need help with ip-forwarding

2000-06-28 Thread Nick
this is my situation: i have a linux box running 2.1, 2.2.15 with a dhcp service and ipmasq through ipchains i wanna setup a webserver inside the network and have the http port forwarded through my firewall. if i have ipchains i just need ipportfw right? but dselect insists that i install

pysol plugins, how?

2000-06-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Both the Pysol documentation and the official Pysol homepage claim it is a piece of cake to extend Pysol with locally developed solitaire variants. However, nowhere can I find described the actual mechanics of that (ie., where to place the Python files, how to tell Pysol about them, and most impor

dselect behaves differently in 2 similar situations?

2000-06-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I have a woody box here... A few days ago, I did an upgrade from within dselect, and had ssh installed, but not with libssl09 (on which it depends). I installed libssl09a, and forced the install with the "Q" key when prompted to solve the dependency/conflict problem... Things wor

RE: Screen Capture

2000-06-28 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
Try imagemagick with screenshot...I think or something like that ...its part of the Gnome desktop environment > -Original Message- > From: Michal Novak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:23 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Screen Capture > >

enlightenment themes?

2000-06-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've found 2 themes for enlightenment in debian packages. I'm looking for any more I can apt-install. Anyone know if there are any more in .deb formats? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 :

Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-28 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:36:04PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:57:01AM +0400, Valera wrote: > > > May i mount drive with operating system "Chorus/mix" on linux ? > > I have no idea what "Chorus/mix" is. Please provide additional > information and/or context.

Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-28 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:57:01AM +0400, Valera wrote: Please fix your system clock. > Hello, > > May i mount drive with operating system "Chorus/mix" on linux ? I have no idea what "Chorus/mix" is. Please provide additional information and/or context. > Please help m

Re: 2.1 or 2.2 help - correction

2000-06-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I suggest installing potato, aka Debian 2.2. It's not released quite yet, but IMO is at this point stable enough for personal use and probably safe even for production use (though the safer people among us might disagree). I have been running potato for severa

Re: logrotate

2000-06-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
itz> Doesn't the logrotate package install a daily cron by itself ??! itz> It certainly did for me (in potato). Sven> In that case, how do I find out all user's crontabs? Are they Sven> all under /var/spool/cron/...? Read the debian policy document. Debian has additional crontabs (apart from use

2.1 or 2.2 help - correction

2000-06-28 Thread ricgh
I haven´t install Debian yet but I want to do it this week. My question is: Should I Install 2.1 and upgrade the packages waiting until 2.2 become stable; or install potato and upgrade for the 2.2 stable version when it be released? Obs.: I made a mistake on my first message. I put "May I"

2 things (ipmasq & apache mod_include)

2000-06-28 Thread Daniel Free
now this is basicly trying to kill to bords with one stone althugh the problems are unrealted. 1) ipmasq: In my flat my k6 200 running debian 2.2 is the firewall/gateway box. dialing up with a 33k modem etc. I have installed the package ipmasq and it worked sweetly. the only probl

Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-28 Thread Valera
Hello, May i mount drive with operating system "Chorus/mix" on linux ? Please help me Best regards, Valera mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 and availability

2000-06-28 Thread Ben Collins
> numerous hacks in place to allow you to use it currently. For instance the > journal the FS uses must be created by hand and is an actual file in the OS. > This allows them to debug the fs, but also allows an accidental rm to fry all > of your journal. That's what "chattr +i " is for :) Also,

2.1 or 2.2, help!!

2000-06-28 Thread ricgh
I haven´t install Debian yet but I want to do it this week. My question is: May I Install 2.1 and upgrade the packages waiting until 2.2 become stable or install potato and upgrade for the 2.2 stable version when it be released? And somebody have any idea about when 2.2 will become stabl

Re: diskus on distribution contents?

