Re: Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4 -- It worked !!!

1999-12-30 Thread Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Problem installing X

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
try apt-get install zlib1 zlib1g or go to www.debian.org click on packages, and search for them and d/l em off the www if your linux box lacks a network connection. nate On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DRBLON >I have been advised how to install a server for my video card however

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
dpkg and rpm and slp(stampede) people should get together and work out a new format for future linux distributions..take the best from everything, and have it be a neutral name that gives credit to any 1 group/company for comming up with it. i dont have experience using slp but from what i read it

Re: webmin alternative?

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
you may want to look into linuxconf. according to freshmeat it is GPL and last i tried it(~2 years ago) it had a web tool.. it did not however come with a config for debian BUT i saw somewhere that there was a .deb for it somewhere just waiting to be tweaked for debian.. http://www.freshmeat.net/

Re: Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
i did have there 'unless it's using a chipset that is not a video logic brand, looks like you best get a new card' note the 'unless' in there :) i was looking for video logic chipsets.. nate On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Howard Mann wrote: howard >> by the looks of the XF86 3.3.5 compadiblity list tha

Re: BIND security question

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
i run a chroot'd bind, so everything has to be in the same place .. so for me everythign is in /var/named nate On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: pollyw >I installed from a Debian package, I did not compile my own. Debian puts the pollyw >files in /etc/bind now, not the former place, /var/na

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >Ah. I just tried putting it in /etc/fstab, and doing mount as alisda >alisdair, and it worked :-) cool.. alisda >> if its root that is mounting it you may want tot ry the alisda >> no_root_squash option alisda > alisda >I get `no such option

Re: 404 not found using apt-get

1999-12-30 Thread Shaul Karl
I am not sure I understand you but let me try: 1) Indeed there is a space between unstable and main. However your source.list seems wrong to me because /debian should be right after .org and before main. 2) As far as I know, apt-get install dpkg is supposed to use your source.list to down

Re: Thinkpad 365x

1999-12-30 Thread Greg Starkes
Debian user wrote: > i'm new to this list and my english is not as good as i would like but > i'll try to explain my problem. > I use debian 2.1 since some time now, and i wanted to use it on a laptop. > I buyed an old Thinkpad 365x (Pentium 100) HD:810Mb IDE and 24Mb of RAM, > and tryed to b

Re: Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread Fish Smith
>I have installed Slink in a 2 Meg partition on my >hard drive with a 128 >Meg >swap partition and have some of the simpler programs >running. I think we found part of the problem. And if it isn't causing trouble now, it's sure to be later. A more realistic setup would be 80 megs with 50 swap,

Novell network

1999-12-30 Thread Fish Smith
Is there a way I can tie a debian box into a Novell network, short of using wine and installing Novell client? I want to use the debian machine as a gateway between the local network (in my school's tech ed room) and the whole-school network, by adding a second ethernet card to the debian machine

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-30 Thread Fish Smith
> >But they have to be legal on the non-US mirrors as > >well as the main non-US FTP site. Isn't that why > >quake isn't included, because Germany and Argentina > >have it illegal? So if several countries with > Debian > >mirrors have laws against mp3 encoders it wouldn't > be > >in non-US, even

Problem installing X

1999-12-30 Thread DRBLONUK
I have been advised how to install a server for my video card however the server is asking for a package called libz1. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this file? Thanks in advance.

Re: Debian pre-installed

1999-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Fish Smith wrote: > > > Also, why is GNU/Hurd called GNU/Hurd? If I'm not > > > > For the same reason it is called GNU/Linux. It's a > > GNU-System > > using the Linux or Hurd respectively kernel. > > Yes, but that's because Linux comes from outside of > the FSF. If I'm not mistaken, Hurd come

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

1999-12-30 Thread JF Martinez
> > Hi, > > Here is a summary of the proposal for a common source file format: > > - Good idea! > - Waste of time, Use configure; make; make install, Most packages are for > Unix, not only Linux. Who cares about Unix? the sooner Linux kills it the best. > - Source management problems, no-one

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about "Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato" > hi > > i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is > pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. potato should run just fine on a 2.0.x kernel. I would on

Re: Debian pre-installed

1999-12-30 Thread Fish Smith
> > Also, why is GNU/Hurd called GNU/Hurd? If I'm not > > For the same reason it is called GNU/Linux. It's a > GNU-System > using the Linux or Hurd respectively kernel. Yes, but that's because Linux comes from outside of the FSF. If I'm not mistaken, Hurd comes from FSF and so could simply be

webmin alternative?

