Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I've been kicking this issue around for a while and would be interested > in ideas for a low-memory monitor or something similar which would > identify high-utilization processes and kill them rather than bringing > the entire system to a crashing halt. > > Then ther

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
since i run my own mail servers i have a dedicated account for this mailing list .. only downside is when i access it using netscape my From: shows my normal account which is a pain when people reply..but i need my normal account to show for my other accounts that i use :/ (and id probably be happ

Re: OpenGL Segfaulting...

2000-11-28 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > Agh! Not sure how far back it goes but after one of the recent > woody upgrades, any OpenGL application I try to use segfaults! > glxinfo works fine, but q3demo, ut, gears, the GL screensavers, > etc all segf on me. I've had X4.x up and working for a while... > and tried

coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-28 Thread Lawrence H. Robins
I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)? Suppose you only want to see messages with certain keywords in the subject line, or only replies to your questions, and filter out all the others? Also, is there an

Re: swapping minor device number allocations

2000-11-28 Thread Nate Amsden
you try reversing the order in which the drivers load ? nate Brian McGroarty wrote: > > I'm not using loadable kernel modules. > > My tvmixer is taking minor device 0, giving it mixer 0. This leaves > via82c686a (sound) taking mixer 1. > > What can I use on the kernel command line I can use to

Re: Partition mount options (was Re: apg-get: "Can't exec "/var...)

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:39:57PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > bash: ./date: Permission denied > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ /lib/ld-2.1.3.so ./date > > Tue Nov 28 04:32:41 AKST 2000 > > Cute. Now I want to know why its analogous to executing a shell script like so: /bin/sh /some

Re: install trouble: stuck at "select tasks"

2000-11-28 Thread Lawrence H. Robins
At 10:03 PM 11/24/00 -0800, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lawrence H. Robins wrote: >> .. >> accidentally exited the "select tasks" program before making most >> of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how >> to restart this program. > >Run "tasksel". Thanks for th

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:27:45PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > The only dedicated software package that I know of for this sort of thing > is PortSentry, at http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/ (or do a > FreshMeat search), but it's only distributed as a tarball, not as a Debian > package.

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg system

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:41:11PM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Benj wrote: > > Reading database ... dpkg: error processing php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb (--install): > > files list file for package `kernel-image-2.2.17' is missing final newline > > Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: your mail

2000-11-28 Thread ktb
I'll second that. It makes people look bad when they can't follow those easy instructions:) kent On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:59:00PM -0600, John wrote: > > Obviously, the new unsubscribe instructions work every bit as > well as the old instructions. > > I vote for putting

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:56:57AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >>>On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Philipp Schulte wrote: > >But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on

Re: How do I Remove the Sl0 Port?

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
I think sl0 is SLIP (Serial Line IP), odd that that's starting, but the previous advice sould fix it. If it doesn't there must be some init script (like diald, maybe???) at fault. Go through /etc/rc2.d (assuming runlevel 2 is your default, which it is unless you changed it). Make sure you really

Re: your mail

2000-11-28 Thread John
Obviously, the new unsubscribe instructions work every bit as well as the old instructions. I vote for putting the old crypic instructions back :-) John O> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0800, Jodi Pullen wrote: > > Please remove me from all your mailing lists. > > > > Follow t

Re: mpage & PS docs -- 1-up => 2-up fsckups. StarOffice?

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:32:49AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Specific instance is an Excel spreadsheet, printed to file from > >StarOffice (that bloated stuck pig of an office suite), then attempting > >to convert the file with mpage to a two-p

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:24:34PM -0700, Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Karsten" == kmself writes: > > Karsten> on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Brian McGroarty > > Karsten> Con: > > Karsten> - Presenting a noncollapsible list of 4k packages is Just Pla

OpenGL Segfaulting...

2000-11-28 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Agh! Not sure how far back it goes but after one of the recent woody upgrades, any OpenGL application I try to use segfaults! glxinfo works fine, but q3demo, ut, gears, the GL screensavers, etc all segf on me. I've had X4.x up and working for a while... and tried reinstalling my local compilation

Re: How do I Remove the Sl0 Port?

