Re: kernel-package concept question

2000-08-30 Thread Brad
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:55:35AM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Also, I have assumed that if I make modifications to the kernel > configuration, I should use the revision scheme to make a next kernel. > This is the point where I assumed that again the pcmcia modules should > be rebuild to ac

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Russ Pitman
So apt-get update apt-get upgrade on a daily routine should keep your release as secure as possible. Yes? On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:48:01PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that w

Re: LILO

2000-08-30 Thread Dean
Hi Chris: When the computer is booting up you should see lilo on the screen ( since it defaults to windows it should show lilo for several seconds and then after that it should show a message under lilo loading windows). If you see lilo at the c prompt as the computer loads hit shift to pause the

Re: LI after Install

2000-08-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi jack take me to your leader ( just kidding ) i hope you have another linux system if you doand its system is same or close enough... copy the kernel from that other box to floppy and boot from floppy other# dd if=/boot/your_kernel of=/dev/fd0 other# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1

Re: X keyboard issue in debian operating in vmware

2000-08-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:42:18PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > I am having trouble getting X to run in my vmware debian box. I have > gotten the vmware tools to register their video driver, and it seems to > work ok (x does not bark at it and has the right name in there) ... > > but it gives me a c

eth0: card reports no RX buffers. (eepro100)

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
This started happening recently. Sometimes when i boot up my screen floods with : eth0: card reports no RX buffers. eth0: card reports no resources. eth0: card reports no RX buffers. over and over again.. at first i thought it was an IRQ conflict but nothing in the system had changed it just star

Re: LI after Install

2000-08-30 Thread Jack Morgan
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jack Morgan wrote: >I installed debian on a new HDD and after installing the base I get LI at >boot time? Any suggestions as to what I did wrong? I also tried Tom's boot disk and got LIL- Thanks Jack Morgan Debian GNU/Linux Enthusiast [EMAIL PROTE

Re: gnumeric crashes

2000-08-30 Thread mcclosk
In case anyone has had similar problems, I'm responding to my own post earlier today about gnumeric (in potato/stable) crashing as soon as it's called. I upgraded to the version in woody, and the problem has gone, Jim

Re: Seeking advice on dbms and programming languages.

2000-08-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:37:39PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently work for a company doing database development with MS SQL Server > and VisualBasic. I'd like to branch out a little bit and learn some linux > based solutions. Is MySQL & C++ a good combination for doing

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it > ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
Mark Simos said: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it > ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds > > i did notice that the rest

LI after Install

2000-08-30 Thread Jack Morgan
I installed debian on a new HDD and after installing the base I get LI at boot time? Any suggestions as to what I did wrong? Thanks Jack Morgan Debian GNU/Linux Enthusiast [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mandinka.org

X keyboard issue in debian operating in vmware

2000-08-30 Thread Mark Simos
I am having trouble getting X to run in my vmware debian box. I have gotten the vmware tools to register their video driver, and it seems to work ok (x does not bark at it and has the right name in there) ... but it gives me a confusing keyboard config file error begin my retype:

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Thanks for the response. > Confused though, my card says 3c509b on it, not 3c590. Wassup? You certainly are confused :) The 3c509 series of cards (aka EtherLink III) are, and always have been, ISA units. Look at the contents of /proc

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. > > > > You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, > > just in case. ALL: ALL d

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. > > You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, > just in case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some > reason. In an

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread A. Wrasman
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > > On SecurityPortal there is an article about Debian 2.2 security: > > > > http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html > > > > Just read it and tel

Re: CAPS->CTRL in console

2000-08-30 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:05:19PM +0200, Renald Buter wrote: > Hai, > > > I have the CAPS-LOCK mapped as a CTRL under X11. I'd like to > have this also when using an ordinary virtual console. Is this possible? Yes. Under /usr/share/keymaps/ you'll find a set of system keymaps. Generally, you'

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-30 Thread Mark Simos
well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it ain't running at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) the file is as follows: -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds i did notice that the rest of the entries in the dir are li

Re: Voodoo3 3000

2000-08-30 Thread Jean-Philippe Gu?rard
Le 2000-08-27 16:16:37 -0600, John Swain écrivait : > I have a voodoo3 3000 card and I can get it using the svga > server and all, but I just cant figure how to install the glide > drivers that came with the debian 2.2 release. You need to install and compile the device3dfx-source module. The

Re: /var/spool/mail/?

