Re: Stupid newbie questions.

2000-10-21 Thread George Bonser
> 2. What does debian use to tell it what window manager is default? I > want window maker to be default. pod:/etc/alternatives# ls -l x-window-manager lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Sep 7 15:09 x-window-manager -> /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker Make /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager a sym

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread George Bonser
I think I remember that there was a set6x86 package that set some CPU registers on the Cyrix processors and made them run cooler. On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen > distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports.

Re: DNS problem

2000-10-14 Thread George Bonser
Been reading RFC2317, eh? It might be freaking out because if the CNAME domain. Try this and see if it fixes it: perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. IN NS NS2.perens.com. 186.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa.IN CNAME 186.perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. Then you master perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. an

Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-13 Thread George Bonser
Well, since MS bought non-voting stock, I don't expect there to be a big problem. It isn't like MS is going to use its position to vote people onto the board of directors or anything. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dr. Orange wrote: > > This is probably more appropriate to "devel" but anyhow, any reacti

Re: pronounce

2000-10-11 Thread George Bonser
People are apt to pronounce it in different ways, I suppose, but I tend to say it just like it is spelled and as it would be would be pronounced as a word used in the above context. On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Yuji Toyoda wrote: > Simple question. How do you pronounce "apt-get"? > Especially I'd like

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

2000-10-05 Thread George Bonser
> > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > takers? > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool!

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread George Bonser
> things are more like they used to be than they are now. Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here.

Re: Re[1] RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread George Bonser
> Current kernel: 2.2.17 > If I don't add the 'append' line to lilo.conf and run > /sbin/lilo after rebooting, a cat /proc/meminfo will > display that I have 64MB of RAM when 192MB are physically > installed. Hmmm, are you SURE? Maybe you dont HAVE more that 64MB even though you THINK you do. I

Re: RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread George Bonser
> > The strangest thing is that the systems worked just fine > with 192MB installed but without the correct "append" line > in lilo.conf. > Which kernel are you running? Remove the line from lilo.conf, rerun lilo, reboot and see what cat /proc/meminfo says. If you are running 2.2-Linux or bet

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > DUH!, stop and restart bind > > great teaching tool, that one syllable: "duh!" > > cool. so i suppose that somehow i restarted named/bind > when i'd tinkered with the tunl0 gadget? > > i don't recall having done so, but considering > lsof | grep 1.2.3.4 > you'd think i'd've concluded

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> reasonable guess, thanks for the try: > > # rmmod ipip > # ip tunnel ls > sit0: ipv6/ip remote any local any ttl 64 nopmtudisc > gre0: gre/ip remote any local any ttl inherit nopmtudisc > dave: gre/ip remote 208.7.139.219 local 208.33.90.85 ttl 255 > > g

Re: tunnel gizmo won't die

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> # ifconfig tunl0 down > # ip tunnel del dev tunl0 > ioctl: No such device > # ifconfig tunl0 > tunl0 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr > inet addr:1.2.3.4 Mask:255.255.255.255 > NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >

Re: How to handle exim frozen messages?

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
exim -Mt t means thaw. On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > Due to the problems that were seen in the last few days with unstable I have > lots of messages in /var/spool/exim/input. I believe all those messages are > seen in /var/log/exim/mainlog as frozen. My question is how to handle

Re: flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> And I switched to the MAPS anti-spam lists after I found out that they > were blocking entire networks who were blocking the very aggressive ORBS > relay tester ie above.net, who hosts a very important mailing list called > BugTraq, and a company called RoadRunner, who is becoming of one of the >

RE: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > i guess the trick questionis did that guy get in...or was it just > a failed attempt > - again some people say check your binaries against the cdrom > installs ALWAYS add security.debian.org to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and do an update after the CDROM install. This

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? One more ... c. intimidated by the brain-dead idiots at ORBS

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote: > Another update to myself and others that may want this information: > > This update concerns traceroute. If I added the following rules I can now > traceroute to anywhere, but traceroutes to me fail: > > $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-excee

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > The "ip neigh {add|del|change|replace} ..." sequence? Yeah. Look in /usr/share/doc/iproute and print off one of the cref (command reference) docs (note the .ps file wants A4 paper) > > > Problem is that it burns another external IP address. > > Um... not good. Well, yeah. That is the thin

Re: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> So, do you think my machine has been cracked? It looks as though they've > been trying to cover their tracks, but not doing it very well. If it is a > crack, what can I do about it apart from wiping the machine and rebuilding > from the ground up? wiping and rebuilding is the safest thing to do.

