Re: setting up network for @home account

1999-12-02 Thread John and Monica Patton
The information you have sent is very helpful... but what is the NETWORK address? I even called [EMAIL PROTECTED], and they had no idea. Without that field entered I get a "DIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable" error. Thanks again. John

Re: what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > "Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). > > I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to > > date. Doh!!! > I d

Re: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-02 Thread aphro
I always heard that outlook was a piece of shit, based on mostly the fact that it is so prone to virus spreading. Sure there may be ways "around" this but the average user isn't going to know about them. My first(and so far, only) bad experience with Outlook was after a server upgrade(I saw hundr

Re: what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). > > I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to > date. Doh!!! > > Thanx! I don't see a 'netdate' package

Re: File permissions

1999-12-02 Thread Nitebirdz
Antonio, I got some links that may help you: http://olympic.atmos.colostate.edu/basic_unix.html http://php.iupui.edu/~kcmcreyn/L401/Unix/file_perm.html http://menaik.cs.ualberta.ca/doc/Talks/Unix/file_permissions.html http://www.msoe.edu/personal/workshop/9603/adv/unix/permissions.html

base-passwd problems

1999-12-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Everyone: please stop reporting bugs for base-passwd. I'm very much aware of the problems and already fixed them in version 3.1.5. However due to a bug in the current rsync package this version hasn't been installed on the FTP servers yesterday. Wichert. -- __

old quotas on new disk

1999-12-02 Thread Gareth
G'day all, recently I swapped over disks from my old system to the new one. I need the user quotas working on one disk that was sdc1 on the old system and is sde1 on the new one with the same quotas as were on the old sustem. I have tried just using the old user.quota but it dosn't seem t

Re: what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to date. Doh!!! Thanx!

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-12-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
>> ... the LSB is working with GNU Project developers, especially from >> Debian. ... Dylan Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ Dylan's private email is quoted with his permission ] > One comment that you probably know by now: Debian is not the GNU > project. There is no official relation be

Re: LILO

1999-12-02 Thread Dietrich Clauss
> I tried to change boot=hda3 to hda4 Did you move the 'bootable' flag from hda3 to 4, too? Otherwise, the MBR tries to start your old LILO on hda3. You can also install LILO in the MBR using boot=hda that makes the 'bootable' flag obsolete. Dietrich -- Dietrich Clauß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

wake-on-ring

1999-12-02 Thread luis
hello i continue interested in making my box to power-on-ring i have enabled the option in my BIOS setup: and they say wake-on-ring and assigned the irq to the modem but (as usual) things dont work i have a GA 7IX motherboard, an external acer modem i read in the motherboard manual that there

Re: Q about netscape 4.7 and slink

1999-12-02 Thread Andreas Schmidt
Hello Alice, to install/run netscape 4.7 from the downloaded tar.gz file you don't need any of the Debian netscape packages. Here are the steps I did to install it on my machine: 1. copy the netscape 4.7 tar.gz file to /tmp 2. unpack the file: cd /tmp; tar xvzf netscape 4.7 tar.gz 3. change to th

Re: setting up network for @home account

1999-12-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/02/99 02:50PM, John and Monica Patton wrote: > I have the ethernet card working properly. I recompiled the kernel with > the latest stable driver, and a look at dmesg suggests thats its > recognized. I just need to set up configuration files and so forth. > It'd be nice to be able to run

Re: OT: Network map solutions

1999-12-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a way to create rather nice-looking network topology > maps. I figure a solution will involve an easy-to-use object-oriented > drawing program with a library of network objects (routers, switches, > links, clouds, etc.) that is also ext

[no subject]

1999-12-02 Thread Ray Woodcock
Amazingly, I finally have a successful installation of slink. Whew! I missed a couple of bends in the road, however: (1) The opportunity to select a profile blew right past me somehow. What can I enter at the bash prompt to return to that stage in the game? (2) How can I remove PCMCIA now? __

[off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-02 Thread Brian May
> "Brad" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brad> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 05:11:37AM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: >> I agree that I am using MS Outlook. I think it is the best >> As far as breaking the thread, what are refering to? Brad> Mutt has support for threads. That mea

Re: OT: Network map solutions

1999-12-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You should check out xfig. It's not exactly Visio but may be the best tool in this case. Marc Mongeon wrote: > Sorry, this is a bit off-topic, but I thought it might be a quick and > painless way to reach people who have already tackled a problem I'm > facing. > > I'm looking for a way to create

