Re: XDM

2001-08-21 Thread R1nso13
a simple solution to prevent xdm from starting everytime you boot is to remove xdm from /etc/rc2.d. See, whenever linux boots it runs a script that causes the files in /etc/rcN.d where N is a number between 1 and 6 (called runlevels). Debian is set to runlevel 2 by default so by removing xdm fro

[jason@whizzird.net: Re: masquerading]

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
Linux is Great at that! I'm writing this on a box behind a Linux Gateway/Firewall to my cable modem. There's an ip_masq_quake module, that supports most network gaming (Half-Life is Quake based so you're good). I don't know about paltalk, but I'm able to use dialpad from behind here with a few port

Apt - Segmentation faulty Tree

2001-08-21 Thread cdpye
Hi, I have been using apt-get for some time without trouble, however now (after doing update) when I go to install update,etc. I get this error Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% Tried -f & it comes to same error. Anyone know of a way to fix this (had a prev. prob. with

Re: Encrypted Filesystems

2001-08-21 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Rog?rio Brito, > I'm also interested in encrypted filesystems and I think that > the only way to go (reasonable one, that is) is to use the > international kernel patch available at > http://www.kerneli.org/. I remember seeing a project recently which was a kernel mo

masquerading

2001-08-21 Thread Tandex
How good is Gateway with linux, right now I am using WinGate(windows) buth I have heard that linux is much beter. Will I have problem to run Half-life(counter-strike) over linux ip-masquerading, or run paltalk(voice chat that use H323 I think) what is the negativ side of shareing conection(cabel-m

[jason@whizzird.net: Re: Xwindows color depth]

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
Reply with: XFree86 Version XServer Version ("dpkg -l|grep -i xfree" will show both of these). Video Card chipset and RAM size. On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:40:15PM -0700, David Frischknecht scribbled... > Hello, > > I'm having trouble trying to get XWindows to load up > in any color depth high

Re: fixing stairstepping text in cups

2001-08-21 Thread DvB
Fixed it. Turns out there's a filter called DeskJet_932C-cdj880.ppd that woks a whole lot better... go figure :-\ Funny though that I'd never seen it before, maybe I apt-get upgraded cuspomatic-ppd and didn't notice. CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Dv

Xwindows color depth

2001-08-21 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I'm having trouble trying to get XWindows to load up in any color depth higher than 16bpp. I have my Win98SE setup for 24bpp color, but XWindows doesn't want to load up in that color depth. Can someone help me out? Thanks. = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.c

Need advice on Upgrade Apache apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.deb

2001-08-21 Thread Kennice Low
Hi, I would like to upgrade apache version from 1.3.9-13.2 to apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2 which allow me to used apxs command. I follow the instruction on Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2('potato'), Intelx86 Chapter 3 Upgrades from previous release (http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/rel

Re: fixing stairstepping text in cups

2001-08-21 Thread CaT
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:48:13PM -0500, DvB wrote: > I'm trying to get my printer working with cups and I can add the queue > with lpadmin, but when I try to print anything, each line that gets > printed begins wherever the one above it left off (like there's a line > feed but no carriage return)

Anyone using rawio?

2001-08-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I want to try kernel 2.4 raw devices, but am missing any documentation and also the source of the userland 'raw' tool that's apparently needed. Has anyone get it to run? Questions: - will it run on kernel2.4-upgraded potato? Or should I use testing for a production server? - does anyo

Re: Exim catch-all recipient

2001-08-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:20:09PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > Okay, I give up. I've RTFM. I've tried. I've played. How do you get > Exim to redirect mail from an unknown non-user to a given account instead of > bouncing it. I need a catch-all recipient, and I can't f

fixing stairstepping text in cups

2001-08-21 Thread DvB
I'm trying to get my printer working with cups and I can add the queue with lpadmin, but when I try to print anything, each line that gets printed begins wherever the one above it left off (like there's a line feed but no carriage return). Does anyone know how to fix this? For the record, I've got

Re: Killing your keyb.controller... was: Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Puhek
Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Just to add some more noice to the list ;-) > > [statement] Hot-plugging keyboards works _MOST_ of the time. > > It is true for at least PS/2-keyboard, since the only machine I've > managed to destroy this way is an Digital Celebris 590. My other > machines with PS/2

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Brian May wrote: > A simpler thing which does exactly the same thing (and surprisingly > nobody seems to have mentioned it yet) is: > > rm -f ./--remove-files :-) Good answer. Whenever I have to delete a file with a difficult name and fail after a few tries, I simply call up Emacs, run `dired

