Re: Netscape 4.75 problems

2000-09-06 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:20:04PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote > On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works > > fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape > > packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? >

Re: LILO-rific

2000-09-06 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:15:56PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote > Hello, > > Set boot to /dev/hda (the MBR) and your setup should work just fine. > > Tal > If you're really paranoid, you can use it as-is; you just have to use fdisk (linux or windows) to make /dev/hda3 (and only /dev/hda3) active/boo

ftp.debian.org Packages files

2000-09-02 Thread John Pearson
Hello! I notice that the Packages files for potato/main, potato/contrib and potato/non-free on ftp.debian.org were replaced recently; the new files don't work for me. In place of Filename: these copies have FileName: which doesn't work (at least, dpkg-deb doesn't recognize it). Is this the

Re: continuing upgrade after losing connection

2000-09-02 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:46:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > hi, I'm in the process of upgrading from slink to potato. I'm at the step > where i'm doing apt-get --feixbroken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade. My isp > is set up such that I only have a connection for up to 8 hours at a time. I > r

Re: Verifying my debs / suggestion for ISO downloads

2000-08-29 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:03:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > So I'm now on the point of downloading my potato. > > What's the Debian equivalent of a Redhat ? This command > is supposed to verify the package signatures (md5, pgp, gpg -- but I've gone > only as far as the md5). > > How do I

Re: your mail

2000-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:02:48PM +1000, W. & J. Simson wrote > Could you please tell me when daylight saving was reintroduced in Australia > Regards > Jeanette Simson The eastern states went 1 hour ahead at 2am today (Sunday Aug 27), presumably to maximise solar energy collections and sunblock

Re: no ppp compression even though pppstats says VJCOMP; new in potato

2000-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote > BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --text follows this line-- > > I don't seem to be getting any compression in ppp. > > Is there something extra I need to do in potato's ppp to fully > enable compression? >

Re: What is up with Debian 2.2 Potato ??

2000-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:45:34PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Nate Amsden wrote: > > > > I brought up a new virtual terminal and sure enough a > > > > uname -a shows kernel 2.2.12, but there is no /lib/modules/2.2.12 > > > > There is however a /lib/modules/2.2.17. > > > >

Re: Is it just me or.......

2000-08-25 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 02:09:23PM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote > Me, too .. and quite a few with empty bodies. > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:33:26 -0700 (PDT), Greg Strockbine. wrote: > > >No its not just you. I've noticed the dups too. > >- g.s. > > > > > >On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Christopher W. Aiken

Re: windowmaker

2000-08-25 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:33:16PM +0800, Goeman Stefan wrote > Hello, > > > Probably a stupid question. > > I am running WindowMaker under Gnome. > I want to have the wmitime icom appear on my desktop when I log in. > Putting a line like: > exec wmitime in my .xsession file does not work. > >

Re: Procmail

2000-08-25 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:59:10AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:35:07PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > I'm setting up procmail on my system. I've done this in the past > > successfully using Redhat 6.2 and sendmail, but I have a couple of > > questions about Debian and

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-24 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:39:01PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:31:07AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote > > > Technically, yes. However, if your boss says that work email is not > > > to > &g

Re: What are MUA, MTA, MDA? (Was Re: Linux Mail Client)

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 03:42:16PM -0400, David Teague wrote > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > [snip] > > > I differentiate between MUAs, MDAs, and MTAs; examples are: > > MUA: mutt > > MDA: procmail > > MTA: exim > > John

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:31:07AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:27:40AM -0400, David Zoll wrote: [snip-o-rama] > > Which can then route the mail to the appropriate mail server. This is > > how SMTP was designed to work. > > Technically, yes. However, if your boss says

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
ation; alas... > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:09:41AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > There's more than one way to skin a cat, but here's what I've > > done; it allows you to have an arbitrary number of virtual > > domains with each having its own alias file,

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:53:18AM +0200, Vitux wrote > More stuff: > I did a > # modprobe ne2k-pci > and I get this: > ne2k-pci..: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029* at I/O 0x20a0, IRQ > 9. > eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x20a0, IRQ 9, 00:00:B4:B8:94:CC > # > I suppose this means that the mod

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:33:45PM +0200, Vitux wrote > Trying to build a tiny lan here... > Recompile fresh 2.2.16 with the ne2k-pci driver as module. > No signs of nic when booting, insmod ne2k-pci.o gives me "unresolved > symbols"-error, and ifconfig -yadayada gives me error to the effect > that

