Re: VPN

2000-07-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Is there a way to VPN windows machines through a Debian machihne acting as > firewall? More information, please: what precisely does the firewall do, and how precisely do the Windows machines need to connect? -- --

Re: PS2 mouse and gpm

2000-07-26 Thread John Bagdanoff
I have a logitech wheelmouse, heres my config: gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=imps2 append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2" # Device "/dev/gpmdata" Device

mount problem

2000-07-26 Thread Dale Morris
I made a mistake installing debian and I selected the fs -automount module. Now my floppy won't mount from the icon on the desktop. I suppose I need to change something in my fstab file to fix it. Also, I can't mount my cd rom, but I didn't configure anything into the kernel for cdrom modules. Can

Re: Crontab

2000-07-26 Thread Chris Majewski
Yeah, cron's great. See also Anacron. -chris On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've just got a couple of queries about the use of cron. Firstly, is it what > I should be using it for automated execution or is there something better? > Secondly, what should I be doing fro

Changing NICs

2000-07-26 Thread allenlim
Hello all, Could someone please give me instructions on how to go about changing NICs as I believe that the ones in the computer is faulty. At present, they are using ISA 3Com Etherlink III and I am changing them to PCI D- link DFE-530TX+ I believe that there are drivers (is it called drivers i

Help(!) with Slink install -- disk repartitioning problem

2000-07-26 Thread Christopher Lee
*cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user* Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning, and think you can tell us where the "mystery 2 Gigs" went. My wife is a little stressed-out that I may be messing-up her computer I'm installing Slink on my w

Re: Upgrading XFree86 on slink for i810 chipset

2000-07-26 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
go ahead an upgrade to potato. i've been using it for about 6mo and it's been very stable. On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:43:28PM -0500, Br. Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I need your advice. I have an Intel i810 chipset and the driver requires > XFree86 version 3.3.6, but slink has 3.3.2. The driver also

Crontab

2000-07-26 Thread pauld
Hi, I've just got a couple of queries about the use of cron. Firstly, is it what I should be using it for automated execution or is there something better? Secondly, what should I be doing from a security point of view, is it fine to have root running automated commands if root access is needed

Re: ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

2000-07-26 Thread John Leuner
> > I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this: > > > > 1: Install Debian. > > 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support. > > 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with > >ReiserFS, restore from backup. > > 4: Be very happy! :-) > > I recently inst

Re: Upgrading XFree86 on slink for i810 chipset

2000-07-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Br. Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: brchuc >First question: Do I really need glibc2.1, or can I build XFree86 and the brchuc >driver with glibc2.0? I notice two different versions of the 3.3.6 binaries brchuc >for depending on which version of glibc. Unfortunately I didn't see the

Re: "Cannot find map file"

2000-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
chris> What does this mean? -chris chris> chris> Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: Cannot find map file. chris> Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: No module symbols loaded. Marcin> I think You didn't copy System.map from /usr/src/linux (or anywhere you have Marcin> kernel sources) to /boot or

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Kelly" == Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kelly> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am Kelly> looking for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone Kelly> knew which was the "best". Any input would be appreciated. It Kelly> would be for an ATAPI tap

Upgrading XFree86 on slink for i810 chipset

2000-07-26 Thread Br. Chuck Zmudzinski
I need your advice. I have an Intel i810 chipset and the driver requires XFree86 version 3.3.6, but slink has 3.3.2. The driver also requires a kernel module which is for 2.2 kernels, while slink has 2.0 kernels. Additionally, the Intel support site offers the driver, and they say the i810 driver a

Re: cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey list, problem solved, and this is the trick what Peter Galbraith sent me: cr-Srw-r--1 2540229706115, 58 Oct 9 1999 fontsmpl.sty debugfs -w -R "rm /lost+found/bad_device/fontsmpl.sty" /dev/hda1 Thanks to all for all your help!

