Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-17 Thread Bill Leach
Well, that is because exim (nor sendmail, smail, etc.) does not "do" POP2/3 (or IMAP). The MTAs (exim, etc.) use SMTP or the UNIX pipe to process mail. To pick up mail from an ISP when you are an "intermittent" connection calls for a protocol such as POP and that function is supplied by another

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-17 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: > I'm trying to use any kind of txt-based one, preferrably the easiest. John > Foster reccomended that I use exim (previously), Exim is a fine program but it's not a mail reader. > I can't understand 1/2 the > stuff the config file ask

Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andri" == Andri Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andri> Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing Andri> scripts for the new user? I don't know any programm that does this. I think anyone uses a custom script, written especially for his needs, to add new users (a

Re: Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Andrei" == Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can instead deny them telnet access in /etc/hosts.deny >> with something like: >> >> in.telnetd: ALL Andrei> That would refuse telnet access to everyone, and she would not be able to Andrei> telnet to the box from somewhere else to

Re: docs in /usr/doc not supported?

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pollywog> Where will documents go now? I cannot RTM if I cannot find it ;) /usr/share/doc In Policy 3.0.0, Debian has moved to FHS as the path layout. Install the debian-policy package. FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Ciao, Mart

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Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
http://opensrc.org/dlite/dlite.html is a debian for ISPs distro. Patrick - Original Message - From: André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, 17 July 1999 20:28 Subject: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian? > Do you know where I can find information

Re: docs in /usr/doc not supported?

1999-07-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since yesterday, when I run 'apt-get upgrade', I get these errors: > dhelp_parse: Warning - documents in /usr/doc are no longer supported! > Where will documents go now? I cannot RTM if I cannot find it ;) /usr/share/doc -

Re: Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "lena" == lena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: lena> I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems lena> that got to do with security. If you are new to this, go to your local bookshop, and check the "Practical UNIX & Internet Security" (O'Reilly). Especially if your l

docs in /usr/doc not supported?

1999-07-17 Thread Pollywog
Since yesterday, when I run 'apt-get upgrade', I get these errors: dhelp_parse: Warning - documents in /usr/doc are no longer supported! Where will documents go now? I cannot RTM if I cannot find it ;) -- Andrew

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "David" == David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David> and my path (user) is: David> /sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin, David> wouldn't the original, /usr/bin/poff, be called instead of my new version, David> /usr/local/bin/poff? Yes. But what is th

What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-17 Thread André Bell
Do you know where I can find information which explains how to setup a commercial web server on debian? I want to setup a server which gives away free web space and have the server automate installation of a few custom scripts. What I'm looking for is information which explains which software reg

RE: Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> You can instead deny them telnet access in /etc/hosts.deny > with something like: > > in.telnetd: ALL That would refuse telnet access to everyone, and she would not be able to telnet to the box from somewhere else to administer it (if needed). So change the shells. Andrew -

RE: Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Jul-99 lena wrote: > Hello! > > I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems > that got to do with security. > > I have 20 different users that got both ftp and telnet access to the server > /using it for web publishing/. I would like to add they got access to t

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-17 Thread David Karlin
> Better write your own poff version, which does the stuff you want and > then calls poff and place it into /usr/local/bin. > > If you change poff directly, the changes will be gone with the next > upgrade of ppp. > > Ciao, > Martin > If my path (root) is: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/u

Security problems

1999-07-17 Thread lena
Hello! I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems that got to do with security. I have 20 different users that got both ftp and telnet access to the server /using it for web publishing/. I would like to add they got access to their root directory and all directories

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks - owing to a series of hw related probs I reinstalled and all works now. Patrick - Original Message - From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 17 July 1999 9:25 Subject: Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again > What version of apt a

Where's my PCMCIA CD-ROM?

