Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With time, the size of /var/log/messages keeps on growing, > till it really becomes really huge, with information no > longer needed. Since syslogd is constantly monitoring and writing on to > it, I have never attempted initialising a fresh /var/log/messages

Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya make sure cron is runningit already rotates log files weekly/monthly... at least on the 1u raid5 debian box i poke around in if you want to manually rotate your logs kill syslogd or sysklogdthan move it aside... but you must also kill things like the web server too that logs s

Re: SysVinit prob... now runlevel question

2000-09-03 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:25:57AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > As I understand it, X86 hardware hardly ever uses anything but two levels. I > know sun > hardware actually makes significant use of the runlevels, but I am made to > understand > that nobody ever really bothered to implement any more

Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread USM Bish
With time, the size of /var/log/messages keeps on growing, till it really becomes really huge, with information no longer needed. Since syslogd is constantly monitoring and writing on to it, I have never attempted initialising a fresh /var/log/messages on a running machine. Is there a recommended

Re: volume control?

2000-09-03 Thread Andrei Ivanov
That means your user can not write to /dev/mixer...I think. At least thats the problem I had. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exter

Re: non-root login causes X (gnome) to restart itself

2000-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... when you first login into Xchange it to KDE ... under sessions and see if it works than try it under gnome. if it still flashes... you need to create .xinitrc and/or .xsession or equiv for gnome whatever default its looking for... - some gnomes works on mine...some f

RE: ssh from nt? - Port forwarding

2000-09-03 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all I tried a little while back to forward VNC connections through an SSH tunnel (by telling SSH to listen for connections on local port *X1* and forward them to foreign port *Y3* -- and then VNC-ing to *X1*). However, I got an error from Teraterm Pro (with TSSH ext.), along the lines of "appli

RE: crontab control?

2000-09-03 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi it is controlled by /etc/crontab, one possibility why it's not running may be the execute permissions on either the /etc/cron.daily directory or the specific scripts ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of

non-root login causes X (gnome) to restart itself

2000-09-03 Thread Mark Simos
Weird behavior, I am guessing permissions, but don't know which would affect it in this way: I can log in through X as root no problem, If I login in on the same screen with and password: -it goes blank -flashes back to the console for a moment -restarts X back at the login prompt both

Re: stupid question (threadkill)

2000-09-03 Thread Mark Simos
I sort of got around it by doing a "shutdown now" which put me in a state good enough to mess with it. I am not 100% that it really was in use. I could have been misunderstanding the error or vi could have stolen some of my crack and smoked it 8^) In any case, I thank you very much for you help

Re: configuring X

2000-09-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
As I recall, CTRL-ALT-F1, issued multiple times will break you out of this. If you started from the first tty, you might have to use CTL-ALT-F2. Then you can kill X from the console. Hope this helps. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : X is a big meanie :-) : Okay, well actually it's my own inab

Re: SysVinit prob... now runlevel question

2000-09-03 Thread Mark Simos
As I understand it, X86 hardware hardly ever uses anything but two levels. I know sun hardware actually makes significant use of the runlevels, but I am made to understand that nobody ever really bothered to implement any more than two different runlevels. (I think this is similar to windows pr

volume control?

2000-09-03 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys, I am using xmms to play my mp3's but the difference in volume between the tv/vcr/etc and the mp3's is noticable. In fact my xmms volume is at 0. Moving it to 100 makes no difference. What is it that I'm missing that will allow control of the input/output? I'm running woody, enlighten

Re: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-03 Thread Mark Simos
perhaps simply a link that would show up in a standard graphical mailer (netscape or outlook express , etc. ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or would that be too easy for them? (I haven't figured out if that last comment is sarcastic or not... :) Mark "I. Tura" wrote: > At 17.02 2/9/00 -0400, Noah

/etc/networks line

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
This morning I asked what needs to be in the /etc/networks file for a box doing dialup via ppp and masquerading for a winbox via eth0. I have yet to receive an answer. Maybe this will help. type cat /etc/networks if you have a system somewhat as described above then hit enter then email

Re: LILO/Boot floppies

2000-09-03 Thread ktb
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got > up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old > kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting > Linux and Win

Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... i think that a server running w/o kb and w/o mouse is a motherboard problem or the kvm switch problem - try a different motherboard if that worksmagic... - i usually just use intel or asus or tyan mb... and even that is model dependent for which system bo

Re: LILO/Boot floppies

2000-09-03 Thread ktb
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got > up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old > kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting > Linux and Win

Re: eth0: card reports no RX buffers. (eepro100)

2000-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate... i've seen that silly "card reports noRX buffer" errors... i usually just rerun lilo and it seems to clear it up on my D815EEAAL mb w/ onboard nic.. and if i have other pci-based nics...i still go those RX buffer problems...so its just "timing" ?? somewhere on the mb or bios or netw

Re: Off-Topic? -> silly mutt question

2000-09-03 Thread Kent Pirkle
I made a symbolic link called inbox in my mutt mail directory that links to my /var/spool/mail inbox. Kent On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have figured > out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to th

Re: LILO/Boot floppies

2000-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
When you see the LILO prompt (this is booting from the HD) hit the key the the key. You'll now see a list to choose from. Just type in the name of the one you want to boot. The default is just whatever comes first in /etc/lilo.conf *if* you don't have a default specification. Check out 'man li

Re: BIND setup

2000-09-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Asked and answered a million times on the bind-isc mailing lists. It's also in the BIND FAQ: http://www.nominium.com/resources/bind-faq.html#nottl Put a $TTL value above your SOA record. On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:11:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > When starting bind, I get the fo

Re: linuxconf problems

2000-09-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Also, AFAIK... the linuxconf distributed in Potato states clearly that some things in it work on Debian and some don't in the README.Debian file... You may want to look at that before continuing to use it. Linuxconf is worthless, anyway. Learn to config the box the correct way. :) On Fri, Sep

Re: eth0: card reports no RX buffers. (eepro100)

2000-09-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Hi Nate! :) If it's any help for anyone smarter than I, I've seen this same problem on a Dell GX100 with on-board EEPRO100 card and the Intel810i chipset (which I know requires much joy and the agpart module loaded to get X working) at the office... A complete hardware restart usually clears it?

Re: DNS problem

2000-09-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Spinfire Magenta wrote: > My own experiences with GraniteCanyon and Centralinfo.net left me > using Centralinfo. Granite canyon was more flakey and went up and > down like a cheap whore on a busy night. Not having any experience with either one, I can't g

gmc + window maker bug?

2000-09-03 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Whenever I run gmc (from the helix-gnome 1.2 preview 2) and Window Maker 0.62.1 (from woody), and I exit Window Maker without killing gmc first, Window Maker crashes. Is this a known bug? Thanks, Patrix. == http://www.patrix.org "You can have Peace, or you can have Freedom. Don't ever count on ha

Re: XFS problems

2000-09-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Whoa that's weird... 2.1 is going to be getting stale fast any reason you're not using 2.2? I haven't the faintest idea why you're getting this problem, but thought a descriptive subject line might bring more help :) >From the package description:

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Gutierrez Family
Success ! Thanks to all who have spent time helping me out. I'm sure that if I had given you the right information from the start, we would've resolved this a while ago. Sure enough, linking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux was incorrect !! As John pointed out, I really have a serial mouse. When linkin

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:17:11AM +0200, Sebastian Ritter wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: > > > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package called > > KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any experience > > getting > > KEA to use any

Re: strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:10:58AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: > > Anyone have any idea what this is: > > > > Sep 3 17:17:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > > Sep 3 17:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > > Sep 3 17:57:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > > Sep 3 18:17:30 stimpy -- MAR

Re: strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread iehrenwald
> > Sep 3 17:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- Those are from syslogd. I think it defaults to every 20 minutes making a -- MARK -- in the logs. I occasionally find them useful for finding out an aprox. time when an even occured. The interval can be changed with the -m arg. Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Off-Topic? -> silly mutt question

2000-09-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 04:14:45PM -0700, Serge Rey wrote: :On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: :> After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have figured :> out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to the folder :> /var/spool/mail/jensenb. Does anyon