RE:

2000-07-26 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Ooopsthe line below should read /etc/rcX.d ...must have been daydreaming Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [SMTP:[EMA

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-26 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:41:04PM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > remove the reference to XDM in the startup scripts, deinstall XDM, or remove > the symlinks to XDM in /etc/rcX.d directories (this just prevents it from > starting, does not remove it). > XDM can be a pain. At one point X setup crashed

Re: Can't get WordPerfect installed

2000-07-26 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:59:43AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > I have the downloaded version of WP 8. After untar-ing the files (tar > -zxf **), I get what I assume to be the usual set of directories and > files. > > However, when I start Runme, it first asks whether I have unzipped and > untar-e

Re: Disk Defragmentation

2000-07-26 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:50:52PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Jon Hughes scripsit: > >What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there > >for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but > >it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is > >something I would (if possible) like to avoi

Re: openssh vs. ssh

2000-07-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm not familiar with the exact mechanism you're using, but in my ssh tunnels I say something like ssh -f -x -l majewski -L 6143:imap.cs.ubc.ca:143 cascade.cs.ubc.ca imapl where 'imapl' is a program that loops more or less forever. Not sure if this is necessary, or if it's necessary only becaus

Re: Unthinkable routing problem

2000-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Nagarjuna" == Nagarjuna G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nagarjuna> It is unthinkable for us that a machine can forward packets Nagarjuna> without itself able to approach the router. !!! Pl mail if Nagarjuna> you require more information on this. Post the output of "netstat -rn" on the gatew

RE:

2000-07-26 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Go to /etc/init.d/ and change SXXxdm or SXXgdm (where XX are the sequence in which init.d will run/ execute "startup" programs) to something like ~SXXxdm or ~SXXgdm. This just 'disables' the X-based login prompt! Patrick Where do you want to go today? As far away from Redmond Only dead fish go w

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Russ Pitman
Hmm-- Thanks, I will put fetchpop on the system and check it out next time fetchmail falls over. If it works, maybe do some stirring :-)) On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Russ Pitman wrote: > > > I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaroun

Re: Just one package from woody with apt-get?

2000-07-26 Thread montefin
Guys_n_Gals, Perhaps I should clarify why I go to such extents as described _way_ below. Ross's original question to us was [emphasis added], "What's the _usual_ way of doing this?", i.e., apt-getting just one package from woody. To my knowledge there isn't a '_usual_ way'. But I think there sho

Re: Apache-newby

2000-07-26 Thread Joseph Andrew Ennis
Also make sure that apache is set to watch port 80 and not 8080. If apache is running and http://localhost/ won't work, try http://localhost:8080/ --J. Andrew Ennis "Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > I'll make the usual suggestion of making sure that apache is running. If > you ps ax | grep apac

Re: your mail

2000-07-26 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-07-26 10:54:19 +0100, Patrick J Draper écrivait : > How do I stop my Debian 2.1 machine kicking straight into X windows or how > do I get out once it has. > > I'm having problems and wish to boot to the command line. When you boot your system, add the following parameter : single It wi

suid / sgid detail question

2000-07-26 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! If I suid a program that owned by user "non-root" and and "normal-user" starts it... ... whose ENV does it get? ... whose groups does it get? All of them or just the primary group? Now, if I additionally sgid it to "some-group", does it get... ... only "some-group"? ... "some group" + the c

Re:

2000-07-26 Thread Kent West
> Patrick J Draper wrote: > > How do I stop my Debian 2.1 machine kicking straight into X windows or > how do I get out once it has. > > I'm having problems and wish to boot to the command line. > > > Many thanks All > > > > > > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ( Hint - It's a good