Re: Intel L440GX+ MB

2001-08-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 01:16 pm, Piotr Patan wrote: > Would you tell me how to install "potato" on Intel L440GX+ motherboard with > Adaptec AHA-7896 SCSI controler. I see message: "No hard disk drivers could > be found.". I have two IBM SCSI drive DPSS-31850M. > > Piotr Goto Debians ftp site an

loading Galeon seems to have killed X

2001-08-21 Thread James A. Hilsenteger
I received some help earlier but still struggling.  I downloaded and installed Galeon and even got Galeon running except fo the fact that my fonts within X were all screwed up.  I decided to reboot to see if that might clear up the issue.   I rebooted, and on some advice, I ran /usr/sbin/loca

Re: question about dependencies

2001-08-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > (originally was going to submit a bug, but decided to ask here instead, > so cut/pasted this to here) > > Package: slocate > Version: 2.4-2potato1 > Severity: normal > > I removed adduser from a system here awhile ago. Today, i went

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 04:28 pm, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all. > > I want to install Oracle 8i on my woody box. > The Oracle installation requires glibc 2.1.3 version. > I was looking for glibc package, but i didn't found > it. > The only package that names glibc is libstdc++ > > What packag

Re: Digital camera and mount command

2001-08-21 Thread petong
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 17:20, Wayne wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get my FujiFilm FinePix 1300 camera working > on my pc. I went to www.linuxdoc.com where I found > some info on how to read the SmartMedia. I have to have my > kernel compiled with USB mass storage and scsi. The document > also sa

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:17:32AM +1000, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > Karsten> $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f > Karsten> {} \; > > If it weren't for the fact that "find" prefixes the name of the file > with

followup to 2.4.9 boot problems

2001-08-21 Thread bedlam
Thanks everyone for the help, Adrian's page helped quite a bit, now I'm starting to boot, but after about two screens of stuff I get a repeated message: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 This is printed over and over and over, what do I do? Matt --

how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by a set of scripts in diald's ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories, but not so now. Why is that? I could of

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Brian May
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f Karsten> {} \; If it weren't for the fact that "find" prefixes the name of the file with "./", then this wouldn't work. A simpler thing which does exactly the same thing (and surpr

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Brian May
> "Darren" == Darren Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> rm -i *files [520] [scrooge:bam] ~ >rm -i *files rm: unrecognized option `--remove-files' Try `rm --help' for more information. wont work, because it just calls "rm" with parameters "-i" and "--remove-files", and rm can't tel

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:43:20PM -0700, Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:02:51AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > > No. I don't think the firewall is the problem. I have problems connecting > >

DNS and BIND 8.2.3

2001-08-21 Thread Michael W. Cole
I am using BIND8 trying to set up a DNS server (authoritative) for my domain (mpjcri.org). Linux v2.2.19. The network of two hosts are connected via a hub which is then connected to an Internet Router. I can ping all the hosts locally and distant sites. I can telnet in and out. But when I try t

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:56:58PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | You might need libc6-dev too for headers and such. Not likely -- I doubt Oracle gave him the source :-). -D

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:00:07PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | | > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | > | > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | > > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | > | > iptables -L returns: | | Okay, up

Re: Encrypted Filesystems

2001-08-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 21 2001, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Does anyone know of any GOOD encrypted file systems for debian? I > need something that creates a virtual drive that can be mounted > under a loopback (possibly?) that has a GOOD algorithm behind it. Hi, Stephen. I'm also interested in

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > > iptables -L returns: Okay, updates. I forgot to mention that I also recompiled my kernel and enabled iptables

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
RMS would be very disappointed if he knew you wanted to install Oracle... but anyway...your answers: glibc == libc6 Woody meets that requirement. You might need libc6-dev too for headers and such. On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:28:25PM -0700, Eduardo Gargiulo scribbled... > Hi all. > > I want to

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:28:25PM -0700, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: | Hi all. | | I want to install Oracle 8i on my woody box. | The Oracle installation requires glibc 2.1.3 version. | I was looking for glibc package, but i didn't found | it. | The only package that names glibc is libstdc++ It's ca

Digital camera and mount command

2001-08-21 Thread Wayne
Hi, I'm trying to get my FujiFilm FinePix 1300 camera working on my pc. I went to www.linuxdoc.com where I found some info on how to read the SmartMedia. I have to have my kernel compiled with USB mass storage and scsi. The document also says that if these parameters are compiled in, I should beab

