Re: mounting /tmp from fstab

2000-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lupa
Thanks all, I'll just follow this advice below. Where in the boot chain should this go? Currently, I'm adding it to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. Tertiary question - why nosuid on /var or /home? Don't some programs leave some stuff in /var (vgetty comes to mind), and shouldn't you allow users to set

Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please

2000-02-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
I'm not sure if this is what the original poster wanted, but... Is is possible to masquerade a single email address in the same way the IP-Masq masquerades a single internet connection? By this I mean, to have a debian box receive emails via a single address, and be able to distribute each one to

Electric Fence

2000-02-24 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I have two questions about Electric Fence, in case anyone can help me. 1) Does EF work on C++ programs as well as it does on C programs? 2) What does it mean when my program aborts with: ElectricFence Exiting: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory ? thanks -- -bob Particle physicis

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Alex McCool
> >yes thats right. try doing a md5sum on one drive then copying it to >another not on the raid if possible(or even to a floppy winamp should fit >i think) and run another md5sum > >nate On the server I copied a file from plain e2fs to the linear mount and the two files matched. bishop:/# cp us

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: debian >Yes I am transfering using binary. debian >I am beginning to wonder about my linear RAID setup. debian >Secondly I am NOT familar with the use of md5sum, is there something special debian >I need to do for checking? debian > debian >client:m

Problem installing apache-perl in Frozen

2000-02-24 Thread Richard McCombs
I recently installed Frozen "Potato" on my computer. Today I was trying to install apache-perl and I get the following error... "ln: cannot create symbolic link `/etc/apache/conf' to `.' No such file or directory" Rick

Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please

2000-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from >my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local >LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains >rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local

Re: Can't find class Freenet.Node

2000-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >javawrapper, in Documentation/java.txt in >= 2.3.10, might help you with >this; Er, less than clear, sorry. If you didn't work it out, I meant kernel version >= 2.3.10. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I get off the list?

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, B. Cook wrote: bcook >My ISP is angry at the volume of mail that getts passed through the account. I have sent requests to debian-user-request and gotten back messages that it found duplicate entries for my email address, and to pick the best one. Even after doing that it

How to fetch procmail processed mail from my office computer?

2000-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, To manage the giant amount of mail from different mailgroups I had to install the procmail in my office debian box. The procmail is run by my .forward file and splits the incoming mail into few folders, located in my ~/Mail directory. However I'd like to be able to transfer some folders t

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Alex McCool
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: > >debian >Doing md5sum results: >debian >This is the client, I know this files is good >debian >/home/amccool$ md5sum winamp25e_full.exe >debian >1a8cc2cddc56fbffef748cb83903913d winamp25e_full.exe >debian > >debian >This is the suscpect FTP server >debian

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: debian >Doing md5sum results: debian >This is the client, I know this files is good debian >/home/amccool$ md5sum winamp25e_full.exe debian >1a8cc2cddc56fbffef748cb83903913d winamp25e_full.exe debian > debian >This is the suscpect FTP server debian >/home/

what is /etc/network/interfaces and if.up and if.down?

2000-02-24 Thread Pollywog
As if I were not confused enough, now I need to get rid of /etc/init.d/network and use this new /etc/network/interfaces, but I cannot get it to work. This is what I have done with it: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 # broad

How can I get off the list?

2000-02-24 Thread B. Cook
My ISP is angry at the volume of mail that getts passed through the account.  I have sent requests to debian-user-request and gotten back messages that it found duplicate entries for my email address, and to pick the best one.  Even after doing that it still doesn't find the right name... I

Re: frozen upgrade error

2000-02-24 Thread Kent West
"Fox, Michael" wrote: > > 165 packages upgraded, 47 newly installed, 12 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/48.3MB of archives. After unpacking 42.8MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend > # > > Whats this? and how can I f

sendmail (or exim) help, please

2000-02-24 Thread runner
Hi ! Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local machines and put the ma

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Alex McCool
> >looks like the drive is having problems, i dont think the ftpd would(or >could) cause such errors, try moving the file to another disk and >transferring again. run md5sum on the local file then run it again after >the remote site downloads it and compare the 2. > >if they are the same then the

Re: latex2html and table/figure references--more info

2000-02-24 Thread Yifang Dai
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:15:38PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [original below] > > I've got a little more information now. All of the students who have > problems have netscape (and don't know their version number). latex2html > is using links on the figure numbers--so a reference to f