2000-11-28 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
goodday dont know much about 'S10' but if its a network interface, just edit /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp remove your 'S10' defination and do a '/etc/init.d/network restart' to test your config. mabuhay!, barryg On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:59:31PM

Re: problem building the lm-sensors adn i2c packages

2000-11-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: David Z Maze writes: > Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> I did as the documentation tells: JP> JP> - Install lm-sensors-source, i2c-source JP> - Go to top of kernel source tree JP> - Use make-kpkg to build the kernel JP> JP> Since I did a make-kpkg clean, I did: JP> JP> - m

Re: My system clock

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:25:27PM -0600, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: :Sorry everyone about my system clock being messed up in some of my messages. :My mobo battery's kind of loose so it occassionaly resets. Thanks for all :your messages tho. look into ntp and ntpdate, there was a recent thread regar

swapping minor device number allocations

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
I'm not using loadable kernel modules. My tvmixer is taking minor device 0, giving it mixer 0. This leaves via82c686a (sound) taking mixer 1. What can I use on the kernel command line I can use to force these to reverse? I've currently swapped /dev/mixer0 and /dev/mixer1 which is a bit of a hack

Re: problem building the lm-sensors adn i2c packages

2000-11-28 Thread David Z Maze
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> I did as the documentation tells: JP> JP> - Install lm-sensors-source, i2c-source JP> - Go to top of kernel source tree JP> - Use make-kpkg to build the kernel JP> JP> Since I did a make-kpkg clean, I did: JP> JP> - make dep JP> - make-kpkg mod

Re: mpage & PS docs -- 1-up => 2-up fsckups. StarOffice?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Actually replying to 'kmself': yeah, mpage doesn't always work very well. I >had the very same problem and it has been recommended to me that I use a >different program, "psnup". The main difference, other than psnup working >*much* better, is that you cannot convert tex

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:50:11 +, Colin Watson said: >> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I changed that line in /etc/X11/Xserver but that did not fix the >> >problem. I also had to change the symlink /etc/X11/X to point to >> >the XFree86 executable.

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg

2000-11-28 Thread David Z Maze
Wesley Wannemacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WW> I don't think you need to be a programmer, usually the following works WW> for me to install from source: ... WW> Normally one can also start by taking a gander at the README file WW> (RTFM). For PHP in particular, I used something close to the fol

Re: /var/log/messages questions

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Michelle Murrain wrote: > > Hi folks, > > 2 strange (to me) messages appear in my /var/log/messages file. Any ideas on > these? > > First, simply: > > Nov 28 10:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- > Nov 28 11:01:52 blackbear -- MARK -- > Nov 28 11:21:52 blackbear -- MARK -- > Nov 28 11:41:52 blackbear -

Re: Problem with pppd and Kernel

2000-11-28 Thread Daniel Christle
You are correct. I had not recompiled the kernel. At least not yet. I did try to make the connection as root and had not tried as a user just yet. I normally try to make the initial connection as root. Make sure it it clean and then use always as a user. Now that having tried the option of re-runn

apache newbie

2000-11-28 Thread John-Mark
Hello all I am in the process of configuring apache to use for testing PHP pages that I write. It will not be used for serving pages to the world. I am sure that I will post many queries on the subject but the first is to do with the ServerName option in the httpd.conf file. My machine is called ch

My system clock

2000-11-28 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Sorry everyone about my system clock being messed up in some of my messages. My mobo battery's kind of loose so it occassionaly resets. Thanks for all your messages tho. Brandt Dusthimer

RE: blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

2000-11-28 Thread Adam Shand
i've updated the list with your corrections and suggestions. thanks for the input. adam. On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > /var/lib/dpkg/info > location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as > other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffi

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >>>On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Philipp Schulte wrote: >But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner >from $evil_provider? Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS

Re: Backup packages

2000-11-28 Thread Chris Kenrick
Title: Re: Backup packages You could also try the package mirrordir or similar.   apt-cache search mirror   or   apt-cache search backup   should give you a good shortlist... :)   - Chris   On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:26:33AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > I have several HDDs on

Re: mpage & PS docs -- 1-up => 2-up fsckups. StarOffice?

