That site for buying and selling businesses V

2001-02-21 Thread jimherbe
Hey That site on the net for buying and selling businesses is http://bsab.com.au This is the one that Craig Simmons told us he sold his shop from. I've checked it out - it looks great - but I do see a problem for you in that nobody is going to pay you $950k for your business unless you move to

Re: tcptrace

2001-02-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 04:37:05PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > Is anyone working on a package that includes tcptrace? > I've just done some digging at www.debian.org but haven't come up with anything. It doesn't look like it's packaged or being worked on. I have downloaded it, but I can't mak

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:46:39PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > This EPS picture will print to a Postscript printer > > ... [] > > This text is also printed on my PS printer (hjlj2100). > > It _will_ print to a postscript printer, but what goes where the ...'s > are? I think it says something l

Re: FS Question

2001-02-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:31:52PM -0300, Guilherme Barile wrote: > Hi > I'm developing something for data archival/retriaval (documents). > Can someone tell me how many files I may have on one directory (ext2fs) > Thanks in advance im not sure what the limit is, its very high, but the problems

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
Mark Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, > > I plot a graph with gnuplot3.7, and have: > set terminal postscript eps > set output "prop.eps" > giving me an eps that I can view with gv. > > However, importing this into ms word gives: > Title: > prop.eps > Creator: > gnuplot... > Preview: EPS not saved with

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-21 Thread Jens Gecius
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ALSA > I notice in another thread there are reports of some problems building > ALSA because of perl changes in sid aka unstable. This might be > relevant to your problems. I would think the perl changes are responsible for not building the deb - the mod

Re: Building package from newer upstream source?

2001-02-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:38:58AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > I believe that step 1 can be achieved with apt-get's "source" option. > > Step 2 is fairly simple except that I don't know whether the source as > > checked out of CVS is in the exact right format to be patched by the > >

Re: Woody and Netscape Communicator

2001-02-21 Thread b3
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:30:10AM -0500, Matt Grant wrote: > My load meter seems to be pegged.I click Netscape and nothing happens. When I > run Top to see whats taking up my Cpu I see communicator maybe 3 times. > when I kill the one thats been running the longest the netscape I just > clicked

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread David M. Anderson
There are two very good books available to help you: Robert L. Ziegler, "Linux Firewalls" (New Riders), and Wes Sonnenreich & Tom Yates, "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" (Wiley). The first covers the protocols in detail and provides comprehensive scripts. The second obviously also covers

tcptrace

2001-02-21 Thread Bill Wohler
Is anyone working on a package that includes tcptrace? I just read about it in the February, 2001 issue of ;login:. It's used to massage tcpdump output so that it can be displayed by xplot. Looks like an interesting network diagnostic tool. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.n

Re: kernel 2.4.1 and shm in potato

2001-02-21 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Alexis Roda wrote: > some day ago I upgraded mi potato box to kernel 2.4.1. All works fine, > but when I run free it shows 0Kb under shared memory: It's a very-FAQ. Due changes in VM the value will be to expensive to calculate. The value will be zero so u

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread ktb
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:22:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I am doing my Senior Project shortly for my degree and have decided that I > would like to build a Linux firewall which also is configured for IP > Masquerading and DNS using Bind. I really just wanted ideas from s

Re: Crypto patching 2.4 kernel

2001-02-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Personally, I rarely use the debianized kernel source... to impatient to wait for new releases to be packaged! :-) For whatever it's worth, I'm having good results with the crypto patches and upstream source. The one thing to watch out for is loopback filesystems (whether encrypted or not)... the

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
100mhz should be enough to handle named requests as well as act as a firewall, but obviously 500 would definitely fit the bill...i've got a linux firewall running on an ancient P100 machine with 32mb of ram and it works like a champ! as far as pitfalls or gotchas to look out for, make a list of al

Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid

2001-02-21 Thread Bryan Hall
Upon initial setup, Debian distro doesn't appear to recognize the perc3 raid controller. No problem.. drivers not installed, likely. Unfortunately, upon attempting to utilize the 'preload drivers' function in the setup, it returns an error message stating 'Cannot mount floppy' critical error, a

