keyboard problem on xfree86 after upgrade ...

2001-11-29 Thread Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY
Hi all, After an upgrade on a woody version (debian), my 'alt gr' function does not work anymore on X. I had already a testing version with xfree86 4 before the upgrade, and there was no change in my XF86Config-4 file, here is my keyboard info : Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Ge

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Charles Baker: > > --- Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the > > diagnostic: > > > > > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > > on 01:00 > > > > > > > > when I try to boot up with my

Re: new tar wants to remove my kernel!

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 David Wright wrote: > > I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this... > > debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: >build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscr

Re: downtime, alas

2001-11-29 Thread John Griffiths
>our poor ups didn't have much of a chance to keep the real >debian server going for long. usually i at least turn the >monitors off when leaving for extended periods... sadly, these >outages were major bigtmie -- whole sections of town were out >for hours at a time. > why do you have the monitor

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's likely that their situation is not identical to yours. Some > people learn better in this way than others. When I began learning > Linux, I simply read all the available documentation and pieced things > together where I could. In fact, I'd read

Gunsamerica pictures can no longer be viewed

2001-11-29 Thread fowlers
Something in your service is preventing me from getting messages from and accessing gunsamerica.com.   You are infringing and preventing business transactions.  What gives? BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:l;steve;fowler FN:steve fowler l EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:20011130T054505Z END

downtime, alas

2001-11-29 Thread will trillich
well, pooh. i was at 428 days or so, not that it's a guiness record or anything, but... $ uptime 11:14pm up 4:05, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.06 1) i left my mac and 21" monitor on 2) the laptop was plugged in 3) backup/secondary server, and monitor were on 4) laserjet printer was p

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Greetings all, > >My recent difficulties with printer and mail setup have led to to the point >where I simply must express my thoughts on "RTFM". > >1. I'm beginning that this should be the credo to linux use. Which >would be >fine if reading the "fine" manual didn't i

Re: Newer Tripwire

2001-11-29 Thread Paolo Falcone
Keith Steensma wrote: >Has anyone succeded is getting a (somewhat) newer version of Tripwire to >run under Woody. That 'old' version in the Woody archives is nearly >useless. Check the tripwire website. There's already a version 2.x or newer. Paolo Falcone __ w

Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Paolo Falcone
xeno wrote: >I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and >though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones >don't. >I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's >because >their ISA, but the 3c59x comes up fine with the modul

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake cmasters: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:42:14AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:22 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > That's something I've wondered about for a while... I've found > > > exim's .forward filtering to be more than adequate for anything I've > > >

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:41:39 -0500, you wrote: >cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Do you see. No-one can possible be expected to ~read for comprehension~ a >> manual that has ~not~ been written with a ~complete~ newbie in >> mind. Dman and Alan, You both have made excellent points. Ma

Re: dark background in gvim-gtk

2001-11-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
dman wrote: > Anyways, for gvim put : > > hi Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90 Thanks, this works perfectly. I just found the perfect editor layout for hacking projects. Hint: gvim with dark colors to match a console and the buffers menu teared of for easy file switching. Schweeet! Ciao, Vikto

question on restarting daemons on package update(specifically wu-ftpd)

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm sure this is a dumb question. But i just installed the new wu-ftp (2.6.0-6) from proposed-updates via apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade Just ftp'd to localhost, and checked that it was immune or not. Surprise, the ~{ kills it.. Hmm.. Look up a few lines, and it's still the old date string. S

new tar wants to remove my kernel!

2001-11-29 Thread David Wright
I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this... debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev initrd-tools kernel-image-2.

exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
satan$ dpkg -p exim (snip) Description: Exim Mailer This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue processing

[p: X configuration on woody]

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i'd like to obtain a list of XF86Config generating tools for woody. can someone list a few? this is for 4.*, of course. not 3.*. pete -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp-client

2001-11-29 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
What is the difference between pump dhcpcd dhcp-client any others? Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Subject: Re: dhcp-client From: Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Nov

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Baker
--- Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the > diagnostic: > > > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on 01:00 > > > > > > when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. > I've tried several > > >

Re: TCP Client - Server : 10.10.1.15 to 10.10.1.4

2001-11-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
You might try something that compiles first... Hint: #include , fix memset(), check return values of socket/bind/listen/connect, and supply a readline() function. Fix those problems and it'll work... $ gcc -g -Wall -o server server.c server.c:15: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' serv