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-03 Thread Sebastian Ritter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package called > KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any experience getting > KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-03 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: > Does anyone have splitvt running on Potato? I have it running fine > on Slink but when I run it on Potato I get the error: > No available pseudo terminals > That is on a console or an xterm. > > I have CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y, CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y, and >

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread John Hasler
Daly writes: > My mouse is a Logitech Trackman and it has a round connector (but it > plugs into my computer using an adaptor - round connector to 9-pin D sub) Then it is a serial mouse and, assuming you have it plugged in to COM1, will be on /dev/ttyS0. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing H

Re: I hosed my network (fixed)

2000-09-03 Thread Cliff Rice
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:40:50AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: Thanks, I managed to get things up and going again by just bumping the IP numbers of loki and thor up by one and the "redo from start" techinique. Note to self, never do networks after 11:00 P.M > (I also don't like the doub

Re: security

2000-09-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:46:51AM -0500, Mike McNally wrote: > > It concerns me when my machine grinds when I don't know why it's > > grinding. I run top and it says find is running. Why? I do a grep > -r > > find /etc/cr* and the only things that com

LILO/Boot floppies

2000-09-03 Thread Rubbish5
I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting Linux and Windows, and I chose Windows as default from hard disk.

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2000-09-03 Thread Ratman
I apologize if this is the wrong question for this list. I was told the people here may be able to help me: Im having a problem loading and installing X with Debian 2.1. After I install X and use it once (and it works fine) the next time I reboot my system will always hang at startup. The last mes

configuring X

2000-09-03 Thread Rubbish5
X is a big meanie :-) Okay, well actually it's my own inability to configure my video properly (I *think* that's what's going on at least.) So my setup: I'm using Debian 2.2. I just did a full upgrade of whatever Debian's newest of everything is, so I'm not quite sure what version of X I've

Re: strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: > Anyone have any idea what this is: > > Sep 3 17:17:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > Sep 3 17:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > Sep 3 17:57:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > Sep 3 18:17:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > Sep 3 18:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- > > I see those all day long. -- I

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
Sorry there, I didn't read everything, you've already tried that. -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
Did you try to run xf86config (the console app), I've sometimes been having trouble getting my ps2 mouse to work w/ xf86setup while after getting at least that part straight with xf86config it appeared as "already set before" in xf86setup which allowed me to finish my setup. btw. xf86config is

strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread William Jensen
Anyone have any idea what this is: Sep 3 17:17:30 stimpy -- MARK -- Sep 3 17:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- Sep 3 17:57:30 stimpy -- MARK -- Sep 3 18:17:30 stimpy -- MARK -- Sep 3 18:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- I see those all day long.

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-03 Thread Sebastian Ritter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:01:09AM +0200, Sebastian Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > > > Hai, > > > > > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests.

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
ls /usr/bin/gpm* ls /usr/sbin/gpm* gpmconfig is a very easy way to configure a mouse, but I'm not sure if it will help with the trackball. Have you tried going to www.deja.com discussions search, power search; enter linux.debian.user for forum and type in trackball for subject. This should round

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread Gutierrez Family
Although I don't exactly know what 'gpm' is... It may not be installed on my system. As you suggested, I tried running "/etc/init.d/gpm stop" as root but I got an error message. I think it said that the file didn't exist or something. In fact, in the /etc/init.d/ directory there isn't gpm anythi

Re: Off-Topic? -> silly mutt question

2000-09-03 Thread Serge Rey
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have figured > out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to the folder > /var/spool/mail/jensenb. Does anyone know a shortcut to this? c! (thats lower-case c and !) --

Re: Off-Topic? -> silly mutt question

2000-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have > figured out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to the folder > /var/spool/mail/jensenb. Does anyone know a shortcut to this? Enter Does... ---

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-03 Thread Eric Hanchrow
William Jensen sez: >> At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a >> package called KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does >> anyone have any experience getting KEA to use any sort of ssh? >> Alternatively, does anyone know of a windows terminal package >

Off-Topic? -> silly mutt question

2000-09-03 Thread William Jensen
After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have figured out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to the folder /var/spool/mail/jensenb. Does anyone know a shortcut to this? Blushing, Bill

Re: stupid question

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > If going back and forth between 'in X' and 'at a text console, but with X > still running offscreen' is good enough for you, try Ctrl-Alt-Fn (for n = > 1-6)i and Alt-F7 to get back to X. If you feel the need to go between > 'in X' and 'X not running', t

Re: I hosed my network

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Pansters
"No route to host" seems kinda weird, but since you can ping I don't think theres anything wrong with your hardware. Anyway, I like it when people RTFM, maybe I can be of some help. loki:/etc# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window

Re: SysVinit problem?

