IP that my ISP gives me is <> than the IP of > my ethernet card? Yes. It is the ip of your ppp interface. > I want to write a C program (I know it's a developer issue...), using , > for example, the function gethostname. Where do it applies? When you

Re: More questions...

1999-07-12 Thread Bradley Bell
Definitely go with slink. I would say that to even the most experienced linux users, if they're new to debian. Once you're comfortable with that, consider going to potato. Keep in mind that potato is unstable which means it has not been officially released yet, and won't be for some time. -Brad

floppyless installation

1999-07-12 Thread Chris Dion
Thanks to John Foster and Kent West for their help. When I used ftp to download the instalation images, everything worked perfectly. Chris Dion

More questions...

1999-07-12 Thread Chris Concannon
Hello again I have a few more questions, but first I'd like to sincerely thank everyone who took the time to reply to my last series of questions (the "Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML" thread). It blew my mind when I was getting replies to my questions within an hour or so of mailing th

Re: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?

1999-07-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Jul, Keith G. Murphy wrote about "Re: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?" > "Chrisopher D. Judd" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This is not Debian related, but if you're interested have a look at >> http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/linux-e.html. > > Sounds like he really knows wh

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 01:14:30PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I'm going to bet that it isn't liking the entries in your chap-secrets file. > It probably isn't matching the entry you've made. > Ok, my chap-secrets file is set up like this... \\ \\ I do know that the mu

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 01:27:15PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > me. The advice, oft given, to see what resources a card uses in Windows, and > then try those, was bad advice indeed for me. It threw me WAY off. The main > thing I didn't have a clue about

Re: how to configure atapi cdrom?

1999-07-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Brode wrote: > > How do I apply this? My Debian kernal (2.0.36) doesn't recognize the drive > upon startup. When I go into modconf and try to select cdrom drivers, it > doesn't have a listing for Samsung drives, nor does it list a generic ATAPI > driver. Regarding the third paragraph of t

Tape drive device files?

1999-07-12 Thread Jon Dallara
I've installed a HP Colorado 8GB ide tape drive on my slink system. The kernel detects the tape drive when booting: Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7 Jul 12 13:29:38 sjbp0164 ker

Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 07:31:01PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: > Michael Merten wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: > > > Two questions, > > [snip] > > > Second, I cannot remmember how to change the interrupt request of a > > > pci card. I know I have read ho

Re: pppconfig

1999-07-12 Thread Colin Marquardt
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Romeu writes: >> I looked at my win connection, and there's no DNS server specified in it. > There is probably some way to extract the nameserver numbers form Windows, > but I don't use Windows. Any Win9X users want to comment? In the thread "Argh! I

Re: debian install

1999-07-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Jul, ernie ferran wrote about "debian install" > What packages do I need to download for a complete system and where do I > get them? > > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering

Re: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?

1999-07-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Chrisopher D. Judd" wrote: > > Hi, > > This is not Debian related, but if you're interested have a look at > http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/linux-e.html. Sounds like he really knows what he's doing. Also, look at: http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/990710-e.html for an update.

Software to provide free email service, anybody?

1999-07-12 Thread Pete Templin
Anyone here know of any software packages which simplify the process of offering a free email service like Hotmail? It doesn't have to be _free_, but affordable is important. Operability on Debian Linux is essential. Thanks, Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Systems and Networks Administrator On

debian install

1999-07-12 Thread ernie ferran
What packages do I need to download for a complete system and where do I get them?

Re: Segmentation fault

1999-07-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Did that but makes no difference. Is it relevant that I am using telnet from > a NT box and that I usually start a session by TERM=vt100? > > Found hwtools but man hwtools gets me nowhere, as does man memtest86. > Anyone know how to start memtest86? > How about: cp /usr/

Help - Mail: Qpopper and Outlook

1999-07-12 Thread Mike Patterson
I hate to say I'm using a Microsoft product-- but I am. Pocket Outlook for my HP680 Jornada. I have an slink debian system with qpopper on a local net at 192.168.0.1. It has a modem on it, which I connect to wih my Palmtop using PPP. The palmtop is assigned 192.168.0.69, and can do network stu

Re: pppconfig

1999-07-12 Thread Ray
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:45:47PM -0300, Romeu wrote: > > The problem may be here, in /etc/resolv.conf > search LINUX > nameserver 164.85.35.1 >^ > I didn't know the address of my DNS server when I was setting up my debian > installation. So I put this IP, which is th

1.3 to 2.0 upgrade probs

1999-07-12 Thread Darryl Cording
Hi List, I have had a quick look at the archive list for a clue to this one as it is probably an old issue, but to no avail. I currently have a Deb1.3 system and have finally got around to installing 2.0 on it but have been having all sorts of troubles with my CD-Rom drive. It is a Debian C

how to configure atapi cdrom?

