Credit Card Debian CD image with Telemetry Software(diagnostic stuff)

2000-06-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
http://openrock.net has completed a project to produce an installable debian CD image fitting on a Credit Card. Check it out. The 50MB iso can be used to install a Debian System with most of the usual features anywhere. Just keep it in your purse. Can even be used to install servers since it inclu

Re: siteROCK looking for Debian / Linux specialists (Bay Area)

2000-02-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Oww. Need to talk with our Marketing dep. Thanks. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Schweikert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:54:43AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > siteROCK is the company specializing in reliability and performance of > > e-commerce sites (http://w

siteROCK looking for Debian / Linux specialists (Bay Area)

2000-02-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
look at our new web site! Christoph Lameter Architect & Open Source Ambassador at siteROCK Boardmember Linux International Long-term Debian developer Adjunct Professor University of Phoenix

Re: [pann@ourmanpann.com: Incoming PPP, slink]

2000-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > The Win95 box sees only itself and the server---it can't reach any other > boxes on the ethernet network. The reverse is also true---the server can > ping the Win95 box when it's connected but none of the other boxes on > the network (either Win95 or Linux

A philosophical investigation of Linux Communities

2000-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
This might be slightly off topic but have a look at Ko's writing -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 23:27:14 -0800 From: Ko Kuwabara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: my thesis on linux First of all, thank you very

Interviews for Debian positions at the LWE in New York

2000-01-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is looking for more Debian developers and persons with skills in web site design and implementation. Offering competitive wage in the Bay Area. Stock-Options, Quarterly Bonuses and Hiring Bonus. We are located in Emeryville which is *not* directly in San Jose but the North Bay

Do Linux full-time... Hiring Linux specialists

1999-12-17 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is still having two open positions for Linux developers. Offering competitive pay, stockoptions and moving bonus. We are in the business of monitoring eCommerce applications and are developing a sophisticated solution for that purpose. IPO expected next year. Debian/Linux S

Linux Developers/Web people needed for Bay Area Startup

1999-11-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
Captech ise offering eCommerce diagnostic solutions and are looking to expand our team in preparation for the anticipated IPO next year. We are using Debian/Linux and have several Debian people on staff. We pay competitive wages and provide excellent benefits. 2 Web Developers. Develop Web applica

News Gateway for debian mailing lists to linux.*

1999-11-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Work is going on to get the news gateway functional again. Sorry I was hired by another company and did not have time to migrate the gateway yet. Talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any further comments or to apply for feeds of linux.* -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1

Linux developers for Bay Area startup

1999-11-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is still having two open positions for Linux developers. Offering competitive pay, stockoptions and moving bonus. We are in the business of monitoring eCommerce applications and are developing a sophisticated solution for that purpose. Debian/Linux Software Developer

Hiring Linux Developers and Specialists in the Bay Area

1999-10-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
Work for a Silicon Valley startup deploying and developing a solution based on Debian/Linux for eCommerce diagnostics. - Stockoptions - Moving Bonus - Competitive pay Information about Capital Technologies can be found at http://www.captech.com. Capital Technologies is an active supporter of Linu

Linux Web developers wanted for the Bay Area by Capital Technologies

1999-10-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is using Debian/Linux extensively and is looking to increase its team of people working with Debian/Linux to design an eCommerce monitoring system. We are looking for a Senior person and one or two junior positions. The emotional center of our offering is our customer web site

Captech is looking for a Technical Writer

1999-10-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
http://www.captech.com/jobs/tech_writer.html Captech is using Debian/Linux and has hired a number of Debian developers. Note that it says "Local applicants only" in the URL. Contact me if you are not in the Bay Area. We might find a way.

Wanting to Hire Linux Developer

1999-10-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Title: Linux Developer Job Description: Develop and maintain Debian packages related to our solution within the standard Debian distribution as well as on our opensource site (http://opensource.captech.com) as well as on our private archives. Deploy and configure Debian/Linux systems. Setup and c

SSMTP use for ISP email.

