Debian Tiny Install Suggestions

2001-08-07 Thread Lance Peterson
I would like to attempt to create a tiny install of Debian. Not as small as the Linux Router Project, but much smaller than the standard base system and gear it towards networking/routing/firewalling based on a 2.4.x kernel. This may have already been done, but I still want to try it. Would it b

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

2001-08-07 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello Karsten, I will rewrite the problem to avoid context confusion. First some background: My (prior) DNS server's disk went out of order, and it was moved to an "unused" backup server. I noticed that the "named" at that system crashed once in a while, and therefore I tried to find out about w

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?) Date: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:19:53PM -0500 In reply to:Matthew Garman Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > If you are runing exi

Re: Wine Problem

2001-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Wine Problem Date: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:41:30PM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I'm trying to run Wine on my Debian 2.4 kernel. Whenever I do, it tells > me I have not configured it. I'm supposed to run "winecon

Re: KMail filters -> Procmail rules

2001-08-07 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:04:19AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > # Exim filter [ ... snip! ...] > much easier to grok than procmail syntax. How is *that* easier than *this*?? :0: * Resent-From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian/user :0: * ^Resent-From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian/security Ver

Re: call up

2001-08-07 Thread petong
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 20:25, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0700, petong wrote: > > Is the cu program available in the debian distribution? I need serial > > port access to a server and I used to use cu with mandrake. Am I stuck > > having to use minicom? > > Last time

Re: gui file manager with samba support?

2001-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: gui file manager with samba support? Date: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:13:02PM -0500 In reply to:Matthew Garman Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello: > > Is there a GUI file manager with built-in samba support? I.e., I'd like > to be able to view samba sha

Re: ide-scsi device question

2001-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: ide-scsi device question Date: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:26:02PM -0500 In reply to:Jeremy Quoting Jeremy([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I recently enabled the ide-scsi option in my kernel (and set it up so that > lilo started it for the right devices) for my cd burner. I also have

Re: call up

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0700, petong wrote: > Is the cu program available in the debian distribution? I need serial port > access to a server and I used to use cu with mandrake. Am I stuck having to > use minicom? Last time I checked it was part of the uucp package. It's been a coupl

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-07 Thread Matthew Garman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > If you are runing exim have you checked your /etc/email-addresses? > in .muttrc what is set reply_to= ? Mine is set reply_to=ask-yes I'm running postfix, not exim. Here's my ~/.muttrc file: # watch these groups for new mail mailboxe

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:17:21PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > > I have both "set followup_to" enabled (true) in my ~/.muttrc, as well as a > line that says "lists debian-user" (which means the same thing as > "subscribe debian-user"). the set followup_to syntax doesn't appear to apply to the

gui file manager with samba support?

2001-08-07 Thread Matthew Garman
Hello: Is there a GUI file manager with built-in samba support? I.e., I'd like to be able to view samba shares as though they were folders on my computer, similar to the "Network Neighborhood" in Windows. I'm running (a self-compiled) gnome window manager. Can the graphical midnight commander

Re: Power down

2001-08-07 Thread Rafael Sasaki
Hi, I think that, in lilo.conf, you must put append="apm=on" just before the line default=... HTH, Rafael Sasaki On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:45:07PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:02:29AM -0400, dude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have noticed that ever si

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?) Date: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:17:21PM -0500 In reply to:Matthew Garman Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:28:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Matthew Garman ([

Re: Wine Problem

2001-08-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Wine Problem Date: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:41:30PM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I'm trying to run Wine on my Debian 2.4 kernel. Whenever I do, it tells > me I have not configured it. I'm supposed to run "winecon

Re: XMMS hanging system?

