RE: LogCheck and it's rules

1999-12-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Dec-1999 Robert Ramiega wrote: > Hi! > I'm running Potato on my PPC machine. > I have one problem with logcheck. It seems i can't create proper ignore > rules: here is excerpt from logcheck.ignore: > > named[.*]: USAGE .* .* CPU=.*/.* CHILDCPU=.*/.* > PAM_unix[.*]: (ssh) session opened

library problem !

1999-12-13 Thread McBain
a lot of x apps only come with the following message after startup und terminate ! MCBAINS:~# kfind kfind: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual dpkg -C comes with no message about broken packages ! i have slink installed. Where

Re: lo on potato

1999-12-13 Thread Svante Signell
Yes, I had the same problem. The solution was to add netmask to the route command in /etc/init.d/network: /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo Also netmask had to be added to my eth0 interface: /sbin/route add -net 192.168.x.y netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 Maybe the new versi

test

1999-12-13 Thread McBain

RE: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Paul McHale
> However, AFAIK, you'll have to hand out some $$ if you want > a Windoze (95/98/NT) ssh client. > Teraterm is one free windows ssh client (the only one I know of). -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:413-

Re: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

1999-12-13 Thread Frank Copeland
Brian wrote: > Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot the machine (after all, >how would the machine let LILO see the partition with the kernel?). Up to >now, I have been booting off of a floppy, and that is torture. Have you actually tried LILO? I have a SCSI-only box that the BIO

lo on potato

1999-12-13 Thread Evan Moore
i have potato running on two boxes, but the lo interface will not come up, it complains about SIOCADDRT: invalid argument ?? The error is not showing up in syslog. Any1 else have this prob? thanks evan

LogCheck and it's rules

1999-12-13 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! I'm running Potato on my PPC machine. I have one problem with logcheck. It seems i can't create proper ignore rules: here is excerpt from logcheck.ignore: named[.*]: USAGE .* .* CPU=.*/.* CHILDCPU=.*/.* PAM_unix[.*]: (ssh) session opened for user .* by (.*) and i still get in logcheck ma

Re: Copy the CDs to a HD

1999-12-13 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Matthew Dalton wrote: > Uhh simlink stable to slink? > > cd to the debian directory and type: > ln -s slink stable Nice try. $ ls -l total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 6 21:56 slink lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Dec 6 21:56 stable -> slink OK so let's tr

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-13 Thread William Burrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:06:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I know I'm playing with fire here, but I'm backed into a corner. ... > Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that my hardrive didn't > switch to ro due to errors on the weekly cron run. The remount as ro > both stops inc

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:28:33PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are packaged. 'cygnus-stylesheets'. Contents.gz is your friend. As I said in my original message, I grepped the Contents.gz for potato and slink, and came up with nothing. ~$ grep db2html Contents-i386

Re: Where is fromdos command pkg in slink or potato?

1999-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
fromdos is included in the sysutils package. On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:47:49PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have a working command called "fromdos" on my test system which is a > box that has been upgraded from bo to hamm to slink to potato. It also > uses the dos2unix symlink. Does anyone know

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Kerne Fahey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:32:10AM -0600 X-Face: [<1w@,'_0!1^0P^P`aR~sKEcQmK>|[EMAIL PROTECTED]'W)1E|wqIfP>V1q->` Still, questions about Eric Gillespie, Jr.'s hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book, are unsettling to me: > Where can I get the tools db2html, db2ps, db2rtf

Monochrome XFIG

1999-12-13 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings but the panels and menus are plain black and white as if I had started "xfig -monochorome." -- Pedro

Re: HELP: Netscape fonts

1999-12-13 Thread Roy Pluschke
Albert Hurd wrote: > > Changing the font size in Preferences does not seem to affect the font > size on the toolbars and, more importantly, the fonts in the message > listing in the mail program. Anyone know to get these to be larger? > Thanks. > > -- > Albert Hurd > > I have put the following

RE: The clock has gone crazy...

