Re: Laptop sleep

2001-08-06 Thread Alex Jacques
On Monday 06 August 2001 02:12 pm, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > I've been using an old laptop for a couple of days. I have the harddrive > spining down after 30s but it never stays down. (I even echo'ed some new > setting to /proc/sys/vm/bdflush...didn't seem to help). I was wounding if > anyone has s

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Ian Perry wrote: > Its a pity those people are so lame and irresponsible that they are not > doing anything about it. A lot of them are dialup or PPPOE (cable/DSL) machines owned by Joe Consumer, who probably doesn't even know that Windows NT/2000 came with a free web server. He also doesn't know

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:54:10PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:24:04PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Ian Perry writes: > > > You could, but wouldn't be better to alert then than shutting them > > > down... there could be legal ramifications in lo

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote: > Oh damn... looking at the logs looks like here comes another one... > "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0"... repeat. That's usually from a search engine. robots.txt is an (advisory) control method so that search engines don't try to index, for example, dynamical

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:01:04PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > >

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread John Griffiths
> >Its a pity those people are so lame and irresponsible that they are not >doing anything about it. > >I actually began looking at the web pages, and emailing the web admin or >contact point but with a packet coming in every few minutes it became >impossible. It also seemed to be a waste of time

HP6000SE Media Storage unit & Adaptec 2930LU on Debian/Progeny PC

2001-08-06 Thread K. Matthew Victor
I have an HP6000SE (single ended) SCSI media storage unit that was (a): given to me; (b): originally used uith an HP 7000 Apollo running HP-UX. I am wondering if I may be able to use my Yamaha CRW 2100 CD-R/RW, HP 6390 Scanner, and the several harddrives- DCLZ tape drive- and the original CD-ROM th

satellite hookup

2001-08-06 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey list, i was wondering if any of you uses either one way or two way sat link to the net, if yes, then if it is linux [prefferably debian] friendly and where i can get it :) thanks, Dingo.

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
> -Original Message- > From: William T Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:01 PM > To: Nathan E Norman > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only. > > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > I have

High Performance Computing (SMP/RAID): where to get the latest information?

2001-08-06 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello; I would like to hear/ listen about recent experience on running a high performance system (for a heavy duty database). 1. Is SMP mature enough in sense of "Mean Time Before Crash" :-)? Or, is a single CPU still saver? 2. Which RAID/SCSI controllers are considered the most stable one

Re: dosemu mystery

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:41:07AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > into there. Still unable to cp from my home dir (D: in dosemu) to > > the tmp dir (C:\tmp\ in dosemu). > > > What am I missing? > > It's a bug. Please file it against dosemu and I'll fix

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I have to agree with John ... using a security hole in someone else's > server for good or evil is probably not a good idea legally. I'd > advise against it. In states with "Good Samaritan" laws you are likely to be shielded from liability as long as

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:24:04PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Ian Perry writes: > > You could, but wouldn't be better to alert then than shutting them > > down... there could be legal ramifications in lost income etc etc for a > > public server. > > Making any use at all of the backdoor, even ju

Re: fixing a debian system: which RTFM to start?

2001-08-06 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Dear All: Thanks for all replies. Unfortunately, I still have no idea about which manual to read :-(. Karsten M. Self wrote: > ssh is good, but sometimes there's nothing like being there. yes, ssh is available there. > Why are you running named? Although it is not a production system, I "fee

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Ian Perry writes: > You could, but wouldn't be better to alert then than shutting them > down... there could be legal ramifications in lost income etc etc for a > public server. Making any use at all of the backdoor, even just to send the admin a message, is probably a crime under US law. -- Joh

xdvi doesn't work, fontset?

2001-08-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, When I tried to use xdvi the other day, it gives me this warning Mercury:~/school/rsty/proposal$ xdvi proposal.dvi Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset /usr/

tv capture card problem. Although on my way 2 success

2001-08-06 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi there debian ppl, i want to know if u can give me pointers for the following problem i've been having (i'm running sid kernel-2.4.7) this is how far i got trying to configure my Genius Video Wonder Pro TV Card, i loaded all the modules necesary as specified in /usr/src/kernel*/Documentation

MSS on linux 2.2.19

2001-08-06 Thread Kalpesh Shah
I am doing research in TCP-congestion control for one of my classes. I have been running a client server http experiment on my network. I tried running the server code on my private research network and client code on one of the local networks. In order to trace the traffic i had let TCPdump

Re: Calling external file parameters into scripts?

