Droid: "You can't pass out free software here."

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Cymbala
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/01/1540231 --- (Thanks, Dan Kegal, who posted that to LULA in L.A.).

Installation Problems

2001-06-02 Thread Margarete Hans
H. I think I made some progress. Usually, my filesystem wouldn't mount. This time, using loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44 (linux is my linux kernel) (all the files are on c:\, a dos partition) the kernel booted fine but then ended with " Partition check: hda: hda1 hd

Re: I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Craig Kelley
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, L.U.S.T List wrote: > -- > List: Linux User Support Team List > Sender: Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: I need a windows-linux solution > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:06:17 -0400 (EDT) > -- > > I have a Linux machine on

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Cymbala
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:28:57PM +0200, General Alcazar wrote: > So, can somebody tell me what I have to do so that exim begins > to wait for incoming SMTP connections? [ ... ] Glad to meet you. It made me crazy too. Try looking at the following guide. Below is the link and the relevant se

Re. Total confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
Steve Kowalik wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered: > Then /sbin/modprobe -v ppp > Response: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file > /lib/modules/2.2.14-15.0/modules.dep (No such file or directory) > Run depmod -a as root to fix that particular problem. I ran d

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-02 Thread John Hughes
>> >> Subject: How can i get my printer to work?? >> Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:59:37PM -0500 >> >> In reply to:John Hughes >> >> Quoting John Hughes([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > I have a lexmark 3200 connected on LP0. how can i get it to print? >> > >> >> What have you tried from the

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Cymbala
Margaret wrote: >I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was >in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text >this time. [ ... ] I've installed Debian on a similar computer (without a CD-ROM drive) and along the way had to deal with the error messa

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
Nick wrote: [snip] >I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is >2.0.38-2.0.38-3. Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment, but your kernel version *can't* be right - I'm running Debian 2.2r2 which came with kernel 2.2.18pre?, and which I've recently updated

Re: iptables and 2.4.4 kernel in testing

2001-06-02 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:44:17PM -0400, Simon Read uttered: > Folks, > > I have a two difficulties interpreting this message: iptables is not a > dynamically loadable module in 2.4.4 but is compiled in; no modules > were built at all for my 2.4.4 kernel. > *slap* Do _not_ build iptables direc

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered: > Then /sbin/modprobe -v ppp > Response: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file > /lib/modules/2.2.14-15.0/modules.dep (No such file or directory) > Run depmod -a as root to fix that particular problem. --

iptables and 2.4.4 kernel in testing

2001-06-02 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I'm trying to build a firewall using the 2.4.4 kernel and iptables. The kernel seems to configure and build without problems, but when I try to run iptables to specify a rule I get a message like: modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table

Re: I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:06:17PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: :I have tried samba but it is aparently blocked at the :cable co. Apparently because it doesn't work or because the cable co. said they're blocking it? You can use "nmap" to determine if bits on ports 137-9 are filtered between the ho

Re: disconnection problems

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
David Purton writes: > These connection failures which occur when pppd receives this CBCP > message first appear in my logs on May 24, and I'm trying to work out > whether this is something wrong at my end, or if my ISP has changed > something recently. Looks like your ISP has a problem to me. --

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: How can i get my printer to work?? Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:59:37PM -0500 In reply to:John Hughes Quoting John Hughes([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a lexmark 3200 connected on LP0. how can i get it to print? > What have you tried from the Printing-HOWTO that didn't

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:51:57AM +0100, Nick wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:15:02 -0700, Sidney Brooks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is > >2.0.38-2.0.38-3. > > Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment,

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:21:30PM -0500, ktb wrote: :Every .xinitrc I have put together has exec lines for each line in the :file. If I understand it correctly all exec does is execute the :program. The tricky part is when back-grounding programs with "&" there :has to be one, usually the windo

disconnection problems

2001-06-02 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm trying to track down a problem that has recently surfaced with my ppp connection. sys info: i586 running linux kernel 2.4.4 and pppd version 2.4.1 a few times recently my connection has died (usually when idle) with the following messages in my ppp.log file: Jun 2 13:19:38 twoflower

Re: I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi Brian on your Linux box... amke sure you have samba configured properly... - think you're making things more difficult than it is.. - make sure that the firewall does notprevent you from getting to the "samba ports" linux# cat /etc/exports - export /home/brian you want the client_

Re: I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Schramm
OK I need to make it a little more clear. I need to access these files in realtime. They are used for outlook and other programs. I could use a routine to update the local files but the size and time does not allow for that. I need to be able to access it like a norma drive. Brian Brian Schra

