Re: GRUB cannot find stage2

2001-03-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:09:03PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > install (fd0)+1 (hd0) (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 p > > My boot partition lies on partition /dev/hda5. The output from df is > as follows > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /d

Re: Exim Errors

2001-03-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:21:51PM -0500, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I keep getting errors like this: > > Mar 12 09:42:56 Jekyll exim[7309]: 2001-03-12 09:42:56 14cTXE-0001tt-00 > Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Too many open files in > system: euid=8 egid=8 > > This is on our

Re: Mail question

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:34:00AM +0100, Marko Simendic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > > Hello all! > >=20 > > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa?=20 > > Km> Say you have two compu

Re: Where'd the Linux modem compatibility database go?

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:00:53PM -0600, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, all. > > A friend has expressed some interest in installing Linux, so I was going to > point him to some web pages listing compatible hardware. I wanted to > supply him with the URL to the Linux modem com

Re: Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread Jim Richardson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:09:37PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Are there applications out there to get my Digital pics (Olympus D-360 > Camera) imported into the linux world for transmission over the net??? > Thanks you Debs always have good answeres. John Gphoto (www.gphoto.org) says it support

Re: gpg

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:49:03PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm new to gpg... I've installed the gnupg-package and generated a key > pair with "gpg --gen-key". When I use my DSA key (in mutt), I get a > warning this method was depricated. What am I supposed to do now? I'm

Re: newbie install 2.20 problem configuring device modules

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:57:26PM -0500, Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am installing Linux for the first time on my P90 'old beater' machine. I > am using a floppy install of Debian 2.20 (no CD Rom), and think I have > imaged all the disks correctly. > I have been plugging through the insta

Re: woody questions

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:45:36PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all > > It's been a while since I read/posted to d-u, so, what's the current policy > re unstable/testing distros: do I post my questions to debian-user or to > debian-devel? General questions: debian-user

Re: exporting nfs?

2001-03-12 Thread Nate Amsden
Forrest English wrote: > > i apt-get'd nfs-server, and i created /etc/exports but, exportfs doesn't > exist on my system. it exists on my potato system which is using > nfs-kernel-server. so, how do i export what i specified in /etc/exports > in the userspace server? what i do is /etc/init.d/

Re: Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P Holland
have you looked into gphoto?? www.gphoto.org it seems to have support for your camera. Jason -Original Message- From: hammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: User Debian Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Digital Camera to Linux Are there applications out t

GRUB cannot find stage2

2001-03-12 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
After installing grub onto the system I cannot seem to get it to find the stage2 file. Here is my fdisk output for the drive it will be installed onto: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks

Re: Can't delete file

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Brian S Enyart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't complete an upgrade of the locales package due to a very odd > error: > > Unpacking replacement locales ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.1.3-17_i386.deb > (--unpack): > una

Can't delete file

2001-03-12 Thread Brian S Enyart
I can't complete an upgrade of the locales package due to a very odd error: Unpacking replacement locales ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.1.3-17_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to move aside `./usr/share/locale/cs_CZ' to install new version: Operation not permitted So, I

exporting nfs?

2001-03-12 Thread Forrest English
i apt-get'd nfs-server, and i created /etc/exports but, exportfs doesn't exist on my system. it exists on my potato system which is using nfs-kernel-server. so, how do i export what i specified in /etc/exports in the userspace server? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothi

VMware work on Debian

2001-03-12 Thread Jim Nutt
Randolph S. Kahle writes: > I am assessing Debian as a replacement for RedHat > on all of my machines. One critical requirement is > support for VMware. > > Can someone tell me if they have had success > running VMware on Debian 2.2(r2)? Works just fine. I installed it from the tar files in

Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread hammack
Are there applications out there to get my Digital pics (Olympus D-360 Camera) imported into the linux world for transmission over the net???   Thanks you Debs always have good answeres.  John

Re: vi/emacs: Loging shell command and output

2001-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
I asked vim mailing list for how to document shell activity in non-emacs-environment. The answer was $ script -a savefile Control-D $ col -b cleanedfile $ vi cleanedfile Color-ls needs to be disabled, too. Now I can document shell activity without learning emacs. So I have 2 app