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: > > "Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > > > > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > > > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to partition the > > > > HD on my new system so that I could put both

Re: Can't find class Freenet.Node

2000-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Fluch) wrote: >I'm just trying to get FreeNet to work on my Debian box (woody). Im using >there JDK Version 1.1.7 and when I try to execute > > java Freenet.Node > >or something like this, I get the message > > Can't find class Freenet.Node > >Im anything else but

Re: TAB key behaviour

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
This is a shell issue, not a Linux issue. man ksh ...on your AIX box. Filename completion is avialable in emacs mode, by double-pressing , IIRC. Command completion is not available under ksh. There are bash ports to AIX, I would try looking for it under /usr/local or in user's home direct

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: > "Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to partition the > > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > > > it. I tried

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: lleste >But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition lleste >below 1024 cyl. i use a 16MB /boot partition at the beginning of the drive. works good. probably could get away with less (~5MB) but disk space is so cheap now might b

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: debian >One more thing... I am getting these in the message log.lots of these (that scsi id is the /usr mount) debian > debian >Feb 24 06:27:38 bishop kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 591714 debian >Feb 24 06:27:39 bishop kernel: scsi0: ME

Re: latex2html and table/figure references--more info

2000-02-24 Thread hawk
[original below] I've got a little more information now. All of the students who have problems have netscape (and don't know their version number). latex2html is using links on the figure numbers--so a reference to figure 2 should show as an underlined (or whatever) 2, with a hyperlink to that

INN help

2000-02-24 Thread Paul
I`m getting the following error messages in /var/log/news/news.err when I try to restart Innd Feb 24 17:03:13 smalltown inndstart: inndstart cant setgroups Operation not permitted Feb 24 17:03:13 smalltown inndstart: inndstart cant bind Permission denied This happens when I run rc.news as root

Re: [Freenet-chat] Can't find class Freenet.Node

2000-02-24 Thread Mr. Bad
> "MF" == Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MF> Hi, I'm just trying to get FreeNet to work on my Debian box MF> (woody). Im using there JDK Version 1.1.7 and when I try to MF> execute MF>java Freenet.Node MF> or something like this, I get the message MF>

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote: > > > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > > below 1024 cyl. > > I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never > came close to using that sp

Can't find class Freenet.Node

2000-02-24 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, I'm just trying to get FreeNet to work on my Debian box (woody). Im using there JDK Version 1.1.7 and when I try to execute java Freenet.Node or something like this, I get the message Can't find class Freenet.Node Im anything else but a java expert, but it seems to me, that it is

SCSI HD developping bad blocks (was Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:51:08 -0800, Alex McCool wrote: >I've noticed that the sector=591714 (and one other) is always the culprit. >Can someone tell me how to repair/badblock these sectors? Back it up, then low-level format it. BUT BEWARE: Usually bad sector remapping works transparently w/o the

Re: rsync mirror help!

2000-02-24 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Nathan, Basically, I'd like to avoid duplication download the file itself if the symbolic link is available. Example 1: Link within the rsync tree. /main/binary-main/base/adduser_3.11.1.deb -> ../../binary-all/base/adduser_3.11.1.deb In this case, I'd like

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Alex McCool
>> >>Feb 24 06:27:38 bishop kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector = >>591714 >>Feb 24 06:27:39 bishop kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, = >>lun 0, CDB: Read (6) 09 07 82 02 00 >>Feb 24 06:27:39 bishop kernel: Info fld=3D0x90782, Current sd08:11: = >>sense key Medium Error > >Y

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:24:08 -0800, Alex McCool wrote: >I'm having a problem with wu-ftpd. On large transfers ( > 24 megs ) I = >keep getting CRC errors. [...] >One more thing... I am getting these in the message log.lots of = >these (that scsi id is the /usr mount) > >Feb 24 06:27:38 bishop

Re: Réf. : Re: TAB key behaviour

2000-02-24 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:13:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am used to the standart behaviour of the key TAB on Linux. > > It proposes the possible files or commands and complete them > > if only one solution is available. > > > > But I am now working on AIX > > s

