Re: Strange file names

1999-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin? > ss1:/usr/bin$ ls -l | more > total 9010 > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root20720 Dec 24 1998 [ the 'test' program, widely used in shell scripts > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-16 Thread Oki DZ
Dan Everton wrote: > You'll just see gibberish in all ssh related packets. Not much worth seeing > really. Well, that's the point. If I see all thos "unreadable" packets, it means that ssh is working, right? (Even though I have to admit that I have no clue when it doesn't work.) Oki -- Shells

Re: New release over due

1999-11-16 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 05:01:53PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote: > > > > > I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown > > > extremely out date. > > > However failing to release a mini potato at this time,

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On 15/11/99 Phil Brutsche wrote: You're just being paranoid. I have all those files too, and my server has, most definitely, been cracked. ^^ so these files were not left by the cracker who cracked your system :-) Ethan Benson ~

Re: umount

1999-11-16 Thread matthschulz
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one > Dave> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero > Dave> activity, so it refuses to u

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
William T Wilson said: > Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use There is that, I suppose... The current hda is an older 2.5 G Western Digital drive while hdb is a 6 G Quantum Fireball UDMA. I'm assuming that I'd get better performance out of the Fireball if it wer

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
Marco d'Itri said: > Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd. I see... Sure enough, I'm using the nfs-server package, which is a user- space nfs server. Is there a deb of a kernel-space nfsd? And why is the user-space nfsd the (apparent) Debian standard, particularly given the l

Somewhat off topic: XiG Xserver installation wrapper?

1999-11-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
Has anyone managed to make a deb package out of the Xi Graphics X server? We bought it cos it has multiheaded support, and before I beat my head against the wall for too long I thought perhaps someone else had luck with this software ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >You're just being paranoid. I have all those files too, and my server > >has, most definitely, been cracked. >^^ Damn. I hate typos. > so these files were not left by the cracker who cracked your

Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Bart Szyszka
> ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my > server) is safe. Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx

Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I would like to setup IPChains on my machine. I can't seem to find any file under /etc/init.d/ for ipchains (networking only handles spoof protection). Where do you folks start your ipchains or ipfwadm rules? Thanks, Bryan

[OT] Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my > > server) is safe. > > Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux > systems? Yes it would, actually. > Mine was called Debby Anne

Re: Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads...

1999-11-16 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think rsync would work well for this. No need to keep old versions > arround for diffing. This would be cool; it's a shame that rsync doesn't have a library that encapsulates its functionality -- if it did, it would seem simple to just bang that into apt-get... -Mile

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I would like to setup IPChains on my machine. I can't seem to find > any file under /etc/init.d/ for ipchains (networking only handles > spoof protection). Where do you folks start your ipchains or ipfwadm > rules? I put a script call

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:36:26PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote: > > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > > > I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you do that you > > > suggest that debian has a heavily modified, enhanced v

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Thanks, Just out of curiosity, when in the boot process are the scripts in /etc/rc.boot executed? Bryan On 16-Nov-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> I would like to setup IPChains on my machine. I can't seem to find >> any file und

wine error

1999-11-16 Thread tf
Hey guys, trying to run an app under wine, I get a load of errors. Have any idea what I can do about this? I get a few screens full of lines similiar to: err:ole:GetLocaleInfo32A 'SMONTHNAME9' not supported for your language. -- -t

Capture sound/video under linux

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a stable(appears) program available. XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14) http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html i just recorded my first .avi clip with full sound and vid

is your diald (potato) crashing too?