Re: Extra keys on keyboard

2001-03-12 Thread ocorrain
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:33:54PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote: > > I reconfigured X so that it's using the Microsoft > Natural Pro keyboard map-thing, but the buttons at the > top aren't doing anything. I was wondering how I > assign them to different programs, etc (I figure I > probably use x

Re: enlightenment question

2001-03-12 Thread Robert Martinovic
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:52:05PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: >Hello, I have downloaded some themes for e.themes.org > >I moved them to my ~/.enlightenment/themes directory Move the *.etheme files to /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/ instead >I restart enlightenment Just reg

Re: Moving redhat -> debian

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:58:15AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:16:53PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: <...> [Regarding switching a server from RH to Debian] > > My personal recommendation would be to set up a new server using Debian, > >

Extra keys on keyboard

2001-03-12 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I just won this Micro$oft Natural Pro keyboard in a High School programming contest today, and I want to get all the extra keys at the top working. I reconfigured X so that it's using the Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard map-thing, but the buttons at the top aren't doing anything. I was wonde

[alex.bongers@phil.uu.nl: abiword does not find fonts]

2001-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: abiword does not find fonts Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:08:37 +0100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi branden, i seem to have thesame problem, have you had any luck correcting

I just solved my own problem

2001-03-12 Thread Richard Greaney
Regarding the problem where my system was using dns rather than looking up the hosts file first, I solved it myself. I didn't realise that there were in fact TWO versions of resolv.conf. One lives in /etc/ while the other (which is activated at dial-up time) lives in /etc/ppp/resolv/provider Al

Re: Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:07:32AM +0100, franck routier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I use unstable (latest upgrade) in my box and have the following problem : > > french accented characters are replaced by ? in some places, or just make > the rest of the text be ignored : > > 1) é à è

Re: Need Help Compiling the DFE 530tx+ driver

2001-03-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Arlo White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c > via3043.c This does not directly address the problem you are having, but AFAIK you are trying to compile the wrong driver. The 530TX+ are based on realtek 8139 chip, not via-rhi

joystick in kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-12 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I'm trying to get my joystick working in kernel 2.4.2. This is a summary of everything I've done. +Compiled the kernel with analog joystick support, and the USB joystick support (my joystick goes into the gameport, but I read somewhere that you need to enable USB for joystick events) +made

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote: > >deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > ^ > You're missing the terminal slash: the correct line (the one I use) is: Which is added automatically for you by apt.. Jason

Re: lm-sensors and 2.4 kernels

2001-03-12 Thread Jens Gecius
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used to be able to use lm-sensors with 2.2 and early 2.4.0-test > kernels i.e. test5, but since 2.4.0-test11 - now 2.4.1, I've been unable > to generate the sensors patch to apply to the kernel source. > > I've been able to generate and apply the i2c pa

Re: New Install

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
Response directed to list. Please *don't* direct list mail to me privately for general correspondence. on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:54:03PM -0500, - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:44:44AM -0600, Kevin C. Kelly ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]

Re: New Install

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Hurley
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:44:44AM -0600, Kevin C. Kelly wrote: > I am trying to do a CD install of > 2.2rev2 from a commercial CD-ROM copy of > Debian. No other operating system is on > the computer. Every thing appears to > going okay until the "Install operating > system kernal and Modules" ph

Re: colors in gvim, help please

2001-03-12 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I would like to thanks to everyone who helped me in setting colors in gvim. Now my gvim looks great! Marcelo

Re: colors in gvim

2001-03-12 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:25:58PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > The solution is to change the colors used by the syntax highlighting > for "Normal" text. In my .gvimrc I use: > > highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90 > It worked fine! thank you Marcelo

Upgrading to Woody

2001-03-12 Thread Benjamin Pharr
When lines for woody are added to /etc/apt/sources.list, should the lines for potato be taken out or left in? Thanks! Ben Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)