2001-08-07 Thread Steve Gran
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:29:22 Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've just experienced my first ever system crashes. They were all > within > > the last several days (after an upgrade that included an upgrade of > XMMS), > > and t

Re: Moving Directories

2001-08-07 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:30:06PM +1000, Steven Farrier wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:49:28 -0400 > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Boot without mounting /usr. Mount /usr somewhere else and 'mkdir > > /usr'. Then 'mv /other_mount/* /usr'. > > how do I boot without mounting /usr? ho

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

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
> From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:12 PM > >True... Seems like a pretty grey area though. > >He is ultimately responsible for it. There has been enough > publicity about > >CR to ascertain that the system admin was negligent in his duty. > > >

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

2001-08-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-08-07T22:30:23Z, John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Naaaw, Kirk doesn't have a Foreign Power to release Americans as a > bargaining chip What ever happened to the whole "Internet citizenry" movement that Wired magazine-types were pushing a few years ago? A meta-union would be h

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

2001-08-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-08-07T20:26:53Z, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Possibly. Do you want to be the test case? From recent events it appears > that you could expect to be out on $50,000 bail after three or four weeks. At this point, it's tempting. I really wish I had the $$$ to spend the time

ide-scsi device question

2001-08-07 Thread Jeremy
I recently enabled the ide-scsi option in my kernel (and set it up so that lilo started it for the right devices) for my cd burner. I also have the generic scsi driver in there. My burner BURNS just fine, but I was wondering what the new device file name is that refers to the device. I'm mainly

Re: Recommended applications needed under X

2001-08-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:29:58AM +1000, Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > My X system is now up and running. Even though it is runnig on a 6x86 > > 100MHz with 32Meg of memory, I am pleasantly surprised with the sp

Wine Problem

2001-08-07 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm trying to run Wine on my Debian 2.4 kernel. Whenever I do, it tells me I have not configured it. I'm supposed to run "wineconfig" but it's nowhere to be found on my system and I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does anyone know what I can do? Thanks. -- Deven

Re: kernel image 2.4.7 and missing module paths?

2001-08-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:33:43PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Recently installed 2.4.7, having been running 2.2.19... > > Modules now reside in an initrd. > > With modules which are not built at kernel build time (alsa, nvidia), > what is the proper way to introduce these? The image files bu

Re: Recommended applications needed under X

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:29:58AM +1000, Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > My X system is now up and running. Even though it is runnig on a 6x86 > 100MHz with 32Meg of memory, I am pleasantly surprised with the speed at > which it runs. > > I found Abiword, which I quite like. > > Ca

kernel image 2.4.7 and missing module paths?

2001-08-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
Recently installed 2.4.7, having been running 2.2.19... Modules now reside in an initrd. With modules which are not built at kernel build time (alsa, nvidia), what is the proper way to introduce these? The image files built by the source package want to use /lib/modules/2.4.7/... which makes them

Re: XMMS hanging system?

2001-08-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I've just experienced my first ever system crashes. They were all within > the last several days (after an upgrade that included an upgrade of XMMS), > and they all happened shortly after opening XMMS. There were only thre

Re: initrd symlink?

2001-08-07 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Brian McGroarty so: > Is there a standard name for an initrd symlink that'll be used in > 2.4-series kernel image packages? > > i.e. vmlinuz->/boot/(current vmlinuz) > vmlinuz.old->/boot/(last vmlinuz) > > ???->/boot/(current initrd) > ???.old->/boot/(las

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-07 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:28:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Matthew Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:14]: > > > > The /etc/Muttrc file does have a "set followup-to" line, but it's > > commented out. > > The default value of this boolean is on. I think your best bet is to > leave it on

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

2001-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Ian writes: > Seems like a pretty grey area though. He is ultimately responsible for > it. There has been enough publicity about CR to ascertain that the > system admin was negligent in his duty. Someone on Advogato just pointed out another risk. What if you only popped up a message but someone

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

2001-08-07 Thread John Griffiths
>True... Seems like a pretty grey area though. >He is ultimately responsible for it. There has been enough publicity about >CR to ascertain that the system admin was negligent in his duty. > >Ian > We're not dealing with sysadmins. In the most part it's home users who bought shady computers with

Re: Fwd: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* William Leese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010807 10:35]: > urgh, and now with the attachment > The attached log just shows a bunch of broadcast ARP requests. It could be that this is part of some kind of network scanner in action, but it's pretty inconclusive, afaics. -- Vineet

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

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
> > Ian writes: > > Consider this case A web page /default.ida exists on a > server which when > > requested (via Code Red)pops up a message on the affected > computer. How > > can it be illegal when it was the affected machine which > requested the > > script in the first place ? > > It was not t

matrox video card upgrade (millenium to g450), what to do?

