Re: Mounting on a mac

2001-01-16 Thread C. Falconer
At 07:25 PM 1/16/01 -0600, you wrote: > > Is there a way to make a directory (namely, etc/www) on a mac network, so > > I can just open the directory on the mac to work on the files? I was going > > to set up ftp, but since I'll only be working on at home within the > > network, I really only n

Re: Problems booting NT with Lilo

2001-01-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:20 AM 1/13/01 -0500, you wrote: Linux boots no problems as usual. NT does not. When I boot NT I get a Blue screen of death with the error message c135 and that winsrv.dll cannot find a DLL it needs. Upon furthur investigation I have determined that somehow the second NTFS partition is g

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 03:00 PM 1/13/01 -0700, you wrote: "Martin J . Hillyer" wrote: > Well, these geezer reminscences have probably put everyone to sleep; now > back to your usual programming... Some of these stories get interesting. I'm waiting for someone to pipe up that has been computing so long that they

Re: Two serial ports on a Linux laptop?

2000-12-25 Thread C. Falconer
At 07:08 PM 12/25/00 +, you wrote: Anyone done two serial ports on a Linux laptop? How did you do it? You'll need to get a PCMCIA serial port card, probably quite expensive, to get the second port. Why do you need two? If one is for a mouse then consider getting a PS/2 mouse, or if y

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:00 PM 12/22/00 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:24:16 +0100, Michael Steiner writes: Well, the quickfix would be a virtusertable containing something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each&every user. Its just another damn thing for the admins to u

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 06:26 PM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: You're right. I want to eject the disk, whether that's by hardware button or software utility. Other features work fine. I've tried (in configuring the kernel) IDE floppy, but I can find no option for "IDE Removable." Where is that located. Under Block Dev

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:09 AM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:28:08PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi all, I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, read/write, and umount it. But I cannot eject it. :-( I think you need a tool that can send the proper

Re: vanilla vs. compact

2000-12-11 Thread C. Falconer
At 03:32 AM 12/10/00 -0500, you wrote: What are the differences between the vanilla and compact install besides the obvious listed at the Debian site? When I installed with the vanilla method (hard drive floppy-less) the console looked fine. With compact, I have this low-res penguin image on top

Re: Help using old dos partition...

2000-12-09 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:34 AM 12/10/00 +0100, you wrote: /hda1 dos /hda5 /boot /hda6 / /hda7 swap /hda8 /home Now I would like to use cfdisk to delete /hda1 and create two partitions, one for /usr/local and another for /tmp. Could someone check my steps? 1. Change to init 1 2. Use cfdisk to delete dos partition

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread C. Falconer
At 01:33 PM 12/9/00 -0500, you wrote: > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. To the folks flaming (albeit gently) this guy: Somehow I have a hard time believing that a PhD student,... In New Zealand you're not allowed to claim a qualification if you're working on it - so he can't be a Ph.D student (ie,

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian? - laugh!

2000-12-09 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:10 PM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass http://www.princeton.edu/~kroger/home/ Has anyone checked out his web site? It lists both home and work phone numbers, as does his email sig. Are there any list members prepared to POLITELY call hi

Re: tunneling ftp through ssh

2000-12-08 Thread C. Falconer
Have you considered using scp instead? scp uses ssh, and uses a syntax like rcp scp c:\junk\index.html scarf: will prompt for a password then copy c:\junk\index.html to your home directory on machine scarf (actually its pscp on a windows box) scp scarf:/public_html/index.html . will prompt fo

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-04 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:06 PM 12/3/00 -0800, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:19:33PM +, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > You said two serial ports, but this one lists 4? Do you have a modem in there as well? Yes, there is a modem at ttyS3 I also tried everything on ttyS0, nothing there either. Theres th

Re: MegaImage MegaBook 880

2000-12-01 Thread C. Falconer
Debian doesn't need drivers as such - you will need to know the type of chipset used in each component... for example you need to know that your video card uses a neomagic 256-abc (for example) If you want windows drivers (asking in a linux mailing list is not the most optimal way to answer t

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:15 AM 11/28/00 +0100, you wrote: > Is there an appropriate >selection of Debian packages for this? I wouldn´t know of one. I have an old serial terminal plugged into a null modem cable. It sits just to the left of my main monitor and in syslog.conf I have *.* /dev/ttys1 So all s

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-27 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:11 PM 11/27/00 +0100, you wrote: DG> I was wondering what would be better to use in this situation. DG> I want to basically be able to have read access to a particular LAN device DG> on which the files are on a NT server and the client(s) that I want to be DG> able to read files (mostly spr