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Nick
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:15:02 -0700, Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is >2.0.38-2.0.38-3. Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment, but your kernel version *can't* be right - I'm running Debian 2.2r2 w

Re: I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Sebastian Becerra
Have you tried. .. FTP?? Check out Proftpd. (Although just about any server you pick will end up having a huge security hole in the future; not much you can do about it besides running a reasonably recent release.) - Original Message - From: "Brian Schramm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NCSA

Re: I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Brian Schramm wrote: BS> I have a Linux machine on a cable modem. That server has a lot of files BS> that I need to get to from a Windows machine in another location that is BS> on a dsl line. I have tried samba but it is aparently blocked at the BS> cable co. I think NFS is

I need a windows-linux solution

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a Linux machine on a cable modem. That server has a lot of files that I need to get to from a Windows machine in another location that is on a dsl line. I have tried samba but it is aparently blocked at the cable co. I think NFS is open but there is no nfs client that I have gotten to wor

(RESOLVED) Re: libpcap0 question

2001-06-02 Thread Curtis Hogg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I finally found out how to do it (RTFMing really does work). In my /usr/src/libpcap-0.6.2/ dir, i did ld -o libpcap.so -shared *.o and that produced what appears to be a working .so libpcap (as in, my program didn't horribly complain when i started it

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:55:18AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > Try - > > exec xscreensaver & > > Thanks for your very quick respons but this doesn't seem to work. > xscreensaver doesn't get started automatically when I log in? > Does this

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-02 Thread Margarete Hans
> Hi, > > Your hard disk is IDE? DO you know the name and make. Hard Drive Type 65 (813MB) (?). It is IDE. > But in your case I suspect the problem with the floppy > disk. Try to use the best disk when you run rawwrite > > or check the badblock fisrt. How do I check that? > > TO make sure your comp

Re: Wireless Conection

2001-06-02 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
ok i've fixed it, it works, great, change the MTU from 1500 to 1492 and it's running smoothly :) thanks * Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:55:05PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > :Well so far it fairly works for almost everything except for http :( >

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:53:12PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: > :Try - > :exec xscreensaver & > :kent > > NO DON"T DO IT! > > This will stop processing the file and make the screensaver the last > thing that executes (ie no window manag

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:32:37AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an > x-window session? That would be cool. Having recently got round to using screen I know that cutting and pasting between a virtual console and X can be done with it. A c

Re: Packet Traffic

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:06:55PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: :think you'd end up with snmp and/or perf tools : :- a nice link i found ... nothing that helps you ?? I liked the link :) I agree snmp to get the info. There's plenty of tools command line and otherwise to view it. We use snmp with cr

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Try - > exec xscreensaver & Thanks for your very quick respons but this doesn't seem to work. xscreensaver doesn't get started automatically when I log in? Does this work for you? Regards -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com I

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: :Try - :exec xscreensaver & :kent NO DON"T DO IT! This will stop processing the file and make the screensaver the last thing that executes (ie no window manager) and if you close the screensaver you Xwindows session will exit. Only "exec" a wi

Re: Wireless Conection

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:55:05PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: :Well so far it fairly works for almost everything except for http :( I had a similar problem when I put in my DSL. Not the same, it only affected boxes behind my Debian box that was runing NAT to share the connection, the machin

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:27:08AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hey, > > simple question. I want to invoke the xscreensaver(daemon) automatically > after I logged in. > I added this line to my .xinitrc file > # Start xscreensaver daemon > xscreensaver & > However it doesn't work. What

xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hey, simple question. I want to invoke the xscreensaver(daemon) automatically after I logged in. I added this line to my .xinitrc file # Start xscreensaver daemon xscreensaver & However it doesn't work. What's wrong. Adding to the .xinitrc file is correct isn't? Xscreensaver works

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
I believe that Win9x or ME will boot on any partition... but from my experience... I had to put windows NT 4.0 workstation on the hda or I could't boot from itI assuming that would be the same for win2k Mike - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Hughes" <

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:02:41 -0500 (CDT) John Hughes writes: JH> I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies JH> /dev/hda JH> JH> When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something abou

Re: Packet Traffic

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jonathan... donno if you already checked... but.. i just tried searching google too ... think you'd end up with snmp and/or perf tools - a nice link i found ... nothing that helps you ?? Viewing your Network in RealTime http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-09-1999/swol-09-realtim

I want to make a Debian friendly box.