1999-12-13 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Try modifying /etc/adjtime so that it has one line: 0.0 0 0.0 Those are zeros, not the letter O. Then set the time. then reboot. /etc/adjtime is ment to keep track of the "drift" on your HW clock (since no clock is perfect). However, the drift isn't always the same. If /etc/adjtime was made d

Re: Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

1999-12-13 Thread Marshal Wong
For the emacs20 error, I think you need to make the directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev and copy debian-changelog-mode.el into it from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg. I though that this problem was fixed already. Anyways, see if that helps. Marshal From: "John R. Sheets" <[EMAIL PROT

Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

1999-12-13 Thread John R. Sheets
I've been getting this error for a couple weeks, and it's keeping me from installing a bunch of other stuff. Anyone know what the problem might be? Here's what I have installed (more or less): $ dpkg -l | grep emacs rc emacs19 19.34-23 The GNU Emacs editor. iF emacs20 20.

Re: Where is fromdos command pkg in slink or potato?

1999-12-13 Thread William Burrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:47:49PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have a working command called "fromdos" on my test system which is a > box that has been upgraded from bo to hamm to slink to potato. It also > uses the dos2unix symlink. Does anyone know where the current .deb > package for this can

post-install profile installation

1999-12-13 Thread Hey Tom I Changed My Name!
is there any way to install profiles after the installation has finished. i'd like to have a little better base setup before i go through the thousands of packages with dselect by hand. i don't have the cd, so the profiles were not available with the installation script matt kunze

HELP: Netscape fonts

1999-12-13 Thread Albert Hurd
Changing the font size in Preferences does not seem to affect the font size on the toolbars and, more importantly, the fonts in the message listing in the mail program. Anyone know to get these to be larger?  Thanks. --  Albert Hurd  

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-13 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Jim Breton writes: > I would if they weren't all in the same dir Plus lots of other useful > things like chmod. > > OTOH, anyone who did manage to hack an account with a restricted shell > wouldn't have any business running chmod, so I suppose you could get away > with just taking /bin

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:24:30AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Mark Santaniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say > > > >xterm...it gives

Re: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Hey Tom I Changed My Name!
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:16:56AM +0900, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > However, AFAIK, you'll have to hand out some $$ if you want > > a Windoze (95/98/NT) ssh client. take a look at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ - Cygwin (GPL) provides a unix

Where is fromdos command pkg in slink or potato?

1999-12-13 Thread John Foster
I have a working command called "fromdos" on my test system which is a box that has been upgraded from bo to hamm to slink to potato. It also uses the dos2unix symlink. Does anyone know where the current .deb package for this can be found. I am building a new server and this command is "NECESSARY"

Re: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:16:56AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, AFAIK, you'll have to hand out some $$ if you want > a Windoze (95/98/NT) ssh client. Nope. See http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html for TTSSH, which allows TeraTerm Pro (linked to from that page, and also free) to use

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-13 Thread Cormac McGuinness
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:24:30AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Mark Santaniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say > > >xterm...it gives this error: > > > > >_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't conn

Re: PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

1999-12-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) > CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. > HD: IBM 15 Gb > CD: CD-DVD Toshiba > Sound : SB live (value) > Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 > Modem : Actiontech PCI

JAVA 2 (JDK 1.2) running "OK" on slink so far...

1999-12-13 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Today will be my first Java day. For slink it looks like you want jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, tya and jre. The two jdk's weight 12M each. I also would like to be clued in on what's what. I'm running unstable. I understand Sun just did some kind of end-run on Blackdown. Have they released so

How to handle message/partial attachments in mutt.

1999-12-13 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I've received a few messages with a long file splitted into message/partial attachments. The manual decoding of them is very tiring. Is mutt able to handle such multi-message attachments automatically like Netscape or Internet Exploder? How to do it? -- TIA

The clock has gone crazy...