2000-09-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
Bruce Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:12:33AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: :> :> This is ok, Debian doesn't use runlevels 3-5 for anything by default AFAIK, :> and they're mostly equal to runlevel 2 (I think /etc/inittab has some stuff :> which is different,

Re: envelope/label printing program

2000-09-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
It is not free, but -- wordperfect. John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Does anyone know of a program that can print on envelopes, labels, roledex : cards, etc. I have a wonderful one for Dos called "Envelopes Plus," but I : cannot find one for Linux/Unix. I would like to find one so I

Re: networking problem

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
More problems which will hopefully present a clue kernel: registered device ppp0 pppd[432]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 pppd[432]: Using interface ppp8 pppd[432]: Connect : ppp8 <--> /dev/ttyS1 pppd[432]: tcflush failed: input/output error pppd[432]: Exit ls /var/log/lock nothing tree /et

Odd Missing Apps in 2.2 Install

2000-09-03 Thread Howard Arons
OK, I'll admit upfront that I'm new to Debian, but OTOH not to Linux. I installed 2.2 (compact kernel) without any *apparent* errors, but the resulting install proved to be less than useful in some odd ways. I'm too green at Debian to know a bug from a feature :-) I chose a "simple" install, and p

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2000-09-03 Thread ODDBJØRN KJELLBAKK
Hello, i need driver to my etherlink xl 3 com,(pci) netcard, could you please help me   Oddbjørn Kjellbakk Nordfold Norway

Re: System time

2000-09-03 Thread kmself
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:44:44PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:59PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > I should add in that the change is usually by 5 hours, which is my > > timezone's offset from GMT, so I've been wondering if maybe I > > accidentally picked the w

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread Esko Lehtonen
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:04:28PM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ... Maybe MicroBilly does not want people to try different OS's. > > > He does want you to try other OSs, but rather to do it on a permanent

Re: gtk/libpixmap?

2000-09-03 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Install gtk-pixmap-engine. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. --

Re: logitech trackman marble+

2000-09-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Phillip Deackes wrote: > I tried this with my Logitech Trackman Marble mouse and it didn't work. > All that happened wa that my mouse pointer stuck at the top right of the > X display and didn't do anything. may have to configure it through GPM see this page for other solutions http://www-sop.in

Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Does anyone have splitvt running on Potato? I have it running fine on Slink but when I run it on Potato I get the error: No available pseudo terminals That is on a console or an xterm. I have CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y, CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y, and CONFIG_UNIX98_PT

Re: reformatting MBR

2000-09-03 Thread Nate Amsden
just re-load lilo into the MBR just make sure your lilo.conf is configured right to install to the MBR use the line: boot=/dev/hda to install to the primary, master hd, change accordingly for other drives. nate John Anderson wrote: > > I am having an error messages such as "No operating syste

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-03 Thread John Galt
TeraTerm. I couldn't live without it. On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package called > KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any experience getting > KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternat

Re: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread John Galt
Have you considered uncommenting the "log to ttyv" line in syslog.conf, then you don't need to play around with perms? If you MUST elevate user privs, try "sudo" first rather than making your user GID 0--you can gain all the functionality you need, but don't open yourself to another compromisable

Re: reformatting MBR

2000-09-03 Thread ktb
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, John Anderson wrote: > I am having an error messages such as "No operating system" or, 40 40 > 40... on the screen after the hard disk jumpers were not set up correctly. > What is the command to redo the master boot record? > Using windows fdisk -- fdisk /MBR is the comma

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Postscript Printer

2000-09-03 Thread William Jensen
Michael, I picked up the Lexmark Optra E312 and couldn't be happier. The text is very sharp and getting it working with debian was a complete breeze (once I knew what to do). Bill On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:05:44PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > > I'm looking for a reliable and affordable postscri

reformatting MBR

2000-09-03 Thread John Anderson
I am having an error messages such as "No operating system" or, 40 40 40... on the screen after the hard disk jumpers were not set up correctly. What is the command to redo the master boot record? John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/

Re: crontab control?