Re: Format question

2000-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad) wrote: >On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 05:47:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> [1] [fx: dredges memory] Michelangelo? > >"Microangelo", if you're thinking fo the same program i am. That'd work >quite well if it actually runs under wine. Haven't tried it lately... >There are proba

Re: TAB key behaviour

2000-02-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am used to the standart behaviour of the key TAB on Linux. > It proposes the possible files or commands and complete them > if only one solution is available. This actually has nothing to do with Linux, but rather is a function of the bash shell. You mentioned that on

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-02-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Mark Wagnon said: > My question is, *what* do I set as my news server when using > leafnode? Do I use localhost? news.smaug.com (my system's domain)? The name of the machine on which leafnode runs. For example, I have slrn and leafnode set up on two machines here, pchan and genma. genma is my ge

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote: > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > below 1024 cyl. I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never came close to using that space, so I've recently started making them 8MB. Of course

Support to UNIX Termcap system.

2000-02-24 Thread paulo.lagrotta
Hi all, I would like know if the version Debian 2.1 include support for the common UNIX Termcap system. How can I provide this support? Thanks. Paulo.

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Lane Lester
> If you really wanted to get cute, maybe you could have just one > lilo.conf: symlink /etc/lilo.conf to point to /boot/lilo.conf. Does > anyone else do this, or are there problems with this I haven't thought > out? Well, that's what I have: just the one Corel lilo.conf. I installed the other tw

wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-24 Thread Alex McCool
Hi all,   I'm having a problem with wu-ftpd.  On large transfers ( > 24 megs ) I keep getting CRC errors.  This occurs on zip files, tgz's.  I cant tell if any ascii files are getting damaged.   I originally had this problem on slink using wu-ftpd-academ and a 2.2.1 kernel.  I thought it had

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "ktb" == ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ktb> I didn't drop any data but I can't access anything but ktb> bios/setup at this time. My system basically is telling me ktb> that no HD exists. How can I restore the partition table? This might work: * Create a bootable floppy on

Re: NCR53c406a

2000-02-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jaume Teixi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thank you but this occurs when installing on a new machine > this machines has an SCSI Host Adaptec AIC 7895P on the mainboard... > > thanks... > > Oki DZ wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > > > > > I'm installing debian 2.1 with

latex2html and table/figure references

2000-02-24 Thread hawk
Due to the difficulties that many of my students have had installing ghostview (I didn't know that it *could* be done wrong), I have had to distribute assignments in html form as well. It seems that latex2html is producing grey square boxes rather than the proper references for figures and tables

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Lane Lester wrote: > > How embarrassing! My PPP problems had nothing to do with PPP! They were > caused by my ignorant use of lilo in booting my three Linux > distributions. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, but I was having > a kernel running a filesystem for which it was not designed. Pro

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: > > "Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the > > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > > > it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't le

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
"Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > > it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the > > curren

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
"Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the > > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > > it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the > > curren

Re: cdrecord

2000-02-24 Thread paulwade
Try ftp.greenbush.com for a kernel-image. These may not support your net card but can be used. The ones with scsiemul in the name are what you want. The 2.2.13 was built only for recovering an NTFS partition to CD. The 2.0.36 is used on some CD replication machines here. It works well with hp 4x an

Re: NCR53c406a

2000-02-24 Thread Jaume Teixi
Thank you but this occurs when installing on a new machine this machines has an SCSI Host Adaptec AIC 7895P on the mainboard... thanks... Oki DZ wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > > > I'm installing debian 2.1 with linux 2.2.12 on a new machine with an > > internal SCSI bus.

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
i suppose its possible, the mouse works 'normally' in other apps? what version of netscape?(version and libc version and kernel version linux netscape 4.7 glibc kernel 2.2)... dont know where it would be stored, have you tried removing netscape and reinstalling it? check /usr/lib/netscape.ad for

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the > HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on > it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the > current partition so I used the Slink instal

Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-24 Thread ktb
I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to patition the HD on my new system so that I could put both Windows 98 and Slink on it. I tried using fdisk under "dos" but it wouldn't let me delete the current partition so I used the Slink installation disk and cfdisk to partition my HD.