2000-08-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:06:48PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > my non-root account is "bt," but my real email username > is "pplaw ," which is not a "user" on any of my > boxes. so, as "bt," when i execute mutt, i get > "/var/spool/mail/bt," instead of > "/var/spool/mail/pplaw." > >

Re: Seeking advice on dbms and programming languages.

2000-08-30 Thread Mike Phillips
> I currently work for a company doing database development with MS SQL Server > and VisualBasic. I'd like to branch out a little bit and learn some linux > based solutions. Is MySQL & C++ a good combination for doing some home > learning/experimenting? I'm currently playing with Postgres and Py

Re: Configuring Mouse in X

2000-08-30 Thread Mark Simos
most laptop internal mice connect to the "ps2" port in windows and the hardware handles whether either or both the internal and external work, so you might try that... my $.02 Mark "I. Tura" wrote: > Better refer to a laptop list in [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Best, > > Ignas

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. This should perhaps You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, just in case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some reason. > Change your BIOS settings to only boot from

Re: DNS problem

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:09:27PM -0400, Anson Ng wrote: > I want to host the domain for my LAN, which consists of a Linux box > (24.123.456.789) running www, mail, news, ftp for public access and the > internal LAN (192.168.1.x). Last night, I configured a primary DNS server > for "impko.com"

Seeking advice on dbms and programming languages.

2000-08-30 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, I currently work for a company doing database development with MS SQL Server and VisualBasic. I'd like to branch out a little bit and learn some linux based solutions. Is MySQL & C++ a good combination for doing some home learning/experimenting? Regards, Bill

Status of secure RPC

2000-08-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I want to use Secure RPC, so I can use Secure NFS (and possibly NIS+). I am somewhat confused about the status of the Secure RPC implementation in Linux. Judging from various HOWTOs, Secure RPC is not currently implemented, but I found pre-Alpha client code via google (http://www.cs.vu

Re: [OT] Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, sorry about the OT message. While on the topic of realtek8029, I have got a pcmcia 8029 ethernet card and it works perfectly under linux. But I can never get this card working under w2k :( Anyone have any ideas? Shao. -- __

NIC failure in 2.2.16

2000-08-30 Thread Ernie DeVries
I use Corel's Linux distribution and am among many who are having a problems with NICs that worked fine under the Debian 2.2.12. or 2.2.14 version, but fail under the version based on Debian 2.2.16. I'm hoping that readers of this list can help me identify if this is a Debian problem or a Core

Re: DNS problem

2000-08-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Aug-2000 Spinfire Magenta wrote: > on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:19:27PM +, Pollywog spewed forth on stone > tablets: >> What about using GraniteCanyon (www.granitecanyon.com) or Centralinfo.net? >> Wouldn't those work? > > My own experiences with GraniteCanyon and Centralinfo.net left me

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > > On SecurityPortal there is an article about Debian 2.2 security: > > > > http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html > > The Author (Kurt Seifried) makes the newbie

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-30 Thread Shao Zhang
give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. And it renders both frame/table nicely. apt-get install w3m w3m-ssl Shao. Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh, the horror. I may not survive! lynx has gone *mad*. > > It's still using /etc/lynxcfg, at least for some things. My > cu

Re: DNS problem

2000-08-30 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:19:27PM +, Pollywog spewed forth on stone tablets: > What about using GraniteCanyon (www.granitecanyon.com) or Centralinfo.net? > Wouldn't those work? My own experiences with GraniteCanyon and Centralinfo.net left me using Centralinfo. Granite canyon was more flake

Compiling sound support for sblive

2000-08-30 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello all ye Debian users, Im new to Debian and this list, hope the question hasn't been answered yet. When trying to compile the sblive module, with my new own kernel headers i get a 8390.ver file not found in the kernel headers. Does anyone has a hint as to what mudules I have to select to get