1999-07-17 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
HI, Can anyone tell me what device it should be for a PCMCIA CD-ROM? I know the card is recognized, but have no idea which device to mount it from. Thanks in advance! Best wishes, Chip

Re: modem configuration specifics

1999-07-17 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 03:24:56AM -0700, Stephen Monroe wrote: > To all that were helping me configure my modem and needed more information: > > Here is the complete output of "plog" (Fixhate is the computer's name): > > Jul 15 01:55:27 fixhate pppd[8750]: Exit. > Jul 15 01:55:27 fixhate pppd[8

gpm not working with all virtual consoles

1999-07-17 Thread Brian Butler
Greetings... I have recently developed a liking to using 'open' to launch apps on extra virtual consoles. I'm a fan of gpm to select and paste text on the _first six_ consoles. Works *exactly* like it should. On the "extra" consoles I can select text fine. I cannot paste it onto any other co

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-17 Thread Bill Leach
If you are using exim you can edit /etc/exim.conf and insert: In the "TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION" section: procmail_pipe driver = pipe command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}" In the "DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION" section: procmail: driver = localuser transport = procmail_pipe I _believe_

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
My setup is exactly as you describe. The question is where can I find some error messages or anything that would enable me to guess what the problem is? Just had a flash of inspiration and found I had the wrong IP number for the local DNS server. Well problem solved but my apologies for any time

Re: No "libwine.so" during install of wine

1999-07-17 Thread Jutta Wrage
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Setting up libwine0.0.971116 (0.0.981018-1.1) ... >ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so (No such file or apt-get should have fetched three packages: wine, libwine and wine-doc. If it didn´t the dependencies are wrong.

Re: Printing Problem

1999-07-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Kelvin" == Kelvin Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Debian Users, > I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd > running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to "lpr ". check that you don't have stale lock files in /var/spool/lpd if th

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: PPPuzzles

1999-07-17 Thread maxalbert
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 08:37:05 +0200 Oder Otto ood14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Ich bin vom 19.7 bis 30.7 nur am Abend in der Firma. Am Abend, wenn es finster wird, kommt Otto... ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free

Re: Printing Problem

1999-07-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Kelvin Chow wrote: > > Dear Debian Users, > > I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd > running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to "lpr ". [lpq stuff snipped] > > Seems like the system constantly thinks that my printer is a network > printer. It

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > Help please. Why am I unable to give internet access to my machines on the > LAN? Hi Patrick, I too am playing with getting my home network up and running. I seem to be done for the most part. Question, do you have your gateway box set up as a gateway box? My

Printing Problem

1999-07-17 Thread Kelvin Chow
Dear Debian Users, I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to "lpr ". I still have the following problem though. $ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP LaserJet 6L' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: se

Re: poff quesition.....

1999-07-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "David" == David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David> Instead, it seems that my script should be incorporated into David> (or called by) poff. Should I put my command(s) at the very David> to of /usr/bin/poff, or is there a more appropriate location? Better write your own poff version, w

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
So none of your machines can reach the internet, but they can all reaach each other? If thats the case its just the way the gateway is set up, which I have no clue how to do in linux, I use a 386 with drdos and iproute. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks to all w

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks to all who pointed out this was a hardweare problem. I changed the NIC and it works better now. I can telnet into the linux box. The linux box can do all the internet type stuff so both NICs are working. The uptput of ipfwadm -F -l is type prot source destination

Re: diald

1999-07-17 Thread Mateusz Lapsa
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > > I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. > > Unfortunatelly there some problems. > > Are you using kernel 2.2? The diald in slink is not compatible with > kernel 2.2. There is a package of diald 0.99 which fixes these problems >

RE: No "libwine.so" during install of wine

1999-07-17 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Jul-99 Kent West wrote: > When I did an "apt-get install wine" from stable, I got these two > errors: > > Setting up libwine0.0.971116 (0.0.981018-1.1) ... > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/

Re: What package contains insmod

1999-07-17 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 11:12:47AM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: > I'm trying to connect my iomega zip 100 to my linux box and the ZIP-HOW-TO I > found on zip drives says that I should do a "insmod ppa" before I attempt to > compile the kernel. I guess the module necesary to attach the zip drive

poff quesition.....