Re: navigator & 3rd party mail/news applications

2000-02-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-23 19:55:55, Jeffrey Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:17:58PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > .. > > Also found muttzilla which causes my netscape to bus error. Nothing > > like the good old times. > > Well, I get the good old bus error with muttzilla and with altmailer. I

Re: problem doing slink -> frozen

2000-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:02:00AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > It's a circular pre-depends. I'm appending my previous email on the > > subject. I've seen a few posts that say my method works, but I still > > don't guarantee it :) > > > I crea

RE: Problem with RealPlayer and Netscape

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Kallstrom
make sure your application is set up as "realplayer %s" in your preferences. Paul On 24-Feb-2000, at 14:48:26, Todd Suess climbed upon the nearest soapbox, and shouted: > Greets, > > I finally downloaded RealPlayer and got it set up on my potato/woody system, > and I had no trouble setting the

Re: lib Xt?

2000-02-24 Thread Robert L. Harris
Yeah, Unfortunately the find command doesn't work if libXt isn't installed. Someone else sent me the package name so I could install it. Robert Thus spake John Miskinis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Below I included the find command that will allow you to look > for libraries, as well as wh

Re: problem doing slink -> frozen

2000-02-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > It's a circular pre-depends. I'm appending my previous email on the > subject. I've seen a few posts that say my method works, but I still > don't guarantee it :) > I created a file "/usr/bin/readlink" with the following contents: > > #! /bin/sh

Re: ls: file too big

2000-02-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:57:40PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote: > I'm trying to ls a directory which has 2.7GB file in it. The directory is an > automounted NFS directory. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gxr01]$ ls -l > ls: gxr01.tar: File too large > > It then prints the rest of the directory, ignoring th

Problem with RealPlayer and Netscape

2000-02-24 Thread Todd Suess
Greets, I finally downloaded RealPlayer and got it set up on my potato/woody system, and I had no trouble setting the mime type so it launches Realplayer ok, but once it launches Realplayer it just sits there, the clicked link never opens inside realplayer. If I click the link again, it just op

Re: Debian web site

2000-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 11:14:36AM -, Tim Bedding wrote: > Is the debian web site kept up to date? I emailed a package > maintainer using the address given but got no response. The web site is kept more or less up to date. However, you should use the maintainer information from the package it

Re: Mutt & procmail in debian - how to configure locking of folders?

2000-02-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wojciech Zabolotny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just wanted to configure procmail in my system, and I'm a little afraid > of locking problems. How should I configure the locking in procmail and > in mutt, to avoid the destruction of mail folders when procmail delivers > a message to the fold

What format are the gnome-sounds??

2000-02-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, just wanted to add some sounds to a gnome-app, recorded them with esdrec (which produces a sort of .au files if i am not wrong) let them convert with sox to .wav, but now if i test them in the gnome-control-center the souind-capplet crashes on them. So somethings definitely wrong, i looked

Re: problem doing slink -> frozen

2000-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:27:34PM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: > > i've done a fresh install of slink (because i have the bootable CD lying > around...), and need to upgrade to potato/frozen. it does the apt-get update > fine (retrieves the package lists). when i try to dist-upgrade, it downl

RE: Hello

2000-02-24 Thread Bryan Scaringe
What do you mean "can't configure it properly"? Could you be more specific? How do you have Debian 3.3.2? The latest is 2.2 (frozen) or 2.3 (unstable). Do you mean you have XFree86 v3.3.2? If so, that's your problem. You should get the latest XFree86 3.3.6. TNT2 support wasn't there till 3.3.4

Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

2000-02-24 Thread Lane Lester
> > Would it be possible to replace in the lilo.conf above: > 1) /dev/hda2 by /dev/hdb1 and > 2) /dev/hda3 by /dev/hdb2, > because I plan to install the 2 others distribitions on a > second disk? > The first 2 partitions of /dev/hdb are of course below the 1024 > cylinders limit? You bet! I did

Re: Hello

2000-02-24 Thread Thomas Braun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > I have a nvidia TNT2 chipa based graphic card on debian r. 3.3.2 and I download the nvidia X drivers from the nvidea site they are working! with the elsa erazor III TNT2 -- cu thomas PGP DSS Key fingerprint = B4 9F 55 F6 D4 5D 0F 31 95 8E E0 8C 1E 9F 49

Hello

2000-02-24 Thread Martin Kaucic
I have a nvidia TNT2 chipa based graphic card on debian r. 3.3.2 and I can't configure it to work properly. Can you tell me what to do to get it working. Thank you