1999-12-30 Thread 2
heya I've been considering looking into webmin for clients' use however I understand it's not GPL and consequently isn't available in the main distribution of Debian. Is there an alternative GPL'd webmin-type program available to Debian? from da Bobstopper

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Dec-1999 Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Alternatively you could install the kernel source and create your own > package. > > apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source- > cd /usr/src > tar xIf kernel-source-.tar.bz2 > cd kernel-source- > make config # or make menuconfig or make x

Re: Multiple virtualusertables

1999-12-30 Thread stromsoe
I actually started putting something together to do this a few days ago. See the attached .m4 file (it's a work in progress). Are you using a stock Debian sendmail install? If so, save the file as /usr/share/sendmail.cf/feature/class_virtusertable.m4 (or, if your sendmail isn't stock Debian, save

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: : hi : : i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is : pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. : If is give the commands : root> apt-get update : root> apt-get dist-upg

Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-30 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. If is give the commands root> apt-get update root> apt-get dist-upgrade with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this

alsa-base should this be reported as a bug?

1999-12-30 Thread ressu
just today while doing an installation, i noticed alsa-base stopping (in pre-inst) and starting the sound driver again. the thing i started to wonder about is, why is it so? if there hasn't been any major changes in the latest releases, the script starts the driver and restores mixer settings. (

Re: BIND security question

1999-12-30 Thread Pollywog
I installed from a Debian package, I did not compile my own. Debian puts the files in /etc/bind now, not the former place, /var/named thanks -- Andrew On 30-Dec-1999 aphro wrote: > echo -n "Updating permissions for the BIND server ..." > chown named.named /var/named > chown named.named /usr/loc

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? > > Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those > files to ins

Re: Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread Howard Mann
aphro wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > DRBLON >I have installed Slink in a 2 Meg partition on my hard drive with a > 128 Meg > DRBLON >swap partition and have some of the simpler programs running. > > 2Meg partition! damn! thats tiny..you sure you got a full install ?

Re: Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have installed Slink in a 2 Meg partition on my hard drive with a 128 Meg > swap partition and have some of the simpler programs running. > > I have been using the XF86Setup program and it picks up the mouse and > keyboard fine but my screen adapter is not listed. M

Re: revisited ITP: webmin

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > Nick Moffitt wrote: > > Some of them are a bit more ridiculous: > > Package: sam > > Suggests: ssh > sam has some weird mode that requires it to connect to a remote machine and > run sam in remote mode. This according to the code, I didn't dig deep en

Re: Multiple virtualusertables

1999-12-30 Thread Brock Rozen
Somebody told me this should do it: To do this with the M4 config, you need a like like: FEATURE(virtusertable, sequence virtuser0 virtuser1 virtuser2) and then, at the very end of the .mc file, use a LOCAL_CONFIG section to add some code verbatim into the .mc file: LOCAL_CONFIG # # Add additio

ITP: graphviz

1999-12-30 Thread Stephen M Moraco
Graphviz is from research.att.com and with this release is open source licensed software. (I'm looking futher into licensing, tho' before uploading...) I've been hunting for tools for visualizing build time dependencies and this looks like one of the first that could meet this need. Web site sho

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-30 Thread Clyde Wilson
It seems that the two Perl versions add some confusion. Without correcting this, apt-get and dselect using apt don't work On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Onno wrote: > At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > >Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > >apt-get or dselec

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread John Carline
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those files to install (+) rather than remove

Re: dpkg library

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Stefan Hornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like to know if a library for developing applications based on the > dpkg package system exists like rpmlib for RPM systems. libapt-pkg has similar functionality (perhaps more functionality). Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:47:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > alisda >I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for > alisda >this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a > alisda >Debian package for knfsd, and

Re: Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DRBLON >I have installed Slink in a 2 Meg partition on my hard drive with a 128 Meg DRBLON >swap partition and have some of the simpler programs running. 2Meg partition! damn! thats tiny..you sure you got a full install ? :) DRBLON >I have been usi

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for alisda >this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a alisda >Debian package for knfsd, and is it easy to install? make sure the user mounting the NFS share

