adduser 77777 problem

Hi list, i tried to add user with username 7 . adduser command complained about wrong username which should contain combination of letters and numbers. Is there any other way than edit /etc/passwd with vipw and /etc/group with vigr ? thanks Petr

Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

Hi , i think you should do this apt-get update apt-get install iptables bye Petr - Original Message - From: "Krzysztof Mazurczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables? > Hi, > > On Thu, 13/Dec/01 17:57:22,

HOWTO upgade to 2.2.r 4 ?

Hi , will my system upgrade if my sources.list looks like this ? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main thanks Petr

jakarta on potato

Hi, could you advise to me which debian packages i need when i want run jakarta on potato ? thanks Petr

HOWTO recconstruct MBR

Hi list, i have tarred backup of working partition .Is there some way to reconstruct mbr of that partiton to be bootable ? I tried dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hdc1 with no luck. where hda1 is working partition and hdc1 is partition with tarred backup Any ideas ?

where is in.proftpd

Hi , i am trying to setup proftpd to be run from inetd. I set sever type inetd in proftpd.conf and uncomented ftp line in inetd.conf. But i can`t find file in.proftpd in /usr/sbin . Is it part of proftpd packege or other one ? thanks Petr

modprobe : Can`t locate module

Hi list, i have following problem - during boot system complains about modules: Loading modules: /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o modprobe : Can`t locate module /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o But i am not using kernel 2.0.36 anymore , so from where can this error message come from

OT : find problems or updatedb ?

Hi list, i have some problem with find . For example when i try find / -name foo the command finishes immediately and didnt give any results altough file foo exists somewhere in directory tree. I use binutils 2.9.5.0.37-1 with kernel 2.2.18-1 file /var/lib/locate/locatedb has only

OT: PHP3 vs PHP4

Hi list, is it posible to have both PHP3 and PHP4 installed from binary debs on the same machine ? Thanks Petr

upgraded modutils slink -> potato

Hi list, i did upgrate from slink to potato. Apt-get announced that modutils_2.1* are upgraded to modutils_2.3.11* and thatpath[fs] should be changed to: /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs. After reboot my system was complaining a lot about modules.. Where should i apply the change of path[fs] ?

RE: partition HELP

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while > attempting to partition a second hard drive. > > I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that > drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict,

OT: Apache - how to enable suEXEC wrapper in binary apache install

Hi debianers, i tried to use User and Group directives within Virtual Host. Apache doesnt want to start because of suExec error. Suexec exist in /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec so i think that apache doesnt know about it. Any hints will be helpfull. Thanks Petr

OT: Apache - how to enable suEXEC wrapper in binary apache install

Hi debianers, i tried to use User and Group directives within Virtual Host. Apache doesnt want to start because of suExec error. Suexec exists in /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec so i think that apache doesnt know about it. Any hints will be helpfull. Thanks Petr

pl help ! Unable to load interpreter

Hi all, i have this message in kern.log , followed with segmentation fault message since 1 january. My system is debian 2.1 slink with 2.0.36 kernel. after a while no command works with message error in loading shared libraries. Do you have any hints how to solve this situation ? thanks Petr

OT: How to burn Linuxcare BBC ?

hi everybody, i downloaded iso image of BBC from Linuxcare. I tried to burn file lnx-gold.iso as iso/jolliet image with Cequadrat software. But i doesnt seems to be bootable. thanks Petr

pkzip for Debian ?

Hi list, exists some utilty which will work with zipped files in Debian ? thanks Petr

Can ssh harm apache-ssl ?

Hi list, i read somewhere that ssh can harm apache-ssl because of using open-ssl. Is this opinion right ? Thanks Petr

dpkg: error processing kdebase (--remove):

Hi list, i tried to run apt-upgrade and finished with above message and subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kdebase dpkg --remove kdebase produces similar output In dselect report of installed packages is kdebase reported as bro

analog.cfg

Hi all, i have installed analog, but can´t find analog.cfg. So any information - example of this file and where it should be placed will be very helpfull. Thanks Petr

ATA 66 support in Debian

Hi all, i use Debian 2.1 slink but it looks that ATA66 doesnt work - HD Maxtor Diamond Max. Is ATA66 supported in Debian, if so what to do ? Thanks Petr

how to make *deb package from source ?

Hi I am interested how to make debian package from source - eventualy where is possible get newest Exim package in deb package format ?   Thanks Petr