1999-07-17 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've got a script which is meant to be run just before closing my ppp connection. I'd thought of putting it in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d, but those scripts seem to be run *after* the ppp link goes down. Instead, it seems that my script should be incorporated into (or called by) poff. Should I pu

Re: Howto force downgrade of WINE

1999-07-17 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Jul-99 Kent West wrote: > Thanks, that did it. For the record, backing up wine.conf as > wine.conf.bak is not a good idea; apparently the purge deletes that file > also. > > Also -- bummer. Apparently there was a version of WINE between stable > and the current unstable. The stable version

No "libwine.so" during install of wine

1999-07-17 Thread Kent West
When I did an "apt-get install wine" from stable, I got these two errors: Setting up libwine0.0.971116 (0.0.981018-1.1) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt.so (No such file or directory

Re: Howto force downgrade of WINE

1999-07-17 Thread Kent West
Pollywog wrote: > > On 19-Jul-99 Kent West wrote: > > I figure if I can reinstall the WINE from stable, the game may start > > working again, but apt-get won't downgrade, and as I mentioned, dpgk's > > man page warns of dire consequences. Can anyone give me a step-by-step > > to downgrade WINE? >

RE: Howto force downgrade of WINE

1999-07-17 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Jul-99 Kent West wrote: > I figure if I can reinstall the WINE from stable, the game may start > working again, but apt-get won't downgrade, and as I mentioned, dpgk's > man page warns of dire consequences. Can anyone give me a step-by-step > to downgrade WINE? > > Thanks! What I have done

Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Kent West
> Artur Correia wrote: > > OK, > As expected, ran into some more problems: > #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the > shell mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying > that that file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it > isn't.

Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Jul, Artur Correia wrote about "Back Again - CDRom" > OK, > As expected, ran into some more problems: > #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell > mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that > file was not in the file fstab

Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Artur Correia wrote: > OK, > As expected, ran into some more problems: > #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell > mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that > file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and,

Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Artur Correia wrote: > OK, > As expected, ran into some more problems: > #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell > mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that > file was not in the file fst

Howto force downgrade of WINE

1999-07-17 Thread Kent West
I've found some clues in the list archives and in the man pages, but I figured since the man page warned that this was something for experts only or you may hose your system, I better ask specific questions before experimenting I've been running a Windows-based backgammon game ("Backgammon, by

What package contains insmod

1999-07-17 Thread Wendell Buckner
I'm trying to connect my iomega zip 100 to my linux box and the ZIP-HOW-TO I found on zip drives says that I should do a "insmod ppa" before I attempt to compile the kernel.  I guess the module necesary to attach the zip drive may already be compiled into my kernel? And this instruction mig

Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Artur Correia
OK, As expected, ran into some more problems: #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it isn't. The starnge part is tha if i

loading debian slink on larger ide drive

1999-07-17 Thread Allen Ahoffman
--- Begin Message --- Hi. This is the qmail-send program at murphy.debian.org. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Your message was addressed incorrectly. Here is a lis

About PowerPC microprocessors and hardware supported...

1999-07-17 Thread Per Wallenthin
I am thinking of buying a new computer to play around with, and it's not gonna be a normal pentium, I was thinking of buying a PowerPC-based computer. My problem is though if you are supporting the new styles of Motorolas G4 and on processors. And if you are, what motherboard and hardware should I

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:39:13AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now > > xnetload loads on ppp up. > > well, looking into /etc/ppp/ip-up: > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/

Re: Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-17 Thread Doug Dine
I found a photo at zdnet. I put it at the URL below. This has given me some ideas for a Debian promo. http://members.tripod.com/debiandoug/linuxsupport.html On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:01:47 -0400 "Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Any one hear about the LinuxCare promo poster given aw

What software to use for setting up an ISP on debian?