1999-11-16 Thread Pollywog
Is your diald 0.99.1-0.1 crashing too? I am using Potato and I have had to restart diald several times today. -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Nov, Bryan Scaringe wrote about "Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules" > Thanks, > Just out of curiosity, when in the boot process are the > scripts in /etc/rc.boot executed? > Note: The /etc/rc.boot directory is obsolete in the potato release. It is replaced by the /etc/rcS.d dir

Re: [OT] Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
Phil Brutsche said: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux > > systems? Doesn't everyone? > > Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby. > > I also have Giedi, Fury, and a SPARCs

Re: New release over due

1999-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Jesse writes: > What I'd really like to see is more frequent incremental releases of > Stable, bug/security fixes and updates only. Say once each month. I'd like to see the package-pool system implemented. > Encourage developers to maintain Stable versions of their packages as > long as possible

Re: Problems with rlogin!!!

1999-11-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Don't use rlogin. Use ssh. On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:35:57PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > John Sanabria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Somebody know how can i let that others machines can get into my > > machine using rsh. > > > > I put .rhosts in my home user, but always request me for my

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
This is what you should see..something along these lines: XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: August 23 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a ne

Potato, X and backspace/delete

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Baker
This should be an easy one but I've spent a few weeks on and off digging about in the archives and haven't run across the answer. When I upgrade slink->potato my keyboard mapping broke so that now Delete acts the same as Backspace (deletes to the left). I can fix this manually for xemacs with a

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: pollyw >Don't you mean /etc/host.conf? doh..i guess i do :) on irix its stored in /etc/resolv.conf ..didnt know debian stored it in host.conf .. is host.conf a standard thing ? i seem to remember(incorrectly maybe) that my slackware 3.2/3.4 also stored it in

Re: wine.conf

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, tf wrote: hmf >Hey guys, hmf > hmf >can someone please send me a copy of his or her wine.conf? my "wine" is hmf >pretty mangled, and I'd like to try to track down the problem. sure see below hmf > hmf >I just want to run one program (and I believe people have done so with h

Mail disappearing into the ether

1999-11-16 Thread Marshal Wong
Hello everyone, I just found out this morning that no mail is leaving my computer, which is really odd. I'm writing this on a web-based e-mail, so please excuse the ='s at the end of each line. After looking through my exim log, I came upon something funny. I seem to have the domain name iceman

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote: litban >I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin? uhoh!! litban >-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root20720 Dec 24 1998 [ dont know what that is ..but i have it too, i cant get dpkg to identify it .. litban >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Rotten >4. How is "Linux" pronounced: "lih-nucks" or "lie-nucks"? > > lih-nucks i think is the 'real' way but i always say LIE NUCKS. some hate > me for it..but i dont care :) > > nate "Linux" is based on "Minix", and Linus' name (which is not pronounced LIE-nus, but the finnish LEE-noos). Yo

Re: Mail disappearing into the ether

1999-11-16 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Sorry if this isn't much help, but running eximconfig again might help. On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:51:10PM -0800, Marshal Wong wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just found out this morning that no mail is leaving my computer, which is > really odd. I'm writing this on a web-based e-mail, so please

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: Bryan. >I would like to setup IPChains on my machine. I can't seem to find Bryan. >any file under /etc/init.d/ for ipchains (networking only handles Bryan. >spoof protection). Where do you folks start your ipchains or ipfwadm Bryan. >rules? on my home

Re: wine error

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, tf wrote: hmf >Hey guys, hmf > hmf >trying to run an app under wine, I get a load of errors. Have any idea hmf >what I can do about this? I get a few screens full of lines similiar hmf >to: hmf > hmf >err:ole:GetLocaleInfo32A 'SMONTHNAME9' not supported for your language. hmf

Re: umount

1999-11-16 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one > Dave> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero > Da

fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep getting errors and having to start again from scratch. Please mail answers to me at a.campbell.doctors.org.uk as well as to this list or I may not see them!

