What the 8 in 10.0.0.0/8 means and how to compute this number for my network?

2000-03-13 Thread Shaul Karl
I guess that the 8 in 10.0.0.0/8 is somehow connected to the subnet mask. What is the exact relation? How would I compute the appropriate number for my network? Pointers which explain it and/or full explanation will be appreciated. Thank yo

Re: Setting up 2 alternate environments

2000-03-13 Thread markm
Sometime, Johan Ur Riise and S Lamb wrote: [write scripts] I have just realised that any unrecognised foo=bar commands given at the lilo prompt turn into environment settings. So I will add a few if/fi's to my rc* scripts. Thanks for the replies, Mark.

Re: Kernel 2.3.49/51 and exec permissions

2000-03-13 Thread The Doctor What
* Bob Hilliard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000313 07:44]: > The Doctor What <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > but not if I try to sudo to a non-root id (this is as root, note the #): > > bash-2.04# sudo -u man bash > > sudo: unable to exec /bin/bash: Permission denied > > This doesn't affect your m

Re: new real player beta

2000-03-13 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Joey Hess, > Just to forstall a flood of > email, I'm writing to let people know that this version will *not* be > supported by the installer until Real makes it available in some format > other than a self-extracting program that must be run as root under > X and requires user interacti

Re: [xserver-svga] [Intel i810] [agpgart module]

2000-03-13 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find the agpgart kernel module > for potato? > > (Other than d/l the source for the Xserver ??) > > I'm trying to get X up and running on an Intel i810 card, > but I require the kernel module... I did this a week before. I didn't compi

scsi bus reset

2000-03-13 Thread spectral
I was about to burn an iso image with cdrecord and it all seemed to be ok, until i got this message: Mar 13 22:27:33 hangar18 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 232406, scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 and now the burner is locked. I've tried

Re: XF86 configuration problems

2000-03-13 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
You may have to change the default resolution for the Xserver. First off, when you are in X, try pressing --+ or ---. This should change the resolution, if the problem is what I think it is. If it changes, then you'll have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config file so that it starts at the higher resoluti

XF86 configuration problems

2000-03-13 Thread wah
Hi all, I've had one out of two problems successfully dealt with by the collective knowledge on this list, so here come some more... I finally found a video card that works with XF86. I went through XF86Setup, this time with no problems. ...but after XF86Setup is finsished and successfully st

Re: recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Paul Kallstrom
On 13-Mar-2000 Bruce Stephens wrote: > find . -name '*.bak' -print0 | xargs -0 rm > > Please check the documentation for find and xargs to make sure you > understand what the above does! > Absolutely; I don't believe in magic. Knowing how things work is more important to me than just knowing

Re: periodic crashes

2000-03-13 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-13 21:05:13, Pollywog wrote: > I just ran the "last" command, and I noticed that my machine has > crashed several times since March 1 and in each instance, the time > was the same, 17:01 UTC. By virtue of being a crash, last will not show you when your machine crashed but only when reb

Re: recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an easy way to recursively remove files with specific extensions? I > need to go through several ncpmounts and recursively remove all *.bak files. > Thanks! find . -name '*.bak' -print0 | xargs -0 rm Please check the documentation for find an

Re: colour in CRT

2000-03-13 Thread Marcin Kurc
in session options select vt100 or any other one and select ANSI, works for me. On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:57:31PM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Whenever I use CRT (Winblows) to connect to a linux box I don't get > > colours in mutt. I do get colours from ls. m

Re: colour in CRT

2000-03-13 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Whenever I use CRT (Winblows) to connect to a linux box I don't get > colours in mutt. I do get colours from ls. mutt's colour works fine when > connecting from a linux machine inside X or on the console though. I use NetTerm (http://www.netterm.com/) and het Mutt in colou

Re: recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Paul Kallstrom
On 13-Mar-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > I generally use something like: > find . -name '*.bak' -print|xargs rm -f > > for tasks like this. > > Gary > It seems that there are several ways to skin this cat. Thanks! Paul > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/

Re: recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an easy way to recursively remove files with specific extensions? I > need to go through several ncpmounts and recursively remove all *.bak files. > Thanks! I generally use something like: find . -name '*.bak' -print|xargs rm -f for tasks lik

recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Is there an easy way to recursively remove files with specific extensions? I need to go through several ncpmounts and recursively remove all *.bak files. Thanks! Paul -- -- E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-Mar-2000 Time: 16:07:40 Debian/GNU Lin

periodic crashes

2000-03-13 Thread Pollywog
I just ran the "last" command, and I noticed that my machine has crashed several times since March 1 and in each instance, the time was the same, 17:01 UTC. What is the best way to track down the cause of the crashes? -- Andrew

X-windows problem: why did I have to reboot?

