kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hello, I am trying to install kernel 2.2.12. I compiled as documented in the README of the kernel source distribution. I edited lilo.conf and exec lilo and added. My root dev=/dev/sda3 (extend partition) boot=/dev/sda But when I tried booting the new kernel, I got VFS: Cannot open root device 08

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Oct-99 Martin Fluch wrote: > By the way, at every boottime a depmod is executet (perhaps you have seen > the 'Updating modules...' message at boottime. > > If you get ever again such an message (and want to get rid of it) just run > a > >depmod -a I had done that, to no avail. I have

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Nathan, > If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch > the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do > the same thing in C :) The problem is that I have an 'untrusted' user base I everything has to be implemented by the parent proce

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-19 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:31:59PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > > I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one > > ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard > > and router) have the same IP address... >

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote: : Nathan, [ snip ] : > For further ideas I'd have to grab my APUE by Stevens (an excellent : > book!) : : Apache United Enterprise? ;) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. I'm very interested in your problem since I see that to some de

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Nathan, > :Apache United Enterprise? ;) > Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Don't have that one. Myself: K&R C 2nd edition, man pages and looking at tons of .c files. > I'm very interested in your problem since I see that to some degree I > have the same problem :)

Installation problems

1999-10-19 Thread Mark N. Wrigley
Dear Sirs, I am experiencing problems installing Debian version 2.1 (Slink) on my computer. The first time I tried to install the OS everything went fine I had no problems at all. The problems started when I tried to to reload the OS after I made some mistakes loading Gnome. I went through

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Brian, > Perhaps you can set the ulimit manually (don't ask me how to do > this from C...). And make Apache use those values for every son with user www-data that it breeds? ... too much work. :-/ > This is only read (AFAIK) by /bin/login. It doesn't even work for ssh > logins (I could b

Re: Installation problems

1999-10-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, If you must install from floppies, I would use different ones. When I need a floppy for something, I format it under windows 95, check the "full format" and "no label" option. After it formats, be SURE to check the number of BAD bytes in the info dialog that appears when the format is done.

Re: [Fwd: Re: InterScan Virus Alert]

1999-10-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
"T.V.Gnanasekaran" wrote: > > Ya, true. I saw happy99.exe virus just now. But why anyone would use > windoze to send mails? what is this interscan anyway? > Well, I have to use NT at work, so of course I'm reading/posting with windows.

Re: slink->potato and missing packages

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:39:37AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: > So I'm upgrading from slink to potato (while it's still unstable so i > can call myself adventurous) and there are a number of packages > missing (from the ftp site, according to apt). Some of them look > rather important (tcpd, et

Re: /var/log/ppp.log

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
pplaw writes: > tcgetattr: input/output error(5) Often means you have the wrong serial port. > connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty1 /dev/tty1 is not a serial port. What do your /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider look like? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the pub

Re: Graphic interface to PostgreSQL

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 06:01:34PM +0100, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Hi > > Are there any Graphic interface to PostgreSQL? > I haven't seen anything too usefull. There's the Tk PgAccess which is probably the most feature rich, but sorely lacking IMHO. There are a couple GTK or KDE q

RE: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
1) dmesg only covers kernel messages. There are other messages that get printed to the screen when the system starts up that don't get shown by dmesg. To see these, I just hold down and use and to scroll through the messages. Probably not the most scientific approach, but it w

Re: ipupload

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:17:39AM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Hello, > > I am connecting and disconnecting to the net over a modem line. My ISP > gives dynamic IPs. > I want to upload the IP that I get from my ISP to a website so that my > friends can come to know if I am online. I also want

RE: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
1) dmesg only covers kernel messages. There are other messages that get printed to the screen when the system starts up that don't get shown by dmesg. To see these, I just hold down and use and to scroll through the messages. Probably not the most scientific approach, but it w

RE: Diamond 770 & X Window

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Enjoy! On 18-Oct-99 Joe Block wrote: > Does anyone have a working config file for the Diamond Viper 770? > > I'm running slink if it matters. > > jpb > -- > Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CREOL System Administrator > > Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life. > > > -- > Unsu

Re: scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
There's a gradebook program floating about that I saw mentioned somewhere. Perhaps a search on freshmeat? Don't know what your particular needs are, but a text output piped to a2ps might do you okay. You could probably work up something pretty good with postgresql if you want to go that r