Re: g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependence

1999-11-16 Thread Charles Kaufman
Dear Kevin > dpkg -i foo bar seemed a little bit criptic to me. In case it was to you as > well, you can just type > > dpkg -i g++*.deb libstdc++2.9-dev*.deb > > Both packages will be installed without any problem. I know this because I > had > the same question as you had, and this was the

Re: Auto blanking of xscreensaver

1999-11-16 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I have xscreensaver and xlock installed on Slink. When I lock my > screen, everything works fine for about 10 minutes and then my display > goes blank. Is there any way I could keep the screensaver running > longer without the blanking? Although I have

Re: Mail disappearing into the ether

1999-11-16 Thread Marshal Wong
From: "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mail disappearing into the ether Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:01:59 -0600 > Sorry if this isn't much help, but running eximconfig again might help. > > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:51:10PM -0800, Marshal Wong wrote: > > Hello everyone,

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
Dwayne C . Litzenberger said: > LYE-nucks is totally unfounded (you just don't > pronounce his name that way). Don't know where you're from, but, yes, in the US, "Linus" _is_ normally pronounced "line-us". True, it's not the way Mr. Torvalds is likely to say his name, but it's no more incorrect t

Checking quotas and the bootup process

1999-11-16 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, Currently /etc/init.d/quota runs at position 20 in runlevel 2 (default installation) and this tends to take a very long time to run at bootup on one particular server, and because a lot of the other services tend to startup afterwards, either for alphabetic reasons within position 20, or they

Encounter with Satan

1999-11-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have visited Satan's site. I think it is a useful tool for testing your systems' security. But when I visited www.debian.org, I didn't see any mention about it. There is a version for Linux, but all I can get is the tarball (after you have gotten used to apt-get, tarballs are supposedly som

seg. faults & bus errors gone

1999-11-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I apt-get'd "file" recently, and I didn't notice any seg. faults or bus errors. Does apt-get have a remote "punishment" system for anyone who tinkering with default paths? (ie: If it finds symlinks that are not supposed to be there, then apt-get produces those horrible error messages. Why cou

Re: umount

1999-11-16 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:21:02PM -0500, matthschulz wrote > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > "Dave" == Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? > > one > > Dave> of my cd drives is constantly tou

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-16 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:56:29PM -0800, aphro wrote > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > litban >I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin? > > uhoh!! > > litban >-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root20720 Dec 24 1998 [ > > dont know what that is ..but i have it too, i

Re: New release over due

1999-11-16 Thread Fabien Ninoles
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Noah L. Meyerhans writes: > > You know, you had merely to ask on the list about making your > > installation of debian less out-dated. > > I believe he made it quite clear that he can't get past the Debian spam > filters. > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > >

All of the sudden AccelX problems.

1999-11-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
Something Dselect did screwed up X. I think it upgraded xfree-common or something like that. The result was X not starting. I reinstalled all of AcceleratedX, and applied all the patches. Now, however, Xsetup says "Unsupport $TERM varible: "linux"" It gives the same error with vt100, vt102, an

Re: Encounter with Satan

1999-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/11/99 Oki DZ wrote: I have visited Satan's site. I think it is a useful tool for testing your systems' security. But when I visited www.debian.org, I didn't see any mention about it. There is a version for Linux, but all I can get is the tarball (after you have gotten used to apt-get, tar

Seg. faults & bus errors

1999-11-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I apt-get'd "file" recently, and I didn't notice any seg. faults or bus errors. Does apt-get have a remote "punishment" system for anyone who tinkering with default paths? (ie: If it finds symlinks that are not supposed to be there, then apt-get produces those horrible error messages. Why cou

Encounter with Satan

1999-11-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have visited Satan's site. I think it is a useful tool for testing (whether they are crackable or not) your systems' security. But when I visited www.debian.org, I didn't see any mention about it. There is a version for Linux, but all I can get is the tarball (after you have gotten used to a

Re: Encounter with Satan

1999-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Oki DZ wrote: > I have visited Satan's site. I think it is a useful tool for testing > (whether they are crackable or not) your systems' security. But when I > visited www.debian.org, I didn't see any mention about it. There is a > version for Linux, but all I can get is the tarball (after you have

modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Jameson Burt
I wish to both interactively type commands to my modem and send files to it via xmodem or zmodem. (I do not want to dial some phone number as I communicate with my modem) I didn't see how to really do this with "cu"; seyon and minicom want to dial phone numbers but not just the modem. I want to do