2000-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 28/06/00 12:07:55PM: > >> >I wonder why nisplus is not provided by Debian's... >> >> Probably because no-one has so far been interested in packaging it, or >> adding it to an existing pac

Re: how to upgrade debian to 2.2

2000-06-28 Thread cls--colo spgs
hi nick, here's what i did: 1. added the "potato" entry to /etc/apt/sources.list . (ex: below) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free ^^^ad

Re: how to upgrade debian to 2.2

2000-06-28 Thread Ron Rademaker
Just edit the sources.list of apt, I guess it'll be wise to do something like: apt-get update apt-get install ldso apt-get install libc6 apt-get install perl-5.005 apt-get dist-upgrade Upgrading ldso, libc6 and perl first will PROBABLY prevent some difficulties, but it doesn't mean the upgrade wi

Re: Viper V550

2000-06-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ton Sonnemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, this could work but I'm also still not able to download with my modem > in Linux, so I stil download averything via my ISDN-card with Windows. So > upgrading via Linux and Internet is not an option. > anyone else? Of course you can always download

Re: Viper V550

2000-06-28 Thread Ton Sonnemans
Yes, this could work but I'm also still not able to download with my modem in Linux, so I stil download averything via my ISDN-card with Windows. So upgrading via Linux and Internet is not an option. anyone else? thx Ton - Original Message - From: Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: De

how to upgrade debian to 2.2

2000-06-28 Thread Nick
how do i upgrade my box i have debian 2.1 w/ a 2.15 kernel i wanna try potato

RE: ext3 and availability

2000-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2000 Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi debs > > How far is the development of ext3? Today, at linux-conference.ch some > guy from RH said he was using ext3 on his notebook right then. Apparently > the main developer of both ext2 and ext3 works also for RH. > > So, I wanted to know whether anyo

free books on C in Unix and X programming using Athena widget

2000-06-28 Thread a
Do you know any web site that has free books on C programming in Linix and X programming using Athena widget? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'll leave the list in a minute.

ext3 and availability

2000-06-28 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debs How far is the development of ext3? Today, at linux-conference.ch some guy from RH said he was using ext3 on his notebook right then. Apparently the main developer of both ext2 and ext3 works also for RH. So, I wanted to know whether anyone knows when ext3 will be widely available / merge

Re: Viper V550

2000-06-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
jpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ton Sonnemans wrote: > > > > Yes, so far so good but when I start XF86Setup I don't see my Card listed. > > Is it dependend on other files or what?? > > Please help me, I'm a beginner and want to get it running but I don't seem > > to get my Viper 550 Card up and

Ping and traceroute not working on new potato install

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hi -- I recently installed a machine with debian. I only have one problem with the install.. I can't ping.. whenever I try to ping: <3 bleh:~ >ping 127.1 ping: socket: Protocol not supported traceroute has this error also: bleh:~# traceroute 127.1 traceroute: icmp socket: Protocol not suppo

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

2000-06-28 Thread Ron Farrer
Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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

Re: Viper V550

2000-06-28 Thread jpb
Ton Sonnemans wrote: > > Yes, so far so good but when I start XF86Setup I don't see my Card listed. > Is it dependend on other files or what?? > Please help me, I'm a beginner and want to get it running but I don't seem > to get my Viper 550 Card up and running, maybe someone with the same card >

Re: Firewall

2000-06-28 Thread Bolan Meek
Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > > >> eth0 xx.xx.xx.1 :Connected to the internal network > >> eth1 xx.xx.xx.2 :Connected to the internet. > >> # note that the xxx.xxx.xxx are the same subnet since > >> we are allocated a class C domain. Minor correction: to the Internet these addresses are in the same

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-28 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
> Ahhh, 'dictd' appears to have died. You need to execute > "/etc/init.d/dictdit.d/ > restart". Even if I restart dictd, it still doesn't work - it dies quickly, really weird. It seens to be a dictd problem, I've already tried slink, potato and woody dictd versions but it's all the same... Than

Re: diskus on distribution contents?