Dselect Trouble

1999-10-19 Thread Rik Burt
I am having problems with the apt part of Dselect. I can get it to access an ftp site but as it is updating it gives a segmentation fault in apt update. What gives? I am trying to install the stable (slink) version but I tried the potato version and I had the same problem. When I helped a frie

Re: ipupload

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > But when I disconnect I can execute another script in ip-down.d because I > use 'kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.d`' which is not a proper downing of route > ppp0. Of course it is (and ppp0 is an interface, not a route). pppd takes down the route when it receives the signal. ki

Re: ipupload

1999-10-19 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I am connecting and disconnecting to the net over a modem line. My ISP > gives dynamic IPs. > I want to upload the IP that I get from my ISP to a website so that my > friends can come to know if I am online. Why don't you and your friends use a program like ICQ? The site for the Windows version

Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Ok, I'd like to create a admin group (adm), and have some questions. But first, my goals: Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will be added to the m

dselect is killing me

1999-10-19 Thread jh
Hi. As anyone who has followed any of my posts knows, I'm totally green. At this point I have debian installed. (from floppy) I now have access to my cdrom. What I would like to do is install the x-window manager, as well as some other things like joe. (some kind of text editor) I also want to inst

can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread jh
Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? Also, is there a command that will list executable files. I just got debian installed from floppy so there is not too much on my system. The only fairly interesting program that I have discovered is ae (I think it sta

Re: no pon/wvdial

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, pplaw wrote: > pon used to work until i downloaded lots of files from the site and > then installed wvdial, which seems to start the pppd. i switch tty's > and ping the isp. nothing happens. > > here's /var/log/ppp.log: > > pppd 2.3.5

seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my previous linux system this never happened. I'm trying to build a custom 2.0.36 kernel but may switch to 2.2 if that will help. The error is: make: *** [first/rule] Segmentation fault make: *** [first/rule] error 2 I'm

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, > the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create > a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will > be added to the member of the "adm" group. > > Q

Re: Newt0.30 in potato

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > There was a posting on here a while ago about a fix for newt0.30 > dependency problmes a little while ago, but the message archives don't > seem to have caught up yet. Does anyone remember what the solution was? > I kn

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, >> the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create >> a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will >> be add

gcc in potato

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
I am not sure where to complain about this...it probably isn't Debian's problem, it is probably the new gcc. The newest gcc in potato: gcc version 2.95.2 19990906 (prerelease) Seems to be pretty damn buggy. There is a great store of code I have that compiled under the last one I used: gcc ver

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > 3) Some versions are said to "not support the wheel group". >how is this possible? If I've set the group of the file >to "wheel" (or "adm" in this case), and the permissions >to -rwxr-x---, then how can t

qt2 packages?

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Rati
The qt2 packages in potato seem to have been replaced with libqt2 packages, but when I unpack them, I get an error saying: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libqt2_2.0.2-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in package qt1g Is there a

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > On 19-Oct-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > >> Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, > >> the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create > >> a few accounts fo

ALSA sound modules not loading

1999-10-19 Thread Marshal Wong
I'm using the latest potato right now. The ALSA source compiled fine. I used make-kpkg to install the modules. But for some reason the module won't start. Every time I run /etc/init.d/alsa start, I get the following. Starting sound driver: snd-card-interwave /etc/init.d/alsa: line 10: 7070 Se

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > dmesg is not suid root...so the users can get that information themselves > without dmesg, or compile their own copy of dmesg. There isn't much point > in changing the permissions on dmesg. > > It is only on binaries that are suid and provide some spe

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
> Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian > specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux > books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will > need to buy online, so I can't browse. > > Thanks, Jeff > If you ca

RE: dselect is killing me

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Did you, by chance, re-compile your kernel? I assume not, but there is a kernel module for reading NLS Charset iso8859-1. It should be automagically loaded for you. Let me know. Bryan On 19-Oct-99 jh wrote: > Hi. As anyone who has followed any of my posts knows, I'm totally green. At > this poi

Re: motif qt and gtk

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I haven't used them myself, but they exist, according to www.gtk.org. On 18-Oct-99 zhaoway wrote: > Bryan Scaringe wrote: >> Just to clarify: >> >> GTK is C based, but language bindings/wrappers exist for several languages >> (check http://www.gnome.org) , including C++. The C++ wrapper is call