Re: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-02-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting aphro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 24 Feb 2000, "F.P. Groeneveld" wrote: > > derk >Okay, you are 100% correct. nmbd had respawned a zillion times. Killing > derk >them solved the problem. Still, I don't understand why logins through > ssh > derk >are not affected? Also, I couldn't find where

ls: file too big

2000-02-24 Thread Paul M Sargent
I'm trying to ls a directory which has 2.7GB file in it. The directory is an automounted NFS directory. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gxr01]$ ls -l ls: gxr01.tar: File too large It then prints the rest of the directory, ignoring that file. mount gives the directory as kyle:/usr2 on /.automount/kyle/root/usr

smc NIC card

2000-02-24 Thread Herbert Ho
i have an smc ezcard10 (so it claims through isapnp) and i've tried every relevent driver in the 2.2.14 kernel (smc mca, smc ultra, smc ultra xx, tulip, gneric dec, ne), but i'm not sure if i'm just missing something... does anyone have this card? what's the driver to use? thanks in adavnce, h

Réf. : Re: TAB key behaviour

2000-02-24 Thread olivier_roulet-dubonnet
Yes but I have Csh here and it does not work and I think have seen this feature on Csh on an IRIX box . I am not sure that is the shell. Install bash for example. On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:13:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I am used to the standart behaviour of the key

Athena docs

2000-02-24 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi folks, Is it possible to develop athena widgets in languages other than C? Where can i find some docu? Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/

Unidentified subject!

2000-02-24 Thread wolfgang . schwoerer
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Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

2000-02-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:36:08PM +0100, T.M. Tran wrote: > > > > Hello, > > Would it be possible to replace in the lilo.conf above: > 1) /dev/hda2 by /dev/hdb1 and > 2) /dev/hda3 by /dev/hdb2, > because I plan to install the 2 others distribitions on a > second disk? > The first 2 partitions

Second serial port

2000-02-24 Thread Jose Alberto Lobo
Hi, see if anybody can give a hand... I just bought a UPS, APC Back-UPS Pro, inserted it between CPU and mains supply, and connected to serial port 2. I then downloaded package upsd-1.0-8 (10.7k) via dselect/apt for my Debian-2.1. On configure I get upsd: /etc/init

TAB key behaviour

2000-02-24 Thread olivier_roulet-dubonnet
Hi, I am used to the standart behaviour of the key TAB on Linux. It proposes the possible files or commands and complete them if only one solution is available. But I am now working on AIX system with ksh and the same fonction is not available. I can get the possible completion of files ( and

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-24 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I have had seen this problem a few times. A reboot always cured it, if that is an option... John Miskinis wim >Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every wim >link on every site I go to... __ Get

Re: permissions on /var

2000-02-24 Thread S.P. van Noort
I got the idea how I should have done it, working with tar with some specific tars. My biggest concern at the moment is however to repair the whole thing. Some of my problems so far: - nothing is being logged in /var/log, even with chmod 777 the whole thing (which doesn't exactly helps me in rep

Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

2000-02-24 Thread T.M. Tran
Ethan Benson wrote: > > /etc/lilo.conf (one of them anyway) should be like this: > > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > vga=normal > compact > prompt > timeout=30 > default=linux > > image=/vmlinuz > label=debian > alias=linux > read-only >

Debian web site

2000-02-24 Thread Tim Bedding
Is the debian web site kept up to date? I emailed a package maintainer using the address given but got no response. What is the next step? To get the webmaster to update the page to indicate that the maintainer may not be available. Or should I not expect any response? Should I post to a develope

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Netscape seems to exit and start cleanly... Could it be that the mapping for the mouse buttons are messed up? Do you know where those settings are stored? On 24-Feb-2000 aphro wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > wim >Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and th

Re: Changing keyboard from qwerty

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
Reply on-list. On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:24:28AM -0800, wah wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Are you trying to set keymaps for the console or for X. AFAIK, they're > > handled seperately. > > for the console, until I can get X figured out... > > > For console: l

Re: Changing keyboard from qwerty

2000-02-24 Thread wah
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Are you trying to set keymaps for the console or for X. AFAIK, they're > handled seperately. for the console, until I can get X figured out... > For console: loadkeys (usually run as root). > > To get the German keys you are looking for, you

Mutt & procmail in debian - how to configure locking of folders?

