DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-24 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am running into some error messages: hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } They show up randomly. Sometimes while I do apt-get or run some other progra

Re: awk or sed?

1999-09-24 Thread Tim Thomson
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > Short answer: awk > > Longer answer (by one letter): perl > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:10:4D:63 > inet addr:209.178.54.157 Bcast:209.178.54.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST M

Getting the most out of apt.

1999-09-24 Thread EVCom Support
Does anyone have a suggestion for the best list of servers to use for the apt sources.list file? I want to be able to keep track of the largest number of packages in all the various areas, both US and non-us and devel. I read the man page for sources.list but I figured someone would have a good

loop devices?

1999-09-24 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am looking into using loop devices so I can encrypt stuff onto a floppy file system. I am stuck right at the start with loop devices. The manual says to do the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1k count=100 losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file Password: Init (up to 16 hex digits): Thi

Re: different Q: X11, two boxes

1999-09-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Sep, Rob Mahurin wrote about "different Q: X11, two boxes" > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:06:38AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: >> network. I use ssh2 to login to sarnold, and export DISPLAY=amidala:0.0 -- > > ssh2? Is this a .deb? I've been getting messages in my logs like > "you need a ne

Re: File location differences between Debian and other 'X'nix's?

1999-09-24 Thread John Gay
Sorry for the format, but I'm E-Mailing from Lotus Notes on a Windows PC at work and can't change the format. Sorry. Thanks for the info for the FHS, I'll have a search for it later. This explains why Netscape installed in /usr/local/. . . , but not why Debian puts sane's config files in /etc/sa

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
I had a problem with my clock drifting after I used hwclock to reset my time after I moved to a new time zone: the box had been on 15 minutes, I set it back an hour, and when I rebooted, the /etc/adjtime adjusted the clock by about four days. so I set it again. Now the durn thing thought it was

[no subject]

1999-09-24 Thread ove strömberg
if you can send codes...

Re: different Q: X11, two boxes

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
Yup -- sarnold:/home/sarnold# apt-cache search ssh2 ssh2 - a secure replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp :) On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:18:08PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:06:38AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > network. I use ssh2 to login to sarnold, and export DISPLAY

apt-get and http proxy failure

1999-09-24 Thread Richard A Nelson
If I use an environment variable http_proxy, apt does use the specified proxy. However, with this in my /etc/apt/apt.conf, the proxy is silently ignored: Acquire { Queue-Mode "host"; // host|access Retries "0"; // HTTP method configuration Http { Proxy "http://localhost:80";

different Q: X11, two boxes

1999-09-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:06:38AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > network. I use ssh2 to login to sarnold, and export DISPLAY=amidala:0.0 -- ssh2? Is this a .deb? I've been getting messages in my logs like "you need a newer ssh for this packet, you insecure lummox" and I'm running the most recent

Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The problem, as Alberto discovered, is that perl is not executable. The reason for this is basically broken dependancies: libc6 should pre-depend on perl (since the postinst requires the update-rc.d script), but it doesn't. Perl does pre-depend on libc6. So apt t

Re: wmaker configuration

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
I do not think wmaker allows switching workspaces by moving the mouse. It *does* allow you to drag windows between the desktops... and it also allows you to click on the little buttons on the clip. btw -- try wmakerconf. It seems nice too. :) On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 03:16:45PM -0400, Dpk wrote: >

Re: help getting LILO unstuck

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
IIRC, the "*" means it set that image as the one to boot by default. Try posting us your /etc/lilo.conf file, and describe your booting setup a bit, and lets see what we can do. :) On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:44:22PM -0400, Daniels, Craig wrote: > Hi, > > I was changing kernels from 2.2.10 to 2.2

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-24 Thread Fraser Campbell
David Teague wrote: > > Network edition for DirecPC. Unfortunately it costs $199 US and I > > have no experience with whether it works or not: > > http://www.helius.com/DirecPC/ > > Is this "Network edition for DirecPC" new? You are sure about the > price? Hi David, I sent that link. Click on

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-24 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? > > (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see > > http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm) They say you need > > windows 95 (but so do alot of

RE: Apache, cgi, and users...

1999-09-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 24-Sep-99 Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello all; > > How can I setup apache to allow cgi (.cgi, .pl, C/C++, etc) to run in users > 'public_html' dirs? I've looked for this in > various HOWTO's and the apache manuals, but I don't see this anywhere. If > I've missed this in a doc, PLEASE tell where to >

glibc2.1 on slink?