Re: Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
In your lilo.conf change: boot=/dev/hda2 to: boot=/dev/hda That should work. Matthew Denson wrote: > OK here are the files. > > /etc/lilo.conf > -- > boot=/dev/hda2 > root=/dev/hda2 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label=Lin

LILO

1999-12-02 Thread raymond ferrari
I had a working LILO until I moved a partition. I have changed everything back again, but now I get LI at bootup. I have reconfigured LILO according to where it should be...hda3 which is also the root(ext2)...How can I find out exactly which partition LILO is on and also Linux. Is there a way to g

Re: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Paul McHale wrote: > Steve, > > I agree that I am using MS Outlook. I think it is the best program available > for > my use. I don't understand your difficulty. I forwarded the message to my > linux > server and opened it with mutt. It came across in plain text. I double > checked > the ou

bad hdisks blocks

1999-12-02 Thread zdrysdal
Hi is there anyway to label a particular block on a scsi hdisk as being bad? I am performing a mke2fs -c, which checks for bad blocksin this particular case it has found a bad block and has aborted the mke2fs process with an error message. thanx

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i tried it both ways. i tried to roll back to the slink version of lprng but my method must not have been correct. first, i edited /etc/apt/sources.list changing u

Partion sizes - recommendations pls

1999-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any suggestions on how large to create my partitions based on the following usage: Apache *only local* for designing my database and HTML (not sure which mods), PHP, Mysql... GUI heavweights : X, KDE or Gnome, Star Office or Word Perfect, Netscape... I presume /user will have to be as large as

Re: WHAT THE F**K--- (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-02 Thread Brad
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 05:11:37AM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: > > I agree that I am using MS Outlook. I think it is the best program > available for my use. I don't understand your difficulty. I forwarded the > message to my linux server and opened it with mutt. It came across in plain > text.

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-12-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Subject: Re: Proposal: Source file package format >> >> ++ Enables convergence towards Linux Standard Base (LSB) > Reducing incompatibility between the variants of the GNU operating > system that use Linux as the kernel is a useful job. The GNU

Re: setting up network for @home account

1999-12-02 Thread John and Monica Patton
I have the ethernet card working properly. I recompiled the kernel with the latest stable driver, and a look at dmesg suggests thats its recognized. I just need to set up configuration files and so forth. By the way, my kernel is 2.0.36. Thanks. John

Re: Want to upgrade distribution

1999-12-02 Thread Brad
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:17:12AM -0800, Eric Hagglund wrote: > I would like to change the pointers in option 1 of > dselect so that I am able to access the latest > availble, stable software for potato. Can anyone tell > advise what the best url is for this purpose? > > I'm looking to upgrade to

Re: OT: Network map solutions

1999-12-02 Thread Allan K. Neal
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Has anybody found a utility that fits this description? I played around > a little bit with a drawing program called "dia," but its object lib- > rary was minimal. > Mark, The October Gnome version of dia has a much better object li

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

1999-12-02 Thread Joe Block
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow you to > specify the > password on the command line. Perhaps you can do it with pipes, like the > following. Check the list archives - I posted a script on this list a couple days back that generates

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

1999-12-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow you to specify the password on the command line. Perhaps you can do it with pipes, like the following. Ok, let's say you have a file users.txt with a list of user names you want to add, one per line. for i in $(cat users.txt) ; d

Re: Moving secret key from PGP to GPG

1999-12-02 Thread Brad
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:00:11PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > > can anyone give me a short hint, how do I move my secret key from pgp > (2.6.3) to gpg (1.0) (if it is posible)? The easiest way is to just tell gpg to use pgp's keyrings in addition to its own. Add these lines to the ~/.gnupg/opti

LILO

1999-12-02 Thread raymond ferrari
I had a working LILO until I moved a partition. I have changed everything back again, but now I get LI at bootup. I have reconfigured LILO according to where it should be...hda3 which is also the root(ext2)...How can I find out exactly which partition LILO is on and also Linux. Is there a way to g

Re: OT: Network map solutions

1999-12-02 Thread aphro
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: Mongeo >I'm looking for a way to create rather nice-looking network topology Mongeo >maps. I figure a solution will involve an easy-to-use object-oriented Mongeo >drawing program with a library of network objects (routers, switches, Mongeo >links, clouds, e

