Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:44:03AM +0200, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > When I look for the process repeatedly, I get something like this: > bash-2.01# ps ax | grep dictd > bash-2.01# ps ax | grep dictd > 504 ? S0:00 grep dictd > bash-2.01# ps ax | grep dictd > bash-2.01# ps

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread Brad
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Take a look at /etc/conf.modules (not modules.conf) and then Note that it actually is modules.conf if you're using modutils since 2.3.4 (2.3.5-1 was the first deb with this changes, if i read the changelogs correctly). Potato curre

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:06:28PM -0400, Curt Salada wrote > Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: > > My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 > and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following > SCSI-re

Re: logrotate

2000-06-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Sven" == Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Hi debs On the subject of logrotate, how do you guys put that to Sven> use? For me, root has a crontab entry for this as follows: Doesn't the logrotate package install a daily cron by itself ??! It certainly did for me (in potato).

RE: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Bill Barnes
Thanks for the quick responses! > >If you built postgresql on your own, you may find it easier in the long >run to build the 7.0.2 debian packages from source, especially if you're >planning on running it on more than one machine. Sounds like the right thing to do. >Briefly: >1) add deb-src http

Re: logrotate depends on mailx - mailx does not appear to be available (woody)

2000-06-27 Thread Brad
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:57:48AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > I did apt-get update the other day, which informed me that the mailx > package was 'obsolete', so of course I purged it. Logrotate apparently > depended on this package, so I got rid of it too. Now when I try to > install logrotate

Re: how to install woody

2000-06-27 Thread Corey Popelier
The kernel doesn't, as far as I know. Goto http://www.kernel.org and you'll find a kernel 2.4.0-test2 there if you're game. You could just upgrade to woody and still use a 2.2.x kernel by changing apt to point to woody instead of potato, but that's nowhere near as much of a challenge :) Theres a

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Frank van der Hulst
Many thanks to those who emailed me help. In the end (after perusing the list archives), I figured out that there's many more parameters that can follow 'rescue' when booting from the CDROM. In particular, I found that rescue root=/dev/hda1 single was enough to get root access back. From there,

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:21:16PM +1200, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > /

Re: default permissions on new users' home directories

2000-06-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:16:38AM +, Jim Breton wrote: > Is there a way to configure this? > > It gets kind of tiring having to chmod the directories of new users. :) > > I suppose I could make a wrapper script around adduser, but I'd like to > avoid the kludge-method if possible. > add a

how to install woody

2000-06-27 Thread Nick
hi, i have been playing with debian for quite some time now. I was recently in the neighborhood for a challenge and thought upgrading to woody, do to the recent positive response to 2.4, wood be a fun. GET IT, wood be fun. HAHA can anyone share a few links on how to install it and most impo

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread John Galt
Since procmail isn't a part of mutt, I presume he can do just as well with procmail and pine? On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:38:29AM -0500, adam.edgar wrote: > > The Unix machine I get my mail on has only a few mail clients to choose > > from and Ive ch

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:56:35PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > I've never had qmail, but I have a qmaild system user (among others). Ah...thanks. That solves the Mystery of the Phantom Qmail Install. -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA

Mailing lists.

2000-06-27 Thread Brendan Simon
I wish to read the debian mailing lists via the web, mainly because my mailbox fills up too quickly if I subscribe to all the groups that I am interested in.  I tried browsing from the archives, but it is not very up to date.  I browsed the debian-users list and sorted by date and the last entr

multiple domain rewrites

2000-06-27 Thread Jim Werster
I am using potato. How do I set up exim if I want to have 3 different domains I want rewritten in my From: header? I'm not talking about what I set in .muttrc, I can change that per-user but it has no effect on what exim does. I have users that will use @yahoo.com, @mailandnews.com and @freewwwe

Potato boot error

2000-06-27 Thread Tim Jump
Hello, the list! I just upgraded from slink up to potato and am now getting a nice error on bootup that's slowing things down a big. I can't seem to find the error in my logs anywhere, but it says something about my boot sector not matching what's saved, gives a bunch of sector numbers, then says