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 28/06/00 12:07:55PM: > >I wonder why nisplus is not provided by Debian's... > > Probably because no-one has so far been interested in packaging it, or > adding it to an existing package. > Not so: http://www.realbodo.de/debian these packages wor

setting i/o address for eth0

2000-06-28 Thread David C. Ables
hello everyone, I've been having problems getting my linksys nic to work, and now I know what the problem is. trouble is I don't know how to fix it. the problem is that everything has a different i/o address for the card. it uses the tulip driver. tulip (and the accompanying pci-scan) were both re

Re: Manipulating file content

2000-06-28 Thread Bolan Meek
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hi list, > > this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts... How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!? > Suppose I have a comma-seperated or tab-seperated file and I want > to flip the lines and columns. So an input file like: >

Re: g++ identity crisis, slink

2000-06-28 Thread alice
Um... never mind... I found it. (.C, not .c ... sheesh) (thanks anyway :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:g++ identity crisis, slink Date sent: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:54:54 -0400 > > Hi, I'm runnin

Re: g++ identity crisis, slink

2000-06-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:55:04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm running slink and I was trying to 'make' some c++ programs I > was messing around with the other day and discovered that even > though my Makefile says to use g++, make was using cc to compile > the programs. This smells

Re: Help with COM port based terminal access

2000-06-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, ok. Now I'm with you. Sure, for this you don't want mgetty. Just use the regular getty that's already on the system. Here's what you do. First edit /etc/inittab to get init to run a getty on your chosen serial port (I'll assume for purposes of exposition you want to use the first serial port, /

Re: .muttrc

2000-06-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I found some very good examples on the mutt home page. The only thing I've found missing is a "spam bounce" button. One that will bounce mail as if you weren't there. Would get you removed from SOME spam lists. Robert Thus spake Jim Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:37:

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

2000-06-28 Thread Lee Revell
Use ProFTPD. It has a MUCH better security record, is fast, lightweight, and configuration is a breeze if you have ever configured Apache. I made the switch several months ago and would never go back. "Ralf G. R. Bergs" wrote: > > Hi there, > > my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-( > > About

Re: Peticion

2000-06-28 Thread Bolan Meek
Well, let me see if I can translate this: > Gustavo Oceguera Ugalde wrote: > > Hola, encontre en en internet tu direccion donde menciones que tienes Hi, I found in the Internet your address where [there are] mentions that you have > un scaner Realisys AVEC Easy 3, necesito los drives de este es

Re: .muttrc

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Ray
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:37:24PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > ...thought i'd devote some energy to get mutt 1.0.1-9 > working on my potato deskbox. > > my issue is that the "from" addy isn't correct. > > the man, faq, and howto specify to modify ~/.muttrc, > which i don't have. >

Re: Viper V550

2000-06-28 Thread Ton Sonnemans
Yes, so far so good but when I start XF86Setup I don't see my Card listed. Is it dependend on other files or what?? Please help me, I'm a beginner and want to get it running but I don't seem to get my Viper 550 Card up and running, maybe someone with the same card can mail me what package I need to

Re: .muttrc

2000-06-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:37:24PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > ...thought i'd devote some energy to get mutt 1.0.1-9 > working on my potato deskbox. > > my issue is that the "from" addy isn't correct. > > the man, faq, and howto specify to modify ~/.muttrc, > which i don't have. >

.muttrc

2000-06-28 Thread cls--colo spgs
debs, ...thought i'd devote some energy to get mutt 1.0.1-9 working on my potato deskbox. my issue is that the "from" addy isn't correct. the man, faq, and howto specify to modify ~/.muttrc, which i don't have. i even tried setting my email addy (at "set hostname") in Muttrc, to no avail. (b

apt-get error

2000-06-28 Thread R. Wayne McCorkle
I have slink installed on a machine at work. This box sits behind a firewall. My /etc/apt/sources.list is configured so as to point to the frozen distribution. I can install individual packages fine, e.g. "apt-get install octave" works fine. However, when I try "apt-get dist-upgrade", I get the fol

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-28 Thread Marcel Karras
Sorry for so many typos. (I didn't have many time) Greetings!

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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: > > >

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-28 Thread Marcel Karras
-Former message- From: S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sended: Thursday, 27. June 2000 16:01 Subject: Re: Postfix troubles > > Yes, I do: > > # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. > # It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package > #

Re: Firewall

2000-06-28 Thread Derek Wueppelmann
>> eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.1 :Connected to the internal network >> eth1 xxx.xxx.xxx.2 :Connected to the internet. >> # note that the xxx.xxx.xxx are the same subnet since we are allocated a >> class C domain. >> >> my routing table looks similar to this: >> DESTINATIONGATEWAYGENMASK...