1999-07-12 Thread David Brode
I recently purchased a new atapi cdrom (Samsung model SCR-3231) and I'm having trouble finding a driver for it. According to the CDROM HOWTO at 3.1, ___ 3.1 ATAPI CD-ROM Drives ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) is a protocol for controlling mass storage d

RE: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hurrah indeed! Thanks to Kris and Mark Brown and all who mailed help for this. exim and fetchmail now work. All that's left is to set up IMP for web-based mail access. Patrick > -Original Message- > From: Kris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 12 July 1999 18:29 > To: Patrick K

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1191

1999-07-12 Thread graumann
heh heh,

xterm doesn't work like it did

1999-07-12 Thread Wakko Warner
Before I send a bug or a feature request maybe one of you can help me with this problem. The xterm package that's in slink (I'm not sure about the first 3.3.3.1 released in potato) used to let me hold down any one of shift, alt, and/or ctrl and hit the arrow keys (meaning it sent the same codes re

Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread Romeu
So, you're telling that the IP that my ISP gives me is <> than the IP of my ethernet card? Supose the following scenario: - I'm connected to my ISP and it gives me a IP (say, 146.164.41.75). - I have a little network at home with 2 computers: 192.168.0.1 (which I believe is the default debian giv

Re: deb sources with apt

1999-07-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Jul, Norbert Bous wrote about "deb sources with apt" > Hi folks, > > what line should I use to get Debian sources with apt-get? > > Norbert > > This is what I have been using to grab potato sources for my slink system. Not all mirror's carry sources so find the closest mirror that has

Re: pppconfig

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Romeu writes: > I didn't know the address of my DNS server when I was setting up my > debian installation. So I put this IP, which is the IP from a machine of > the enterprise I work. It's behind a firewall ! I could never reach it ! Right. > I asked to my ISP support a DNS server, and he said th

Re: problems with htaccess

1999-07-12 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
> My apache seems to be ignoring the .htaccess file. Everythings I apologize if I'm insulting your intelligence here, but make sure you have 'AllowOverride AuthConfig' (or 'AllowOverride All') in the appropriate (or , etc.) block in (assuming you're using Debian) /etc/apache/access.conf.

Re: problems with htaccess

1999-07-12 Thread Greg Baker
> Does anyone know of something that could affect apache's behavior > for htaccess? I'm loading the appropiate module and the .htaccess file is > well defined in srm.conf There are a few Apache directives that affect the .htaccess file. I could find: AccessFileName AllowOverride Docs fo

Re: Fax

1999-07-12 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
dyer wrote: > Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've installed efax and it works fine > > Only as root. > > When I try to send a fax message as user > > I get the following message in my fax log. > > /bin/bash: sefax: command not found > > > > I put myself as user into the group dialout and

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 05:19:24PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I have tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], postmaster, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few other > variants to no avail. If you are using exim, have you set local_domains in /etc/exim.conf to something like: local_domains = cassiel.ddns.org : localh

Re: my compiler cannot create executables

1999-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:02:51AM -0400, Wonko wrote: > at least thats the error that i get when i try to install qvwm, whatever > shall i do? Look in the file config.log, which should contain an error message and tell us what it is. It's likely you're missing some packages (eg, gcc or libc6-de

deb sources with apt

1999-07-12 Thread Norbert Bous
Hi folks, what line should I use to get Debian sources with apt-get? Norbert

problems with htaccess

1999-07-12 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! My apache seems to be ignoring the .htaccess file. Everythings correct (the permissions, etc). I've even tried to copy the same .htaccess to a different server and it worked there. Then I looked into the configuration files of the other server and everything seems like mine. D

Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

1999-07-12 Thread Peter Allen
Michael Merten wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: > > Two questions, > [snip] > > Second, I cannot remmember how to change the interrupt request of a > > pci card. I know I have read how to somewhere, but I can't get it > > to work. The problem I am having is