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages. > Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its > apt-get install something, what is the something? > > Thanks for your help :-) [01:15:53 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz [01:18

Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

2001-02-21 Thread studenten wg
i think the best solution is to look if the hardware your going to buy is supported under linux... i had much more trouble installing linux ( exspecially the xserver ) on a new intel i810 board with a clereron 433 ( graphic & sound onBoard ), than with my "old" k7m... but you just cant give a c

importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I plot a graph with gnuplot3.7, and have: set terminal postscript eps set output "prop.eps" giving me an eps that I can view with gv. However, importing this into ms word gives: Title: prop.eps Creator: gnuplot... Preview: EPS not saved with preview... Comment: This EPS picture will print to

Senior Project

2001-02-21 Thread eileen
Hi all, I am doing my Senior Project shortly for my degree and have decided that I would like to build a Linux firewall which also is configured for IP Masquerading and DNS using Bind. I really just wanted ideas from some of the more experienced users on this list who have done the same type

Cross Building nano HOW-TO

2001-02-21 Thread Martin Albert
Regarding recent questions, a hopeful seed of a Cross building micro HT has been laid to http://home.t-online.de/home/eislink/document/crosshto.txt Input &| comments, pointers cheeringly appreciated. Be warned though that this seed has yet only been fertilized by partial success in my own effo

Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

2001-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't want to have to compile a kernel. After reading the following it looks like the standard kernel would work. Am I right or would I be better off with a Celeron based system? Larry On Feb 21, 2001, studenten wg wrote: > hi

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Tom Allard
I have both a 3C905B-FX (fiber NIC) and a 3c59x-series card in my machine. I grabbed 3Com's driver from http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownload.htm and just patched my kernel source tree: patch -d /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18 -p0 < 3c90x-1.0.0/patch-2.2.5 I then did

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-21 Thread Ross Boylan
ALSA I notice in another thread there are reports of some problems building ALSA because of perl changes in sid aka unstable. This might be relevant to your problems. FIREWALL Each of the last 3 kernels has employed a different firewalling scheme, so a firewall setup that worked in 2.2 may n

GhostScript add-ons?

2001-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to get ghostscript to print to my HP882C printer with either magicfilter or apsfilter. It says it knows what the 882c is but that gs-alladin doesn't support it and I need a plugin or to recompile. I dont want to completely recompile GS again just for it not to work again. I'm about

Re: #!/usr/bin/tclsh not working

2001-02-21 Thread Morgan Terry
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi: > >I tried the following simple script with tclsh: > >#!/usr/bin/tclsh >puts stdout {Hello, World!} >( from Brent B. Welch, Practical Programmin in Tcl and Tk) > >made the file (Hello) executable and typed . hello >and I get the error

Re: Trouble compiling gs (ghostscript) from source

2001-02-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > [...] > To start with a simple task, i've tried to create the gs binary package > from the debian sources (without the stp patch), but the compilation > aborted compiling "zdevcal.c" > Well, seems no one compiled gs from source lately, anyway i've figured out where the

Re: #!/usr/bin/tclsh not working

2001-02-21 Thread Tom Allard
> I tried the following simple script with tclsh: > ... Did you set execute permissions on the script (chmod +x hello)? rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.

mysql dependancies in apache/mailman?

2001-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
i just upgraded apache to the latest in unstable and there is now a mysql dependancy (mysql-common and libmysqlclient10). can anyone explain this to me? i don't use mysql. i also noticed that when i try to remove libmysqlclient10 it wants to remove mailman as well. adam.

Alsa and 2.4.x on woody [was Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?]

2001-02-21 Thread idalton
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:19:45PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running 2.4.1, too, but I didn't get alsa to build. I used the > > male-dpkg modules_image method. alsa-source from woody didn't compile, > > the pa

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:48:13AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > I lied. Well, I didn't look closely enough. It's a 3c905cx-txm. > > Anyway, I tried the 3c59x module first, actually, but it didn't work. > > Now I'm not even sure the 3com provided driver will work. I

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-21 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Talking about ssh, could somebody point out the steps Andre> necessary in order to export a remote host's display to my Andre> local machine via, if possible from scratch...? Sorry if this Andre> is a stupid question. do you mea