1999-12-13 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, The clock of my machine has gone crazy. When I set it up to the correct time in the BIOS everything works fine for a while. But after some time, the clock begins to accumulate more and more delay. When I reboot the machine and enter in the BIOS setup, the hardware clock has been changed. Wh

PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

1999-12-13 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I have trouble making Linux run smoothly on my new computer, components are: MB: FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. HD: IBM 15 Gb CD: CD-DVD Toshiba Sound : SB live (value) Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 Modem : Actiontech PCI Linux : Debian Sl

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-13 Thread Darxus
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > Try ntpq, is it working? > > > > ntpq does work. Does ntpdate use (a) port(s) that ntpq doesn't, so maybe > > my ISP might have started blocking something ? > > No, both ntpdate & ntpq use ntp udp port. > Again: > - to long (99) servers list > -

netscape and xfs-xtt and windows TTF

1999-12-13 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello List I have a problem with xfs-xtt although I read the Font-Deuglification HOWTO and the Debian TTF mini-HOWTO. The following HTML code generates two lines of exactly the same font height. It works fine with all "normal" fonts. Just the windows TrueType fonts all behave like this. The qu

Re: xntpd not functioning anymore...

1999-12-13 Thread Dan Hugo
Interesting. I added an input rule to allow outside udp to the masq machine on 123, and now I see ntpdate 131.216.18.4 13 Dec 11:33:50 ntpdate[19926]: adjust time server 131.216.18.4 offset 0.005303 sec I though I had tried enabling 123, but I may have only done it for inside traffic (actually,

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, December 13, 1999, 9:47:41 AM, David wrote: > You claim to quote section 4.4.3 of RFC822, yet you left most of it > out, removing the context. Who exactly is to "include" the address? The entity that mails out the message. IE, the list. > a) The uses marked 1 and 2 above would be tra

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:40:54PM -0500, Darxus wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > I used your short list as above: > > > > # ntpdate -v `cat /tmp/clock.lst` > > 12 Dec 10:55:42 ntpdate[1174]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999 > > (1) > > 12 Dec 10:55:47 ntpdat

Re: xntpd not functioning anymore...

1999-12-13 Thread Dan Hugo
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: > > $ntptrace tock.cs.unlv.edu > > tock.CS.UNLV.EDU: stratum 2, offset 0.853196, synch distance 0.04726 > > usno.pa-x.dec.com: stratum 1, offset 0.842812, synch distance 0.02371, > > refid 'USNO' > > Those offset lines are wor

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:44:01 -0600, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > Thanks, I'm downloading now. Are there any plans to package these? They are packaged. 'cygnus-stylesheets'. Contents.gz is your friend. -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks

NFS and RPC timeouts

1999-12-13 Thread Nathan Smith
Hi, Sorry if this has been answered here before, I tried looking in the archives and came up with nothing. I'm trying to run NFS and have everything set up correctly on both client and server sides (according to the HOWTO and man pages), at least as far as I can tell. However, when I'm on the c

re: SSH pam

1999-12-13 Thread Glen S Mehn
With ssh you have to connect with a secure client, which you can get on any unix, and there's a free one for win32, called putty, which is very nice. Supports telnet, too. The problem with telnet is that nayone who wants to sniff your network can get every packet decrypted from plain old text. So

SSH .deb files

1999-12-13 Thread Glen S Mehn
Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and then type apt-get install ssh. Ssh uses cryptography that you technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US" package. Regards, Glen -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Admi

Word Perfect fails install with libraries

1999-12-13 Thread debian
I'm running a straight Slink Debian system with the Y2K upgrades. I definitely have xlib6, libc5, & xpm4.7 installed. I can't seem to get my CD version of Word Perfect 8 to install. The graphical interface fails, the character-based install *claims* to install the program, yet never asks for a pa

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-12-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi! > > I'm in the process of buying a new printer, and as I can not > afford a Postscript one, I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 1100 is well > supported by magicfilter. > > Has anybody used it? Does it work allright? Wha

Re: Slackware to Debian

1999-12-13 Thread William Burrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > > I have a machine running under an old version of Slackware, and I would > like > to change to Debian. Is there any possibility to do it without a > complete re-installation ? That is the easy way. Just save /usr/local (Debian s

Re: Bind resolving names sometimes only in the second time.