Re: ALSA sound modules not loading

1999-10-19 Thread flonesaw
Marshal, There is a Seg fault problem with the ALSA drivers. I have a Creative Ensoniq PCI64 (ens1371) soundcard and the ALSA drivers do the same thing to me. This is on a S.u.S.E. system with kernel 2.2.5. What I do is to put the modprobe command in a script in my /root/bin directory and run i

RE: dselect is killing me

1999-10-19 Thread jh
At 10:41 PM 10/18/99 -0400, you wrote: >Did you, by chance, re-compile your kernel? >I assume not, but there is a kernel module for reading NLS Charset >iso8859-1. It should be automagically loaded for you. > >Let me know. > >Bryan I did not recompile. I may have done something to hurt the kernel

Re: ALSA sound modules not loading

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: > I'm using the latest potato right now. The ALSA source compiled fine. > I used make-kpkg to install the modules. But for some reason the > module won't start. Every time I run /etc/init.d/alsa start, I get > the foll

es1371 sound

1999-10-19 Thread Dave Blears
Hi am having problems with getting an es1371 sound card going and am in need of some collective wisdom! dmesg shows the card there es1371: found adaptor at io 0xef00 irq 5 but i get the following errors and no sound :P es1371: dma timed out?? any clue appreciated! -- Best Regards Dave -

enlightenment problem

1999-10-19 Thread Stephan Vachon
I just switched from slink to potato, so I could get XFree68 3.3.4, which supports the millenium G400. After setting up all the files, and running xf86config, I could get Window Maker to run. However, when I tried enlightenment, I got the error message: >Enlightenment is unable to initialise Imli

Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread David J. Kanter
>From what I've read, I'm relatively pertrified to use my root account unless absolutely necessary, like configuring X or setting up my MTA. (There are only two users here, me and root.) But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root all the time, how secure is it to run s

problems with sendmail on new potato laptop

1999-10-19 Thread Michael Perry
Hi all- I had a recurring problem getting the latest sendmail to work today on a new potato laptop. IT continually bombed trying to find a required file; namely the aliases file that lives on my desktop in /etc. I tried numerous reinstalls of the latest sendmail in the instable tree but it would

Re: Emacs20 install error

1999-10-19 Thread Carl Greco
Ian, Thanks for your help. I have the /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc file but not the .el one which, I suspect, is the problem. Install script is probably looking for *.el to byte compile it for emacs20. Unless I hear otherwise, my next step will be to purge both emacs19 an

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:42:10AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes > of an CGI executed by apache? Use the directives RLimitCPU, RLimitNPROC, RLimitMEM, etc in the apache config file. See the docs for details. Alternatively you cou

X won't start

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just installed lesstif-bin on my potato system (apt also installed lesstif1 and removed lesstifg) and now I can't start X. I get the message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I don't see any connection between lesstif and a missing font. Does anyone know what might have

Re: Upgrade and floppy

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
The floppy will still boot the same kernel, but it will be compatible. If you upgrade to a newer kernel at some time, you should prepare a new boot floppy (if it is a .deb kernel image package, you will be asked whether you want to make a floppy). You might consider installing LILO for the abilit

Re: RAM Problems....

1999-10-19 Thread Brant Wells
Hi All... Thanks for the replies... I finally got the 2.2.1 kernel booted... It did solve the problem :) Thanx , Brant Wells; [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

potato boot-floppies

1999-10-19 Thread Onno
Marcel had last friday some new potato boot-floppies compiled and made available at http://pandora.debian.org/~marcel/attic/boot-floppies/ The boot-floppies aren't there anymore... Does anyone have a copy of them on the net??? Thanks, Onno

Network Card on PCMCIA...