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
I tried a different network card - 3c905-tx - with the 3c50x driver module. This doesn't work either. It does, however, spit out some kind of error message. Trouble is, I can't read it, because it appears on the blue screen behind the install dialog. Is there any way to read this? I can see

Re: - (OT)

2001-02-21 Thread studenten wg
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Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:48:13AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > I lied. Well, I didn't look closely enough. It's a 3c905cx-txm. > Anyway, I tried the 3c59x module first, actually, but it didn't work. > Now I'm not even sure the 3com provided driver will work. I might just > put in a different

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Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-21 Thread Guilherme Barile
The biggest issue is that OS X is not X ... it uses display Postscript technology (remember openstep?). So, some modifications will have to be made. Anyway, as a theory, any MacOS-X application could be compiled on linux using GNUStep (www.GNUStep.org). - Original Message - From: "Mike Wil

omniNames & omniorb

2001-02-21 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi *, could someone point to me what the two services are and what the are needed for. Can I remove them without worrieing? tia Willi -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ . Waehrend

kernel 2.4.1 and shm in potato

2001-02-21 Thread Alexis Roda
Hi, some day ago I upgraded mi potato box to kernel 2.4.1. All works fine, but when I run free it shows 0Kb under shared memory: total usedfree shared buffers cached Mem: 127388 12413632520 156447868 Kernel has support for System V IPC compiled i

Re: [OT] Template Toolkit

2001-02-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I'll keep this as brief as I can, since we've gone way off-topic. In Template Toolkit, common HTML is kept in templates. You can "call" the templates within your source HTML file. This is what a source file might look like, kind of: [% WRAPPER template_main title = 'A Specific Page' %] This is

Re: Building package from newer upstream source?

2001-02-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Feb-2001 Stuart Ballard wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> X is big and ugly. Mail the maintainer for guidance. >> >> That said, if you just need the server for your card, you only need to >> compile >> that and drop it on the system, the rest of the packaging is independent of >>

Newbie Question - Corel and GNU/Linux Compatibility

2001-02-21 Thread Shawn Urquhart
I have a Corel distro on my laptop - it installed nicely with little input from me. I have PURCHASED the Debian GNU/Linux from a store for 20 US. ( It came with a terrific bumper sticker!) I would like to replace Corel with Deb GNU and wondered if there were any pitfalls to be aware of.   Pl

Re: Building package from newer upstream source?

2001-02-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > X is big and ugly. Mail the maintainer for guidance. > > That said, if you just need the server for your card, you only need to compile > that and drop it on the system, the rest of the packaging is independent of > that card support. Hmm. That sounds promising (I

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
The horses are already on the track... The error I got was that neither DHCP or manual IP configuration resulted in a system that was able to do a network install. DHCP simply times out and fails. Manual network configuration is simple enough, but doesn't get me anywhere. Link light's on, but n

RE: Building package from newer upstream source?

2001-02-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I believe that step 1 can be achieved with apt-get's "source" option. > Step 2 is fairly simple except that I don't know whether the source as > checked out of CVS is in the exact right format to be patched by the > diff.tar.gz. I have no idea at all about step 3, and I couldn't figure > it ou

Building package from newer upstream source?

2001-02-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
For a couple of reasons, I have a need to install versions of Xfree86 that are newer than the newest available packages. In fact, I want to get the newest version from XFree86's CVS repository. However, I'd like to do this in such a way that I don't break the careful Debian packaging done by the X

Weird keymap problems in NEdit

2001-02-21 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi When I use NEdit these days, most control characters don't do what they are supposed to. For example, if I type Ctrl-S to save, I just get what I assume is a Ctrl-S printed in the document, as . Oddly copy and paste (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) work fine. I assumed at first tha

Re: weird getlist behaviour

2001-02-21 Thread Anton Emmerfors
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:05:12AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Forgive me if this is either obvious or wrong, but I would assume you're > looking for: > > getlist -h active > foo > > since the options (-h active) belong to getlist, not to > foo. The > is interpreted by the shell, so it does