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> The problem is, as I said before, kernel 2.2 doesn't like to do NAT on IP > protocols other than TCP and UDP. Almost true. Using the iproute2 tools, you can do a static NAT of an inside box to outside. You can then use standard packet filter firewall rules to block various ports you don't want a

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by > region. They don't do it here (Denver, Colorado). Perhaps this is > because DSL is so easily available :} One interesting thing that many providers are doing is not allowing any VPN traffic. If you want to "telecommute" and wo

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> My cable provider has a "no servers" policy for their standard accounts > (if you want to run servers, you need to pay more). To enforce this, > they seem to scan their new customers. The first few weeks after I > signed up, they scanned me daily. It has stopped now, so I guess I'll be > able to

Re: oops

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
But I WAS quick to point out my error. Sorry about that but I also tried to respond as soon as I knew I was in error. Please check the times on the messages. On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring loaded" to blame libc at > > this point fo

IGNORE latest libc does NOT fix everything

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
My bad ... jumped the gun.

oops

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
I guess I should have looked at it for more than three seconds :-) Those errors were from a kill sent to exim when it was stopped and restarted. I have a ton of connections to a site that is down right now and these got logged when exim shut down. Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring lo

latest libc does NOT fix everything

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
Exim is still broken. As a matter of fact, I had it working until I loaded the latest libc tonite: I have a bazillion of these in my exim paniclog: 2000-09-30 21:25:09 queue run: process 31436 crashed with signal 15 while delivering 13dnoh-xq-00

Re: machines (ii)

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
> > Do you have a link or know of a good book that describes how to do this? I'd > love to give this a try at my house. > > Jesse Well, I would first look at the CD-Writing-HOWTO which has some basic stuff on creating CDROMs and some information on making bootable CDs. Then I would direct yo

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
> > All my information dates from approximately 1997. At the time there were > many T1 cards with integrated CSU/DSU's in development, but I didn't > consider any of them quite ready for prime time yet. You might be able to > save more money by finding one of them. Sangoma makes a capable T1 ca

Re: machines (ii)

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server > -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine? >(please explain how dumb it is, if so) > > How much power would I need (CPU/RAM/HD) to make it (or each of them) > w

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them > what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on > your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 series for t1s. The 1600's are several hundreds of dollars

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
> > Anyway, I have not done this before... maybe someone could point me in the > direction of a list of hardware needed.. CSU/DSU, routers, etc... > Thanks, > Jack Well, You can get a small Cisco router, say a 1600 series with a WIC card that has an integrated CSU/DSU. You just plug the T1 line

Re: Maillist vs. newsgroup

2000-09-28 Thread George Bonser
Posts to the mailing list will show up in the newsgroup but newsgroup posts do not show up in the mailing list. On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, jeff wrote: > Is the debian-user maillist identical to the linux.debian.user newsgroup? > In other words, will posts and followups posted on either one show up i

Re: ldconfig

2000-09-28 Thread George Bonser
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, montefin wrote: > Why do I feel like I have dodged a thermonuclear woody melt-down? > > montefin Oh, this is NOTHING compared to Potato and its perl package fun. It's what keeps us learning :-)

Re: apt and perl

2000-09-27 Thread George Bonser
> > /usr/bin/perl: error loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3 not > found Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. > > Yet when I type "locate libdb.so.3", it says that /usr/lib/libdb.so.3 > exists!! I certainly can't install any package to fix it, since I > can't instal

Re: sparc boxes

2000-09-27 Thread George Bonser
Ultra-5's are 64-bit. You can find them on E-Bay. Saw some nearly new ones in my local newspaper going for US$ 2K On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I've noticed that older sparc boxes are going for > reasonable prices on ebay. I've been running Debian > on Intel HW for sometime now

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

2000-09-27 Thread George Bonser
> 1) They're replying to the list, rather than to the x-envelope > sender... whats the difference between my.netvigatr.com errors and these > virus warnings? Well, NOTHING is going to send anything to any x- header address. They MIGHT send something to an Errors-To: header but SHOULD send t

Re: apt-get upgrade broke apache

2000-09-27 Thread George Bonser
> > Is this just par for the course when running woody stuff? Occasionally stuff > breaks for a while? I do not know what mod_rewrite.so does, but I commented > it > out and the server came up. Any ideas on what to do to find out what broke > and how to fix it? Yeah, I never take a libc upgra

Re: Secondary mailserver

2000-09-26 Thread George Bonser
In your /etc/exim.conf there is an item like this: relay_domains_include_local_mx make sure it looks like this: relay_domains_include_local_mx = true and that should fix the problem. On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Hello. > > How do I set up my debian-system to act as a secon

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread George Bonser
As a general rule, you do not want to allow regular users to shut the system down but if you are at the console ... have you tried control-alt-delete? On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jörg wrote: > Hi > > I'm using Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 and the Helix-Gnome desktop. The problem > is, that the 'gshutdown' p

Re: mouse moving

2000-09-26 Thread George Bonser
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to > >focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy > >focus&qu

Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?