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:36:14AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:21:38PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > .forward file allows you to filter your mail into any number of > > separate mailfolders at delivery time, based on a wide range of > > criteria incl

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:54:58AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:46:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > .fetchmailrc can have: > > [] > > user x is mark here > > [] > > user y is julie here > > Requires a local account for what really isn't a separate accoun

Re: exim and multiple alias files

2000-08-22 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote > Can exim handle multiple alias files? I tried switching to > sendmail for > this, but whatever I did playing with postfix to see what it was about > before removing it, made everything halt up in mqueue under var/spool,

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:14:06PM -0400, Dave Bresson wrote > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > > > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers. > > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers > > for the running kernel". > > > Okay,

Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:53:29PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote: > > This command will take care of duplicating everything including device > > files and permissions: > > find -mount | cpio -dumpv > > I have a (bigger) SCSI disk that

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > > Upgrade > > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > > > Previous ver

Re: Exim configuration

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:26:53PM -0300, Alberto Pereira wrote > Hi All, > > Someone knows how i can set exim to when a e-mail arrives for a unknow > user its transfer to a mailbox of a know user. > I try to put lsearch* in exim.conf > and *: userknow in the aliases file. > But all e-mails comes

Re: debugfs and superblock

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:23:48PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote > I want to change the filesystem size (according to the superblock), > because it's different from the physical size. I guess I should do this > with debugfs (or perhaps fsck), if anybody has any ideas on how to do this > I'd like to he

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote > > Hi Ashley, > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote: > > > > > It should have at least: > > extension=pgsql.so > > extension=imap.so > > yes! I have all these lines and more. > > > > > > and possibly: > > ext

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:23:15AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote > Using Exim, how can I configure it to process mail for multiple domains? > Specifically I want mail to domaina.com processed by the .procmailrc in > User A's home directory while mail to domainb.com is processed by the > .procmailrc in

Re: tk8.0 drops /usr/bin/wish8.0 despite being in tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:19:01PM -0400, Jameson Burt wrote > Three times I entered, > dpkg -i tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb > Each time, the file >/usr/bin/wish8.0 > was not installed. > I even purged the package then reinstalled the package. > All other files were installed from tk8.0; > only this fil

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:11:42PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote > Well I broke down last night and went to wal-mart at 3:00am and bought a IDE > cd rom drive. So now everything will install but..The instructions > in the book that came with the dist. said to make a boot floppy and then > reb

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:18:14PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote > [snip] > > > > If your CDROM isn't an IDE or SCSI CDROM, or it's connected to > > an ISA/PNP card, then you'll definitely need rescue.bin and the > > file drivers.tgz, so that you can load the driver required for > > your CDROM and co

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:37:30AM -0500, John Reinke wrote > I did some research, and the ip_masq_ftp.o module is automatically compiled > when CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD is selected during kernel config. I already > have it selected, and the file is in my modules directory. And like I > mentioned p

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:11:39PM -0500, Kent West wrote > > Andrew Martin wrote: > > > > I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows. I > > haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a > > conventional IDE drive. It attaches to its own sound card. > > Anyhow.

Re: using outgoing smtp server with mh (where's the fm? :)

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
damaged systems that have no other way of controlling connections), but it seems to be reasonably well documented in the exim-doc package. Good luck, John Pearson. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services

Re: Routing Problem

2000-08-14 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:04:27AM +0100, Sian Leitch wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:27:47AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > > > I'd check your ipchains/ipfwadm rules. > > > > If you're running kernel 2.0.x, what does the output of > > # ipfwadm -I

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-14 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > > all the documenation here w

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote > I just got through installing Potato on my HP Pavilion 133 computer with > 80 meg of ram and a 8gig HD. > > When I come back to it from letting it sit idle for about 8 hours this is > on the tty1 screen: > > D

Re: Routing Problem

2000-08-12 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:37:50AM -0700, Peter Welte wrote > hey there... > > I have a linux computer that is supped to act as a > gateway to a school network and the internet for some > linux clients, but im having this problem right now > where the gateway itself can't even ping another > compu

Re: Protecting a single file?