2001-08-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:55:06PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: > I'm trying to call an external file in a bash firewall script on my Debian > system. The external file is /etc/ban_list. I tried this without success: > > for site in /etc/ban_list; do >iptables -A banned_site -s site -j DROP

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
> -Original Message- > From: Titus Barik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:06 PM > To: Ian Perry > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only. > > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote: > > > > > rundll32 user3

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
> > | What about just popping a message onto the console ? > > What console? (It's windows, not dos) DOS... I remember the time... :) OK point taken... monitor, screen, window, TV, visual display, LCD... Did I miss any ? ;) > > I saw it on /. : > > net send > > will pop up a dialo

Re: abiword

2001-08-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:38:11AM +0530, harshu wrote: > Hi, > > > try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some > > packages look for 75dpi fonts toomaybe that's > > what's causing the problemin either case both > >thanks for the suggestion. will check it out. below a

Re: Netatalk: job could not be printed--Solved

2001-08-06 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Here is the answer to my own question. I posted to the linux-atalk list: http://lists.netspace.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=linux-atalk and got an answer that worked. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:15:12 -0700, andrew morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe Potato uses LPRng for the printer system. You'll ne

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote: > > > rundll32 user32.dll,ExitWindows You might want to consider this: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q202/0/13.ASP Which allows you to use IISRESET to start and stop the IIS server. Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AIM: TBarik ICQ: 160

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:17:28AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: | > > rundll32 user32.dll,ExitWindows | > | > Meh. Doesn't quite work, even on 95. | > For one, it's ExitWindowsEx. And then it only shuts down if you click | > OK. And then it only really logs out if there's more than one account. A

Calling external file parameters into scripts?

2001-08-06 Thread Lance Peterson
I'm trying to call an external file in a bash firewall script on my Debian system. The external file is /etc/ban_list. I tried this without success: for site in /etc/ban_list; do iptables -A banned_site -s site -j DROP done Can someone show me the right way to call in parameters to a script

Re: Secondary controller install problems

2001-08-06 Thread SHAMOW ERIC
On 6 Aug 2001, Jeremy wrote: > I don't know how this will fair with the ATA/100, but I have a ATA/66 card > that I had the same problem with a couple months back. What I ended up > having to do was to dig down into the first CD and find the directory for the > UMDA stuff. In there you will find

Re: Inconsistant Segfaults

2001-08-06 Thread Ryan Golbeck
First off, I really appreciate the input. :) On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:25:16PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Aug 06 2001, Ryan Golbeck wrote: > > Firstly, I compiled a 2.4.7 kernel and I set the CPU to Althon/Duron > > and everytime I booted it seemed that either the kernel would segfault > >

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
The seperate machine as a firewall is a quite good solution. And more flexible than the cable router. I know some who have set this machine up will an old "junk" machine that boots from floppy. Every- thing then runs in ramdisk. Easy to recover if someone gets into your firewall box. Now if they

Re: S3 savage on potato

2001-08-06 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 20:04 5/8/2001 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: I have a new PC here that has some form of S3 Savage video onboard, which isn't supported by XFree86 3.3.6, but apparently is supported under version 4. I am running Debian 2.2r3 (potato), which only supports XFree86 3.3.6 -- it seems that XFree86 4 i

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > > on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:43:07PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > There

Re: Bug: DHCP initialization with RealTek 8139 net driver

2001-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:21:40PM -0700, Mark Smith wrote: > I'm not sure which package or pseudo-package this would fall under, so > I'm sending it here per the Debian web site bug submission guidelines. I've cc'ed you, then; apologies if you read this list too. > Basically, during installation

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-06 Thread Paul Scott
D. Hoyem wrote: Deven, You hit the nail on the head there... If Paul would go to linmodems.org and look around there he would probably find a .deb for his version of kernel and then he wouldn't need the headers. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears to me that when you are trying to

RE: code red goes on

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
I just had a look at another site I look after. It appears from the apache logs that Code Red has not hitting there since 5th August, yet web requests are getting through. It is being filterred ate the ISP level. Ian

Re: easy twm question

2001-08-06 Thread Robin Rowe
Karsten, Thanks for the tips, but it's not the root menu or window minimize that is the problem. Those I can do. It is the raise-lower-kill-whatever menu that is supposed to pop up somehow off the titlebar of each individual window that I can't find. Having the icon manager as a second method of m