Re: hardware question

2000-07-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dual proc is good, i reccomend good boards from asus or tyan (usually run around $400 with scsi) avoid boards like the bp6. one odd thing i noticed. i recently downgraded from BP6 to an asus single cpu box. (from dual 466 to 1 466) XMMS (mp3 player) took about 30% of cpu when using the BP6

openssh vs. ssh

2000-07-26 Thread Adam Shand
hi. i recently changed mailserver that i pop my mail off of, and the new one uses openssh on debian instead of ssh on solaris. i used a preconnect to tunnel the session via ssh with a line like this: preconnect "ssh -C -f -L 1100:maus.spack.org:110 maus.spack.org 'sleep 9'" this used to work

hardware question

2000-07-26 Thread Bob McGowan
I'm planning on building my own PC and am interested in recommendations for motherboard manufacturers and CPU's. I'm thinking about going with a dual CPU and using SMP. Thanks, -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just one package from woody with apt-get?

2000-07-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Might be to your atvantage to just browse through ftp and download that > single .deb > file. i really fscked my system when i changed my sources.list file did and > apt-get > update and tried to get th latest x then i tried to go back to stable version > and it > w

Re: cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Bob McGowan
Once upon a time, when I was working with UNIX version 7, I had a case where I could not clean up a disk using fsck. I used a program called (as I remember) 'clri' to wipe out the inode, then did an fsck to clean up the "orphans" that I had created. 'clri' doesn't exist anymore, that I know of (f

VPN

2000-07-26 Thread Chris Mason
Is there a way to VPN windows machines through a Debian machihne acting as firewall? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about Net

Re: daemons?--no lpr/pon

2000-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Your modem is not responding at all. See if you can get through to it with minicom. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Just one package from woody with apt-get?

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > montefin wrote: > > > > Ross, > > > > 1.) Actually, I do an 'apt-get update' _and_ a 'dselect update' > > beforehand. > > There is no need to do both. If you are using the apt-get method in > dselect, they both do the same thing. > > > 2.) After apt

Re: cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > LB> On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > -- snip -- > > OM> in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! > > -- snip -- > > LB> They probably have the immutable attri

Re: mail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Mike Thompson
David, I am going through a dialup isp and have the following at the end of my /etc/exim.conf file. It only rewrites mail destined for the Internet. hth mike ## # REWRITE CONFIGURATION

Re: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?

2000-07-26 Thread Carlos José Pérez Sanjuán
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:10:25PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > What do you plan to run on it? A simple web server with very plain > vanilla > .html files runs super-nice. At the moment the html files are 'frontpage garbaged', so I'll have to clean them with too much care.

volume control

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. My SB Live! Value card is working fine now. Loaded the emu module just fine. However, my volume control isn't working. I've tried in both xmms and xmcd, and neither one has a working volume control. This worked in Mandrake 7.0. Ideas? Mike "To listen to the wo

Re: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?

2000-07-26 Thread Carlos José Pérez Sanjuán
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:21:35PM -0400, Adrian Thiele wrote: > I haven`t played with the gsp pages, however I have used jakarta-tomcat as a > servlet/jsp engine with good success. Well ... jakarta-tomcat is Jserv based, it's sound ok ... ... > you talking multiple machines? How much traf

Re: wine problem

2000-07-26 Thread Kent West
Richard Black wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I fixed that stuff (and so got rid of the > first two > lines--which look like warnings anyway) and still no luck > > I still get > > wine WORDPAD.EXE > wine: can't exec 'WORDPAD.EXE': error=0 > > cheers > > Richard > > > > Thomas Guett

Re: PHP4 functions

2000-07-26 Thread alan
Hi Sven, I have not come across the function you mentioned (haven't checked the docs for a bit) ... What I tend to do is something like ... if(!function_exists(imagecreate)) dl("gd.so"); Where "imagecreate" is a function in the gd module. Hope this helps... Alan > Date: Wed, 26

Problem with X

2000-07-26 Thread James Polson
Hi, I'm still trying to setup X windows and make it compatible with my ATI Rage 128 Pro video card. This card is not supported with the XFree86 software supplied with slink Debian linux. Fortunately, I found help on the web (David St. Clair at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html) who

Re: wine problem

2000-07-26 Thread Richard Black
Thanks for the suggestion, but I fixed that stuff (and so got rid of the first two lines--which look like warnings anyway) and still no luck I still get wine WORDPAD.EXE wine: can't exec 'WORDPAD.EXE': error=0 cheers Richard > Thomas Guettler wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:37:23AM -0400

RE: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?