Re: dhcp-client

2001-11-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:36:53PM +0530] Sridhar M.A. : > Can somebody give me some pointers to set it up ? Usage of dhcp-client is recommended over dhcpcd. You have to enable CONFIG_FILTER=y in your kernel configuration options for dhcp-client to work properly. Maybe in stock kernel-image pac

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:49:11PM -0500, Greg Lopp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:19:35PM -0400, cmasters wrote: ... snip of log ... > > The preceding log leads us to believe that the message has been > delivered to your smtp daemon (exim). The next step is not to > look in $HOME/incoming,

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:41:39PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: [lots of good comments] I must say that Alan has done a better job of describing the situation than I did. I too have found it very useful (and enjoyable) to read docs that seem interesting, yet I often don't understand or have a use fo

Re: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h

2001-11-29 Thread nate
> I just found this neat little doc app for windowmaker > called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it can't > find these include files: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h . What > packages do I need to install to get these include > files and presumably their implementations? I checked > and wmfortune is no

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Alan Shutko
cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you see. No-one can possible be expected to ~read for comprehension~ a > manual that has ~not~ been written with a ~complete~ newbie in > mind. Remember that most of the people who tell others to RTFM are people who _have_ bootstrapped themselves from no

Re: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 Charles Baker wrote: > I just found this neat little doc app for windowmaker > called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it can't > find these include files: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h . What > packages do I need to install to get these include > files and presumably their implementati

Re: xfonts-artwiz and mkfontdir

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Nov-2001 Robert Rendler wrote: > Recently when I upgraded a couple of packages mkfontdir got run and all > the fonts provided by xfonts-artwiz dont' seem to get added to > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir properly. For example the line for > snap only shows: > snap.pcf.gz snap > Anyon

Re: Secure Auth server?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:58:48PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > > prepared to open up port 113 if I could guarantee that the program > > would not give my real user id and there is no way that it could be > > compromised. > > i don't think theres anybody who could give a network daemon > a complete

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Baker
<> > > > apt-get install linuxcookbook > I just tried the above using source.list entries for > stable, and it > wasn't downloaded: > > inneal:~# apt-get install linuxcookbook > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package linuxcookbook > inneal:~#

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:36:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya mark > > are you trying to detect that files has changed > or are you trying to protect files from being changed ?? Well, I was really trying to weigh up the pros / cons of both. It seemed to me from first appearances that some

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread John Hasler
dman writes: > I'm not sure what this is supposed to be, but I don't think fetchmail is > supposed to be using SMTP. It does so by default. That is one of its salient features. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: squid or masqueradeing?

2001-11-29 Thread Titty Jacob
> Now I am a little confused as to how to proceed next. What I want to do > is allow web browsing from the windows98 box on the LAN. > > What is the best way to do this? Do I need squid installed on the > firewall box and then tell the windows98 box to use it as a proxy? Or > do I need to set

X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Baker
I just found this neat little doc app for windowmaker called wmfortune. I tried to compile it, but it can't find these include files: X11/Xlib.h X11/xpm.h . What packages do I need to install to get these include files and presumably their implementations? I checked and wmfortune is not an official

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Ian Monroe wrote: > > A surprising about information is still locked up in books. Though some > are availible online, checking out your local huge bookstore is a good > idea. > > Ian Monroe > http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Lance Simmons wrote: > > > A book that's full

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:41:25PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:31:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just stumbled upon this LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection/Defense > > System) see: http://www.lids.org > > > > I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and wh

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:46:15PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | Greetings all, | | My recent difficulties with printer and mail setup have led to to the point | where I simply must express my thoughts on "RTFM". ... | Their are shortcuts, strange citations, symbols and references to | structures that

TCP Client - Server : 10.10.1.15 to 10.10.1.4

2001-11-29 Thread shyamk
Good Morning everybody , I wish to return to my TCP Client/Server question. (server on 10.10.1.4 port 9888) (and client on 10.10.1.15) . The following is my Server & then (at the botttom) my client :- x //Server #include #include #include #inclu

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Ian Monroe
A surprising about information is still locked up in books. Though some are availible online, checking out your local huge bookstore is a good idea. Ian Monroe http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Lance Simmons wrote: > A book that's full of useful examples is _The Linux Cookbook

Re: dark background in gvim-gtk

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:21:35AM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | Hi, | | is it possible to get a black background using gvim-gtk. The help says, definitely! | that X resources are only available to the Motif and Athena guis which | look plain ugly. that's right, GTK+ doesn't use X resources