1999-09-15 Thread Christoph Lameter
I think this should make the message go into the archives and thus you will have some publicly available info re ssmtp. Thanks for the flowers ;-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:43:22 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and make it difficult for people to access information about the project then that is your problem. The gateway was set up after approval by Bruce. On We

Packages available for expert maintainers or newbies

1997-11-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
The following packages need some work to be done and I dont get around to do it. They need someone with expertise: knfsKernel NFS tools (Difficult to build under libc6) (experimental) omirr Online Mirror Tool (Difficult to build under libc6) debmake Important package building tool. Backward

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
This phenomenon is due to the strict RFC conformity of exim. smartlist generates a header with Resent-From but no Resent-To. To comply with some RFC exim will insert a Resent-To header (I got that from Phil a while back). This is known to the smartlist people and the examples for Smartlist mention

Remove gpc gpc-doc isite libgpc2 pash adbbs

1997-10-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
I have given up trying to find a maintainer for the packages listed. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:19:45 -0800 From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ftp.debian.org: Orphan gpc gpc-doc isite libgpc2 pash adbbs P

Re: VIA Chipsets and Linux

1997-10-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
I am running a VP2 with a Cyrix 200 CPU. It does IDE busmastering beautifully under 2.1.59. I got this 5 months ago and sent information regarding the PCI Ids of the Mobo to the PCI maintainer. Now all kernels recognize the VIA hardware very well. 2.0.X does not support Busmastering IDE transfers a

Last call for adbbs before I give up on it.

1997-10-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
adbbs is a bbs package based on perl. There is some screwup with the ReadKey library in the current relase that I do not seem to be able to fix. To my knowledge this is the only bbs package we have in the distribution. If someone is willing to take over the package then please write me an e-mail

Figuring out the fasted mirror for you

1997-09-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
Here is a small script that finds the 10 fastest debian mirrors for you. Just put the README.mirrors from the ftp sites in your current directory. Then run the script: #!/bin/sh # Script to figure out the fastest Debian mirror sites grep "\..*:/" README.mirrors| awk '{ print $1 };' | \ awk -F: '{

Re: problem with gpc

1997-09-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Ok. Last call for a maintainer for gpc. Almost a year ago someone else took it over and nothing was done. I am going to remove the package since it will be included in future egcs releases anyways if no one is willing to maintain the package. The fix for the bug is described in the bug archives fo

Re: Exim-error: What does this mean?

1997-08-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
/etc/aliases must not be group or world writable and be owned by the correct user. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Can somebody help me to configure my exim please. There was no : responses after a previous request. : I have a dialup ppp-connection to an ISP. Incoming mail works wit

Re: inetd.tab/exim

1997-08-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : The exim package aparently doesn't add a line in the inetd.tab to load : exim. What should I have in this file? File a bug against the smail package. It does not clean up inetd.conf on deinstallation. Exim will not overwrite an existing configured maile

Re: about the gpc package

1997-08-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
Look at the bug reports for the gpc package on www.debian.org for a fix . The one who took over the package has vanished appearantly. Anyone volunteering to maintain the package? On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, nik w wrote: >I am unable to compile schtuff with gpc, namely: > >godg# pwd >/usr/doc/gpc/example

Re: PPP with multiple numbers and getting modem status

1997-08-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
Forwarding this to the current ppp maintainer. On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >[ request to dial multiple numbers to connect to an isp ] > >> I have not tackled this problem, but I think a perl script would be the >> way to go. I am not a perl programmer, so when I wanted a script

SO_BINDTODEVICE patch for 2.0.30

1997-08-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Due to popular demand here a post of the SO_BINDTODEVICE patch. It will enable the dhcpd package for Debian to serve multiple Network Cards. Patch and more information can be found at: http://gunpowder.Stanford.EDU/software/LinuxChanges.html On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Trent Johnson wrote: >Hi, > >Coul

Re: dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2 - kernel 2.0.31?

1997-08-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
2.0.31-pre2 for example On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > >>It looks like I have to retract that change. Linus has released another >>pre patch for 2.0.31 today without the SO_B

Re: dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2 - kernel 2.0.31?

1997-08-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
It looks like I have to retract that change. Linus has released another pre patch for 2.0.31 today without the SO_BINDTODEVICE patches. You can find the necessary patches at www.linuxhq.com. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: : > :

Re: IRC bug ?

1997-08-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
Take over irc. No problem with me. On 3 Aug 1997, James Troup wrote: >Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Found this message in BUGTRAQ, not sure if it has been seen here >> yet... > >I already forwarded this to the bug tracking system, but the bug >tracking system is down along with

Re: dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2 - kernel 2.0.31?

