Re: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:35:08PM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > The easy answer is to remove dialup networking from her computer. sounds like a microso~1 solution alright. i'll try that. > This is because brain-dead MS software can't be told to set the ethernet > card as the primary default route

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread jose laverde
Try to find out where you don't have access maybe effesse or ~gianluca,maybe home check ownership if nothing works try #chmod -R 777 /~gianluca at least you'll know you have permission :) You don't have permission to access /~gianluca/effeesse/p.pl From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@list

Re: Debconf Web Mode?

2000-06-15 Thread Joey Hess
Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > but when i use netscape to go to `http://localhost:8001/` i get an > error. It's probably that debconf entered web mode but then had no questions to ask you after all (since it was just upgrading something). You probably don't want to use debconf in web mode; it's just a

Re: Debconf Web Mode?

2000-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
You need to run an http server, such as boa. Or run 'dpkg-reconfigure' to choose dialog or text. On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:33:03PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > hi all > > i notice now that when i do an apt-get to do an install or update my > system i get the message >Note: Debconf is run

Re: LT Winmodem module (ltmodem.o) : Resolution

2000-06-15 Thread Andrew Whitlock
In the course of attempting to get the Lucent Winmodem binary-only module to work with my 2.1r Debian box, I did the following: Tried kernels 2.2.12, 2.2.14, 2.2.15, even 2.0.36 (it was there ) Disabled all integrated peripherals Removed all cards except vid card and modem Removed all cards _and_

Debconf Web Mode?

2000-06-15 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i notice now that when i do an apt-get to do an install or update my system i get the message Note: Debconf is running in web mode. Go to http://localhost:8001/ but when i use netscape to go to `http://localhost:8001/` i get an error. it seems that my system does not have this address.

Re: exim, sendmail, smail, qmail .... ???

2000-06-15 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:08:07AM +1000, Richard Lindner wrote > Would someone explain Debian's logic behind choosing exim over sendmail > or smail for slink and potato (and I presume woody). The exim web page > is excruciatingly coy regarding comparisons between it an the other > mainstream MTAs.

problems configureing apcupsd as slave. Help?

2000-06-15 Thread ferret
I'm trying to configure apcupsd for master/slave operation on a local network. i'm using the examples in /usr/doc(!)/apcupsd/examples/, and I notice that when I follow the examples for master and slave setup both machines pause for a few minutes, then error, usually with a message to the efect of

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:27:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hello > > I have a little problem with Apache and the execution of the cgi-script. > > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. Now I'd like to > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree >

Re: kernel build

2000-06-15 Thread Dave Bateman
Corey Popelier wrote: > Yeah it certainly looks like you need Perl 5.005 (note the .005 in the > path below). I have both 5.004 and 5.005 installed. It's one of the > strange things, Perl, as I installed from 2.1 floppy set, then upgraded to > Potato, and Perl-Base got really mad at me so I had to

Re: kernel build

2000-06-15 Thread Corey Popelier
Ok, a more accurate answer: Long.pm exists in the perl-5.004, and the perl-5.005 packages. Note you have perl-5.004 installed, but not perl-5.005 (altho you do have the -base package - buts its not in the base part.). The make-kpkg is looking specifically for the 5.005 version of that file. I don'

Re: kernel build

2000-06-15 Thread Corey Popelier
Yeah it certainly looks like you need Perl 5.005 (note the .005 in the path below). I have both 5.004 and 5.005 installed. It's one of the strange things, Perl, as I installed from 2.1 floppy set, then upgraded to Potato, and Perl-Base got really mad at me so I had to forcefully remove it for it to

kernel build

2000-06-15 Thread Dave Bateman
I'm trying to build a kernel, but I seem to have run into a snag: debian:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/

Re: Still about fetchmail...

2000-06-15 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"PAM,Thomas" wrote: > > Ok, but i'm a complete ignorant on the building process. I don't even know > what lex is !!! > could you give me more details about the need of lex or flex?? > thanks , > pamz! Sorry, I can't really help you there, since I don't have a lot experience in building my own pac

Quake and Voodoo3.

2000-06-15 Thread FĂ©lix Almeida
Hello. First of all, I'd like to apologise if this subject was discussed here before. Recently I bought a 3Dfx video card (Voodoo3 3000 AGP) and I'm trying to make it work, but I'm facing some problems and I have some doubts... Below are a couple of them: - What do I have to do to run Quak

exim, sendmail, smail, qmail .... ???

