Re: How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
ZEN MYSTIC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi ..anyone knows how to find the ethernet add of NIC If it's detected by the kernel, you can use /sbin/ifconfig. If it's not detected by the kernel, first you will have to make the kernel detect it, either by loading a module or by building a custom kerne

Re: terminfo for solaris

1999-10-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
Aaron Stromas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my debian > linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there is > a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment > variable has to be set to point

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
No script changes it. It's part of the netbase package, if I'm not mistaken. It is considered a configuration file, so upgrading netbase shouldn't overwrite your changes. Bryan On 19-Oct-99 Hans Gubitz wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: >> 2) As for SIOCAD

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Your bset bet would be to leave the file, but delete all of the modules from it. Some scripts may expect it to be there. Bryan On 19-Oct-99 Richard Weil wrote: > Can /etc/modules be deleted safely? After upgrading from 2.0.36 -> 2.2.12 I > noticed > that /etc/modules was trying to load modules

Re: Ftp problem.

1999-10-19 Thread Marcin Kurc
Install wu-ftpd or proftpd, or whatever you like and check your inetd.conf. On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:16:47PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Christian Dysthe writes: > > I am not able to login to my machine with ftp anymore. > > I'm having the same problem with this 'unstable' box. Works fine on

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: can I list just the > directories, executables?" >> * jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just >>> directories? >> See? The option -d is it.

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If your shell is the bash (as I suppose), just press the TAB key >> twice. You´ll get a big list of executables in your path. (You can >> see what your path is by typing "echo $PATH" (without the quotes). > Interestingly enough, I hit tab twice as sugge

Error installing 3COM driver

1999-10-19 Thread Evan Burkitt
All: I am attempting to install Debian 2.1. My NIC is a 3COM EtherLink III 3C509B ISA card. In the driver configuration part of the installation process I choose the 3c509 driver and attempt to enter the command line "io=0x300 irq=10" which is suggested by the installation program, and which

Re: Ftp problem.

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Christian Dysthe writes: > I am not able to login to my machine with ftp anymore. I'm having the same problem with this 'unstable' box. Works fine on the 2.1 box. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Ho

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Jordan Howarth
Mary> Sorry, I should have said that I tried 'fuser' and got no output. Mary> Something must be runnning, since I'm getting an error msg, however, I Mary> can't figure out what. I had this problem with an ESS PnP card, ie. no apparent reason for "unable to open /dev/audio.

Ftp problem.

1999-10-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am not able to login to my machine with ftp anymore. I get a connection to the server, but whatever user/password I use I get: 550 Authentication failure I get this on all accounts with the right use name and password combinations. Telnet works fine. Can anyone tell me where to start lo

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-19 Thread Steve Stancliff
I have my machine set up so that ctrl-alt-end shuts down. Add the following lone to /etc/inittab (comment out any existing kb::kbrequest line): kb::kbrequest:shutdown -a -h now I think the default combination for kbrequest signal is alt-uparrow. To change this, you must modify /etc/kbd/default.m

Re: Red Hat Linux

1999-10-19 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, DeGroat Fredrick (Wade) CONT INHD wrote: > Need Help! > I have setup an anonymous ftp server using Red Hat Linux 6.0 . > When I ftp to this server from another client logging in as anonymous I can > connect and browse the home directory. But when I try to upload a file fro

Re: kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > Achim Bohnet wrote: > > >>>"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > > > Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... > > > cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': > > > at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. > > > > > Are you sure /usr/share/doc/HTML/en

nntp-inews

1999-10-19 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm looking for an inews program that can post via nntp (for use with uqwk without needing a local news server), but I can't seem to find any. Slackware does have one which I have hacked around a bit in at the moment, but it does have "no monetary gain"-licensing in part, which means that it

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and thanks to all, which had helped me. (7 and some doubled Mails). Please one more time: I am on the List and I do not like if I get all Answers as CC two times. The entry 'append' was not in the /etc/lilo.conf and I have added them in a new line as append="aha152

group productivity software thoughts

1999-10-19 Thread Robert de Forest
I appologize if this is an old idea. I admit I don't read the lists much, and I haven't checked to see if this has already been discussed. I've observed that there is a LOT of group productivity software becoming available. Specifically, the combination of the Imp (http://horde.org/imp), ezmlm

cron error message

1999-10-19 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I keep on getting this message and i am not too sure why that is : /etc/cron.daily/smail: /usr/lib/smail/checkerr: /dev/null: Permission denied Any thoughts?? thanx

