Re: Apache-ssl php/MySQL problem

1999-08-22 Thread finn
Ashley Clark wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrew Glover wrote: > > LoadModule /usr/lib/php3/apache/mysql.so > Thanks for [both of yours] help. And sorry for the duplicate post by me. Andrew. -- Andrew Glover

dselect broken packages problem.

1999-08-22 Thread Mirek
After upgrade from debian 2.0 to slink 2.1 few packages are listed by dselect as broken. I can't remove them or reinstal even with dpkg force option. When I try install it goes like this: dpkg --install -D=10 /debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/devel/binutils_2.9.1.0.19a-2.deb D10: ensure

Samba question

1999-08-22 Thread André Bell
Ok, now I have samba running on my linux pc and I have apache up and running swell at localhost 127.0.0.1 My question is how do I get win95 on my other pc to recognize samba on my linux machine? Can I get away with ppp or slip via modems or serial cards or must I install my network cards at this

Stumped! Where find resources for web hosting on apache?

1999-08-22 Thread André Bell
I've spent over 30 hours searching the internet for resources for hosting web sites on my server and have come up empty. I've found well over 100,000 sites which are resellers of web hosting services and products on their servers. Unfortunately I cannot find more than four companies which sell sof

Optimizing taper

1999-08-22 Thread minxu
Hi, After some testing, I decided to use taper as my backup software. With the compress method 2 of taper, it can only reach about 6-7 Mb/min (raw speed) and the tape drive has to stop to wait for data. I try to change some parameters of the taper (in defaults.h) and it does not seem to help at

dhcp on 2.0.x kernel and potato

1999-08-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm running a potato system, and I'm still using a 2.0.x kernel. I have an account with the @home service and I decided to set my eth0 up to use dhcp to get the necessary info whenever my IP lease runs out. I grabbed and installed the dhcpcd package from unstable, and I ran into trouble g

mmap problem fixes itself

1999-08-22 Thread Pollywog
The problem I had while trying to install xfmail went away and it is working again. I am not sure what caused the warnings about "mmap", but all I did was remove the xforms I had installed from source, and then I made symlinks from the deb-installed libraries to /usr/lib, where xfmail expects to f

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, shadow wrote: > The 15,200 foot limit ..is that physically from the central office or > can it be from one of the "outhouse" switching station. I've been > wondering if those little outhouses were the digital to analog > switching and if that would qualify. I am out in the mid

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > Now I'll have to call them (listen to the hard sale) and find out if > they have $4,000 per month in mind -- no thanks -- or something less. > $4,000 per month just for a hook up, plus ISP fees, is way too > expensive for what I have in mind.

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-08-22 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > spire kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? > (Yes, I've done all the necessary pry-configuration -- isapnp configures the > card correctly, and the modules load fine) If I'm not mistaken it sounds like your soundcard is

Re: Apache-ssl php/MySQL problem

1999-08-22 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrew Glover wrote: > LoadModule /usr/lib/php3/apache/mysql.so Close. You don't need the line you had here, just put in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini a line saying extension=mysql.so and then restart apache, then your MySQL pages should load You might also want other extensio

broken packed

1999-08-22 Thread Miroslaw Lawniczek
After upgrade from debian 2.0 to slink 2.1 few packages are listed by dselect as broken. I can't remove them or reinstal even with force option. When I try install it goes like this: dpkg --install -D=10 /debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/devel/binutils_2.9.1.0.19a-2.deb D10: ensure_pathn

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: uploads over modem are SLOW!" > On 21-Aug-99, you wrote: > > HF> Lee Elliott wrote: > HF> > HF>> screen? Do pppload and wmppp show only data successfully > HF>> transferred? > HF> ^^^ > HF>what`s that? > HF> > HF> greetings

Re: what is mmap?

1999-08-22 Thread Pollywog~
Pollywog~ wrote: > > I wanted to apply a patch to xfmail so that I could use GNUpg with it, > but I was unable to install the new package because the Debian xforms > package is missing something and because I did not know where xfmail was > expecting to find libxforms so I could put a symlink ther

Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-08-22 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
g'day all - I'm running OSS/Free SB16 drivers with my AWE64 on Linux 2.2.10. Whenever I try to send anything to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio, I xconsole shows this message: spire kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? (Yes, I've done all the necessary pry-configuration -- is

what is mmap?

