Re: iplogger is crashing my computer

2000-01-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I am running 2.1 with a 2.2.13 kernel on my Thinkpad 390E in a > network environment using DHCP. Today, oddly, I was informed while > attempting to open an x terminal that my system was temporarily out of > re

Re: How to install over www

2000-01-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The thing here is that I am starting with 3 totaly blank hd's. I really don't want to put an msdos partition on any of them, I'd like to do this install without using ANY M$ software in the process. I already downloaded all ten base disks, the rescue disk, the driver disks, and the root disk. The

iplogger is crashing my computer

2000-01-10 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings everyone, I am running 2.1 with a 2.2.13 kernel on my Thinkpad 390E in a network environment using DHCP. Today, oddly, I was informed while attempting to open an x terminal that my system was temporarily out of resources. I did a little research and it turns out that some

Re: NIS passwords

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 11-Jan-2000, Robert Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello ppl > > how do i tell if my NIS passwords are working correctly? atm i have > passwords on both the local machines and the NIS server but i can't tell > if user logins are being authenticated by the local machine or the NIS server. >

RE: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-10 Thread Simon Law
For those following my ongoing saga... I have gone with "wimp out" solution. I have gone and physically switched my Win98 and Linux drives. Thus, Win98 becomes hda, and the BIOS boots its MBR first. What I am now using is PowerQuest's BootMagic to default to the Linux partition instead of LILO.

Re: ps/2

2000-01-10 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 05:02:45AM +0800, |{.f|. wrote > > Can't configure my 2 buttons PS/2 > mouse for X windows. > > In XF96Config file pointer > is set to PS/2. > Tried with XF86Setup, but > mouse doesn't react to > clicking at all. > Cursor exists. > Are you running gpm, the text-mode mous

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:59:18PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote > Hi, > > I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, > so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably > Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it > doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen

Re: Cannot mount cdrom

2000-01-10 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 01:39:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hi All. Can anyone help with this? I get the message > /devhdc already mounted or /cdrom busy > when I try to mount the cdrom. Tried top, fuser and ps l to try and find out > the pid to kill whatever process is using cdrom but noth

Further LILO woes

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'm still having a helluva time trying to make Lilo boot potato off /dev/hdc1 (second HD). Nothing seems to work. I have just tried (as Howard Mann suggested) booting potato's kernel with my slink's lilo (which is installed in /dev/hda4 and works perfectly for booting from there). What I did was t

Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
Now that I've two machines I'm finally able to experience the full benefits of Debian GNU/Linux. Reading all I could find on the subject on the HAMM-cd's I managed to get nfs and nis working, exported /home and did some tests. using ncftp I get the expected 1.0+MBs transfer copying a large file in

xdm's Chooser not showing up

2000-01-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, I started this millenium great, got a second machine, nfs works though slow. But now I try to make this second machine into a Xterminal but it refuses:( For the life of me I can't find how to get a X-Chooser on the second machine, tried all kind of things in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess, but I only g

Extend Caracter Map on Linux

2000-01-10 Thread Tux
Hi, How can I extend the caracter map in my linux box. Atually I have only the 127 caracters off the ASCII table and I'm needing the complete extended IBM caracters map to run a application. Thanks Artur Scheiner

inittab: More than 2 special key combinations?

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
Is it possible to set up additional special keyboard requests in inittab? I've already assigned ctrl-alt-delete and alt-uparrow and want another... Thanks, -- Matthew Roberts Structural Engineering [EMAIL P

ext2 file recovery

2000-01-10 Thread Chris Brown
Hello all, I administer a few Debian machines around the office, and have a question about data recovery. We have a machine with a 108GB RAID5 array, and have run into some hardware trouble. During an e2fsck of the array, *two* drives failed, causing massive problems with the

NIS passwords

2000-01-10 Thread 2
hello ppl how do i tell if my NIS passwords are working correctly? atm i have passwords on both the local machines and the NIS server but i can't tell if user logins are being authenticated by the local machine or the NIS server. from da Bobstopper

rxvt / vim / term ?