1999-09-24 Thread Paul Reavis
I want to run a glibc2.1 app (IBM's jdk1.1.8) on our development machines here, but don't want to switch to potato quite yet. What's the safest way to get glibc2.1 on my system so this program can see it? I'm currently thinking of building it, sticking it in a corner somewhere and writing wrapper s

Installation question

1999-09-24 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi all, I have successfully installed a Debian system in the past but this one is a bit different. I am installing a minimal system on what will be a router. libc, kernel, ipchains, ssh, dhcp-relay, and that's about it. The harddrive I will be installing on is currently /dev/hdb on a working po

Re: wmaker configuration

1999-09-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
Dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am hoping to switch from afterstep to wmaker, but I want to be able > to switch workspaces by moving my mouse to the edge of the workspace. > I thought this would correlate to EdgeResistance, but it doesn't > appear to work: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/GNUstep/De

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-24 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? > > (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see > > http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm) They say you need > > windows 95 (but so do alot of isp's that wo

Apache, cgi, and users...

1999-09-24 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; How can I setup apache to allow cgi (.cgi, .pl, C/C++, etc) to run in users 'public_html' dirs? I've looked for this in various HOWTO's and the apache manuals, but I don't see this anywhere. If I've missed this in a doc, PLEASE tell where to find it! Please CC me as I am a digest sub

wmaker configuration

1999-09-24 Thread Dpk
I am hoping to switch from afterstep to wmaker, but I want to be able to switch workspaces by moving my mouse to the edge of the workspace. I thought this would correlate to EdgeResistance, but it doesn't appear to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/GNUstep/Defaults] grep Edge WindowMaker EdgeResista

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-24 Thread Jason Christensen
Colin, I think that you may be right. Now that I think about it, the problem only seems to occur after linux has been running for a long period of time without a logon (i.e. overnight). I think I have the BIOS configured to kick into sleep mode after a certain time of inactivity. This would make s

test

1999-09-24 Thread news at d2.rete
this is a test, don't read.

Re: Unix98 PTYs

1999-09-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 08:50:47 -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > I decided to compile in support for Unix98 PTYs since I am already using > glibc-2.1. Being the newbie that I am, I can't tell the differences b/w > Unix98 PTYs and the old style ttys (is that right?). Well, ptys (pseudo-ttys (tty == te

Re: Octave vs. Matlab

1999-09-24 Thread Beverley Eyre
I have Matlab 4.2 and the Signal toolbox, but not the image toolbox. Bev > Anybody has access to Matlab version 4 with signal and image toolbox ? > I would need to test two m files from a book called wavelet transforms. When trying to use this two files > in Octave I get a result but not as expec

Re: imap

1999-09-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ah, but the latest version *does* support maildirs (I'm using it). Actually I did compile my own version to apply one patch that the maintainer hadn't yet applied. The bug caused a file to not be removed if a folder is deleted (not too big of a deal). The thing I had trouble with was the pickiness

Re: help getting LILO unstuck

1999-09-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Daniels, Craig wrote: > Hi, > > I was changing kernels from 2.2.10 to 2.2.12 and I ran LILO to do the > updating that it needs and it returns > Linux * > > I hadn't noticed the * before and when I rebooted it gets stuck in an > endless loop of Loading Linux over and over. I

help getting LILO unstuck

1999-09-24 Thread Daniels, Craig
Hi, I was changing kernels from 2.2.10 to 2.2.12 and I ran LILO to do the updating that it needs and it returns Linux * I hadn't noticed the * before and when I rebooted it gets stuck in an endless loop of Loading Linux over and over. I've booted from the floppy and ran dselect to uninstall LILO

Re: Root password

1999-09-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Sep-99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Here is how you do it: > reboot and at lilo prompt type > linux init=/bin/sh > > This will rop you into shell. In there, > mount -n -o remount rw > > Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The > second field). Or do that to shado

apt-get (potato) no longer works with dante-client

1999-09-24 Thread Joe Raube
I need to use dante-client as I am trapped behind a msproxy SOCKS4 server. Using slink, apt-get worked fine. I have recently upgraded to potato, and apt-get no longer works thru dante. I tested with both kernel 2.0.36 and 2.2.10 Lynx does however. My sources.list is set up for the http method.

