Re: Exim and SMTP on an internet gateway

2002-11-01 Thread Tim Sailer
he real machine. Now, we have a split-dns setup, so the hosts/IPs seen outside our firewall don't actually point to the real machines in most cases, and the SMTP gateway uses our internal DNS, so knows how to deliver mail properly. Without split DNS, you can do this with creative use of /

Network Throughput

2001-01-03 Thread Tim Sailer
dies. Traffic not going through the box just flies rignt along. -- Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cyber Security Operations Brookhaven National Laboratory (631) 344-3001

Mailman

2000-09-04 Thread Tim Sailer
I seem to have broken mailman, and I'm not sure how. I keep getting these lines over and over in the /var/log/mailman/error file: Sep 05 00:19:01 2000 (2815) Delivery exception: read-only character buffer, NoneSep 05 00:19:01 2000 (2815) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailm

Squid

2000-07-24 Thread Tim Sailer
Has anyone seen this problem? I'm running squid in a mostly MS shop here, and some SSL connections through squid just don't work. I get things like: Jul 24 18:03:10 squid1 squid[6774]: sslReadClient: FD 27: read failure: (104) +Connection reset by peer Jul 24 18:03:10 squid1 squid[6774]: sslReadCl

ssh and PAM

2000-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
In machine logs from any machine running ssh, I get: Jan 10 13:14:31 adm2 PAM_unix[17793]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> rac for ssh service and ssh still works. On machines that have a lot of use of ssh, this gets hard to see anything that is really wrong due to the noise. What can I do th

Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the newer kernels? It works to a point, with lilo allowing input from the serial port, and the initial kernel messages going to the port, but right after it initializes the swap, all I/O stops at the serial port. When the system is re

Palm Pilot software

1998-08-03 Thread Tim Sailer
Is there any other software available like the KDE's kpilot? I'd love to convert the use of my Pilot to pure Linux, but the KDE stuff is questionable, and kpilot in Debian is broken due to libs. I'm looking for something that will sync the Pilot, backup/restore, install new software, and have a wor

xterm

1998-06-29 Thread Tim Sailer
It seems like somewhere along the way, xterms stopped calling themselves 'xterm' but 'xterm-debian'. Nice. The rest of the world has no idea what a 'xterm-debian' is. What do I have to hack to make it back into 'xterm'? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buo

Re: portslave and AutoPPP

1998-04-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Peter Shtinkov wrote: > > Can anyone help me to turn on AutoPPP with portslave1.16, on Debian > 1.3.1 ? I have a page set up on configuring portslave at http://www.buoy.com/isp Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:25:53AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > > Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP > > > it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mai

Re: ficticious login

1998-04-15 Thread Tim Sailer
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On 15 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > >Occassionally running 'who' shows something like: > > > > > >nielsen ttyp1Apr 15 08:49 (:0.0) > > > > > >There have been no network logins, however. What would cause this > > >indication? > > > > > > Running an

Quad PPro systems

1998-04-13 Thread Tim Sailer
Does anyone have any experience with quad PPro systems? I'm bringing up a few boxes, and after 2-120 mins, we get IRQ DEADLOCK ON PROCESSOR X where X is 1-3. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "A publ

Re: Is SPI moot?

1998-04-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Britton wrote: > > I thought Bruce was continuing to head up SPI (which I though was > dedicated to serving free software in general). Correct. SPI is still intact. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You may be right, I m

Re: Help About SPARC

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Sailer
Pancho Horrillo wrote: > Anybody has tried hamm in a Sparc? If so, is it available in NFS > somewhere? nfs llug.sep.bnl.gov:/home/pub/debian Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Why am I soft in the middle, and the rest of my life is so hard

Re: Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, shaul wrote: > > > Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably > > obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? > > Yes, I am still working on it. The new version of communicator4.05, and > netscape4.05, all

Re: aic7xxx + IBM DCAS 4.3GB = LI

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Jay Barbee wrote: > > > before changing boot=/dev/sda1 to boot=/dev/sda > > I got 1FA: instead of LILO. Now I'm getting LI - I've had Suse on the > > system and no problems at boot. I don't want to re-install Suse again just > > to get this problem solved. > > > I was not sure if you had gotten

Re: FTP login incorrect when user specified

1998-04-02 Thread Tim Sailer
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > If hosts.allow/hosts.deny were preventing you you'd never get a login prompt. Correct. > gunfried geiger wrote: > > > Dear Linux Experts, > > > > what might be the reason for the following behaviour of FTP when trying to > > log into my Linux device: the client show

Re: I love Bill!