2001-06-02 Thread DrkMessiah
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. I have an old IBM Aptiva M71 with a NEC XV15 monitor that I am going to upgrade for use with linux, preferably the Debian Distribution. This means maxing out the RAM to 128 and getting rid of the mwave sound/modem card and installing a new vid

Packet Traffic

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Despite the recent question about traffic monitoring on multiple machines, does anyone know of a good COMMAND-LINE tool to give accurate counts of packet transfers AND errors? I'm working on a hardware stats / performance program for nearly 50 machines. -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Compute

Re: Network traffic monitor

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi daniel lots of apps... for network connections... iptraf, showtraf, netwatch, tcpview, statnet, etc.. even "tcpdump | grep 'what you want to see' " for network statistics... mrtg, http://www.Linux-Sec.net -- see the ethernet section c ya alvin On Sat, 2

Re: Lilo and Win2k - switch

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya - either reinstall so that win2k is on hda1 or - get a new disk and make linux hdb probably faster to get windows to reinstall than to copy/move stuff around... c ya alvin On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long tim

Re: Port Sentry - users

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi john i think its more the issue of what "users" do after they see the portscan log messsages... changing fw rules due to portscan loggs is like shooting yourself in the foot if one does not know why you're updating the fw rules ( "i heard someone say update the fw to stop port scans" is not g

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can > boot linux, which occupies > /dev/hda > > When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it ca

Re: Port Sentry - good idea

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya raj > Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? > What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? thats exactly what the next level of "script kiddies" does to get you to block all incoming legit connections - in this case..block connections from yo

Wireless Conection

2001-06-02 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi everyone, i'm a dsl user whom subscribed to this service (duh!), and am having trouble with the pppoe package suplied by debian in sid, currently i'm using the one suplied by my ISP (pppoe is from Network Telesystems), but i'd prefer 2 use the debian one ;) Well so far it fairly works for almo

Getting modules.conf to load sound at startup

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Kenrick
I've managed to get sound working on an SB16 sound card (manually modprobing from the command line works), but I'm having trouble trying to get it to load at bootup. Yes, I did run update-modules after each change... but after reboot no sound drivers are present according to lsmod, and dmesg show

[OT] Coding w/ vim

2001-06-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've decided to start using vim for small coding projects, because emacs (although excellent) uses a lot of RAM, and is slow to load. Anyway I have a few very basic questions about vim: 1. How do I enable c/c++ mode? My friend's computer automatically puts parenthesis where they're suppose

Help: squid on a dial-up machine

2001-06-02 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I have a problem with squid (2.4.1-5) seemingly ignoring the '-D' during the startup. When booting, squid dies because it cannot find nameservers (of course! I'm on a dial-up!), despite being told (per man page) to "disable initial DNS tests" with the '-D' option. Any suggestions? --ET.

ANSWER: how to add extra chat options in pppconfig

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I accidently deleted the post this answers (oops). Someone needed to add some more chattiness after connectig to their ISP to select PPP rather than SLIP or some other things... After going through the regular set up, it shows what you've selected for connection settings and allows you to ch

Re: X windows dual monitors

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:19:58PM -0400, Yea Right wrote: : :How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400 :with 2 17" monitors. You'll need XFree4.0 (but you know this). Then "man 5x XF86Config" Essentialy you make multiple "Device" sections for each SVGA port (one card or many, doesn't matter), you g

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread General Alcazar
I'm so stupid... I don't know why, but just commenting this line in exim.conf "host_lookup = *" everything work fine. General Alcazar On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 at 09:47:10 -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included > in the "local_domains" en

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread General Alcazar
I'm so stupid... I don't know why, but just commenting this line in exim.conf "host_lookup = *" everything work fine. General Alcazar On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 at 09:47:10 -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included > in the "local_domains" en

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
To: Eamon Roque The logs that you want are in my 11:06 AM 6/2/01 posting. I cannot echo anything. To: Jonathan D. Pro(rest not printed in my email) Redhat problems with dialing, e.g. kppp, gnome-ppp ,are the same as with Debian. As far as I know, Redhat does not have the ppp module. The printer

Re: compiling gtk under woody

2001-06-02 Thread David Z Maze
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJS> today i would like to teach myself how to use gtk. PJS> PJS> i'm running woody. which packages should i apt-get install? Use a front-end like dselect or aptitude. Start it up, and search for 'gtk' within it. This will find lots of things, amo

Re: oh crikey, it's ALSA all over again

2001-06-02 Thread David Z Maze
Blue Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> Oh, I have unpacked the kernel source into /usr/src/linux all BR> right; ALSA modules have been untarred into the modules BR> subdirectory where they belong, run configure and I'm fine. (The kernel source doesn't actually *need* to go into /usr/src/linux, a

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
John Hughes wrote: I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies /dev/hda When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something about NTDLTR or something like that. How can i get it to boot win2k? I'm

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
This is a response to Lance Simmons. When I reinstalled Debian yesterday, I installed the modules in the order that you give: parport, parport_pc, and lp. After each I got the message "installation succeeded". Is there any point in going through the insmod sequence?