Re: imap

1999-09-24 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Sep 24, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > The problem I have is performance. Sine we get not many but large > mails (around 3 megabyte each), a single file mailbox seems not to be > a good idea. > > I managed to setup procmail to deliver to mail directories (the ones > with cur/ new/ and tmp/

imap

1999-09-24 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hello out there! I recently set up a mail server in the office running slink. The mail is fetched from one pop address using fetchmail. I then use exim & procmail to delicer the mails to several mail folders. Mail is read using imap. (I installed the imap package from main/mail). The clients ar

Old append

1999-09-24 Thread Wilson, Wes \(ISSAtlanta\)
I noticed you had an old March 1998 append about an "LRU Block List corrupted" message on Linux. I too am getting this and haven't been able to find a solution. Did you find one? Thanks, Wes J. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.678-443-6111 f.678-443-6479 Internet

Re: xfree86 3.3.5 in debian

1999-09-24 Thread Greg Vence
Ok, I tried adding a line that said "enlightenment" in /etc/X11/window-managers and I still got the not //.xsession file message. Using Phil's .xinitrc, less the TrueType stuff, worked fine. What am I missing in the /etc/X11/window-managers? TIA -- Greg. "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Of cours

(solved) Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Found a strange thing ... Cannot run perl scripts: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 24 10:21 /usr/bin/perl -> perl-5.005 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 493788 Jul 7 21:58 /usr/bin/perl-5.004 -rw--- 1 root root 534844 Aug 19 10:29 /usr/bin/perl-5.

ftp server

1999-09-24 Thread Menno Scholten
Hi there, can anyone tell me how I can edit the propertie of a 'regular' out of the box ftp server ? E.g. users, start message, homedirs... ? Thnx Menno

Re: soundcard config and lspci etc

1999-09-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am trying to configure sound on Debian 2.1. Although a newbie have done > so successfully with SuSE and anticipated no great problem. However, > using /sbin/pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf gives quote lspci not found, > so PCI resource conflict not checked unqu

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Linh Dang
From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:41:24 +0930 (CST) > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, nate wrote: > > > you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or > > something similar (telnet localhost 25

Re: ip-up.d

1999-09-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am having a problem using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to start fetchmail when I >> use pon to connect. there is a script in there that wil start fetchmail >> for me as desired via command line. yet fetchmail still won't start on >> it's own when I connect to my

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 23 Sep, 1999 à 10:38:18AM +, Jason Christensen wrote: >> Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel) clock is slow? >> I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is maintaining a time that does not >> drift >> more than a

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings PPL, > I am running a development server in my home that is connected > via ppp to the net. What is the best program to use to automatically > reconnect me if the connection is dropped? I checked out pon, wvdial > ,diald, etc, but was curious what o

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, In your fetchmailrc file, did you specify which MDA to use? If you did not, then fetchmail will just send them to localhost at port 25. try this: telnet localhost 25 to see if you have anything running on port 25. Two ways to fix this:

Re: Root password

1999-09-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Here is how you do it: reboot and at lilo prompt type linux init=/bin/sh This will rop you into shell. In there, mount -n -o remount rw Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The second field). Or do that to shadow file, if you have one. Then sync and reboot. You s

Re: non-us

1999-09-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: : Still not working for me. : : : On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:58:53AM -, Pollywog wrote: : > : > On 24-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: : > > : > > On 24-Sep-99 Marcin Kurc wrote: : > >> Since yesterday apt-get cannot connect to non-us.debian.org, how

Re: File location differences between Debian and other 'X'nix's?

1999-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, John Gay wrote: > As you can probably tell, I'm still climbing a very steep learning curve > right now. But, I've made quite some progress and am very proud of the > progress I've made. I don't think I would have learned nearly as much if >

Unix98 PTYs

1999-09-24 Thread Salman Ahmed
Just got kernel 2.2.12 compiled and installed. Thanks to all the people who replied to an earlier post of mine about compiling 2.2.12. I continue to be impressed with Debian. make-kpkg is such a painless way of compiling kernels. Now I never had a problem compiling kernels by hand under RedHat bu

mserver has anyone try it ?

1999-09-24 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all, I wonder has anyone tried mserver together with some M$ client ? And has anyone obtain the said "shareware client for win95" ? Any replies will be much appreciated. Alex

Re: Newer LICQ?