2000-09-25 Thread George Bonser
I think it depends on the X server you are using. Some of the servers play well with GPM, some do not. On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Steve Juranich wrote: > I was able to trace down a problem with my mouse (it was dead) back to gpm. > It seems that gpm was being a bully and wouldn't let X play with the

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-25 Thread George Bonser
Well, most will require that you build them from source with your current kernel source tree someplace ( or at least access to the kernel-headers package for the kernel you are running ). Debian has a CIPE package in non-us (or did) but I think it is a source package, you need to build it. Woody

Re: mouse moving

2000-09-25 Thread George Bonser
It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy focus" where focus does not leave a window unless the cursor rests on a new window for some period of time. Which window manager ( e.g. WindowMaker, FVWM, et

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Dexter Graphic wrote: > There used to be computer called "the Brick" which was about > that size and filed with a gel that conducted heat to the > outside. It was black and just radiated the heat away with no > fans or noise. Also, I've seen a prototype super-fast CPU > that

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
To clarify my last response. Lets say you have a windows workstation with Eudora. It keeps its own outbox, inbox and folders. ssmtp allows you do so much the same thing with a Unix workstation. You set up your mail client ... say ... xfmail ... to pull the mail from your pop3 account and to send

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
Probably not. What you probably should do in your case is to tell exim to listen only to 127.0.0.1. ssmtp is not designed to store mail locally on the system. It moves responsiblity for storing local mail to the MUA. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jose Marin wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, George Bon

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
Maybe the correct answer for this user is not to use exim at all but to use ssmtp which is, I think, the tool designed for this job. >From the package description: A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mailhub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous th

Re: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
> > here. > > Yep, those work for me too. The www.3com.com site is rather amusing. > > -- > Andrew I found the source of the problem ... I had turned on the "Explicit Congestion Notification" option in the networking options of the 2.4-test8 kernel. There was no help available on this option

Re: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
> Well, I just quickly checked both sites you mentioned. No problem from > my little ol' dial-up account. > > Anyway, how the firewall responds to what it believes to be a malformed > packet is specific to the config. One just out 'n out drops it, while > another says 'Screw that junk, you're ou

Re: Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
> There was a report at linuxtoday.com about a newly support IP header bit > that indicates a congested network. Anyway, turns out if this bit is > set, many prominent web sites will drop the IP packets. The idea is, > the system can throttle packet sending to reduce drops/resends. I > forgot t

Can anyone else verify this ???

2000-09-16 Thread George Bonser
Using kernel 2.4-pre8 I can not access www.ibm.com or www.cdw.com yet can access many other sites without problem. If I reboot into 2.2.17, I can access the sites just fine. My reason for asking here is to do a quick poll of other Linux users who MIGHT be using the 2.4-pre kernels before I say a

Re: kernel 2.4.0

2000-09-14 Thread George Bonser
modconf will not work at all so if you rely on it to select boot-time modules, you are going to have to edit the modules files by hand. Note that modprope works fine ... just the Debian modconf script can not handle the structure of the new /lib/modules/`uname -r` directory in 2.4 Otherwise ...

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-14 Thread George Bonser
Shoot, I ran from Buzz to Potato on one system until its disk died. Never even rebooted except when the power failed. On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:59:01PM -0300 or thereabouts, Ariel Manzur wrote: > > >How about the fact that it's more stable and doesn't n

Re: VPN

2000-09-12 Thread George Bonser
Might try CIPE On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote: > i'm doing debian VPN research for a red-hat fan. hopefully > we'll get another 'sale' under our belts shortly... > > short version: if i've got ipmasq (which i do) working, > can i conjure up a few more settings for VPN? if so, > how?