2000-01-10 Thread Ryan White
There seems to be something wrong with rxvt. I am not sure exactly but about 2 weeks ago I did an upgrade and then tried to use vim and it would not let me get into edit mode. It is like the term emulation is messed up. I could not use the arrow keys hjkl or anything to move the cursor. The only

Re: question regarding stable and unstable dists

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
you can try to force install the packages but chances are it will not work because of the differences in glibc2.0 vs 2.1 nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: jh0u >Hello, jh0u > jh0u > I would like to know if unstable packages can be used with slink? because jh0u >I am curren

can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-01-10 Thread Russell D. Cook
I'm running a Potato system at home. This weekend I inadvertently ran apt-get dist-upgrade instead of apt-get dselect-upgrade. After the upgrade, I can't boot. I get "LIL-" and the system locks. Can someone tell me what LIL- means, if anything, and whether anyone else has had this problem recent

question regarding stable and unstable dists

2000-01-10 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello, I would like to know if unstable packages can be used with slink? because I am currently using slink and would like to try out sawmill window-manager but the sawmill window manager depends on packages that are on the unstable dists instead of the stable ones or can I just use the pack

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread Joe Block
William T Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > I need to add a second superuser. > > No you don't. > > If you want someone else to have root access, then just give them the root > password. > > If you want someone else to be able to do some root tasks but not really

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "What is this" > > > > I found this file somewhere: > > > > > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > > > Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? > > > > This 'thing' is

Re: procps held back

2000-01-10 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:45:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > regarding my query about packages held back in the upgrade, they were > flwm kbd kdelibs2g moonlight procps > Are there problems with these? > Not necessarily at all. Sometimes upgrading packages requires installing new pack

Re: Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)

2000-01-10 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:39:48PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote > I am trying to install the latest potato > > I have an ISA NE2000 clone. it worked fine when i booted from the > rescue disc. Ieben installed the base system over NFS. It's IO is at > 0x280, and it's IRQ is 5. >

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You certainly can use a Celeron with 64 MB or more physical memory. > The > Celeron and Pentium II are the same chip, except for the L2 cache size > (the Pentium II has a 512kb L2 cache and the Celeron a 128kb L2 > cache). One other difference is that t

Re: [URGENT]: Convert BMP to PBM

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Well, I have bmptoppm proggie... then I have ppmtopgm... and then pgmtopbm. So your script will look something like: bmptoppm file.ppm | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm > file.pbm I don't know *for sure* which package those tools came with, but I think it must be one (or both) of the following: , | Opt g

Re: How to install over www

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I correct that I will have to install (enough of) > the base system via floppies before I will be able to > use apt/deselct to install the rest of the system? I Yes, basically. You will need to at least have the rescue, root, and the three drivers

Re: Training

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
since debian is a non profit organization it is not likely you will find training from debian themselves. there are plenty of linux certification courses out there though, debian isn't much more then basic linux, debian specifics can be learned rather quickly once you get a hold on linux in genera

[URGENT]: Convert BMP to PBM

2000-01-10 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, Where could I find a program which could convert "PC bitmap data, Windows 3.x format" to PBM format !? As I had hundreds os images on BMP I would like a program where I could make a script to convert them automatically. Kind of: $ bmp2pbm Thanks. Regards, Nuno C

replacement for secure-su

2000-01-10 Thread Ernest Johanson
Does anyone know what happened to the secure-su package, and whether there is a replacement? I couldn't find it in unstable, and the search function on debian.org is down right now. Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc me as I am getting the digest. Thanks in advance. Ernest Johanson Web System

Changing architecture from i386 to i686 (dpkg-buildpackage to opt imize for PII)

2000-01-10 Thread Fredrik Liljegren
I would like dpkg-buildpackage to use egcs' optimizations for Pentium II, and let the whole system understand that it is a "i686" and not i386 to get proper defaults... I grep'd i386 in /etc and found that it's mentioned in quite a lot of locations. Is there any standard or at least certain way o

Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux

2000-01-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. > > > MK> ^^

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. > > > > Until r

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thinking about it, you're right so I won't use it. Thanks.