RE: Apt-get doesn'f find propose-updates

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Aug-2000 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > In ftp.uk.debian.org the README file for proposed-updates in potato says > > "You can access this directory with apt by adding > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates" > > I therefore put in my /etc/apt/sources.list

Rsync and another ssh port

2000-08-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I maintain a web server and want to use rsync to syncronize web pages. I have some questions: 1) Do I have to have a rsync server at my web server machine or just have to use rsync command line in the client? 2) I change the default ssh port (instead

Re: DNS problem

2000-08-30 Thread Pollywog
What about using GraniteCanyon (www.granitecanyon.com) or Centralinfo.net? Wouldn't those work? I did not know that NSI allowed domain registrants to "park" domains with them. -- Andrew

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread John Hasler
Jeff Green writes: > Of course this is really a very good idea if you don't actually want to > use the internet. The Web is not the Net. > If we don't look at the ads the advertisers won't pay anyone to put them > there and the sites will all go away. It will no doubt come as a shock to you to l

installing, scsi port error

2000-08-30 Thread jess
Hi Maybe someone can help me. When i try to boot up from the debian 2.1 cd for the first times to install the program. I hit enter at the boot prompt like it says and it spits out a whole bunch of stuff and freezes up with the last line being ncr53c406a :no avalible ports found ncr53c406a, i be

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-30 Thread Shaul Karl
> > The next script will turn numlock on for the first six consoles. > > > > #!/bin/sh > > INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6] > > for tty in $INITTY; do > > setleds -D +num < $tty > > done > > > > When you save it as /etc/rc2.d/S20setleds numlock will be set at > > the system > > startup. > > I haven't read eve

Re: q ad refusing smtp-conns with sendmail

2000-08-30 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:19:44 EDT, Richard A Nelson writes: >On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> >> I´m looking for a solution which will let me refuse smtp-connections >> from some hosts with specific 5xx-error-messages. > >sendmail will do this for you... > >The access.db will allow

what's wrong with Debian's ftp sites?

2000-08-30 Thread Pollywog
The ftp sites shown below have not worked for me for several weeks. Are they just very busy? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free -- Andrew

floppy kernel won't boot from hd

2000-08-30 Thread Geordie Birch
recently i installed d 2.2 on a friends compaq 1810 p2 64 meg ram 6 gig hd laptop. since it wasn't mine i didn't select 'make bootable from hd' during installation. yesterday i ran lilo and it loads and starts the kernel which then panics; can't mount vfs. still boots fine from floppy. i

Re: DNS problem

2000-08-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Anson Ng wrote: > Hi, (I'm sorry for the long email, but since I've to tell situation) > > I've registered a domain name "impko.com" at Network Solutions. But > since I haven't setup my DNS server and running properly, I parked it to > Network solutions for the time being. I want to host the dom

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that were available > up until potato was released. Be sure to check out the slashdot story > going on about this. I need to correct myself: Security upgrades are released after th

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Complain about old Apache, ProFTP: If you always want the latest > fixes, you need to get the stuff from the sources (Eg www.apache.org) Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that were available up until potato was rel

Re: Configuring Mouse in X

2000-08-30 Thread I. Tura
Better refer to a laptop list in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best, Ignasi At 11.30 30/8/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: >Hi, >I just installed all the files for X Free 86 3.3.6 onto my system, and I'm >having a little trouble (ironically). While I'm quite sure of how to

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-30 Thread I. Tura
This is one of my idiosyncracies... Do you have a little electric shock when you touch any metallic part of the computer? If not, interpret the messages Gnome gives you. And start to ask you if it's hardware problem or not. Don't know about Stormix, but

Re: Dream Machine (sort of...)