1999-10-19 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all I'm doing an installation of Debian for a friend. He's got an IBM Thinkpad 360Cs w/8 megs of ram & a 165 meg hard drive. I need to get the TrendNet PCMCIA network card going, so I can mount the Debian CD that's on My linux box... Help! Thanx Brant Wells --

RE: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Actually, how a cracker will typically try to get in is by exploiting security holes in deamons that listen to network ports. These programs USUALLY run as root. Logging in as root presents little-to-no additional risk. If your system security is weak, logging-in as root wont cause much addition

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
1) What am I doing wrong ? 2) Is it possible to intsall unstable's bind without having problems with commercial software ? [07:30:43 /tmp]# apt-get install dnsutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgrad

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 18 Oct, Pollywog wrote: > Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. > > Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep > Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than >

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-19 Thread Todd Suess
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > > > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > > with it. > > > > -Todd > > > > ps. for this to work, y

Re: enlightenment problem

1999-10-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Stephan, I have only seen the enlightenment on the slink CD. But when I checked it out, I think I got around the same problem by running a program called imlib_config (or something close). If you type imlib at the prompt, you should see it. Hope this helps, John P.S. I never got enlightm

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-19 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
jh is kooking for a hand to hold: > Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian > specific book on linux > There is a recent Debian specific book from O' Reilley and it is available online too. Do a 'wget -r --no-parent www.ora.com/catalog/debian/chapter' ragOO,

How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
hi ..anyone knows how to find the ethernet add of NIC pls . bye.. = " If making love is an Art, I'm an Artist"--->ZEN MYSTIC __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:09:13PM -0700, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > hello, > I am trying to install kernel 2.2.12. I compiled as documented in the > README of the kernel source distribution. I edited lilo.conf and exec > lilo and added. My root dev=/dev/sda3 (extend partition) boot=/dev/sda > But

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: > > Hello, > > running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel > messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: > > Oct 18 16:28:38 Winona kernel: ide0: reset: success > Oct 18 16:30:45 Winona

Warning - ipmasq

1999-10-19 Thread Art Lemasters
I installed ipmasq and lost connectivity to the Internet with its default configuration. ...another lesson to read before I install. ;-) Art

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:05:17 +0200, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Eric> On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel >> messages in the syslog file with decreasing

Re: How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
First load the module, then ifconfig to give IP info to card and then route add -n xxx.xxx.xxx.0 dev eth1 - Original Message - From: ZEN MYSTIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 7:40 AM Subject: How to find the ethernet add of NIC > > hi ..anyone knows how to find

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-19 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Bernhard Rieder wrote: Thank You for all your answers. Maybe the glib info-files are better than the html documentation.

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make backups quickly! I have seen this kind of messages three times > now, and each time they came from a dying hard disk. Especially the > fact that it occurs at decreasing intervals is alarming. Try to > backup > valuable data first, and t

Re: Newbie guides on new site

1999-10-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
I have a public IP number at 212.19.67.118 that I'd be happy to make available for this site... Patrick - Original Message - From: Muhammad Yusuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:22 PM Subject: Newbie guides on new site > Hi all. I've put a very basic and brief g

Re: seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
"Jacob Schmude > > Hello > > When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my > previous linux system this never happened. Was the previou s linux system on this or other hardware? If other, then I suspect your current hardware. Read the Sig11 faq. Often a go-faster option

Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:34:11AM +0200, shaul wrote: > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dnsquery', which is also in package bind > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Hi Shaul, I had the same PB with a package from KDE; I used "dpkg -i --force-overwrite " to overwrite the ex

Network problem-->cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
hi... i have sort of network problem here.. recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the machine following by its domain name) but if i type the ip i could get access... pls help..

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:05:17AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel > > messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: > >

Re: Network problem-->cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:50:18AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: > > hi... > i have sort of network problem here.. > recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly > running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and > access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the > machine following

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
> > I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing > > dependencies for program design. > > Any good programs available for the job? > > Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works > well for many types of graphs. > It also has a nice tutorial. Look

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-19 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:32:18PM -0700, Wade Curry was heard to state: > export QMAILINJECT=f > > The f is the problem. Get rid of it. Look at qmail-inject > and qmail-headers for a detailed explanation of what f > and the other switches do. The values in the first 2 variables > are what is u

Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

1999-10-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Dear gnuplot developers, I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and reported to you) still exists. Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in the new version, but the bug's nature and the cure is still the same. I attach the gnuplot_bug.tgz file, wh

cron'ed, at'ed, exim'ed user limits

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How can I set user resource limits a la /etc/limits for the programs executed by cron, at and exim's .forward? This is to avoid possible DoS by massive resource grabbing by untrusted users. Thanks in advance for your help. -- p.