2000-11-28 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:32:49PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Specific instance is an Excel spreadsheet, printed to file from > >StarOffice (that bloated stuck pig of an office suite), then attempting > >to convert the file with mpage to a two-pages-per-sheet with:

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread Sean Norris,,,
Hello, I just finished going through big problem with modules and NIC so I can understand your confusion. You have a 3com NIC (3CSOHO100-TX) so you likely need the 3c59x driver. First, check /lib/modules/'uname-r'/net to see if that module is there. If it is not you will have to compile it.

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
My $0.02, report to $scanners_isp and cc $your_isp Provide facts and logs do not make wild accusations or ranting speaches, in my experience people who do so are almost always wrong :) Like writing me about how their ISP told them ai.mit.edu what the place to write to about some thing from 133.

Re: NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-28 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
No problem with all this. I spend many months with many different video cards trying to get quake 3 to work. I really, really, really wan't to prevent anyone from having to suffer through the same stuff that I did. Now, on to your questions. First of all, are you using your own custom kernel righ

Re: /var/log/messages questions

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:30:28 -0500, Michelle Murrain said: > Hi folks, > > 2 strange (to me) messages appear in my /var/log/messages file. Any ideas on > these? > > First, simply: > > Nov 28 10:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- > Nov 28 11:01:52 blackbear -- MARK -- > Nov 28 11:21:52 blackb

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:26:47 -0600, Brian McGroarty said: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:46PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:57:46 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: > > > > > > Holy Iguana Droppings... > > > > > > Ok, > > >I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the aut

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:50:11 +, Colin Watson said: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I changed that line in /etc/X11/Xserver but that did not fix the problem. > >I also had to change the symlink /etc/X11/X to point to the XFree86 > >executable. > > I think this has been fix

Re: mpage & PS docs -- 1-up => 2-up fsckups. StarOffice?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >Specific instance is an Excel spreadsheet, printed to file from >StarOffice (that bloated stuck pig of an office suite), then attempting >to convert the file with mpage to a two-pages-per-sheet with: > >mpage -dp -2 < soffice.ps > soffice-2up.ps > >Viewing (or print

Re: broken "dist-upgrade" potato > woody

2000-11-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, it's a problem :) the solution is: apt-get install perl5.6 -Jon

german debian list

2000-11-28 Thread DannyWürges
Hi, is there anybody joining the german debian-list ? I have tried several times to subscribe it, but I never got answer. Many greetings Danny Wuerges

Re: /var/log/messages questions

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >2 strange (to me) messages appear in my /var/log/messages file. Any ideas on >these? > >First, simply: > >Nov 28 10:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- >Nov 28 11:01:52 blackbear -- MARK -- >Nov 28 11:21:52 blackbear -- MARK -- >Nov 28 11:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- >Nov 28 12:01:5

Re: Tell apache NOT to record log activity of a specific directory ?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
"Benj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, is there a way to tell apache to NOT log anyting in access.log from >a directory ? (lets say www/adirectory ) ? Not to my knowledge; the TransferLog directive and its friends only work in the server config and virtual host contexts. If www/adirectory happens

debian2.1 booting from floppies - problems - Thinkpad 380ED

2000-11-28 Thread jan hearthstone
--- jan hearthstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:46:48 -0800 (PST) > From: jan hearthstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: debian2.1 booting from floppies - problems > - Thinkpad 380ED > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, > I bought the debianGNULinux (debian2.1) boo

mpage & PS docs -- 1-up => 2-up fsckups. StarOffice?