2000-08-30 Thread I. Tura
At 05.39 29/8/00 -0500, Ronald L. Chichester ha escrit: >Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a >good PC running Debian? I'm looking for something around the $2,000 >range (without monitor). I'll happily build the box myself. What I'm >looking for is a good match

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Paul T.McNally
Michael Smith wrote: BTW, I've hooked up several boxen to @home, and sometimes the "modem" needs to be turned off. That's my big troubleshooting step if I can't ping the outside. It's a step we take all the time on our CSU/DSU units (some people call them modems). Bottom line is that it w

Apt-get doesn'f find propose-updates

2000-08-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
In ftp.uk.debian.org the README file for proposed-updates in potato says "You can access this directory with apt by adding deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates" I therefore put in my /etc/apt/sources.list the following: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.o

make-kpkg problem

2000-08-30 Thread Larry Holish
I just upgraded from slink to potato rather successfully. I am having a problem upgrading my kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.17pre6-1. I installed kernel-package, and grabbed kernel-source-2.2.17, unzipped/untarred it from /usr/src, creating the new directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17. Then ran th

Re: Restoring with taper

2000-08-30 Thread Barry Samuels
"Dr. Orange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to choose individual files or directories with taper. I > enter the restore section and i don't see a way of entering the info file > in order to do this. I don't know much about Taper. Tried it once and couldn't get it to work properly.

telling apt to ignore and continue

2000-08-30 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Hi, Majordomo was removed from the official distributions, but I needed it. It was automatically removed when I used apt-get dist-upgrade. So, I forced dpkg to add it manually. Now, when I try to apt-get upgrade my system, it won't continue because Majordomo is installed, and has unmet dependencie

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Smith
BTW, I've hooked up several boxen to @home, and sometimes the "modem" needs to be turned off. That's my big troubleshooting step if I can't ping the outside.

Re: Device settings for sound configuration

2000-08-30 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:01:46PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Dear list. I would like to install sound on my Dell laptop. I seem to > have managed to compile the kernel properly and loaded the modules. > Only, the standard permissions on the device files only allow root to > play sound. >

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:49:08PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Does "apt-get" also save the downloaded software? yes. > If so where would I look for it to save to a floppy or zip? the debs are in /var/cache/apt/archives/ from time to time you get asked, wether you want to delete these

Apache mod_rewrite

2000-08-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
I need to do the following in order to access stats for each based virtual host when typing url www.virtualhost1.com/stats or www.virtualhost99.com/stats server page located under /var/reports/virtualhost1 or /var/reports/virtualhost99 I've tryed on my httpd.conf: RewriteEngine on Rewrit

Re: regularly dying network connection

2000-08-30 Thread hawk
nate nibbled > hawk wrote: > > My network goes down quite regularly, especially under load. > > The card is a eepro, > i had a similar problem a couple years ago using eepro100 cards in old > machines(p100-p133) my solution was to rip out hte cards and install $12 > NE2k 10baseT cards(ISA

Re: Device settings for sound configuration

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Aug-2000 Funn Dipp wrote: > I just installed Debian Potato a week ago. All I had to do is add my regular > username to the audio group. I suspect if you do the same for each user that > needs to use sound, you'll be all set. This is indeed the Debian way to solve the "problem". audio gro

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
"michael d. ivey" wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:25:28PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > still can't do(although i still see people reference it sometimes i > > never got it workin) is the 'search' function to search thru things, i > > keep seeing from time-to-time people say 'apt-get search

RE: 'menu' package : question : console support ? ; mailing-lis

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Aug-2000 Sean Champ wrote: > hi. > > if the debian 'menu' package [ > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ ] does offer > console-support , this email can probably be disregarded. > > ( having a need to stay booted to ms-w right now, i can't check this myself, > yet. also

RE: kernel-package concept question

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> It has been suggested in a previous post that the pcmcia should have > been left alone. Now my question is, when is it required to rebuild that? > Only if I compile a kernel from a different source? > At this point, I am left in a situation where I am unable to install the > 0.2 kernel.deb becaus

RE: Packages I Don't want to upgrade

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> I'm sure there is a way in Debian to flag certain packages to not > upgrade, and I would appreciate any instructions on this. > dpkg --set-selections < file file looks like: package hold foo hold bar hold or as suggested, use dselect. > Also - I know there is a XF4 deb packaging proj

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article]

2000-08-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "William" == William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: >> Just read it and tell me what you think about it. William> I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues William> that make sense and should of been ta