Re: Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

1999-10-19 Thread Lars Hecking
This bug in the pslatex driver should be fixed in the latest beta. Wojciech Zabolotny writes: > Dear gnuplot developers, > > I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and > reported to you) still exists. > Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in

passing parameters to a SSI in apache

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Varga
How can I pass parameters to an SSI (server-side include)? I invoke the SSI file from a server-parsed html file: test.shtml: ... <--#exec cmd="cginame" --> What I would like to be able to do is to either to set environment variables for the cgi invoked, or set command line parameters for it.

netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., don't run good. 1.

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread Colin Marquardt
* jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just > directories? Do a man ls There, press / (for searching in the manual). Type -d (the text to search). Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext). See? The option -d is it. > A

terminfo for solaris

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Stromas
greetings, while logging to a solaris box and setting back the display to my debian linux box vi misbehaves. some time ago i stumbled upon a fix - there is a terminfo entry that needs to be compiled and the TERMINFO environment variable has to be set to point to it. unfortunately, i lost the refe

retail set

1999-10-19 Thread tf
Hey guys, I was curious if the upcoming retail debian set will "wait" for potato? I was gonna get a potato CD anyway, once they are available. I may as well spend a little more, and support the team. (when can I start putting "Debian/GNU Linux" in my sig line?) -- -t

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:59:42PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Ok, I'd like to create a admin group (adm), and have some > questions. But first, my goals: You might want to have a look at sudo. 'man sudo' and 'man sudoers'. -- Mojahed

[Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and nice afternoon. OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter linux aha152x=0x340,11 it finds my Sony-CD-Rom at ID4. But if I bot from harddisk the aha152x is

/dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hi, I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, a new error msg is generated. How can I find out what is using /dev/audio? Thanks, MaryK

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: : Hello and nice afternoon. : : OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running : but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( : : If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter : : linux aha152x=0x340,11 : :

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: : Hi, : : I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: : "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." : : All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, : a new error msg is generated. : : How can

RE: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
... > If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter > > linux aha152x=0x340,11 Are you using a VLbus card with one of these built in? A something-or-other VL300? If so what is the ide controller chipset? (other than hopeless) > But if I boot from harddisk the aha152x is

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: > "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." > > All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, > a new error msg is generated. > > How can I find o

Re: netscape, arena etc in root

1999-10-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > After installing the system from zero for the 4th time, I made the > mistake of running a few browsers as root from root, so I ended up with > a few arena. lynx and so on directories there, which I deleted thinking > contained only cache or so. Any way, now they run with trouble, i.e., > don't

How to setup a printer?

1999-10-19 Thread peter karlsson
What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? I installed 'printtool' (mainly because it's the only Linux program I've ever used before to set up printers, on a RedHat system), but it just complains about "startup encoding not set", and that doesn't help me much. -- \\// peter

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-19 Thread David Natkins
Look at the append parameter for LILO. Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello and nice afternoon. > > OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running > but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-(( > > If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter > > linux aha152x=0x

Re: How to setup a printer?

1999-10-19 Thread David Z. Maze
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PK> What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? Probably the easiest thing to do is to install the 'lpr' and 'magicfilter' packages; the installation scripts of the latter will prompt you for all of the crucial data about your printer

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: >> >> - >> GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 >> *we all live downstream* >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> /dev/null >> > I still get this when I do depmod -a. I have recompiled my kernel > >

Re: /dev/audio

1999-10-19 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating: > > "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." > > > > All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run, > > a new error m

Off bit question

1999-10-19 Thread Rajesh Mittal
Hi friends , I am really sorry for posting an offbeat question on this mailing list. I want to give facility of dial in on my sun machine.I am using solaris 2.6 What all I have to enable it. Thanks a lot. Rajesh Mittal Th

libapt?

1999-10-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
I am trying to install gnome-apt, but it says its dependent on libapt-pkg2.5, which is not avalible. Where is this package? How can I get it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
hello, I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to: in redhat land the preferred way to manage the rc?.d symlinks was with chkconfig (more typing but works right) or ntsysv (don't work right most of the

Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)

1999-10-19 Thread Joe Block
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:08:02AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > Nathan, > > If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch > > the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do > > the same thing in C :) This unfortunately relies on good coding practi

mc, strange ftp behaviour

1999-10-19 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi folks, i found some strange behaviour with lovely mc. I use two (identical?) potato-systems, one of them two months old, the other just installed from scratch - was formerly a SuSE6.1. I saved the /home from the latter, and now maybe have some struggle with old config-files in my HOMEDIR. The

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