Re: "startx lxdoom" - wrong colormap

2000-11-26 Thread C. Falconer
At 03:39 PM 11/26/00 +0100, you wrote: There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato "Old P90" heh We still have rooms of Mac LCIIs, 386s and Mac Classics (10 years old now) Just think, you might be amusing yourself with typewriters a few years bac

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-18 Thread C. Falconer
I have 4 HP Jetdirects at work - they're truely sexy. Theres also a Lantronix print server which was legacy... it lacks syslog support, so when users tell me its not working I have to go run special software. The jetdirects all log to loghost, which I have displayed on an old serial terminal.

Re: update

2000-11-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:43 PM 11/14/00 +0100, you wrote: ...sorry, I can't tell you wether there are snafu's, 'cause I don't know what snafus are. ;) You mean problems? If you have problems, write a bug report agains the package. ;) http://everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=28184 -- Criggie

why windows users on debian list

2000-11-14 Thread C. Falconer
I have five debian boxes and one slackware, two NT servers and 400 NT workstations, one of which is mine. But thats the corporate world :-\ Of course home is a different matter... but it piquets my sense of humour to read debian mailing lists on work time. At 10:39 PM 11/13/00 -0800, you wr

Re: Debian installation from NT

2000-11-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:44 AM 11/13/00 -0200, you wrote: I've installed and configured Debian a lot of times in my local network, always from our linux local debian mirror. But I've never installed it from a NT mirror and now I'm having some troubles installing debian via NFS from it. Does the local linux mi

Re: Need hardware recommendations

2000-11-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:49 AM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote: I will be scavenging a sound card (SB PCI 128), video card (Matrox Millennium G200), and CD-ROM (Creative 52x) from the current desktop which will subsequently be turned into a headless server. ... Price isn't too much of a consideration since this deskt

Re: [OT] power supply meltdown, part ][

2000-11-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:54 PM 11/12/00 -0500, you wrote: I've got one here on my vintage 1993 486/33, I've unplugged the fan on it coz it was noisy and I'm too lazy to go to the basement, hunt for a voltmeter, soldering iron, and play the old 12->7V conversion game again. So I'm wondering what are the chances it'l

Re: Bunches of virtual consoles

2000-11-11 Thread C. Falconer
Yup - allocate 13-24 and you can use "right-alt + F1-12" from 25 upwards you need to use alt + left/right arrow to get to them At 11:28 PM 11/11/00 -0500, you wrote: So suppose I wanted to have more than 12 virtual consoles on my system, but I only have 12 F-keys to select them with. I know t

Re: Installing on PS/1

2000-11-11 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:23 AM 11/11/00 -0800, you wrote: I have a PS/1 machine type 2133, model type E26, with 3712kb of RAM. I was trying to install debian compact set (from 1.44 floppies), and got the following error after it tried to load the ramdisk, do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapd do_try_to_free_pages

Re: Workstation and IP-Masquerading

2000-11-11 Thread C. Falconer
Theres two options - you can do as you want and use one of the existing machines as a firewall/masq box etc, but it will have to be running linux. It will work, but will be less secure, and more confusing than the second option. Are you aware that any low-end pentium or 486 will work fine as

TOT: linuxy humour

2000-11-10 Thread C. Falconer
http://linux.freak.school.nz/tailoftux.html (btw - TOT means Totally Off Topic) -- Criggie

Re: Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread C. Falconer
You've compiled a new kernel but not rebooted to load it? If so, then this is one of the few times in linux when a reboot is required. At 09:09 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote: Hello Everybody The following message appears each time I make "ps" or "ps -a": {floppy_open} {scsi_init_free} Warning: /

Re: running ftpd other than root

2000-11-04 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:34 PM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote: Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other than root? I can't find any info on this. Thanks! Yes, absolutely... but any ftp daemon must be started as root to open ports below 1024. All of the popular ones drop to a designat

Re: World's largest mailing list?