1997-08-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
: I wanted to upgrade my DHCP daemon to the latest upstream version : that is already packaged in Hamm (dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2). However, : the package says that it won't work with kernels <= 2.0.30 so : it needs at least 2.0.31. : How come this happens when 2.0.31 hasn't been released yet? Is it : a mi

Re: boa and security

1997-07-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
Right now the only way I can see is to use the build in linux firewall to restrict access. File a bug report against boa. The author might be willing to work on that. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Hi : A quick boa question. I would like to run boa as our web server on our : termi

Debian News Gateway at news.fuller.edu

1997-06-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
A one way Gateway has been set up a while ago at news.fuller.edu. It takes mailing list traffic from Debian Mailing lists and puts it into the linux.debian.* groups. Posting into the usenet groups is not sent back to the linux.debian.* groups to keep mailing lists clear from Usenet junk. news.full

Re: turning shadow on

1997-06-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
My last experiences on that issue: You need to have X installed otherwise shadowconfig on will fail because it expects to modify an X configuration file. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: : > Hi, : > : > I've upgraded from 1.2

Re: Smail and spammers

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Sun, 22 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: >On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > >> Upgrade to exim which has extensive spam prevention mechanisms and filters >> build in. >> > >I hope to install a unique system this week that uses exim to handle email >t

Re: Smail and spammers

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Upgrade to exim which has extensive spam prevention mechanisms and filters build in. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to : distribute spam? : From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a : compuserve a

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors : doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% : non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run : it I get this error: : bash# defra

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Those packages are in the non-free or contrib sections which are usually not included on CD-Rom. Try ftp.debian.org. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Two questions: : I'm trying to set up a Debian system using a disk from Cheap*Bytes : (part of their 5-disk set). dselect says for a c

Re: rsh or ssh and authorization over a masqueraded connection.

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 9 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: >Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You need to run keygen and then put your public key on the host you >> want to reach. Get rid of the .shosts file and the pain of >> passwords is gone. You can put your private

Re: rsh or ssh and authorization over a masqueraded connection.

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Use RSA User authentication instead of RSA Host authentication. You need to run keygen and then put your public key on the host you want to reach. Get rid of the .shosts file and the pain of passwords is gone. You can put your private key on any account you want to use to connect from. In artic

Looking for New Maintainers

1997-06-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
I am listed as the maintainer of the following packages in the distribution. These are available for other maintainers. I would especially welcome if someone who wants to become a debian developer would take a package or two. All packages have been done using debmake and should be easy to handle.

Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed

1997-05-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Those tools are in the adpkg package... But that package also has an experimental version of dpkg in it. I will put it back somehow. If you have access to an earlier version of adpkg then get that. On Sat, 10 May 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: >There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2de

Re: NIS problem, please Help

1997-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
Richard Zoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, : : we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, : it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. : We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd and 2 hundreds more in group) : : Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time,

Re: Poppasswd

1996-12-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
Did they release a new version? On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Roy C Bixler wrote: rcb >> rcb >My configuration is Debian 1.2 stable (poppasswd_1.2-4) and Eudora Pro v. rcb >> rcb >3.0 flailing away on Windoze '95. The connection just hangs after I rcb >> rcb >specify the new password for the second time

Re: Poppasswd

1996-12-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
I do not follow debian-user. Sorry I dont know the full context of the message here. Poppassd uses the passwd program to change passwords. If the password is not accepted then Eudora usually gives an error message. That is at least the behavior when connected to our Internet Servers running poppas

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? : Caldera's web page kind of says "maybe". : : I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without : booting up DOS/Windows. : : I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume that W

Re: Hylafax packages?

1996-11-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
Dermot Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: : : > You mentioned that one of your hylafax packages conflicts with mgetty - are : > you working on fixing that? : : It has been suggested that I use "diversions" to handle the conflict. : Anyone got a example

Re: Hylafax packages?

1996-11-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Ok. I will put the fax related files in a separate package mgetty-fax (and the voice part in mgetty-voice). Thus hylafax should conflict with mgetty-fax . On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: bradley >On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: bradley > bradley >> Wha

Re: Hylafax packages?

1996-11-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
What is exactly conflicting? On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: bradley >On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: bradley > bradley >> You mentioned that one of your hylafax packages conflicts with mgetty - are bradley >> you working on fixing that? bradley > bradley >It has been suggeste

Re: Hylafax packages?

1996-11-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
It would probably be good to split mgetty into mgetty mgetty-fax mgetty-voice mgetty-doc That does not solve the problem with accepting incoming faxes though. Although hylaxfax does have something to offer in this regard. I have no idea how to integrate that. I have no experience with multi-bin

Re: Is there a .deb package for Netscape ?