2000-09-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ron Farrer said: > > Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron? > > I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron > > can do it's job correctly. > > anacron is primarily intended for systems that

Re: networking problem

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
Trying Sven's ifup -a SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable I think I goofed up the kernel compile. I remember being unsure of questions regarding pty unix98 dmesg | pty pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured but I kind of recall not adding all

[OFF TOPIC] Postscript Printer

2000-09-03 Thread Vee-Eye
I'm looking for a reliable and affordable postscript printer. I heard Lexmarks Optra series could do the job. Does anyone has experience with those or could recommend me another one that fits in the nice "reli- and affordable" category? Thanks in advance, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EM

RE: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread J.T. Wenting
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 September 2000 21:42 > To: debian-users > Subject: Re: newbie question concerning linux install > > > > On 03-Sep-2000 Paul T.McNally wrote: > >> > > Are you contemplating dual dooting between Windows NT a

Re: networking problem

2000-09-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:28:30PM -0500, Mike McNally wrote: > route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo > success (but isn't this supposed to be done by a bootup script ifup?) Sorry to butt into the middle of this thread like this, but I shouldn't the default route be re-set by "ifup -a"? If I set the defa

gtk/libpixmap?

2000-09-03 Thread Danny Barron
Friday I decided to refsck my filesystems and start clean (every year or two seems a good time to clean my accumulated cruft out). I'm now plagued with gtk warnings like this one for many of my gtk programs: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so" What do I

Re: SysVinit problem?

2000-09-03 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:42:17PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:12:33AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I thought that might be the case but I'm still concerned about the > > freezing ttys. I can't believe tha

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Sep-2000 Paul T.McNally wrote: >> > Are you contemplating dual dooting between Windows NT and > Linux? NT does not like to share the machine with other > operating systems. Hard to believe isn't it? I was completely > shocked when I tried once. It really changed my perception > of Microsoft

sendmail vs. virtusertable

2000-09-03 Thread Stefan Ott
hello i posted a mail about sendmail problems some months ago. one of the problems could be solved, the other one tracked down to the virtusertable feature. if i include FEATURE(virtusertable) in sendmail.mc i can't write directly to the users anymore. this means that mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] do

Re: networking problem

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo success (but isn't this supposed to be done by a bootup script ifup?) ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable failure Maybe pty/kernel_config problem? mike Mike

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread Paul T.McNally
Richard Swen wrote: NTFS: 5GB NTFS: 4GB Linux Swap: 256MB Linux EXT2: 4GB Are you contemplating dual dooting between Windows NT and Linux? NT does not like to share the machine with other operating systems. Hard to believe isn't it? I was completely shocked when I tried once. It really

Re: wmaker menu problem

2000-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: wmaker menu problem Date: Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:45:30PM -0500 In reply to:Lance Hoffmeyer Quoting Lance Hoffmeyer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): lanceh> I am using potato and windowmaker. I have run into a problem recently where lanceh> my menu has disappeared. When one right-

Re: wmaker menu problem

2000-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: wmaker menu problem Date: Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:45:30PM -0500 In reply to:Lance Hoffmeyer Quoting Lance Hoffmeyer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): lanceh> I am using potato and windowmaker. I have run into a problem recently where lanceh> my menu has disappeared. When one right-

Re: envelope/label printing program

2000-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:10:47PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > Does anyone know of a program that can print on envelopes, labels, roledex > cards, etc. I have a wonderful one for Dos called "Envelopes Plus," but I > cannot find one for Linux/Unix. I would like to find one so I wouldn't > have t

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:01:09AM +0200, Sebastian Ritter wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > Hai, > > > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. > > It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the > > outgoing ethernet. ''' > You c

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:23:08PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Hai, > > > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. > > It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the > > outgoing ethernet

envelope/label printing program

2000-09-03 Thread John Anderson
Does anyone know of a program that can print on envelopes, labels, roledex cards, etc. I have a wonderful one for Dos called "Envelopes Plus," but I cannot find one for Linux/Unix. I would like to find one so I wouldn't have to use DOS at all. Any suggestions? John Kerr

Re: crontab control?