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Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:15:04AM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > I bought a 3c509b PCI thinking this would be the easiest and most > reliable thing to get working.. bullshit. > /proc/pci says: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). So it i

gnumeric crashes

2000-08-30 Thread mcclosk
I upgraded to potato from slink yesterday, and the process was in general very smooth indeed---the easiest upgrade I've done. I'm left with one problem though. Gnumeric seg-faults every time it's called. This is a disappoinment, because one of the reasons that I wanted to do this upgrade was the

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Aug-2000 hawk wrote: > > It's also great for dealing with cookies. You can specifiy which > domains *are* allowed to set cookies. I don't mind ads, but I resent cookies very much, so I use Junkbuster. Every once in a while I do find that I have cookies from disallowed sites. -- Andrew

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:25:28 -0700, Nate Amsden said: [snip] : : you can 'clear' the cache if you want by running apt-get clean. you can : also specify another location to download to, you can also tell it to : download *only* and not install(see manpage for apt-get), one thing apt :

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread michael d. ivey
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:25:28PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > still can't do(although i still see people reference it sometimes i > never got it workin) is the 'search' function to search thru things, i > keep seeing from time-to-time people say 'apt-get search ' > but none of my machines with apt

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread cls-colo spgs
yes; and /var/cache/apt/archives hth. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // "Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > [snip > Does "apt-get" also save the downloaded software? > If so where would I look for it to save to a floppy or zip? > > --- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread Funn Dipp
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wrote: > Also, there's one ad system I haven't figured out how to block: I've seen > many ads that have URLs "ads.admonitor.net" but nslookup claims this is a > nonexiststant host/network, so I can't add it to my firewalling rules. Any >

Re: Device settings for sound configuration

2000-08-30 Thread Funn Dipp
I just installed Debian Potato a week ago. All I had to do is add my regular username to the audio group. I suspect if you do the same for each user that needs to use sound, you'll be all set. [-_] On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:01:46PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Dear list. I would like

Re: regularly dying network connection

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
hawk wrote: > > My network goes down quite regularly, especially under load. I've > written a script to force-reload after waiting five seconds, whcih leaves it > functional most of the time (although some requests hit when the network is > down and casue errors--meaning that sometimes it doesn

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > In FreeBSD there exists a "ports" tree with hundreds of > software titles that have been "ported" to FreeBSD. One only > has to connect to Internet and do a "make; make install; make clean" > for FreeBSD to go to the proper FTP site(s) to download the > software

Re: Q: Pop3 demon with SSL support

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
it has support for IMAP over SSL and SMTP over SSL i dont think it has support for POP3/ssl looking again i dont see any ssl options in the pop3 properties. nate Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya... > > doesn't netscape's email client have the SSL button to enable > SSL when sending/receiving email

Re: how to diagnose ethernet card?

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Smith wrote: > tcpdump tells you the raw tcp messages, and is great for troubleshooting. yeah I used this and it did help a bit > > Also, ping your net address this always worked > > ifconfig might be what you are looking for if you want to see if the > interfa

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi Doug, Try apt-get --print-uris -y dselect-upgrade >PACKAGES Take that file to your work machine and do a for i in `awk http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) Amazon.com: One-Click Patent - One-Cl

regularly dying network connection

2000-08-30 Thread hawk
My network goes down quite regularly, especially under load. I've written a script to force-reload after waiting five seconds, whcih leaves it functional most of the time (although some requests hit when the network is down and casue errors--meaning that sometimes it doesn't even stay up five

Device settings for sound configuration

2000-08-30 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear list. I would like to install sound on my Dell laptop. I seem to have managed to compile the kernel properly and loaded the modules. Only, the standard permissions on the device files only allow root to play sound. Can someone please advice which device files need what settings in order for an

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
Again, I'm on crack, the card does say 3c905 not 3c509. I got the 'b' right though.. chris On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Chris Majewski wrote: > Thanks for the response. > Confused though, my card says 3c509b on it, not 3c590. Wassup? > chris > >

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
Hm, I can't remember if I tried pinging the default gateway before I got the connection going five minutes ago. No I'm not running an internal network and never was. Anyway I'm glad it works now but still shaky on the network problem diagnosis issue.. if I hadn't been stubborn and tried 3 nics i m