1999-09-24 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > > > I had a rough time trying to compile licq 0.70.1. The plugin would > > not see the qt2-dev stuff, even when I specified it with -- libs & > > include options. > > Not sure if it's documented anywhere or where i came up with it, but >

Re: portscan: sunrpc etc...

1999-09-24 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > upon runnign portscan on my computer from a nonlocal host, I get the > following: > > 9 -> discard > 13 -> daytime > 21 -> ftp > 22 -> ssh > 23 -> telnet > 25 -> smtp > 37 -> time > 79 -> finger > 80 -> www > 110 -> pop-3 > 111 -> sunrpc > 113 -> auth >

Re: ip-up.d

1999-09-24 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Oopsie... looks like I replied to the wrong message. Sorry 'bout that. On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:31:45AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:06:13AM -, Pollywog wrote: > >> In my script, I have: > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> sleep 10s > >> /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 480 > > But

Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Alberto Maurizi
OK Ingo, I'm happy now: I'm not alone in this world! Thanks Seth, ``apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'' from root prompt doesn't fix. Any idea of what to do now? Who at debian.org could be interested on this bug? Cheers, Alberto Mau

Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 03:05:48AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Drat. Another easy answer shot. :( > > See what happens if you ``apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'' from root > prompt. > > If that doesn't fix it, guru time. :) > Hi you gurus, i just got the same problem - daily potato update: co

console login messed up, works in X

1999-09-24 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi, I'm recovering from file system corruption. I think, I restored all packages, but ran into this problem: I can't log in on console as root. When logging in as a regular user, I get my usual shell (bash), but the keyboard is not configured for germany. Also, I can't su to root. Login in X wor

Re: Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?

1999-09-24 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Martin" == Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> See 'man bash' how the bash starts. In short, when you Martin> login on console (bash ist invoked as a login shell) Martin> /etc/profile and than ~/.bash_profile is Martin> executed. Otherwhise only ~/bashrc is executed.

Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
Drat. Another easy answer shot. :( See what happens if you ``apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'' from root prompt. If that doesn't fix it, guru time. :) On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:52:03AM +0200, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > Uh, I upgrade from potato to potato every day > using dsel

Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Uh, I upgrade from potato to potato every day using dselect. Don't know about the method dselect use but it worked well till yesterday. On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Alberto, I am going to guess you are upgrading from slink to potato. I am > also going

Re: many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
Alberto, I am going to guess you are upgrading from slink to potato. I am also going to guess you ran "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' rather than 'apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade'. If I am wrong, tell us as much. :) On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:28:46AM +0200, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > >

many, too many, errors while upgrading potato ...

1999-09-24 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Here is a selection of them: Preparing to replace rsh-server 0.10-3 (using .../rsh-server_0.10-4_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/rsh-server.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: Permission denied dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the

soundcard config and lspci etc

1999-09-24 Thread John
Am trying to configure sound on Debian 2.1. Although a newbie have done so successfully with SuSE and anticipated no great problem. However, using /sbin/pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf gives quote lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked unquote. According to 'man pnpdump' lspci is an e

watchdog problem

1999-09-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, Today watchdog restarted my machine: Sep 24 09:02:16 xxx watchdog[911]: test binary returned 247 Sep 24 09:02:25 xxx watchdog[911]: shutting down the system because of error 247 [...] Sep 24 09:06:14 xxx watchdog[308]: starting daemon (4.5): int=10s realtime=no sync=no soft=no mla=25 ping=non

gdm in potato

1999-09-24 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! I'm having problems with gdm in potato. Yesterday I installed a minimal slink system, then upgraded it to the latest potato/unstable with apt-get, then installed the gnome packages, X, windowmaker, etc. Everything seems to work fine, not gdm though. The /etc/init.d/gdm script starts upp

New version of the Debian

1999-09-24 Thread Franck LAIGLE
Hi, i would like to know when the next version of the Debian will be ok and downloadable ? thx. Franck

Re: Fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Andrew Clark
This problem is documented in the FAQ at exim.org. You need to set localhost as a recognised domain for mail to the machine you are on to be addressed to, otherwise the relaying controls deny you to relay the the localhost. You can either set this with eximconfig, or edit the config file (I c

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > tcp_wrappers are a wonderful little security thingy. They control who (by > IP) is allowed to connect to the various services installed on your > computer. (As long as they are handled through inetd, right gurus?) You must > have them installed, since th

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 07:42:21AM +, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Well my /etc/hosts.allow didn't have any lines in it so I added > ALL: LOCAL 192.168.1.255 > then did "/etc/init.d/netbase restart" and everything now works. So > thank you! > > I must confess though, it seems a bit like black

Re: compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 09:34:11AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Unfortunately, it doesn't work! > I was given the same advice some minutes ago, and installed: > xlib6-altdev, xaw95, xaw3d, libc5-altdev, xlib6, libc5, nextawg > (xlib6g is already installed) > BUT still the same error! Drat.