1998-04-02 Thread Tim Sailer
W Paul Mills wrote: > I really enjoy his wonderful nonoperating system! It give me so many > chances to waste hours trying to undo the things it decides are best > for me. :) Windowsn't 4.0 is a huge beast that has not too much more dis-functionality than Lose95.. > And Internet Destroyer IV, wh

portslave on hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Has anyone gotten portslave to work on a hamm system? I am using .16 of portslave, and no matter what I do on the hamm box, I get PAP authentication errors, while an identical bo box (both with 32 ports) authenticates fine. I'm running cistron's radiusd on both boxes, and the radtest runs fine agai

diald

1998-03-29 Thread Tim Sailer
I was trying to get a friend switched over from freeBSD to Debian today. All went fairly well. This was my first experience with pppconfig, and it worked slick! Good job! Now, to the problem. I wanted to get diald working for him. I think I have everything set up the way it should be, but when I r

Re: NFS client for win95?

1998-03-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Rob Goodwin wrote: > does anybody know of a client for win95 that will allow me to map a linux > drive across the network? perferably something that is a free download. Use the built-in windows networking (with tcp/ip) and install samba on the linux box. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (hom

Re: Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?

1998-03-23 Thread Tim Sailer
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Marcelo_E=2E_Magall=F3n?= wrote: > I'm looking into hacking asmodem/wmppp to make one of them display > for how long has the ppp line been up, but I don't have a clue on how to > do that. Any ideas? How about looking at the time/date the tty lock file was created? Tim --

Re: ppp problem

1998-03-21 Thread Tim Sailer
RUSSELL COOK wrote: > > Hello! > > I am now able to connect to my ISP. I was placing the 'noauth' option = > in the wrong file! I finally figured out how to correctly place it in = > /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Now, the link comes up, but I get this error = > from pppd - pppd[158]: Cannot determi

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > Howdy, > > a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: > >Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ >Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ >Advansys UW180$ >Advansys U 150$ >Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ The only semi-via

Re: Mon

1998-03-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Roderick Schertler wrote: > > 1) Is df.pm debianized? > > Nope, and it's my fault. I posted my intent to package it to debian-devel, > found that the module has a copyright which accidentally prohibits anybody > from distributing it at all, then forgot to contact the author about the > copyright!

Mon

1998-03-11 Thread Tim Sailer
I'm playing with mon as a packaged alternative to nocol, and I have 2 questions: 1) Is df.pm debianized? 2) Is tcp_scan part of a debian package yet? Both of these are used by mon.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Why not go out

Barcodes

1998-03-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Does anyone know (not that this is real Debian specific) of a program that given a number, would generate a gif/jpg/tiff/whatever of a 3-of-9 barcode? Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "We will either find a way, or ma

Re: Terminal server

1998-03-02 Thread Tim Sailer
Chuck Peters wrote: > > > Our livingston PM2e (30 port) has gone catatonic on us as we were > attempting to renumber the IP's to move over to our new connectivity > provided by West Chester Univ. I have a trouble ticket into Livingston, > but I fear we may have to ship the Port Monster back to l

Re: dselect nfs question

1998-02-27 Thread Tim Sailer
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > This question is overly vague; sorry ... > > I started playing with nfs today (nothing like a little excitement on a > friday). I've got a 9 gig partition on a BSDI box, which holds my ftp > mirror of debian, among other things. I want to be able to do local > install