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Mark M
Hi, You may want to try the patch Alec suggested. HTH Mark On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:55AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > ftp://ftp.x.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ (where x is your > favorite mirror) > > There's some updated IDE patches there from Andre Hedrick, the guy who > main

system parameters

1999-10-19 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
How can I display the actual values of system parameters? something like sysdef -i on Solaris. Is there a file to change them? or a command? something like /etc/system on Solaris

Re: runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > I have found and RTFM on update-rcd but it does not seem to be really > equivalent to chkconfig (only works to add a symlink not change > existing ones nor list the status of a service for a specified > runlevel...)

Re: How to diable mail relaying in smail

1999-10-19 Thread Joe Block
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote: > I need to disable mail relaying on my system. I have smail 3.2.0.92-3, > which came as the default with my Debian system, installed. We cannot figure > out how to turn off mail relaying (an institutionally required anti-spam > measure)

RE: runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-99 Ethan Benson wrote: > hello, > > I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a > couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to: > welcome aboard (-: > I have found and RTFM on update-rcd but it does not seem to be really > equivalent to c

How to diable mail relaying in smail

1999-10-19 Thread Tom Kuiper
I need to disable mail relaying on my system. I have smail 3.2.0.92-3, which came as the default with my Debian system, installed. We cannot figure out how to turn off mail relaying (an institutionally required anti-spam measure), since smail does not use a sendmail.cf file. Can anyone advise?

New modules.conf + sound...

1999-10-19 Thread Chris Mayes
Hi. Well, after running another system upgrade a couplea days ago (on Potato, of course), I seem to have broken my sound configuration again. I am not sure if it was this upgrade or a previous one that shifted module configuration from conf.modules to modules.conf (or whatever they're called) but

RE: Network Card on PCMCIA...

1999-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-99 Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy Y'all > > I'm doing an installation of Debian for a friend. He's got an IBM Thinkpad > 360Cs w/8 megs of ram & a 165 meg hard drive. > > I need to get the TrendNet PCMCIA network card going, so I can mount the > Debian CD that's on My linux box... Help

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Weil
Can /etc/modules be deleted safely? After upgrading from 2.0.36 -> 2.2.12 I noticed that /etc/modules was trying to load modules I didn't need/want. I ended up commenting everything out. Is there any reason not to delete the file? Richard Weil Hans Gubitz wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:

Re: kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Achim Bohnet wrote: > >>>"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > > Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... > > cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': > > at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. > > > Are you sure /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp exists? Actually, I'm sure that

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > 2) As for SIOCADDRT: your /etc/init.d/network (or is it networks) > route add -net 127.0.0.0 >to: > route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 lo > I had the same problem (2.0.36->2.2.12) in my /etc/init.d/ne

PCMCIA modem not identified

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Weil
I'm running Potato on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I've compiled a 2.2.12 kernel and the PCMCIA modules using kernel package. The system seems to work fine, except it no longer recognizes my PCMCIA card modem. When I insert the card I get a low beep than a high beep and it loads the memory_cs module (

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Todd Suess
> > If your shell is the bash (as I suppose), just press the TAB key > twice. You´ll get a big list of executables in your path. (You can > see what your path is by typing "echo $PATH" (without the quotes). > > HTH, > Colin Interestingly enough, I hit tab twice as suggested on my system and ba

Re: kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install kdevelop (kdevelop_1%3a1.0-19991009-1_i386.deb) on a > newly installed Debian potato box, and get the following: > > Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... > cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': at

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread aphro
usually i just kill apache, set the ulimit (ulimit -u 40) and restart apache. you could prob do this in the rc script too. i'll check out the rlimit directives, but that sounds like an apache thing. i feel safer with a system level limiter. and kernel patches i have applied ensure they are enfo

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
> On 10/18/99 at 19:59:33, jh wrote concerning "can I list just the > directories, executables?": >> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just >> directories? I have done just ls -F | grep / in order to get a list of just directories, but it sounds so simple I think

Re: qt2 packages?