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:19:35PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | Greetings Carel, | | Attached you will find a yet again revised copy of my fetchmailrc. rest | assured ~all~ usernames and pwords are strictly alphanumeric. I've also | included a copy of the most recent logfile. I opted for fetchall rath

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Lopp
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:19:35PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > transcript of recent log (not able to save to file from > terminal --- > > fetchmail: 5.5.5 querying (protocol POP3) at Thu, 29 Nov 2001 > 20:43:26 -0400 (AST) > fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ( information>) ready Thu, 29 Nov

Re: dhcp-client

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Till recently I was using potato. I had installed the package dhcpcd > to enable my cable internet connection. After apt-get upgrade to > testing, I was surprised to see that the dhcpcd package was not > upgraded, but removed. Downloaded and ins

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:05:05PM -0400, cmasters wrote: ... | Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of | postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean Yes ;-). | that I may not even require the services of procmail, as I ~am~ using exim

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:05 pm, cmasters wrote: > Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of > postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean > that I may not even require the services of procmail, as I ~am~ using exim > as my MTA. Is t

Need help building php4

2001-11-29 Thread jennyw
I've run into some problems with php4 and it's been suggested I recompile php4. The problem is ... I've never done this before, and reading the directions is leaving me with a few questions. First, am I getting the right files? I typed "apt-get source php4" and then found the files in /etc/apt. T

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:35:45PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: | > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | > Just look at the appropriate man pages for further details. It will | > require some work, but once set up will

Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Stephen Gran wrote: > > You can add the modules you want to bring up, along with any arguments > /etc/modules. Naw, this honestly doesn't work, even when I have modules turned on. I just went back and made sure the /etc/modules file had: ne io=0x240,irq=5 and it comes up saying it can't do an

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Lance Simmons
A book that's full of useful examples is _The Linux Cookbook_ by Michael Stutz, available in paperback from Linux Journal Press, and also by apt-get install linuxcookbook Another extremely useful book for getting the whole unix thing is _Think Unix_ by Jon Lasser (QUE, 2000) -- Lance Simmons

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:46 pm, cmasters wrote: > Last words (for now) ... in order for Open Source to have continued and > increasing validity, it ~has~ to mean more than just "change at will". It > must include "if I've written the application, I will include ~clear~ > instructions". Ther

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:42:14AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:22 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > That's something I've wondered about for a while... I've found > > exim's .forward filtering to be more than adequate for anything I've > > ever wanted to do (and a lot m

xfonts-artwiz and mkfontdir

2001-11-29 Thread Robert Rendler
Recently when I upgraded a couple of packages mkfontdir got run and all the fonts provided by xfonts-artwiz dont' seem to get added to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir properly. For example the line for snap only shows: snap.pcf.gz snap Anyone know what could be the problem?

Re: Getting an older package

2001-11-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Brian McGroarty wrote: Where might I find the 1251 versions of the nvidia source building packages? The 1541 release of the driver has problems with multihead support, and nvidia recommends stepping back to the older driver. It would be nice to keep this built as a deb to make future upgrading

Re: list all task packages

2001-11-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:16:56PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote (1.00): > What is the command to select from the available debian task packages? tasksel M

Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Xeno Campanoli: > Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > > > I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and > > though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones > > don't. > > I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's > > becau

Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
Greetings all, My recent difficulties with printer and mail setup have led to to the point where I simply must express my thoughts on "RTFM". 1. I'm beginning that this should be the credo to linux use. Which would be fine if reading the "fine" manual didn't imply previous knowledge of the OS or

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:36:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > lids tries to prevent you and [h/cr]ackers from changing > files its supposed to be protecting... > a simple "attr +i /etc/passwd" will prevent it from > being changed too attr permissions can be changed by anyone who has man

Re: Newer Tripwire

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:17:55PM -0600, Keith Steensma wrote: > Has anyone succeded is getting a (somewhat) newer version of Tripwire to > run under Woody. That 'old' version in the Woody archives is nearly > useless. Yes, I have used it on several machines. It builds without too much trouble,

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:24:42PM -0800, Louis Roth wrote: > Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When > I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I > need help with the Debian installation. If you are using kernel 2.2, you need to get the dr

Re: IPSEC questions

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:28:06PM -0800, Mike Pfleger wrote: > I've been looking into ipsec for Linux, and have read the recent posts > by nate et al. vpnd and vtun look promising, but I have the unenviable > circumstance of needing to talk to a 'doze network whose servers talk > to remote hosts