2001-08-07 Thread Matthew Garman
Hello: I just got a Matrox g450 AGP video card. The new card is a replacement for my old Matrox Millenium I (4MB RAM) PCI card. I'm running Debian potato with XFree 3.3.6. Now the new card is installed, and the old card is out of my system. X no longer works. I tried to use XF86Setup to setu

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:31:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > staff: > > Allows users to add local modifications to the system (/usr/local, > /home) without needing root priveledges. Compare with group "adm", > which is more related to monitoring/security. since the default .p

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:25:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > HELP: My system has no files owned by user games, and I don't see > > > the point of the user, aside from symmetry. > > > > Have several binaries in /usr/games with group "games". Some of >

Recommended applications needed under X

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, My X system is now up and running. Even though it is runnig on a 6x86 100MHz with 32Meg of memory, I am pleasantly surprised with the speed at which it runs. I found Abiword, which I quite like. Can anybody recoomend good applications to run under X such as.. Excel like spreadsheet Access l

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010807 12:32]: > Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp > daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other > "official" looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn. > > You might want to backup your data and re

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

2001-08-07 Thread Rod Beahan
for Windoze NT use net stop "Service Name" and net start to list running services, something like net stop "WWW Publishing Service" should stop IIS, might be different name but. dman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:07:41AM -0700, Gilger.John wrote: > | Forwarded Message -

Re: [OT]-Mutt thread question

2001-08-07 Thread Walter Hofmann
Eric Boo schrieb am Montag, den 06. August 2001: > What's this "*" next to the arrow in some emails of a thread mean? Mutt displays * if the messages have the same subject header, but no "References:" header. This usually means that the sender has a broken mailer which doesn't include a "Referenc

RE: Cameras for linux: the million $ question

2001-08-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Aug-2001 Victor wrote: > I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital > camera to use with it and the Gimp. > > Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? > Personally, I say forget OS support. Buy a pcmcia card that will support the removable m

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:59:28AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > Incidentally, /var/cache/man has been man:root mode 2755 on Debian for a > long time. Is it just me, or is the setgid bit rather unnecessary? it is necessary, otherwise all the cache files end up owned by random luser's primary gro

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:46:22PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > Apache runs with this uid. Some people like to make their web pages owned by > this uid as well, but that's bad. Web servers don't modify web pages, they > just read them. > > Apart from CGIs and other such nastiness, the web server cou

Re: Gnus Question

2001-08-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyway you can prevent Gnus/w3m (xemacs version) from > downloading external images when viewing SPAM HTML E-Mail? It's supposed to do that, but iirc, there was a bug in w3 or something which prevented the problem. Ask on gnu.emacs.gnus... someone

Re: No WindowManager (Was NVidia Problem)

2001-08-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:37:00AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote: > >I tried putting a .xinitrc with > >exec wmaker > >then > >exec icewm > > > >to no avail. Here is my XFree86.0.log put wmaker in your .xinitrc and run startx. if your x is set up properly, it will start up. the same for icewm - no exe

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:02:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > www-data: > > > > HELP: Er, I should know this, but this box doesn't run apache and > > I'm offline. > > Used by apache as the user/group, typically is the user/group that > owns web content. no, apache sho

Re: problem upgrading packages

2001-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:14:56PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > When I try to upgrade or install (my woody box) I get > > files list file for package `tcl8.2' is missing final newline > > I tried deleting the file manually, also apt-get clean > but the error seems to be on the .deb downloaded T

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread CaT
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:50:36PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > this might help: > > http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html Huzzah! This looks interesting. I've been getting way-too annoyed at having the key-bindings based on the ctrl key. Wonder if this will work with the menu items also.