2001-03-12 Thread Balbir Thomas
Thank you . You were right removing the hide/unhide commands from the linux partition did the job. bt On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:52:42PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > | Hi Balbir, > | > | On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Balbir

Installing on a Compaq server

2001-03-12 Thread Timothy Wilson
Hi everyone, I've got a brand-new Compaq DL380 just begging to have Debian installed on it, but I'm not having any luck so far. I hoping that someone here can offer some advice or I'm going to be heading down the RedHat road. :-( Just to see if there were any hardware problems, I did install RedH

Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Wohler wrote: > Are there any tools that allow you to answer the question: Why did > the update of these 100 packages cause these 30 perfectly good > packages to get removed? This task is impossible to do by hand. It's helpful to turn on apt's problems resolver output. -o Debug::pkgPro

Re: debconf problems

2001-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Timothy Bedding wrote: > My question is: Which of these should I remove? How can I tell > which is not part of a debian package? Is there a command that > I should use? dpkg -S file > As to where it came from, well, I am not sure. I have just > been adding and removing debian packages from www.de

Re: apt-get source -b

2001-03-12 Thread Tomaas Ortega
have you tried apt-cache search xchat so you know you have the right source or .deb package. > well I just did a apt-get update ; apt-get -b source > xchat-gnome 1.6.4 and still the same error does anyone > have a idea what I'm doing wrong? I have included a > copy of my sources.list at teh bott

emacs site file

2001-03-12 Thread Remy Indebetouw
excuse me if slightly off-topic, but where do i stick an emacs site-start.el file (if that's even the right thing - i want a global .emacs) /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp don't work. thx in advance. -- |R

Re: Kernel-image-2.4.1-di booting problem....

2001-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Gong Yi LIAO wrote: > I had apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.1-di several hour ago, Why did you do that? Package: kernel-image-2.4.1-di Description: Linux kernel binary image for the Debian installer This package contains the Linux kernel image version 2.4.1-di, for the experimental Debian ins

Yamaha sound card (FW: pls help me)

2001-03-12 Thread D-Man
I got this message in private e-mail today. Melvin needs help configuring a Yamaha sound card. Can anyone help? (cc replies to him since his subscription was rejected (see below)) -D - Forwarded message from Melvin Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Melvin Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: vi/emacs: Loging shell command and output

2001-03-12 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:37:42PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: | Sorry, I am using different teminal this time. (windoze) | | > I also found that "export term=xterm" stops autocolor-ls to producing | > escape sequences. Recorded text after this is printable. | | This may be bogus statement but sett

Re: Rich text format.

2001-03-12 Thread Andre Berger
* John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010313 00:29 +0100: > >Dear Debian Group, > > > >I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text > >format in Linux. > > > >Thank you, > >Ry > > ted is specialized in RTF; I'd probably use StarOffice because it offers more formats. >

Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)

2001-03-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | Hi Balbir, | | On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: | > Hi, | > I have installed dos, win98 and debian on my system using GRUB as | > the bootloader. The installation was ok. But every time I boot Good ch

Re: apt-get source -b

2001-03-12 Thread D. Hoyem
well I just did a apt-get update ; apt-get -b source xchat-gnome 1.6.4 and still the same error does anyone have a idea what I'm doing wrong? I have included a copy of my sources.list at teh bottom of the email. Thanks, Don --- Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The correct syntax is "apt-get

Several questions

2001-03-12 Thread alberto_yope
How do I install KDE (if it´s a good idea to do so)? Is there any command I can use to know which C compilers I have installed? Thank you very much. Consigue tu cuenta gratuita de acceso a internet y de correo en http://www.navega

Re: /etc/cron.daily/find

2001-03-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:25:39PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Why should updatedb be run with the option --localuser=nobody ? > Can't this be run as root, because this way, not all files on my system > are catalogued. Is there a reason for me not to remove this option? this is done for

Re: Where are clear-text passwords stored?

