Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread kvaughan
My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm posting a different version... I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. I cannot fetch mail from my server. Typical message: --- daddy:~# fetchmail

Re: ipchains question

2000-05-09 Thread kvaughan
At 10:53 PM 5/9/00 +0100, you wrote: >"Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'd like to set up ipchains so that no on can connect to my >>dialup computer at all except for identd (for IRC). I read the >>Firewall and IPCHAINS howtos, as well as the ipchains man page, >>and it looks like

Re: solved: Re: Help, please. PCI128 sound card seen, but not heard

2000-05-05 Thread kvaughan
At 08:45 AM 5/5/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hello all, > >After nearly deciding to settle for the commercial sound drivers, yet >another post from this list (thanks all!) urged me to retry the ALSA >drivers. I went back and again compiled the latest source after fully >cleaning out my system. What made

Re: Help, please. PCI128 sound card seen, but not heard

2000-05-04 Thread kvaughan
At 10:25 PM 5/3/00 -0700, Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:25:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Did you compile in the 'sound' module or leave it as a module? I've seen ... >> Yes. The es1371 driver is compiled directly in

Re: Help, please. PCI128 sound card seen, but not heard

2000-05-03 Thread kvaughan
At 01:16 PM 5/3/00 -0600, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I'm using the 2.2.14 kernel on an Asus k7V mb(Athlon), and have compiled >> into the kernel the ES1371 sound driver. On bootup the card is detected at ... >Did you add ens1370 to /etc/modules? I know I've made that mistake >bef

Help, please. PCI128 sound card seen, but not heard

2000-05-03 Thread kvaughan
I'm using the 2.2.14 kernel on an Asus k7V mb(Athlon), and have compiled into the kernel the ES1371 sound driver. On bootup the card is detected at irq 10 and a memory address of 0x9000 (which does NOT happen with the ES1370 driver). I have added myself (as a normal user) to the audio and cdrom g

Re: OT: Video cards? Creating Athlon Debian box..

2000-04-11 Thread kvaughan
At 09:41 AM 4/11/00 -0700, you wrote: >It's not Debian you are matching your card up to, it's xfree86. In fact, >you will want to upgrade xfree86 to 3.3.6, so it will support your card. > >I just built a couple machines with Matrox G200 16 MB cards and they work >well. I am not a gamer, so I couldn

Re: Can't mount data CD burned using Windows SW

2000-03-17 Thread kvaughan
At 08:07 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >> "CB" == Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >CB> Sounds like the CDROM drive at home is having problems ... >Turns out the problem was a bad CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM refused to read ... I'm coming in on the tail end of this one, but ran into som

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread kvaughan
At 05:37 PM 3/16/00 -0800, you wrote: > >> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Colin> I don't know if any of this helps, but let me know if ... >Bruce sent me a similar email, there's nothing unusual in either of >your configurations. Hmm. > >Could you both send me the outp

Re: Can't mount data CD burned using Windows SW

2000-03-17 Thread kvaughan
At 08:07 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >> "CB" == Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >CB> Sounds like the CDROM drive at home is having problems >CB> physically reading the data off of the media. This could have a >CB> couple of causes. Media could be one --- I have a 52x Crea

Latex install unsuccessful in slink

2000-02-11 Thread kvaughan
Here I am, stuck at work, Linux not allowed on the network... :( I want to use latex/lyx and have installed the latest Slink versions of tetex* off debian.org (WinNT serves as my in-between), but the install script reports the following: Running initex. This may take some time. ... fmtutil: `tex

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread kvaughan
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:03:09AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:49:21PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN >> > using exim. Thos

Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-28 Thread kvaughan
Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN using exim. Those I send are booted back saying they don't exist on my machine. Mail should go to a server, but it treats all with the same domain as being on my machine. Have gone through the manual but I guess I'm blind.

2.2.12, tr0, and X errors... kernel? or driver? or ??

1999-09-28 Thread kvaughan
y be here? I'm including a partial of kern.log below which reflects dmesg. Following that is the ifconfig for tr0. Thanks for any help/thoughts! Kenward Vaughan kern.log excerpt: Sep 27 06:54:07 kvaughan kernel: ibmtr.c: v1.3.57 8/ 7/94 Peter De Schrijver Sep 27 06:54:07 kvaughan kerne

Re: sb16

1999-09-17 Thread kvaughan
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:54:28AM -0700, Craig B wrote: > >> However, i did not even get >> an message in the startup. [...] >during kerenel initialization, then you have not compiled support into >your kernel. Do a make mrproper then make config from withing your >kernel source directory.

getting dhcpcd to use MY hostname??

