Re: error in make menuconfig

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:51:41AM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > loki:/rexxscripts$ dlocate -S string.h > libc6-dev: /usr/include/bits/string.h > > Looks like at least libc6-dev is missing. Lemme know how it goes. it worked ! libc6-dev was the missing package (along with libncurses5-dev).

Re: error in make menuconfig

hi again, i meant, "ive been compiling kernels on this same machine since 2.0.34" how could those files have dissapeared ? TIA, chad On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:27:38PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > hello all, > >ive never seen this before, ive been compiling ke

error in make menuconfig

hello all, ive never seen this before, ive been compiling kernels on this since 2.0.34. archangel:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-

has anyone tried Mirapoint's Internet Message Server ?

hi gang ! ive veeb reading a lot fo good stuff about the Internet Message Server from Mirapoint (www.mirapoint.com) and i would just like to ask whether there's anyone here who has tried it. how is it w/ really large email services ? thanks in advance. Chad

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[OFF TOPIC] PHP variables using method=GET

hello, sorry for the offtopic post, but, does anyone have any example PHP script where it passes and displays variables using method=GET ? ... i wish to learn how to handle query strings in PHP but all sample code i see use method=POST.. thanks a lot, chad

help on multiple search/replace

hello, i dont know whether i successfully sent the first email i wrote. anyway. can someone please help me on writing a script or whatevers best in order for me to perform multiple search and replace on thousands of small files ? that is, these small files contain (some doesnt) the text

PERL or grep help pls (search replace)

hello, i have like 10 thousand small files, some containing the text "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif"; inside it while some dont. can someone please help me with a script w/c views all these files and if it sees a "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif";, will replace it w/ a "http://www.cprod

Perl/C programmers, help pls

hello everyone, we have something like 30,000 ++ small files lying around different subdirectories, named 01.cgi ++. (from Ultimate Bulletin Board, www.ultimatebb.com, and let me add that their customer support sucks and their documentation is even worse) heres an example of one :

X11 experts, help pls

hello everybody ... I just had my video card replaced with a Trident 3D Image 9750 and now my X doesnt work anymore. XF86Setup wont help because the card is not listed there. Is there any way I can get my XServer to recognize my new card without re-installing or upgrading X ? I'm on Deb

slashdot like poll application

hello LIST, i was wondering if theres anyone who knows of a "slashdot like poll" application that i can use on our website ... and where to get it. thanks, Chad

time conversions

hello everyone !!! this is a non-debian specific question and i hope ull bear w/ me on this ... can someone suggest to me any nice documents re converting time for major timezones ? UTC, PDT, PST (whatever those are), GMT, PHT (my timezone, the only one i know) ... thanks a lot ... Chad

bad login tracking

hello all, when i invoke 'lastb', i get the following output : UNKNOWN ttyp1ruf2-6.evoserve. Tue Jul 27 21:13 - 21:13 (00:00) chadittyp1ruf2-6.evoserve. Tue Jul 27 21:12 - 21:12 (00:00) that is, UNKNOWN for someone who tried to enter a non-exixtent username (w/ refer

understanding netstat output

hello all, when i invoke netstat, i get the following : Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] STREAM 824491 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 824490 unix

ssh client

hello all, this is not a debian specific question, but does anyone know of an ssh client for Win9x/NT that i can use to connect to my ssh ONLY enabled debian server ? i need this as i dont have a linux box at home. TIA, Chad

wallpaper Question

hi list, please bear w/ an X newbie. anyway, i managed to place a wallpaper on my Xwin using xv but whenever i close X, i'd have to put the wallpaper in again using xv the next time i log on. can anyone suggest me a way to make my wallpaper permanent ? i use icewm. TIA, Chad

eeek ... new debian HP look

forgive me for the noise ... but i almost choked when i saw the new www.debian.org ... then again i just love debian, who cares about the logo ... i'll get used to it :) chad

systat & netstat daemon usage

hello all, i found the ff lines from a friends slakware install (/etc/inetd.conf) : systat stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/ps -auwwx netstat stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/netstat-a so tried telnet'ing to his box 1st at port 11 and then at p

where do i find crypt ?