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

1999-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:36:25PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow you to > specify the > password on the command line. Perhaps you can do it with pipes, like the > following. This program is included in the passwd package on eve

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

1999-12-02 Thread Marcin Kurc
here is what I use to add users from the file. On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:36:25PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow you to > specify the > password on the command line. Perhaps you can do it with pipes, like the > following. > >

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

1999-12-02 Thread claw
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:36:25 -0600 Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow > you to specify the password on the command line. Perhaps you can > do it with pipes, like the following. This is the sort of problem that you use ex

scsi hdisk bootup

1999-12-02 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i have added a 37GB scsi disk to our samba image server and I want to make that disk the bootup disk. ie i want linux to boot off the new disk as opposed to the smaller scsi that it currently boots off. What needs to be done to achieve this? I know you can specify which partition to boot of

Re: Glibc and Kernel, both with crypt?

1999-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 21:06:36 +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > This question is with regard to both glibc-crypt-2.1.2.tar.gz and > patch-int-2.2.10.4.gz, are these included in a "normal" Debian > distribution? glibc-crypt: yes (it does hashing, not encryption). patch-int: on non-US.debian.org you c

OT: Network map solutions

1999-12-02 Thread Marc Mongeon
Sorry, this is a bit off-topic, but I thought it might be a quick and painless way to reach people who have already tackled a problem I'm facing. I'm looking for a way to create rather nice-looking network topology maps. I figure a solution will involve an easy-to-use object-oriented drawing prog

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-12-02 Thread Nitebirdz
Jens, As far as I remember, this is the problem: when you download any tar.gz file in Windows, it will be automatically renamed whatever_tar.gz due to the DOS/Windows limitations when it comes to filenames (remember: 8 characters name, 3 characters for the extension, and only one extensio

Outlook and HTML

1999-12-02 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I hunted down the problem with previous post(s) being in HTML. If you are an outlook user and are interested in the resolution, please e-mail. Most people apparently have this set correctly and know how to detect HTML. Thanks to everyone for the constructive comments regarding replying styl

Glibc and Kernel, both with crypt?

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
Say I do a "normal" Debian (or any other Linux OS) install with, eg. glibc2.1 and kernel2.10 (or any other glibc and kernel), would these be the complete library and kernel? This question is with regard to both glibc-crypt-2.1.2.tar.gz and patch-int-2.2.10.4.gz, are these included in a "normal"

setting up network for @home account

1999-12-02 Thread John and Monica Patton
Okay. I recently got a cable modem through [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pretty sure that I have the ethernet card installed properly, but I'm lost about what to do next! I have a static IP address with a net mask, a gateway address, a host name and a domain name, and a pair of server addresses. Everyth

Re: Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and good evening. MK>What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why MK>not also send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you MK>have the bootable flag set on /dev/hda2? I think, the errormessage has nothing to do with LILO !!! MK>> Non-Sy

Re: Make a network firewall with real IPs

1999-12-02 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi Paulo You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on the official site are not too good, you can find good ones a

RE: Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-02 Thread Matthew Denson
OK here are the files. /etc/lilo.conf -- boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only Partition Table for /dev/hda ---Starting--- EndingS

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread ^chewie
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps" command, no

Re: Fortify-ing ns

1999-12-02 Thread aphro
try to download the original fortify from www.fortify.net and grab the latest netscape and install manually, thats how i've done it(till netscape had 128bit binaries for linux now i get those but i see yer in the .uk) and have never had a problem. nate On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Tony wrote: uctpja > uc

Fortify-ing ns

1999-12-02 Thread Tony
I've had a really frustrating time trying to upgrade to 128 bit SSL encryption on Netscape. I do apt-get install fortify, and fortify claims that my netscape is not one that it supports; I look in the database fortify has, and my NS is there. I even uninstall my netscape, re-install using netsc

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I also tried to a remote network printer (Novell) and had the same problem. If it is a bug, how do I (we) determine which package has the problem for filing a bug report? That I am not the only one experiencing the problem gives me faith that I wasn't doing something too stupid. Dave >>> Pet

to: nate Duehr

1999-12-02 Thread aphro
thanks for the mail nate! your domain doesnt resolve :) fetchmail wasnt delivering messages for the past 3 days i thought the list was down! ack. fetchmail: 214 messages for nate at mail.firetrail.com (556646 octets). fetchmail: reading message 1 of 214 (3417 octets) (log message incomplete) fetc