Re: r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread Tim Sailer
Richard G. Roberto wrote: > I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, > and even .rhosts for myself, but to no avail. I have no > hosts.allow or hosts.deny file, nor am I using tcpd at all. > Host names resolve via DNS or /etc/hosts with no problem. I > tried having the hostnam

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Tim Sailer
Ossama Othman wrote: > I believe that you may be incorrect. We have someone running 2.0.33 with > SMP enabled since he has 2 Pentium II processors in his system. If you > need SMP, you will probably have to recompile the kernel source manually. > > Do your make {menu,x}config (whichever you use)

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-24 Thread Tim Sailer
matthew tebbens wrote: > > > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way. > I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ?

Re: Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread Tim Sailer
iquest wrote: > > Hi, > > I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount > it onto any partition: > > mount /dev/sdca /syquest > > Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something > wrong? > > Thanks! Do you have a valid partition and filesy

Re: Deltree command?

1998-02-23 Thread Tim Sailer
David Gaudine wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > It's not rmdir, but just rm; "rm -r" is what you want - "rm -rf" does > > what you want without asking questions (Just plain "rm -r" will ask > > you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access > >

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

1998-02-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:06:59PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > > >> I have three dial-in modems on my hamm box. They are all identical > > > > >> USR Couriers AFIAK, and their configuration *appears* to be the same. > > > > >> But one port always shows connect speed

Re: biff in bo

1998-02-19 Thread Tim Sailer
John Spence wrote: > > Does biff in bo work > coz it biffin doesn't beep > an if biff in bo is broke > then biff in bo I will delete > > I've tried biff in bo with 'y' > I've tried biff in bo with '-y' > no biffin output does it show > so poor wee biff is gonna go. Heh.. thanks for the laugh.. I

US Mutt in hamm

1998-02-19 Thread Tim Sailer
Bleh... the default behavior of mutt changed. Can anyone tell me how to make the latest mutt *not* move the read email to $HOME/mbox on exit? I can't find it in the docs. I'd like it to stay in the spool file. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

1998-02-19 Thread Tim Sailer
David Wright wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:33:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:06:59PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > >> I have three dial-in modems on my hamm box. They are all identical > > > >> USR Co

llug.sep.bnl.gov mirror

1998-02-13 Thread Tim Sailer
NOTICE: Starting Monday, 16-Feb, there will be no source for debian packages included in the mirror. I have completely ran out of disk space between the incoming stuff and the 2 full distributions. I am working on getting another drive for this system, but, since it serves no real purpose besides

Re: smail, HELO hostname without dot

1998-02-12 Thread Tim Sailer
joost witteveen wrote: > > The current debian smail (3.2.0.100-4) daemon does not accept HELO comands > with non-fully qualified hostnames. See the following, "rulvsa" is not OK, > whereas "rulvsa.leidenuniv.nl" is: > > $ telnet rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl 25 > Trying 132.229.1.33... > Connected to rulc

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > Is there any address where we can send our "wishes" to debian packages > we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for > programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? > > For instance, I would like to have .debs of: > > QSeeMe

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Steve Hsieh wrote: > > My problem is that if I use /dev/ttyS? instead of /dev/cua?, in the > /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it doesn't work. That > script has stuff like > > system "stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw < /dev/cua3 > /dev/cua3" > > When using /dev/ttyS? instead, it wo

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Behan Webster wrote: > > Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > Tim, > > > > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. > > > > If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage > our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did > work, it was rather

Re: Network

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
iquest wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new in setup network. I'd like to know is there > any document that describe how to setup a network that has > Linux, Windows/NT boxes. I think > > I'd like to be able to share files, printers, CDROM, etc on > all these machines. Many thank in ad

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed > > the thread.. > > > > On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in > > adding a pac

Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each ma

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to > each > >machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199 > and configure > >it by hand. Someone t

Compute Farm

1998-02-10 Thread Tim Sailer
The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86 for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine in the farm, without having to g