2001-03-12 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:45:31PM -0800, Robert Cymbala wrote: | | Is this list an exhaustive list of places where my dial-up password is | stored? I'm about to return a laptop after installing Debian for a | friend, and want to make sure all my passwords are deleted. It depends on what you use

Re: Fetchmail cannot access SMTP port (I use Exim)

2001-03-12 Thread Robert Cymbala
Someone at LULA (linux users LA) helped me solve this one. Question is, is SMTP listening? If not, fetchmail has no where to go. netstat -a | grep -i smtp If not, try the steps buried in this document: http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/Debian/t4700ct.html -Rob Cymbala --- MamoMC <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: colors in gvim

2001-03-12 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:37:04PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | > Dear debianers | > | > I am using the vim-gtk plus vim-rt packages. Although I was able to | > change the font using by gvim, I don't | > know how change the

Re: Netscape/WindowMaker annoyance ("XmDisplay")

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:11:56PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > > I am using Netscape 4.76 with WindowMaker 0.64.0 on a potato > system, the latter being compiled from the sources in unstable. > > Occasionally Netscape won't start when I click on its icon -- >

Exim Errors

2001-03-12 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I keep getting errors like this: Mar 12 09:42:56 Jekyll exim[7309]: 2001-03-12 09:42:56 14cTXE-0001tt-00 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Too many open files in system: euid=8 egid=8 This is on our main email server, which gets hit pretty hard. Does 2.4 up the open file lim

Re: Rich text format.

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:54:06PM -0700, Simmons-Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Debian Group, > > I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text > format in Linux. ted. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you und

Re: problem: kword in testing

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:25:28AM -0800, Hunter Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:21:01AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:32:26AM -0800, Hunter Marshall > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have included the output of dpkg -l to w

Re: kernel 2.4.2 and PPP

2001-03-12 Thread bryan
Hi Dean, I too, am having similar problems. Upgraded to 2.4.2 and PPP is no longer working. Works fine all my other kernels though (2.2.18 and 2.2.15) -Bryan On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:32:51PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > I just upgraded my 2.4.0 kernel to 2.4.2 (via

lm-sensors and 2.4 kernels

2001-03-12 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello List, I used to be able to use lm-sensors with 2.2 and early 2.4.0-test kernels i.e. test5, but since 2.4.0-test11 - now 2.4.1, I've been unable to generate the sensors patch to apply to the kernel source. I've been able to generate and apply the i2c patch to all these kernels and hoped tha

Strange DNS lookup characteristics

2001-03-12 Thread Richard Greaney
I am experiencing a strange problem where my system is looking up the DNS servers before the hosts file when I refer to local names. I have cut my hosts file down to the most basic hosts file that one can have (127.0.0.1 localhost) and when I type 'telnet localhost' it still thinks it ne

Sobre KDE

2001-03-12 Thread alberto_yope
¿Qué es lo que tengo que hacer para instalarme KDE en debian? ¿Hay alguna orden que me permita saber los compiladores de C que tengo instalados? Muchísimas gracias. Un saludo Consigue tu cuenta gratuita de acceso a internet y de co

Strange DNS lookup characteristics

2001-03-12 Thread Richard Greaney
I am experiencing a strange problem where my system is looking up the DNS servers before the hosts file when I refer to local names. I have cut my hosts file down to the most basic hosts file that one can have (127.0.0.1 localhost) and when I type 'telnet localhost' it still thinks it ne

Re: Rich text format.

2001-03-12 Thread John Griffiths
>Dear Debian Group, > >I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text >format in Linux. > >Thank you, >Ry > YUK! which RTF are we talking about? also are we talking from the GUI or CLI? if you are running "X" then star/open office or WP8 both do a good job also Mule and A

Re: rpc.statd hacking but firewalled

2001-03-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:27:46AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Try this in your firewall script: > > # anything NFS-like should not be accessible from outside > NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq` > for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS > do $IPCHAINS -A input -i $extint -

Re: New installation from floppy and I have no network

2001-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes, you did miss step, I think. I hope you have LAN connection since you have NIC on system. If your NIC is not connected to Internet, you need to run ftp or http mirror of debian archive on some host of LAN since you have no CDROM on your system which yoiu are installing debian. There should

Rich text format.