2000-06-15 Thread Richard Lindner
Would someone explain Debian's logic behind choosing exim over sendmail or smail for slink and potato (and I presume woody). The exim web page is excruciatingly coy regarding comparisons between it an the other mainstream MTAs. What's exims advantage (other than a simplified config) that warrants i

Problems with libapache-mod-python

2000-06-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, libapache-mod-python in stable seems to depend on apache-coomon << actual from unstable. So I cant install it. How I fix this?

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-15 Thread Lee Revell
With VMWare 2.0 on my box (Celeron 300A @ 450mhz, 320MB RAM, Quantum 10K RPM LVD SCSI drive on an AHA2940U2W, TNT2 Ultra w/ 32MB video ram), Win98 SE is sluggish but usable, like on a P233. The thing that really kills usability for me is that the mouse is slow to respond - there is a noticeable la

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread Ernest Johanson
> > > Now I'd like to > > > > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree > > > > wicht contain one entry for every project I am working on. > > > > Is this directory under the directory named in the ScriptAlias directive? > > No, but as I understand from the apache d

Re: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-15 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hde: IBM-DJNA-371800, 17206MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=34960/16/63 > hdf: IBM-DPTA-372050, 19574MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=39770/16/63 hde: IBM-DJNA-370910, 8693MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=17662/16/63, UDMA(66) The above is what I got for my DJNA connected to HPT366. So

dselect package remove failure

2000-06-15 Thread Dave Slotter
I'm trying to remove software with dselect and I get the following error: running dpkg --pending --remove ... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing dhttpd (--remove): malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory dp

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
Instead of asking the Debian mailing list for help with VMware's Samba, you should probably try using Debian's Samba -- which works just fine. :) Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and gave up. Good luck, Jeff On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 04:24:17PM -0600, Robert Ke

Re: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-15 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how hdparm works? How accurate (in what sense) does > the figure reflect the performance (esp data read-write access rate) of > a tested hard drive? Not very much accurate I suppose. For me it works more or less like bogomips: just a numbe

VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-15 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I have VMWare 2.0 installed on a slink machine, and I'm trying to set up samba to let my Win98 installation talk to the rest of the box. Anyway, it's set up host-only networking, and telnet, ftp, netscape all work fine. But, samba doesn't work. I looked in the /var/log/ logs and found th

Re: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-15 Thread Wilson Yau
Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > > Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Q.1/ Can anyone explain to me this phenomenon? > > It seems likely that the HPT366 is operating with DMA (not just > UDMA/66, but all kinds of DMA operations) disabled. Could you > show us the boot messages concerning the HPT366

Re: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-15 Thread Wilson Yau
> I question the utility of the hdparm performance. This doesn't appear to be random > reads. Good point! Does anyone know how hdparm works? How accurate (in what sense) does the figure reflect the performance (esp data read-write access rate) of a tested hard drive?

Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.

2000-06-15 Thread Tim Jump
Thanks once again for the suggestions. Unfortunately, this rotten mouse still ain't working...or at least the wheel (nicknamed "the scourge of mankind" by myself) isn't. I tried adding the Xterm settings from the aforementioned mouse wheel webpage to .Xresources...didn't work. Also tried it in Mo

Re: KDE vs. Debian GPL-statements (Fwd: Re: proposal of a paragraph of GPL v.3) (fwd)

2000-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I figured some of you may find this interesting... [snip forward from KDE mailing list] However, have a look at debian-legal, where there is some discussion of this from the Debian side. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jserv package

2000-06-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is one in woody, I just checked, don't about potato or slink... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, John F. Davis wrote: > Hello > > Is there a debian package for jserv? I have apache installed and > I want to install jserv without downloading the tar file as > described on servletcentral

[OT] Stupid sendmail question

2000-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've got one box running sendmail to support some legacy configs. Several clients connect to this server but travel through a PIX firewall to get there. It seems that the PIX gets pissy about allowing ident requests from the sendmail server abck to the client. I'm trying to determine whether ident

mail problem

2000-06-15 Thread George A. Dowding
I am using exim as my MTA. I have a DSL with a static IP. Every once in a while mail can not be delivered to certain hosts. I have sucessfully sent a one line message to that host, but anything larger causes this time out error. What can I do? Mail Delivery System wrote: > This message was c

jserv package

2000-06-15 Thread John F. Davis
Hello Is there a debian package for jserv? I have apache installed and I want to install jserv without downloading the tar file as described on servletcentral.com. John