2000-11-03 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:23 PM 11/2/00 -0700, you wrote: > Its not exactly a Debian/Linux question, but does anyone know how many > email addresses are on the world's largest mailing list, and the OS/HW > it runs on? Average messages per day? Well, I can tell you that the debian.org list server has 8 subscribe

Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-26 Thread C. Falconer
At 06:39 AM 10/25/00 +0200, you wrote: As long as I had 128 megs there were ~ 3 megs free with some 60 megs used for buffers. Now I have 320 megs ram, but only about 150 are used for buffers, 100 are free. totalusedfree shared buffers cached Mem:321784 224244 9

Re: cron, syslogd, klogd died

2000-10-26 Thread C. Falconer
I have this problem periodically on a P133 with a slightly screwey scsi root disk. It will mount / read-only, then many processes die due to being unable to write to disk. The sign is that / is mounted read-only, and that syslogd (which is still running) says scarf kernel: Last message repea

Re: Samba setup

2000-10-25 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:59 PM 10/24/00 +0200, you wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to replace a Windows NT domain controler by a samba server so that a newly installed client system creates its entry in the domain automatically? I think MS works that way, doesn't it? Kinda - it depends on your clients m

Re: Squid problems

2000-10-24 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:16 PM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote: I have a squid proxy server that wont go to a specific site. The site its not going to is www.quill.com and i am sure that the only problem is the squid because I can get to it without going through the proxy server. Anyone have any ideas on why this wouldn

Re: Book Recommendations...

2000-10-22 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:35 PM 10/22/00 -0400, you wrote: Moral to the story: get comfy with vi. It will sneak up on you when you least expect it. The small O'Reilly book _Learning the vi Editor_ is relatively inexpensive and features a simple walk-through tutorial that will stand the uninitiated in good stead. It

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

2000-10-22 Thread C. Falconer
1) Has anyone out there managed to fix the kernel VM problem by upgrading to the 2.4 kernel? Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rxvt... Oct 22 03:11:26 debian last message repeated 2 times Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init...

Re: TO ALL!

2000-10-22 Thread C. Falconer
At 01:36 PM 10/22/00 +0200, you wrote: Dear Martin! I respect you and your meaning. I looked at http://www.tu-berlin.de/www/software/hoax.shtml and thik this: Ok, a chain Too much mail chokes up my email servers - email without a definite purpose is just a waste of time and space. If its not

Re: Samba across a highly weird network setup.

2000-10-22 Thread C. Falconer
God thats one weird network set up. Can I ask why the world visable IPs? I mean - do you host web pages or something? If so then those boxes should be either outside the firewall and not used as workstations, or put them inside the firewall and use port forwarding on the firewall to permit e

Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread C. Falconer
Multiply them together C * H * S * kilobytes per sector sector size is normally 512 bytes/sector. caffeine:~# fdisk /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes caffeine:~# bc 255*63*1048*.5 8418060.0 <-- 8ish Gb At 11:20 PM 10/19/00 +

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread C. Falconer
No dude - the files that you have will be disk dump archives... essentially images of a disk To create the disks from dos/windows you'll need an executeable called rawrite2.exe, which you can download from the same place you got the images. Or if you have a unix box usedd if=imagename of=

Re: HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:34 AM 10/16/00 +0300, you wrote: I've tried to make my HP Laserjet 4L to work for two nights now, and I am in need for some help. The problem is: gs prints ps-files so that only one fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed (fitted on one sheet). I've checked ps's with ghostview, a

Fwd: Re: Samba & Win 2000

2000-10-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:44 PM 10/14/00 -0700, you wrote: on your linux box... make sure you have /home/ exported in /etc/exports if you want your NT to see the linux home dir... /etc/exports is related to NFS, nothing to do with samba make sure /etc/smb.conf also has /home defined in its config file Uh

Re: which software for professional Mailling? OT: Actual help

2000-10-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:38 PM 10/14/00 +0200, you wrote: Matthias Mann writes: > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. John Hasler: > What has "legal" got to do with it? Do you labor under the d

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:09 AM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a s

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 11:28 PM 10/13/00 +0200, you wrote: HiYou! I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could need a tool that can scan the web for mail

Re: Port 1002 - how to figure what process is using a port.

2000-10-12 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:04 PM 10/12/00 +0200, you wrote: does anyone know whats on port 1002. I can't find it in the /etc/services and a nmap on the IP says unknown. To find out what is running on a port (as opposed to what a port is supposed to be for) (example uses port 2064) As root run fuser -n tcp 206

Re: AW: some general (samba) questions

2000-10-10 Thread C. Falconer
... part, but just any other types. Do I have to delete the user and recreate him to get him work with an empty password? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:C. Falconer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am:Freitag, 6. Oktober 2000 23:03 An: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: debian-use

Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)

2000-10-08 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:02 AM 10/8/00 -0700, you wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to r

Re: some general (samba) questions

2000-10-06 Thread C. Falconer
At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob

Re: Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: master

Stuart Andrews Sun 3 questions

2000-10-04 Thread C. Falconer
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Re: bitchx and forward delete key

2000-09-29 Thread C. Falconer
At 03:34 PM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote: Is there any reason that anyone would object if I changed the forward delete key to do something sane, like delete forward, instead of toggling cloaking? Replies just to me, please. I don't have an answer to your question sorry - but why request replies no

Re: different file timestamp on samba

2000-09-28 Thread C. Falconer
Weird - would it help to synchronise all the win95 clocks with the samba server at login? At 08:40 AM 9/28/00 +0200, you wrote: Hello! I have Samba 2.0.7 on Potato. File dates after a modification are: -for Win95 clients the clients date and time -for WinNT clients the Samba server's date and

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:39 PM 9/27/00 +0100, you wrote: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found >/proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average >load values. You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the fi

TOT: Virus reports to the list and x-envelope-to:

2000-09-27 Thread C. Falconer
Have you noticed that since that virus attachment was sent to the list, there have been four or five warnings/reports from Exchange server anti-virus plugins? 1) They're replying to the list, rather than to the x-envelope sender... whats the difference between my.netvigatr.com errors and

Re: Firewall, IPMASQ, Debian

2000-09-25 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:33 PM 9/24/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm unable to receive files from ICQ, Unable to access my gateway(which is the firewall, and my webserver) from outside of my LAN, using telnet or ssh. But i'm able to send files over ICQ. ICQ is a bit like that... look at any of these sites for ip_masq

Re: Sun 3/50 question

2000-09-22 Thread C. Falconer
Oooops - re-read the documentation and notice that the installed NFS server was a kernel space one the 3/50 requires the user space nfs implementation. Sorry for wasting your time At 03:30 PM 9/23/00 +1200, you wrote: Gidday - I have an old Sun 3/50 that I have used in the past as an xte

Sun 3/50 question

2000-09-22 Thread C. Falconer
Gidday - I have an old Sun 3/50 that I have used in the past as an xterminal to my linux server. I've recently changed to debian 2.2 (potato) from an ancient install of slackware 3.0 I have followed all the instructions in linux-xkernel-2.0e and have the system starting to boot, but it dies

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:57 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote: >Now for: >raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. >raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault >tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also kno

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread C. Falconer
Concur with Wesley - raid on one drive is like mounting a ramdisk as /tmp - pointless because any benefits from the technique are nullified by the way you've done it. Now for: raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk sp

Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the "best" way?

2000-09-17 Thread C. Falconer
Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get install licq > Package licq is at the latest version

Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the "best" way?

2000-09-17 Thread C. Falconer
Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get install licq > Package licq is at the latest version

RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 09:45 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote: Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. Bugger! Go buy a

Re: samba lock problem

2000-09-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:31 AM 9/14/00 +, you wrote: My /var/log/syslog is filing up with lots of: Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1753]: ERROR: nmbd is already running. File /var/lock/samba/nmbd.pid exists and process id 1546 is running. Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane inetd[205]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 S

Re: ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread C. Falconer
Is there the potential for a winmodem-style ISDN adapter? I mean, an internal PC device that looks like a modem/ISDN adapter, but uses a special windows driver to do its processing... is it feasable? At 11:17 PM 9/11/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:27:08PM -0300, Mario Olimpio

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread C. Falconer
Yeah - it sounds useless, but its prime use is to fsck iso-style images mounted in the file system, before burning them to CDROM At 10:44 AM 9/10/00 -0700, you wrote: Shane Pearson wrote: > I noticed that fsck /cdrom reveals the possibility of fsck.iso9660, so do you know where I can get that

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-02 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:02 PM 9/2/00 -0400, you wrote: Once again the issue comes up. Here are the unsubscribe instructions from a couple Debian mailing lists: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: memory usage

2000-09-02 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:51 PM 9/2/00 -0400, you wrote: When I boot up, and launch, gdm, log in, it runs sawfish and I run licq, netscape, some xterms, etc. When I type 'free' I'm told that about 40mb ram is being used, and no swap. Over the course of a day, this number grows to about 75 megs being used for the sa

Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:57 PM 8/31/00 -0300, you wrote: > the stupid Access programers > coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files > at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to "map" the "network drive" under E: > . But the ACCDOC is under a folder SOLTSYS. So the structure is > Solts

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
To be honest - it sounds like flakey hardware. Maybe not extremely faulty... but enough to do weirdness like this. Can you compile a kernel on this box? What are the hardware specs and approximate ages? At 02:52 AM 9/1/00 -0500, you wrote: Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It c

Re: Fwd: Newbie questions

2000-08-18 Thread C. Falconer
You're not going to get a huge response by asking the Debian mailing list about how to make users under Redhat. Now, if it was debian I'd run this command: useradd -u uid [-g group] [-G group,...] [-d home] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-m [-k template]] [-f inactive] [-e expir

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread C. Falconer
At 09:37 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian servers that are being pummelled ri

Re: ftp.de.debian.org - or FAQ Why apt-get stopped working when potato became stable.