Compaq Smart Array 221

1999-12-02 Thread Ronald Tin
Hi all, I have a Compaq Smart Array 221 on a Proliant 1600 server, and have already configured the disk array. I plugged another SCSI drive into the first SCSI channel and could detect the logical drives with a 2.2.13 kernel booting from that SCSI drive. So hopefully I can get the RAID running wi

Re: WHAT THE F**K--- (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I agree that I am using MS Outlook. I think it is the best program > available for my use. I don't understand your difficulty. I forwarded the > message to my linux server and opened it with mutt. It came across in plain > text. I double checked the

Xterm and function keys

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Hi! > >I discovered a strange thing: >In an xterm the function keys produce the following: > F1 -> ^[OP > F2 -> ^[OQ > F3 -> ^[OR > F4 -> ^[OS > F5 -> ^[[15~ > F6 -> ^[[16~ >... > >On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce: > F1 -> ^[[11~ > F2 -> ^[[12~ > F3 -> ^[[13~ > F4 -> ^[[14~ > F5

Re: Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
What's the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf? Do you have boot=/dev/hda? Why not also send us a printout of the partition setup from (c)fdisk. Do you have the bootable flag set on /dev/hda2? Matthew Denson wrote: > I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm > subscri

[lists@anomie.dhis.org: Re: Netscape configuration; Fortify]

1999-12-02 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
I'd be very interested to know details about how to do this. Searching the list archive, someone else mentioned editing the index file, which I found, but I don't know how to properly edit it. Any help would be appreciated. Thx, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from Brad <[EMAIL PR

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> > I have discovered a fair amount of BSD advocacy > turned "anti-Linux". > Like Linux zealots, BSDers are not above snobbery. > I think both groups need to be open minded, we all have something we can learn from each other. Alas, the BSD licences would allow linux to 'borrow' or 'steal' good s

How do I turn off a hosts request?

1999-12-02 Thread Duncan K. Foley
Several weeks ago I discovered that my server, running Debian 2.0.36, is making repeated udp requests to a nonexistent port on another server. The iptraffic log looks like this: Mon Nov 22 15:26:59 1999: UDP from cepa.newschool.:1253 to A032156.N1.Vand:doma in on eth0 I can't figure out how to s

Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-02 Thread Matthew Denson
I posted this to the newsgroup linux.debian.user yesterday. But now I'm subscribed to this list. I apologize if you've seen this before. Good evening all, I have just completed the installation of Debian/Linux 2.1 on my old Compaq laptop. When I finished it would not boot from the hard drive

hwclock and time

1999-12-02 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I have been following the postings about hte inaccuracy of time brought about by shutting down the machine. The suggestions were: rem /etc/adjtime, run hwclock and remove hwclock --adjust line from /etc/initd.hwclock.sh I have done this, run hwclock to adjust the time and then run hwclock --hctos

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many ot

Want to upgrade distribution

1999-12-02 Thread Eric Hagglund
I would like to change the pointers in option 1 of dselect so that I am able to access the latest availble, stable software for potato. Can anyone tell advise what the best url is for this purpose? I'm looking to upgrade to the latest versions of all packages in stable, main, and non-free. __

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread David S. Jackson
So then Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said . . . > If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can > answer this. I have been doing some reading and have > heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a > better canidate os for a firewall system than linux > (herertic!). OpenBS

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried > lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many others use lprng for

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although > I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps"

Re: IDL crashes, undefined symbol: _xstat

1999-12-02 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jim Crumley wrote: > I am running an updated yesterday potato/x86 system. I get the following > error when I try to run IDL (Interactive Data Language from RSI) 5.2 : > > /usr/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux/idl: error in loading shared libraries: > /us > r/local/rsi/idl_5.2

Xterm and function keys

1999-12-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I discovered a strange thing: In an xterm the function keys produce the following: F1 -> ^[OP F2 -> ^[OQ F3 -> ^[OR F4 -> ^[OS F5 -> ^[[15~ F6 -> ^[[16~ ... On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce: F1 -> ^[[11~ F2 -> ^[[12~ F3 -> ^[[13~ F4 -> ^[[14~ F5 -> ^[[15~ F6 -> ^[