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > hello: > > i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my > ineptness! that is, i did: > > tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp > > silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files". > my question

glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I want to install Oracle 8i on my woody box. The Oracle installation requires glibc 2.1.3 version. I was looking for glibc package, but i didn't found it. The only package that names glibc is libstdc++ What package should I install to satisfy the glibc 2.1.3 requirement? thanks ___

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Walter Hofmann wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld schrieb am Dienstag, den 21. August 2001: > > > but `rm ??remove-files` will also do the trick > > No, it gets globbed to "rm --remove-files" so this won't work. Argh, now that you're pointing my nose at it, I can see it too! This won't help anything.

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:06:19PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | iptables -L returns: | | Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) | target prot opt source

Re: Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:52:54AM +0200, Johnny Morano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 00:18, Karsten M. Self wrote: > (-) > $ dpkg --get-selections | > (-) > grep ' install' | > (-) ^^^ > (-) This should be a tab, not spaces. > or even >

Re: Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Johnny Morano
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 00:18, Karsten M. Self wrote: (-) > $ dpkg --get-selections | (-) > grep ' install' | (-) ^^^ (-) This should be a tab, not spaces. or even grep '.*install$' to keep it simple ;) -- :---=::=:

Re: Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-21 Thread Chris Nestrud
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:11:22PM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's possible to have your MS-DOS partitions > accessible as soon as you boot up into Linux, I'm just > not sure how it's done. Could someone help me out > with this? Thanks. Add a line in /etc/fstab like:

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ralf G. R. Bergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:45:14 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > [...] > >> Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY kill your machine by > hot- > >> plugging it in (smash the keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, or > >> even

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? I always get > lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg > Which version of debian are you currently using? What is your /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like? What is the output of apt-get when you are trying to use it? Basically, apt-get

Re: strange reboot

2001-08-21 Thread Oohara Yuuma
[Please Cc: to me because I am not subscribed to the list.] Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > My machine was rebooted, but I didn't typed "reboot" or > > "shutdown" or something, and the log says nothing about it. (snip) > Perhaps something wrong

Re: Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:11:22PM -0700, David Frischknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's possible to have your MS-DOS partitions accessible as soon > as you boot up into Linux, I'm just not sure how it's done. Could > someone help me out with this? Thanks. Add them to y

Re: [changing date's output]

2001-08-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> right, i have locale (gnu libc) 2.1.3 on potato and nothing like > locale.gen. the sl_SI (and other the like) is only in /usr/share/locale/ > but /usr/bin/locale and localedef contain 'abday'. these are long > executable files -- do i need to edit them? > the sl_si/lc_time has something like @dec

Re: problems with intellimouse explorer USB

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:28:35AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote: > At 7:50 AM -0700 8/21/2001, David Roundy wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:44:00PM -0500, Juan Antonio wrote: > > > > > I have installed debian woody but I still use kernel 2.2.19 (the one > > > which is installed with floppy disks)

RE: netcard

2001-08-21 Thread Ian Perry
A little more info would be helpful. What card is it ? What is the number of the surface mount chip on the card. Ian > -Original Message- > From: Tandex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:01 AM > To: Debian-User mailing list > Subject: netcard > > > http://www

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'd guess that you're machine isn't able to do a reverse name lookup on the box you're coming from. Assuming this is the case, two options come to mind: 1) Add an entry in /etc/hosts for the client machine. This is only practical if it has a static IP address. 2) Modify /etc/hosts.deny, and cha

Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-21 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I know it's possible to have your MS-DOS partitions accessible as soon as you boot up into Linux, I'm just not sure how it's done. Could someone help me out with this? Thanks. = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com

new 2.1 install freezes during hardware detection

2001-08-21 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi, all... I've done 3 fresh Debian 2.1 installs from the GNU/Debian 2.1 CD (2.2.12 kernel) I have over the last few weeks and they all went fine, until my 4th machine, which freezes up during hardware detection of the install kernel. So far, I've tried disabling all the on-board stuff, includ

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-21 Thread csj
On 21 Aug 2001 16:24:17 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On Aug 22 2001, csj wrote: > I can't find VCDs where I live, but I've already thought of > making some using vcdimager, which, fortunately, is available > in unstable (but I can't find good ripping and converti

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:16:26PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten, what can I say...thanks. Um... "you goofed the script"? Fixed version is attached, I posted an error to list just a minute ago, but missed my comment '#' installed during testing. I'm seeing this one all the w

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:30:20PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:57:40PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > | The box I'm trying to connect from is 192.168.1.1. > | And I don't think these files affect sshd. On the firewall I have > ALL:PARANOID > | for hosts.deny and nothing in hosts.