Manipulating file content

2000-06-28 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi list, this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts on this list. Suppose I have a comma-seperated or tab-seperated file and I want to flip the lines and columns. So an input file like: a,1,A b,2,B c,3,C would be transformed into: a,b,c

Re: Screen Capture

2000-06-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Michal Novak wrote: > > I need screen capture program for X, which capture complete screen as > is. > Thn for your tips. The GIMP will allow you to take screenshots. Check out the extensions menu (Xtns), and you will see an entry for screenshots. It works really nicely for

Peticion

2000-06-28 Thread Gustavo Oceguera Ugalde
Hola, encontre en en internet tu direccion donde menciones que tienes un scaner Realisys AVEC Easy 3, necesito los drives de este escaner (en ingles o español), podrias hacerme el favor de facilitarme una copia de ellos, de antemano te agradesco mucho.   Atentamente   Gustavo Oceguera Ugalde

Re: logrotate

2000-06-28 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:41:34PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Doesn't the logrotate package install a daily cron by itself ??! It > certainly did for me (in potato). In that case, how do I find out all user's crontabs? Are they all under /var/spool/cron/...? TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by De

g++ identity crisis, slink

2000-06-28 Thread alice
Hi, I'm running slink and I was trying to 'make' some c++ programs I was messing around with the other day and discovered that even though my Makefile says to use g++, make was using cc to compile the programs. /usr/bin/g++ is a program, not a link to anything. If I rename /usr/bin/cc, make re

Re: Help with COM port based terminal access

2000-06-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This is easily done by running mgetty on the port. Note that booting your computer keyboard-less can be a problem. Many systems will hang in the BIOS POST if they can't sense the keyboard is present. On some systems this can be turned off in the BIOS setup. This has nothing to do with linux. I b

apache_1.3.12 SSL error

2000-06-28 Thread Bill
I've just installed apache_1.3.12 and when I start apache ssl I get the following error :/# /etc/apache1/bin/apachectl startssl Syntax error on line 1024 of /etc/apache1/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuratio

RE: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)

2000-06-28 Thread Pollywog
Have you tried installing Fortify from source? That is what I did, since I did not know at the time that Fortify was available as a Debian package. -- Andrew On 28-Jun-2000 14:50:05 JudiElaine wrote: > > Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify, > downgrading netscape, or waiti

Re: SSL for smtp & pop

2000-06-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Wilson Yau wrote: > Maybe this is not quite a relevant question should be posted on this > mailing list, but I'd be very grateful if anyone can give me quick & > correct answers to the following questions: > > Q.1/ I have a mail server running Debian/GNU Linux Potato 2.2 w/ kernel > 2.2.15. Is th

Re: Java support? (apache + tomcat)

2000-06-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, if you're running slink then that's the problem. Unfortunately the package doesn't exist in slink, probably because it wasn't packaged until potato was underway. The jdk package available in slink is called jdk1.1 so 'apt-get install jdk1.1' should work fine. BTW, http://www.debian.org/distri

Re: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)

2000-06-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
JudiElaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an extremely conservative user i have just upgraded to > potato (and, since in the moment i upgraded something was > wrong because some important library was deleted, hosing my > complete system, my conservatism has been reinforced -- i had > done slink -

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-28 Thread Philippe
Hi Adam, it takes just seconds to filter mail in Pine. From main menu, type S for setup. Then R for rules. Then F for filter. Then A for add. Give the rule a nickname by replacing the "no value set" in the menu. Put the Debian user list address on the "Cc:" line. At the bottom, choose the Folder y

netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)

2000-06-28 Thread JudiElaine
As an extremely conservative user i have just upgraded to potato (and, since in the moment i upgraded something was wrong because some important library was deleted, hosing my complete system, my conservatism has been reinforced -- i had done slink -> potato upgrades successfully before, too). Fo

Re: Firewall

2000-06-28 Thread Marc Dubrowski
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > Yet another problem I have been having with a Debian install. Sorry to keep > pestering. > > Here is my problem stated simply. I need to create a firewall between our > internal network and the internet while still allowing the machines inside > the

Firewall

2000-06-28 Thread Derek Wueppelmann
Yet another problem I have been having with a Debian install. Sorry to keep pestering. Here is my problem stated simply. I need to create a firewall between our internal network and the internet while still allowing the machines inside the network some limited access out and in. i.e.. keep our web

Re: mcserv over SSL - any experiences?