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
Think only one of the debs is allowed to mess with /etc/passwd -- that is, one of the base files. So, you'll have a bunch of users and groups set up there even if you don't have the software that corresponds to a particular group. Think it was decided that only 1 deb should ever mess with system

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:50:54PM -0600, montefin wrote: > dpkg --status qmail Interestingly enough, this command reports 'not installed...no info available'. Maybe in the distant past I played with qmail source? Who knows? > Then, _maybe_ AYOR, 'userdel' the qmail users That seemed to do the

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "John" == John Anthony Kazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> If so, I still need to know the answer to my previous question: > John> Will system files, like /etc/{fstab,profile}, be overwritten, > John> possibly irrevocably, by the upgrade p

Re: Xfree 4.0 and Bttv

2000-06-27 Thread Patrick Barr
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 03:37:15 Sven Richter wrote: > Hy, > I've installed XFree 4.0 to get my 2 Monitors with a matrox g400 and a s3 virge > dx grafik card bur now I cant get a overlay from my tv card (miro pctv). > Grabdiplay still works fine but it's very slow. I've tried every memory adress > w

reslolved: Re: kernel install

2000-06-27 Thread cls--colo spgs
debs, i figured it out--(since i dual boot with loadlin, i shouldn't have been focusing on lilo. i realized the directory from where my old 2.0.36 kernel was booting and copied the new kernel there). oh, well... later. bt. // cls--colo spgs wrote: > > debs, > > wanting to fully migrate

Re: deleting old mail via at/cron-script

2000-06-27 Thread Brian May
> "Thomas" == Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Hi debianers, I want to delete old mail via at/cron, so Thomas> that my mboxes of mailinglist contain only the last 200 Thomas> messages. With which debian-package could I do that? Something likes Gnus (mail reader

Re: Can NIS go through firewall

2000-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We're trying to get NIS to work arround here. When testing locally >everything is ok, but we wan't it to work across two different networks >and there is a firewall in between. >We've tryed to open up the firewall

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread montefin
Bob, First, a 10k (actual) lastlog isn't a great burden to go forward with. Second, if you do decide to eliminate qmail (btw, it creates 7 users: alias, qmaild, qmaill, qmailp, qmailq, qmailr and qmails) you might want to run dpkg --status qmail to make sure it's not installed as your mail-tran

Re: Booting from network

2000-06-27 Thread Brian May
> "Jim" == Jim Koontz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> When I boot the sparc machine, it displays this message: Jim> "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet" Jim>   Jim> Obviously, the server is not seeing the sparc client's Jim> request, but I don't know what else to check

kernel install

2000-06-27 Thread cls--colo spgs
debs, wanting to fully migrate from the 2.0.36 kernel, i need to install a "floppy," custom 2.2.16 kernel on my dual-boot, potato deskbox. here's what i did to customize the kernel: make menuconfig make dep make install make modules make modules_install i rtmfm (oops, rtfm), which says to run "

[Q] Does anybody else have problems with W3M

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
I have problems with W3M when I try to download files through the ftp protocol (e.g ftp://somehost/somefile). I get a file that the program 'file' says is data and not .tar.gz or .deb etc... Downloading from a http://somehost/somefile works nicely. Does anybody have these problem (could somebody c

Re: https / SSL question

2000-06-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello, > > I'm hoping someone has had experience w/ HTTPS / SSL. There seems to be > very little documentation on HTTPS. I just have a few questions: > > 1) Are all socket connections in HTTPS (specifically version 1.1) done > through SSL? Yes (technically, the protocol now

Re: Keyboard rate

2000-06-27 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 06:02:34PM -0700, Patrick Draper wrote: > > --- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:20:20AM -0700, Patrick Draper wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I can't set my keyboard rate. I've read every web page out there on > > > setting keyboard rates, and I sti

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I prefer booting with a lilo option like init=/bin/sh, remounting the root partition read-write and edit again... Or perhaps you got sudo installed and configed?? That'll be the easiest ... Ron Rademaker On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst w

Re: can't mount cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Dixon
-- Original Message -- From: "Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:38:25 -0500 (CDT) >On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andrew Dixon wrote: > >-=[Snip]=- > >AD> >> hdc : tray open or drive not ready >AD> >> Unable to mount /dev/cdrom on /var

Re: simple dhcp questions...