1999-10-19 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Robert Rati wrote: > The qt2 packages in potato seem to have been replaced with libqt2 > packages, but when I unpack them, I get an error saying: > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libqt2_2.0.2-0.1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is al

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread d1temp
On 19 Oct, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: can I list just the > directories, executables?" >> * jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just >>> directories? >> See? The option -d is it. > To li

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Aphro, > i have found that ulimit works very well with apache. i have my default > ulimit set to a max of 12 processes per user, but with apache i gotta > increase it to 40-50 before i start it or it may puke with cannot spawn > child process on some cgis. How do you ulimit apache? Editi

Re: kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread aphro
its possible you forgot to include scsi support in your kernel, i have made that mistake and gotten that error many times. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

kdevelop configuration (debian)

1999-10-19 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Hi, I'm trying to install kdevelop (kdevelop_1%3a1.0-19991009-1_i386.deb) on a newly installed Debian potato box, and get the following: Setting up kdevelop (1.0-19991009-1) ... cannot open dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdevelop/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. I've tried both

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread aphro
i have found that ulimit works very well with apache. i have my default ulimit set to a max of 12 processes per user, but with apache i gotta increase it to 40-50 before i start it or it may puke with cannot spawn child process on some cgis. nate [mailto:[

Red Hat Linux

1999-10-19 Thread DeGroat Fredrick \(Wade\) CONT INHD
Need Help! I have setup an anonymous ftp server using Red Hat Linux 6.0 . When I ftp to this server from another client logging in as anonymous I can connect and browse the home directory. But when I try to upload a file from my client, I get an error :550 upload access denied" message. I have

Re: X won't start (never mind)

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Forget this one. I don't know exactly what happened, but after rebooting X works again. Actually I had solved this before the message went out, however after the latest potato upgrade sendmail wouldn't restart until I edited sendmail.mc so I had a few days of outgoing mail in my queue. On Mon, O

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
Turns out that AccelerratedX 5 doesn't mind slink's gpm, but won't work with potato's. So I just removed gpm from startup, and now everythings fine. Thanks to everyone who helped. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] "John R. Sheets" wrote: > Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > > I just installed a potat

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-19 Thread John R. Sheets
Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even > installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious > improvement. The first time I ran X everything worked fine. Then, out > of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X. I get th

Hiring Linux Developers and Specialists in the Bay Area

1999-10-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
Work for a Silicon Valley startup deploying and developing a solution based on Debian/Linux for eCommerce diagnostics. - Stockoptions - Moving Bonus - Competitive pay Information about Capital Technologies can be found at http://www.captech.com. Capital Technologies is an active supporter of Linu

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 10/18/99 at 19:59:33, jh wrote concerning "can I list just the directories, executables?": > Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just > directories? > > Also, is there a command that will list executable files. I just got debian > installed from floppy so there is no

Re: Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Joe, > Use cgiwrap. You can configure exactly how much cpu they get to use. > I used it on a solaris machine that we were teaching a course on digital > media on, and magically the load problems disappeared. There's a deb package for it too. The problem is that it has a not standard log

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: can I list just the directories, executables?" > * jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just >> directories? > > Do a > > man ls > > There, press / (for searching in the manual). >

MacOS and Intel Linux mixed network

1999-10-19 Thread Simon Hogg
I have an intel linux box, acting as a workstation (not a server), and the entire rest of the place runs on MacOS (well, more-or-less). Are there any tools that allow me to browse the network, mount shares, etc? I have appletalk installed, and that runs fine. The Macs can see my Linux box, a

Re: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
David J. Kanter writes: > But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root > all the time, how secure is it to run sudo on something like wvdial or > slrnpull? wvdial should not require root if your user is in group dip (wvdial may also require 'dialout': pon does not). I'v

ncurses driving me nuts

1999-10-19 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for help with ncurses programming (pls redirect me if this doesn't belong here), but the behaviour of ncurses is driving me up the wall here... For some silly reason, wmove() and mvwaddstr() doesn't seem to be functioning properly. The first one

mc, strange ftp behaviour

1999-10-19 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi folks, i found some strange behaviour with lovely mc. I use two (identical?) potato-systems, one of them two months old, the other just installed from scratch - was formerly a SuSE6.1. I saved the /home from the latter, and now maybe have some struggle with old config-files in my HOMEDIR. The

Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)

1999-10-19 Thread Joe Block
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:08:02AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > Nathan, > > If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch > > the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do > > the same thing in C :) This unfortunately relies on good coding practi

runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
hello, I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to: in redhat land the preferred way to manage the rc?.d symlinks was with chkconfig (more typing but works right) or ntsysv (don't work right most of the

libapt?