Re: Dial Script

1998-02-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Behan Webster wrote: > > Tim Sailer wrote: > > > > I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. > > It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering > > if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written

Dial Script

1998-02-09 Thread Tim Sailer
I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Help (my first crash)

1998-02-09 Thread Tim Sailer
Christopher Judd wrote: > > I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've > been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system > crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue > disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=sw

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

1998-02-06 Thread Tim Sailer
David Wright wrote: > > I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this. > > ABORTBUSY > ABORT"NO CARRIER" <- > ABORTVOICE > ABORT"NO DIALTONE" > "" ATZ > OK ATL1 > OK ATDT5551212 > ogin:\qmagic-lo

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-05 Thread Tim Sailer
impale wrote: > > What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? ttyS? is the correct device to use.. :) The cua device use has been depricated. All code should now use the ttyS? devices. If not, they are considered obsolete or broken. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMA

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: > > Hi all, > > Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my > system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking > for the best, not something for newbies. Since you are asking on a Debian list, no one is going to point

Re: Question for SysAdmins re: Debian, C++

1998-02-02 Thread Tim Sailer
Steven Morrill wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am interested in learning system administration and security. > After looking at some of the system administration related sites, it > looks like I need to have a knowledge of is C++, among other things. Are > the any Debian packages where I can star

Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread Tim Sailer
A. M. Varon wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > [I hope some Debian Developers are reading this.] > > Could it be possible to have the rc.local file by default in the Debian > Distro? Actually, no... it will never get run, even if you create it. Debian uses SYSV style in

autoup.sh

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
A few thing... libpthread0 needs to be removed, or libc6 doesn't install libg++ needs to be removed, or libg++272 Does libc6-dev need to be installed? I'm adding it, but I don't know. I can have a hacked and working autoup.sh for ftp in about 30 mins if the machine gets upgraded correctly.. :)

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because > > debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On > > any mirror that I could find. > > Try

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Tim Sailer
Scott Ellis wrote: > > Maybe someone else has an easier way? > > Yes, there is now a script a > http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all > the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the > old -dev packages, and install the new stuff in t

Re: SMTP refusal

1998-01-26 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just upgraded to hamm and now I can't get incoming smtp connections, I'm > using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP and smail, I can telnet in on 23 > and another port where I have a telnet-based service running but all > connections to 23 are refused. port 23 is

Re: Webmail ... a script for a pop3 server?

1998-01-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Michael \[badpixel/bad sector\] wrote: > > Hi! > > I have this pop3/smtp mailserver and would like to give users access > to their pop3 mailboxes + send emails via. their webbrowser. Just > like hotmail. It just doesn't have to be that advanced... Users just > need to be able to login, read th

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You talk about a JDR Microdevices card with 4 ports. is it supported by > linux??? How much does it cost??? Because I could use some more ports at a > communication box at work, which should run Debian, if everything goes > right. AST used to make a 4 port card that used

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote: > > No, I can't get dselect ftp to work throught my firewall. > > I can manually ftp but dselect gets stuck. I have been trying to get= > dselect to work for three days with no good help from the user-list. > > So now I am trying to figure out a way to copy the files or run dselect=

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote: > > See, the problem is I have a computer with no CD. I have a network card= > and I am behind a corporate fire wall. I can not get dselect to work= > through my firewall so I thought if I set up a CD on a win95 box as= > shareable then I might get dselect to work that way. >

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote: > > How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN. > > I have TCP/IP running. Install samba and use smbclient to go to your share on the box. Or, compile the kernel with smb support and use smbmount to mount the remote share locally. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

Re: device /dev/hdh does not exist....

1998-01-16 Thread Tim Sailer
Pure Energy wrote: > > > I have just compiled into the kernel my cdrom and reading this the system > does in fact find it on boot (am i correct??) > > hdh: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS > hdh: MATSHITA CR-581, ATAPI CDROM drive > > Now if i put a cd in the drive and

Re: Card and Drivers for v.35

1998-01-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Anthony Landreneau wrote: > > Greetings, > I am looking to use several debian systems as routers for a small > network > that I am building. What I need is a card that will give me a V.35 > interface that will allow me to plug into my RAD modems. If anyone out > there is using such a card,

Re: Is there an archive of this list?