2000-07-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
What do you plan to run on it? A simple web server with very plain vanilla .html files runs super-nice. I applaud your choice to go again traditional(?) concepts, I battle the same thing here everyday. If you want a good package to determine if you've got Apache, PHP3, and postgresql al

RE: Apache-newby

2000-07-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I'll make the usual suggestion of making sure that apache is running. If you ps ax | grep apache, you should get a list of process id's for apache, and hence it is running. > -Original Message- > From: Johann Spies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 12:06 PM > To:

Re: daemons?--no lpr/pon

2000-07-26 Thread pplaw
sure. Script started on Wed Jul 26 13:10:15 2000 HOST:/home/bt# cat /etc/ppp/peers/isp1                  var/log/ppp.log Jul 25 18:33:35 HOST pppd[313]: pppd 2.3.11 started by bt, uid 1000 Jul 25 18:33:36 HOST chat[314]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 25 18:33:36 HOST ch

tcl8.2-dev installation error

2000-07-26 Thread Bolan Meek
Greetings: God bless you. When using dselect on a sparc to install t{cl,k}8.2-dev, I get ...[relevant part of messages] Setting up tcl8.2-dev (8.2.3-3) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/tcl.m4: No such file or directory dp

Re: Installing by floppy

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:16:30PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone help me please, I am trying to install potato via floppy disc on > a machine and I am am finding that it takes over four hours from when I ask > to install a module until the module list is displayed.

Re: your mail

2000-07-26 Thread Gerhard Schromm
Am Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:54:19AM +0100 hat Patrick J Draper geschrieben: > How do I stop my Debian 2.1 machine kicking straight into X windows or how > do I get out once it has. Type Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch to console. > I'm having problems and wish to boot to the command line. Deinstall the [xw

Re:

2000-07-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! XDM is the problem. I think the problem is, that other important X packages depend on the XDM package. So there is the possibility to delete the symlinks to xdm in the runlevel directories: /etc/rc(number from 0..6).d /etc/rcS.d Just look for any links named *xdm* in these dirs and remove

Re: daemons?--no lpr/pon

2000-07-26 Thread David Z. Maze
cls--colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cls> running potato on customized 2.2.16, i get this error message if cls> i lpr [file]: cls> cls> "lpr: connect: connection refused cls> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." I've had the line printer daemon (lpd) spontaneously die on me for no appar

Installing by floppy

2000-07-26 Thread Stephen J. Thompson
Hello all, Can anyone help me please, I am trying to install potato via floppy disc on a machine and I am am finding that it takes over four hours from when I ask to install a module until the module list is displayed. On tty3 all it keeps displaying is "open error" over and over again. I have tri

Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 setup

2000-07-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
use the glide drivers from linux.3dfx.com but thats all use X from debian reinstall XF86Setup from debian not 3dfx it should work (works for me on multiple machines) i'll be setting up 12 more linux boxes with 3dfx voodoo3 3000 PCI tomorrow so if i encounter anything else i'll let u know nate

Re: daemons?--no lpr/pon

2000-07-26 Thread John Hasler
pplaw writes: > with pon [isp1], i get no dialout. (...will send the ppp.log if needed). Please do. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: voodoo3 board not found -FIXED (micro-howto)

2000-07-26 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Thanks, Jean-Phillipe; that worked. (Nate, I didn't try your suggestion, but thanks anyway :) For other's future reference, here's what I did (everything as root, so there's probably a better way...) 1) Install the device3dfx-source package (apt-get install device3dfx-source) and the kernel-hea

daemons?--no lpr/pon

2000-07-26 Thread pplaw
debs, as of last friday, i suddenly lost the ability to lpr and pon. everything else is fine. i can still boot, get into x, run wp8... running potato on customized 2.2.16, i get this error message if i lpr [file]: "lpr: connect: connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." with

Cheap dual-port NIC, anyone?