2000-08-15 Thread C. Falconer
Check your /etc/apt/sources.list Make sure it says potato and not frozen - there is no frozen any more cos potato is now stable, and slink is now officially old. At 12:03 PM 8/15/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi, is something wrong with ftp.de.debian.org? I tried an apt-get update yesterday and it w

Re: netatalk nits

2000-08-15 Thread C. Falconer
H - I have a similar box... It could be the windows machines doing op-locks on files. Another "faulty" looking thing is if the file has restrictive Unix permissions - the mac gives some daft errors. Email me at work as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll mail you back my smb.conf and netatalk.con

Re: Routing Problem

2000-08-12 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:37 AM 8/12/00 -0700, you wrote: ##here is the out put of netstat -nr: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth1 looks correct ##In case i

Re: [off topic] Talent Contest

2000-08-09 Thread C. Falconer
And for Mulder and Scully - why is the original message not in my inbox? Do THEY have it? Is it being transmogrified into an SSH contest? Or *gasp* has Micros~1 kidnapped the message to Embrace and Extend? Will we be seeing MS Talent Contests where all authentication is NTLM-based??? All

Re: MS Intellepoint Optical (humour)

2000-08-07 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:34 AM 8/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 7, aug, 2000 at 02:54:59 +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote: > Ethan Pierce wrote : > > > Has anyone had any luck getting this to work in debian? How bout > > all five buttons? > > Section "Pointer" > Protocol "IMPS/2" > Device"/dev/mouse" >

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread C. Falconer
Whats the email address for the original poster? I *assume* he wants to be CCed. Gidday I am the network admin at Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch New Zealand. We currently run two NT servers for main file and print sharing and email based on Exchange. In addition the firewall

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread C. Falconer
Here's a thought - are you attempting to mount \\desktop\c$ as the name of the share? If so, your shell will probably be getting confused by the dollars sign. (For those who don't know, NT W and NT S create shares of c$ and d$ and so on for the root of each drive. The $ stops the sha

Re: Squid

2000-07-28 Thread C. Falconer
Restrict in what way? Do you want one machine to have permission to use the cache, and another machine to be denied permission? then look into the ACL rules in squid.conf. If you want to filter web pages then look at an externel authenticator program - I use squidGuard (on a slackware box -

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Eudora mail client behind MASQ'ing debian?

2000-07-18 Thread C. Falconer
Eudora 4.3 sounds like the best option. http://www.eudora.com/ Please - why so many masqerading layers? Who is dialing-up who? Where is her mail server in relation to the masq boxes? At 09:44 AM 7/18/00 -0600, you wrote: i have a client going trough the roof cause she can't send any mail

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread C. Falconer
Okay - call it a Martian[1] solution, but the only way your linux box could hold a virus is if the data was writeable by users. I have 18 Gb of CDROMS shared via samba - the entire partition is mounted read only, and clients can't write to the share anyway. OR the other solution is to run you

Re: Attempt to access beyond end of device

2000-07-16 Thread C. Falconer
Well - its definitely /dev/sda1 thats having the problem, the "08:01" means major device 8 and minor device 1, which is the first partition on the first scsi disk. ls -l /dev/sda1 brw-rw1 root disk 8, 1 Jun 8 03:44 sda1 Is your swap space sda1 ? Second: I see in the outpu

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-07 Thread C. Falconer
At 09:55 PM 7/7/00 -0400, you wrote: For example, on my box here I get: HAL9000:~$ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hdb1 on /space/part1 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /space/

Re: software watchdog

2000-07-07 Thread C. Falconer
1) Temperature... has a CPU fan, case fan, or PSU fan seized up and died? 2) Have you changed anything recently? moved it, rebooted it, run a new kernel? 3) Run top, procinfo, vmstat -1, pppstats -w 1, netstat, free, df, and look for anything odd or wrong. 4) Take the GF wi

Re: samba Passwords

2000-07-07 Thread C. Falconer
1) As root, runsmbpasswd -a newusername That will add newusername to the smbpasswd file and set the password for you. 2) CDROMs Make sure your /etc/fstab contains a line like this /dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 then make sure theres a section like thi

RE: MS Proxy

2000-07-05 Thread C. Falconer
Erm - people... MS Proxy is not a firewall in itself. Perhaps the NT machine that runs Proxy also has a modem/other device in it, in which case it is doing firewall-style duties (perish the thought though... an NT based firewall) Whereas if you have another device controlling your link, then

Re: Supported Hardware.