Netscape problem with IMAP

1999-11-16 Thread Alex V . Toropov
Hi all, I've using Netscape communicator 4.5-1 from stable for about 2 months without problems. Suddenly messenger stop working. It display several error window with topmost containing message "Out of memory. Close some apps and retry" (Not exact words but this meaning.) on startup (Browser still

14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 05:12:41AM +, John Hasler wrote: > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Over a 28.8 dialup? ROTFL. I do it over 14.4 kbs... (sorry I couldn't resist). Of course, it would be nice if transfer rates would maintain 14.4kbs, but something seems to be wrong with my PPP (or ISPs) s

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote: bam >Anyone got any suggestions how to fix this problem? I have tcpdumped my bam >side of the connection, and the problem seems to be my computer waiting bam >ages for remote data. bam > bam >This problem is driving me up the wall - as I have 14.4kbps, I feel

halt at: Configuring packages ...

1999-11-16 Thread jack
hi, I did a routine upgrading. OK with apt-get update, but apt-get dist-upgrade caused seg faults when it's trying to setup xserver-mach64. Then, after exit X, I did dist-upgrade again. it told me to do "dpkg --configure -a" first. I did. then apt-get upgrade went not too far and stopped for

Re: scsi boot install

1999-11-16 Thread Marek Andricik
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:26:14AM +0100, Onno wrote: > > This is an old slink bug, there are install disks for the > Adaptec SCSI controller you have, look at the mail > archives. > > The potato indtall disks seems to work fine... They did not work for me. Slink one hangs right after the (scsi0

Adding Styles to Blackbox window manager

1999-11-16 Thread David J. Kanter
After untarring a downloaded Style for Blackbox into my home directory, how can I get it to appear as a menu entry? Do I have to manually create a new menu item (e.g., My Styles) for it? If so, then can I [include] the entire Debian menu tree in my definition and just have the tail end be the entri

Latest Acct package broken?

1999-11-16 Thread Todd Suess
I just did my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, and it downloaded about 26 packages, one of which was acct 6.3.5-16. After downloading all the packages, apt went right into configuring packages. and it stopped. and sat. and sat. I let it sit about a half hour with no hard drive activity, before I

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> I want to do the following for my USRobotics V.everything courier modem, >AT~X! #starts an xmodem or zmodem session. >send a file to the modem, replacing its firmware. > WHAT SOFTWARE MIGHT I USE FOR THIS DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE MODEM? You may use minicom with X modem file tra

Problems with PostScript fonts in tetex in debian slink

1999-11-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, When I use the "pslatex" package in latex documents in debian-slink, I get the following errors: == dvips: Checksum mismatch in ptmri8r dvips: Checksum mismatch in ptmri8r dvips: Checksum mismatch in psyr == I ignore

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Onno
BEWARE: Follow the instructions in IPCHAINS HOWTO... BUT the HOWTO contains SEVERE flaws!!! Create a script to setup ipchains and run it early in the bootup procedure. I have a script called 'ipchains' in /etc/init.d and made a symbolic link called 'S39ipchains' to '/etc/init.d/ipchains' in the

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:58:36PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:36:26PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote: > > > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > > > > > I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you d

Re: scsi boot install

1999-11-16 Thread Onno
Strange, did you try the specific install disks for the Adaptec SCSI controller??? Onno At 08:39 AM 11/16/99 +0100, Marek Andricik wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:26:14AM +0100, Onno wrote: > > This is an old slink bug, there are install disks for the > Adaptec SCSI controller you have, look

Project stuff

1999-11-16 Thread Urban Gabor
Does anybody know project management tools for linux. I would like to have something similar to M$ Project. :-)) Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.