1996-11-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : sun\bject line pretty much says it all. I like the debian : install mechanisim! Yes. There is. Why do you ask? Look on the ftp site. Debian has more than 800 packages in rex which is soon to be released. You are bound to find almost everything you can

Re: Red Hat Package Manager debianized

1996-10-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
The debmake package has now added functionality to install Red Hat and Slackware packages using dpkg and thus entering information about those packages into the debian packaging system. On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: moffatt >> Redhat. So I sought for a way to install RedHat packages

Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))

1996-10-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
Pete Harlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : > In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an : > outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY : > running, if I dial out with something like Minicom. : : This is because they're not putting their lock

Re: xinetd

1996-10-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: borik >Since i've noticed that there is no xinetd pkg for debian, i thought borik >that i can maintain it. I really like to have it. But I wonder how the debian scripts for the maintenance ("update-inetd") of inetd.conf will fare with the diff

Re: dosemu_0.64.0.2-3_i386.changes

1996-10-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Joey Hess wrote: joey>I installed this dosemu package, and just installing it locked my system joey>up. I had to hit reset, and clean up all the errors on my filesystem that joey>cropped up. What kernel version are you running and what version of the standard library? {}{}{}{}

Re: shadow for debian

1996-10-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Ricardo Kleemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does debian have a shadow package which would simplify installation of : shadow? Or do I have to install it manually? I still have a lot of reservations about using shadow. The only way that it would make sense is if you are restricted to just using o

Re: Linux SMP

1996-10-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
Ricardo Kleemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hi guys... : : I'm wondering if attempting to use Linux-SMP is any good. Afterall, for : real efficiency, don't the programs/daemons/utilities have to be designed : in such a way that they'll make use of SMP capabilities? The operating systems nature

Re: is there a dhcp client package?

1996-10-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
That is not available. Perhaps you could put it together? Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I see the dhcpd server package, but has a dhcp client been made into a : debian package? I have to set up a computer that will use dhcp to : configure it's networking, and was hoping for a debian packa

Re: Netatalk borke in 2.06 to 2.0.20???

1996-09-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
Netatalk is fine here with 2.0.21 2.0.18 2.0.14 etc. Reinstall the newest *deb module with netatalk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hello all. Netatalk does not seem to be functioning on my system since : upgrading to kernel 2.0.6. I upgraded to 2.0.20 to see if it would come back. : Everything load

Re: vgetty as answering machine

1996-09-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
You might have an old version of the mgetty package which did not include all docs. Get the newest mgetty-0.99 from rex. Heiko Schlittermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Martin Schulze wrote: : : : : Good evening folks, : : : : I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough

Master.debian.org down yggdrasil.com down ...

1996-09-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
master.debian.org is down since Sunday. Any plans to bring it back up? yggdrasil.com is also down (Even the DNS Servers are not reachable!) and is the gateway from the usnet linux.debian.user group to the mailing list. Can we establish alternate gateways so that at least the usenet groups will sti

Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection

1996-09-13 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote: dlc>> I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP dlc>> routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all dlc>> routing information sent from the PPP link. dlc> dlc>I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing dlc>protocols as muc

Re: apache package

1996-09-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
Bernard Leach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the : apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked : it up and if there is a 1.1 version. A debian apache 1.1.1 is available on ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian/apache This packe will be rem

Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection

1996-09-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
David L. Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I was very unhappy to see this nice explanation ignore the : perils of IP routing between the ISP and internal networks. : Does anyone suppose its original source could be located so : at least a paragraph could be inserted warning of the danger : and rec

Re: how to sign up to debian-devel?

1996-09-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Same here. Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : : > : > I have the same problem here ! : > I you find out, email me please. : > : > Phil. : > : > : : Same problem here also. Do I sense a pattern? : : - Jim : :

FVW95 anyone?

1996-09-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
Is anyone working on getting fvwm95 debianized? I have a halfway working package and I wonder if its worth the effort to finish it since I saw some discussion about other people working on it.

Pine & other non-free packages

1996-09-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
: BTW, should I go hunting for a Pine debian package or just go and compile : it myself? I couldn't find it on my cdrom with Debian 1.1.4... :/ : Is it a licensing problem or finding a maintainer problem? Its a licensing problem. The debian packages are in the non-free section on ftp.debian.org or

Experimental DHCPD package

1996-08-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
The only thing you have to do is to customize the /etc/dhcpd.conf file a bit to get it going on your machine. (That is if it works for you) Available at ftp://ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian/dhcpd* Please report back to me your experiences. If some people run it successfully then I will submit it

Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-08-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >I think we should do the following. : > : >1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to : > comp.os.linux.* : : No, *pl

Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-08-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
I think we should do the following. 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to comp.os.linux.* 2. reorganize the linux.* groups to throw obsolete things out. 3. Make all groups non-moderated. The current setup is a major speed problem. Anyone who wants newsgroup access to

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
Here (news.fuller.edu). We have free NNTP access worldwide to the comp.os.linux and the linux.* hierachies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: : > : > > > A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put : > > > Debian list on news groups? : > >