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread hawk
David dithered, > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wrote: > > Interested in hearing different strategies for blocking ads. Presently I > > use a mixture of input-chain firewall rules and redirection in my > > /etc/hosts file. > > Since I'm running DNS for my LAN, is ther

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
First of all, I just got the connection working. Thanks to all. Using the correct NIC driver did the trick, though note that I did try two different NICs earlier this week with negative results. To sum up: isapnp 3c509 no longer works (although the driver reports no errors), pci NDC card with tuli

apt-get question

2000-08-30 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
In FreeBSD there exists a "ports" tree with hundreds of software titles that have been "ported" to FreeBSD. One only has to connect to Internet and do a "make; make install; make clean" for FreeBSD to go to the proper FTP site(s) to download the software and install it. The software that is down

Dialpad

2000-08-30 Thread Ray Percival
Does anybody know if it is possible to get Dialpad to work under Linux? I know they do not support it. Does anyone know of any unofficial clients? This is may last barrier to getting rid of winders for good. Thanks.

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Ray Percival
Can you ping your default gateway? Also are you running a internal network? -- Original Message -- From: Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:28:22 -0700 (PDT) >I have a cable connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >It worked under linux.

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Paul T.McNally
Chris Majewski wrote: I have a cable connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It worked under linux. I now have a new machine. Even with the same ethernet card as the old machine, I can't get the connection going. Same settings, same ip address, no dhcp (don't need it says Rogers, since my ip hasn't c

DNS problem

2000-08-30 Thread Anson Ng
Hi, (I'm sorry for the long email, but since I've to tell situation) I've registered a domain name "impko.com" at Network Solutions. But since I haven't setup my DNS server and running properly, I parked it to Network solutions for the time being. I want to host the domain for my LAN, which cons

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Ray Percival
The best I've been able to figure it out is that the two models are close enough on the chipset that the drivers work right at least the *nix drivers under windows you would want to get the 3c509b drivers under linux the other works as well and the driver is in most distros. Same reason, I guess

Re: how to diagnose ethernet card?

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Smith
tcpdump tells you the raw tcp messages, and is great for troubleshooting. Also, ping your net address ifconfig might be what you are looking for if you want to see if the interface is setup and running. Chris Majewski wrote: > Given that my network is down, how can I check if my NIC works? > I

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Smith
The 3c59x module is built right into the stock kernel (at least for potato). You don't even have to load a module. As long as it is recognized, it should work. I just did an install yesterday on one, and I skipped all the configure modules stuff--just configured the network and I was off. Ch

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
Thanks for the response. Confused though, my card says 3c509b on it, not 3c590. Wassup? chris On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > I just use the Vortex module. I know the numbers are not right but it works > very well vor me 3C9XXX is the model number I think will have to check when I

how to diagnose ethernet card?

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
Given that my network is down, how can I check if my NIC works? In particular, if el3diag gives a successful-looking message and no errors, can I assume the NIC is OK? (My cable modem connection is foobar and I would like to at least trust my hardware) thanks chris

cable connection stopped working

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Majewski
I have a cable connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It worked under linux. I now have a new machine. Even with the same ethernet card as the old machine, I can't get the connection going. Same settings, same ip address, no dhcp (don't need it says Rogers, since my ip hasn't changed). I can up the eth0

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread Jeff Green
Of course this is really a very good idea if you don't actually want to use the internet. If we don't look at the ads the advertisers won't pay anyone to put them there and the sites will all go away. Jeff David Karlin wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wro

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Ray Percival
I just use the Vortex module. I know the numbers are not right but it works very well vor me 3C9XXX is the model number I think will have to check when I get home to make sure. -- Original Message -- From: Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 A

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi Owen! Why don't you use junkbuster as filtering proxy? There you'll have a blockfile that works with regular expressions (ad*.*.* for example): dpkg -s junkbuster: Package: junkbuster Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Paul Haggart <[

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread David Karlin
Hi, On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wrote: > Interested in hearing different strategies for blocking ads. Presently I > use a mixture of input-chain firewall rules and redirection in my > /etc/hosts file. > > Since I'm running DNS for my LAN, is there a way to set it up

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