Re: weird getlist behaviour

2001-02-21 Thread Anton Emmerfors
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:56:42AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: [snip] > > getlist > foo -h active > > Did you try? > > getlist | foo -h active > > ...assuming that foo is an executable. That can't possibly work... Then "-h active" becomes arguments to foo. /Anton -- The amou

specialty disk for aic 7770 install

2001-02-21 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Hi all! I need to ask a favor of the list. A few years ago I was doing an install on my Intergraph TD-3 and ran into a problem w/ the install freezing after SCSI initialization. Dave GRegory gave me the helpful link to a custom slink install disk that made it all possible on this machine B

RE: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
hold yr horses, i would be really sursprised if this card would not work can't you refer to any error's you get ? -Original Message- From: Ron Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:48 PM To: John Kuhn Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3com 3c90

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Colin Watson wrote: > > Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >> as > >> user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > >> What's the problem here? > > > >try > >'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PRO

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-21 Thread Andre Berger
On 2001-02-21 16:28 +0100, Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > > > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > as > > > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > > > What's the problem here? > >

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
I lied. Well, I didn't look closely enough. It's a 3c905cx-txm. Anyway, I tried the 3c59x module first, actually, but it didn't work. Now I'm not even sure the 3com provided driver will work. I might just put in a different card... Still wouldn't mind knowing how the third-party module instal

Re: Crypto patching 2.4 kernel

2001-02-21 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I want to compile the 2.4 kernel + crypto patch. > apt-getting the kernel-source is no problem, but the international > kernel patch isn't yet debianized. > > What's the best option? > -Patching the debianized kernel source. > -Patching the non-debianized kernel

Re: Samba &| VFS

2001-02-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Rob Hudson wrote: > > We recently set up a Samba server on Debian potato. After a little > uptime (about 30 minutes to an hour) we saw an error message that > said: > > VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached > > I did some searching on the net, and found what might be a solution. > I added a simple

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as >> user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". >> What's the problem here? > >try >'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]' The -l option is ignored if you

Re: memory leakage in system?

2001-02-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Jeff Davis wrote: > Thanks to both of the people who have responded so far. I am glad to > know it is working fine. I never noticed that much use of ram on any of > my other systems ( I probably never checked ), so it had me worried :) it gets worse then that. i freak out quite often when i see m

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use the precompiled PC potato/security version of ssh, SSH Version >OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5, Compiled with SSL. I did >'ssh-keygen' without password, then 'cp ~/.ssh/identity.pub >~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PR

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as > > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > > What's the problem here? > > try > 'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I also suggest doing ssh -l andre -v -C mir

Re: woody and available packages weirdness

2001-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:16:29AM +1030, David Purton wrote: >> amonst these packages are (interestingly) >> >> lilo (!) >> version 21.4.3-2 installed >> version 1:21.6-2 available according to debain web site >> >> why are these version numb

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Check permissions on ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys - I don't know about openssh but plain ol' ssh complains if the permissions are too open on these. ap Andre Berger wrote: > > On 2001-02-21 16:09 +0100, Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Andre Berger
On 2001-02-21 16:09 +0100, Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as > > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > > What's the problem here? > > try > 'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: FS Question

2001-02-21 Thread Lars Knudsen
Guilherme Barile wrote: > > Hi > I'm developing something for data archival/retriaval (documents). > Can someone tell me how many files I may have on one directory (ext2fs) > Thanks in advance > As far as I know there is no limit to the number of files you can have in a directory but access to

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-21 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Guilherme! Am Mit, 21 Feb 2001, schrieb Guilherme Barile: > I think linux is great for servers, but there are still some things > for which its not prepared yet (ie video.audio editing, graphics, > layouting, etc). Hey, this is not Linux' fault. Macromedia and Adobe are not prepared for the

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread John Kuhn
You don't need to compile this driver from source. During the 'Configure Device Driver Modules' load the '3c59x' module. Yes, the current 3c59x module does work with the 3c905c-tx. I used the 3com source driver with older versions of the 2.2.x kernels, but it is not needed for 2.2.18pre21. John

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > What's the problem here? try 'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: weird getlist behaviour

2001-02-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Forgive me if this is either obvious or wrong, but I would assume you're looking for: getlist -h active > foo since the options (-h active) belong to getlist, not to foo. ap Anton Emmerfors wrote: > > Hi, > > Today I encountered something really weird... > > When trying to get an active li