1999-08-22 Thread Pollywog~
I wanted to apply a patch to xfmail so that I could use GNUpg with it, but I was unable to install the new package because the Debian xforms package is missing something and because I did not know where xfmail was expecting to find libxforms so I could put a symlink there. I downloaded xforms sour

Re: Dselect question

1999-08-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for > installation, but not yet installed? > > I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong > packages and their dep

Re: X-window install - newbie

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
> xfree86-common_3.3.2.3a-11.deb > > I would have thought using dpkg -i on this would have installed x- > windows, or at least the relevant components. Seems not to. That is just one piece of the pie. There's a lot more than one package to XFree86. If you try to install the package "xbase",

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: > IIRC, this is incorrect. The owner/group of the filesystem is by default > set to the uid and gid of the mounting process (e.g. if you mount as > root.root, the owner/group will be root.root no matter what the ownership > of the mountpoint). The permissions are determined by the umas

Re: X-window install - newbie

1999-08-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
You need to also install xserver-vga16 and whatever xserver-* that supports your particular video card setup. xserver-svga supports many of the most common cards, so that's often a good place to start. Then you have to configure your xserver. XF86Setup will give you a graphical setup, but somet

Kernel work

1999-08-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to do a homework with Linux kernel. 1) I have to split the Linux kernel in modules (ex. scheduler, device drivers, file systems). Find the interfaces between these modules and include counters to verify how these modules are called. 2)

Dselect question

1999-08-22 Thread André Bell
Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for installation, but not yet installed? I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong packages and their dependent files at a conflict to my existing system. I'd hate to scroll through the entire list to fin

X-window install - newbie

1999-08-22 Thread Barry Rueger
OK - still having fun. Still finding tons of Linux info that *almost* answers my questions, but not quite. C'est la vie... Installed from floppies, ran dselect, downloaded 30+ megs of stuff - whatever the defaults were in dselect. I thought that dselect then installed all of this stuff, but

Re: ftp via proxy server, for dselect

1999-08-22 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
> > John D Smith wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have loaded debian onto a satellite 110CS for about the 4th time > > this weekend, But finally getting somewhere, I have a situation where > > the network I am plugged into has a proxy server out to the internet. > > Now I can actually watch in the proxy

Re: fetchmail

1999-08-22 Thread Steve George
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Johan Dewaele wrote: > I get fetchmail to search the 2 mailboxes but when fetchmail attempts to > dowload the messages > I get following error : > > [Sun Aug 22][16:14:20]dewaele jdewaele:dewaele$ fetchmail > fetchmail: No mail for jenkdewaele2 at pop.mai

Re: Small faux pas with LILO

1999-08-22 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 20 Aug, 1999 à 09:07:38PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 12:08:31PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > I installed Linux on /dev/hdb and inadvertantly set boot=/dev/hda1 instead > > of /dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf and now I'm having trouble booting that > > partition (a W

Apache-ssl php/MySQL problem

1999-08-22 Thread Andrew Glover
Hi, Ive got a problem with php / mysql. Ive installed php3-mysql, although it doesnt want to load. apacheconfig doesnt even attempt to load it. After playing I figured out to add: LoadModule auth_mysql_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_mysql.so into httpd.conf, but im also guessing I need:

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > Just a suggestion since I really don't know much about it, but have you > thought > about UFS? It supposedly let's you have a usable unix partition on a fat > filesystem. > Might solve your problem. > I believe you a

Re: Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
> GLIBC2 distribution (for RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera, etc.) > IglooFTP-PRO-0.9.1-linux-ix86-glibc2.tar.gz glibc2 is the latest. If you are running a recent version of Debian, this what you want. I'm running 2.1 and glibc2 is the one I go for. > LIBC5 distribution (f

Re: Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?

1999-08-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > At 01:59 AM 8/22/99 -0500, John Foster wrote: > >Andr? Bell wrote: > >> > >> Do you have a suggested GUI for apache and ftp? > > > >see http://www.littleigloo.org/ for the slickest ftp GUI around it's > >sh

Re: er - how to print?

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Martin Waller wrote: > My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer. I have an OkiPage 10ex that emulates a LaserJet 5. Your OKI might emulate a LaserJet of some sort also. > Doing any prinitng (e.g. cat afile.txt > /dev/lp or echo hello > /dev/lp > does n

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 22 Aug 1999, John Hasler wrote: > John Foster writes: > > Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows > > files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive > > has the permissions set by default to root on everyth

Re: Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?