2000-07-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
Does anyone know of a cheap ($100 or less) dual-port NIC card? Or quadport? The best deal I am aware of is $150 for an Intel Dual 10/100 Server adapter, and that card requires two IRQs for some reason... Thanks Jeff

PCI-SC875 general questions

2000-07-26 Thread Nicolas . De . Bray
Hi, Here's some questions for you. I will be so gratefull if you could help me in any way.. I'd like to know if the PCI-SC875 SCSI Card is ''Dual Channel'' or ''Single Channel'' ? 2.If I connect a SCSI-2 device (CD-RW) on the 50 pins connector and a ULTRA WIDE SCSI device (ST34573W

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-26 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:07:23AM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: [snip] Thanks a lot to all for your help / information. Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just develops random features.

Re: wine problem

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:37:23AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use wine--something that I have had no problem doing in > the past--but all I get currently are exec errors e.g.: > > wine WORDPAD.EXE > Could not stat /floppy, ignoring drive A: > Could not stat /cdrom, i

Re: vxfs

2000-07-26 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Wilson Yau wrote: > Does Linux support vxfs? vxfs is Veritas File System, the proprietary journaling files system for Unix. Currently, Veritas does not support Linux. As I was told by Veritas sales person, they are waiting to see whether Linux is another "OS/2" or not... Joz

Re: how to set up an xterminal?

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:03:04PM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: > I have a box which has a primary use of a server/firewall. I desperatly > need another workstation tho, and I dont have the money to buy another > computer. So, I was thinking, I'd install a barebones X, and run all of > the apps

Re: Apache-newby

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas Guettler
if "ping localhost" fails, you have to add a loopback device: see /etc/network/interfaces ---( # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback ---) (at least on potato) On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:05:55PM +0200, Johann Spies

Apache-newby

2000-07-26 Thread Johann Spies
I am a total newby as far as apache goes. After seeing a demonstration on php I want to use netscape and apache on my single machine. I have a dialup-connection to my ISP. I have apache running with DocumentRoot defined as /var/www and ServerAdmin as [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I get Netscape and

Re: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?

2000-07-26 Thread Carlos José Pérez Sanjuán
Well ... i'm fear ... Imagine an Organization with M$soft products skilled personal only, with a IIS NT web site running ... and a foolish (like me) propose such drastic change... Really i don't have any question (because i'm decided to do it), may be is an alarm shout, o

how to set up an xterminal?

2000-07-26 Thread Mathew Johnston
I have a box which has a primary use of a server/firewall. I desperatly need another workstation tho, and I dont have the money to buy another computer. So, I was thinking, I'd install a barebones X, and run all of the apps over the network from another machine, so that i can keep the fw fairly c

RE: PHP4 functions

2000-07-26 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
I would just use the phpinfo() function in a php document to check the php configuration. If you would like to see which apache modules are loaded, try httpd -l. Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PHP4 functions

2000-07-26 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I installed Apache and PHP4 and several modules for PHP4. Everything works but I need to know if a special module is loaded. In the PHP4 Manual on the PHP website it says you can use the function bool extension_loaded(string module); When I tried this I received an error that I tried to call

Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

2000-07-26 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You also want to install everything that magicfilter 'suggests' [...] > You can find the names of the programs by grepping through the filter file > and checking the against the contents file. Or just run a pass through > dselect. ;) Actually I did install magicfilter

Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?