2000-03-13 Thread James D. Freels
At last resort, I rebooted my machine and it cleared up my X-windows. I am keeping current with potato changes and am using the XF86_3DLabs x-server. I thought at first something was wrong with my graphics card. But no, I just needed to reboot. I guess it was time, I had only upgraded many, man

Re: dip obsolete in potato?

2000-03-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just read the latest news (debian.org) on potato. Seems that whoever takes > care of DIP hasn't be responding to the "bug horizon" request and was dropped > from the project/package. I need DIP too for other reasons, so I hope that > the person c

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread dan
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:18:09AM +0100, Sven LUTHER generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Hello, > > Nice to hear about the future 4.0 plan. i agree with most of what you propose. > > I have a question conerning the 3D stuff. > > Glx will be included in XF 4.0, but this is a point that will mos

Re: Partitioning with On track disk manager

2000-03-13 Thread dan
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:35:19AM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Yes, kernel supports Ontrack DM but lilo doesn't :( > > Mirek Maybe a time for LILO feature request? Any other loaders that support Ontrack stuff?

CD Creation

2000-03-13 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I made big mistake when I used apt-move to creat an local mirror. Now I had a mirror... Now I downloaded dpkg-repack to re-create my debs. I also stripped down my /etc/apt/sources.list to frozen main and frozen non-US/main and ran dselect update. Yesterday I searched the tool for creating the

Apache & Frontpage Extension

2000-03-13 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, did anyone read the PDF file about the Apache & Frontpage Extension? If someone did I'd like to get some response so I can add or correct this document. Thanks. Sven -- ++ | Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new real player beta

2000-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
I suppose some people have probably noticed on slashdot that a new version of real player is out. I'm the maintainer of the realplayer installer package in the contrib distribution of Debian. Just to forstall a flood of email, I'm writing to let people know that this version will *not* be supported

Re: SMBCLIENT PROBLEM

2000-03-13 Thread Tom
Try umount the partition (even if the mount appears to have failed) prior to trying smbmount again. I get the error you mention if I try smbmount and have a problem in password authentication. umount then smbmount seems work for me. On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: > > I use smbmou

Re: dip obsolete in potato?

2000-03-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Gary, I just read the latest news (debian.org) on potato. Seems that whoever takes care of DIP hasn't be responding to the "bug horizon" request and was dropped from the project/package. I need DIP too for other reasons, so I hope that the person can be found! http://www.debian.org/News

Re: Netware NDS

2000-03-13 Thread Douglas Baker
Well, I just got a PR from Novell today regarding eDirectory on Linux. I imagine it'll be posted to www.novell.com today as well. It's long so I didnt post, but I can if folks are interested. Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > OK I like Debian. So I have been e

Re: custom kernel troubles

2000-03-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:44:35 EST, Robert Braddock writes: >> It seems that for whatever reason (I´ve set Processor type to 386 in make >> menuconfig) it thinks that there is a arch/i586 directory where there isn´t. > >I just had the exact same problem symptoms (including the failed retry with >spe

Re: Boot Linux with LILO

2000-03-13 Thread Raphael Clancy
one word of caution... make sure you install lilo to /dev/hda not /dev/hda1 hda refers to the MBR, and hda1 refers to the PBR (partition boot record) which is where windows keeps it's loader. If you install to hda1... windows will die a tragic silent death...   R.

Netscape Communicator Problem

2000-03-13 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, when I start Netscape by calling "netscape" it starts two browser windows. One with the website I choosed in the preferences and one with the "about:mozilla" site. Does anyone has an idea how to solve this behaviour? Thanks. Bye, Sven --  +-

dip obsolete in potato?