2000-06-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
That is weird. The option routers line is indeed supposed to set the default gateway. This works fine for me. I will say though that if your laptop is actually running WinNT and you have two ethernet interfaces (one pcmcia, one in the docking station) this is pretty much standard behavior. You have

Re: building gimp-print gs driver problems...

2000-06-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:31:44 -0700, Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, > I downloaded the gimp-print driver 3.1.7 from the sourceforge page and > ran the "make-deb.sh" (after modifying it to do "make Ghost" instead of > "ghost") and it downloads the gs and related source and builds

Re: Java support? (apache + tomcat)

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 03:32 PM 06/27/2000 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I know jserv is available, because I have it (1.1-3). I installed the jdk myself because I wanted 1.2.2. Are you running potato or slink? (I'm running potato). -- slink, and : alpha{root}.43: apt-get install jserv Reading Package Lists...

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > /bin/tcsh > > Then,

Re: postfix or sendmail "tempting"

2000-06-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
What you should do is not mess with scanning /var/spool/mail/X. Instead install procmail. With procmail you can set up a script which is called each time when the messages is received (and not until the whole thing is there!). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > I've got the job to make accep

logrotate

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debs On the subject of logrotate, how do you guys put that to use? For me, root has a crontab entry for this as follows: # At midday: logrotate 0 12 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf My /etc/logrotate.conf looks as follows: (shortened - sorry for it being so long) -- /etc/logr

Re: REPOST: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory???

2000-06-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I haven't seen this problem with NIS under debian before (I have set up an NIS server in debian as well as in SunOS 4.1.3). Is there perhaps something wrong with your data? I don't know why so many servers would be spawned. That's really weird so many ypserv's are being started. If you wanted you

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread Oreste Salerno
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > and that's what I did. The problem is that ide-cd only ignores hdb, but > > still recognizes hdc. This thing does not happen if I write, directly from > > the command line: > > > > modprobe ide-cd ignore='hdb hdc' > > Perhaps it's

Re: Java support? (apache + tomcat)

2000-06-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I know jserv is available, because I have it (1.1-3). I installed the jdk myself because I wanted 1.2.2. Are you running potato or slink? (I'm running potato). Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I want to run current java tools, and don't find any in the modules that > dselect shows.. > > I did get apache,

Re: which libs to install?

2000-06-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 21:49:39 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > grep: /usr/include/netinet/in.h: No such file or directory > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > create executables. > Looks like some libs

which libs to install?

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debs When trying to fetch and compile the latest sources of leafnode, the following happens: debian:~# apt-get -b source leafnode [snipped] dh_testroot rm -f build-stampmake -i realclean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/leafnode-1.9.14' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop.

wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes

2000-06-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-( About half a dozen times per hour (sometimes even more often) I see lines in syslog like the following, which indicate crashed instances: wu-ftpd[28359]: exiting on signal 11: Segmentation fault Before I upgraded from stable to frozen my FTP

building gimp-print gs driver problems...

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I downloaded the gimp-print driver 3.1.7 from the sourceforge page and ran the "make-deb.sh" (after modifying it to do "make Ghost" instead of "ghost") and it downloads the gs and related source and builds it. I then end up with a file named "gs-stp_5.10-9.1_alpha.deb" which fails to insta

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:10:25PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Read /etc/init.d/README and /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz Looks good. Cheers. -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread jpb
Bill Barnes wrote: > Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the > list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. > Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe directories are different??? > Specifically: > su postgres > /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start -i > resp

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
> Can you post what you get after running 'ifconfig'? Also make sure 'dictd' is > running with something like "ps ax | grep dictd" -- who knows, maybe it just > died... Well, lo seens to work: ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 06:07:47AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > > I uncommeted the referred line but dict still doesn't work (now > > telnet localhost works...). > > Would you have another suggestion? > > Can you post what you get after

Probs printing PS files with lprng/magicfilter/gs on a NEC P7 (parport)

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Hi out there, I've got Problems to print PostScript files with lprng/magicfilter/gs on a NEC P7 connected to the parallel port. Hardware info: :~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : Pentium Pro stepping

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:04:00PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > > (This assumes you

Re: gdm without gdm?