2000-06-28 Thread Dean Allen Provins
> > > Hi All, > > I need to provide my users with the possibility of safe and convenient > file transfer. > The ftp is difficult for setup with SSL. The scp lacks the convenient > GUI or TUI. > The mcserv (from midnight commander suite) seems to be a good alternative. > However I don't know if

Re: Changinf from xinitrc to xsession

2000-06-28 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:55:52AM +0100, Mário Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having installed helix-gnome I am now running gdm. > > I used to do startx to run X. So i had a .xinitrc file. On this file i called > the wm, gnome-sesion, etc, and i had the following command > > xset fp+ unix:/

Help with COM port based terminal access

2000-06-28 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: I am trying to setup several linux systems that I would like to administer over a network and/or via the serial port. The serial port based admin. is important in some cases when network is down etc. Is there any way of running a Kermit like program to connect to a linux box through COM ports

RE: Screen Capture

2000-06-28 Thread Simon Jefford
import, from the ImageMagick suite of graphical doolickies. > -Original Message- > From: Michal Novak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 June 2000 14:23 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Screen Capture > > > > I need screen capture program for X, which capture complete scr

Screen Capture

2000-06-28 Thread Michal Novak
I need screen capture program for X, which capture complete screen as is. Thn for your tips.

gettings copies of sent/recieved mails

2000-06-28 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. Is it possible to get copies of mails coming in and out sent to another address? And doing this without the user sees it? This user is doing -something- less good behind my back, and I want to know what he's doing and nail him good red handed. Regards.. Andreas == andreas påls

SSL for smtp & pop

2000-06-28 Thread Wilson Yau
Maybe this is not quite a relevant question should be posted on this mailing list, but I'd be very grateful if anyone can give me quick & correct answers to the following questions: Q.1/ I have a mail server running Debian/GNU Linux Potato 2.2 w/ kernel 2.2.15. Is there any open source utilities

Re: Exim and an annoyong person

2000-06-28 Thread Patrick
Thanks. That works as well as the .forward solution for domains that I want banned from the whole server. And I add domains to the bounce list? For example I can use host_reject = *.channelnet.co.uk : *.spamdomain.com : mominlaw.org But can named individuals be barred? Patrick Kirk Mobile: 0

Re: Exim and an annoyong person

2000-06-28 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm thinking of is simply saying reject all mail from > channelnet.co.uk. Add this to /etc/exim.conf (documented in spec.txt) should work: host_reject = *.channelnet.co.uk -- Chuan-kai Lin

ipchains && ipmasdadm problems

2000-06-28 Thread Thomas Braun
hello group i have a problem with this . my exter net is 194.55.233.7 is it on eth0:3 and i want to make a portforarding to 192.168.2.7 my ipchains rules are ipchains -v -A input -s 0/0 -d 194.55.233.7 telnet -j ACCEPT -l -i eth0:3 -l ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -v -A forward -s 19

Re: [Q] Does anybody else have problems with W3M

2000-06-28 Thread Preben Randhol
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/06/2000 (11:41) : > You've almost certainly downloaded in ASCII mode. Try 'bin' in your FTP > client before the download. Why should I want to use an FTP client when I want to do this with w3m ? Please look at the w3m package if you do not know what it

Re: Exim and an annoyong person

2000-06-28 Thread Patrick
Of course - that's simple but elegant! I changed it to save the junk in a junk folder but it solves my problem perfectly. Thanks. Best regards, Patrick Kirk Mobile: 0044 (0) 705 004 9046

Re: nfs error

2000-06-28 Thread Albrecht Frank
"Suresh Kumar.R" wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using potato. When I do a simple nfs mount on a client I get the > following error message. > > sahya mountd[228]: authenticated mount request from nila.ece.cet.in:914 > for /mnt (/) > Jun 28 21:39:27 sahya mountd[228]: getfh failed: Operation not permitt

Re: diskus on distribution contents?

