woody smbmount smbmnt mount

I can't mount samba shares anymore, somthing happened in woody not sure when maybe Sunday, mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o username=elmo mount error: Invalid argument Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mo

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:13:13PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:11:12AM -0700 Lawrence Walton wrote: > > Hey take a look at the fact that MRTG and the latest snmpd in potato don't > > seem to work. > > I pounded my head on that one

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:43:27AM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > Hi > > If no-one objects, I'd like to do an NMU of MRTG early next week. The > major reason for this is that the SNMP_Session Perl modules need to > be split off into a separate package (a number of applications make > use of

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:28:34AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Mike Barton wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDRO

Re: Voodoo Banshee + Debian => X == null ?

On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 09:35:47PM -0300, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: > > Hi Folks! > > Well, I just bought a Blaster 3D Banshee AGP and to my surprise > - or not, since neither 3Dfx nor Creative Labs. are known as linux > supporting companies - I discovered that it just can't get along

mrtg and the new snmpd in potato

I can't get the new snmpd in potato and mrtg (any version) to play nice with each other. I can get the correct information (sysDescr sysContact sysName sysLocation ifNumber sysObjectID) using snmpwalk and snmpget, but mrtg refuses to work conplaining "error status: noSuchName". UCD snmpd versio

non-free

Is non-free broken? The potato/non-packages.gz file appears to be empty. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

Re: StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:36:51PM -0700, Dave Dash wrote: > I am running potato and during the last week Star > Office fails to run and gives a segmentation fault. > Anybody else get this? > > > === > > Dave Dash > http://www.ftmax.com/ > ___

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

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Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and > supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. > > gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any > operation. I'm using the latest version

Re: cold fusion & linux

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:33:55PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote: > I've heard of a product called 'php' which is supposed to be good, but > don't have any experience using it. > > FAQ is at http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3 > > Chris Dion > > Benjamin E Frame wrote: > > > > I'm a big fan of Linux w/Apache

Re: Samba and mount

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:53:25AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount > a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message: > SMBFS: need mount version 6 > mount error: Invalid argument. > > I am using the same command in another

Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:50:55PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote: > On 22 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Of course, wmaker 0.60 is now available in .deb format, so perhaps it's > > easier to just download the .debs :-) > > > > --tim :-) > > > > > and while we're on the subject of wm

gtcd seems to of disappeared in potato

The topic says it all. The last round of gnome packages broke a bunch of stuff, and I can't seem to find gtcd any more. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k

Re: Cron Job

On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:18:21AM -0700, ASHA TARACHANDANI wrote: > Hi, > Can you give me how to set up a cron job on Solaris 5.6. Or refer me to > some site where this is explained. > -Asha > > -- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Asha Tarachandani [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: glx and potato and g200

On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 11:53:49AM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 09:07:45AM -0700, Lawrence Walton wrote: > > I have installed the glx-g200_0.0.19990602_i386.deb > > libgl1_0.0.19990602_i386.deb > > libgl-dev_0.0.19990602_i386.deb debs and am not ha

glx and potato and g200

I have installed the glx-g200_0.0.19990602_i386.deb libgl1_0.0.19990602_i386.deb libgl-dev_0.0.19990602_i386.deb debs and am not having any luck getting them to work, the module and path is listed in the XF86Config, anyone have a idea why glx.so is not loading? My Box is Potato-fied to the new

su is broken on potato?

I potato-fied (French fried) my system yesterday, and ity seems that su is broken. I am not getting any error messages in /var/log/*, and it appears not to be Segfalting. Hints would be greatly appreciated. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP

Re: Ugly fonts in X

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:57:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past > 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape working fairly well, and only in the > past few weeks gotten WordPerfect working fairly well, and etc. > > One of the big

Re: laptop netconfig

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Justin Hagemeier wrote: > > Well I sort of do this already I have a laptop that has the Potato distro > > on it, I use both ethernet and ppp, > > I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no > > ethernet connection, then no IP i

Re: laptop netconfig

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would > like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something > like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded

Re: counting traffic

On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:20:16PM -0700, Vaidas wrote: Try mrtg. As an example www.debian.org/mrtg > Hello! > > Does somebody know the simple way to count traffic bytes in/out debian > server? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL

Re: ldap

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:34:03AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote: > Lawrence Walton wrote: > > > On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote: > > Not sure you can do that; Openldap uses a custom binary database, it uses > > the .ldif format to > > imp

Re: ldap

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote: Not sure you can do that; Openldap uses a custom binary database, it uses the .ldif format to import data. > > When using ldapadd I want to know would it be eaiser to add all of my stuff > with > MySQL and then have ldap read from

Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: Try 'df -h' > Hi, > > This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the > answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free disk > space, just type dir and the amount of fr

Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 04:55:38PM +0200, Larry de Graaf wrote: I am rather fond of the Symbios 875 they are cheap, they are fast, and the driver is very stable. I have heard great things about the newer versions of this card also, don't know how cheap those are though. > I'm using a Buslogic

Re: Matrox G200 and X

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:05:21AM -0400, Dpk wrote: I have a faily vanilla slink box in front of me with a g200. Performance seems pretty good, to get it to work I used a .deb from http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xserver-svga_3.3.3.1-0_i386.deb > I have downloaded the latest SVGA

Re: How unstable is unstable?