2000-09-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ron Farrer said: > Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron? > I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron > can do it's job correctly. anacron is primarily intended for systems that are only up intermittently. IMO, there's no reason to r

Re: stupid question

2000-09-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
Bob Bernstein said: > I avoid them because of precisely the sort of problem our interlocutor is > having. There are many tasks I prefer to do in the console, but I do as a > rule live in X. So the compromise for me is to go back and forth quickly and > easily, which means deepsix-ing xdm and its co

Re: stupid question

2000-09-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why. >> Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential >> security hole? bb> I avoid them because of precisely the sort of problem our bb> interlocutor is having. Th

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-03 Thread Daniel Whelan
> > This is OpenSSH (from non-us.debian.org). Is there an OpenSSH2 > > package? If so, it's not showing up in dselect. In fact, other than this > > package (which is marked obsolete) no other ssh packages show up: except > > "qmtpssh", which is not what I'm looking for. > > If you're interested

Re: SysVinit problem?

2000-09-03 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:12:33AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I thought that might be the case but I'm still concerned about the > freezing ttys. I can't believe that it's intended behaviour. It is not, but it may be either something weird i

networking problem

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
New install of deb2.2.17. Freshly compiled kernel. 2boxes: deb fwall & samba server; w98 box ppp0 to dialup; eth0 between boxes (w/hub) running ppp0 & then pmfirewall start & masqstart the route lines for ppp0 are automatically run (what script does this?) but... the eth0 route is not added (

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-03 Thread I. Tura
At 23.32 2/9/00 -0700, Gutierrez Family ha escrit: >Following your advice, I linked /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux. Now X starts up >!! However, I have a new obstacle to clear... > >X starts as expected via "startx", but the mouse will NOT respond. I have >run "xf86config" several times, each time cho

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-03 Thread I. Tura
At 17.02 2/9/00 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans ha escrit: > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null > >Tell me, which of these sets of instructions is more clear

Re: crontab control?

2000-09-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Mike McNally ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > anacron > see man anacron and /etc/anacrontab Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron? I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron can do it's job correctly. TIA, Ron -- Email:

Re: SysVinit problem?

2000-09-03 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:12:33AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > This is ok, Debian doesn't use runlevels 3-5 for anything by default AFAIK, > and they're mostly equal to runlevel 2 (I think /etc/inittab has some stuff > which is different, simply to show it can do that). I thought that m

Re: 486DX Install

2000-09-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:18, Gregg C wrote: > I have an old AST 486DX (23Meg RAM/170MegHD) that I have been using as a > router for a few months. I installed 2.2 back when it was frozen, or maybe > even a month or so before. I had no problems with it, until I compiled a new > kernel for it, an

Re: crontab control?

2000-09-03 Thread Mike McNally
anacron see man anacron and /etc/anacrontab mike Ron Farrer wrote: > > Hello; > > What controls when '/etc/cron.daily/*' gets run? I thought it was > '/etc/crontab' but for some reason it doesn't run at the times I > specified.

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-03 Thread Jon Hughes
I'm gonna toss in my two cents since I use this from work:) I use a progrm called 'PenguiNet', you can grab it from Downloads.com. It's not exactly free, thefree version has little ads at the top, but you ignore them after a while, but the registration is something like only 20 bucks. Anyhow, f

crontab control?

2000-09-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello; What controls when '/etc/cron.daily/*' gets run? I thought it was '/etc/crontab' but for some reason it doesn't run at the times I specified. TIA, Ron -- Email: Home: ICQ: pulsar 26276320 Debian GNU/HURD on Alpha:

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