1998-01-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Ian wrote: > > Hi, > > I am *really* new to this list and I'm having problems installing Linux. > > Is there an archive of this list I could browse? > > Or can anyone tell me why I get endless hdc irq timeout messages (cdrom) > when I try to install? If it is a NEC or Toshiba 8X or 12X CDRom,

Re: debian ftp crashes redhat

1998-01-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Joey Hess wrote: > > Berni Ernst wrote: > > A RedHat Linux box (2.0.30) > > > > kernel panic: skpush: under: 001a4bf0:2 in swapper task - not syncing. > > Have you tried a newer kernel? I had my machine crash several times when I > was using 2.0.30, with this error message. (I upgraded to the 2.

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Igor Grobman wrote: > > > This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last > one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir > instead of a local mirror requirement. llug.sep.bnl.gov is a public nfs mount for debian. You can point the s

Re: install image too large for floppy

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Sailer
Eric White wrote: > > I'd like to install from floppies, but some of the disk images are larger > than 1.44 mb. Resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin both copy to my hd at 1,474,560 > bytes. Formatting a HD floppy give me 1,457,663 bytes available. > > Any help? Sure.. use the 'rawrite' program or dd

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Douglas Bates wrote: > > This may be a leading candidate in the "dumbest question ever asked on > debian-user" contest but does anyone know of a program in some package > that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5 > minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a windo

Re: ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Paul McDermott wrote: > > hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft > internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I was just asking. > Please don't flame me. I hate micro$oft and especially that bill guy who > runs it about as much as the next debian user.

Re: Real world temperature inputs?

1998-01-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Stan Brown wrote: > > Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that > hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized? > > I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some > values. I'm interested in this too. I am trying to develop a dis

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Greg Norris wrote: > > > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian > > system. > > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and > > are > > gz. How can I read them? Thank you. > > try "gzip -dc somefile.gz|less" zless file.gz is a lo

Re: Install debian with serial port as console?

1998-01-02 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does > > not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux > > system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only > > c

Re: Debian on CD.

1997-12-31 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tim, your comments are inappropriate. Let me assure you that there is no > fraud at all here. The number of website hits that www.debian.org I never claimed there was. I was just stating that it was a way to get a response. Obviously, it worked. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL

Re: PPP Server Almost a Reality

1997-12-30 Thread Tim Sailer
G. H. wrote: > > Well... The PPP Server is almost working, still having one problem. > > When connecting to the Debian box with WIN95, Debian keeps giving a "PAP > authentication failure for " > > and then proceeds to disconnect WIN95. I don't have Shadow passwords > enabled and the name and

Re: Debian on CD.

1997-12-30 Thread Tim Sailer
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote: > > For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT* > > buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com). > > > > I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out thei

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > > > When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I > > get this message: > > > > Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M > > Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't ma

Re: Setting up a PPP Server

1997-12-27 Thread Tim Sailer
G. H. wrote: > > I've been searching 2+ days in information on setting up Debian as a > Dial-In PPP Server and have found NOTHING! > > Sure there's plenty of info on hooking up Debian to an ISP. But I want > Debian to BE an ISP. > > All I need is support for 2 incoming lines to connect us to

Re: NFS

1997-12-26 Thread Tim Sailer
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 09:01:38AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > Comment the ALL:PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny and try it again > > You put me on the right track with that; once I added > portmap, rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd to /etc/hosts.allow, it w

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Timothy Hospedales wrote: > > Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to > my > ISP manually, I have to press afew times before the login prompt > comes up, how do I tell a script to send ? you would include "\r" in the string you are sending. Just FYI, everyt

Re: NFS

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > When I have NFS problems, I resort to using 'showmount -e system.com' from > > each machine to the other, just to make sure what is exported is what > > I think it is..