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread John Patton
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:31:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just stumbled upon this LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection/Defense > System) see: http://www.lids.org > > I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and what they think of it. > Is it hard to set up? What happens when you do

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mark are you trying to detect that files has changed or are you trying to protect files from being changed ?? tripwire/aide and other ids will tell you that files have been changed... ( a little too late in my book ... lids tries to prevent you and [h/cr]ackers from changing files its sup

Re: dark background in gvim-gtk

2001-11-29 Thread Robert Rendler
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 03:21:35 +0100 Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to get a black background using gvim-gtk. The help says, > that X resources are only available to the Motif and Athena guis which > look plain ugly. Try starting it up with gvim -rv ...

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Craig Holyoak
Louis Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When > I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I > need help with the Debian installation. I use the natsemi driver that comes in the 2.4.x series of kernel with my F

dark background in gvim-gtk

2001-11-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, is it possible to get a black background using gvim-gtk. The help says, that X resources are only available to the Motif and Athena guis which look plain ugly. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgplHajm0nUiT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Newer Tripwire

2001-11-29 Thread Keith Steensma
Has anyone succeded is getting a (somewhat) newer version of Tripwire to run under Woody. That 'old' version in the Woody archives is nearly useless. -- ö¿ö Keith Steensma Jacksonville, Arkansas

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread D.
If you go to the www.netgear.com and search around a little bit you will find a linux driver for your nic card in .zip form. When you open it you will see a readme on how to compile the driver. I believe that you also need the kernel-headers for the kernel that your using. HTH Don --- Louis Rot

list all task packages

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
I know this question was answered just a few days ago, but I cannot find it in the archives. I also checked the man page for dpkg and apt-get but didn't see anything there, either. What is the command to select from the available debian task packages? (it's not dselect -- this was an opti

Re: Secure Auth server?

2001-11-29 Thread nate
> prepared to open up port 113 if I could guarantee that the program > would not give my real user id and there is no way that it could be > compromised. i don't think theres anybody who could give a network daemon a complete vote of confidence and say it cannot be compromised. most of the ident

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:28:36AM +0100, Stephen Rueger wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > > > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail > > from your ISP and will send it

Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and > though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones > don't. > I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's > because > their ISA, but the 3c59x comes up fi

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > > The problem with this is that often, I have 300+ emails to then sort through > > one by one. I imnagine I could use those nifty 'save/send/folder ...' hooks > > for processin

Re: usb controller pci

2001-11-29 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
I bought an opti firelink. Its ohci compliant, and the kernel driver seems to deal fine with it. I didnt teste it yet, as I dont have any ucb devices at home and I just bought it yesterday. regards PS check the compliance of the card in the manual

Secure Auth server?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
I notice that everytime I send mail to the debian-user list, I get requests to port 113 on my machine by the debian mail server. Here is an example from my firewall log: Nov 30 11:31:11 beast kernel: incoming_new_::IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=216.234.231.6 DST=144.134.71.208 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TT

dhcp-client

2001-11-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, Till recently I was using potato. I had installed the package dhcpcd to enable my cable internet connection. After apt-get upgrade to testing, I was surprised to see that the dhcpcd package was not upgraded, but removed. Downloaded and installed dhcp-client, but the location and configuration

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail > from your ISP and will send it straight to exim (or sendmail, etc) for > processing. By default, exim wil

Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
I just stumbled upon this LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection/Defense System) see: http://www.lids.org I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and what they think of it. Is it hard to set up? What happens when you do an apt-get dist-upgrade - will it refuse to change the binaries you want to u

Re: Read-only root (Re: Computer won't power off)

2001-11-29 Thread L. Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:57 pm, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:21:17AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > for grub add it to the kernel stanza: > > > > > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
Greetings Carel, Attached you will find a yet again revised copy of my fetchmailrc. rest assured ~all~ usernames and pwords are strictly alphanumeric. I've also included a copy of the most recent logfile. I opted for fetchall rather than keep, as I am continuing to run getmail throughout this tria

Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones don't. I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's because their ISA, but the 3c59x comes up fine with the modules kernel, and I can

Re: Read-only root (Re: Computer won't power off)

2001-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:21:17AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > for grub add it to the kernel stanza: > > > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 apm=on read-only >^ > > Is that going to make the root part