1999-08-22 Thread André Bell
At 01:59 AM 8/22/99 -0500, John Foster wrote: >André Bell wrote: >> >> Do you have a suggested GUI for apache and ftp? > >see http://www.littleigloo.org/ for the slickest ftp GUI around it's >shareware and worth every penny. > Nice site. Looks like a real nice ftp program too. The only question

Re: Apache-ssl php/MySQL problem

1999-08-22 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Ive got a problem with php / mysql. Ive installed php3-mysql, although > it > doesnt want to load. apacheconfig doesnt even attempt to load it. > > After playing I figured out to add: > > LoadModule auth_mysql_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mo

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-22 Thread TAKAHASHI Masayoshi
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strange lynx behavior

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
I am having a very strange problem running Lynx on my other computer. I downloaded the .deb from Debian stable to this computer. Here, it runs fine as a normal user (haven't tried it as root). Then I use FTP to transfer the .deb to my other computer over my LAN. dpkg -i lynx.deb worked without

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
John Foster writes: > Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows > files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive > has the permissions set by default to root on everything. The Windows files have no permissions or ownership, so linux fakes it by g

Re: Another LILO problem

1999-08-22 Thread Jaron Abbott
Hey, this really worked! It's good to know that I won't have to take apart my computer to get this working. I've made a copy of the lilo.conf file that I know works. Thanks for everybody's replies! Now I still seem to be having trouble with my hard disk. When I didn't touch the fdisk, and simp

SV: (Debian-user)Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-22 Thread vw
I know, this might be silly, but just to make absolutely sure: Did you set the master/slave jumpers correctly? My box has all the symptoms yours has (lights, won't recognize, a.s.o.) when I forget to set the jumpers... Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig me

Apache-ssl php/MySQL problem

1999-08-22 Thread finn2000
Hi, Ive got a problem with php / mysql. Ive installed php3-mysql, although it doesnt want to load. apacheconfig doesnt even attempt to load it. After playing I figured out to add: LoadModule auth_mysql_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_mysql.so into httpd.conf, but im also guessing I need

Apt-get source question

1999-08-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, anyone knows if with apt-get source package I can see the new avaliable packages before get sourcing to checks if the pack age is it or doesn't exist? My problem is: I have a slink home box. First I installed apt 0.3.11 to get source potato package

Re: ftp via proxy server, for dselect

1999-08-22 Thread Dean
Since none of the experts answered, I've got a question. Is it possible you need a different site? I have no experience on proxy servers, does deselect look at the proxy & then proxy does what dselect wants? Can you bypass proxy & just let dselect do its own thing? Dean > John D Smith wrote: >

Re: er - how to print?

1999-08-22 Thread John Carline
Martin Waller wrote: > Hello, > > My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer. > > Never having had a printer before, I've never had to set one up under linux. > > I read the (long and waffly) printing howto and printing-usage howto , but > am having problems just getting started.

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Peter Ross
On 22-Aug-1999, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Hatton wrote: > > > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in

er - how to print?

1999-08-22 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer. Never having had a printer before, I've never had to set one up under linux. I read the (long and waffly) printing howto and printing-usage howto , but am having problems just getting started. I have pirnting support in the

Re: debian installation

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Justin writes: > I did mention in my message that it's a security problem, but I also > don't think it's a big issue on a home machine,... I don't think we should treat home users as second-class citizens. Their data is often just as valuable to them as that on your servers is to you. They are of

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread Tom
Your ISP should have DSL POPs setup around the area dueto the fact that DSL is distant sensitive. On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, shadow wrote: > The 15,200 foot limit ..is that physically from the central office or can it > be > from one of the "outhouse" switching station. I've been wondering if those

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 09:43:55AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Dan Hatton wrote: > > > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /ho

selective mirror

1999-08-22 Thread Marco Maggesi
I would like to make a selective mirror (i.e. left out some packages) of the whole debian (slink) distribution. So my question are: 1. how may I rebuild Packages.gz and Release files according to my sub-distribution? 2. should I keep the same structure of sections (eg: base, games

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread John Foster
Dan Hatton wrote: > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian > installation, and the same partition as \Windows\Prof

Re: Video Rules?