hello all, ive been trying to compile cops and crack but i keep on getting this error : /tmp/ccc00945: In function `try': /tmp/ccc00945(.text+0xb83): undefined reference to `crypt' can anyone tell me please where/what package do i get the crypt function from ? TIA, Chad

preventing weak passwords

ds so that i can narrow down on those only on those whos passwords need fixing, that is, only those whose passwords can be "dictionary cracked". does anyone know of an application that can do what i want ? TIA, Chad A. Adlawan System/Network Admin Pixelia Multimedia Co. Cebu City Philippines

modem pool suggestion

hi, can someone please suggest to me a nice modempool ? or am i better off using external modems? if so can u also suggest modems that are guaranteed to work happily and w/ less hassles as a dial-in modem for an isp ? if u have any modem pool brands in mind, please exclude livingston (their

debian for ISP use

(Redirected by Jude Ramas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Greetings ! My first post on this list and I hope you can help me on this. We are an ISP presently running on slackware34 w/c is pretty much breaking up. It was installed for us years ago by some tech guy and we need to rebuild it. We already h

tacacs and radius

hello everyone ! i friend was asking me whether i can help him convert his slackware system to debian (since imthe only debian user in our group and their slak admin jumped ship) from "tacacs" to "radius" ... whatever those are. can someone please help point to me where i should look for mor

more on ssl telnet sessions

? (both w/ or w/o the "-s secure" option" TIA, Chad On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 09:52:26AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > invoke telnetd with the -z secure option. > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > > > hello everyone ! > > i have

on ssl telnet sessions

hello everyone ! i have ssltelnet installed/running on my box ... it works by: (shamelessly copied from /non-US/binary-i386/Packages) It interoperates with normal telnet(d) in both directions. It checks if the other side is also talking SSL, if not it falls back to normal telnet protocol

changing default umask on useradd

hello everyone ! does anyone know of a way to change the default "useradd" or "adduser" behaviour in terms of giving permissions to the new users home directory ? that is, when u add a new user, the permission on his/her new home dir is set at 755. is there any way to make the default settig

partition resizing application

hello all ... anyone here know of an application w/c can allow me to resize my ext2 partition to make room for a BSD partition ? TIA, Chad

Re: wu-ftpd-2.4.2.16-12 security problem

thats not a security problem. its how its supposed to behave. if u dont want users chrooted to /home/username, that is, they can only go to as high as /home/username, read on re giving users "guestgroup" access in wu-ftpd docs, and then change their respective enreies in /etc/passwd so that wh

Re: logging uf su usage

ive downloaded the source and unpacked them already, almost ready to recompile. may i know how/where do I add this removed compile time flag thats needed to enable this logging ? chad > > There is (was at the time) a bug against su because, somehow, the > compile-time flag needed to enable thi

logging uf su usage

hello list, does the default syslog.conf log all usage of the "su" command ? if so may i knoe where ? ive been reading the syslod.conf man page but im not sure whether i understood everything. and if it doesnt, may i knoe how do i tell syslog to log all usage of the "su" commang ? TIA, chad

understanding free's output

hi List ! when i invoke free, i get the following : archangel:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63268 12692 50576 22284944 5824 -/+ buffers/cache: 5924 57344 Swap: 130748 0 13

web password changing

hi list ! ive looked all over freshmeat and cgi-resources.com and i just cant seem to find a some cgi that allows a user in ur system to change his/her password thru some web interface, that is, w/o havnig to telnet to the server and manually invoking passwd. anyone have any ideas where to find

Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

> > >ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all > >their user names ? i use exim also ... > > Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run. > i think i remember our sysadmin used to do this, i think what he did was send email to [EM

sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

> > I don't think that is the case. The trusted user just means that it will > believe the envelope sender field (Sender:) from those users. You should > NEVER have to put real users in the trusted user field. You shoudl only > have something like: > > trusted_users = mail:news:uucp:root > ow b

default run levels

hi ! i was just wondering, what exactly will happen if i change the default run level specified in /etc/inittab from init 2 to init 3, or 4, or 5 ? TIA, Chad

Re: Network newbie

the net3 howto is not lacking, believe me ... it can work u miracles if ull read and really understand it ... did ur kernel detect ur lan card ? or if u included the module to autumatically be loaded unpon bootup (/etc/modules), did u see the message that looks something like eth0: 3c509 at 0

Re: deb vs. rpm

> I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that > is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and > am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things > as it's not compatible to rpm's that I find on the net since they > aor usually f

Re: Humor/relax a Bit ...