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thinking about it, you're right. Thanks. Patrick

exim changed in potato

2000-01-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Exim used deliver all mail for an unrecognised user to my mailbox. Now it bounces back to the sender. Does anyone know why this would be? eximconfig doesn't seem to help. Patrick

majordomo exploit ..

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
recently a local security problem was discovered with the latest majordomo, and the maintainer suggested a chmod 0755 wrapper and make it owned by root.mail ..i did that, and had to chown mail.mail the /var/lib/majordomo/lists directory and /var/log/majordomo directory, does this introduce any kind

Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl

2000-01-10 Thread Clyde Wilson
You might try installing perl-base... On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, John Gay wrote: > > > I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf > when > I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but > my problem is much different. > > When I first u

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
id be willing to bet its bad memory. i would take the old 32MB out and keep the new 64MB in and try some tests.. http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=memory+test I haven't had experience with those programs, but they may show some results, i reccomend Microscope 7, but it is about $300 or

How to install over www

2000-01-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have a spare computer in my office that I'd like to install potato on. It has three hard disks of 1GB, 1GB, and 420MB as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, and /dev/hdc. I have a 3c509b elan card in the machine so I can connect it to the www via the corportate lan and firewall. (I already have a machine runn

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Fish Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >It is not only newbies that can make stupid mistakes, > >and remove a > >floppy disk that is currently mounted... > > I was taught in kindergarten /never/ to remove a disk > when the light was on, and I never do it. Removing > while it is mounted but not

Console locks after upgrade to Potato

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Sullens
Hello, I have been using Slink on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT since March without a problem. I just upgraded to Potato and the console does not respond now. I am dual booting the Laptop with OpenBSD, so I am confident it is not a hardware issue. I also custom compiled a 2.2.13 kernel, which I

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 01/10/00, Arcady Genkin addressed "Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)": > I tried all kinds of things, including manually specifying config > file. I do boot off floppy (takes about 7 minutes to boot), but the If it's acceptable to you, you should be able to tell LILO to install o

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-10 Thread David Teague
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any > for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful > on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap > it could do some stuff in linux im

ssh and PAM

2000-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
In machine logs from any machine running ssh, I get: Jan 10 13:14:31 adm2 PAM_unix[17793]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> rac for ssh service and ssh still works. On machines that have a lot of use of ssh, this gets hard to see anything that is really wrong due to the noise. What can I do th

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
I asked myself the same question, so I logged into my shell account at a local ISP and took a look at what they use on their FreeBSD machine with 512 MB of RAM: core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) 22528 file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes)

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread Clyde Wilson
Go into your cpu and check all the ribbon cable connections. Push each one in to insure it is tight. Just one loose connection can keep your system from taking its first breath. On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, > so I'm not

Re: Re: ps/2

2000-01-10 Thread |{.f|.
Thank you, Succeded. And with xf86config also inserted mouse default as /dev/psaux after that - it works perfectly :-) At 2000.01.09 14:32:00, you wrote: >"|{.f|." wrote: >> >> Can't configure my 2 buttons PS/2 >> mouse for X windows. >> >> In XF96Config file pointer >> is set to PS/2. >> Trie

Training

2000-01-10 Thread JoHanna Levison
What kind of training does Debian offer and at what cost? Thanks, JoHanna

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions > (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is "/dev/hda ". > > Bye bye. This is not correct as stated. Here is an informative item : http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/12/166/ I quot

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. > > Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on > Sa

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "memories" > > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. > > Until recently it had just 32MB o

TI5300 sound card

2000-01-10 Thread erasmo perez
hello thanks for reading this mail which sound controller must i choose in the kernel configuration for making work the following notebook ? Texas Instruments 5300 which has a: Media Vision Pro Audio De Luxe/ProSonic/Jazz 16 sound card i pressume that the sound controller is emb