1999-07-17 Thread André Bell
Do you know where I can find information which explains how to setup an ISP on debian? What I'm looking for is information which explains which software to run to automate registration of new members and automate installation of approved scripts to the new user's cgi-bin and other subdirectories.

Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-17 Thread John Foster
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: Mail prgs (exim) > Date: Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:27:41AM -0400 > > In reply to:Sera Hill > > Quoting Sera Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, I'm not sure how the config works for exim. When it asks me for > > information, I'm not sure just *wha

Re: Free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???

1999-07-17 Thread John Foster
Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > > On 07/16/99 at 17:13:59, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote concerning "Re: Free > Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???": > > I don't know the apps you talk about, but you could look at GNU Cash > > (which I never used myself). See http://www.gnucash.org/

Re: Question?

1999-07-17 Thread John Foster
Michael Walton wrote: > > I have looked at you site, and I was thinking about downloading the OS, > but I was wondering if it would conflict with my current operating > system. I am currently running > > DOS 6.0, and Win 3.11 > > I didn't know if these operating systems would cause a problem wi

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-17 Thread Doug Young
If anyone who is actually involved in writing documentation PLEASE take this stuff on board because if even one elementary (to an expert) item is overlooked it causes untold frustration to the less experienced ! >If anything, I am swamped with manuals. Sometimes they help, >

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-17 Thread maxalbert
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:23:05 -0400 Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi Max; > >You really need to spend some time reading the HOWTOs and some of the >stuff in /usr/doc/* !! In particular see the ISP-HOWTO but remember >to look in /usr/doc/* and with "man" for any program configuration >file

Server slowly dying

1999-07-17 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, we had a problem with our server today. First we could not log in ssh, then ftp and mail (exim/qpopper) died and finally Apache. It took about an hour for all these services to die. Since we couldn't log in ssh, and telnet is removed, we could not monitor what was going on (the server is locat

need to unsub.

1999-07-17 Thread Tim Nicholas
hey there, i need to unsubscribe from this list because currently it is sending mail to a sever that is not going. I cant fix that till the morning (another 14 hours or so) and i do not have any archived mail from the list on this computer. If someonoe would send me the unsubscribe instructions

respawning and no pcmcia

1999-07-17 Thread Kent West
I've recently done a clean wipe/reinstall of Debian on an old Sager 486 laptop. Before the rebuild my dialup worked fine; now I have a couple of issues. First, the PCMCIA stuff is not starting automatically. I don't really understand the bootup process and modules, etc, but I have figured out that

RE: Kde libs package

1999-07-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Jul-99 Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: > Hi > > Some of you guys know from where can I get the kde lib's package? I've > installed > kdevelop and it's requiring files such as "kapp.h", but I don't know from > where I can > download this... You can get kdelibs (if you download the debs, there a

dosemu Q : running windows (3.11 for workgroups

1999-07-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I wanted to know if it is possible to run win 3.11 for workgroups under dosemnewest version). I set up dosemu and it starts fine. when i try to start windows i get the openning screen and then it just exists without saying anyhing (and without cahanging the video mode back). I don't know how to sta

Kde libs package

1999-07-17 Thread Eber de Castro Diniz
Hi Some of you guys know from where can I get the kde lib's package? I've installed kdevelop and it's requiring files such as "kapp.h", but I don't know from where I can download this... Regards Eber Diniz

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Re: Win Gateway

1999-07-17 Thread Doug Young
If you have to use a Windows proxy program, I suggest using Rideway (from www.itserv.com) instead of Wingate . its a fraction of the cost if you decide to pay for it and much more straightforward to configure . I have used it on small LAN's for some years and never had a problem, and at lea

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > [root:/tmp] # cat xnetload.error > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: xnetload: not found > > So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now > xnetload loads on ppp up. well, looking into /etc/ppp/ip-up: # The environment is cleared before executing this script

potato dpkg goodness

1999-07-17 Thread shadgun
Anyone out there familiar with this? bash-2.02$ sudo apt-get -f install dpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/345kB of archives. After u