2000-07-26 Thread Carlos José Pérez Sanjuán
Hi, I'm planning to build a Debian Linux Virtual Server Internet Web in substitution of a Windows NT IIS based Web, with frontpage extensions, ASP pages and SQL Server. First of all, I know this is a hard task, then I need some advice if possible. My employer has

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bolan Meek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "R. D. Loga" wrote: > > > > When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script > > failed". Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file > > permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all the > > scrip

Re: mail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: mail problems Date: Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:58:44PM +0930 In reply to:David Purton Quoting David Purton([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I emailed about this a couple of days ago, and still haven't managed to solve > the problem, so I thought I'd try again > > I'm running exim, pi

Re:

2000-07-26 Thread cls--colo spgs
oops, the second should be: # mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /holdfiles. ("cp" won't give you what you want to accomplish.) sorry for the mixup. bentley taylor. // cls--colo spgs wrote: > # mkdir /holdfiles > # cp /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /holdfiles > > (that should do the trick.) > > bentley taylor. > >

RE: cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: LB> On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: -- snip -- OM> in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! -- snip -- LB> They probably have the immutable attribute set. Remove it with chattr. I have the same problem, mine happened

Re:

2000-07-26 Thread cls--colo spgs
# mkdir /holdfiles # cp /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /holdfiles (that should do the trick.) bentley taylor. // Patrick J Draper wrote: > How do I stop my Debian 2.1 machine kicking straight > into X windows or how do I get out once it has.I'm > having problems and wish to boot to the command > line.Many

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-26 Thread Bolan Meek
"R. D. Loga" wrote: > > When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script > failed". Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file > permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all the > scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory too? Is there an e

Re: "Cannot find map file"

2000-07-26 Thread Marcin Pilarczyk
- Original Message - From: "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Krzys Majewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian user list (undigested)" Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:12 PM Subject: Re: "Cannot find map file" On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What does this mean? -c

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Unfortunately, there isn't a fetchpop package anymore. I wonder > when it was removed from the distribution. Well, here's a strange thing. Not only is fetchpop gone, you can't even find it in the ML archive. A Google search t

RE: NT Authentication over Debian Firewall/Router

2000-07-26 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
You can allow a Windows NT machine to authenticate to another machine that is not on the same subnet by specifying the computer name in the c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts file. the entry would look something like 10.x.x.x nt_pdc_name #PRE #DOM:your_nt_domain_name Then you would

Re: bug of sh ?

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas Guettler
I looked at it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/diplom$ rm -f tt; echo "echo a; echo b" | sh -x >> tt; cat tt gurkensalat:/home/guettli/diplom:4>echo a gurkensalat:/home/guettli/diplom:4>echo b a b [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/diplom$ sh --version GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 1998

Re: Inn

2000-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:30:30PM +, Christopher Clark wrote: > In other words. I want a news system that downloads selected news groups > from my dialup account and distributes that to a few users on a few > computers. Suck is designed to do that. Run it with inn. And it will grab an active

Re: how to configure the networks card in RedHat

2000-07-26 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Montefin: After run netstat -rn: I get the following information: kernel IP routing table: Destination Gateway GenmaskFlags Mss Windows 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 o irtt Iface 0 lo My netrorks card is D-link, but when i install it I use NE2000 compatible to config

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:31:05AM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > Yah. I have an RTL8139 based card as well. I think the problem is in linux, > not the card, as I have them also in several other systems (running > Windows95 and Windows2000) and they work great there. No, it's the card. Reading the

Problems updating development kernel / init not found

2000-07-26 Thread Tim Jansen
Hi... I'm using Debian unstable with the 2.3.42 kernel and try to update to 2.4-test4 or any other reasonable new kernel. The problem is that the new kernels wont boot, I always get a "Kernel panic: init not found" message when booting the new kernel. The same problem occurs with all other new

Packaging of OpenSSH (version 2)

2000-07-26 Thread Mark Janssen
Is anyone working on a .deb package of OpenSSH (version 2) the SSH implementation that does both protocol version 1 and 2 I've got it manually compiled right now... but packages are a lot cleaner :) (www.openssh.com from the *BSD guys) Mark Janssen Unix Consult

wine problem

2000-07-26 Thread Richard Black
Hi all, I am trying to use wine--something that I have had no problem doing in the past--but all I get currently are exec errors e.g.: wine WORDPAD.EXE Could not stat /floppy, ignoring drive A: Could not stat /cdrom, ignoring drive D: wine: can't exec 'WORDPAD.EXE': error=0 Any help would be muc