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
I am trying to install gnome-apt, but it says its dependent on libapt-pkg2.5, which is not avalible. Where is this package? How can I get it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Off bit question

1999-10-19 Thread Rajesh Mittal
Hi friends , I am really sorry for posting an offbeat question on this mailing list. I want to give facility of dial in on my sun machine.I am using solaris 2.6 What all I have to enable it. Thanks a lot. Rajesh Mittal Th

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: > > "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." > > > > All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, > > a new error m

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: >> >> - >> GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 >> *we all live downstream* >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> /dev/null >> > I still get this when I do depmod -a. I have recompiled my kernel > >

Re: How to setup a printer?

1999-10-19 Thread David Z. Maze
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PK> What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? Probably the easiest thing to do is to install the 'lpr' and 'magicfilter' packages; the installation scripts of the latter will prompt you for all of the crucial data about your printer

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread David Natkins
Look at the append parameter for LILO. Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello and nice afternoon. > > OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running > but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( > > If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter > > linux aha152x=0x

How to setup a printer?

1999-10-19 Thread peter karlsson
What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? I installed 'printtool' (mainly because it's the only Linux program I've ever used before to set up printers, on a RedHat system), but it just complains about "startup encoding not set", and that doesn't help me much. -- \\// peter

Re: netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the > mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with > a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking > contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., > don't

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: > "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." > > All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, > a new error msg is generated. > > How can I find o

RE: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
... > If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter > > linux aha152x=0x340,11 Are you using a VLbus card with one of these built in? A something-or-other VL300? If so what is the ide controller chipset? (other than hopeless) > But if I boot from harddisk the aha152x is

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: : Hi, : : I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: : "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." : : All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, : a new error msg is generated. : : How can

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: : Hello and nice afternoon. : : OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running : but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( : : If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter : : linux aha152x=0x340,11 : :

/dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hi, I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, a new error msg is generated. How can I find out what is using /dev/audio? Thanks, MaryK

[Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and nice afternoon. OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter linux aha152x=0x340,11 it finds my Sony-CD-Rom at ID4. But if I bot from harddisk the aha152x is

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:59:42PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Ok, I'd like to create a admin group (adm), and have some > questions. But first, my goals: You might want to have a look at sudo. 'man sudo' and 'man sudoers'. -- Mojahed

retail set

1999-10-19 Thread tf
Hey guys, I was curious if the upcoming retail debian set will "wait" for potato? I was gonna get a potato CD anyway, once they are available. I may as well spend a little more, and support the team. (when can I start putting "Debian/GNU Linux" in my sig line?) -- -t

terminfo for solaris

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
greetings, while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my debian linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there is a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment variable has to be set to point to it. unfortunately, i lost the refe

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Colin Marquardt
* jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just > directories? Do a man ls There, press / (for searching in the manual). Type -d (the text to search). Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext). See? The option -d is it. > A

netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., don't run good. 1.

passing parameters to a SSI in apache

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Varga
How can I pass parameters to an SSI (server-side include)? I invoke the SSI file from a server-parsed html file: test.shtml: ... <--#exec cmd="cginame" --> What I would like to be able to do is to either to set environment variables for the cgi invoked, or set command line parameters for it.

Re: Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

1999-10-19 Thread Lars Hecking
This bug in the pslatex driver should be fixed in the latest beta. Wojciech Zabolotny writes: > Dear gnuplot developers, > > I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and > reported to you) still exists. > Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in

cron'ed, at'ed, exim'ed user limits

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How can I set user resource limits a la /etc/limits for the programs executed by cron, at and exim's .forward? This is to avoid possible DoS by massive resource grabbing by untrusted users. Thanks in advance for your help. -- p.

Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

1999-10-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Dear gnuplot developers, I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and reported to you) still exists. Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in the new version, but the bug's nature and the cure is still the same. I attach the gnuplot_bug.tgz file, wh

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-19 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:32:18PM -0700, Wade Curry was heard to state: > export QMAILINJECT=f > > The f is the problem. Get rid of it. Look at qmail-inject > and qmail-headers for a detailed explanation of what f > and the other switches do. The values in the first 2 variables > are what is u

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
> > I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing > > dependencies for program design. > > Any good programs available for the job? > > Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works > well for many types of graphs. > It also has a nice tutorial. Look

Re: Network problem-->cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:50:18AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: > > hi... > i have sort of network problem here.. > recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly > running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and > access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the > machine following

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:05:17AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel > > messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: > >

Network problem-->cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
hi... i have sort of network problem here.. recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the machine following by its domain name) but if i type the ip i could get access... pls help..

Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:34:11AM +0200, shaul wrote: > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dnsquery', which is also in package bind > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Hi Shaul, I had the same PB with a package from KDE; I used "dpkg -i --force-overwrite " to overwrite the ex

Re: seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
"Jacob Schmude > > Hello > > When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my > previous linux system this never happened. Was the previou s linux system on this or other hardware? If other, then I suspect your current hardware. Read the Sig11 faq. Often a go-faster option

Re: Newbie guides on new site

1999-10-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
I have a public IP number at 212.19.67.118 that I'd be happy to make available for this site... Patrick - Original Message - From: Muhammad Yusuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:22 PM Subject: Newbie guides on new site > Hi all. I've put a very basic and brief g

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make backups quickly! I have seen this kind of messages three times > now, and each time they came from a dying hard disk. Especially the > fact that it occurs at decreasing intervals is alarming. Try to > backup > valuable data first, and t

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-19 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Bernhard Rieder wrote: Thank You for all your answers. Maybe the glib info-files are better than the html documentation.

Re: How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
First load the module, then ifconfig to give IP info to card and then route add -n xxx.xxx.xxx.0 dev eth1 - Original Message - From: ZEN MYSTIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 7:40 AM Subject: How to find the ethernet add of NIC > > hi ..anyone knows how to find

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:05:17 +0200, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Eric> On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel >> messages in the syslog file with decreasing

Warning - ipmasq

1999-10-19 Thread Art Lemasters
I installed ipmasq and lost connectivity to the Internet with its default configuration. ...another lesson to read before I install. ;-) Art

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: > > Hello, > > running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel > messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: > > Oct 18 16:28:38 Winona kernel: ide0: reset: success > Oct 18 16:30:45 Winona

Re: kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:09:13PM -0700, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > hello, > I am trying to install kernel 2.2.12. I compiled as documented in the > README of the kernel source distribution. I edited lilo.conf and exec > lilo and added. My root dev=/dev/sda3 (extend partition) boot=/dev/sda > But

How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
hi ..anyone knows how to find the ethernet add of NIC pls . bye.. = " If making love is an Art, I'm an Artist"--->ZEN MYSTIC __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-19 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
jh is kooking for a hand to hold: > Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian > specific book on linux > There is a recent Debian specific book from O' Reilley and it is available online too. Do a 'wget -r --no-parent www.ora.com/catalog/debian/chapter' ragOO,

Re: enlightenment problem

1999-10-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Stephan, I have only seen the enlightenment on the slink CD. But when I checked it out, I think I got around the same problem by running a program called imlib_config (or something close). If you type imlib at the prompt, you should see it. Hope this helps, John P.S. I never got enlightm

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-19 Thread Todd Suess
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > > > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > > with it. > > > > -Todd > > > > ps. for this to work, y

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 18 Oct, Pollywog wrote: > Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. > > Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep > Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than >

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
1) What am I doing wrong ? 2) Is it possible to intsall unstable's bind without having problems with commercial software ? [07:30:43 /tmp]# apt-get install dnsutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgrad

RE: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Actually, how a cracker will typically try to get in is by exploiting security holes in deamons that listen to network ports. These programs USUALLY run as root. Logging in as root presents little-to-no additional risk. If your system security is weak, logging-in as root wont cause much addition

Network Card on PCMCIA...

1999-10-19 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all I'm doing an installation of Debian for a friend. He's got an IBM Thinkpad 360Cs w/8 megs of ram & a 165 meg hard drive. I need to get the TrendNet PCMCIA network card going, so I can mount the Debian CD that's on My linux box... Help! Thanx Brant Wells --

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