Re: apt (and/or dselect) with other dists (ie. RH, suse, etc)

1999-07-12 Thread Peter Allen
Frisco Rose wrote: > > Howdy all, > > I have been lurkin' for quite some time to see if anybody had thought of > this one. I believe apt currently only handles .deb's but that there was > room left open for the addition of other pkg formats. Anyway my question > is this, Has anyone been able to p

Re: Installing devices

1999-07-12 Thread Peter Allen
Matthew McFarlane wrote: > > How do I manually install an ethernet device? (ne.o) > > I tried "insmod ne io=0x300" or something similar (trying to remember) > and it said the device was busy -- how could the device be busy -- it > hasn't been set up yet. How do I check more info about the device

Re: Where did my disk space go?

1999-07-12 Thread Keith Beattie
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 01:53:51PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > == > How does it look like: > cd ~ > du -sk . > 151081 . > du -sk * | sort -nr | head > 11447 charm I think that using `-a' instead of the `-s

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

1999-07-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Jul, Chris Concannon wrote about "Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML..." > >> I guess mine had huge problems :-) rrlogind and rrdhcpcd are in the > unstable >> distribution. Didn't you say that you were going to upgrade to unstable >> to get the newer X servers for the TNT? > >

Re: XFree86 & G200

1999-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 06:54:37PM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with > XFree86. The one that comes with release 2.1 is XFree86 3.3.2 wich does > > not support the G200. Short of getting a new version of XFree86 and >

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

1999-07-12 Thread Chris Concannon
> AFAIK the older Linksys EtherFast cards used "real" Tulip chipsets and the > newer ones use the "Lite-On" Tulip clone chipset. There are also some other > Tulip clone chipsets but I've never seen a Linksys with anything else. The > only problem I've ever run into with these cards is that they so

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm going to bet that it isn't liking the entries in your chap-secrets file. It probably isn't matching the entry you've made. Michael Merten wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to get ppp to work with MSCHAP80? I've > done (as far as I can tell) everything the /usr/doc/ppp/README.MSCHAP80.gz

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

1999-07-12 Thread Chris Concannon
> I guess mine had huge problems :-) rrlogind and rrdhcpcd are in the unstable > distribution. Didn't you say that you were going to upgrade to unstable > to get the newer X servers for the TNT? I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do yet, to be honest. I do need to upgrade to the newer version

RE: Telephony Apps

1999-07-12 Thread Alex McCool
> > I do not know about anything integrated into Debian but a look at > http://www.linuxtelephony.org/ would be worth a shot. > Thanks for the URL. Pretty limited number of projects going on, but its a start. Alex

Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Hans van den Boogert writes: > But isn't that changed when you invoke #route -add default ppp0? The defaultroute is the route used when no other matches: it makes no sense to have more than one. If you do and they both have the same metric the first one in the routing table seems to be used (I as

Installing devices

1999-07-12 Thread Matthew McFarlane
How do I manually install an ethernet device? (ne.o) I tried "insmod ne io=0x300" or something similar (trying to remember) and it said the device was busy -- how could the device be busy -- it hasn't been set up yet. How do I check more info about the device? Matthew McFarlane -

Re: PPP problems

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Algernon writes: > I have some problems using PPP. I configured diald, ppp, an others so > everything appears to be fine. Did you use pppconfig to configure ppp? > The problem is that I CANNOT ACCES ANYTHING. Can you ping the remote ip? Please post the log file. > Lynx and ftp say they can't f

Re: pppconfig

1999-07-12 Thread Romeu
This is the output of plog: Jul 12 14:17:47 debian pppd[264]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x2db129f0] Jul 12 14:17:47 debian pppd[264]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0xc9973a3a] Jul 12 14:18:17 debian pppd[264]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x2db129f0] Jul 12 14:18:17 debian pppd[264]: rcvd [

Re[2]: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

1999-07-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Been there, done that! It segfaulted. I also tried adding libnewt.40 > from an alienized .rpm which seems to cure the problem, then I tried to > run sndconfig, it segfaulted again. I believe that RH must have a > glibc2.1 dependency in version 6 similar to

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Kris
Patrick Kirk wrote: >Thanks. That worked but the darn thing still won't work. Even though >"patrick" is my login account I get the following errer [snippage] >ipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' >fetchmail: can't even send to patrick! Oh, hurrah, this one pops up _again_. Add: :localhost ...to

apt (and/or dselect) with other dists (ie. RH, suse, etc)