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread George Bonser
> > I'd take any sweeping generalization as to the stability of a distro > with a grain of salt, especially when I don't know if the one doing > the reporting has longtime and wide ranging experience with a number of > distributions on various hardware combinations. Having had some experiance wit

Re: FW: 2.4.0-test8 and ssh (OpenSSH_2.1.1): error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

2000-09-11 Thread George Bonser
Works fine here: chester:/tmp# ssh -l root localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Mon Sep 11 00:34:40 2000 from localhost on pts/4 Linux chester 2.4.0-test8 #1 SMP Sun Sep 10 16:06:26 PDT 2000 i686 unknown Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are freely re

Re: s...l...o...w... ppp xfers

2000-03-24 Thread George Bonser
burst... > then another pause... etc. (I am using an external modem that works fine in > windoze98). Am I looking at a buffer overflow or handshake problem? What > should I do to help diagnose this? Thanks! > > - Rick > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EM

Re: VPN

2000-03-24 Thread George Bonser
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I don't know if I can help you, but I'm just interested what software > do you use - > > FreeS/Wan (http://www.freeswan.org) (GPL'ed) or > > VPS2.0 (http://www.strongcrypto.com/) (which is GPL'ed but uses SSH1, so > there are problems with c

RE: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread George Bonser
asquerades the given source address to the outbound interface regardless of ip address. It just seems to be private addresses only from the documentaion since they assume that is what people will use it for. ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 07-Oc

RE: hd (?) light (red) always on

1999-10-06 Thread George Bonser
l -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Oct-99 Time: 19:32:18 If it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here! --

RE: dual celeron m/b

1999-10-06 Thread George Bonser
t; /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Oct-99 Time: 19:28:47 If it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here! --

RE: How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread George Bonser
and 1.2 respectively. > > * Is there anything like that in Debian? > > * Are they separate for jdk and jdk-dev? > > * Is is possible for each user on the system (via environment vars, I'd > guess) to pick which they want to use? > > Thanks in advance > >

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-30 Thread George Bonser
useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30-Sep-99 Time: 01:26:20 This message was sent by XFMail --

Re: tar

1999-09-27 Thread George Bonser
nd it seemed to include the files I excluded anyway. ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Sep-99 Time: 23:25:54 This message was sent by XFMail --

RE: Advansys Boot Disk

1999-09-25 Thread George Bonser
edback or particular device > support > you might want. I can build a new set in a short period of time. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25-Sep-99 Time: 02:21:28 This message was sent by XFMail --

RE: One Without The Other

1999-09-12 Thread George Bonser
You only REALLY need the first one. On 12-Sep-99 Allix Primus wrote: > So is it possible to just extract the first binary and install debian with > the minimum amount of software or is the second one required ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ E-Mail: G

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread George Bonser
the cards in the PCI bus and see if that helps. Just curious, why are you using the different drivers for the two cards? Can't they both use the same one? ---------- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Sep-99 Time: 18:47:13 This message was sent by XFMail --

RE: Help with exim -> Message frozen (fwd) ?

1999-09-11 Thread George Bonser
ocal host > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Sep-99 Time: 20:51:32 This message was sent by XFMail --

RE: filtering with exim

1999-09-06 Thread George Bonser
On 05-Sep-99 Mark R. Devlin wrote: > ># cut here # > if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel-changes@ > then > testprint $h_Subject: > if $h_Subject: matches "xxx" > then > save Mail/debian-changes-in > finish > else >

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread George Bonser
e to tell that there is something there that they are not allowed to access. They can simply adjust their activity from a different location to see if they can gain access to the rejected service. ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02-Sep-99 Time: 22:50:57 This message was sent by XFMail --

Re: I hate dselect

1999-02-01 Thread George Bonser
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > > So following another suggestion on this list, I went into dselect > and tried to put some stuff on Hold. Only thing is, dselect's > "Select" option sucks! sucks! sucks! > > Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect > I could figu

Re: Problem installing a package with dpkg

1998-07-09 Thread George Bonser
rwrite option like this: dpkg -i --force overwrite And that should do it. George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mai

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-08 Thread George Bonser
; THanks > -Paul If you are wanting the host assigned by DHCP to be reachable from the internet, yeah, you will need something to update your zone file and restart DNS. There are several DYNDNS packages around, sign up for the systalk mailing list at ml.org and make an inquiry there. George Bons

New Website

1998-07-08 Thread George Bonser
Just wanted to take a moment to let the Debian folks know that I think the new look of the website is a GREAT improvement! Good work, folks! George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/n

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-16 Thread George Bonser
*** > New Phone number +32 2 724 86 41 !!! > *** > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > George Bonser Ju

RE: gated dying

1998-03-16 Thread George Bonser
It looks like the kernel I was using is not configured for multicasting. On 16-Mar-98 George Bonser wrote: > It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following > complaint: > > task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol >

gated dying

1998-03-16 Thread George Bonser
system upgraded to libc6 but not completely upgraded to hamm. George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO U

routing daemons for debian

1998-03-15 Thread George Bonser
I am in need of a routing daemon capable of ospf. I notice that debian does not include gated. Is there an alternative package capable of this that I am overlooking? George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux

RE: Exim gone from Hamm?