2000-03-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
While it may seem unbelievable to some, one of our dialup servers at work still requires SLIP, as opposed to PPP. So I was a bit disturbed to see that the "dip" package disappeared from potato upon my latest apt-get upgrade. I've been using dip for many years now and haven't had to touch it in year

Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed

2000-03-13 Thread Darlock
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: When setting up pakages I get: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE= (unset), LC_ALL= (unset), LANG= "ES"

Re: SMBCLIENT PROBLEM

2000-03-13 Thread Kevin Scott
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:34:40PM +0100, Vicente Torres wrote: > > I use smbmount-2.1.x to access Windows NT file systems > from other computers in the net. > Sometimes the connection gets lost and I get the following message when > I > try to list those directories: > > bash-2.02$ ls /net/XXX >

Re: SMBCLIENT PROBLEM

2000-03-13 Thread John Bagdanoff
And your mount point isn't visible, although you can cd to it? I've had the same thing happen (although not lately). What I do is: /etc/init.d/samba stop then: /etc/init.d/samba start then it works as advertised. John Vicente Torres wrote: > > I use smbmount-2.1.x to access Windows NT

Re: mrtg/snmp in potato

2000-03-13 Thread Ramin Motakef
Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > after upgrading some machines to potato they refuse to answer the > snmp requests from mrtg. I am by no means an snmp expert, I just > edited 2 lines in snmpd.conf and it worked for slink. So I have no > idea how to fix this. > > I get: SNMP Er

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
Have you tried moving your orignial ~/.mozilla folder. It may have config settings that the new version of mozilla doesnt like... Johnny "Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > Hi everyone, > This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on > frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgr

Re: can't find fixed font in X

2000-03-13 Thread loki
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:43:31AM +1100, loki wrote: > Anyone have any hints on how to fix this? Silly me, figured it out later after thinking about it. My old X server was patched to be able to use TrueType fonts, the one packaged in potato wasn't. Hence the X server was panicking when it

Re: SMBCLIENT PROBLEM

2000-03-13 Thread Darlock
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: I use smbmount-2.1.x to access Windows NT file systems from other computers in the net. Sometimes the connection gets lost and I get the following message when I try to list those directories: bash-2.02$ l

Re: Boot Linux with LILO

2000-03-13 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 12-Mar-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:22:27PM +0100, Fagiolino wrote: >> I have win 95 in the first partition (16 GB) and I want to install Linux >> in the second partition... how I can boot Linux from this partition?!? > > And finally -- can Win95 even *use* a 1

heavy volume ftp problem

2000-03-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have a sparc 5 running potato, and proftpd. It have a 170Mhz processor, and 128mb of ram. The issue is that under heavy ftp loads, for instance transferring 1.3gb at around 600k/sec caused this, the system develops defunt processes. These processes are usually sshd, imapd, and other network re

mrtg/snmp in potato

2000-03-13 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi, after upgrading some machines to potato they refuse to answer the snmp requests from mrtg. I am by no means an snmp expert, I just edited 2 lines in snmpd.conf and it worked for slink. So I have no idea how to fix this. I get: SNMP Error: Received SNMP response with error code error statu

Re: Kernel 2.3.49/51 and exec permissions

2000-03-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
The Doctor What <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but not if I try to sudo to a non-root id (this is as root, note the #): > bash-2.04# sudo -u man bash > sudo: unable to exec /bin/bash: Permission denied This doesn't affect your main question, but you are using the wrong syntax for sudo. The -

PCI ethernet cards

2000-03-13 Thread Jason Laster
I am having trouble getting two different ethernet cards to work in my box. I have a ne2000 compat ISA card that works great with no problems, but both a D-Link DFE-5300TX (via-rhine driver) and Link-sys n100 (tulip driver) do not work on my system. after after loading up my drivers as modules if

[xserver-svga] [Intel i810] [agpgart module]

2000-03-13 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie
Does anyone know where I can find the agpgart kernel module for potato? (Other than d/l the source for the Xserver ??) I'm trying to get X up and running on an Intel i810 card, but I require the kernel module... Stuart (please reply to me directly)

SMBCLIENT PROBLEM

2000-03-13 Thread Vicente Torres
I use smbmount-2.1.x to access Windows NT file systems from other computers in the net. Sometimes the connection gets lost and I get the following message when I try to list those directories: bash-2.02$ ls /net/XXX ls: /net/XXX: Input/output error bash-2.02$ If I try to mount again the net dire