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
Only if they give you a seperate IP address for each machine. These may be static or dynamic, but they must be unique. Some charge extra for this, some do not, but most have a limit on how many you can have. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it possible to just hook up all my machines to the

RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
> > > > > rundll32 user32.dll,ExitWindows > > Meh. Doesn't quite work, even on 95. > For one, it's ExitWindowsEx. And then it only shuts down if you click > OK. And then it only really logs out if there's more than one account. > > There might be some other way like that that works, but it's p

xscreensaver DPMS bug (was Re: DPMS keeps getting disabled in XFree 4)

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:12:19AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings: > > I just upgraded to woody and XFree 4.0 and I have one nagging little > problem. I enabled DPMS for my monitor but it keeps getting turned > off. > > For example, I enter the following: > > xs

Bug: DHCP initialization with RealTek 8139 net driver

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Smith
Greetings. I'm not sure which package or pseudo-package this would fall under, so I'm sending it here per the Debian web site bug submission guidelines. Basically, during installation of Debian 2.2r3 (Potato), I got the following kernel panic (what I did is below the panic screen text if you want

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-06 Thread Paul Scott
D. Hoyem wrote: Paul, I realize that I'm getting in late on this thread, but if you go to this web page you should be able to find the LTModem driver in the .deb version that you want http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/computer/ltmodem/ Thanks. That's where I got ltmodem-5.99b. I be

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Mike McGuire
> > rundll32 user32.dll,ExitWindows Meh. Doesn't quite work, even on 95. For one, it's ExitWindowsEx. And then it only shuts down if you click OK. And then it only really logs out if there's more than one account. There might be some other way like that that works, but it's probably a lot e

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread Mike McGuire
> > | Amazing! Someone on /. proposed writing a script that whenever > | anyone hits your web server with , you automatically connect > | back and halt the attacking machine, thus stopping the spread. > > I would ike to see something like this . I was thinking of > putting a CGI script as /

RE: Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Perry
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron Traas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:54 AM > To: dman; debian > Subject: Re: Linux on less than 8MByes of Memory > > > You're right, I did mean to send to the list. > > You must be looking in the wrong places for RAM... > C

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-06 Thread D. Hoyem
Deven, You hit the nail on the head there... If Paul would go to linmodems.org and look around there he would probably find a .deb for his version of kernel and then he wouldn't need the headers. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It appears to me that when you are trying to make > this driver,

Re: easy twm question

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:18:26PM -0700, Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here's an easy one, I think. In playing with twm all I seem to be able > to do consistently is minimize or resize. How do I close a twm window, > and how do I get the window's menu to appear? > > I've tried every mou

Re: Secondary controller install problems

2001-08-06 Thread Jeremy
SHAMOW ERIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2r3...my primary HD is occupied by (ugh) > Win2K, and I want to install onto my secondary drive, an 80 GB Maxtor. > Since the built-in controller on my motherboard is only ATA/66 and the > drive is ATA/100, I bought > an

Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:43:07PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > There is the "-u" option for ntpdate which might be useful - > > > > Tha

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread P Kirk
Hi Jake, Connecting to a hub without a firewall means that each machine becomes an exposed node and that all communications between them can be picked up by a packet sniffer. So that's the root passwords given away and a shortcut to either having the ISP pull the account or being RBL-ed. Stop l

Re: Laptop sleep

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > I've been using an old laptop for a couple of days. I have the > harddrive spining down after 30s but it never stays down. (I even > echo'ed some new setting to /proc/sys/vm/bdflush...didn't seem to > help). I was wounding if anyone has some tips on what to

RE: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Mason
Not a good way to do it. The place for a firewall is before the machines. I built a pentium 133 with two interfaces as a firewall, and that works great. Connect the external interface to the hub, use dhcp to get the IP, and use non-routable IPs for the internal network. Connect a hub or switch to t

Re: Setting up my own apt sources

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, George Karaolides wrote: > Does that sound like a reasonable way to go about things? Why not export the tree that apt-move constructs as an NFS filesystem to the machines that need the packages and adjust their /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the local mir

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:16 PM 8/6/01 -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Is it possible to just hook up all my machines to the hub provided by the > > cable modem provider, then install a Firewall program on each one? Or do I > > have to get a cable router or something? > >If they all have IP