1999-12-13 Thread Paul van Empelen
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:08:24AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > my ISP is having a problem (pehaps with bind) that users using Squid > get sometimes an error only in the first time that it types the url: > > The requested URL could not be retrieved >

Re: xntpd not functioning anymore...

1999-12-13 Thread William Burrow
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:45:04AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Don't kill tcp or udp packets from/to the ntp service port, nor delay them. > When in doubt, try ntpq -p to "ping" the servers. This will work even if the ntp ports are blocked by ipchains. Be sure port 123 is accessable thro

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:10:27PM +, Steve George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't help you with the Debian package but you may be able to Alien > the RPM from Cygnus which is stylesheets-0.10-2 which is here > http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/doc

disabling remount ro on errors

1999-12-13 Thread hawk
OK, I know I'm playing with fire here, but I'm backed into a corner. On saturday, I leave for three weeks. Immediately afteards, I fly to Boston for interviews that get set up during those weeks. I *must* have email functioning on this account. Yesterday was the first sunday in a month that

Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

1999-12-13 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I have a system with Windows 95 on an IDE drive, and Debian potato on a SCSI drive, hung off of an old DPT PM2021/9x controller. This controller does not appear to be mapping the SCSI disk to D: like I had hoped and expected. Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot th

Re: Thinkpad 570 XF86Config file?

1999-12-13 Thread John Miskinis
Subject: Thinkpad 570 XF86Config file? If you could mail me one, I'd be grateful! Thanks, Hi, If the 570 is like the 560, there are several different hardware configurations. Even for the straight "560" not 560E or 560C or 560Z they differ. I would visit http://www.linux.org/hardware/lapt

Re: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Brian Boonstra
> However, AFAIK, you'll have to hand out some $$ if you want > a Windoze (95/98/NT) ssh client. TeraTerm SSH is free, and works prety well. B

Re: Stupid question regarding "foreign" characters and how to output them?

1999-12-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> Hi, For some reason I decided I needed to compose a document Nathan> with an `n' with a tilde over it - reading through the kbd Nathan> package docs it seems I can do this using the "compose" key. Nathan> So, what is the compose

Re: Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?

1999-12-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:16:13AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >This is interesting, where did you read about /etc/pam.d/ssh -> sshd ? > > normally a pam service will look for a file with the name name as the > binary, so sshd will load pam.d/sshd, this

Kernel panic during kernel compile?

1999-12-13 Thread Rob Rati
Ok, I'm having some SERIOUSLY weird issues when trying to compile a kernel on my SMP machine. I have a dual PIII-450 with 256 meg of ram running all SCSI hardware with the 2.2.13 kernel. Here's the problem. Sometimes when I trey to compile a kernel with -j 4, it compiles along until it appears to

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Saturday, December 11, 1999, 7:41:18 AM, Jor-el wrote: [...] > > Subpoint 1 : Just because you havent had experience with such behaviour > > doesnt give you a mandate to wipe out such RFC allowed behaviour. As I've > > said in another email : if you dont li

partition table recovery

1999-12-13 Thread Jonathan D . Proulx
I had a hosed partition table (mixed Linux Windows)that I succesfully recovered using gpart. AFAIK this is not debianized yet, and unfortunately I forget wher I got it from :( If a search doesn't turn it up, I do still have the source and will send on request. HTH, Jon

Re: Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?