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Re: Partitioning with On track disk manager

2000-03-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:13:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:26:07AM +1100, David Soo generated a stream of 1s > and 0s: > > Hi all, > > Hoping that someone might be able to help me out here in Australia. > > > > I have a 13.5GB IBM HD and partitioned it with On

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, Nice to hear about the future 4.0 plan. i agree with most of what you propose. I have a question conerning the 3D stuff. Glx will be included in XF 4.0, but this is a point that will most assuredly confuse lots of people. In fact, (if i understood this issue correctly, which i am still

perl: warning: Setting locale failed

2000-03-13 Thread Jaume Teixi
When setting up pakages I get: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE= (unset), LC_ALL= (unset), LANG= "ES" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the stan

Re: custom kernel troubles

2000-03-13 Thread Robert Braddock
> It seems that for whatever reason (I´ve set Processor type to 386 in make > menuconfig) it thinks that there is a arch/i586 directory where there isn´t. I just had the exact same problem symptoms (including the failed retry with specific arch) as you a few days ago, but with a 2.2 kernel build.

Re: Netware NDS

2000-03-13 Thread Gregg Berkholtz
There are some tools out there that have come default on my slink system, namely ncpmount. It works well with NDS 8 and NetWare 5.1 (I have tested on lower versions of both). I belive IPX support has to be loaded, though, dont quote me on that one. Gregg Berkholtz On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:3

Re: frozen

2000-03-13 Thread Fitsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have some people here pressing for an upgrade from slink to > frozen. Is this a reasonable time to attempt it? I haven't seen so > many reports of problems on the lists recently. > > Thanks for any help, > > Jim > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PR

rlt8139 ethernet driver

2000-03-13 Thread Gord Still
Has any one used or compiled the rlt8139.c driver for kernel 2.2.12? I have tried and get an error message as follows: saralee:/usr/src/linux/drivers/net $: date Sat Mar 11 10:31:33 CST 2000 saralee:/usr/src/linux/drivers/net $: ls -l rtl* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root46520 Aug 25 1999 rt

Re: Debian Installation - NIC problems

2000-03-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 08:01:23PM -0800, Ryman wrote: Please try to keep your line lengths under 80 characters, by the way. > I use a DSL connection at home to access the internet and have it > usually setup for DHCP (in Windows). I use DHCP for my cable modem, which should be relatively simila

RE: Debian Installation - NIC problems

2000-03-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Mar-2000 Ryman wrote: > I am new to Linux and have installed Debian 2.1 (Slink) onto a HP Vectra > 486/66. I have a 3COM 3C900 Combo ethernet card installed in my computer. > I use a DSL connection at home to access the internet and have it usually > setup for DHCP (in Windows). > > I don

Debian Installation - NIC problems

2000-03-13 Thread Ryman
I am new to Linux and have installed Debian 2.1 (Slink) onto a HP Vectra 486/66.  I have a 3COM 3C900 Combo ethernet card installed in my computer.  I use a DSL connection at home to access the internet and have it usually setup for DHCP (in Windows).   I don't think I have the correct driver

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:06:19PM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: > the problem is with curses.h in libncurses5-dev. it redefines ERR and > as such it conflicts with the definition from the glibc headers. this > was the same problem noticed in dpkg 1.6.10. i just commented out the > redefinition of ERR

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Alex Romosan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [snip] > > [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting > > to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's > > patches, #130 or #131, is probably the c

Re: Kernel error - should I be worried ?

2000-03-13 Thread Mahesh Padmanabhan
Thanks for the solution. I disabled network inside init.d and the error went away. Mahesh On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:33:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:20:07PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0700, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > > > Here

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread markm
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [snip] > [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting > to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's > patches, #130 or #131, is probably the culprit since I think these are the >

the gconv-modules package?

2000-03-13 Thread Pollywog
gconv-modules should be here but it is missing ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/libs/gconv-modules_2. 1.2-11.deb Should I report this to the package maintainer or someone else? thanks -- Andrew

MBone tools in Debian

2000-03-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I want to install mbone and play with it in my woody debian systems. What are the debian mbone related packages with mbone. -- Abraços,PH Linux Solutions - Renovando Conceitos - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br OLinux - O maior e melhor site de Lin