Re: mgetty basic setup

1996-08-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
Please read the documentation provided. (man mgetty and look into /usr/doc/mgetty!) Have no idea why it did not install the configuration files. Worked on my system when tested before being released. Your Slackware frustration is understandable! Getting used to consistent file location also took

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-27 Thread Christoph Lameter
Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >?? Why double the work. This was an ad for the debianized version. : : Oh I am sorry. I misunderstood. I've been keeping a debianized versi

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
?? Why double the work. This was an ad for the debianized version. On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: miquels>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: miquels>>For all those who run the beta version of squid in unstable: There is miquels>>the release 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: dwarf>On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: dwarf> dwarf>> Seems that the man package cannot cope with some screwups of the dpkg dwarf>> updates. dwarf>> dwarf>Sounds like you upgraded to an experimental version of dpkg.

Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
For all those who run the beta version of squid in unstable: There is the release 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian. I tried to contact the author but no response meanwhile our Webcahce was crashing every other day. If you are in the same boat...

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-25 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: dwarf>I've got the same version. I get: dwarf> dwarf>$ man -kr xx dwarf>xxgdb (1x) - X window system interface to the gdb debugger. dwarf> dwarf>However, most of my man pages are in /usr/man not /usr/local/man. Try dwarf>running mandb on /usr/man

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : : > : > When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : > man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : > Any ideas on how to fix this? : > : Need more informati

Re: "man" crashes

1996-08-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Same problem here. Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : Any ideas on how to fix this? : : : thanks : hamish :

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Jim Worthington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I tried copying the /etc/passwd file from a Sun workstation to a Linux : machine in order to create common user accounts. Use NIS. Copying /etc/passwd can cause a lot of problems keeping it up to date. : : Linux, however would not decrypt the Sun pas

StarOffice install script (No Motif)

1996-08-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Download the staroffice package into some directory and put the following script there. Run it as superuser and Staroffice will install without Motif libraries: starinst: #!/bin/sh # Prepare Star Office for Non Motif installation mkdir temp cd temp # Extract Libraries needed for installation unzi

Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the : following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting : overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1 : and kernel 2.0.6), there a

Re: ftape format warning!!!

1996-08-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
: : There were only two sessions on my tape. Sadly, the second session : contained the /usr filesystem, so I lost everything :( Rejoice! you did not lose anything! Just reinstall and restore what you have. All stuff in usr are executables and other read-only stuff as per FSSTND. (except if you h

StarOffice under Debian

1996-08-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Is anyone running StarOffice under Debian? If so how and where did you get the Motif Libraries?

Re: NFS module insertion failed

1996-08-15 Thread Christoph Lameter
Again: Why is the broken installation disk not taken off ftp.debian.org? This is a very ugly trap to run into as a newbie. : This topic has been in the list lately. Until a new version of the : kernel image package is available, you have two options. : : 1) Recompile the kernel using the kernel-s

Re: nfs.o module in version 2.0.6

1996-08-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
Why has this been on the ftp site for weeks now? NFS installation is all we do around here and the "fixed" version is one that does not work. Mr A Birdi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : : Dear users, : : This is in reply to some of the queries regarding the nfs module in : version 2.0.6 of the ke

How to upgrade a running Slack 3.0 Server to Debian 1.1 (Instructions here)

1996-08-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Updated Instructions!!! Howto Upgrade a Running Slackware 3.0 System to Debian 1.1 -- I have the problem that our main server has to be up almost 24hrs a day but yet I need to switch to Debian since Slackware is becomming badly outdated. Her

Re: problems with inn: ME cant update_active nl.misc

1996-08-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
Do a renumber that usually fixes your high water marks (which seem to be wrong in this case). MMAP on linux works just fine. Andre Koopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, : : I have installed debian at my home-site, and now I am trying to get a newsfeed : to my home. : : I have set up all fil

IRCD / SmartList / xfishtank available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
We got some more packages debianized. Here is the current list of unique debian packages at ftp.fuller.edu: In this directory you will find new packages that are not yet in the standard debian distribution. mgetty-0.99-1 Adds PPP autodetect to mgetty. ppp-2.2.0fx-1 Adds Remote configuration a

Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?

1996-08-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: > On 2 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Planned .deb package from our site (Please tell us if this is anywhere > > already available!) We are running a full Campus Setup here and we will > > produce the followin

How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?

1996-08-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
We needed to produce some .deb packages when our site began utilizing debian. We would like to offer them to the public, but we cannot find a way to submit them anywhere. Could someone please tell us what to do? The documentation on how to submit packages or become an official maintainer are in