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:15:02PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: :I know that I am connected because the log says so. Please post the log out put as others have suggested. At one point it will say connected when the modems start talking to each other, later it will give the local and remote IP add

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread shock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote: > > > It is trivial to spoof the source address of a portscan, allowing one to > > cause your machine to block access from your nameservers or your clients > > or other important sites. > > While certainly no panacea,

Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread John Hughes
I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies /dev/hda When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something about NTDLTR or something like that. How can i get it to boot win2k?

How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-02 Thread John Hughes
I have a lexmark 3200 connected on LP0. how can i get it to print? John Hughes

Re: lilo & fstab

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In re: my continued lilo problems ... > > > What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda3" say? > > This: > > > Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device BootStart

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #783

2001-06-02 Thread Jim McCloskey
General Alcazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> So, can somebody tell me what I have to do so that exim begins |> to wait for incoming SMTP connections? This is normally set up by including a line of the following form in the file /etc/inetd.conf: smtpstream tcp nowait mail

Re: lilo & fstab: SOLVED

2001-06-02 Thread burningclown
Hola, I ran the suggested /etc/lilo.conf file, ran /sbin/lilo and now all is well. Moving on. Thanks!! Am just not gonna worry about what I must've been doing wrong. :S Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" ++

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > More answers. > > when I ran ismod parport, the response was "ismod command not found". Yikes! Did I say "ismod"? I meant "insmod" (to INsert a MODule). lp depends on parport_pc which depends on parport, so they have to be loaded i

Re: Network traffic monitor

2001-06-02 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: DdlR> I need to monitor the bandwidth that is being used between certain ports DdlR> of several machines. (Traffic in port P of machine A comming from DdlR> machine B) What tools can use to measure this? There is lots of tools that can do that, but i

Re: lilo & fstab

2001-06-02 Thread burningclown
In re: my continued lilo problems ... > What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda3" say? This: Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System And when I run fdisk on /dev/hda, I get the following: C

compiling gtk under woody

2001-06-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, today i would like to teach myself how to use gtk. i'm running woody. which packages should i apt-get install? pete -- "The following addresses had permanent fatal errors..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailer Daemon www.dirac.org/p

oh crikey, it's ALSA all over again

2001-06-02 Thread Blue Rat
Hey ho, Well, you'll never guess. The transition from Mandrake 7.2 to Debian didn't exactly go without a glitch, but I have configured almost everything I need. Almost. Except for ALSA modules, that is. Oh, I have unpacked the kernel source into /usr/src/linux all right; ALSA modules have bee

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
More answers. when I ran ismod parport, the response was "ismod command not found". I ran pppconfig in the standard way, ending with the write and finish command.I then ran pon and got (it is verbose): ioctl(TIOCSETUP):Invalid argument (22) /usr/bin/ppp: This system lacks kernel support for PP

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm beginning to think you've got some weird kernel running, what with your reporting of 2.0.38 under debian 2.2r3, and with this ppp issue. When you configured the system, did you include ppp (in the net section) as a module? Is it in /etc/modules? If not, try including it. Also, just to verify

Re: http-ssl

2001-06-02 Thread Eamon Roque
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:07:16PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but > > documents that tell me about setting it up. > > Is there a Debian Server ( preferably in

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >> If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are >> the 2 main services that need it. >> >> Don't use update-rc.d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system

Re: X windows dual monitors

2001-06-02 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:19:58PM -0400, Yea Right wrote: > How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400 > with 2 17" monitors. Today there was this article on Slashdot. It might be what you're looking for. "Matrix Releases G series Config tool" Check out this URL: http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_cente

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Sidney Brooks writes: > After configuring PPP,... What do you mean by "configuring PPP"? _Exactly_ what did you do and _exactly_ what were the results? Don't hesitate to be verbose. > I get message "This system lacks kernel support for ppp. In response to what command? This message does not a

X windows dual monitors

2001-06-02 Thread Yea Right
How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400 with 2 17" monitors. Thanks

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > The printer does not work. The echo test failed. What messages do you get when you insmod parport, parport_pc, and lp?