1999-09-17 Thread kvaughan
I am frustrated with trying to use dhcpcd... after it hooks up with our network, my machine becomes UNKNOWN_27 instead of kvaughan. The hostname is correctly set up if I keep dhcpcd from starting up. Can someone tell me how to fix this? I've even tried using HOSTNAME='cat /etc/hostna

Re: Regex and memory gone.. was Re: spreadsheet (excel, WingzPro)

1999-09-17 Thread kvaughan
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 06:31:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ah, that was me. Perhaps I set it up wrong? Wingz complined about not >having libg++27 and libstdc++27. Was I wrong to soft-link and ldconfig the >libg++2.7.2 and libstdc++2.7.2 libs to these? Sorry, I meant libg++.so.27 a

Regex and memory gone.. was Re: spreadsheet (excel, WingzPro)

1999-09-17 Thread kvaughan
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:17PM -0500, rich wrote: >I remember reading today / yesterday that someone had problems with >Wingz on a 48MB system... I just downloaded both Wingz and WingzPro, >installed them in under 5 minutes and both run very smoothly and quickly >on my 32MB 200Mhz Pentium I

Re: System slows to REAL slug on boot

1999-09-17 Thread kvaughan
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:55:04AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: >On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:53:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I'm having problems with my system on rebooting to a new kernel. I don't >> know >> what is causing the problem, and have found nothing yet in the archi

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread kvaughan
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:58:20AM -0500, John Foster wrote: [...] >IBM has made the "public" statement that they will be supporting Linux. >Since IBM bought out the Lotus folks there is at least a chance that we >will see the entire office suite and many other IBM applications ported >to Linu

Re: eth0 to tr0... files/other stuff to change?

1999-09-15 Thread kvaughan
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:05:25PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : Installing a 2.2.9 kernel in place of 2.0.36 kills my network card and > : connections, since the card is a token ring (Olicom). This card is ID'd as > : eth0 under the old ker

eth0 to tr0... files/other stuff to change?

1999-09-14 Thread kvaughan
Installing a 2.2.9 kernel in place of 2.0.36 kills my network card and connections, since the card is a token ring (Olicom). This card is ID'd as eth0 under the old kernel, but the 2.2.x kernels use tr0. So the problem doesn't surprise me. But I'd obviously like to get it working again. I'm gue

OT: permissions to use ncpmount, etc?

1999-09-13 Thread kvaughan
What do I need to do permission-wise (and otherwise?) to allow me as a normal user to mount network systems via ncpmount?? I've set up a dir /mnt/net with a symlink to /net to simply the mount point, with all permissions to the dir set to 777, but permission is still denied. Do I have to place th

A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread kvaughan
Hi, I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs under the source. Is this no longer necessary, or is it a grievous mis

crypt ???

1999-05-06 Thread kvaughan
Got a package which is encrypted ... "crypt" (as mentioned in the docs for unraveling it) does not exist. I can't find a package called crypt but saw one which integrates into Emacs (if that will even do what I'm looking for). I naturally don't have (nor really want) Emacs installed, but if this

Re: deb vs. rpm

1999-04-26 Thread kvaughan
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 06:54:32PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: [...] > I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that > is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and > am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things > as it's n

RE: IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread kvaughan
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/20/99 at 05:22 PM, "Madel, Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >don't quite cut it for the corporate world. But I don't see any reason why >the HP's or IBM's couldn't include Debian as one of the distributions they >support. It would seem you have hit at least part o

Re: parallel computing, rsh, and DHCP environment?

1999-04-09 Thread kvaughan
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/09/99 at 08:52 AM, Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Of course it is! If the LAN was mostly static, then I'd suggest using the >/etc/hosts files on each computer, but if things are going to change with >any frequency at all, then you'd probably want to

How to give users certain privileges?

1999-02-18 Thread kvaughan
I have set up Debian on four lab computers and would like the students using them to be able to access our Novell system via ncpmount, etc., as well as floppies. Additionally, it would be nice if they could shut down without my intervention. Can I simply add them to specific groups which would

adjusting network card settings - where?

1998-11-16 Thread kvaughan
In ongoing efferts to get networked here (work), I may wind up taking my Olicom card out of PNP mode to get things working. If so I'm presuming I'll need to set up parameters somewhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I'm quite green at this stuff. Along a similar line ... does a P

Thanks! Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread kvaughan
Wow! Thanks for the quick replies, people. Now I get to play with several approaches. Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as shell programming/scripting). While it will take me a while to get up t

Can't connect to Novell network

1998-10-21 Thread kvaughan
'Tis true. Do I need Caldera's client for this? I think the basic problem is below this, though. I've compiled Olicom's token-ring network card driver into the kernel with no problems. Bootup gives apparently normal messages in this regard except a test download failure. I also get an SIOADDR

Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread kvaughan
I have a bunch of files (est. 200) which were brought over from OS/2 after being detached from emails (I've not got Debian networked yet here at work--subject of another post). All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as seen in vi (which I know v. little about excep