2000-07-05 Thread C. Falconer
I don't quite understand your question - you are selling some hardware, and want to make sure the components are supported by Debian? Look at this address to find out: http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO.html Yeah - I could have looked up each item for you - but now you ha

Re: Booting from network

2000-06-28 Thread C. Falconer
Sorry - missed the original on this... Do you have a rarpd server on the network? Later kernel 2.3 and all 2.4 does not support rarp any more (I have the same problem, and rarpd the new daemon for rarp won't compile for me) At 08:46 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote: > "Jim" == Jim Koontz <[

rarpd support

2000-06-26 Thread C. Falconer
Okay - who whipped rarp support out of kernel 2.4 ? I have a couple sun 3/50s here acting as xterminals, and without rarpd they don't know their IPs. dhcpd can't handle that functionality the same - what can I do? I have tried dhcpd.deb which can't do it I've downloaded and compiled and instal

RE: dhcpcd and esound

2000-06-23 Thread C. Falconer
Weird... is the only word for it. With the sound card in use... try pinging another machine on the network, then traceroute to it, etc I half-suspect theres an IRQ conflict. -- From: Destrius[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 June 2000 2:43 A

RE: ?q?l $I ?C?u ?s?ia??P

2000-06-22 Thread C. Falconer
Yes - definitely. Be sure to compile support for Ic?cU?s?i|e?P in the kernel - either as a module, or compile it in. Is it ISA or PCI? isapnp is awkward - it runs much better if you can disable pnp and set an IO and IRQ specifically. Other than that - upgrade your kernel, make sure your sshd

RE: Debian is making errors when I have my CPU "overcooked".

2000-06-20 Thread C. Falconer
Or a winuser might not notice the errors :-) Seriously - to the original poster... Are you sure its a C333 already? perhaps its a C300 which has been overclocked by a possibly disreputable supplier. -- From: Colin Watson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2000 5:18 AM

RE: serial config

2000-06-19 Thread C. Falconer
Two possibilities... 1) you plugged the serial header cables into the motherboard backward, or off-by-one, or you're using different ones from before which are wired differently. 2) shorting the motherboard to the case has fritzed the serial controller. Can you plug in an ISA IO card? I nuke

RE: top

2000-06-19 Thread C. Falconer
Windows telnet is totally and utterly fucked when it comes to curses and vt_00 and so on. Yes its good as a last resort, but I fully recommend PuTTY on the windows machine, and ssh on the debian box. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ apt-get install ssh and optionally apt-get

RE: samba auto-unloads

2000-06-15 Thread C. Falconer
smbd and nmbd can run from inetd or in daemon mode. inetd is slower but uses less ram. Running as daemons is faster, but resource useage is greater. I run it as a daemon, and it looks like you do too. -- From: Brian Stults[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 9:17 A

RE: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-08 Thread C. Falconer
H - I elected debian after using slackware for four+ years, because its what Pitr runs :) http://www.userfriendly.org/ Seriously - I chose debian because it was recommended for servers. I didn't want a distribution that needs wishy-washy X-based tools to deal with packages. Does debian n

RE: Samba printing question

2000-06-03 Thread C. Falconer
Specifically about your question, I don't know but I have a DJ 850 here shared via samba (off the linux machine) and my win9x boxes have the HP driver for the 850 (1) Why do you need to use a laserwriter driver? (1) the HP drivers give much better quality colour than Micros~1 supplied

Advice required - Macjanet to debian/netatalk/samba

2000-06-01 Thread C. Falconer
Okay - bear with me for the explanation on this. I work at a secondary school (3)... we have a room of Macintoshes, with 27ish LC2s on ethertalk (10baseT ethernet). They tend to die in interesting and expensive to fix ways (1) The current Macintosh server is a SE/30 with 16 Mb ram and a 2G SC

RE: Ethernet Error

2000-05-31 Thread C. Falconer
Try as root /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 window 16384 eth0 assuming your eth0 has an IP in the range 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 If that works fine then add it to something in /etc/init.d -- From: Steve[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2000

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