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-21 Thread Mike Wills
> Do what I did, keep a cheap pc for the hacking stuff and buy a mac for all > your graphics needs :) also, when linux gets mature enough at this aspect, > we can all install linux on our macs (the hardware is great). Even better yet... When OS X comes out on the Macintosh. It will be a Unix ker

ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Andre Berger
I use the precompiled PC potato/security version of ssh, SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5, Compiled with SSL. I did 'ssh-keygen' without password, then 'cp ~/.ssh/identity.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as user "andre". But ssh still pro

3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
I'm trying to do a network install of debian on a computer which has a 3com 3c905c-tx network card. 3com kindly provides GNU licenced source code for this card on their website. I succesfully compiled the module on another debian system, and put it on a floppy, in directory /lib/modules/2.2.18pre

Re: weird getlist behaviour

2001-02-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:47:06 +0100 Anton Emmerfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Today I encountered something really weird... > > When trying to get an active list from a news server with > > getlist > foo -h active Did you try? getlist | foo -h active ...assuming that foo is a

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-21 Thread Guilherme Barile
There's Corel for linux ... I guess its the most similar to quarkexpress for linux. I think linux is great for servers, but there are still some things for which its not prepared yet (ie video.audio editing, graphics, layouting, etc). Do what I did, keep a cheap pc for the hacking stuff and buy a

weird getlist behaviour

2001-02-21 Thread Anton Emmerfors
Hi, Today I encountered something really weird... When trying to get an active list from a news server with getlist > foo -h active the output is not redirected into foo! No matter where I put the redirection (on the command line) or whether I use tee or pipe it to grep or whatever... If I

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-21 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Richard Taylor wrote: > There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect > and so forth. Ok, but it expired at the end of 2000 and Adobe doesn't seem to be willing to support it any longer. I also wouldn't put WordPerfect in the category of profess

FS Question

2001-02-21 Thread Guilherme Barile
Hi I'm developing something for data archival/retriaval (documents). Can someone tell me how many files I may have on one directory (ext2fs) Thanks in advance gui

Woody and Netscape Communicator

2001-02-21 Thread Matt Grant
Has anyone noticed this situation. I'm running Icewm on Woody with kernel 2.4.1 and it kicks ass (very well done debian guys)even though it's still testing. My load meter seems to be pegged.I click Netscape and nothing happens. When I run Top to see whats taking up my Cpu I see communicator m

Re: Telnet on readonly disk

2001-02-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 05:09:19 -0900 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:42:05AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm setting up a debian potato box with most parts on a disk which is read > > only. When I try to run telnet localhost, instead of the pas

Re: woody and available packages weirdness

2001-02-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:16:29AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > I've noticed that since I upgradeed to woody, dselect thinks that a > number of packages are now obsolete. > > The versions I currently have installed are from potato, but on > searching for the packages at search.debian.org, it su

Re: Telnet on readonly disk

2001-02-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:42:05AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > Hi! > > I'm setting up a debian potato box with most parts on a disk which is read > only. When I try to run telnet localhost, instead of the password prompt, > I get > > telnetd: /usr/lib/telnetd/login: Permission denied t

Re: Ip masquerading help

2001-02-21 Thread Guilherme Barile
> Check your routing table with 'route -n'. > Do you have a route on the Linux router machine that looks like this? -- > > Destination Gateway GenmaskIface > 200.189.192.144 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248eth1 I guess the problem is on the ipmasq rules. I'll put thr

woody and available packages weirdness

2001-02-21 Thread David Purton
I've noticed that since I upgradeed to woody, dselect thinks that a number of packages are now obsolete. The versions I currently have installed are from potato, but on searching for the packages at search.debian.org, it suggests that there should be more recent versions available, but apt-get up

Telnet on readonly disk

2001-02-21 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi! I'm setting up a debian potato box with most parts on a disk which is read only. When I try to run telnet localhost, instead of the password prompt, I get telnetd: /usr/lib/telnetd/login: Permission denied I can run this login alone, without problems. Mounting the same disk writable,

Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?