2000-08-12 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 10:50:07AM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote > Hey everyone, > > just a short question : > > I have a certain file where php-passwords are stored in - the problem > is that it could usually read by anyone. Does anyone of you know how > to protect this single file without do

Re: Installation: error messages

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:43:41PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote > Hello Debians! > > I just installed 2.1 slink (one more time) and got these messages at the > end of the dselect package installation: > > > Errors were encountered while processing > > gs > gv > pstotext > pstoedit > g

Re: Problems with XF86Config

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:07:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I want to install Linux on two HDs, one is an old 850 MB Conner, from which > all traces of Gates & Co.have been banished and this will be pure Linux, and > a new 6.5 GB HD which is dual-boot Win95 and Linux. I downloaded Star O

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:12:35AM +, Mr Smith wrote > Has former copies of the Corel LinuxOS Open Circulation > CD-ROM violated the General Public License? > > This seems like a straight forward question but one that > Corel has beat around the bush in answering. > > This is going to be a ra

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote > Hi all! > > I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP. > > I used the configuration examples found in ProFTP's page but something > is wrong. > AFAICT, all you need to do is

Re: Exim

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:51:10PM -0300, Alberto Pereira wrote > I see the question Q0432 but, my problem is in Q0401. But my versionof Exim > is .2.05-2 > I put this on the exim.conf: > > system_aliases: > driver = aliasfile > domains = z10.com.br > file = /etc/aliases > search_type = lsearch*

Re: More on compiling Galeon

2000-08-09 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:54:56AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote > I don't know if I missed it in the thread, but I can't figure out how to > compile Galeon either. I have the Potato version of Mozilla installed (M16, > I understand) but when I ./configure, I get > > configure: error: Could no

Re: setting up x terminal workstation

2000-08-05 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:57:43PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote > Can someone point me to some sites that explain how to get an older > computer working as a remote x-term/workstation. > > Here is what I currently have: > 1 486DX/2 50 laptop w/ 20 megs - This has a "complete" potato install > with a

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:55:25AM -0600, Adam Scriven - Lore wrote > Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow > completely fscked up my router. > > It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Penguin), and that > part > looks like it's working great

Re: more on syslogd & remote logging

2000-08-03 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:45:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > ok, i got syslogd working it is recieving log entries from my router, now > im curious how i would redirect those to a dedicated file? i tried various > things in /etc/syslog.conf and the log file is empty still. I'd like to > redi

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-02 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:57:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > > > been working fine wit

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-01 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:07:18PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a > sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does not do > this on the consol

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-07-27 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:32:56PM -0400, David Teague wrote > > Folks, > > I have a question from a buddy who asks the following question, > which I could not help him with. I have had wonderful support, > I hope one of you can help him. > > Send flames to me for any lack of information, I'l

Re: Help(!) with Slink install -- disk repartitioning problem

2000-07-27 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Christopher Lee wrote > > *cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user* > > Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning, > and think you can tell us where the "mystery 2 Gigs" went. My wife is > a little stressed

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > [snip] > > > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > > of pr

Re: init.d

2000-07-25 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:58PM +0900, keke abe wrote > John Pearson wrote: > > > Scripts in the Debian init.d directories are run using > > run-parts. > > I believe run-parts is used to run scripts in rc.boot, not those > in init.d. > Oops, right you are.

Re: mailbox postprocessing

2000-07-24 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:05:08PM -0400, Nakul Hoelz wrote > Hello, > I have a 2 mail servers for our domain, both running debian gnu > linux. > The first one has a DNS mailexchange value of 0 the other has a DNS > mailchange value of 5... > i.e. all email should be pouring into the main mail

Re: init.d

2000-07-24 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:03:17AM +, R K wrote > I've been having some problems getting startup scripts to work. > Particularly with MySQL (latest binary release). From what I know, you're > supposed to put the script in /etc/init.d and make a sym-link to /etc/rcX.d > right? In any case,

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-23 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:53:02AM -0700, Tomasz Barszczak wrote > > Having the modem recognize the Hayes AT command language is not a reliable > > indicator. Many winmodem drivers have an AT command interpreter to > > satisfy older programs. > > When I bought the modem I was assured it is not a

Re: erratic ps/2 mouse behavior

2000-07-22 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 06:06:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote > > I have installed debian potato on a 600Mhz Athlon system and have been > having problems with the mouse: > > the problem is most noticable in X but also occurs in the console with > gpm, > > when i move the mouse it will at times

Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-22 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:06:34PM -0400, adam b. wrote > isapnptools works okay, probably. > > I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten > them actually working before giving up. > > Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know > free

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

2000-07-20 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Juan Alejandro Diaz Muñoz wrote > > drivers please > Buckleys, sorry. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services