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:23:06PM -0400, GECOS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? I always get > lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg man sources.list -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: XDM

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:37:35AM -0700, David Frischknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently using xdm to log into Linux. However, I'd like to > revert back to logging into a command prompt and starting X from > there. Could anyone help me out? Thanks a bunch. http:/

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my > > installed list. > > > > /dev/hda2 703M

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
Karsten, what can I say...thanks. - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: "Debian User List" Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:58 PM Subject: Re: Why so big(2)

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Mike McGuire
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > > chronos:~# ipchains -L > ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel > > I am running the 2.4.6 kernel (ipchains only works with the 2.2 > series?). Not exactly, but it's not supported by your kernel. So it's not that. > ssh -v -l b

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: iptables -L returns: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my > installed list. > > /dev/hda2 703M 574M 93M 86% / > du -m /usr/399 > du -m /usr/src/ 173 > du -m /usr/share148 >

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
Try rm -- --remove-files The "--" makes it take all following args as args and not options. This is a standard thing for most of the GNU or Unix tools. rm ./--remove-files would work too. Got those from "man rm" :). On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:28:26AM +1000, Darren Marsh wrote: > allen wayne best

Re: Exim catch-all recipient

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
Just a guess, but...does the aliases file accept Regexs? I'd try asking on the exim email list (www.exim.org). I had a problem with exim and got a quick answer from there (and it was a _good_ answer). On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:20:09PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > Okay, I

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:57:40PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | The box I'm trying to connect from is 192.168.1.1. | And I don't think these files affect sshd. On the firewall I have ALL:PARANOID | for hosts.deny and nothing in hosts.allow, That means you are denying all incoming access to the sy

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Darren Marsh
allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: hello: i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my ineptness! that is, i did: tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files". my quest

Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations

2001-08-21 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Rog?rio Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Aug 20 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the > > secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested > > in hearing how you did that. > > Unfortunat

Re: got galeon downloaded but...

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:32:38AM -0700, James A. Hilsenteger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ran /usr/sbin/locale-gen > > no problems there. > > > Still get the same error running startx: > bash: startx: command not found $ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/startx xbase-clients Is the package ins

Exim catch-all recipient

2001-08-21 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Okay, I give up. I've RTFM. I've tried. I've played. How do you get Exim to redirect mail from an unknown non-user to a given account instead of bouncing it. I need a catch-all recipient, and I can't figure it out. An example for that added clarity [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets bo

Intel L440GX+ MB

2001-08-21 Thread Piotr Patan
Would you tell me how to install "potato" on Intel L440GX+ motherboard with Adaptec AHA-7896 SCSI controler. I see message: "No hard disk drivers could be found.". I have two IBM SCSI drive DPSS-31850M. Piotr

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:48:11PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: | On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | > | > Basically, I have the 2.2.19 kernel. | > Is any of the programs that you mentined easy enough to be utilized by a | > Debian novice without going into the heavy-duty conf

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-21 Thread Gustavo Millan
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Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
The box I'm trying to connect from is 192.168.1.1. And I don't think these files affect sshd. On the firewall I have ALL:PARANOID for hosts.deny and nothing in hosts.allow, and I'm running mutt on that box right now through SSH. On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:43PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > On

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: > > Basically, I have the 2.2.19 kernel. > Is any of the programs that you mentined easy enough to be utilized by a > Debian novice without going into the heavy-duty configuration? 2.2.x uses IP-chains for its packet filter. This will allow

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:05:27PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | > > I know that this is a solution but I don't have a | > > keyboard. I have a screen I could use, but I really don't | > > want to buy a new keyboard just to do this... (

Re: Disabling diald

2001-08-21 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:49:59PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > > Look in /etc/rc2.d/ for a file called (something like) S50diald (though the > number may be different. It should be a link to /etc/init.d/diald (or > similar). I just remembered that Debian has an easier way. Just do: # update-rc.d

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
I don't have that in there. In hosts.deny it's ALL:ALL, and in hosts.allow it's ALL: 192.168.1.*. On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:02:51AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > No. I don't think the firewall is the problem. I have problems conne