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem stays. It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Petru David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using

IDL crashes, undefined symbol: _xstat

1999-12-02 Thread Jim Crumley
Hi, I am running an updated yesterday potato/x86 system. I get the following error when I try to run IDL (Interactive Data Language from RSI) 5.2 : /usr/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux/idl: error in loading shared libraries: /us r/local/rsi/idl_5.2/bin/bin.linux/libidl.so.5.2: undefined symbol:

Re: Modem Setup

1999-12-02 Thread Raphael Clancy
Sounds like a winmodem :( but it might not be, 28.8 winmodems were kinda rare, if you go into win95 and get the results of the ATI comands from the modem control pannel I could tell you for sure. R. >>> "Sledge, Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/02/99 06:58AM >>> Can someone provide a little help

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 2 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: [ snip ] : Reportedly, *BSD's have the fastest TCI/IP stack in the industry. They : are also pretty secure, out of the box. For example, while Linux : mounts disk partitions asynchronously, my FreeBSD installation mounts : syncronously by default. ... whic

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-02 Thread Raphael Clancy
Owch... looks like you have a win-modem. In order to save on hardware costs a lot of modem manufacturers off load the data compression onto the cpu rather than including special hardware for the tasks. the problem is that this sort of software only runs under windows. (AFAIK) In order to spot a

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 2/12/99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said to be a RPITA to install). Any thoughts on this out there? I installed OpenBSD and its not that bad, there is no pretty curses UI for the installer no, but its really quite simple (in some

Re:

1999-12-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Dec, Jason Winters wrote about "" > What do I use to open a gz file? gunzip is the simplist solution but this also depends on what the actual file is. If it is a tar.gz or tgz file then this is a gzipped tar file which tar can handle natively with 'tar zxf '. There are other methods of

Re: HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
El mié, 01 de dic de 1999, a las 09:38:42 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: > > this is a reply to an older message. > Question was, how to upgrade to perl5. Here is the answer from the > perl5-base-package: > > coma:/usr/src/packages# dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb > (Reading database ... 53468

Re: Exim error? [FW: Mail delivery failed:]

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
No, the problem was with procmail. There was no /home/escarlata/Mail/log/ directory, so that was it. Thank you for your interest. El jue, 02 de dic de 1999, a las 08:30:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: > Pardon me for possible stupidity... Why is the email addressed to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lo

RE: What's up with Licq mailing list?

1999-12-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Dec-1999 Arcady Genkin wrote: > I haven't had new messages since Nov. 27. Mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. > The list is down and a new server is needed. See the Licq homepage for details. -- Andrew

RE: Exim error? [FW: Mail delivery failed:]

1999-12-02 Thread wsuetholz
Pardon me for possible stupidity... Why is the email addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Localhost is a special hostname that is for the loopback address of 127.0.0.1, maybe that could be contributing to your problem. Is the escarlata user defined on your mailserver @ciberia.es? If not I could see

Q about netscape 4.7 and slink

1999-12-02 Thread alice
Ok, last night I saw in the list archive where on Oct 12 someone (John Foster) said --I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian --Linuxserver. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 --installer from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It

Modem Setup

1999-12-02 Thread Sledge, Dennis
Can someone provide a little help to a novice Linux User? I have installed the Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 on a Pentium 120, 80MB RAM, 2GB machine. The computer is an IBM Aptiva with an integrated sound/modem/fax/voice card. (Don't give me that funny look, my brother gave it to me.) I have Windows 95 in

I have decided to give Sawmill a try, but............