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
> It is trivial to spoof the source address of a portscan, allowing one to > cause your machine to block access from your nameservers or your clients > or other important sites. While certainly no panacea, portsentry isn't that stupid. The authors thought about this and provided for it. -- John

Re: http-ssl

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but > documents that tell me about setting it up. > Is there a Debian Server ( preferably in Germany ) that has this package?! Would apache-ssl work for you?

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
Answer to questions by Kent West. The printer does not work. The echo test failed. Printer does work with Redhat, therefore is not win-printer. Possibility of damage by lightning strike. Modem works with Windows and Beos. My ISP administrator used his own modem. Minicom says" Connect

http-ssl

2001-06-02 Thread Eamon Roque
Hi! I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but documents that tell me about setting it up. Is there a Debian Server ( preferably in Germany ) that has this package?! Thanks! Eamon Roque.

Network traffic monitor

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I need to monitor the bandwidth that is being used between certain ports of several machines. (Traffic in port P of machine A comming from machine B) What tools can use to measure this? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: exam.cls?

2001-06-02 Thread Rajkumar S.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I will give a math exam and I would like to write it in LaTex. Does > exist a latex class for doing this? (like article.cls for write > articles) One good place to ask such questions is the Indian TeX users group list, see http://gnu.org.in/mailma

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:51:46PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > > Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the > > scan. > > Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? > What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? This is the real problem,

OT: exam.cls?

2001-06-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! this is a bit OT, sorry. I will give a math exam and I would like to write it in LaTex. Does exist a latex class for doing this? (like article.cls for write articles) Thanks in advance! Marcelo

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > What does plog report when you use pppconfig/pon/poff? Or even when you don't. Plog is just #!/bin/sh if [ -s /var/log/ppp.log ]; then exec tail "$@" /var/log/ppp.log else exec tail "$@" /var/log/syslog | grep ' \(pppd\|chat\)\[' fi -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan

Xmame

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Spencer
I'm running Debian unstable and just downloaded all of the Xmame .debs. Unfortunately I can't get Xmame to run. It seems as though the executables were not included in the packages. Am I losing my mind or has anyone else experienced this problem? -Chris

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
Margarete Hans wrote: I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this time. I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wic

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: Here are answers to some of the questions that helpful people have posed. About two hours ago, I installed Debian anew. It was during this installation that I added the modules parport, etc. . The message at the time of installation was "installation successful". So doe

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-06-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul D. Smith wrote: > >> console-tools (or kbd, I don't care much which one) my customizations > >> are kept automatically without my having to go back in and fix them up. > > There must be some reason why upgrading these packages keeps installing > new versions of the ke

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:27:45AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X > > and run that on one or more workspaces. > > Use uwm as your window manager, edit the uwmrc.hook fil

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: More information. I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet. So, when you use minicom, you can dial-out (assuming you have volume up, you hear dialtone, and then dialing tones

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Rajkumar S.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Roderick Cummings wrote: > Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the > scan. I am not an expert in security, but some doubts. Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? r

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included in the "local_domains" entry. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:28:57PM +0200, General Alcazar wrote: > Hello to everybody, pleased to meet you. > > I'm using Debian 2.2 'potato' whit exim as MTA. The question > is that when I try to f

Re: which gnutella-client to use

2001-06-02 Thread aziem_chawdhary
Gtk-Gnutella is a good client. http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net On (01/06/01 03:16), Thomas Hess wrote: > hi, > > do you have any suggestions for a graphical gnutella-client? I'm looking > for one with many configuration-options, multiple searches. A gtk/gnome > program would be nice, but not

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sidney, Sorry this has been such a pain for you. I think, though, that you need to systematize your attempts to get it working. Going back to square one was a reasonable idea. But it would help to have the actual output of the commands and logs you refer to, rather than just your memory of them. F

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, June 1, D-Man did write: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:49:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > | Type M-x tutorial (Escape-x tutorial) for a 15 minute intro that will > > That is press and release Escape, press and release x, type > 'tutorial'. > > (this little explanation of Me

Re: fakeroot problem

2001-06-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:55:35AM +0800, csj wrote: > With fakeroot 0.4.4-9.2, a build exits with > > [stderr abridged and graciously spaced for clarity] > > /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: > libfakeroot.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > dire

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:30:13AM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, ktb wrote: > > k> > k> What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X > k> and run that on one or more workspaces. > > Why settle for 'fake' when you can still have the real thing :)

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