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | | dman wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | > | Can someone recommend a decent and easy to use firewall program for | > | Debian? | > | (Something like ZoneAlarm...?) | > | > Which kernel do you have? |

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread John Galt
What keyboard fuse? DIN isn't powered. What keyboard controller? DIN-style has the controller on the computer side: the only way you can kill a DIN is to short data and ground, and that'll only kill it until the short's removed. On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >Even if you HAD a

Killing your keyb.controller... was: Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Just to add some more noice to the list ;-) [statement] Hot-plugging keyboards works _MOST_ of the time. It is true for at least PS/2-keyboard, since the only machine I've managed to destroy this way is an Digital Celebris 590. My other machines with PS/2 have survived, so for ps2 types the s

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 21:05, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > I know that this is a solution but I don't have a > > > keyboard. I have a screen I could use, but I really don't > > > want to buy a new keyboard just to do this... (my > > >

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Basically, I have the 2.2.19 kernel. > Is any of the programs that you mentined easy > enough to be utilized by a Debian novice without > going into the heavy-duty configuration? If you use gnome, try 'firestarter'. It's just a gui-front end to ipchains/iptables. It obviously comes with some def

Upgrade

2001-08-21 Thread GECOS
Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? I always get lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:14:10PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) > > --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody > > boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) > > > > I don't

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody > boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) > > I don't suggest upgrading to woody yet. Wait a day or two for the new > glibc

Re: HP DeskJet driver (hpijs)

2001-08-21 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a look at the HP site and just download that proggie, the gs that is in unstable contains the drivers. Regards, Stephen. On Monday 20 Aug 2001 2:30 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > Carl Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has the HP DeskJet driver

Encrypted Filesystems

2001-08-21 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know of any GOOD encrypted file systems for debian? I need something that creates a virtual drive that can be mounted under a loopback (possibly?) that has a GOOD algorithm behind it. Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Junkbuster proxy/website content (was Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:52:03AM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:22AM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > > "Dave" == Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> Also, if you prefer n

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread Han Yoo
dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: > | Can someone recommend a decent and easy to use firewall program for > | Debian? > | (Something like ZoneAlarm...?) > > Which kernel do you have? > > Take your pick from 'iptables' 'ipchains' and 'ipfwadm' depending on > ke

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | > | > ipchains -L | | chronos:~# ipchains -L | ipchains: Incompatible with this k

Re: Disabling diald

2001-08-21 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:12:00PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > Until some days ago I was using a 56 Kb modem to connect my single box > to the Net. Now I have an old box as a proxy connected 7x24, and my box > behind it. > I would like to prevent diald from starting at every boot, but with

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:01:33PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > <...> > >>The only way I can think of to fix this is to reinstall Debian from > >>scratch an

Re: XDM

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to revert back to logging into a command > > prompt and starting X from there. > > apt-get remove xdm > > If you want to keep xdm on your machine, but disabled: update-rc.d -f

Re: ssh refuses connections (more info)

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
I've been reading the sshd thread and thought I'd run the verbose output mentioned there: OpenSSH_2.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 22 2001, csj wrote: > On 20 Aug 2001 18:37:25 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > > On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > (BTW, as a side comment, both of my posts to this list > > regarding DVDs in the last month received almost no responses, > > a very curious

Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations

2001-08-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > Hi, > > Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the > secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested > in hearing how you did that. Unfortunately, my card is just a monohead with 16MB. But AF

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:50:21PM +0100, Pedro Neves wrote: > Hi: > How come DVD playing in Linux is illegal? > Is there any place where I can get more info about this? It is only illegal for those residing in the U.S. and other oppressive countries. There are two issues, the DMCA law, which i

Disabling diald

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! Until some days ago I was using a 56 Kb modem to connect my single box to the Net. Now I have an old box as a proxy connected 7x24, and my box behind it. I would like to prevent diald from starting at every boot, but without deinstalling it, since I still can access through the modem in ca

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:19, Stig Brautaset wrote: > * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I > > | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the pa

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:36, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > >* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > >> | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato th

Bad signature on partition table

2001-08-21 Thread john gennard
I'm trying to upgrade,have started with my first physical IDE Hard Drive and run into a problem. hda was the original and a small disk, with a W95 installation, a small e2fs /boot partition and FreeBSD from an earlier experiment. When I became committed to Debian, I bought a second larger disk and

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