Re: ATA 100 module

2001-08-06 Thread Nic Strong
On 06 Aug 2001 14:45:10 +0200, Dr. Joerg Hettwer wrote: > Hi everybody > I tried to install debian potato on my new A7V133. > My Harddisk is connected to the Promise ATA 100 and should be /dev/hde. > The drivers that came with the board belong to Red Hat, and "potato" > doesn't reckognize the Hardd

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi.. If your ISP hands out multiple IP's through dhcp, then you'll be fine... (you can hook all your machines to the hub) but you won't be firewalled...(unless you install software) Your best bet, is to make one linux machine a gateway, with 2 nics... or buy one...(ex. suggestions from the other

easy twm question

2001-08-06 Thread Robin Rowe
Here's an easy one, I think. In playing with twm all I seem to be able to do consistently is minimize or resize. How do I close a twm window, and how do I get the window's menu to appear? I've tried every mouse combination I can think of, the man page is no help, and I can't find a helpful Web sit

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread Andrew Agno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it possible to just hook up all my machines to the hub provided by the > cable modem provider, then install a Firewall program on each one? Or do I > have to get a cable router or something? If they all have IP addresses (for the internet), you're okay. Otherwis

Re: DPMS keeps getting disabled in XFree 4

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded to woody and XFree 4.0 and I have one nagging little > problem. I enabled DPMS for my monitor but it keeps getting turned > off. Well, I'm in my potato install right now with X3 installed (so, I can't test everything), but

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread JakeCatfox
Is it possible to just hook up all my machines to the hub provided by the cable modem provider, then install a Firewall program on each one? Or do I have to get a cable router or something? -- Deven

Secondary controller install problems

2001-08-06 Thread SHAMOW ERIC
I'm trying to install Debian 2.2r3...my primary HD is occupied by (ugh) Win2K, and I want to install onto my secondary drive, an 80 GB Maxtor. Since the built-in controller on my motherboard is only ATA/66 and the drive is ATA/100, I bought an ATA/100 controller card, and the large drive is no

Re: Inconsistant Segfaults

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, Ryan Golbeck wrote: > Firstly, I compiled a 2.4.7 kernel and I set the CPU to Althon/Duron > and everytime I booted it seemed that either the kernel would segfault > or some of the startup processes would and aftre the system got booted > random software would segfault as well. Lik

Re: Sieving with procmail

2001-08-06 Thread Philip
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:06:38PM +0100, P Kirk scribbled: > At the bottom of the file? That makes more sense. > So would this work properly or is there a gotcha I need to think of > before pitting it at the bottom of .procmailrc? > # Put mail for that is not addressed to me or a mailinglist > #

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, Miguel Griffa wrote: > you'll need 2 adapters on the machine that is hooked to the > interrnet AFAIK. While not the best solution in terms of security and privacy, you *can* have your router have only one NIC if you add appropriate addresses and routes to it

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Stephen Nosal
okay. So now it looks as though I actually lose functionality by using a ramdisk to gain multi-system flexibility. Perhaps I need to go back and look at compiling my own kernel now as opposed to learning mkinitrd... But why is a ram disk now a standard part of the kernel-image? There must be a rea

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-06 Thread JakeCatfox
It appears to me that when you are trying to make this driver, what it's complaining about is either that your kernel is not the same version as your kernel sources in usr/src, or that this source can't work with the version of either you have. Make sure you have the SAME version kernel as your

Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:10:28PM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > Mike - > > so the initrd showed up in the kernel-image package along with instructions. > > Perhaps I should try this again and see if I'm missing something. Otherwise, > I guess I'll just have to compile my own... Hmm. Looking

Laptop sleep

2001-08-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
I've been using an old laptop for a couple of days. I have the harddrive spining down after 30s but it never stays down. (I even echo'ed some new setting to /proc/sys/vm/bdflush...didn't seem to help). I was wounding if anyone has some tips on what to check; so this drive will stay asleep when ther

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I'm interested to see if that fixes it. I'm not sure why you would need the ramdisk but I'm sure it's there for a reason. Making kernels the debian way is actually really easy. Then you can install the new kernel as a package and remove etc like a package. Get fakeroot and kernel-package. Makin

Re: qtcups_2.0-4

2001-08-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, john gennard wrote: > > Sorry for the delay, but I've had major problems with dependencies, > dselect wanting to remove many of my installed packages, apt wanting > to install stuff for kde which seem to me unnecessary. I'm still > trying to sort out the mess! I've little exp

Xfree86 4.1.0, Matrox G450 & framebuffer?