1999-08-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:02:24AM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote: > Are there any rule of thumb on how much ram the video card must > have to achieve a given resolution? I have a 1 meg card now and get 8 bit > 16 color when using a 1024x480 screen. (bpp / 8) * hr * vr <= ram with: bpp -- c

fetchmail

1999-08-22 Thread Johan Dewaele
Hello, I'm trying to set up fetchmail on my slink standalone with dial-up access to ISP mailbox. I get fetchmail to search the 2 mailboxes but when fetchmail attempts to dowload the messages I get following error : [Sun Aug 22][16:14:20]dewaele jdewaele:dewaele$ fetchmail fetchmail: No mail for

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 03:20:36PM +0100, Dan Hatton wrote: > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian > installation,

Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Dan Hatton
I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian installation, and the same partition as \Windows\Profiles in my Windows installat

Re: sound help

1999-08-22 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
Thanks to Chanop Silpa-Anan I've now got all my modules loaded according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2. When I go to play something like I don't even get a crackle over my speakers. So, how do start trouble shotting this? Thanks again. oh below is the output of "cat /dev/sndstat"

Re: File Allocation Table Apparently Corrupted by Microsoft Scandisk

1999-08-22 Thread Dan Hatton
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Dan Hatton wrote: > I take all this to mean that my data are still on the disc, but the > directory structure has been corrupted; any ideas on how I can restore it > without having to resort to my (6 week old) backup of /dev/hda1, please? OK, a brief answer to my own quest

Re: Getting mail and browsing the web

1999-08-22 Thread John Carline
Walter Logeman wrote: > I use wvdial and I think I am connected -- I don't know how to > unconnect though :) One simple way is to start wvdial in an xterm. Then when you kill the xterm wvdial disconnects before the xterm dies. I use the script below with the name of my provider as the title.

sound help

1999-08-22 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
To all, I'm trying to get sound working on my laptop. Windows reports it as a "Yamaha Opl3-SAx WDM Driver" The sound howto says that the "Yamaha Opl3-Sax" sound chip is supported. So I went to my misc directory for my kernal modules and saw three opl3 modules. I tried modprobe all of them. The

Re: Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-22 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
Jack Lee wrote: > ... >I can't solve the problem because > I find /dev/hda2 is out of the 1024 > cylinder area. HiJack (;->>), I would suggest you to use loadlin instead of lilo (see /usr/doc/lilo/) Otherwise, if you intend to change your partitions, I had no problems with > 1024 cyl lil

Re: Getting mail and browsing the web

1999-08-22 Thread Phil Dyer
Walter Logeman wrote: > > > Web > I have Lynx running but hitting the red urls does not work unless > the file is local. > > Is it just a matter of configuring a file somewhere? > > Walter > > Walter, It sounds like you don't have dns servers set up. Find out your ISP's DNS servers address(es

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote: ->have $4,000 per month in mind -- no thanks -- or something less. $4,000 Yikes that is expensive. My phone company, charges a $99 install fee, plus you must provide the router or by one from them. But the monthly charge is on $200 for 7.1Mbps,

Video Rules?

1999-08-22 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Are there any rule of thumb on how much ram the video card must have to achieve a given resolution? I have a 1 meg card now and get 8 bit 16 color when using a 1024x480 screen. But windows 98 seems to get far better resolution with this card. I wonder how? I will buy a ne

Exim: FW: Mail delivery failed...

1999-08-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, every time I try to mail to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get this message back (while still off line), and nothing in the mail queue. My MTA is Exim 2.05-1, and the MUA Mutt 0.95.6i. I also have installed Procmail with some filters, but never had such a problem. Any other address I try t

Re: Getting mail and browsing the web

1999-08-22 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Hi Walter, you have a lot of good questions. There are some odd things about Linux and the internet. We use ppp to set up a connection to our internet provider. Once this connection is made then other software takes over to DO something. Learn the ip number of your internet server

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-22 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Hartmut, On 21-Aug-99, you wrote: HF> Lee Elliott wrote: HF> HF>> screen? Do pppload and wmppp show only data successfully HF>> transferred? HF> ^^^ HF>what`s that? HF> HF> greetings, HF> HF> i cannot find this programm with dselect or in HF> http://www.debian.o

Re: Video modes for X?