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
> Try trapping the output of the command in the script to a tmp > file and see what it is saying. Ah! This has solved it! [root:/tmp] # cat xnetload.error /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: xnetload: not found So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now xnetload loads on ppp up. Thanks

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:45:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" >> > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > i`ll think about the problem and will write if i find a solution. well, i`ve found the evil-doer. i copied your script into the file affe, created a directory called affe-dir and put affe in that dir. permissions, owner and group like ip-up.d et al. then i executed run-par

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:45:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > > > when i connect, nothing happens.

NFSing an Autofs'ed filesystem....

1999-07-17 Thread Manuel
Hi, I have a network of three computers where the cdroms and floppy drives are mounted using autofs. I'm trying to make it so that I can access these devices from any one of the computers by simply by accessing the symoblic links /cdrom/comp1, /cdrom/comp2, /cdrom/comp3, and ditto for t

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > #!/bin/sh > xnetload -geometry 200x48+0+0 -fn > -schumacher-clean-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -fg white

Re: openldap

1999-07-17 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-07-16 15:08, Tim Pass the Prozac Sailer wrote: > OK, so maybe I'm a little stupid, but I prefer not to think of myself that > way... Good. > I'm trying to get openldap to do something, but to no avail. > I created an ldif file, ran ldif2ldbm. ldapsearch shows no matches, > while ldbmtes

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:40:47AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > yes, bash will expand the `*`. > > um, possibly, but the command still works when i execute > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load, so i don't think it does. > > > you need to quote the command. try xnetload "your

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:05:52PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > No, its all cat5, some store bought, some homemade. > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like you've got problems with the wiring. I can't believe the number of times I've found problems with incorrectly wired 10BAseT c

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:40:47AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > xnetload -geometry 200x48+0+0 -fn > > -schumacher-clean-bold-r-

Server security statictics

1999-07-17 Thread Frisco Rose
Greeting, I am running a slink server for http access and our campus has been recently getting a lot of redhat boxes hacked. My question is, are there any statistics on debian and/or redhat security breaches? I follow comp.risks fairly regularly and haven't seen anything about this. Also, has ther

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:53:07PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Btw, if you want to get involved in a nightmare, tell me why the only way I > can get the > net connection to my room working is to use this ONE SPECIFIC CABLE > COMBINATION!! All the > cables are straight through and work everywh

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > #!/bin/sh > xnetload -geometry 200x48+0+0 -fn > -schumacher-clean-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -fg white -bg black -nc -if > ppp0 & > > and /etc/ppp/ip

problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: #!/bin/sh xnetload -geometry 200x48+0+0 -fn -schumacher-clean-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -fg white -bg black -nc -if ppp0 & and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/load: #!/bin/sh killall xnetload when

Re: dpkg-database damaged.

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Johann Spies wrote: > > After trying to use dosemu, my computer stalled and I had to press the > reset button en the end. After rebooting, I wanted to remove dosemu and > reinstall it and to my amazement dpkg reported that it was not installed. > When I ran dselect, it showed about a quarter of th

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
David Wright wrote: > To leave "Select" you have to press . If you unintentionally > press it twice (eg the keyboard double-strikes, or a slow 386 makes > you think you might not have tapped the key hard enough) > dselect goes straight into "Install" whereas you might want "Remove" > or, even wor

Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-17 Thread John Hasler
Sera Hill writes: > Well, I'm not sure how the config works for exim. When it asks me for > information, I'm not sure just *what* it's asking me for? Like the local > hosts thing,... What is the exact question? I've not yet upgraded to exim. > ...and the relay-mail thing. There it most likely

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > > Here is my .forward (I use exim with procmail. I believe the same can be > done with exim alone, but I have not tried it): > [snip] > > and one of the files (shortened) in my .procmail directory: > [procmail recipes snipped] Thanks Johann. I ch