X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Hi, Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling when you have a virtual display size larger than the physical display size ? Bernhard

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-16 Thread Jens Guenther
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:13:55PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > aphro wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: > > > > jpb >In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license > > jpb >the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who > > jpb >are t

fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Martyn Pearce
Anthony Campbell writes: | Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as | it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep | getting errors and having to start again from scratch. | | Please mail answers to me at a.campbell.doctors.org.uk as well as t

Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:49:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as > it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep > getting errors and having to start again from scratch. > > Please mail answers to me at

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > > ..you might try different INIT strings too ..the one i use for my 56k > modem is about 50 characters long :/ i programmed it into the ROM now tho > so when i hit ATZ it uses that string. could you share some info on init strings with me? I'm trying to do si

problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi guys, I have the following problem with sawmill 0.15: When ever the ~/.sawmillrc file is present (empty or contaning the sample lines from the FAQ: (bind-keys global-keymap "C-M-ESC" '(system "xterm &")) ), I get the message from the Desktop Pager Applet

SAMBA probs

1999-11-16 Thread Rune Linding
Hi i cant see files like these from windows workstations via samba: ls Run Folder-99:2f11:2f11 13.15 we can see the dir but if we go down, we cant see these: A11SampleABK-HO-6 A7SampleABK-HO-4.Seq just ordinary files with -rw-r--r-- i dont get it -- Best Regards :) Rune Li

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:19:56AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling > when you have a virtual display size larger than > the physical display size ? I think the answer is contained in the question ;) If you set a virtual screen larger than the r

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Theoretically you should be able to use minicom to perform the xmodem transfer... unfortunately I was never able to make this work when I needed to flash my modem (also a V.everything). In the end I installed Win95 into what had formerly been my swap partition, and performed the update from there.

Re: Getting modelines for my monitor

1999-11-16 Thread Klaus Drews
--- Begin Message --- |>From root Wed Nov 17 06:46:56 1999 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail.ngi.de by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.3) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Wed, 17 Nov 1999 06:46:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debia

Netscape error

1999-11-16 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all I've problems with Netscape communicator messanger with IMAP protocol. I've used this for about 2 months without any problems. But suddenly it stop works. When I try to start messenger it shows error window saing that memory is low and hangs. (The hole communicator with browser and etc) I

Re: Getting modelines for my monitor

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Servis
Try the modeline generator at http://www.inria.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines. It will give you lots of choices that will be a good start. You can use xvidtune to fine tune the one you want. *- On 15 Nov, Arcady Genkin wrote about "Getting modelines for my monitor" > > I have just bought a View

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling > > when you have a virtual display size larger than > > the physical display size ? > > I think the answer is contained in the question ;) > If you set a virtual screen larger than the resolution you use, > it is to have...

Re: Checking quotas and the bootup process

1999-11-16 Thread Russell Coker
>Currently /etc/init.d/quota runs at position 20 in runlevel 2 (default >installation) and this tends to take a very long time to run at bootup on >one particular server, and because a lot of the other services tend to >startup afterwards, either for alphabetic reasons within position 20, or >they

AST fourport card

1999-11-16 Thread Patrick
Hi all, I have an AST fourport card (or compatible one, don't really know, on it it's written : AST 4061 VER2.0 FCC ID:H9MSUN6304) and I don't manage to make it function on an Debian slink box (kernel 2.2.13) even with all the comments present in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial specifically for AST cards.

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:48:52AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Maybe I re-formulate my Question: > Is there something (a Key combination) that locks > the physical display to a fixed position on the > virtual display (=prevents scrolling). Sorry Bernhard, I don't know it it exists. JY -- Jea

Re: Capture sound/video under linux

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:14:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: > For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of > being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a > stable(appears) program available. > > XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14) Sorry to disturb you again Nate, I'm unde

re:Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has >named their Linux >systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've >shortened it to Debby. The linux box in my office is named 'Penguin', there is also a motororla power stack running PPC linux called 'MotoPenguin'. My box at home was 'Dop

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Nov, Bernhard Rieder wrote about "Re: X11 virtual display size" > > Maybe I re-formulate my Question: > Is there something (a Key combination) that locks > the physical display to a fixed position on the > virtual display (=prevents scrolling). > Hmmm, don't know who to do this with X i

Re: Latest Acct package broken?