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Shaul Karl wrote: > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the diagnostic: > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > > > when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. I've tried several > > things with lilo on this, but I'm stumped. rdev indicates the root >

Re: IPSEC question addendum

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all. > > I've been looking into ipsec for Linux, and have read the recent posts > by nate et al. vpnd and vtun look promising, but I have the unenviable > circumstance of needing to talk to a 'doze network whose servers talk > to remote hosts via

Re: usb controller pci

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:38:28AM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: | Hello, | | Our lug is in need of buying a usb controller pci card. I looked around, | and found two types of cards. | The dlink 500 and a safeway (don't have more specs). | | I looked at the linux-usb.org site, but couldn't find any

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > The problem with this is that often, I have 300+ emails to then sort through > one by one. I imnagine I could use those nifty 'save/send/folder ...' hooks > for processing of mail ~after~ I've recieved it, but I'd like to be able to > read

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:24:42PM -0800, Louis Roth wrote: | Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. | When I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, | but I need help with the Debian installation. Do you still have mandrake running? If so look at t

Re: squid or masqueradeing?

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:32:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have an iptables firewall running on my linux box connected to the | internet with a standard dialup ppp link. Now I have just connected | another debian box and a windows98 box to this firewall box. | Now I am a little confu

Re: tomcat installation

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Rachel Andrew wrote: > I'm looking to install Tomcat and found a tutorial which seems to say that > it is possible to get Tomcat with apt, however if I try apt-get install > tomcat, I get package not found. There is Tomcat: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:20:49PM -0500, dman wrote: > It sounds like fetchmail itself isn't the problem, but I think your > config is still wrong : > > | mda '/usr/bin/procmail' > > > Looking at the procmail manpage I see : > > procmail [-toY] [-f fromwhom] [-a argument] -d recipient ..

Re: How to display available free space on Samba shares spaninig different filesystems

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Morbo wrote: > On my Windows machine if I connect to that sharre I always see the free > space on the first harddrive, > and never know how much is still on the other... > > Is there a way to overcome this? Have you tried "df"? Oki

Re: Mail - just tried again ....

2001-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:51:46PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > Greetings, > > Just reconfigured fetchmail and yet again, mail retrieved according to the > attached log, yet no-where to be found on my system. Not in the folder as > directed by procmail ('in-testing') my spool folder, or my regualr inc

Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Louis Roth
Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I need help with the Debian installation.

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the diagnostic: > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. I've tried several > things with lilo on this, but I'm stumped. rdev indicates the root > partition is /dev/hda1, which

Read-only root (Re: Computer won't power off)

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > for grub add it to the kernel stanza: > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 apm=on read-only ^ Is that going to make the root partition mounted read only? I'd like to have my root mounted read write,

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Make sure that you have compiled the ide and ext2 into the kernel and not just made them loadable mods. Xeno Campanoli wrote: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 From: Xeno Campanoli <[EM

Re: Problem with GDM

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: > > >Does anybody else have problem with logging in with GDM resently? >Either > >GDM won't let my type in my username at all. > > Strange... it works fine on my system. You're using Sid? > If you're using the one default in Pota

Re: Cannot mount reiser fs using patched potato kernel

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote: > In order to mount a ReiserFS 3.6 FS, you need to install a 2.4.x > kernel. Yes; and it's nicer to do so. Need not to do any patch. Besides, reiserfs is fast. I don't know if it's compared to ext3; has any benchmarking been ever done? Oki

Re: Computer won't power off

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > I don't know ... I did a dist-upgrade. Would that upgrade the kernel? No. > When I type poweroff, it does the same thing as before, the computer > just doesn't power down ... it unmounts all file systems then says power > off computer (or something like tha

Re: DNS

2001-11-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > So, the dumb question is this: Is there some naming convention of files > that I have to pay attention to? I think the convention is that the db. files you want to use have to be defined in /etc/bind/named.conf. > Probably -- I don't recall ever seeing

Re: Still having mail problems [New Thread] - logs, etc.

2001-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:22:52PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > Greetings, > I'm mailed the syslog on a regular basis, so I was able to see that in fact > ~all~ email addressed to 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' or > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was ~bounced~ back to me via the syslog (as I have > 'no bounce ma

Re: Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

2001-11-29 Thread nate
> Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. > What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19? pre17 is older then 2.2.19. it is a pre release of 2.2.19. i would strongly reccomend, if your compiling your own kernel to go with 2.2.19. not that theres any real problem with the

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