2000-06-27 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:01:11PM -0400, joey tsai wrote: > Hi, I'm running the newest Helix Gnome core packages and could really do > without gdm. But, I have to say I do like its functionality. So, is there > anyway I can achieve what it does without running it? Like, can I continue > the ses

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > > (This assumes you haven't set packages

gdm without gdm?

2000-06-27 Thread joey tsai
Hi, I'm running the newest Helix Gnome core packages and could really do without gdm. But, I have to say I do like its functionality. So, is there anyway I can achieve what it does without running it? Like, can I continue the session and start up the gnome components, etc. via startx? /

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > (This assumes you haven't set packages to "hold".) I see. Does apt-get install something

Re: SCSI-controller not detected

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
> Marcel Karras wrote: > > All but the SCSI-Adapter is correctly detected. I've got an > AdvancePeripherals-Hostadapter. (2931 U2W HOME) The program tries to > > °SYM53C895 (adapter itself) -> UW/U2W, Port number:6300, IRQ level: > 10, Host SCSI-ID: 7 > °Pioneer CD-ROM DR-U11.01 -> U-SCSI, SCSI-

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Curt Salada wrote: > > Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: > > My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 > and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following > SCSI-related errors in dmesg: > > NCR 53c406

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:02:17PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the > list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. Debian GNU/Linux works fine, and there's a .deb of PostgreSQL available in Debian. 6.x is in potato, b

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:02:17PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello the list: > > Anybody in this subject category? > > Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the > list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. > Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe d

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 06:07:47AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > I uncommeted the referred line but dict still doesn't work (now > telnet localhost works...). > Would you have another suggestion? Can you post what you get after running 'ifconfig'? Also make sure 'dictd' is running w

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Most Unix mailers don't do filtering themselves. Instead you should use procmail. It's an incredibly flexible filtering program. Here's the procmail recipe I use for this list: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./mail/archive/debian-user This redirects mail to debian-u

RE: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread Curt Salada
Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following SCSI-related errors in dmesg: NCR 53c406a: no available ports found Failed i

Re: g++ ?

2000-06-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:31:28 +0200, erasmo perez wrote: > where can i download the latest (unstable) g++ compiler package for debian ? ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/g++*deb HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried t

Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Bill Barnes
Hello the list: Anybody in this subject category? Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe directories are different??? Specifically: su postgres /etc/rc.d/init.d/post

logrotate depends on mailx - mailx does not appear to be available (woody)

2000-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
Hello, I did apt-get update the other day, which informed me that the mailx package was 'obsolete', so of course I purged it. Logrotate apparently depended on this package, so I got rid of it too. Now when I try to install logrotate again it says logrotate depends on mailx mailx does not appea

Re: Boot kernel in order to test hardware?

2000-06-27 Thread M. Tavasti
"I. Tura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a > good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to > take an initial (or decent) idea of the health of the hardware? Maybe that's not telling you much, but

Printing of Email attachments??

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
This is not Debian specific, but I want to setup an automatic Email and attachment printing system; whereby all email sent to a special address is printed including all attachments. The basic need is to handle incoming applications with several (usually graphic) attachments for transcripts, re

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread Christian Surchi
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:38:29AM -0500, adam.edgar wrote: > The Unix machine I get my mail on has only a few mail clients to choose > from and Ive chosen pine for my use. Im new to it and have tried to > discern how to set up a filter so that the mail from this list goes to a > seperate folder if

Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread adam.edgar
The Unix machine I get my mail on has only a few mail clients to choose from and Ive chosen pine for my use. Im new to it and have tried to discern how to set up a filter so that the mail from this list goes to a seperate folder if any one know how to do this I would be thankful for their help.

Re: Oracle 8i and Debian?