2000-11-28 Thread kmself
I'm noticing a problem using mpage on some existing PS documents trying to convert from one-up to two-up. Specific instance is an Excel spreadsheet, printed to file from StarOffice (that bloated stuck pig of an office suite), then attempting to convert the file with mpage to a two-pages-per-sheet

Re: gs-aladdin source - how do i compile?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I want to compile gs on my box because i want to add in new drivers. >However I am having trouble understanding how I can introduce my new c >source code before compiling. There is no obvious source tree (like >for a src-tar.gz). Where do i slot in new code and how can i

Tell apache NOT to record log activity of a specific directory ?

2000-11-28 Thread Benj
Hi, is there a way to tell apache to NOT log anyting in access.log from a directory ? (lets say www/adirectory ) ? Thanks, Benj

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-28 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi, On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:32:23PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > The truth is that I am not sure. I supposed that it was in .muttrc, > that's probably the reason why I could not see anything in the > documentation. Does it mean that mutt uses fetchmail to fetch the > messages? >From /us

Re: Backup packages

2000-11-28 Thread Russ Pitman
You could look at bu by V.Stemen. Get it from http://www.AdvancedResearch.org I have used for several years, don't think it has been debianised tho. On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:26:33AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > I have several HDDs on my system and use one of them for on-line >

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:38:11 -0800, Bob Nielsen said: >> Change the first line of /etc/X11/xserver to: >> >> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 >> >> and run dexter. > >I changed that line in /etc/X11/Xserver but that did not fix the problem. >I also had to change the s

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:46PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> Dexter is much easier to use than the alternatives, but I went back to the >> XF86Config I had previously, because the fonts look better when I use that >> file. >> Still, Dexter would have been

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have seen several people state that they have been able to make >mozilla and netscape work on the same machine, but I was wondering if >anyone has been able to get both versions of netscape (not mozilla) to >work. > >The problem seems to me, that they b

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2000-11-28 Thread Jack Lawler
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Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> I checked out aptitude (or was it capt?) and didn't see anything nice Noah> about it that dselect hasn't been doing for years. Other than Noah> alternative interfaces, do any of the other dpkg/apt front ends offer

/var/log/messages questions

2000-11-28 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, 2 strange (to me) messages appear in my /var/log/messages file. Any ideas on these? First, simply: Nov 28 10:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 11:01:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 11:21:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 11:41:52 blackbear -- MARK -- Nov 28 12:01:52 blackbear -- MARK -- N

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:46PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:57:46 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: > > > > Holy Iguana Droppings... > > > > Ok, > >I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the author of Dexter > > a virtual 6pack. I have NEVER had configuring X so easy befo

smartlist & exim problem

2000-11-28 Thread Justin Maurer
hey guys, i have this tiny problem where exim (presumably) is stamping on a Resent-To: header with the names of everyone on one of my smartlist-based mailing lists. i searched on the web and found more people with this problem, but not m^Hany with the solution. if anyone knows how to disable

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Karsten" == kmself writes: Karsten> on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Brian McGroarty Karsten> Con: Karsten> - Presenting a noncollapsible list of 4k packages is Just Plain Karsten> Wrong[tm]. Incidentally, capt repeats this mistake, though it's Karsten> p

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >I've dealt with a number of software packages which have an upgrade path >but for which older versions may be required for various compatibility >or interoperability reasons. Ultimately, mature products tend to go for >configuration files of the form: "swpackage.versio

Re: dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
Olivier Billet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not >as root. Not unless you build them from source yourself. Installing packages from the archive into your home directory and having them work has been on the dpkg wishlist for a long tim

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-28 Thread iwrigb
> > > > > Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will > > make > > > the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at > > my > > > asus a7v mb) > > > > > > That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux > > isn't installed yet. (obviously

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:08:43 +0100, Robert Waldner said: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:25:54 GMT, Pollywog writes: > >On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:10:10 +0100, Robert Waldner said: > >> > >> That´s great for general purposes alone, but it doesn´t mail you and > >> say: "hey, someone just port-scan

XF86Config-4 for medion laptop?