1999-07-12 Thread Frisco Rose
Howdy all, I have been lurkin' for quite some time to see if anybody had thought of this one. I believe apt currently only handles .deb's but that there was room left open for the addition of other pkg formats. Anyway my question is this, Has anyone been able to point the apt source list at anothe

Re: Instalation decisions

1999-07-12 Thread Didi Damian
Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have also been considering a purchase of Caldera. While I am attracted to > the > Debian open principles the Boot Magic and Wordperfect suit also appeal. If you really need BootMagic you could buy PartitionMagic which is a incredibly useful program to

Re: chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!

1999-07-12 Thread Ben Cranston
Robbie Huffman wrote: > I would go back to using lilo, but after running lilo I still get chos at > boot time. Any help with either would be greatly appreciated. See if you have chos installed in the hard disk boot area and lilo installed in a partition boot area. If so, you could use the dos f

Re: GMT ntp servers

1999-07-12 Thread Jens Ritter
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks - another problem solved. > > xntp3 is in and working . > > Out of curiosity, how often does the xntpd correct itself? I don't know. Try to find it out by reading in /usr/doc/xntp3 and the corrosponding man pages or measure it... Jens P.S.: Pl

Re: .fetchmailrc

1999-07-12 Thread Kris
Patrick Kirk wrote: >Also, after chown 0710 I get ^ What happened to chmod? >rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc chown user.group ~/.fetchmailrc -- Kris For a faster reply, use: smaug [{at}] dufas [{dot}] globalnet.

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this > .fetchmailrc: > > set postmaster "patrick" > poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 >user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patri

Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: > Two questions, [snip] > Second, I cannot remmember how to change the interrupt request of a > pci card. I know I have read how to somewhere, but I can't get it > to work. The problem I am having is that both my graphics card > and my

XDM: root can log in, user can not

1999-07-12 Thread Mark Stephen Krueger
Hi, I recently installed debian 2.0. I also upgraded the X package to 3.3.3.1 from the X86Free site. I commented out 'no-start-xdm' and added 'start-xdm' in my /etc/X11/config file so that xdm would start. It starts fine. I can log in as root and it works great. However, if I try to log in as

Re: GMT ntp servers

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks - another problem solved. xntp3 is in and working . Out of curiosity, how often does the xntpd correct itself? Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:07 PM Subject: Re: GMT ntp ser

Re: PPP problems

1999-07-12 Thread Marc Mongeon
# netstat -r you should see an entry something like this: default 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 ppp0 This is assuming that you want to use your ISP as your default route. If the machine is not on another local network, then you definitely do. If you don't see that, then yo

Re[2]: Sendmail and Hostname

1999-07-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I have > > 127.0.0.1ullocalhost > > > in /etc/hosts. > > You need a fully qualified domain name, i.e., one with a period in it. Ah yes, it's all coming back to me. So this would work for him also: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain l

Re: gnome-session/panel error

1999-07-12 Thread mheyes
Thanks for the reply. I did that, and that does fix the panel problem. I'm still having a problem with gnome-session though. I used to be able to start gnome-session either with xdm or kwm and it would startup the last window manager I was using, and any other programs that were running when I

Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Hans writes: > I'm also not sure about something in pppconfig: it asks you for an IP > address, but strongly advises you not to change the 'noipdefault' . It > furthermore suggests that if you have a local IP (I read in this: the > intranet's IP of your machine, but I could be wrong) You are. By

Re: Uncompress ".deb" files?

1999-07-12 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
On 12 Jul, Marco Nuessgen wrote: > Hello. > Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the > installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. > Greetings, > Marco i don't understand your reason, but here's what you do: ar vx foo.deb tar vzxf data.tar.gz (of

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks. That worked but the darn thing still won't work. Even though "patrick" is my login account I get the following errer rhino:~# fetchmail 3 messages for maxy36 at pop.dial.pipex.com (52287 octets). reading message 1 of 3 (29367 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like rec ipient addr

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329
The command your looking for is 'chmod 710 /root/.fetchmailrc' NOT chown which changes the owner of the file. Hope that helps Graham. >Hi all, > >After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this >.fetchmailrc: > >set postmaster "patrick" >poll pop.dial.pipex.com with prot

netdate (was Re: GMT ntp servers)

1999-07-12 Thread Jens Ritter
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a command I can put in cron to have the time set by a ntp server > that is appropriate for the UK? There is another program called netdate provided by netstd. Maybe you want to have a look at this. Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: GMT ntp servers

1999-07-12 Thread Jens Ritter
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a command I can put in cron to have the time set by a ntp server > that is appropriate for the UK? With xntp3 you donot need to have a crontab entry. The xntpd daemon will take care of it. P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At

Re: Uncompress ".deb" files?