Re: GNU Tools and KDE under solaris

2001-08-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Fayard Francois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I'm an intern for Schlumberger. Who is Schlumberger and do they have sysadmins there? Because if they do, you'd better ask a sysadmin (or prepare to be larted). > I've already done a talk about Linux a few months ago, and a lot of pe

Packages

2001-08-07 Thread JakeCatfox
Is there a place besides packages.debian.org that I can get the dependencies I need to run Wine? I need xliubs > 4.0.3, libncurses > 5.2.20010310-1, and libc6 2.1.3-18. Thanks. -- Deven

Gnus Question

2001-08-07 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is there anyway you can prevent Gnus/w3m (xemacs version) from downloading external images when viewing SPAM HTML E-Mail? ...and before you ask, no, I can't simply disable displaying HTML messages, because from time to time I get bills, etc, delivered as HTML only messages (but with no ext

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

2001-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Ian writes: > Consider this case A web page /default.ida exists on a server which when > requested (via Code Red)pops up a message on the affected computer. How > can it be illegal when it was the affected machine which requested the > script in the first place ? It was not the owner or authorize

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Debian has always lacked an explanation of what the various users and > groups are for. Such a document is useful for sysadmins who must > determine the correct way to use various users and groups. It's useful > for developers as well, and it might help us fi

GNU Tools and KDE under solaris

2001-08-07 Thread Fayard Francois
Hi, I'm an intern for Schlumberger. I've already done a talk about Linux a few months ago, and a lot of people were interrested. I want now to compile many GNU Tools under Solaris (I can't install directly Linux because we have a lot of expensive software under Solaris), and at first under my o

XMMS hanging system?

2001-08-07 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I've just experienced my first ever system crashes. They were all within the last several days (after an upgrade that included an upgrade of XMMS), and they all happened shortly after opening XMMS. There were only three total, and it's not consistent, but XMMS & X are the only consiste

Re: kernel compiling problem

2001-08-07 Thread David Turetsky
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:29:44PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI muttered: --> > > > I'd performed a clean woody installation from CDs and added --> > > > kernel-package to compile 2.4.4 kernel. I'd followed the Care to mention a few good and inexpensive web sites for ordering a woody CD? --

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

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Perry
> > On 7 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: > > > William T Wilson writes: > > > In states with "Good Samaritan" laws you are likely to be > shielded from > > > liability as long as any action you take is clearly > intended as help. > > > > State laws are irrelevant. It's a Federal law, enforced by > th

Re: Cameras for linux: the million $ question

2001-08-07 Thread Jens Gecius
Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital > camera to use with it and the Gimp. > > Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? Take a look at http://www.gphoto.org/ They have a pretty damn long list of supported

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

2001-08-07 Thread John Galt
On 7 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: >Kirk Strauser writes: >> OK, it's a stretch to compare laws concerning physical real-world assault >> to the virtual assault committed by these infected servers, but could at >> least a little bit of the principle apply? > >Possibly. Do you want to be the test c

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:23:09PM +0200, Brendon Leese wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:06, you wrote: > > The /unix/ in the URL makes me wonder if its really a win2k resource. > > Besides, it seems to involve getting into the code. No thanks - still > > strugging with Python. > > er, well.

Re: OT: Dropped Packets

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 03:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how many dropped packets is common on a small 10-Base-T > Network? I get 20% or so on a flood ping. > > -- Deven G. When I had 10bT and tested with a ping flood, ~3% dropped. This was with very good cable and terminators. Between two c

Re: Xfree86 4.1.0, Matrox G450 & framebuffer?

2001-08-07 Thread Volker Schlecht
> This is apparently is problem with console framebuffer and X using similar > portions of the card without syncronisation. This has been known for quite > some time now. (Does it show I'm not familiar with the real technical > reason? ;-)) I vaguely recall debconf asking me about whether X should

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 08:29, P Kirk wrote: [snip] > killa.bat says killall ftpd and call killb.bat and killb does the same > in reverse. > > I know someone must have a neat shell script that does this? > -- > [a bash script] $while true; do killall ftpd; sleep 1; done; Thomas pgpS5WslsxtQU.pgp Descriptio

Re: Xfree86 4.1.0, Matrox G450 & framebuffer?