2000-06-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm running Oracle 8 w/ Potato on a production server. It was a PITA to get running but it runs very well. You'll find the discussion forums at Oracle.com an invaluable resource. Regards Jeff

Re: apache + tomcat ..?

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:31 AM 06/27/2000 +0200, you wrote: just do a httpd -v for getting the version. If u are using 2.0 tomcat will not work there. U need 1.3.X (better 1.3.12) Let me know if u wanna a pre-compiled version. -- yes please. I have 1.3.3 and 1.3.13 (from apache) I wanted to remove the Debian

Re: NTFS

2000-06-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I am correct, it should be possible to read and write from/to an NTFS > mounted partition. > > > However if I try this I get an error message in the style of "permission > denied, can not create file /mnt/winnt/.." > (whereby /mnt/winnt) is the p

deleting old mail via at/cron-script

2000-06-27 Thread Thomas Guettler
Hi debianers, I want to delete old mail via at/cron, so that my mboxes of mailinglist contain only the last 200 messages. With which debian-package could I do that? -- Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.interface-business.de

Re: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-27 Thread Patrick Draper
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It won't work; the filesystems won't be merged by that kind of dodge, > just the partitions. You're right. I should have added the information that you need to fully backup the /usr and /usr/local partitions before you delete and recreate a single

Re[2]: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible you have an application like qmail which Debian requires > to have exceptionally high numbered UID's? Like say upwards of 65000? > /etc/passwd will show you your UID range. You would have won that bet too: alias:x:70:65534:qmail alias:/var/qm

NTFS

2000-06-27 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, If I am correct, it should be possible to read and write from/to an NTFS mounted partition. However if I try this I get an error message in the style of "permission denied, can not create file /mnt/winnt/.." (whereby /mnt/winnt) is the place where I have my NT partition mounted. Am

Xfree 4.0 and Bttv

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Richter
Hy, I've installed XFree 4.0 to get my 2 Monitors with a matrox g400 and a s3 virge dx grafik card bur now I cant get a overlay from my tv card (miro pctv). Grabdiplay still works fine but it's very slow. I've tried every memory adress which I found message of the xserver but nothing works I still

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread montefin
Bob, Is it possible you have an application like qmail which Debian requires to have exceptionally high numbered UID's? Like say upwards of 65000? /etc/passwd will show you your UID range. In any event, lastlog 'logs' over your entire range of UID's from the lowest to the highest _including_ all_

Booting from network

2000-06-27 Thread Jim Koontz
I have an old Sparcstation LX that I'd like to install Debian on.  It has no CD-ROM, or floppy drive.  The network card does have a boot PROM, however, I cannot get the sparc to boot over the network.   I have downloaded the boot image, and the Debian base install to my server (6.0 Red Hat).

mutt and nfs

2000-06-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all. I have the lastest mutt package (from woody) and read my mails with fetchmail in a /home nfs partition mounted. I have .muttrc from Sven Guckes. I'm havinng problems to delete messages from mbox files. It complains about locking errors. So I cant store mbox files fro

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:13:50AM -0600, montefin wrote: > du -k /var/log/lastlog bash-2.03$ du -k /var/log/lastlog 10 /var/log/lastlog > and tell us what it says. Hmmmthe game's afoot Watson! What a strange animal. So, there is a reason why lastlog is not rotated like all the rest?

Re: Error in syslog

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can anything be done about the following error? > > Jun 24 10:22:55 deb pppd[1058]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy > ARP It's not an error, just a fact. The proxyarp option is best left in the file, but is not satisfied if there's no e

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a quite strange problem with the Debian potato: I want my cdrom > reader and writer (hdb and hdc) to be ignored by the ide-cd module driver, > in order to activate for them the ide-scsi module and use as normal SCSI > devices. In ide-cd.c it's w

Re: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> Check out "parted". I have not used it myself, but it looks as > though that is something that could be used for this. You can find > it at TUCOWS Linux. > Also debianized for woody: [16:34:02 /tmp]$ grep-status -P parted Package: parted Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Sec

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I wanted to install g77 and g77-doc on my system. As I got tired of > swaping CD-s I set up apt to use the net instead. What happened was that > after selecting g77 and g77-doc and choosing install in dselect it > started not only installing g77, but up

Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
I wanted to install g77 and g77-doc on my system. As I got tired of swaping CD-s I set up apt to use the net instead. What happened was that after selecting g77 and g77-doc and choosing install in dselect it started not only installing g77, but upgrading 17 other packages. Among the different packa

RE: Viper V550

2000-06-27 Thread Jason Holland
According to http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html its the SVGA server. Jason >Debs, > >Can anybody help me to find the xserver for the Diamond Viper V550? > >thx Ton

Viper V550

2000-06-27 Thread Ton Sonnemans
Debs,   Can anybody help me to find the xserver for the Diamond Viper V550?   thx Ton  

Re: quick question on annoying netscape

2000-06-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > john smith wrote: > > > > hello. I'd like to know how to get rid of that annonying netscape group > > icons near the bottom right-hand side of communicator. (the > > navigator,inbox,newsgroups,addressbook and composer). well, maybe I can > > leave the navi

Re: Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Mário Filipe
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:06:11 Michalowski Thierry wrote: > Excerpt from 'man procmail' : > > Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the > file was world > writable, or the directory that contained it was world > writable, or

Re: Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Excerpt from 'man procmail' : Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the file was world writable, or the directory that contained it was world writable, or this was the default rcfile ($HOME/.p

Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Mário Filipe
Hi A couple of days ago, I sent a message to this list about procmail. Meanwhile i had problems with my mail and never saw the awnsers, if there were any. I did get a glimpse at one of the awnsers (probably the only one) that mentioned permissions. So I tryed with several permissions including 0

Re: strange eth0 error

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've had similar errors, they dissapeared when I recompiled the kernel (and went from not-modules drivers to modules). Ron On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, David C Ables wrote: > > I have a somewhat unpredictable problem with my network card. it's using > the tulip driver module with potato and kernel 2.2.

Re: netscape 4.73 & su -

2000-06-27 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have > two accounts "prem" and "sec". Do > ... > everything is fine. If somebody know why this happens and a > workaround, I will be glad to hear them. Hi Christophe, Yes, I experience the

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread montefin
Bob, It only looks that big. Do this: du -k /var/log/lastlog and tell us what it says. montefin PS, you can win bets on this one. I have. Bob Bernstein wrote: > > bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/lastlog > -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 18523020 Jun 22 16:08 /var/log/lastlog > > What do I do

SCSI-controller not detected

2000-06-27 Thread Marcel Karras
I've got a problem installing debian GNU/Linux 2.1. All works well until the point where the system is checked for peripherals. All but the SCSI-Adapter is correctly detected. I've got an AdvancePeripherals-Hostadapter. (2931 U2W HOME) The program tries to detect the adapter-card (pci) but th

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Corey Popelier
I have a sysklogd file in /etc/cron.* directories. I assume this is from the sysklogd package. My logs didn't start rotating until I installed this package. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:

gpm and new kernel

2000-06-27 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I compiled new kernel (2.2.15), and gpm doesn't work now. My previous kernel was also 2.2.15, and gpm worked out fine. I included mouse support and ps/2 (my mouse is ps/2 mouse)support in kernel, so I can't figure out what I'm missing. When I start gpm with -D option (which should put it in

problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread Oreste Salerno
Hi people, I have a quite strange problem with the Debian potato: I want my cdrom reader and writer (hdb and hdc) to be ignored by the ide-cd module driver, in order to activate for them the ide-scsi module and use as normal SCSI devices. In ide-cd.c it's written that I should put in modules.conf:

Re: default permissions on new users' home directories

2000-06-27 Thread Rodríguez
check /etc/adduser.conf Seeya At 01.16 27/6/00 +, Jim Breton wrote: Is there a way to configure this? It gets kind of tiring having to chmod the directories of new users. :) I suppose I could make a wrapper script around adduser, but I'd like to avoid the kludge-method if possible. Than

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:04:20PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: [...] > That was how it was configured by default when I installed potato, and when I > would move the mouse it would jump randomly around the screen, usually not > being drawn, and all of the buttons would click randomly, brin

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