1999-12-02 Thread Tam Than Ma
As of right now, I have decided to give Sawmill a try since many people recommended it. But my Debian Box doesn't have internet access so I can't download or use apt-get to get sawmill online. So how do I go about doing this? Can I download the Sawmill package and all its dependant packages on flo

LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps" command, nothing happens, no errors, no output. I have two parallel po

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Arcady Genkin
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can > answer this. I have been doing some reading and have > heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a > better canidate os for a firewall system than linux > (herertic!). OpenBSD in partic

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-02 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>Carl Fink wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > If you have installed the `menu'-package, click on the entry > > `window-managers', where you have entries for all installed WMs. If > > you click on one, it changes to this WM -- that's all, no extra > > utility needed. (Why, it's Debia

proftpd doesn't allow users to log in

1999-12-02 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I have installed proftpd, and I have a slight problem. It's running as a standalone server, and it works fine with two users I created "by hand". However, if I create users with pdadduser and use the expect script mkpasswd (in /usr/doc/expect???/examples :D), the users can login throug

firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If there are any debian-bsd people here maybe they can answer this. I have been doing some reading and have heard that some of the BSD variants are considered a better canidate os for a firewall system than linux (herertic!). OpenBSD in particular was highly regarded in this (though it was said

Re: Looking for right ISP

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>What do you mean by co-location? Many DSL providers >won't allow users >run >their servers also. Could you give the names of who >does. I believe that flashcom.com will allow a single server to be run from (some of) their dsl accounts, perhaps with a small extra monthly fee. They do have more c

Re: finding IP address of ethernet card

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The trick (as you showed, but didn't point out) is that you must either have /sbin in you path (which root does) or specifiy it when you try to run ifconfig. Mere mortals must run ifconfig as such: /sbin/ifconfig Root can just type ifconfig, because /sbin is in his path. Or course mere mortals c

Re: ?

1999-12-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry i know this is stupid but im looking for drivers to > my network component (Nile VIA VT86C916) > it was given to me for free & i cant find drivers > (i have only the hardware) > Can u help me ? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/

RE: ? or eithernet card?

1999-12-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Sorry i know this is stupid but im looking for drivers >to >my network component (Nile VIA VT86C916) >it was given to me for free & i cant find drivers >(i have only the hardware) >Can u help me ? I don't know if this is the right driver, but a search in the src (kernel 2.0.36) shows a via-rhi

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-02 Thread Carl Fink
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If you have installed the `menu'-package, click on the entry > `window-managers', where you have entries for all installed WMs. If > you click on one, it changes to this WM -- that's all, no extra > utility needed. (Why, it's Debian :).) Yes, I know, but I have KDE in

Re: mod-auth-mysql

1999-12-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone gotten mod-auth-mysql to build correctly on slink/x86? I'm > trying to puzzle out what I need to tell configure so it'll produce a > working makefile. I looked and didn't find a deb for it in stable or > unstable. > > Yes, I have mysql-dev & ap

NNTP server.

1999-12-02 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, I want to install an NNTP server and news reader so that I can read some news groups I am interested in. The machine I have runs on Hamm, and has very little free disk space (about 145 M in /usr and 20 M in /var). However, I am interested only in a few newsgroups, mainly comp.text.tex. Could a

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) writes: > I've heard tell of a utility found in other distro's called > "switchdesk" to change window manager/graphical environment. That is, > if you're experimenting with KDE and GNOME and, say, fvwm, it would > let you easily and interactively switch your default

Re: Accounting software for ISP

1999-12-02 Thread Andrei D. Caraman
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:42:33AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > anyone knows about a software and documentation for accounting hours at > an ISP. sac, present in slink as sac_1.7-1.deb and in potato as sac_1.8b8-1.deb (section admin) ---

Re: what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Gregory T. Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me what happenned to netdate? It used to be part of > netstd, but doesn't seem to exist in potato anymore... Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). Greetings, joachim

Accounting software for ISP

1999-12-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, anyone knows about a software and documentation for accounting hours at an ISP. Thanks for any info,Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http:

Python again

1999-12-02 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I have a program, that I want to be executed in parallel (possibly on a network of Linux boxes). I've heard that Python is one of the esiest tools to be the `supervisor' - to launch the programs, to collect results, to inform me about the progress, and so on. Can you tell me where to start explo

Re: How to telnet to my Linux machine from outside

1999-12-02 Thread Remco van 't Veer
- install telnetd; "apt-get install telnetd" - try it; "telnet localhost" - lookup your Internet IP address; "ifconfig" - try it from the remote box; "telnet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" - tweak /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to make sure not every machine on the Internet can "enjoy" your telnet servic

Make a network firewall with real IPs

1999-12-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a computer (486 SX 33 - 16 Mb - 2 ethernet cards) that I want to put to be a firewall in my network of 5 or 6 PCs that have real IPs. What I can do to all packages pass by the 486 and still have real IPs? -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oli

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