2001-08-07 Thread Volker Schlecht
> This looks like the same problem that is reported with ati cards and xfree > 4.1. > Check the bug against xserver-xfree86. > You can use 'consolechars -d' to restore your console. Just looked at it. I suppose the bugs are related, but not the same. In my case when I attempt to switch back to a c

Re: XFree86-4.1.0-2 broke X on my laptop

2001-08-07 Thread Philippe Gramoulle
Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > * Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I get this whenever I have xinerama enabled which it looks like you > > don't. Same int 11 internal server error. Just downgrade by apt-get > > xfree86-common/testing etc for each xfree package (xserver-xfree86 >

Re: XFree86-4.1.0-2 broke X on my laptop

2001-08-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I get this whenever I have xinerama enabled which it looks like you > don't. Same int 11 internal server error. Just downgrade by apt-get > xfree86-common/testing etc for each xfree package (xserver-xfree86 > xserver-common and the fonts if they c

Cameras for linux: the million $ question

2001-08-07 Thread Victor
I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital camera to use with it and the Gimp. Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? Vittorio

Re: ldconfig

2001-08-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:06:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I have dselect in somewhat of a mess, having a number of programs > 'in limbo' (including libc6). Trying to downgrade libc6, I got > the same error message to that below - (this actual error was > obtained by trying to remove a progra

debarchiver

2001-08-07 Thread Nic Strong
Hi, One of my cron jobs is failing running /usr/bin/debarchiver --autoscan --addoverride with the following message: Error occured in: Link potato to stable. EXIT: 2 Any ideas ? Cheers, Nic

ldconfig

2001-08-07 Thread john gennard
I have dselect in somewhat of a mess, having a number of programs 'in limbo' (including libc6). Trying to downgrade libc6, I got the same error message to that below - (this actual error was obtained by trying to remove a program I don't need to see if there's an overall problem with ldconfig). Th

Re: Very odd programming trouble

2001-08-07 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
I forgot, I was not trying to use this. Its seems to me very unsual. I was just checking that what was stated on the book and learned anew thing. regards J.A.Serralheiro

Re: Very odd programming trouble

2001-08-07 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
actually im reading "Software engineering in c" by peter darnell. its pretty basic. It was because I was reading this that this problem arised. Thanks every one for the detailed explanation.

Re: XFree86-4.1.0-2 broke X on my laptop

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I get this whenever I have xinerama enabled which it looks like you don't. Same int 11 internal server error. Just downgrade by apt-get xfree86-common/testing etc for each xfree package (xserver-xfree86 xserver-common and the fonts if they complain)on your system. That should downgrade it to som

Re: Power down

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:02:29AM -0400, dude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have noticed that ever since 2.4.5 kernel, > > i am using 2.4.8 that my computer no longer shutoff when they are shutdown > and i have to manually turn off the computers. > > What am i forgetting to do? APM is compi

Re: Install stable?

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:24:56AM -0500, Andy Laurence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I assume, the rescue.bin and root.bin I'm using should be pretty > stable? I keep getting runaway errors with thousands of lines > scrolling up my screen. I expect there's a memory error or someting > on this ol

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

2001-08-07 Thread John Hasler
Kirk Strauser writes: > OK, it's a stretch to compare laws concerning physical real-world assault > to the virtual assault committed by these infected servers, but could at > least a little bit of the principle apply? Possibly. Do you want to be the test case? From recent events it appears that

XFree86-4.1.0-2 broke X on my laptop

2001-08-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Hello, I hope someone will have a clue because I have exhausted my resources. I've been running XFree86 4.0.x happily on my Toshiba Protege 660CDT. However, since last week's upgrade to 4.1.0 I can't use X anymore. It just segfaults in the middle of what appears to be a normal load. This is the

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> The /unix/ in the URL makes me wonder if > its really a win2k resource. I'll bet that *some* of the things it details are "cross-platform". I can't get mozilla to work with our MS Proxy at work, so I no longer have it installed (just uninstalled v0.9.3 on Friday...). I am certainly going to boo

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread Brendon Leese
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:06, you wrote: > The /unix/ in the URL makes me wonder if its really a win2k resource. > Besides, it seems to involve getting into the code. No thanks - still > strugging with Python. er, well.. it works with all platforms i believe. atleast quite a few of the prefer

Re: Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote: >On Tuesday 07 August 2001 18:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +0200, William Leese wrote: >> > there's more though. but again i'm not sure.. for the first time i've >> > seen a few odd requests being logged in boa, just a sma