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-10 Thread Dave Wiard
> A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom, > since this will almost always be a symlink pointing to > your cdrom device. Far more systems use /dev/cdrom > for their cdrom devices than use /dev/hdd, because > this includes nearly everybody with /dev/hdd, > /dev/sdd, /dev/hd and > /dev/sd

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > I found this file somewhere: > > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? The c means that it is a character device, e.g. like /dev/tty or /dev/psmouse. However, since the group and user owners of the file seem u

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "What is this" > > I found this file somewhere: > > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? > > This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to > do

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread ktb
Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I found this file somewhere: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? > > This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to > do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has somet

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. the c me

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread lorenzo . zampese
LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is "/dev/hda ". Bye bye. -- Memo - Header --- To: Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECT

memories

2000-01-10 Thread mcclosk
I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > > > > > So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? > > > > > > Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) > > > > My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. > > But the DB25 is functionally the same

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Marek Habersack
* Phil Brutsche said: > > capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward > > at the sides. > > > > This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond > > Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? > > There is nothing wron

DPT SmartRaid V cards

2000-01-10 Thread Ronald Tin
Hi, I have been playing with a DPT smartRaid V card for some days, using the driver from their homepage. (the kernel drivers don't seem to work for SmartRaid V?) However, for some reason the Raid V drive doesn't seem to perform very well. It often just stops during disk writes without doing anythin

What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Ron

Re: Standard way to change IP?

2000-01-10 Thread Ronald Tin
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:17:05PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > >I find that sometimes I cannot use that interface after the network > >is changed I get something like "network unreachable" when > >I try to ping some hosts on that network. The NIC is fine after > >a reboot. Most of the time I

nisplus package?

2000-01-10 Thread Gerhard Kroder
is ther a debian package for nisplus out already? i haven't seen it so far an want to try it out... gerhard

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an > 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried > autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In > almost all cases,

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Attached is my /etc/lilo.conf. I hope it will help. [14:46:02 /tmp]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=MS table=/dev/hda image=/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/d

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS > looks to boot your system. change your boot" line to look like: > boot=/dev/hda > > This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. > > LILO can *boot* things pr

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
You might want to check /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/network (from the sysvinit package). > > Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked > fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an > > ifconfig eth0 > > command. Naturally, though, I'd like t

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread 2
heya, paul have a look in /etc/init.d/network from da bobstopper -Original Message Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. N

ISDN won't work...

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
ISDN won't work, I get the following messages in syslog, kern.log, isdn.log, ppp.log, dmesg. HiSax: debugging flags card 1 set to 4 isdn: Verbose-Level is 3 isdn: Global Mode running isdn: Verbose-Level is 2 ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure isdn_

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Randy Edwards
> Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked > fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an > ifconfig eth0 This is typically done in the script /etc/init.d/network That script is generated at install when you answer the questions about your

Perl fake packages

2000-01-10 Thread Debian Mail
I installed the two fake packages perl-base_5.004.05-1.1.deb and perl_5.004.05-2.deb. But still wehn I want to install perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb I get the following error: # dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb dpkg: regarding perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb containing perl-5.005-base

Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??

2000-01-10 Thread Debian Mail
> See the list of packages on the Debian packages page, searching for perl. > There is a fake package that allows you to upgrade; I believe you will have > upgrade problems if you do not install the fake perl package first. I believe > it is called "perl-base". It is called perl_5.004.05-2.deb S

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/limits Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:19AM +0100 In reply to:Onno Ebbinge Quoting Onno Ebbinge([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: >| >OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I >| [snip] >| >I look in my /et

iprofd: need help quick!

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I think this mail didn't arrive when I send it last time, so here it is again: When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on D

iprofd: urgent!

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I think this mail didn't arrive when I send it last time, so here it is again: When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on D

xterm: The icon insists it has a fixed point on the screen.