2001-08-06 Thread Volker Schlecht
Hi, I just got both a Matrox G450 and Xfree 4.1.0 (from sid). Keep the flamethrowers down: DRI worked within minutes ;-) My problem is however that apparently whenever I boot into one of the higher resolution VGA-console modes (using vesafb), I cannot switch back from X to the console. Starting

Re: nvidia: downgrade to XFree86 4.0

2001-08-06 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Okay, it seems that I am under a slight misaprehension. The kernel tarball contains source, but the GLX doesn't. Thanks for clearing that up. Regards, Stephen. On Monday 06 Aug 2001 3:12 pm, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi, > > The

Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > In this case, the difference is whether you're installing a debian > > kernel-image or compiling your own. The kernel images require an > > initrd. When you c

Re: qtcups_2.0-4

2001-08-06 Thread john gennard
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:31:22PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > [snipped] > > > > I managed to compile qtcups 2.0-3 (from woody) on potato without any > > problems. I installed it and it seems to be behaving normally. My > > immediate reaction is that there is something wrong with the versio

gconv-modules

2001-08-06 Thread john gennard
I've had a minor disaster trying to install qtcups. dselect removed many packages but did not (as far as I can tell) affect the important parts of Potato 2.2 r3. I'm trying to work my way through packages removed and reinstall where needed (if I can). One package removed was mozilla which will no

RE: learning to find packages

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Koss
> > > I tried to enter libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2, and smaller pieces all the way > > down to libstdc++ and didn't get any hits. > > Funny, I found it first time out. You want libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 from > the oldlibs section. Found it, thank you. Now aim just segfaults :-( It was working about tw

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Stephen Nosal
Mike - so the initrd showed up in the kernel-image package along with instructions. Perhaps I should try this again and see if I'm missing something. Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to compile my own... - Steve -Original Message- From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Stephen Nosal
Mike - I'd love to find the faq out there on this. I have no objection to compiling my own kernel except that I'm relatively new to Debian and I'm trying to find the simplest way to maintain an up to date system. I have no problem running either testing or unstable for that matter, but I'm learnin

Re: abiword

2001-08-06 Thread harshu
Hi, > try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some > packages look for 75dpi fonts toomaybe that's > what's causing the problemin either case both thanks for the suggestion. will check it out. below are the error messages that i get if i try to run xpdf and similar stuf

capt, deity, and all that

2001-08-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
> > Deity is the package to look out for. Capt has been obsoleted > Not on woody, as the original poster pointed out. > Apt-cache search deity on woody shows no package available as > of the update 2 minutes ago. I just figured out that deity and console-apt are both in unstable. Hopefully the

Re: abiword

2001-08-06 Thread Jatin Golani
Hi Harsha, I'm relatively new to Linux however I think u should try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some packages look for 75dpi fonts toomaybe that's what's causing the problemin either case both 100dpi and 75dpi versions of fonts can co-exist on the same machine so no harm

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-06 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Chris Niekel wrote: >On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:02:35PM -0600, John Galt wrote: >> [...] >> CodeRed2. Nastier: it also copies cmd.exe to root.exe, and installs a >> pseudo-r00tkit. If the IIS admins didn't learn the first time, they got >> screwed hardcore the second. Not ev

[RE: NVidia GeForce MX2 XFree86 v4]

2001-08-06 Thread Wayne
Hi, I have the Geforce 2 MX ddr card succesfully working with xfree v4.0.3 running Testing on a pretty much standard 2.2 kernel. I assume you have installed the nvidia packages, kernel and glx along with xfree4.0.3 all available Debs in Testing. I would strongly recommend not using the binarys at X

Broken packages

2001-08-06 Thread Jatin Golani
Hello, I've been trying to install the libglib1.2-dev package and it recommends libgtk-doc. I already have libglib Now when I ask the above to be installed, the post-installation script fails with a "could not lock dir for editing" message and my packages are half-configured. If I then try to rem

Re: mssql database to free database

2001-08-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >Most SQL servers have ways of loading data from file. RTFM to find out >how postgresql does it. COPY table FROM '/path/to/file'; where /path/to/file is a file containing tab-separated fields, one line per row. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PR

abiword

2001-08-06 Thread harsha
hi, when i start abiword there is a popup err message which says could not load font or fontset from the X window system display server: [-*-helvetica-medium-r-...] When I start icewm it also complains about lot of fonts missing. which package installtion is neccessary? Presently these ar

Re: action of ctrl+alt+delete in console

2001-08-06 Thread Sebastiaan
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:56:36PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I remember there was a thread where someone wanted to change the > > behaviour of ctrl+alt+delete in the console. Unfortunately I can't find > > it in the archive, so,

Re: Debian keeps hanging!