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Timothy Hospedales wrote: > In X, I startup minicom, dial, and login manually. It then tells me that it > has started PPP and to start my PPP, whereupon it starts displaying the > usual garbage. > I open a bash term and type pppd, and it starts displaying its garbage. > I open another bash term, an

Re: NFS

1997-12-24 Thread Tim Sailer
George Bonser wrote: > > > 1) What is in your /etc/exports? > > 2) also, debian runs a number of rcp services out of inetd so make sure >/etc/hosts.allow and .deny are set up correctly. > > 3) You can client --> server does not work, do you mean that the server is > unable to mount a client

Re: booting single, writable?

1997-12-22 Thread Tim Sailer
George Bonser wrote: > > > One trick is NOT to use emergency mode. The better way is to do: mount -n -o rw,remount / Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." - John

Re: Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

1997-12-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Charles Read wrote: > > Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root: > > # cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp1 > > My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after. > /proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows > that my printer is recognized at port 0x378 (the IRQ shou

kernel panic

1997-12-19 Thread Tim Sailer
I have a machine running (sorta) that with kernel 2.0.29 runs fine for a long time, but with .30 or .32, it panics after a few hours with errors on the screen something about SKPUT (I dnd't get a chance to write them down.). Nothing gets written to the logs. Does anyone have a pointer? Tim -- (

Re: ifconfig alias option

1997-12-18 Thread Tim Sailer
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >First, you have to compile your kernel with ip aliasing in it. Reboot > >with your shiny new kernel. > > > >Then run something like this

Re: ifconfig alias option

1997-12-18 Thread Tim Sailer
Markus Diesmann wrote: > > Hi, > > floowing O'Reilly's Apache book I treid to set up second IP adress for a > debian linux system. > It seems that debian's implementation of ifconfig does not support the > alias option. > Is this true? > Does anybody know how I can make system with one ethernet

Re: /etc/lilo.conf not taking my append line

1997-12-17 Thread Tim Sailer
Terrence Brannon wrote: > > > I am using debian 1.3.1. > > I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type > Linux mem=128m > then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add > an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots > with only 64M avai

Re: Pager utility or script?

1997-12-17 Thread Tim Sailer
Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > Kevin J Poorman writes: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the > > number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell > > script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package? > > > > Sam

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-15 Thread Tim Sailer
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > After a few attempts, smail finally runs, but fails to start on boot as it is > supposedly configured to do. > > /etc/init.d/smail does exist. Is there something else I need to look at? I believe that by default, smail is run out of inetd (/etc/inetd.conf)

Re: mke2fs & capacity (where did it go!?)

1997-12-15 Thread Tim Sailer
matthew tebbens wrote: > > > Thats over 250megs of tables and internal structures ? > > Wow... There is also 5% reserved for root, unless you specified otherwise Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "The squeaky wheel gets th

Re: AMD K6

1997-12-15 Thread Tim Sailer
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > So if you get a new chip then it shouldn't have any problems? > > > Yes, but talking quite frankly with the techs there, they said the > > fastest they are turning them back around is 7-9 weeks. 2 months > > without a CPU?? > > a couple of things: > > a) the

DCE for Linux?

1997-12-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Here at BNL, we have the RHIC project ( a super collider ) going online in '99. The folks that are specing out what to do with the data (50MB/min for 4000 hrs/yr) are using big Sparc SMP iron, and HPSS, a big tape farm to hold the raw data. The data first goes to a 30TB cache of fiber-channel drive

Debian on Aptiva

1997-12-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Folks, Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM Aptiva L5H? I have a user here that wants to get one, but only if Linux will install and run with little hassle. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It is a damned poor mind indeed t

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this > would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and > make it difficult for people to access information about the project then > that is your problem. > > The gateway wa

TShirts

1997-12-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Just in time for the holidays, I still have some 'unofficial' Debian tshirts left. Take a look at http://www.buoy.com/~tps/tshirt Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Paranoia is a heightened state of awareness." -- Anon ** Discl

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