1999-08-22 Thread John Gay
Thanks for the reply. I've heard rumours that trident cards were limited to 8 bit colour, but I've also been told that 1M should give 16 bit colour at lower resolutions. I think you may be right about the card, though. I currently don't have access to newsgroups here at work, and I haven't got my

Re: Video modes for X?

1999-08-22 Thread John Gay
I tried the videogen utility last night and got a few different video modes working now. Several of them are not to great, but I just printed out the video timing HOW-TO and will try my hand at using that. The max dot clock for my video card is 230Mhz and the manual for my monitor has a table for

Re: Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have the same problem, but I have two partitions for Dos/Dr-Dos and then Linux like: hda1c: Dos 6.22 + WfW 3.11 hda2d: DR-Dos 7.03 with TCPIP and DJGPP hda3Linux-Root/Boot hda4Linux-Swap hda5Linux-User I have tried to boot with LI

is there a library to convert -u timeopt to struct tm?

1999-08-22 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
Does anyone know of such a library? I tried to look at the 'at' program for some functions to borrow, but the actual date parser appears to be done with bison or some such beast which I don't know, and I can't figure out what I would need from it exactly. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Britton

DVD on Linux?

1999-08-22 Thread Ramiel G.
Does anyone know if there are any DVD players out there for Linux? My Philips DVD drive came with a hardware MPEG2 decoder the REALmagic Hollywood Plus PCI card. Currently I have to reboot into Winblows to see my DVD's. Thanks, - Ramiel Ramiel Givergis, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.relm.net

Re: Getting mail and browsing the web

1999-08-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 08/22/99 07:31AM, Walter Logeman wrote: > > Nor can I do any thing once I am connected - what I have tried is > to load mutt, if it could get mail I am not sure how to tell it > to. > Hi Walter, I too just recently got mail set up on my machine. I got a lot of help here, but I also consu

Getting mail and browsing the web

1999-08-22 Thread Walter Logeman
Some newbie questions: I am in the process of getting a dialup account to work in my new & first ever install of Linux, slink. I think I'll find it easier if I have an overall picture of how it is done -- especially how it is already set up in the install I have. I have been reading howto after h

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread John Foster
shadow wrote: > > The 15,200 foot limit ..is that physically from the central office or can it > be > from one of the "outhouse" switching station. I've been wondering if those > little outhouses were the digital to analog switching and if that would > qualify. I am out in the middle of nowhere b

Re: Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?

1999-08-22 Thread John Foster
André Bell wrote: > > Do you have a suggested GUI for apache and ftp? see http://www.littleigloo.org/ for the slickest ftp GUI around it's shareware and worth every penny. see http://www.webmin.com for the best server based GUI ( acutally web based) for system management that I have been able t

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread shadow
The 15,200 foot limit ..is that physically from the central office or can it be from one of the "outhouse" switching station. I've been wondering if those little outhouses were the digital to analog switching and if that would qualify. I am out in the middle of nowhere but I have one of those outho

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread John Foster
André Bell wrote: > > My local phone company sends me ads every week for a dsl account and I'm > wondering if it is good enough to run a small server on since it is 24 > hours direct connection and "50 times faster than 28k". > > Something about the pricing and the offer make it seem too good to

perl: installing w/ PREFIX...

1999-08-22 Thread Benjamin Low
I want to install various perl modules local to my home account, the standard perl MakeMaker allows the following ~/local/src$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/local/ does not work under Debian 2.1, It seems that no matter what I set PREFIX to, Install.pm wants to put it in /usr/local/lib/site_perl. I

Re: Another LILO problem

1999-08-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Jaron Abbott wrote: > Hello, > > I have a system with two IDE hard drives. The primary master is a > recent install of Debian (just the install disks so far) and the primary > slave is Windows 98. I'd like to make it dual-boot. i have t

ftp via proxy server, for dselect

1999-08-22 Thread John D Smith
Hi, I have loaded debian onto a satellite 110CS for about the 4th time this weekend, But finally getting somewhere, I have a situation where the network I am plugged into has a proxy server out to the internet. Now I can actually watch in the proxy server window to see what the embryo Debia

Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

1999-08-22 Thread André Bell
Thanks Tom for the help. My phone company charges a $99 install fee and requires one to three year contracts to install dsl, modem included. The one thing they won't disclose in their literature or their web page is the monthly price :( Now I'll have to call them (listen to the hard sale) and fi