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Phillips
> > # telnet localhost 25 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to localhost. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > > This doesn't look too good does it??? > > Hmm, are you perhaps using tcp_wrappers to control what inetd launches? > If so, check /etc/hosts.al

Re: True type fonts and xfstt once again...

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:24:45AM +0300, virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > After seeing the discussion concerning ttf fonts and xfstt Idecided to try > this thing as well. > > There was no problem to put the fonts in their position and reading the > FAG doc... >

Re: compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:47:31PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > JY, chances are good you need to install xlib6g-dev as well. > > And, a snippet from my machine... > > amidala:/home/sarnold/aterm-0.3.6# dlocate Xaw > nextawg: /usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw/libXaw.so.6 > xaw3dg: /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > xaw3

True type fonts and xfstt once again...

1999-09-24 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: After seeing the discussion concerning ttf fonts and xfstt Idecided to try this thing as well. There was no problem to put the fonts in their position and reading the FAG doc... But if I'll give the command 'make xfstt && make install' The machine

Re: Slink/ipchains trouble

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:30:56PM -0700, nate wrote: > I've never seen this before.. > > Every few minutes something on one of my servers running Slink changes the > default policy on input,output and foward to DENY. I ravaged through /etc > to see if anything there was doing it, and didnt find

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Fri 09/24/99 04:19PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > What can the problem be? Any ideas? Please cc a copy of any reply, > directly to me thanks, as I am currently unable to be subscribed to the > list. > You might try adding localhost to your list of local_domains in /etc/exim.conf --

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Phillips
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, nate wrote: > you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or > something similar (telnet localhost 25 to test) # telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. This doesn't

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread nate
you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or something similar (telnet localhost 25 to test) fetchmail resends the mail through the local mail server to deliver it locally. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Ad

Re: Root password

1999-09-24 Thread nate
easiest way to recover root password: boot with rescue disk mount root partition edit /etc/shadow remove the password for root in /etc/shadow (remove it in /etc/shadow- too just incase) reboot into normal mode set a new root password works fine on linux and also works on IRIX --

fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have been playing with my system and have somehow either broken exim or fetchmail. When I try to do fetchmail it comes up with: # fetchmail fetchmail: 19 messages for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au (50738 octets). fetchmail: reading message 1 of 19 (2154 octets) . (log message incomplete

Re: compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
JY, chances are good you need to install xlib6g-dev as well. And, a snippet from my machine... amidala:/home/sarnold/aterm-0.3.6# dlocate Xaw nextawg: /usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw/libXaw.so.6 xaw3dg: /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d xaw3dg: /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 xaw3dg: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6.1 xaw

compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I download the sources of xawtv-2.46 to make my MiroPCTV card working. After some hours, I understood that I was missing a dev-lib (thanks for the TOTAL lack of doc). BUT I still have an error msg: ld: cannot open -lXaw : No file or directory if this type. So do you know where I could f

Re: Root password

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass > linux "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will > boot into a single-user mode; within that you should be able to > "passwd ro

Re: File location differences between Debian and other 'X'nix's?

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Please keep line lengths < 76 characters, and put a blank line between paragraphs. On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, John Gay wrote: > I chose Debian after carefully reading everything I could find > and decided that dselect and the .deb format was the better choic

Re: configuration of a printer

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:46:08PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > cambados:~# ls -lisa /dev/lp* > 9409650 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Feb 23 1999 /dev/lp0 > 9409660 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 Feb 23 1999 /dev/lp1 > 9409670 crw-rw 1 root l

Re: Root password

1999-09-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a single-user mode; within that you should be able to "passwd root". If you have shadowpasswords installed, getting a crack to work will be very diffi

Re: Slink/ipchains trouble

1999-09-24 Thread Alex V. Toropov
-Original Message- From: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 24 ñåíòÿáðÿ 1999 ã. 8:32 Subject: Slink/ipchains trouble >I've never seen this before.. > >Every few minutes something on one of my servers running Slink changes the >default policy on input,output

File location differences between Debian and other 'X'nix's?