Re: permissions

2000-06-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:44:40PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > The b mean black device, the group / owner of the file are ID's you don't > have on your system. > > You can't remove it, that could be because of attributes of the file, > check out what lsattr gives you. > > The file is probably

Re: LT Winmodem module (ltmodem.o)

2000-06-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
On my Compaq Armada 1500c with integral LTmodem, the ltmodem.o binary worked fine with kernels up to 2.2.14, but support is at least temporarily broken with kernels compiled from 2.2.15 source. My kernels are compiled with choices # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread gianluca
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:30:29AM -0700, Ernest Johanson wrote: > > > > > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. > > What directory is your ScriptAlias set to? The directory is /home/www/cgi-bin, and it work fine. > Now I'd like to > > > have under the public_html dir of one u

Re: Updating db.root

2000-06-15 Thread Nate Duehr
From DNS & Bind, 3rd Edition p.68 : "Besides your local information, the name server also needs to know where the name servers are for the root domain. This information must be retrieved from the Internet host ftp.rs.internic.net (198.41.0.7). Use anonymous ftp to retrieve the file named.root fro

KDE vs. Debian GPL-statements (Fwd: Re: proposal of a paragraph of GPL v.3) (fwd)

2000-06-15 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I figured some of you may find this interesting... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:39:39 +0200 From: Konrad Rosenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: KDE general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: KDE vs. Debian GPL-statements (Fwd:

Re: eqlplus...

2000-06-15 Thread Jason Quigley
Same here. The EQL code has been the same for years, but the masq code changes quite a lot I guess. I think though if this worked it would solve a lot of problems for those of us that live in Spain. Trying to get an ISDN account for 128K is a complete nightmare! Cheers, Jason. At 19:32 +020

Problems with term on SCO

2000-06-15 Thread Bill Warner
I have been trying to get a working term setup to telnet into a SCO server. I have tried to use gnome-terminal and xterm with this same result. I am now running Woody with Helix-gnome backspace sends a ^? delete changes the previous letter's case [a,A] arrow keys sent [A, [B, [C, [D

Re: init question

2000-06-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Glass wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Glass wrote: > > > I'm attempting to modify runlevel 5 to start my own app. As a start, I > > > deleted all links from /etc/rc5.d and replaced them with links copied in > > > from /etc/rc1.d. (i copied rc5.d in

double process?

2000-06-15 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debians I am wondering why I often see things like this upon connecting to the inet: 2179 ?S 0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/2firewall 2181 ?R 0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/2firewall I mean, why are there two of those processes? The above script should only be started once: th

Re: Error message not understood

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Werner
Jay Kelly wrote: > I am receiving an error about ever week that is being mailed to me. In the > subject it says [root: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || > run-parts--report /etc/cron.daily] > and the message reads: > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/2

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread Ernest Johanson
> > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. What directory is your ScriptAlias set to? Now I'd like to > > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree > > wicht contain one entry for every project I am working on. Is this directory under the directory n

Re: www.debian.org

2000-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you go now to the page, you get transfer interrupted! Is it the new >logo? Works fine from here. Try Shift-Reload (assuming Netscape)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

www.debian.org

2000-06-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
If you go now to the page, you get transfer interrupted! Is it the new logo?

Error message not understood

2000-06-15 Thread Jay Kelly
I am receiving an error about ever week that is being mailed to me. In the subject it says [root: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts--report /etc/cron.daily] and the message reads: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/mov

dhclient errors

2000-06-15 Thread Ali Ijaz Sheikh
Hi! I was having some wierd errors with my debian box. I am using 2.2.15 SMP kernel. Running dhclient gives some strange SIO.. errors. /etc/network# ifup eth0 SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address Listening on Socket/eth0/unattached Sendi

Re: eqlplus...

2000-06-15 Thread Robert Varga
I found that page then as well, and did not work for me anyway. Regards, Robert On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Jason Quigley wrote: > Hi Robert! > > See the subject! ;-) > > Also check out this link: > > http://www.cwareco.com/eqlplus.html > > Cheers, > Jason. > > At 14:41 +0200 14/6/00, Robert Var

Re: dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread cls--colo spgs
Dave Slotter wrote: [snip] > I don't know if I'm running slink or potato or whatever, > > [snip] // cat /etc/debian_version (2.1 = slink) (2.2 = potato) hth. bentley taylor. //

Re: eqlplus...