Got your own ISP? Wanted: scripts for web hosting

1999-08-22 Thread André Bell
Any idea where I can download a good set of scripts for hosting and managing web sites on my apache server? I can't imaging re-inventing the wheel creating custom perl scripts for something that may already be available to thousands of ISP's around the world. I've found three commercial scripts

Re: Multi-Boot-Loader

1999-08-22 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: Currently, I'm tryign to install Oracle8 SQL Server, Linux version. In the "Detailed Installation Instructions" prividered, in Chapter 2, section "Tasks to Perform as the root User", it asks to configure LINUX kernel Interprocess Communication (IPC) parameters. It then says the default set

Re: Eterm - menus not usable.

1999-08-22 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:56:58PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I am trying to use Eterm with Window Maker. I am using wmaker v. > 0.60.0-4 (and wmaker-kde, same version number). The menus look normal > when the window is unfocussed, but as soon as I move the mouse into the > window, the menus t

Re: Another LILO problem - swp them

1999-08-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi jaron swp your master and slave drives.. be sure to edit /etc/fstab on linux to be the other disk before you reboot... and run lilo again and chance linux to be /dev/hdb3 and Win98 to be /dev/hda1 have fun lilo-ing alvin for more *jibberish: ( good stuff ) /usr/doc/lilo* > Jaron Abbo

Re: Another LILO problem

1999-08-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ... yeh...I always ( try ) to use different disks for different OS.. guess laptops share the dirve...different partitions... and yes...winxx is typcally the first partition ..."C" on my boxes.. since it's nto very bright about booting.. you might try table=/dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1.

Re: Another LILO problem

1999-08-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Hello, > > I have a system with two IDE hard drives. The primary master is a > recent install of Debian (just the install disks so far) and the primary > slave is Windows 98. I'd like to make it dual-boot. Thanks to recent > posts regarding this issue by Alvin Oga, I've done my best to wri

Re: debian installation

1999-08-22 Thread Justin Wells
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:26:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Justin Wells writes: > > A good middle ground might be to read the password from an environment > > variable. I did mention in my message that it's a security problem, but I also don't think it's a big issue on a home machine, where

Re: How determine all users logged into linux...

1999-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 06:31:57PM -0400, Justin Wells wrote: > If you just want to log off accounts that you have forgotten about > though, ps followed by a kill signal will do it. If that's what you want to do, the autolog package allows you to do just that. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-22 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: I'm currently using Debian on /de/hda1, which is 2G. Also, I have MSDOS on /dev/hda2. I"m just wondering how can I use lilo to boot /dev/hda2? I can't solve the problem because I find /dev/hda2 is out of the 1024 cylinder area. I tried to use "linear" option in /etc/lilo.conf , but

Re: debian installation

1999-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 02:03:18PM -0400, Justin Wells wrote: > Perhaps there should be an "express install" versus "detailed install" > choice that decides this. If you elect for the detailed install, Debian > asks you any question you might reasonably have a different answer for, > and shows yo

Re: restricted shell

1999-08-22 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 12:18:41PM -0500, Brad wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > > bash has a -r option, this may bee what you want. > > > > Fine, I somehow thought there existed some sort of restrictive shell. > > How do you create suc

Re: debian installation

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Justin Wells writes: > A good middle ground might be to read the password from an environment > variable. Never ever put a password in an environment variable. > Then I could write the script that sets the environment variable and > calls your script What script are you referring to? pppconfig

Re: debian installation

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Robert writes: > I believe he is talking about the hosts allow and hosts deny file. I suspect that you are right. However, it makes no sense to describe those as ppp files. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will.

Found base2_1 problem

1999-08-22 Thread Richard Zeigler
List, Boy am I silly! Yes there was a problem with the file...it was truncated by my server (at 5MB). I did not notice this at first because the ancient version Lynx that I am forced to use reported no error during the save. This is a free university telnet account that they don't really bothe

Another LILO problem

1999-08-22 Thread Jaron Abbott
Hello, I have a system with two IDE hard drives. The primary master is a recent install of Debian (just the install disks so far) and the primary slave is Windows 98. I'd like to make it dual-boot. Thanks to recent posts regarding this issue by Alvin Oga, I've done my best to write a lilo.conf