Re: help with file timestamp

2000-07-20 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:04:37PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote > Hi, > I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is > hamm. > > # date > Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000 > > # date -u > Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000 > > # touch /tmp/hello > # ls -al /tmp/hello > -rw-rw-r-- 1

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-18 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:00:46PM -0300, James Polson wrote > Hi, > > Thanks to all who answered my call for help! This message here is in > response to the one from John Pearson. > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:15:56 +0930 > > From:

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network > sniffer on my ip to catch the data? > > I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet avai

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:55:54PM -0300, James Polson wrote > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem > may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users > (so I hope!). > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but > I think that I'm hav

Re: RADIUS benchmark program

2000-07-14 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:01:40AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote > Currently in my Postal package I have the following: > Postal - the mad postman - a SMTP benchmark. > Rabid - the mad Biff. POP benchmark that eats your mail as fast as possible. > > Now I plan to add a RADIUS benchmark to the suite.

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-14 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote > Hello all, > > I am trying to get apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL to work together on my > Potato machine. I want to use the phpPgAdmin to give me a web > accessible interface to the PostgreSQL database. However trying to use > it gives

Re: Autologin on Serial Console

2000-07-14 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 03:34:08AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Simon Tennant wrote: > > > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > > tcpdump and provides and interestin

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-10 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:52:19PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > 2) Unless you've registered your own domain and it can accept mail, the > > configuration generated by eximconfig won't quite work out of the box. > > Specifically, if you tell it you're @isp.net it wil

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 10:16:20PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote > C. Falconer wrote: > > 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) > >

Re: su question

2000-07-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:22:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:14:55PM +0200, tom wrote: > > howdy guys, > > > > This is one of those things that has > > been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I > > edit files that require su privilages? (like /

Re: Tekram DC310U? Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

2000-07-06 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:15:10PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote > > Hi again, > > I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the > Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as > the Advansys 3940UA. It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver. > > Should I go for that inst

Re: scp alternative

2000-07-06 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:09:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my > > hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to > > prevent it co

Re: exim question

2000-07-06 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:11:37PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote > How can I use multiple domains with exim, eg both the domains domain.com > and otherdomain.com run on a machine and I want this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user hello > [EM

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-30 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:06:58AM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote > >= Original Message From jpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > > > >Try apt-get update again. It looks like you had network congestion when > >you tried before. Or you can just use ftp and go to ftp.us.debian.org > >and manually grab the

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:06:28PM -0400, Curt Salada wrote > Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: > > My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 > and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following > SCSI-re

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote > This frustrating little problem... > > When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system. > You have to use kill -9. > > A simple example: > ping 127.0.0.1 > this process is meant to run as long as you want

Re: squid errors

2000-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:55:43PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hi > > In my syslog I am getting the following message which seems to appear every > minute. Hence i am worried that it may be slowing down my squid server : > > Jun 26 12:34:53 server squid[13325]: urlParse: URI has whitespace:

Re: DPKG ERROR

2000-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 06:32:27PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote > Hello Group, > I was trying to install ssh and would get an error > "E: Sub-Process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1). > So I thought to upgrade DPKG (oh yeah I was running slink > and upgraded to potato when this started to happe

Re: ssh deb not installing correctly

2000-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:42:03AM +1200, Daniel Free wrote > I Just reinstalled my machine at home with debian 2.2 (potato) and started > apt-get installing all the things i likeon my system, but when i got to ssh > it returned the error below. > > Begin Console Dump > > 1 packages not

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-23 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > What does "YMMV" stand for? > > YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary > > > An official fix has come through, and what it does is replace > > > > for f in (cd. > > > > by > > > >

Re: no lpr

2000-06-21 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:04:50PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote > debs, > > i finally upgraded my 2.0.36 kernel by compiling 2.2.16 > on my potato box. > > in the process, i lost lpr. > > ...error message: > > lpr: connect: connection refused > jobs queued, but cannot startd daemon > > di

Re: SGML beginners question

2000-06-21 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:03:44PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote > Hi, > Recently, I have read a lot about SGML. It gives me the > impression that it is very hard to learn and very very > powerfull. > > However, I still don't have a clue that in what circumstances I > shoul

Re: kernel problem

2000-06-21 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:04:52AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote > I compiled kernel succesfully, but when I try to boot with it, > it says: > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > Have I left something important out of my kernel or what is > going on? > Probably,

Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-20 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:20:10PM -0700, marshall paul wrote > Hi, > > I have been plodding through the Debian woods, taking one thing at a > time and eventually getting small successes. However, I am tired and > would like to set up email for a dialup single user machine. Would > someone

Re: setting up ssh so that ssh'ing to a system doesn't require password

2000-06-20 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:16:42PM -0800, Britton wrote > > I need to figure out how to set up ssh in such a way that ssh can be used > without the user needing to enter a password. I apparently don't > understand the required format of the .shosts command to achieve this. I > have also used ssh

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-20 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:04:37PM -0400, Curt Salada wrote > Installing 2.1 on a 486, eliminating Win3.11. Going through the steps in > the Installation Main Menu, I get as far as "Install Operating System Kernel > and Modules." Program asks me to select CD interface type. Each option > (/dev/h

Re: Re-send contents of a mail file

2000-06-20 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Marcus Johansson wrote > Hi! > > I have a pretty huge mail file for a user who want that transfered to his > Lotus Notes mail box. Is there any way of re-sending the contents of this > mail > file to his new mail address? All new mails are of course for

Re: Loading X w/only netscape

2000-06-19 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:16:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I would like to setup an account on my system.. > > but when a user logs in (via KDM) if possible i don't want it to load a > windowmanager and all i want it to load is netscape, also i want it to log > back out when netscape exit

Re: exim, sendmail, smail, qmail .... ???

2000-06-15 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:08:07AM +1000, Richard Lindner wrote > Would someone explain Debian's logic behind choosing exim over sendmail > or smail for slink and potato (and I presume woody). The exim web page > is excruciatingly coy regarding comparisons between it an the other > mainstream MTAs.

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:27:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hello > > I have a little problem with Apache and the execution of the cgi-script. > > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. Now I'd like to > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree >

Re: librep problem

2000-06-15 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:36:58PM -0400, cam_random wrote > I'm currently trying to install Sawfish, however in order to do so I need > librep. When I've tried to configure librep i keep getting the same error > message: > > checking for mpz_init in -lgmp... no > configure: error: cannot find

Re: Exim changes

2000-06-13 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:24:58PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote > John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It could be that mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au and > > adam.ist.flinders.edu.au are the same machine, and it's simply > > using the canonical name in you

Re: Exim changes

2000-06-12 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote > My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I > need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to > send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is > "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu

Re: purging X from debian installation

2000-06-10 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:25:19PM -0500, w trillich wrote > i'll wind up reformatting and reinstalling, i can tell. > > i'm trying to get xwindows stuff off the hard drive, and > use only ncurses console/telnet/ssh interaction, and > server software -- but when i try to zap the xlib6 packages > (

Re: LAN/NAS problem.

2000-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:10:01PM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote > hi all, > Hello, Marc! > we have an ascend server that serves a dial up customer sitting on > 203.28.51.128. > > routing table on the ascend server: > > 203.28.51.128/27 203.28.51.128 wan12rGT120 265755

Re: gv

2000-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:14:10AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Pearson wrote: > > Ghostscript uses its own fonts when interpreting postscript, > > provided in gsfonts. Try installing that. Xfonts may be used > > by gv to draw your doc

Re: problems with server dying.

2000-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:41:09AM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote > Hi all, as you can guess from the subject i have a server (debian 2.0, > pentium 200, 500mb ram, 30 gig or so) that is dying on me at random times > early in the morning!! > > (quite annoying). > > I've gathered the following fr

Re: gv

2000-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:32:14AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote > Hi, > > When I run gv, I have the following: > Error: /invalidfontGNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > in findfont > Operand stack: >1 --dict:4/4-- --dict:4/4-- Times-Roman Font Times-Roman > 28765 Times-Roman

Re: PHP with MySQL

2000-06-01 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:17:53AM +, Thiago wrote > I'm tring ti use PHP with MySQL, > but every time I receive this message! > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in > /www/http/mysql_test.php3 on line 12 > > How do I recompile the PHP to enable MySQL supp

Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???

2000-05-30 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 08:45:19AM -0400, Chris Joyner wrote > Thanks, Jens, I have tried that, but I'm pretty sure my ISP uses PAP. Here > is the ouptput to xconsole from KDE. (I finally figured out how to get it.) > Any clues here? > > May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 >

Re: Tulip ethernet performance issues

2000-05-28 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:53:32PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote > Hi gang, > > I know that this has come up on the list recently, but I haven't really > seen anything that has helped me solve this little problem. > > I have a couple of tulip-based ethernet cards (I think they are made by > Acton, an

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