1998-02-23 Thread George Bonser
I must have caught the site while they were moving thigs around. I see exim is back and is at a higher revision. On 22-Feb-98 George Bonser wrote: > > I just updated a local mirror of Debian and I noticed that while it did not > grab any new packages, it removed a few ... including

Exim gone from Hamm?

1998-02-22 Thread George Bonser
I just updated a local mirror of Debian and I noticed that while it did not grab any new packages, it removed a few ... including Exim. Is exim gone from Debian? I manually checked ftp.debian.org and sure enough, no exim in hamm. George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understan

Re: Full /usr/ partition

1998-02-22 Thread George Bonser
gt;> partition. Any suggestions? > > /usr/bin as one and /usr/lib as another? > > -- > Scott > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >

RE: FrameMaker

1998-02-22 Thread George Bonser
UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ..

RE: make-kpkg

1998-02-20 Thread George Bonser
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RE: Smail uucp file

1998-02-19 Thread George Bonser
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RE: Smail uucp file

1998-02-19 Thread George Bonser
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RE: [comp.os.linux.hardware] Oracle on Linux

1998-02-16 Thread George Bonser
manoj > -- > An executive will always return to work from lunch early if no one > takes him. > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> > Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E George Bonser

Re: Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread George Bonser
800, George Bonser wrote: > > For sound drivers, use the OSS commercial sound drivers. For $20, you > > can't beat it with a stick. > > But for most cards, you can beat it in value for money > with the free sound drivers in the kernel, in my experience > at least. >

RE: PPPD and CHAPMS

1997-12-15 Thread George Bonser
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Re: samba

1997-12-15 Thread George Bonser
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Re: setting up a cable-modem

1997-12-14 Thread George Bonser
On 14-Dec-97 Aaron Walker wrote: > The card is made by General Instruments. The TV cable does go into the back > of the > card. YIKES! That is ALL we need, RF interference problems from computers on the cable-TV circuit. The reason I was skeptical was that I was with a company desinging the p

Re: dtterm

1997-12-14 Thread George Bonser
Actually, simply copying the terminfo entry from the solaris machine to the debian machine worked. On 14-Dec-97 Oliver Elphick wrote: > George Bonser wrote: > > > >I take that back ... it does not work. Looks like I created a tercap type > >entry out of a terminfo d

RE: Mail Server?

1997-12-12 Thread George Bonser
If there is a second dedicated IP address, you would use MX records in the DNS to do it. Otherwise, if there is only one IP address, you can use rinetd. On 12-Dec-97 Robinet David Jeremy wrote: > > Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a > client across the borde

RE: AMD K6

1997-12-12 Thread George Bonser
I am running one on one of my machines ... no problems. On 12-Dec-97 Fenrick wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with running the K6 and > Debian Linux? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-ma

Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
On 11-Dec-97 Random wrote: > > I took a look at it. It seems fairly complete, but you can get the same > information from the HOWTO documents and the Debian FAQ. > > Corey The book is pretty handy if your internet connection is not set up yet ;) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

RE: Replacing smail w/exim

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
try dpkg -r --force remove-essential smail or dpkg -r --force depends smail but I think it is the first one. On 11-Dec-97 Randy Edwards wrote: > I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is > to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I > believe i

RE: smail to exim

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
The largest hurdle that you are going to face is getting smail off of your system so you can install exim. You are going to need to force dpkg to remove this essential package. I would wait a little while, the package in unstable is much better than the one in stable and a new upstream source re

Re: NNTPCACHE

1997-12-08 Thread George Bonser
On 08-Dec-97 A. M. Varon wrote: > > > NNTPCACHE is really a cool program. It's a proxy like squid, but instead > of proxying html, jpgs, etc., It proxies nntp newsgroups. It saves you > enormous bandwitdth just using this one. T

Re: printing

1997-12-08 Thread George Bonser
Sorry for misunderstanding the original post. I thought that he was looking for a tool that would find the printer and could tell what kind it was. :/ Yeah, magicfilterconfig does a nice job of it if you are using the standard lpr. It is a little quirky if you are using LPRng. On 07-Dec-97 Da

RE: printing

1997-12-07 Thread George Bonser
I think you are going to have to know what kind of printer you have and which port you connected it to. On 07-Dec-97 Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any tool anywhere where I can tell what printer do I have > and where is it and then the program takes care of everything, or do I > hav

Re: tar

1997-12-07 Thread George Bonser
Even if someone has noclobber set in their shell? On 07-Dec-97 Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Steve Koop wrote: > >> Just Was wondering how to, or what is the switch to untar a file to >> overwrite and replace the existing files? > > No switch required, tar automatically overwrit

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