2000-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >a short question: > >where to ask or discuss about contents of a Debian distribution, what >belongs to it or will be taken into distribution? Packages are added largely at the whim of developers; packages are removed when no developer is interested in su

Re: Exim and an annoyong person

2000-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A young lady at a publishing house responsible for sending out >newsletters has found a clever trick to maintain circulation. Ignores >all Unsubscribe requests. Given that I never subscribed this is >particularly irrating. > >How can I set Exim to block all mai

diskus on distribution contents?

2000-06-28 Thread Gerhard Kroder
a short question: where to ask or discuss about contents of a Debian distribution, what belongs to it or will be taken into distribution? I wonder why nisplus is not provided by Debian's... -- Gerhard Kroder +49 241 5295 275 Unices, Networks, Services

nfs error

2000-06-28 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I am using potato. When I do a simple nfs mount on a client I get the following error message. sahya mountd[228]: authenticated mount request from nila.ece.cet.in:914 for /mnt (/) Jun 28 21:39:27 sahya mountd[228]: getfh failed: Operation not permitted Can you please help ? Suresh -

Debian-User Archives [was: Re: Mailing lists.]

2000-06-28 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:03:29PM -0500, Brendan Simon wrote: > 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.

Re: Booting from network

2000-06-28 Thread C. Falconer
Sorry - missed the original on this... Do you have a rarpd server on the network? Later kernel 2.3 and all 2.4 does not support rarp any more (I have the same problem, and rarpd the new daemon for rarp won't compile for me) At 08:46 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote: > "Jim" == Jim Koontz <[

Exim and an annoyong person

2000-06-28 Thread Patrick
Hi all, A young lady at a publishing house responsible for sending out newsletters has found a clever trick to maintain circulation. Ignores all Unsubscribe requests. Given that I never subscribed this is particularly irrating. How can I set Exim to block all mail from a particular domain? Th

Changinf from xinitrc to xsession

2000-06-28 Thread Mário Filipe
Hi Having installed helix-gnome I am now running gdm. I used to do startx to run X. So i had a .xinitrc file. On this file i called the wm, gnome-sesion, etc, and i had the following command xset fp+ unix:/7001 so that i could use tt fonts. I know that i have to move this command to .xsession,

Re: Problem building xfree3.3.6

2000-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
Alexis Roda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to build xfree 3.3.6-8 from source debs on a COMPAQ Armada >1750 with slink R4 installed few days ago, no packages upgraded. > >I start the build with debian/rules binary and the compilation aborts >complaining about S_IRUSR and S_IWUSR undeclared,

Re: [Q] Does anybody else have problems with W3M

2000-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. > >D

Problem building xfree3.3.6

2000-06-28 Thread Alexis Roda
Hello, I'm trying to build xfree 3.3.6-8 from source debs on a COMPAQ Armada 1750 with slink R4 installed few days ago, no packages upgraded. I start the build with debian/rules binary and the compilation aborts complaining about S_IRUSR and S_IWUSR undeclared, but they are declared in linux/stat.

monitoring server performance

2000-06-28 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I have setup an old PC to be our webproxy and database server (postgresql). However I want to check whether the machine is strong enough to handle the loadi (I'm especialy concerned about disk access). Is there any tool that can give me more information that can give me more detailed inf

mcserv over SSL - any experiences?

2000-06-28 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi All, I need to provide my users with the possibility of safe and convenient file transfer. The ftp is difficult for setup with SSL. The scp lacks the convenient GUI or TUI. The mcserv (from midnight commander suite) seems to be a good alternative. However I don't know if it can be easily setup

Re: Oracle 8i and Debian?

2000-06-28 Thread Steve Mayer
Mike, I've used both the 8.1.5 and 8.1.6.1 versions. Definitely stick with the latter. The installation was pretty much a breeze. The only snafu that I've run up against is lack of sufficient swap space. Make sure that you have at least 325MB of swap out there and available. (This might be

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-28 Thread Rodríguez
Anyway 'chsh' is for admin use, not editing directly /etc/passwd, doing that is a bad practice (i do too as always i think but that dont mean it's ok). At 23.00 27/6/00 +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GN

Re: multiple domain rewrites

2000-06-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:02:55PM -0400, Jim Werster wrote: > 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.