1999-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is interesting, where did you read about /etc/pam.d/ssh -> sshd ? normally a pam service will look for a file with the name name as the binary, so sshd will load pam.d/sshd, this can be overridden in the service program by changing the call to PAM_IN

Re: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread hservoma
Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I rarely access my box other than by telnet and I'm >told that I should use a more secure setup. >What is the Debian recommended approach? ssh? PAM? >Are they hard to implement? I often use a different PC >so I need a sloution that does not require a

Re: HELP: babel and french produce strange things in potato....

1999-12-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> > i just recompiled a latex file (big mistake as it seems...) that uses the > > babel > > system and the setting french. now on compilation i get > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] among others and following this : > > > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...l \mathchardef [EMAIL PRO

Re: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:12:46PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > What is the Debian recommended approach? ssh? PAM? > Are they hard to implement? I often use a different PC > so I need a sloution that does not require a secure client. ssh is very easy, but you need a secure client. Use of ssh is

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-13 Thread Jim Breton
I would if they weren't all in the same dir Plus lots of other useful things like chmod. OTOH, anyone who did manage to hack an account with a restricted shell wouldn't have any business running chmod, so I suppose you could get away with just taking /bin out of his path. But then I imagine

Re: Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?

1999-12-13 Thread hservoma
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >the /etc/pam.d/ssh file is supposed to be named ssh but a previous >bug i reported appears to have came back requiring it to be >/etc/pam.d/sshd since i have made my `other' config a deny default >this broke ssh completely. This is interesting, where d

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:19:19 PM, Kenneth wrote: > It is a perfectly valid address as per the mail server running on > my unconnected domain. RFC822 states that it should be authenticated, but > does not state who by. Then it is your own fault that mail would fail. Again, I ask,

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 11, 1999, 7:41:18 AM, Jor-el wrote: > However, I couldnt help but notice a reply from Steve Lamb to your > link on debian-devel (dont know why he did that since the Reply-To is set > to this list). Here is the link that he mentions : Because of a lack of reply-to and

Re: X11 Forwarding over SSH problem solved...

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Mark Santaniello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok I figured out my problem and now I feel stupid... > > However in the interest of making the list archive complete so that other, > perhaps also stupid people, can fix this problem (should they be so stupid > as to create it), I will post the deta

Re: problem compiling a KDE app

1999-12-13 Thread dspiljar
Cyrus Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try setting the QTDIR variable to point to the QT top-level directory > > (on my system it is /usr/lib/qt). > Thanks alot, that worked, my QT directories are /usr/lib/qt1g and > /usr/lib/qt2. Good! :) > However, now the configure script is complaining

Re: Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?

1999-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On 13/12/99 I wrote: has anyone else had problems with OpenSSH 1.2pre17-1 recently uploaded to potato? OpenSSH was working perfectly now i cannot login, the logs say the account is expired (its not) just trying to figure out if something is misconfigured or if a new bug crawled in.. ok I

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mark Santaniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say > >xterm...it gives this error: > > >_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 110 > >xterm Xt error: Can't open display: progression:10.0 > >

Problems with IRQ

1999-12-13 Thread paulo.lagrotta
Hi, I´m having problems with instalation by CD. I have a mother board, model TXPRO II, with 34M that has sound, video and ide on board. The video on board isn´t hability because I´m using a video card with S3 chip. I have a HD of 8.4G where the linux partion is instaled in second particion. I´m usi

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-12-13 Thread Pere Camps
Cyrus, > Yes, the HP1100 is very well supported by magicfilter. I use > the hp4l filter and it has so far handled everything I have > thrown at it. Ok. Thanks for the info. -- p.

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-12-13 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi Pere, Yes, the HP1100 is very well supported by magicfilter. I use the hp4l filter and it has so far handled everything I have thrown at it. Hope this helps Cyrus Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm in the process of buying a new printer, and as I can not > afford a Pos

Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?

1999-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, has anyone else had problems with OpenSSH 1.2pre17-1 recently uploaded to potato? OpenSSH was working perfectly now i cannot login, the logs say the account is expired (its not) just trying to figure out if something is misconfigured or if a new bug crawled in.. thanks. Ethan

Re: mirroring?