2000-11-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, tryed to install Xfree86-4 on my laptop and failed... i get a screen with mutliple columns of copies of the screen... same as if the screen was redrawn multiple times with an offset Since i do not kneo how to fix that does somebody has a Config file for this sort of laptop? its

Re: dpkg and user install mode

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote: > I have no manpage for fakeroot on this system. In fact I just need a > way to compile, say for example the eterm package and use it just for > me (that is because the root dont want to take the time to do it or > dont want it wide

Re: Using Netscape 6.0 and 4.74 together

2000-11-28 Thread Kelly Corbin
Well, I got it to work by running it as root in an eterm. I had never run Netscape 6.0 as root, so its .netscape directory was never 'corrupted'. This brings up another question: Has the XFree86 architecture changed from 3.3.6-4.0.1 which allows a non-owner of a terminal to open up an x window?

question on DHCPD

2000-11-28 Thread Nick
I have a user on my network that keeps trying to manually configure access to my gateway, for internet access. Is there anyway to setup the dhcp server to give a bogus alocated gateway. So far I have used the option to lock down a specific address for the client using the MAC address, but how c

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:27:02AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > IMO it has one of the worst UI I've ever seen. it confused the hell > > out of me when I was installing debian for the first time. that's from > > the vi enthusiast:-) > > And vi was intuitive and ea

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 28, Damian Menscher did write: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes said: > > > > > One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned > > > recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe

Re: apt-get, allow only one connection

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Phillips
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there any way to restrict apt-get to download one file at a time > only? When it downloads two files at a time, this means there are two lines in /etc/apt/sources.list corresponding to the two files. The only way I can think of of forcing it to download

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-28 Thread Jens Lauterbach
> > > Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will > make > > the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at > my > > asus a7v mb) > > > That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux > isn't installed yet. (obviously once it is installed y

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 28, Willy Lee did write: > "Robert" == Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:51:09 +0100, Svante Signell writes: > >> Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are > >> vulnerable? > > > 12345 is NetBus (according to www.snort.

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:02:52PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:03:08 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: > >On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > >> > But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from > >> > $evil_pr

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:24:15PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:08PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put

RE: blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
/var/lib/dpkg/info location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffile lists, etc. auto-apt useful tool, play with it and document it here your data on dpkg --set-selections is wrong: sudo dpkg --set-selections h

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:38:43PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:18:34 +0100, Philipp Schulte said: > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > > >Shouldn't this be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? > > > > > > No, $yourproviders complaint is _muc

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:10:17PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? > > i.e. > > tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz I think not directly, but you could try: $ tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'umask 077 &&

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:57:46 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: > > > > Holy Iguana Droppings... > > Ok, >I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the author of Dexter > a virtual 6pack. I have NEVER had configuring X so easy before. > And this is on my laptop. I'll be doing my desktop as s

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:38:11 -0800, Bob Nielsen said: > Change the first line of /etc/X11/xserver to: > > /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 > > and run dexter. I changed that line in /etc/X11/Xserver but that did not fix the problem. I also had to change the symlink /etc/X11/X to point to the XFree86 e

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:14:46PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > > See, I really don't know this card and don't know what options should > > be given. > > Is it a PCI-card or ISA? > > PCI > > > If PCI, what does "lspci -v" say? > > command not found apt-get install pciutils

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-28 Thread iwrigb
> Just applie the kernel patches from www.linux-ide.org, this will make > the kernel auto-detect the promise ata100 controller (at least at my > asus a7v mb) That's great, but it's a little hard to apply the patch if linux isn't installed yet. (obviously once it is installed you can then app

Re: NIC install - found driver, need to compile(?)

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:13:54PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > /var/log/syslog > > nothing in there that i can decipher - sorry. What about posting the relevant parts? > > less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt > > don't have the file - /usr/src exists, but is 100% empty. Install the ke

blatent self promotion: apt/dpkg beginner guide

2000-11-28 Thread Adam Shand
hey. one of the recent debianplanet articles prompted me to tidy up an email i've had as an on going work for a couple years. basically everytime i convince some one to give debian a try and i have a little cheat sheet i mail to them to help them get started. it's got useful basic dpkg and apt

Re: Q: Working .forward?