On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 06:06:29PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I have have been using Debian for a couple of months and I am happy with how > it runs. > > As a new user I wonder about stable vs unstable. I often get in trouble > because > I need to compile software that for instance

Re: hard drive test

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: Try Bonnie, and make the test-file size LARGE. > Hi! > > I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of > my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has > happened. > > Does anyone kno

Re: Client side DHCP

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bernard wrote: > > > As far as I remember, version 0.70 (or so) is included in slink but does not > > support kernel 2.2. For kernel 2.2, you need version 1.3 (or so). This > > version > > can be found somewhere on the n

ftp.debian.org

Is ftp.debian.org down? is there a mailing list for the ftp admins? I do a mirror of slink and potato i386. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - -

A CVS like server

Is there a CVS like server for only binary files? It could be much simpler all I realy need is a secure way of checking in and out binary documents over the net, and version control. :> -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~la

Is ftp.debian.org down?

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Re: I can't believe this

Well I have to say that setting up ppp in debian was the easyist, of all the Linux distros and any other OS I have installed. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

Try ircII with a script. Or even better irc-EPIC. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorr

do I need to tell any one....

Do I need to tell anyone that I am going to mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian? this is not a high bandwith link mostly for private use. Can someone do a df -h on ftp.debian.org? I am guessing 3 or four gigs of stuff in /debian/ am I off? ftp://ftp.otak-k.com/debian/ *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slink iso images

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I think this is a atempted hack...

Some one tried to hack couple of my systems I think, but there is no buffer-over-flow in telnet is there? daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:53:24 ns in.telnetd[22276]: connect from usrtc1-61.midtown.net daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:53:29 ns telnetd[22276]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wid

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

I tried; I got it to run to a degree but the services/rc was more than a small pain to fix. I gave up. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

RE: Setting up FTP

n I just start > posting to a specific directory? > > What else do I need to do? I'm still fairly new at Linux and haven't > touched my box in about a month. > > Brian Morgan > > > -Original Message- > > From: Lawrence Walton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Be

Re: Setting up FTP

I rather like proftpd; be sure to get the newist off of ftp.debian.org though. fairly easy to configure,and security (cough cough... now.) is good. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/

Re: Curious Question.

I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement. Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping. /Blatant Debian plug/ Also I almost alway agree with Debian's file placement. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-

RE: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

please look at this page for driver info. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On

Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

3c875-1: restart (scsi reset). > ncr53c875-1: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM ... > SCSI host 1 abort (pid 22) timed out - resetting > SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0. > ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=22 reset_flags=2 serial_number=130 > serial_number_at_timeout=13

Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

HAMM install disks should see it right off the bat. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Hi!

Re: Find

I rather like rgrep *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Has

Is somthing up with ftp.debian.org?

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Re: FTP security question

I used proftp with some configuration; mostly creating a seprate ftp group, and editing the proftpd.conf. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

Re: gnome

I have some of the gnome stuff running. gnome-session works sort of. Gnome Control Center works. gcolorsel works. gfontsel works. gsearchtool works. gshutdown works sort of. guname works. gw works. gsearchtool works. gtkfind works. gstripchart works. balsa is broken. gtt is broken. gnomecard is br

Re: kernel 2.2.0

I have found almost miraculous performance gains. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

apache-common 1.3.4

Anyone know where the package for apache-common 1.3.4 is? *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

RE: netscape

That is the libc6 version, it is sometimes called glib (GNU_lib). *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Brian Morgan w

gnome

I have been meaning to ask this for a while; I have installed what I believe are all the most recent gnome libs and apps from potato. The apps that I would like to use the most are gnomecard and balsa both range from moderately broken to just broken. I got the cvs versions of both and tried to com

Re: what cd-writer ?

I hate to disagree but... the symbios cards are great and they are generaly cheaper, faster and less trouble. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - -

Re: root telnet

Agreed most people login as a normal user and then SU. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wr

Re: day planner/scheduler program

West wrote: > At 01:22 PM 1/13/1999 -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote: > >I used to use Ical it worked... now that I have a Netscape Calendar > >server in office (NT bleh) I use Netscape Calendar for Linux. > > I also use Netscape Calendar. Kindda klunky in some ways, but func

Re: day planner/scheduler program

I used to use Ical it worked... now that I have a Netscape Calendar server in office (NT bleh) I use Netscape Calendar for Linux. I like the look of gnomecal but I have not realy given it a full work out yet. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP:/

Re: "card" selection in X for HP Kayak XC

cat /proc/pci is your friend *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I installed de

Re: ftp daemon

Oh? I am running two FTP servers with the 2.1.12* kernels... what is the security feature? Linux version 2.1.127 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Thu Nov 12 06:41:24 PST 1998 and Linux version 2.1.126 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #8 SMP Mon Oct 26 17:46:37 PST 199

snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg

The combo of snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg, is causing a small problem, snmpd is not reporting outgoing information on my servers just incoming. Does anyone have ideas to why? /proc/net/smnp is giberish to me.

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

We have it installed, and working; the only caveat was starting it in the init. On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Sergey V Kovalyov wrote, I replied: > > > > Hi, > > I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to > > install it once, but the package seemd to b

Re: WMaker

Make sure that the package 'menu' is installed, it should fix your problem. On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > Hi all. > > I think I've almost got my hamm installation finalized but I've run into a > few small problems. This one involves wmaker. When I click on a blank part > of the

Re: What's a good video card?

You might take a look at this before saying that. http://www.xfree86.org/sponsors.html Lawrence Walton Otak Network Manager 425.739.4247 On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > ATI does NOT support Linux or Xfree in ANY way. All users should > boycott them in general. Besides, the car

Re: URGENT: support for Symbios Logic (SCSI) ?

Symbios AKA NCR is supported in the newer kernels, the 875's are great. Lawrence Walton Otak Network Manager 425.739.4247 On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make. > The PC will be running Debian (of

Re: ASUS SC875 and debian 1.3.1 install problems

me some of my best test scores with the 875 and U/W HD... over 16 megs a second on one. Lawrence Walton Otak Network Manager 425.739.4247 On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Lee W. Glenn wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a newbie to linux, or trying to be since I have not been able to > install it on m