2001-08-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Debian keeps hanging! Date: Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:49:24PM +0100 In reply to:Richard Gaywood Quoting Richard Gaywood([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My Debian testing install keeps locking up solid under X and it's > driving me crazy. At apparantly random intervals - sometimes ho

Re: DOSEMU Serial Access

2001-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2001, Jeff Beardsley wrote: > Hello, > > I am hoping you can help me with what (I hope) will be an easy question - > I've seen similar questions out in the newsgroups, but with no answers... > > I am attempting to setup DOSEMU (v1.0.2) on a RedHat 7.0 system. The > problem simply put:

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-06 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:07:41AM -0700, Gilger.John wrote: | Forwarded Message - | According to incidents.org, for any machine that hits your webserver | with X, you can telnet back to that machine on port 80 and get | cmd line access to that m

Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:49:09PM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > so, is it possible that the standard build requires a ramdisk, but if you > 'roll your own' it is not necessary? > > If the above is true, and I wish to install the standard build kernel, how > do I go about putting together this ram

Re: reinstalling w2k on a dual boot system

2001-08-06 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:34:07PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: | I had to replace my motherboard and had no trouble with linux (the board has | a different chipset than the old one just recompiled the kernel and away I | went) but I need to reinstall w2k which is on a 2nd harddrive and I don't | want

Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > In this case, the difference is whether you're installing a debian > kernel-image or compiling your own. The kernel images require an > initrd. When you compile your own, it is of course up to you whether > you use an initrd or no

Re: learning to find packages

2001-08-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Bob Koss wrote: > This is AOL instant messanger for Linux (my company uses it since we're > distributed). > www.aol.com/aim > > I downloaded the .deb package and installed with dpkg. dpkg did not give > any errors. AOL must not have properly specified the dependencies. This is not a problem wit

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Niekel
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:02:35PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > [...] > CodeRed2. Nastier: it also copies cmd.exe to root.exe, and installs a > pseudo-r00tkit. If the IIS admins didn't learn the first time, they got > screwed hardcore the second. Not even a reacharound this time. I get hit every 2

Re: reinstalling w2k on a dual boot system

2001-08-06 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Brad Cramer wrote: I had to replace my motherboard and had no trouble with linux (the board has a different chipset than the old one just recompiled the kernel and away I went) but I need to reinstall w2k which is on a 2nd harddrive and I don't want to lose lilo could someone give me some ideas a

framebuffer and lilo

2001-08-06 Thread JM Bourdaret
Hello i can't manage to make the framebuffer of my Riva TNT M64 32M work at boot time: i have all the settings in hand with fbset, timings and all, all i need is to tell the kernel at boot time. here is a part of my lilo.conf: <...> image=/boot/kern/k245-fb label=xrv-fb # append=

Re: proftpd : 2 anonymous areas?

2001-08-06 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:27:24PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'm trying to make 2 or more anonymous areas on our intranet where > people can only view data, not write it. > > The two directories are /home/x/y/z and /home/x/a > > My three strategies: > 1) make an directive with suitable

reinstalling w2k on a dual boot system

2001-08-06 Thread Brad Cramer
I had to replace my motherboard and had no trouble with linux (the board has a different chipset than the old one just recompiled the kernel and away I went) but I need to reinstall w2k which is on a 2nd harddrive and I don't want to lose lilo could someone give me some ideas as to what would be th

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Not sure how to make one. There should be a faq somewhere. What do you need in it is the real question. Maybe you can steal it from the root disk from the installation set. I checked the initrd man page and I'm still wondering how to use it. I'm also still confused why you don't want to compil

RE: learning to find packages

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Koss
> > > > I try to start an application and it says that it can't load > > libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2. > > You should not have to deal with this problem. I keep hearing that. ;-) Unfortunately, it doesn't match my experiences over the last week :-( > What application are you > using? Was it insta

Re: mssql database to free database

2001-08-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Matt Fair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello, > I am converting an ASP Visual Basic application to run on a linux machine. I > downloaded the trial version of Chilisoft and got the ASP working, now I want > to have the database be mysql or postgresql. Does anyone know of a > conversio

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