2001-03-12 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text format in Linux. Thank you, Ry

Re: kernel 2.4.2 and PPP

2001-03-12 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:32:51PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > I just upgraded my 2.4.0 kernel to 2.4.2 (via 2 patches) and PPP > immediately failed. The connection was made, but an IOCTL said there > was an argument error, and PPPD aborted. The IOCTL command in question was >

Re: Ethernet questions

2001-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have Kingston PCI from my DSL (Pacbell). It was tulip driver which is a module for standard debian kernel. Put "tulip" in /etc/modules and reboot. Make sure to configure /etc/network/interfaces too. To be sure, check actual device by lspci command. Osamu On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:42:08AM -0

kernel 2.4.2 and PPP

2001-03-12 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I just upgraded my 2.4.0 kernel to 2.4.2 (via 2 patches) and PPP immediately failed. The connection was made, but an IOCTL said there was an argument error, and PPPD aborted. The IOCTL command in question was for "PPPIOCGFLAGS". Anyone else had this problem, and know how to correct for i

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: >I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem to >work and I don't know why. >I can access these via the web just not with apt. > >deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free ^ You'

New installation from floppy and I have no network

2001-03-12 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I was forced to install Debian from floppy images (base 1 - 11). I went through the steps and I did not have a chance to configure a network. Did I miss a step? If I have only a floppy drive to get in new code, what are my options? Thanks -- Randy

Re: error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program > (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on > the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make ... and > tha

Re: error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:12:09 +0100 Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program > (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on > the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make

xdm font failure

2001-03-12 Thread Timothy Bedding
Okay, I solved the perl problem and managed to configure debconf. I will explain the debconf resolution after I have got X working... Now, I have a problem with xdm not working. It is xdm version 4.0.2 and it fails with the following output: How can I get xdm (or the X server) working? XFree86 Ve

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:39:34PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > Some refinement; port 20 is ftp data > port 21 is ftp > port 23 is telnet And even more refinement FTP supports two basic modes, 'passive' and 'active'. It's also UGLY as hell.

Some logs... I don't understand this...

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Now, this is what I get from running proftp in foreground and debug level 5. The machine attempting the connection is a win machine with an IP address of 192.168.1.3 and is behind a Linux box doing IP-Masquerading with IP 62.42.25.105. I don't understand those starnge logs at the end about the p

error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make ... and that's what I get: make[3]: Entering directory '/home/user1/programs/dx-4.1

RE: But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
> I am running a ProFTP server on port 2100 Okey. Then it?s a Public server you are running. >An error ocurred when openning the folder at ftp server. Check your access rights to the folder. >Details: >200 Type set to A >500 Illegal PORT command It's saying 'check your access rights to the folder

Netscape/WindowMaker annoyance ("XmDisplay")

2001-03-12 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I am using Netscape 4.76 with WindowMaker 0.64.0 on a potato system, the latter being compiled from the sources in unstable. Occasionally Netscape won't start when I click on its icon -- from the error messages that are output to one of the consoles I can see this: Class: XmDisplay _M

Re: But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:08:07PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| -| a) What FTP Server are you connecting TO? I am running a ProFTP server on port 2100 -| b) Is public? Private? -| c) What is the error exactly? An error ocurred when openning the folder at ftp server. Check your access righ

RE: But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
a) What FTP Server are you connecting TO? b) Is public? Private? c) What is the error exactly? d) DO NOT USE IE for FTP, USE any win application there are dozens and many freeware. -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, t

But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have tryed a connection with no firewall in between and I still get the same error... Any ideas? El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:31:08PM -0700, Eric Richardson dijo: -| Daniel de los Reyes wrote: -| > -| > Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? -|

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread Pat Day
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: > I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer > seem to work and I don't know why. > I can access these via the web just not with apt. > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/deb

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
So, may I ask a related question? I am trying to use ssh on a DSL-connected system, and apparently encountered similar problems. That is, rp-ppoe (or firewall) does not allow incoming connection. How do I use ssh? Is there a way to get around this problem using a similar approach such as th