2001-02-21 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > True enough - but recognize that Samba's advantage is that it runs on > the stable OS, so you don't have to load anything at all on the windows > side! I'm not a fan of NFS... but it can be useful in situations where file permissions are important... an

Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?

2001-02-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
True enough - but recognize that Samba's advantage is that it runs on the stable OS, so you don't have to load anything at all on the windows side! ap Gavin Hamill wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > > Can this be done? > > Can I mount NFS volumes from a win machine o

Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?

2001-02-21 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Can this be done? > Can I mount NFS volumes from a win machine or am I stuck to using Samba? Short answer: Yes. Longer Answer: At a price. There's a shareware package called DiskAccess, and commercial offerings from Hummingbird and Omni-NFS.. T

OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Can this be done? Can I mount NFS volumes from a win machine or am I stuck to using Samba? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: memory leakage in system?

2001-02-21 Thread Jeff Davis
Alexis Roda wrote: Jeff Davis wrote: I have in my server 256MB RAM, of which about 220MB is used. Here is a command I ran: # cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 261832704 232955904 28876800 76492800 162164736 41222144 Swap: 320774144 192512 320

[dadecal@s2-selling.com: broken since 2.1beta1 and beta2]

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __ --- Begin Message --- El Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:40:14PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II dijo: -| On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 1

memory leakage in system?

2001-02-21 Thread Jeff Davis
I have in my server 256MB RAM, of which about 220MB is used. Here is a command I ran: # cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 261832704 232955904 28876800 76492800 162164736 41222144 Swap: 320774144 192512 320581632 MemTotal:255696 kB MemFree:

playing soundfiles

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I need a command to play soundfiles from command line. I have been using bplay but there seems to be something wrong with it, because after playing some files I get a "no free space in device" error. Anybody know about this? Anything I can use instead of bplay? -- __

courier imap 1.3.4 on potatoe

2001-02-21 Thread hanasaki
i built it and it runs.. but wont authenticate clients syslog reports : imapd: exec: No such file or directory there are no pop/imap entries in /etc/pam.d as the web site says there should be. ideas? Thank you.

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I know dreamweaver but never used templates since in such a way, i only use them to make sure i have some defaults set up right like column width etc. Anyway, i guess i get the picture now. > I don't really think this is appropriate to this list though. > This is about Debian. True. -Origin

RE: [OT]: UUCP : sidenote - terrorism etc.

2001-02-21 Thread John Conover
I d'uno. /etc/services says 540 is UUCP over TCP/IP, (its an IANA allocated/registered number for both tcp and ucp.) With secretary software, who knows. John BTW, I -P DENY in ipchains for input and output, and 540 isn't open on the Linux boxes that I use to MASQ the secretaries from the

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-21 Thread Richard Taylor
> From: Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sorry for the ignorance but how does this template system work ? >I can't imagine the benefits from this kind of approach. I thought you knew Dreamweaver. It's just copy and paste... you build a basic form for the page. When you want a new page

Re: lucent winmodem driver and potato/2.2.18pre21

2001-02-21 Thread christophe barbe
It works for me but I've used a pure kernel 2.2.18 (from kernel.org) Christophe On mer, 21 fév 2001 03:46:33 Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi, > > I got it working under 2.2.18 from the stable dist on thinkpad A21m ... > compiled my own from source 5.78e > HTH, > > > I'm trying to get it working righ

RE: [OT]: UUCP : sidenote - terrorism etc.

2001-02-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Interesting, port 540 is frequently sending traffic on my windoze machine, i'm not running anything remotely fancy (besides the O.S.) and it seemed to me like some irregular port-traffic was going on. Is this true or is it just something not to take into account ? on a side note, since we're talk

RE: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-21 Thread John Conover
I've used, (and still do use,) uucp for email for all my domains. The Taylor uucp which comes standard with Debian, (which has a mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED],) does work well over tcp/ip to port 540, (but be advised, if you use it over the Internet, it uses a telnet like login-as in ASCII login

Re: Woody mouse and net are dead

2001-02-21 Thread Steve R. Hastings
Maybe my net troubles were related to the kernel compile. I booted with the Linux install disk, opened up a shell, and manually mounted my Linux root filesystem. I then created a directory called "old" and moved everything into it. There were no other files or directories starting with 'o' so it

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