2000-06-15 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi Robert! See the subject! ;-) Also check out this link: http://www.cwareco.com/eqlplus.html Cheers, Jason. At 14:41 +0200 14/6/00, Robert Varga wrote: I tried but it did not work. Probably my ISP did not provide the connection bundling service for PPP. I have even found some mail regardin

Re: dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Dave Slotter wrote: > > I'm a bit confused by all of this, because dhcp-0.70 is supposed to > only > work with 2.0.x kernels, which you have, and 1.3.18 is supposed to > only > work with 2.2.x kernels. Maybe they changed the way 2.0.36 works? > (from > previous

apt-get: 93 Protocol not supported

2000-06-15 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Yesterday I installed frozen on a new machine. I used the network to fetch all the packages from a local mirror (http, port 8080). Everything worked fine. Now when I try to use apt, I get the following: # apt-get update Err http://web.address.edu potato/main Packages Could not cre

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
You should have modconf. It's in the base. Description: Device Driver Configuration Modconf provides a GUI for installing and configuring device driver modules. -Dan On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:19:00PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Fish Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > What did you > >

Re: dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread Dave Slotter
I'm a bit confused by all of this, because dhcp-0.70 is supposed to only work with 2.0.x kernels, which you have, and 1.3.18 is supposed to only work with 2.2.x kernels. Maybe they changed the way 2.0.36 works? (from previous 2.0.x kernels.) Well, I have been havin

PPP NT

2000-06-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I want to make a PL with a Linux sever and at the other side there is a NT Server with a multi-serial Digi International and Routing and Microsoft's Remote Access Service. What I can do to do this? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: samba auto-unloads

2000-06-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
smbd and nmbd are only used for serving linux filesystems to other machines. That's not the problem. I have noticed that the newer versions of smbmount let the connection time out and get closed. Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using the samba client to mount NT drives to my linux bo

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Fish Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What did you > > get wrong? > > Kernel stuff. I didn't configure PCMCIA, I think that'd be dpkg --configure pcmcia-cs > and I need > some more modules. (i.e. PS/2 for my mouse) This just puts the names of the modules into /etc/modules and (I assume)

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:52:09AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to > ... > > Apologies if I pick up the wrong end of the stick, b

Re: ibm token ring

2000-06-15 Thread Bolan Meek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey there... I'm having some problems getting debian to see this > IBM token ring card. Is there a driver somewhere I can download or > will deb not fly with TR? Have you recompiled your kernel with a token ring driver or module? I don't think the dl'able kernel has

Re: What is jetmail error???

2000-06-15 Thread Bolan Meek
> mh99 wrote: > > Dear sir, > > I have kept receiving jet Mail Error notes for a long time, > unfortunately both I and my customers, such as Jim, Pat, John, listed > below don't know what is wrong. Actually I don't know who is Jetmail > System. > > Received: from frank([202.103.152.177]) by > >

Re: dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Dave Slotter wrote: > > While I am a newbie in regards to the naming conventions of Debian, I > have been using it for about a year now with excellent success. I > have had so much success that I upgraded from my 486 "learning box" > to a dual Celeron motherboard (ABIT BP6), 30 gig disk, 10BASE-T

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-15 Thread Fish Smith
> You should be able to make corrections without going > back to > the installation system. For example, network > addresses > in /etc/init.d/network (slink) or > /etc/network/interfaces > (potato). > > But if you want to do it from floppies, you only > need the > first one (slink) or two (potato)

Re: Thoughts on "Needs of users" vs. "Free software"

2000-06-15 Thread jpb
David Starner wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:32:06PM -0400, jpb wrote: > > Starting with Woody, how about having the non-free packages recommend > > the free package that provides the same functionality? > > suggest would be better. Don't attack the user, educate the user. What I meant by

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-15 Thread Felix Natter
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > do you happen to know whether ps2ascii is safe ? > > Look for yourself :-): `which ps2ascii` I did. this is the ps2ascii that came with gs 5.5: #!/bin/sh # $Id: ps2ascii $ # Extract ASCII text

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:52:09AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to ... > Apologies if I pick up the wrong end of the stick, but diald just > automates the PPP link for you? So I'm

Re: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Will, You need to change the settings in your navigator. look around, I think it's under VIEW. do the internet options thing and change it from DIAL THIS CONNECTION to I'M ON A LAN. That should get her into business. Best of luck On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Will Trillich wrote: > i'm in a mixed ma

dhcpd 0.70-5 Incompatible with RR in Raleigh, NC?