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
>Uh... Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to just shut down the ftp service >(either /etc/init.d/ftpd stop or comment it out in inetd.conf and then >/etc/init.d/inetd restart), work on it, and restart the service? Because being a trojan it respawns every time you stop it. Otherwise it would be a rathe

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
The /unix/ in the URL makes me wonder if its really a win2k resource. Besides, it seems to involve getting into the code. No thanks - still strugging with Python. -- Patrick "No sig in my .sig" Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "JH" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> gnats: JH> HELP: Evidently used by gnats. And it needs a static set why? GNATS holds its database files under that user and accesses them via `gnats' setuid programs and/or programs run by an Internet superserver under `gnats'. Tho

Re: problem upgrading packages

2001-08-07 Thread Yvonne Kelly
I've seen that before -- I've had /etc/fstab complain about it. These files expect the last character to be a carriage return -- the "final newline." If you can edit the offending file, then simply opening it up, paging to the end, hitting enter once and then saving, should do the trick. (Yay,

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:29:39PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > In the meantime there's no need to disconnect from the net. Just have a > rolling kill command that kills ftpd every second. Uh... Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to just shut down the ftp service (either /etc/init.d/ftpd stop or comment it

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 20:20, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:59:12PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I know this is the wrong forum but its actually where I'm most likely to > > get the correct answer. > > > > Mozilla is really good now. The only real annoyance is the k

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
...and only one script needed :-) -- Patrick "No sig in my .sig" Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699

OT: Dropped Packets

2001-08-07 Thread JakeCatfox
Does anyone know how many dropped packets is common on a small 10-Base-T Network? I get 20% or so on a flood ping. -- Deven G.

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-07 Thread Paul Scott
Guy Geens wrote: "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato Paul> 2.2.19pre17 #1 I have downloaded what seem to be the files I Paul> need. Running the install script appropriate for Debian I get Paul> this which I believe is t

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:29:39PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp > daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other > "official" looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn. > > You might want to backup your

Filesystem errors (Fwd: [crazyharshu@yahoo.com: request])

2001-08-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
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Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other "official" looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn. You might want to backup your data and reinstall if no-one has a more knowledgable answer. In t

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
>Sorry, don't know about changing Moz, but I certainly can use alt+left and >alt+right with one hand the farthest apart I've seen those two keys is about >five inches. I'm pretty sure most everyone can reach that far with one hand. five inches...you mean 12 centimetres? I should have said I was

Re: Emacs: Memory exhausted

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
zolia> I am getting message (Memory exhausted--M-x..for recovery..) when zolia> starting emacs (20.7-3) on woody. colin> Are you sure you aren't actually out of memory? How much memory do colin> you have on that machine? colin> colin> Also, do you have any limits set on memory usage for that us

Re: restarting a service

2001-08-07 Thread Andor Dirner
> In Redhat, I would: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart > to restart a service. > > How do I do that with Debian? /etc/init.d/samba this will start/stop/reload/restart samba services if samba has to be started as daemon (-D param for /usr/sbin/smbd and /usr/sbin/nmbd). Otherwise, samba will be starte

Re: restarting a service

2001-08-07 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
> How do I do that with Debian? Just ommit the /rc.d part Jordi S. Bunster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: aptitude woes

2001-08-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again, Ah. Ok. Maybe it is a package dependency problem then, because when I do a 'dpkg -p aptitude' I show libncurses5 as a depends for aptitude. Do you have libncurses5 installed? What does the above command show on your system? I imagine you probably got it straight

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-07 Thread Guy Geens
> "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato Paul> 2.2.19pre17 #1 I have downloaded what seem to be the files I Paul> need. Running the install script appropriate for Debian I get Paul> this which I believe is the relevant part

Re: restarting a service

2001-08-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> In Redhat, I would: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart > to restart a service. > > How do I do that with Debian? /etc/init.d/smb restart (or reload or force-reload)

Re: restarting a service

2001-08-07 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:39 p.m. 07/08/01 -0400, Bob Koss wrote: In Redhat, I would: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart to restart a service. How do I do that with Debian? /etc/init.d/samba restart Robert S. Koss, Ph.D. | Training and Mentoring Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design Object Mentor

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