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato > cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for > setting up a debain mirror is? > > I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over > christmas, where

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
Jim Breton wrote: > > Restricted shell is ok but too easy to get out of, just run a different > shell and bam, you're "free." ;P But with a restricted shell you can't run anything that isn't in your path, so just take all shells out of the path and bam, you're restricted again! :) HTH, Stuart.

HP Laserjet 1100

1999-12-13 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm in the process of buying a new printer, and as I can not afford a Postscript one, I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 1100 is well supported by magicfilter. Has anybody used it? Does it work allright? What printer do you choose on the magicfilter config? Thanks for

Re: Netscape time (was: Netscape time == GMT (UTC)

1999-12-13 Thread mheyes
I included the mail headings below sending mail using Communicator 4.7, elm and mutt. You can see the time is ok until Netscape gets hold of it. Elm and mutt are fine. I uninstalled Netscape 4.7 and left version 4.08 on and the time stamp was correct. I downloaded and installed 4.7 again and the

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-13 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > > 2) The shell must be available in the chrooted env (as well as all needed > bianries). > > So for this to work, you must have a complete working filesystem in each > home directory (/home/foo/dev /home/foo/bin /home/foo/usr/bin /home/foo/etc > ...). >

ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I rarely access my box other than by telnet and I'm told that I should use a more secure setup. What is the Debian recommended approach? ssh? PAM? Are they hard to implement? I often use a different PC so I need a sloution that does not require a secure client. Thanks in advance.

etc/lilo.config & thinkpad

1999-12-13 Thread Darryl Röthering
I gather that I need to add a boot parm of "thinkpad=floppy" into my etc/lilo.conf. Where should I do this? I have to get the inverted DCL sorted out for everyday use, I just got the dbootstrap part finished. TIA, Darryl __ Get Your Private,

Re: previous thread

1999-12-13 Thread hservoma
Nathan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have lost the message that tell how to fix the problem with apt-get >displaying a bogus error about Readlin.pm anyone remember how to get this >to go away. i am running potato continually upgraded. apt-get install libterm-readline-gnu-perl Tnx -- Give

Re: previous thread

1999-12-13 Thread ktb
Nathan York wrote: > > i have lost the message that tell how to fix the problem with apt-get > displaying a bogus error about Readlin.pm anyone remember how to get this > to go away. i am running potato continually upgraded. I don't remember the post but if it isn't too recent it will be at, ht

previous thread

1999-12-13 Thread Nathan York
i have lost the message that tell how to fix the problem with apt-get displaying a bogus error about Readlin.pm anyone remember how to get this to go away. i am running potato continually upgraded. -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPPD problems! Please Help!

1999-12-13 Thread TH
Can someone tell me what I have setup incorrectly given this - Thanks! PS: Where is the documentation as to what these codes each mean? Dec 14 00:25:19 frontier pppd[218]: Serial connection established. Dec 14 00:25:19 frontier pppd[218]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 14 00:25:19 frontier pppd[218

RE: FRN Fwd: Linux on RS6000 F40

1999-12-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Someone recently asked this list about whether or not Debian/GNU > Linux can be run on the IBM RS6000, but I cannot find the original post. > ...from a friend of a friend (below), and thanks to Albert (who is an > excellent UNIX systems admin.). Now we know. > > Art > That was me. I wa

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Steve George
Hi, I can't help you with the Debian package but you may be able to Alien the RPM from Cygnus which is stylesheets-0.10-2 which is here http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware/RPMS/noarch/ the source should also be there so you could roll your own. H

partition table recovery

1999-12-13 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hi, I installed debian 2.1 on a 4.3gb ide disk which was running windows. I used full 4.3gb disk for linux install as per the machine owners knowledge and desire. Everything works fine. Now, the machine owner says he had some important files in windows! Windows was configured with C: and D: pa