2000-11-28 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:11:11PM +, thus spake Mail Delivery System: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:45:56PM +0100, thus spake Jonathan Gift: > > Hi, > > > > We crossed msgs back thee. I'm not sold on any forward file. I deleted > > it as requested and put in procmail your reference. No go.

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg system

2000-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Benj wrote: > Reading database ... dpkg: error processing php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb (--install): > files list file for package `kernel-image-2.2.17' is missing final newline > Errors were encountered while processing: > php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. Yo

Re: apache 1.3.12 sources + dpkg-deb

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas Halahan
Gabor, I had *exactly* the same problem with gs-aladdin from woody yesterday. I am new to source debs, but also tried to build it with pdpkg-deb -b and got the same sequence of errors. As you did I removed the spare line, and put in a version number, but the dependancy line foxed me. So are

gs-aladdin source - how do i compile?

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas Halahan
Deb-users, I want to compile gs on my box because i want to add in new drivers. However I am having trouble understanding how I can introduce my new c source code before compiling. There is no obvious source tree (like for a src-tar.gz). Where do i slot in new code and how can i play with t

Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas Halahan
Anthony, I, too, have this Esoniq card. I have also had exactly the same problem of not getting any sound out of it. Could you tell me what, exactly, you did to make it work. What is this OSS software? How can I install it and what is it called? Tom > > My sincere thanks to all who've repl

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:20:37PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to > > your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment > > variable to the location of that file). Then you can just run X programs > >

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian McGroarty wrote: > >Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? > >i.e. > >tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz Not according to its manual page. Try this: tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat >outfile.tgz" (You put the remote comman

RE: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-28 Thread curro
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 28-Nov-2000 curro wrote: > > > > Hi, I have been unable to configure my Linux box to print in a > > LexmarkZ32 printer connected to the serial port. I have installed in > > Do you really mean "serial port"? > I seem to remember that the

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg system

2000-11-28 Thread Benj
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Benj wrote: > > Hi, > > don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg / > > apt-get system. > > Just describe the symptoms - someone will be able to help sort out the > problem. Thanks Mark, but I think I have no choice but to

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:27:02AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > IMO it has one of the worst UI I've ever seen. it confused the hell > out of me when I was installing debian for the first time. that's from > the vi enthusiast:-) And vi was intuitive and easy the first time you used it? For that m

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > - dselect's update is (or wasn't) quite synched with apt, which > means/meant that a seperate [U]pdate step is/was required. This can > be time-consuming on a <= 56K line. I've configured dselect to use apt-get. I update both databases

RE: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-28 Thread Manegold
On 28-Nov-2000 curro wrote: > > Hi, I have been unable to configure my Linux box to print in a > LexmarkZ32 printer connected to the serial port. I have installed in Do you really mean "serial port"? I seem to remember that the Z32 does not work under Linux. At least I think that is what

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #676

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Patterson
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:28:17 -0800 From: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Subject: Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Scott Patterson

scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? i.e. tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz

SOLVED! Re: ppp doesn't work with kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Phillips
I worked out what the problem was. I omitted to select one of the necessary options when I was compiling the kernel. I needed to select the PPP_ASYNC option or something like that. Now it all works fine. Cheers, Mark. Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:59:28AM +

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:25:54 GMT, Pollywog writes: >On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:10:10 +0100, Robert Waldner said: >> >> That´s great for general purposes alone, but it doesn´t mail you and >> say: "hey, someone just port-scanned you" or the like. and that´s >> what I think Mario had in mind. >

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:14:47 GMT, Pollywog writes: >On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:07:15 +0100, Robert Waldner said: > >> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:59:04 GMT, Pollywog writes: >> >I usually do not report attempts to connect to single ports. >> >> Me neither, except special ports like ftp, linuxconf, netbu

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:03:08 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes: >On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >> > But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from >> > $evil_provider? >> > Phil >> >> Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS > >

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