2000-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I just wanted to configure procmail in my system, and I'm a little afraid of locking problems. How should I configure the locking in procmail and in mutt, to avoid the destruction of mail folders when procmail delivers a message to the folder which is currently beeing modified by mutt. Is

Re: Changing keyboard from qwerty

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:19:14PM -0800, wah wrote: > > I have been trying to set my keyboard to be configured to German. I loaded > the keymap (de-latin1*, or de.map) with loadkeys, but some of the keys, > namely the non-english chars, don't work. But when I run showkey, they do > work. > > I

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim >Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every wim >link on every site I go to... when you exit netscape make sure there is no netscape process still sitting there, many times netscape may exit(or the user quits it) an

Re: xterm and backspace

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
try doin a CTRL-BACKSPACE. it depends what terminal emulation you got going. been a long time since i've used a stock 'xterm' on linux. i use gnome-terminal or kvt. nate On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jello >Hi. For quite a long while now, the backspace key in an xterm (running

Re: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On 24 Feb 2000, "F.P. Groeneveld" wrote: derk >Okay, you are 100% correct. nmbd had respawned a zillion times. Killing derk >them solved the problem. Still, I don't understand why logins through ssh derk >are not affected? Also, I couldn't find where ulimit is set. Anyone? i think 256 is just the

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 24-Feb-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 07:30:10PM -0800, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> For some reason, I can't click links in netscape anymore. I can right click >> them and hit "Open Link in New Window", but left click them and have it open >> in >> the same w

Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 24-Feb-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 07:30:10PM -0800, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> For some reason, I can't click links in netscape anymore. I can right click >> them and hit "Open Link in New Window", but left click them and have it open >> in >> th

Re: second X

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:25:08AM +0100, Dietmar Block wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to run a second X and indeed I succeed by using > > xinit -- :1 > > but only as root. As soon as I use the same command as normal user > the system tells me that I am not authorized to run the Xserver. > As th

Re: second X

2000-02-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
Dietmar Block wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to run a second X and indeed I succeded by using > > xinit -- :1 > > but only as root. As soon as I use the same command as normal user > the system tells me that I am not authorized to run the Xserver. > As the same command run well on other linux

xterm and backspace

2000-02-24 Thread jello
Hi. For quite a long while now, the backspace key in an xterm (running emacs or something) produces ^H rather than an actual backspace event. I was browsing the mail archives of -user and -devel, and I have the impression that this is in line with Debian keyboard policy. If that's so, and backspace

second X

2000-02-24 Thread Dietmar Block
Hi, I would like to run a second X and indeed I succeded by using xinit -- :1 but only as root. As soon as I use the same command as normal user the system tells me that I am not authorized to run the Xserver. As the same command run well on other linux distributions I wonder how I can change t

ipchains help

2000-02-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
Just started playing with IPCHAINS and I'm having trouble getting it configured... Basically, I want to DENY just about everything on the ppp0 from the outside, but I need enough to let the following services work: * Dynamically assigned nameservers * Outbound SMTP to my ISP * Inbound POP3 from

mutt and NFS

2000-02-24 Thread Ethan Benson
I have /home NFS mounted, and i also have mutt configured to watch various mailboxes that i have procmail dump mail into: mailboxes ! =in-bugtraq =in-debian-devel =in-debian-user =in-debian-powerpc \ now when i use mutt on a machine with NFS mounted /home it will say new mail in in-debian-

Quake all messed up

2000-02-24 Thread Roy Pluschke
Hi I recently installed the quake-ql amd quake stub packages on my box (latest potatoe) and there appears to be a major screw-up somewhere!! here's what written to the terminal I run quake-gl from ~$ quake-gl Removing symlink ./id1 ln: cannot create symbolic link `/home/rjplus/.quake/./base/base

Re: mounting /tmp from fstab

2000-02-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > adjust the permissions of /tmp (the mountpoint itself) before mounting the > filesystem it should get mounted correctly. No. You need to set the permissions after the partition is mounted. I tested this by creating a directory, doing a "chmod 777" on it, then

Re: lib Xt?

2000-02-24 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, Below I included the find command that will allow you to look for libraries, as well as where the libXt is on my system... debian:~# find /usr/X11R6/ -name "libXt.*" -print /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 debian:~# From: "Robert L. Harris" <[

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