Fwd: Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread DRBLONUK
--- Begin Message --- I have installed Slink in a 2 Meg partition on my hard drive with a 128 Meg swap partition and have some of the simpler programs running. I have been using the XF86Setup program and it picks up the mouse and keyboard fine but my screen adapter is not listed. My display a

Re: BIND security question

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
its not hard to do, but you gotta make sure that permissiosn are right on the files all the time..which can be a pain sometimes, if even 1 zone file can't be read bind will puke. on my servers i made a little script to do it for me..: echo -n "Updating permissions for the BIND server ..." chown n

Re: Multiple virtualusertables

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
i just looked around a few sites to see if there was a way and i didnt see anything that looked like it would work :< nate On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Brock Rozen wrote: brozen >Well, for starters I have 108 domains on my machine -- and to have all the brozen >catch-alls and the various other vut junk

Re: [+/- Solved] Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: mario >If I do a full stop and then a start, everything is ok! I think that the mario >reload isn't working well with mod_ssl. is apache-ssl the same as apache+mod_ssl ? i dont like to use dynamic modules i compile everything static(even tho th

Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: mario >but the port 443 is opened at the firewall. the relevants lines are: i coulda swore that you said the firewall was blocking connections ..so you can telnet to 443 on that ip and connect..it doesnt timeout.. the firewall looks ok to me im

Problem Installing X

1999-12-30 Thread DRBLONUK
I have installed Slink in a 2 Meg partition on my hard drive with a 128 Meg swap partition and have some of the simpler programs running. I have been using the XF86Setup program and it picks up the mouse and keyboard fine but my screen adapter is not listed. My display adapter is a Videol Logi

setterm -store doesn't stick

1999-12-30 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I'm trying to do a setterm -store (-powersave off -powerdown 20), but every time I get a new logon screen (mingetty), everything gets reset to default. I used to be able to do this in RedHat (5.2, way-back-when), also using mingetty, but now it won't work. What am I doing wrong? -- "I already

Re: (1) /etc/init.d/inn: start-stop-daemon: command not found? (2) actsync difficulties.

1999-12-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: : 1) I just installed inn and I am getting : : start-stop-daemon: command not found : : whenever I am starting or stopping it. : : Did I missed something or is it a bug? Make sure you're starting or stopping as the root user (use su or sudo)

Re: 404 not found using apt-get

1999-12-30 Thread Michael Kevin O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 05:57:47AM +0200, % wrote: > > Hola~ > > > > With a sources.list of: > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > deb http://security.debi

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
Mark Brown said: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 08:06:39PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > and 15hrs per box. Since the -d downloads, can I take the files being > > downloaded for box1, tar them up, copy and untar to box[234] and then > > just "apt-get install" from the single downloads? I'd ha

Avoiding duplicated efforts: gtans

1999-12-30 Thread jppuerta
Hello, Just a little question, I'm planning on begin working in debian with debianizing the gtans puzzle game (http://altern.org/bwt), does anyone working in this program yet?? :-) Greetings, Juan Pablo -- Feliz año nuevo. | Happy new year. Juan Pablo Puerta <[EMAIL PROTEC

Personal to Rajesh, whose mail bounces

1999-12-30 Thread David Teague
Hi I apologise to the mailing list for this abuse. Mail sent to Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bounces. Rajesh, please send me directly a legal mailing address. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,

Re: Need advice

1999-12-30 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Don Cavaiani wrote: > Greetings Wise Debian Users, > I am having some trouble getting Xserver to work on my PC. > I downloaded the base file to my WIN98 partition. I got the > basic system to work. I got the modem to work and downloaded the > 189MB for the Workstation p

dpkg library

1999-12-30 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Hello, Debian Developers ! I like to know if a library for developing applications based on the dpkg package system exists like rpmlib for RPM systems. Ciao Racke -- LinuXia Systems, eCommerce and more => http://www.linuxia.de/ or 0511-3941290. Unsere Partner: Cobolt NetServices (http:

RE: Cloning machine

1999-12-30 Thread Harley Pebley
>>I have a Debian based machine I need to clone; ... >>I put a blank IDE drive as primary slave in the machine to clone and did: >>dd if=hda of=hdb >>...The BIOS saw the disk but gave some >>hex numbers and refused to boot. LILO never seemed to start; ... Thanks to all (Andrei, Jules, Igor and

sudden IPX problems

1999-12-30 Thread Brian J. Stults
Until a few days ago, I could mount local netware drives and print to netware printers without any problems. Now, I can't access the server. When I try slist I get this: slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open When I try ncpmount I get this (not surprisingly): ncpmount: Cannot assign requ

NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm trying to set up an NFS server to share my MP3 directory across the network: both machines are running current potato and 2.2.13, with nfs-common and nfs-server on each. My exports file on letdown (the server) is: /var/local/mp3 skinny(ro) On skinny, doing mount letdown:/var/local/mp3/ /mnt

Re: Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-30 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: [snip] > I downloaded 'jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.bz2 ' and followed the instructions > in README.linux. > > After reading your mail, realised that I forgot to mention that I > upgraded to 2.2.12 kernel on my Pentium machine before I installed > jdk-1.2v1 (

Re: BIND security question

1999-12-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Dec-1999 Onno wrote: > At 04:16 PM 12/28/99 -, Pollywog wrote: >> >>On 28-Dec-1999 root wrote: >> >>Was this someone trying to find out which BIND I am running? >>> >>> Unusual System Events >>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>> Dec 28 06:39:09 lilypad named[342]: unapproved query from >>> [206

Brief

1999-12-30 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Once upon a time there was a text editor called `Brief'. Does it exist in Linux version? Blazej

who wins the popularity-contest? :-)

1999-12-30 Thread zhaoway
I'd installed popularity-contest*deb for quite a while. 'cause I thought it's good for Debian project. but, Just --purge'd it, :-) for two things I'm not sure: 1) Doesn't it suggest that itself wins the contest? :-) 2) I recently shift to some CVS version for some packages, and I used to use so

Re: cross-compiler patch for GCC

1999-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:00:45AM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > hi, > > i done a patch against gcc 2.95.2-4 which allows to create cross-compilers > using the -t options of dpkg-buildpackage. Nice, can you send it to me, too? > i will also test dpkg-cross Note that this is not necessary or ev

Re: Spontaneous reboot with 3c59x kernel module

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
Is it an ISA card? I had two 3com ISA's in one box. The problem was that I had to chance the interrupt and the I/O base address to get them to work side by side... Regards, Onno At 04:24 PM 12/28/99 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: >I have had this problem on two different computers, at least 3 dif

Re: BIND security question

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
At 04:16 PM 12/28/99 -, Pollywog wrote: > >On 28-Dec-1999 root wrote: > >Was this someone trying to find out which BIND I am running? >> >> Unusual System Events >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Dec 28 06:39:09 lilypad named[342]: unapproved query from [206.79.22.9].1978 >> for "version.bind" >> De

Re: Multiple virtualusertables

1999-12-30 Thread Brock Rozen
Well, for starters I have 108 domains on my machine -- and to have all the catch-alls and the various other vut junk for all the domains makes it a massive file (close to 700 lines). I'd like to place the catch-alls in one file, just to make it easier (now they're at the top, but it's still unwiel

hylafax ...

1999-12-30 Thread Andreas Kessen
Hi Bob, I just read your complain about the libtiff-problem in hylafax-server. I've got the same problem and no solution to it. I've been using an very old build on my system which worked fine but after upgrading to the recent potatoe the system hangs. :-( ... I wonder if the problem is just a t

Re: Problems with mutt 1.0.1 i under slink

1999-12-30 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 12:52:25PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > A few days ago I've send a message about successfull packaging of mutt 1.0.1 > for slink. Unfortunately things are more difficult :-(. > The new version of mutt works without problems on my office PC, which is > cont

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
At 08:54 AM 12/29/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: >Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used >apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? Yes. >I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation >has spoiled me... No problem here, what is y

Re: HP Surestore CD-WRITE+.8210i?

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
Before you buy a CD Writer please visit: http://www.elaborate-bytes.com/CloneCD/english/hardware.htm (subsection of: http://www.elaborate-bytes.com/english/corp/index.htm) Regards, Onno

xhost

1999-12-30 Thread Blazej Sawionek
How do I enable a particular user on a given machine to write on my screen, not just anybody who is logged there? In particular how to enable another user logged on my machine to write on my screen? Blazej

[+/- Solved] Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > mario >looking at the apache logs I found that the child server is seg > faulting. > mario >it's intriguing why this happens only with external clients :-| > > its possible the firewall blocking the dat

Symlinks

1999-12-30 Thread Blazej Sawionek
When upgrading some packages I got the following warning: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniORB2.so.6 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniLC.so.2 is not a

Re: ITP: LVM

1999-12-30 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:26:29AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:16:46PM +, Tom Lees wrote: > > Assuming that noone else has already got it (I checked the WNPP webpage > > and it wasn't listed), I intend to package LVM, which can be found at > > > > http://linux.mse

Re: slink leafnode and y2k???