RE: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Some refinement;port 20 is ftp data port 21 is ftp port 23 is telnet -Original Message- From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:31 PM To: Daniel de los Reyes Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subj

Re: /etc/cron.daily/find

2001-03-12 Thread Mike Dresser
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Why should updatedb be run with the option --localuser=nobody ? > Can't this be run as root, because this way, not all files on my system > are catalogued. Is there a reason for me not to remove this option? > > Thank in advance! > > -- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

/etc/cron.daily/find

2001-03-12 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Why should updatedb be run with the option --localuser=nobody ? Can't this be run as root, because this way, not all files on my system are catalogued. Is there a reason for me not to remove this option? Thank in advance! --

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way > out of this? > ftp is bidirectional in that you go out on one port(21) and then the server communicates back on another port(23 I think). Passive mode means that it it a one port operatio

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread pollywog
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:32:23 Pollywog wrote: > I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem > to work and I don't know why. > I can access these via the web just not with apt. > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi Daniel! Passive mode means that the server behaves passively. Traffic to an ftp server works as follows: Client (Port 1024-65535) initiates a connection to Server (usually port 21, but cinfigurable) Now: active: Server opens a data connection (backwards) from Port 20 to client (1024-65535) O

RE: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
The reason for this is because many firewalls do not allow incoming connections to the site, but do allow users to establish outgoing connections. A passive data connection is established by the client to the server, whereas the default is for the server to establish the connection to the c

What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:09:42PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| 1) Indeed you can't do it on Internet Explorer as far as I know. -| 2) I believe that no matter which client you will be using, if you wi

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
1) Indeed you can't do it on Internet Explorer as far as I know. 2) I believe that no matter which client you will be using, if you wish to use an ftp server and pass through a firewall, you will have to enable passive mode on every client. Best Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DO

Re: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:39:02PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| You probably need to enable PASSIVE Mode on the Windows FTP CLient. -| -| That will make it. -| 1. I can't find a way to do this in Internet Explorer. 2. Isn't there any other way? I can't tell everybody to enable PASSIVE mode.

RE: Sonido

2001-03-12 Thread Carlos Laviola
Please, either post this to debian-user-es or write in english, and, preferably, post your messages using pure text instead of HTML. On 11-Mar-2001 roberto calvente aragon wrote: > Hola soy un usuario de Debian 2.2 potato y quisiera poder ver la television y > tener sonido en Linux. Tengo la awe 6

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
You probably need to enable PASSIVE Mode on the Windows FTP CLient. That will make it. Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)

Is there a better server avaliable?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:24:45PM +, Gavin Hamill dijo: -| On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote: -| -| > Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients. -| -| I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd -| 1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Brian Johnston
you should also update from security.debian.org as there are known vulnerabilities against proftpd versions less than: 1.2.0pre10 see: Debian Security Advisory DSA-032-2 at http://www.debian.org/security Brian At 07:24 PM 3/12/2001 +, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Janse

RE: rpc.statd hacking but firewalled

2001-03-12 Thread Marc Wilson
Try this in your firewall script: # anything NFS-like should not be accessible from outside NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq` for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS do $IPCHAINS -A input -i $extint -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 $PORT_NUM -j REJECT -l do $IPCHAINS

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote: > Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients. I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a stupid bug where PASV mode didn't work... so I'd suggest try toggling passive

Sonido

2001-03-12 Thread roberto calvente aragon
Hola soy un usuario de Debian 2.2 potato y quisiera poder ver la television y tener sonido en Linux. Tengo la awe 64 sound blaster como tarjeta de sonido y la avermedia Capture 98 como tarjeta capturadora para poder ver la tele. Asi mismo tengo la S3 Virge como tarjeta de video. Me gustaria

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net
Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients. -Rick ** Server Administrator [Linux - FreeBSD] Websites: www.shellz.nl www.tweakers.net ICQ#: 37416519 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iptables

2001-03-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:57:48PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hi, I am switching my firewall this weekend from RedHat to a Debian Box. I > plan to install 2.4.2 and use the new filtering technology instead of > Ipchains. > > Where can I find good Man pages and tutorials to start reading tod

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