Re: sgmltools-2 and texinfo

1999-12-13 Thread Steve George
Hi, This should do the trick: jade -t tex -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/print/docbook.dsl myfile.sgml > myfile.tex where myfile.sgml is the DocBook SGML file you want to convert and myfile.tex is the output filename you want to use. Steve On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 08:52:34PM -060

Re: kernel compile stops with fatal signal

1999-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On 13/12/99 David Densmore wrote: It will process fine for a while, sometimes getting near the very end before the fatal signal. If I start it again it will some times proceed further before stopping again. I even made it all the way through to the end once by starting it over and over, but t

Re: only half of physical memory showing up

1999-12-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Dec, Peter Ross wrote about "Re: only half of physical memory showing up" > add the line > append="mem=128M" > > to your lilo.conf file, and then rerun lilo > > Or upgrade to 2.2.x series of kernels which will detect >64Mb of memory. > > see /usr/doc/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz for more inform

Re: problem compiling a KDE app

1999-12-13 Thread Cyrus Patel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try setting the QTDIR variable to point to the QT top-level directory > (on my system it is /usr/lib/qt). Thanks alot, that worked, my QT directories are /usr/lib/qt1g and /usr/lib/qt2. However, now the configure script is complaining : checking for

Re: problem compiling a KDE app

1999-12-13 Thread dspiljar
Cyrus Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile a kde app 'kover' and when I do the ./configure > I get the error: > checking for QT... configure: error: QT-1.3 (libraries) not found. Please > check your installation! > I have the following debian packages installed on my computer:

Slackware to Debian

1999-12-13 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
I have a machine running under an old version of Slackware, and I would like to change to Debian. Is there any possibility to do it without a complete re-installation ? Thank you. Petru begin:vcard n:NOTINGHER;Petru tel;fax:+33 (0)4.64.04.21.30 tel;work:+33 (0)4.67.14.34.85 x-mozilla-html:TRUE

problem compiling a KDE app

1999-12-13 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi all, I'm trying to compile a kde app 'kover' and when I do the ./configure I get the error: checking for QT... configure: error: QT-1.3 (libraries) not found. Please check your installation! I have the following debian packages installed on my computer: libqt1g 1:1.45-0.2

Re: PAM and Others Problem

1999-12-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:25:45AM +0100, Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote: > > Jan 14 05:04:43 koko kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed > Jan 14 05:04:43 koko kernel: Adding Swap: 60472k swap-space (priority > -1) > Jan 14 05:04:43 koko kernel: Adding Swap: 65528k swap-s

Re: only half of physical memory showing up

1999-12-13 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Dec-1999, Hey Tom I Changed My Name! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the bios shows that all the memory is there when it boots, but i only have > 64 megabytes available in linux. does anyone have any ideas what the > problem is or what i can do to fix it? > add the line append="mem=128M" to

Re: only half of physical memory showing up

1999-12-13 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hey Tom I Changed My Name! wrote: > i just installed debian on a new machine and only half of the memory is > showing up (64 out of 128 megs) in linux. i have the following: > > pototo distribution (the rescue disk for slink would not boot) > athlon 550mhz processor > giga

Re: Alsa and 2.2.13

1999-12-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Debian packages of alsa-modules depend on a specific revision number of > >your debian package of the kernel-image. You should just recompile the > >alsa modules when you recompile the k

kernel compile stops with fatal signal

1999-12-13 Thread David Densmore
make bzImage keeps stopping with fatal signals. I have tried this many times with and without doing make mrproper first. I always do make dep and make clean before make bzImage. I am trying to compile kernel 2.2.13 (the last one I compiled successfully was 2.0.35 more than a year ago). It will

Re: arithmetic

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Have you tried teapot? It's rudimentary; outputs ok latex, not sure about ps. I'm not sure where to get it. I had problems compiling it on debian systems over the last year and a half, but my older binaries are still ok. If you cannot find the source, I may be able to get a URL for you.

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