> A friend of mine sent me this link a few weeks back...have you figured > it out yet? > took me 5 tries to figure out ;) (i wont tell how)... u should all try it ... good for those w/ sysadmin like mentality chad

Humor/relax a Bit ...

hello everyone ! not to add useless traffic to this very busy list, i just thought everyone could use some rather annoying ice breakers from those sleepless debugging/hacking nights ... "off topic" site for the day... http://www3.mcps.k12.md.us/users/rsfay/magic/index.html cheers, Chad thank

web interface to doing minor admin stuff

hello List ! does anyone know of a nice cgi/perl/whatever that u can use as a web interface that allows you to do minor admin stuff like adding ftp/email only users to ur system thru a netscape session ? writing shell scripts are out of the question since the guy who'll be doing this is n route

debian logo thing

hello List ... anyone know what came out of that debin logo contest announced 2 months ago ? ... i also saw some Debian logo at slashdot (debian/corel/kde news) ... is that the official debian logo ? TIA chad

Re: 2.2.x boot floppy. (was: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive).

> > Next step: who knows where to find a boot floppy using a 2.2.x kernel? > i know i saw this somewhere someplace, i just cant locate it anymore. where do i get info on how to make my own custom boot floppy ? chad

[off topic] new apt ?

, etc ... i really think theyre neat ... they look so neat ... regards everyone, Chad A. Adlawan

more Mutt question

> set folder =~/.mail > set mbox=~/.mail/inbox > set postponed =~/.mail/postponed > set record =~/.mail/outbox > set spoolfile =~/.mail/inbox > > Now, when it comes to moving it every month - mutt is constantly > fighting against mail c

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

hi Vaidhy, i also got the same error as u guys did, that is, i got it after i upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.4. do u think that same fix'll still work for me ? i dont feel too comfortable removing some lines from my init.d/network because though i get those error messages, my box is still working

mindcraft

i think i typed something else, thats www.mindcraft.com

on mindcraft benchmarks

i really think this is funny ... i checked on www.mindcraft.com and the 1st 4 headlines basically says : 1. WindowsNT Server Outperforms Linux 2. ... duh ... 3. M$ NT is 25.5% faster then novell netware 5 4. M$ NT server is 4 is 4 times faster as a web server than solaris w/ sun web s

proftpd confusion

hello everyone ! i use proftpd (just upgraded to the one by netgod) and i have observed that if I use windoze's command line ftp client (login anonymous) i can successfully see/download files from /home/ftp but, when i use other graphical ftp browsers like netscape or ftp explorer, i get nothi

exim mailer and QPOP

hello everyone ! i just finished configuring DNS, exim and QPOP. i can successfully send and receive email from it (thats what im doing here) but only when i telnet to my server. when i check my email from another machine however, that is, a winblows machine using eudora or netscape, i can o

in-addr.arpa registration

i was wondering if someone can help/give me guidelines on what do i do to register a block for reverse IP queries/reverse domain, my case is, a friend asked me why they can never do reverse lookups on their IP's (they own the whole block, i.e. 208.162.24.*) and i found out that when I do _$ nsl

Re: A couple of simple questions... I think

cookies are sent to you as you browse thru diff websites and are saved in ur home directory On 1/9/99, at 12:56 AM, Brant Wells wrote: >Howdy All... > >1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am >not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? cookies are sent to you as

Re: remote xterm problems

Stan, i'm sorry i sent the 1st email too soon w/o even thinking, anyway, if you're using bash and a few other shells, you have to do an $export TERM=vt100 if you're using csh or tcsh, do a $set TERM=vt100 merry christmas everyone ! Chad > When runing a remote xterm on a non-Debian bo

[Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page and some of you might be intersted in reading it. Cheers, Chad This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The hos