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Russ Pitman wrote: > I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaround is to > read the mailbox on the server from netscape and delete all mail with > "unidentified sender" in the address. These are always empty. > > I asked on the fetchmail-friends list if it is possible to te

Re: Kernel recompile problems (fwd)

2000-07-26 Thread Pavel M. Penev
From: Pavel M. Penev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Kernel recompile problems > Then why not try moddep -a -e? I meant "depmod" here. Sorry, Pavel

Re: "Cannot find map file"

2000-07-26 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What does this mean? -chris > > Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: Cannot find map file. > Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: No module symbols loaded. See klogd(8) for explanation. Hope this is enoug, Pavel

Re: chroot bind in debian

2000-07-26 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hey all. I'm looking for some documentation on setting up chroot bind > (for security reasons) on a potato system. Specifically I'm looking for > info on exactly how to accomplish it and how well the Debian

Re: sound

2000-07-26 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > I just got debian up and running and now have to figure my Yamaha sound card. > Can anyone direct me to a faq or give me some directions on how to configure? > thanks I have a Yamaha on my machine. It's working perfectly. The kernel supports "OPL[1-3x]

Re: Kernel recompile problems

2000-07-26 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote: > > My first problem is that after the recompile and setting up lilo, > > when I reboot my computer, every single module fails to load because > > of a huge number of unresolved symbol errors. > > It sounds like you forgot to install the modules, or

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-26 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On 25 Jul 2000, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success / > failure? Hi, guys. Here's what I did: # cd /tmp # tail -c 1048576 /dev/hda > t.bulk.o # cat t.bulk.o | bzip2 -1 > t.bulk.bz2 # echo "Damage string to insert before actual bz2 image" > tm

RE: Setting up DNS for virtual domains

2000-07-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, IMHO, it's not all that complicated, and I'll try to make it seem simple. In order for a machine to be a DNS server it just has to be running BIND or some equivalent (that was easy wasn't it). As long as you have a static routeable IP address and a name to go with it, you are i

Re: PS2 mouse and gpm

2000-07-26 Thread Frodo Baggins
KerstinKerstin Hoef-Emden scripsit: > >Hi, > >On 21 Jul 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > >> I had these problems too, but now the combination of X *and* gpm works >> flawlessly with a logitech 3-button mouse with the following gpm.conf: >> >>device=/dev/psaux >>responsiveness= >>type=p

RE: is there a midi/wav plugin for Netscape?

2000-07-26 Thread Pollywog
I forgot, I had to install Timidity before installing Plugger, for it to work. -- Andrew On 26-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote: > > On 25-Jul-2000 Christophe Broult wrote: >> >> A friend send me the URL of a greeting card which included some >> sound. I was unable to hear the sound because Netscape com

RE: NT Authentication over Debian Firewall/Router

2000-07-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I'm just going to throw out some random guesses that might actually hit the right thing. I would look at forwarding traffic from port 139 (+/-, netbios anyway) from your PDC through the firewall to your now rouge NT box (you probably want to be VERY specific and careful about i

Re: is there a midi/wav plugin for Netscape?

2000-07-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Christophe! On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Christophe Broult wrote: > A friend send me the URL of a greeting card which included some > sound. I was unable to hear the sound because Netscape complained that > there was no plugin for midi/wav sound. > > How can I configure Netscape to play some sound? I

Re: Just one package from woody with apt-get?

2000-07-26 Thread John Foster
montefin wrote: > -stuff snipped- > And if anyone else on the list thinks this is courting disaster, please > let both Ross and I know. Ok? -stuff snipped- I think your both OK... I have been do

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