1999-12-30 Thread Christian Surchi
On 28-Dec-99 Mark Brown wrote: > The slink version of Leafnode is very much older than the current > upstream version and the upstream author doesn't know if the version in > Slink is affected. I tried a brief test and nothing seemed to go > spectacularly wrong and nobody else reported a problem

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-30 Thread Onno
[snip] >>Why not? Here in the Netherlands mp3's and mp3 >>encoders are not >>illigal. > >>BTW I can't think of any software that would be >>illigal here. > >But they have to be legal on the non-US mirrors as >well as the main non-US FTP site. Isn't that why >quake isn't included, because Germany a

PGP

1999-12-30 Thread Urban Gabor
Could somebody explain me what PGP is? I'd prefer private mails, if possible. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ?"

Dependency problem

1999-12-30 Thread Big Gaute
I downloaded the source to angband and compiled it myself, so that I wouldn't have to install ncurses34. It now works perfectly. I then put the package on hold, so that my version will not be automatically replaced. However when I attempt an apt-get dist-upgrade apt wants to install ncurses34.

Problems with mutt 1.0.1 i under slink

1999-12-30 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, A few days ago I've send a message about successfull packaging of mutt 1.0.1 for slink. Unfortunately things are more difficult :-(. The new version of mutt works without problems on my office PC, which is continously connected to the Internet and is systematically upgraded (so now it is p

Exim

1999-12-30 Thread morphfrog
Hi! have anyone else disovered that the latest potato exim mailer dont send they mail in the right proper way and say in the mainlog file "1999-12-30 12:49:26 123e3x-6v-00 Spool file is locked" ? //Mats

Re: ITP: estic (ISTEC ISDN PABX admin program)

1999-12-30 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 29 Dec 1999, W. Borgert wrote: > > I already have packaged estic: > > Section: utils > Priority: optional > Upstream Author: Ullrich von Bassewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Recommends: isdnutils I'd make this "Suggests:" at most. There are lots of people out there that use an external ISDN TA

Re: oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

1999-12-30 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 19:47, Robert Varga wrote: > > > Due to the problem b: it did not build anything, but make my binaries > > vanish (got renamed). After I set these to point to /usr/bin/gcc272 and > > /usr/bin/ld I got only messages for erro

Re: Thinkpad 365x

1999-12-30 Thread Debian user
I wrote: > I've tryed the normal resc1440, and also the tecra, safe and tecra safe > version, and all of these failed. and i also tryed many option of the > kernel, as floppy=thinkpad, hd=C,h,s, etc.. but all af these failed and the > computer hang directly after reading the kernel from the d

Re: ITP: LVM

1999-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:16:46PM +, Tom Lees wrote: > > Assuming that noone else has already got it (I checked the WNPP webpage > > and it wasn't listed), I intend to package LVM, which can be found at > > > > http://linux.msede.com/lvm > > What is it? Could you post

Re: Debian pre-installed

1999-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Fish Smith wrote: > Aside from Space-time Systems, does anybody know of a > place that offers machines with Debian pre-installed? > Preferably stateside, preferably online. VA Linux Systems also sell preinstalled Debian boxes. > Also, why is GNU/Hurd called GNU/Hurd? If I'm not For the same re

Re: What is it with very long bug lists?

1999-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Some packages (for example gnupg and lintian) have bug lists > that go back many many months and in some cases years. > > Are these bugs still open or did someone just forget to close them? Normally they're still open. If you have time to work on them, patches are

Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > mario >looking at the apache logs I found that the child server is seg > faulting. > mario >it's intriguing why this happens only with external clients :-| > > its possible the firewall blocking the dat

Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: mario >looking at the apache logs I found that the child server is seg faulting. mario >it's intriguing why this happens only with external clients :-| its possible the firewall blocking the data causes the child server to segfault..i would thi

Re: Multiple virtualusertables

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
curious as to why you'd want multiple files in the first place ?? i got about 65 domains im hosting and i cant see a need for another virtual users table ..at least for my needs..what are yours? nate On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Brock Rozen wrote: brozen >Hi, brozen > brozen >Does anybody know how to d

Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, hypnos wrote: hypnos >Try putting aphro first, as in: hypnos > hypnos >127.0.0.1 aphro localhost hypnos > hypnos >I remember doing that before for some reason, I'm not hypnos >sure if that's why or not. that worked too! cool..thanks! nate -

Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > best thing to do (what id do) is enable kernel firewall logging and turn > on logging for your firewall, then examine the logs when you try to > connect and see what is going on .. looking at the apache logs I found that the child server is seg faulting. it's i

cross-compiler patch for GCC

1999-12-30 Thread Raphael Bossek
hi, i done a patch against gcc 2.95.2-4 which allows to create cross-compilers using the -t options of dpkg-buildpackage. i will also test dpkg-cross but i've here a problem with the naming of the new created packages. using the existent techniques within the package i can only call them "arch-os-

Multiple virtualusertables

1999-12-30 Thread Brock Rozen
Hi, Does anybody know how to do this? Getting one to work is easy, getting multiple alias files is easy -- but multiple virtualusertables (vut) ?? Thanks! -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (4

Re: Possible hosts.allow problem

1999-12-30 Thread hypnos
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > carlf >ALL: PARANOID > carlf > > carlf >Surely that should be blocking anything not on my local LAN. What's > carlf >up? > > that line blocks ALL incoming connections(or at least tries) to daemons in > /etc/inetd.conf from all hosts, no matter where they are.

Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread hypnos
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > i just removed the 'aphro' from my /etc/hosts's line that was > > 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro > > and restarted syslogd and it was back to 'normal' if i add aphro back and > restart again it goes back to localhost ..odd! (just tried this just now) Try putti

Re: [crash]

1999-12-30 Thread Glynn Clements
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > It linked against Xaw3d/libXaw, even though I told it `athena', not > `athena3d'... [snip] > % ldd /usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2/src/xemacs > libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4001c000) It's linked against "libXaw.so.6". Exactly which "lib

Re: ITP: Postmark - the NetApp benchmark program

1999-12-30 Thread Brian May
> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> I intend to package Postmark and have it done well before Russell> Jan 2. Postmark is a file system benchmark developed by Russell> NetApp for showing how good their Filers are. It's got Russell> some good opti

Re: Access problem solved

1999-12-30 Thread hypnos
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > As a listmember pointed out, the problem was in my hosts.deny file, > not hosts.allow. Once I read the man page carefully I changed the > line to ALL: ALL and telnet/ftp/smtp were locked. /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are used by tcpd and only affec

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:31:53AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > There is a kernel-headers package...(?) > I'd like to download it. I guess it's for people who need to compile modules but don't want to download the full source. It's in main / devel, but I haven't downloaded it. > Once I had a problem c

Re: Possible hosts.allow problem

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote: carlf >In order to use IP-Masq I had to edit hosts.allow to accept carlf >connections from my own other PC. The only uncommented line there now carlf >reads: carlf > carlf >ALL: LOCAL 198.168.1.* ipmasq has nothing to do with tcp_wrappers, it is a firewallin

[Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: paul >So I would first check that /etc/hostname contains the single word paul >aphro. i just checked it again, it does, that file never changed. paul >It seems that the syslogd gets its info from calling uname(2), which paul >at kernel level invokes sys

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On 30 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote: nick >Quoting Svante Signell: nick >> - rpm format to be used for binary packages in LSB. nick > nick > I beg your pardon? RPM is one of the biggest pieces of crap ive seen..i spent 20 minutes working on a redhat5.1 machine(from telnet) and it about drove me M

Re: what does "E:Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist) mean?

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Joseph de los Santos wrote: jh0u > jh0u > E:Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist) jh0u > jh0u > what does this mean? it means exactly that, line 1 in sources.list is not correct..it would of been helpful if you had included the sources.list file as p

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme >how this work ? Will this approach require the network sysadmins to ssahme >change their (internal) DNS configuration ? Our network admins know of ssahme >only one OS: Windoze, and generally don't know d*** about ssahme >Unix/Linux/*BSD, so I am a l

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
try upgrading to cdrecord 1.8 1.6 is Very old. nate On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Rob Rati wrote: ratirh >I checked the howto and this drive is supported (actually, the newest howto on the ratirh >web has this drive listed as supported by cdrecord. It's a Yamaha CRW6416S. I'm ratirh >running pota

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