2000-06-15 Thread Dave Slotter
While I am a newbie in regards to the naming conventions of Debian, I have been using it for about a year now with excellent success. I have had so much success that I upgraded from my 486 "learning box" to a dual Celeron motherboard (ABIT BP6), 30 gig disk, 10BASE-T 3COM NIC on (cable modem si

Re: Is this a bug of potato (2..2.15-2000-06-07)

2000-06-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:49:33AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > I've experienced quite a few problems with setserial interacting badly > with pcmcia modems. You could also try removing the setserial package, and > rebooting (have to reboot to get rid of setserial's changes). This makes > all my lapt

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:41:01AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Most of the systems on which I have set up a .ssh/authorized_keys file > > require only the key. One requires the password instead, although the > > key file is corr

RE: Debian download

2000-06-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> I can tell I'm not getting it all as my checksums don't come out to what > the should be when I check it in DOS. The odd thing is, the download I recently came to find out that when checking checksums in a Microsoft OS using the Windows resync program that one must use a -b flag to get the corr

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello > > I have a little problem with Apache and the execution of the cgi-script. > > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. Now I'd like to > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree > wicht contain one entry for every pro

stable/secure remote mount option

2000-06-15 Thread Brian Stults
I have two linux boxes, one at work and one at home. The one at work has several remote filesystems mounted to it via samba (2 unix and 2 NT). I would like to have access to all of those filesystems from home as well. I currently use samba to mount them all, but I periodically have problems. Th

Merging distribution CDs

2000-06-15 Thread Moore, Paul
I have a set of four potato unofficial CDs, and a massive hard disk, and I'm bored of swapping CDs. What is the best way of copying the full contents of the CDs onto my hard disk so that I can install off there? I assume that mkdir -p /dist/cd[1-4] mount /cdrom (cd /cdrom && tar cf -

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:10PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords? > > One from the key and one from the login? > > > > Currently, I only need to enter the

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-06-15 Thread Andre Berger
Your newsgroup is . Use a meaningful subject line, please. Andre "Harold G. Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm shopping for an Apple PowerBook 500MHz 128MB 12GB hard drive. > > 1- can anyone suggest where to buy it at lowest cost? > > 2- any suggestions on installing and

ibm token ring

2000-06-15 Thread ddsmith
Hey there... I'm having some problems getting debian to see this IBM token ring card. Is there a driver somewhere I can download or will deb not fly with TR? THnaks

help me !!! What is jetmail error???

2000-06-15 Thread mh99
Dear sir,I have kept receiving jet Mail Error notes for a long time, unfortunately both I and my customers, such as Jim, Pat, John, listed below don't know what is wrong. Actually I don't know who is Jetmail System.Would do please to tell me what we should do to avoid such boring

[no subject]

2000-06-15 Thread lindsey
Hi,I am Lindsey from Mauritius and i am a novice in PHP. Actually i am facing some problems withPHP. I would be very grateful if you could help me out. When i am sendingmail using a php form it places a slash infront of any special characters that i use. I hope to get a solution as soon as p

Re: please help

2000-06-15 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"PAM,Thomas" wrote: > I can't build fetchmail properly on my hp-ux (v10.20) machine.* > Here is the error message : > > hp_b133:scp $ make > lex ./rcfile_l.l > "./rcfile_l.l" ligne 155: erreur 3: Arborescence d'analyse syntaxique trop > volumineuse, essayez d'utiliser %e > 1000/1000 noeu

Re: debconf

2000-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Once I chose accidentally html as dialog format for configuring >debian packages, and now cannot change it back to a simpler >format.I presume the debconf package has a configuration file >that needs to be modified, but could not find it. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure --front

Re: Blinkenlights?

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had this cool idea the other night: wouldn't it be (fairly easily) > possible to create a little component with som LED's which shows the status > of some serial port, so you could write some programs to do the following: I cobbled together a kernel module

Re: LILO and 2 disks

2000-06-15 Thread Jo Hoffmann
> Hi *! > > Does anybody know a checked way to do the following? > > hda1 and hdb1 have the same files structure. hdb1 is mounted under /mnt > How to make LILO boot after removing hda completly and connecting hdb as > primary master (so it becomes hda)? > I know I can make a boot floppy, switch d

Blinkenlights?