1999-09-24 Thread John Gay
Hi, I chose Debian after carefully reading everything I could find and decided that dselect and the .deb format was the better choice. One thing still puzzles me, though, being new to UNIX in general. Debian seems to put most everything into different places than most other 'X'nix's. This is

Root password

1999-09-24 Thread Lyle Hart
Does anyone know what to do if you don't know the root password. Is there any third party software that can crack it, or do I have to reinstall Debian 2.1

Re: Newer LICQ?

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > On 24-Sep-99 Brad wrote: > > licq 0.70h != licq 0.70 final != latest (0.70.1) > > > > Just in case anyone cares, h is still technically a beta version. i > > haven't had much trouble compiling it myself, but then again

Re: A clueless newbie writes in

1999-09-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 24-Sep-99 Brad wrote: > As for dselect, check the archives. We seem to have one of these > discussions "how horrible dselect is for newbies" every month or two ;) Oh-oh... It's about that time of month again. I think you might just have lit the wick :-} Regards, Wim Kerkhoff T

Re: Newer LICQ?

1999-09-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 24-Sep-99 Brad wrote: > licq 0.70h != licq 0.70 final != latest (0.70.1) > > Just in case anyone cares, h is still technically a beta version. i > haven't had much trouble compiling it myself, but then again i've been > doing so since 0.70c ;) I had a rough time trying to compile licq 0.70.1.

Re: A clueless newbie writes in

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Eldad wrote: > Ok, so I've installed Debian. I now have a huge amount of feedback on it; > since I can't really do much coding in my spare time, this seems the best > way I can help the Cause. Great! We do need more than coders. > Where do

Re: Newer LICQ?

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > On 24-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > Bill, rumor has it from the maintainer that he uploaded .7 to the servers > > > two weeks ago, or more (for unst

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-24 Thread nate
set the persist option in your ppp config /etc/ppp/options and pppd will auto reconnect when dropped. much better then using a script or a daemon(pppupd ??) to do it..ive been usin it for almost a year works great. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Slink/ipchains trouble

1999-09-24 Thread nate
I've never seen this before.. Every few minutes something on one of my servers running Slink changes the default policy on input,output and foward to DENY. I ravaged through /etc to see if anything there was doing it, and didnt find anything, anyone know of a package that would/could do this? No

Re: portscan: sunrpc etc...

1999-09-24 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > upon runnign portscan on my computer from a nonlocal host, I get the > following: > [[[ list snipped for space]]] > > as I use pretty much all of the "standard" daemons, I don't know what > 'discard', 'daytime', 'time'

Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-24 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings PPL, I am fairly old to UNIX and UNIX clones, etc, but new to Debian, and I must say of the various packages I have tried (Slackware, Red-Hat, Phat, etc, etc) I really do like Debian the best.. Anyway, I am running a development server in my home that is connected via ppp to the net.

Re: non-us

1999-09-24 Thread Marcin Kurc
Still not working for me. On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:58:53AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: > > > > On 24-Sep-99 Marcin Kurc wrote: > >> Since yesterday apt-get cannot connect to non-us.debian.org, however I > >> can ftp there > >> Anyone knows what's wrong? ( connecti

emacs20 and liblockfile0 under potato

1999-09-24 Thread mmiller
Under potato I can't install emacs20 since it depends on liblockfile0, and liblockfile0 'does not appear to be available', according to dselect. 'apt-get install emacs20' says something similar. I just ran 'apt-get update', and here's my sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable mai

error installing perl-doc

1999-09-24 Thread Pollywog
I keep getting this error when I try to install perl-doc. Is there a way to fix this? Preparing to replace perl-5.005-doc 5.005.03-3 (using /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-5.005-doc_5.005.03-4_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl-5.005-doc ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-

RE: non-us

1999-09-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Sep-99 Marcin Kurc wrote: >> Since yesterday apt-get cannot connect to non-us.debian.org, however I >> can ftp there >> Anyone knows what's wrong? ( connecting from *.edu) > > Same here, and NOT connecting from *.edu It is working for me now, with apt-get

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