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: xterm Version: 3.3.5-2 Package: fvwm Version: 2.2.4-1 Does anybody else have instances in which the xterm icon insists to place itself in a point that is already taken by some other icon? Perhaps it is Netscape or exmh icons fault? I am using Fvwm for WM. - -- System Information Deb

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and /etc/security/limits.conf instead. Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up. I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have a related question, how can i set reaso

iprofd: urgent!

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on Debian 2.1 I guess iprofd in in the isdnutils package, I'm using version 3.0beta2

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-10 Thread Jens Guenther
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Fam. Engelen wrote: > After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on > boot: > > --- > /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. > /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). > > UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MAN

Re: X broken after fonts/fontserver update

2000-01-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
When I was playing with xfs, I never could get local unix sockets to work vis-a-vis "/unix:7100". However, it worked using tcp as "tcp/localhost:7100". xfs slows down the system though, so I went back to direct path specification (don't use true type fonts). -- +-

X broken after fonts/fontserver update

2000-01-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Anyone else is experiencing this problem? Here are the messages that X gives me at startup _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Yes, I did. > Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 > was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted > off a floppy), I wonder

Re: [Off Topic] DVD Playback under Debian...

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
from what i've read DVD on linux requires hardware playback to work, i read in a mailing list that some people were starting to get the G400 cards working. see: http://linuxvideo.org/ the linux video and dvd project .. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ryan Losh wrote: rklosh >Hello: rklosh >

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong "lilo.conf" was read to write your boot sec

XFree86 fixed font

2000-01-10 Thread James Sasitorn
What is the default fixed font used with X? james

Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'm having problems booting into a fresh installation of potato in my second harddrive. The installation is on /dev/hdc with root in /dev/hdc1. Lilo displays "LI" and dies there. I tried adding "linear" to lilo.conf (that helped me once on another computer), but that didn't help. My setup looks sa

AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In almost all cases, X windows worked fine, but when I came out of X windows to a console,

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
when i want to change network settings to take effect everytime it boots i edit /etc/init.d/network hope you enjoy debian, ive played with a few rh boxes and they about drove me mad. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: paulf > paulf >Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian

[Off Topic] DVD Playback under Debian...

2000-01-10 Thread Ryan Losh
Hello: I know this is not Debian specific, but I was hoping some kind person would help me... I just put together a new AMD Athlon based system. Here's my configuration: 600 Mhz Athlon, MSI mother board, 128M ECC memory, 3dFx Voodoo3 3000 AGP video, Toshiba ATAPI DVD drive, Symbi

Re: identd -- do I need it?

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
it returns the userid of the process, really the only thing that is popular and needs identd is if you use IRC. identd can also be used in combonation with tcp_wrappers to allow/deny certain users, although it is not that secure, ident can easily be spoofed. nate On 9 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wro

Ignore this test...

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
You can put: ifconfig eth0 netmask into /etc/init.d/network . You will probably also have to add your "route" line in there as well. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked > fine in Red Hat and appears to wor

Ignore this test...

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno

GPM question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
Okay, my mouse (a Logitech 3 button mouse, new) seems to work fine in X, and I know that it is connected to /dev/ttyS0. However, when I issue a gpm command, I get gpm: freopen(stderr) failed I've run the gpm config program many times, and the gpm config file appears to be built properly. In any

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
you should have no problems, i cant imagine where you read that.. i am running 466 celerons with 256MB ram, and its _quite_ fast. it may be true that not all of the memory is cached(i can't say wether it is or not). On older i430TX boards(i have one) they could not cache memory beyond 64MB, i ra

Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
oh, thought u said u were on a 486 ..thats why i suggested that :) nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: barts > barts > barts >On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: barts > barts >> however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 barts >> ? one of my friend's computers

Re: exports(5) manpage

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
in slink its in nfs-server .. if you need it you could prob grab it from there .. nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Joseph Heenan wrote: joseph >None of my systems (all running unstable) have a man page for joseph >/etc/exports - am I missing a package somewhere, or is this a bug? I joseph >expected it

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