2000-06-15 Thread Engelen
Hello, I had this cool idea the other night: wouldn't it be (fairly easily) possible to create a little component with som LED's which shows the status of some serial port, so you could write some programs to do the following: ~$ ledoff green; someprogramthattakeslong; ledon green (switch the gre

LILO and 2 disks

2000-06-15 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi *! Does anybody know a checked way to do the following? hda1 and hdb1 have the same files structure. hdb1 is mounted under /mnt How to make LILO boot after removing hda completly and connecting hdb as primary master (so it becomes hda)? I know I can make a boot floppy, switch disks, boot from

Re: Is this a bug of potato (2..2.15-2000-06-07)

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:25:53PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I installed the basic debian potato system on my laptop by > > disks-i386/2.2.15-2000-06-07, my pcmcia ethernet card is > > working fine, but the pcmcia modem

Re: Is this a bug of potato (2..2.15-2000-06-07)

2000-06-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:25:53PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > I installed the basic debian potato system on my laptop by > disks-i386/2.2.15-2000-06-07, my pcmcia ethernet card is > working fine, but the pcmcia modem card can't ppp dial-out > (no dial tone, but can bring up the /dev/modem

debconf

2000-06-15 Thread Geza GYORGYI
Once I chose accidentally html as dialog format for configuring debian packages, and now cannot change it back to a simpler format.I presume the debconf package has a configuration file that needs to be modified, but could not find it. Would be grateful for any help, Geza Gyorgyi Eotvos Univ

Is this a bug of potato (2..2.15-2000-06-07)

2000-06-15 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I installed the basic debian potato system on my laptop by disks-i386/2.2.15-2000-06-07, my pcmcia ethernet card is working fine, but the pcmcia modem card can't ppp dial-out (no dial tone, but can bring up the /dev/modem device), than I downgrade to installed the slink 2.1R5, everything is a

Re: Debian Potato & NIS+

2000-06-15 Thread Gilbert Laycock
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wondering what kind of support(if any) potato has for NIS+ (NIS > w/shadow passwd support) I tried playin with NIS+ on slink about a year > ago and hosed many machines during libc upgrades. because potato is > glibc2.1, has anyone got a netwo

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for Debian, we're in the second test cicle. Maybe if there is a third > > cycle for some reason, a kernel update to 2.2.17-pre1 might be considered... > > Now it looks likely that we will need a third

Re: samba auto-unloads

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been using the samba client to mount NT drives to my linux box for > some time without any problems. Now, on my home linux box, I'm mounting > drives from my linux box at work. It works very well at first. > However, when I come back the next day

Re: html2ps

2000-06-15 Thread dyer
Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Somebody probably encountered this problem before. > You download a manual from the Internet but this manual is in html format or > better you get 100 or 200 html files. > You have to browse this manual with a html viewer (netscape). > This browsing thro

Re: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

2000-06-15 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q.1/ Can anyone explain to me this phenomenon? It seems likely that the HPT366 is operating with DMA (not just UDMA/66, but all kinds of DMA operations) disabled. Could you show us the boot messages concerning the HPT366 controller? > Q.2/ How to optimize

Re: permissions

2000-06-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
The b mean black device, the group / owner of the file are ID's you don't have on your system. You can't remove it, that could be because of attributes of the file, check out what lsattr gives you. The file is probably a corrupt file that should be there... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, J

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-15 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for Debian, we're in the second test cicle. Maybe if there is a third > cycle for some reason, a kernel update to 2.2.17-pre1 might be considered... Now it looks likely that we will need a third cycle, because the package postgresql-6.5.3-22 is s

Samba passwords

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I can't help with unloads because I can't get them loaded in the first > place. New thread please. > clientserver result > > w98 samba ok > w98 nt4

RE: samba auto-unloads

2000-06-15 Thread C. Falconer
smbd and nmbd can run from inetd or in daemon mode. inetd is slower but uses less ram. Running as daemons is faster, but resource useage is greater. I run it as a daemon, and it looks like you do too. -- From: Brian Stults[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 9:17 A

Re: samba auto-unloads

2000-06-15 Thread Lindsay Allen
I can't help with unloads because I can't get them loaded in the first place. It's like this. client server result w98 samba ok w98 nt4 ok smbmountw98

html2ps

2000-06-15 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello everybody, Somebody probably encountered this problem before. You download a manual from the Internet but this manual is in html format or better you get 100 or 200 html files. You have to browse this manual with a html viewer (netscape). This browsing through the online manual is usefull

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to > connect me. I'm using the stock conf files with the only changes being the > use of the ppp provider script for connecting, and trying to change "noauth" > to "auth" in the dia

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