1999-07-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Nuessgen) writes: > Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the > installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. The *.deb files are simple "ar" archives. You can extract their contents with: ar x file.deb Do a "man ar" for more

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this > .fetchmailrc: > > set postmaster "patrick" > poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 >user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patri

Re: ipchains redirect oddity

1999-07-12 Thread Robert Rati
> ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 8080 -j REDIRECT > > ipchains: No chain by that name The chain is forward and not redirect I believe. Read the ipchains HOW-TO and that should solve your problems. I believe you need another utility to do port redirection, but I can't get th

Re: GMT ntp servers

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Is there a command I can put in cron to have the time set by a ntp server that is appropriate for the UK? Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 11:18 AM Subject: Re: GMT ntp servers > Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Uncompress ".deb" files?

1999-07-12 Thread Marco Nuessgen
Hello. Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. Greetings, Marco

Re: SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0

1999-07-12 Thread Robert Rati
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jason Carley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have > loaded the > kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it > found. > Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for

Understanding apm on an intranet server

1999-07-12 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Is there some walkthrough to configure apm to do everything to lower power consumption (i.e. turn off hard drives, set the cpu to low power mode, switch off the monitor, whatever else) even if I'm not using a laptop? It could be interesting to have a server (e.g. a print server, or a local

printing on a pcl printer is slow!

1999-07-12 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I have a Debian box that, among other things, shares an HP LaserJet 5 connected to a parallel (ECP/EPP) port for a mixed win95/linux environment. If I print from win95 everything is fine, but printing from Linux (that involves using GhostScript to convert PostScript to PCL to feed the prin

my compiler cannot create executables

1999-07-12 Thread Wonko
at least thats the error that i get when i try to install qvwm, whatever shall i do?

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

1999-07-12 Thread John Foster
Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > > Yes. And I would have been dead without sndconfig. I used alien to create a > > deb and then installed the deb. > > > > The rpm I used was: sndconfig-0.33-1.i386.rpm. This on a potato level Debian > > system... > > Hi, > > I was curious, so I d

limiting connections for each IP

1999-07-12 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there anyway to place an upper limit in the number of connections from a machine? Let me explain myself, I want to limit the number of tcp connections from a machine to my server in order to limit possible DoS attacks from a single IP. How can I do that? TIA!

.fetchmailrc

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this .fetchmailrc: set postmaster "patrick" poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options fetchall warnings 3600 But I get this message when I try to

Re: How to fix Netscape in the interim

1999-07-12 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 04:58:28PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > To fix netscape, do "apt-get source liburi-perl", then edit > debian/control to depend on perl5 instead of perl. Do a > "debian/rules binary" and install the resulting package. Voila! > Netscape will install Does this not break libu

IPchains oddity

1999-07-12 Thread R . Gregory
Greetings-- I've been playing around with ipchains with respect to redirect rules; just a basic setup, to redirect a high port to a low one locally. I already have IPmasqing setup, so the forwarding business is taken care of, and I am fairly certain 'transparent proxying' was compiled (this is a h

ipchains redirect oddity

1999-07-12 Thread R . Gregory
Greetings-- I've been playing around with ipchains with respect to redirect rules; just a basic setup, to redirect a high port to a low one locally. I already have IPmasqing setup, so the forwarding business is taken care of, and I am fairly certain 'transparent proxying' was compiled (this is a h

fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this .fetchmailrc: set postmaster "patrick" poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options fetchall warnings 3600 But I get this message when I try to r

Re: i740 video card drivers

1999-07-12 Thread Peter Allen
James Uther wrote: > i think the source has been handed over to xfree, so the problem will go > away soon anyway (thank god). :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-) Yipeee(!) I can now try writing optimised drivers for SVGALib, and all those things I wanted to write

un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

1999-07-12 Thread Peter Allen
Two questions, first something that has been annoying me for ages is that I can't umount my /usr partition, it gives device or resource busy. This happens even when I boot from rescue disk and mount it manually, then try umount ing it. Also, the kernel cannot umount it when it shuts down, and can

SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0

1999-07-12 Thread Jason Carley
Hi all, I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have loaded the kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it found. Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for SCSI device 0). There is no /dev/sg* on my slink system.

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I have set up hamm on my IBM Aptiva (model 2153-E2U). I would like to get > the built-in sound card working, but it appears I will have to recompile the > kernel. Since I am a LINUX newbie, this is not a trivial task. Sorry, there is no other way. But compiling your own kernel would be a goo

PPP problems

1999-07-12 Thread Algernon NG
Howdy, I have some problems using PPP. I configured diald, ppp, an others so everything appears to be fine. I dial, ok. Username, password accepted. When I look into the log file it says local IP address is x, remote is y. OK. The problem is that I CANNOT ACCES ANYTHING. Lynx and ftp say they c

potato ethernet error

1999-07-12 Thread Daniels, Craig
I'm running potato (i386) with the 2.2.10 kernel primarily for samba and netatalk services. It appears that one Mac on the network (a 9500/120 with OS 8.1) causes the same error message to start popping up on the console - eth0: tx interrupt but no status - and file transfers slow to a crawl. /pr

Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread Hans van den Boogert
>> Not sure what you mean by that last sentence, since you say you are *not* >> connecting mack to the internet. Off the top of my head I wonder if you >> had 'defaultroute' set as a ppp option? > >He does if he used pppconfig, but he may also have a default route to the >ethernet interface in /et

xdm chooser "choosing" between local and remote

1999-07-12 Thread Stuart Ballard
Oops - misspelt the address. The actual mail is in the forwarded attachment...--- Begin Message --- Is it possible to configure xdm to run the chooser by default, but provide "itself" (ie localhost, or its own hostname) as one of the options? The setup I am envisaging is one in which I want to do m

gnome-session/panel error

1999-07-12 Thread mheyes
I've been using Gnome 1.0 and Enlightenment 0.15 from potato for several weeks without any problems. Now, when I try to start panel, I get the following error message: **WARNING**: could not get name service **ERROR**: file goad.c: line 606 (real_goad_server_activate): ASSERTION FAILED: (name se

Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks. I discovered I was using the NT telnet client from work the wrong way. Problem solved now. Patrick - Original Message - From: Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:43 PM Subject: Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet > Patrick: > > Telnet is (or contains) a "t

Re: dhcp and dual-homed filtering host

1999-07-12 Thread Marc Haber
On 08 Jul 1999 01:29:07 +0200, you wrote: >> "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. I don't have

Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet

1999-07-12 Thread Marc Mongeon
Patrick: Telnet is (or contains) a "terminal emulator". The terminal that your telnet is emulating (apparently) is the DEC VT-100. A terminal is a physical piece of hardware that consists of a monitor, a keyboard, and a serial port, and not much else. Since your computer also has a monitor, a k

Re: Sendmail and Hostname

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Marshal writes: > However, I have > 127.0.0.1ullocalhost > in /etc/hosts. You need a fully qualified domain name, i.e., one with a period in it. Just make one up. Here's the first line of my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 hasler.dhh hasler localhost -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein writes: > Looks like overkill; I _think_ it's not recommended to use both 'search' > and 'domain'. It's overkill to use either in most circumstances. > I would make that look like: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.0.1 mick.fleamarket.nl mick > 192.168.0.2 mack.fleamarket.nl mack

Re: pppconfig

1999-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Romeu writes: > I put a # in front of the line 'lock' in /etc/ppp/options. Why? That has nothing to do with your problem. > Can anyone help me? What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? What is the output of the 'plog' coommand? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill E

Re: Network setup.

1999-07-12 Thread Hans van den Boogert
>> I'm afraid to get into routing trouble, where mick doesn't query the ISP's >> DNS server. I had this before: the local network worked fine, but I >> couldn't get mick to route to the internet for addresses other than >> 192.168.01 and 192.168.02. > >Not sure what you mean by that last sentence,

hostname not reading /etc/hostname

1999-07-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've just noticed that hostname doesn't read /etc/hostname when called with the command "hostname --file /etc/hostname". This may be because I'm using kernel 2.2.10 in slink. I've had to modify /etc/rcS/d/S40hostname.sh to make it work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Wi

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