1999-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/11/99 Todd Suess wrote: I just did my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, and it downloaded about 26 packages, one of which was acct 6.3.5-16. After downloading all the packages, apt went right into configuring packages. and it stopped. and sat. and sat. I let it sit about a half hour wit

Re: scsi boot install

1999-11-16 Thread Marek Andricik
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:38:23AM +0100, Onno wrote: > > Strange, did you try the specific install disks for the > Adaptec SCSI controller??? No, I built new kernel for me to be able to install. But potato disks should work and it was stated in previous email. And they did not work for on my PC..

Sane / Scanner problem

1999-11-16 Thread mheyes
I have scsi generic support, and aha152x support compiled in the kernel (potato with 2.2.13) and have sane installed. The scsi card is Adaptec 1505. The kernel recognizes the card fine. I didn't have the sg devices in my /dev directory, so I did a MAKEDEV sg to make them. I made the sym. link fro

Re: New release over due

1999-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Fabien Ninoles writes: > That's why I download by night [which cost nothing here]. We have only one phone line, which I cannot tie up for hours at a time, even at night. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Danc

PowerPC potato

1999-11-16 Thread Marcin Kurc
Anyone have PowerPC Installation docs? I'm getting 404 for the links at debian.org. Never installed any linux distro on PowerPC so I probably will need the docs :) -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: NIS

1999-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Marcin Kurc wrote: > I was a little bored today so I looked into the new NIS package. > It works fine if you change a small thing :) > Check out your /var/yp/Makefile, you probably have an entry like this: > > # Should we merge the passwd file with the shadow file ? > # MERGE_PASSWD=true|false > M

Apache-SSL: Can't get XBitHack to work.

1999-11-16 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am trying to enable SSI using the XbitHack option. However, it won't work either from adding "XbitHack on" to config files or to add it in a ..htaccess file. I have another box running "standard" Apache. No such problems there. I am running Apache-SSL on a Debian Slink box. Any ideas what

Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get the panel to show up in every virtual desktop? I'm running the latest from potato. Thank you, -- Pedro

ttys

1999-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
hi what are the permissions on /dev/console supposed to be? what about /dev/tty0? also i am getting a sh: device /dev/tty not configured twice at at bootup and shutdown but I am not sure what script is doing it (or why), i appears right between ssh and openssl. thanks Best Regards, Etha

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

1999-11-16 Thread Bryan Scaringe
thanks too all who replied. I think that for now, I will do something like what is suggested below, except to run it AFTER the networking is up, since the scripts depend on me knowing my IP Address, which I get through DHCP (so networking has to be up). Shouldn't leave me volnerable for more than

Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hi, Yes there is! Add this option in your .fetchmailrc file -K, --nokeep delete new messages after retrieval -gnana Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as > it's fetched?

scsi boot install: similar problems...

1999-11-16 Thread Josh Duncan
Hello all, I am new to this list, so please bear with me if this has been said/asked before (I tried searching the web archives of the list but found virtually no relevant info) I seem to be having similar install problems to Marek Andricik here.. in that I can't install debian on a system that

Re: halt at: Configuring packages ... <>

1999-11-16 Thread jack
I manually installed several packages by apt-get install and found it halt when configuring acct package.

test

1999-11-16 Thread Paul McHale
test Sorry for the test message, ISP problems ... - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile: 937-371-2828 Fax:413-215-3232 Home: 937-25

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-16 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jameson Burt wrote: > I wish to both interactively type commands to my modem and send files to it > via > xmodem or zmodem. > (I do not want to dial some phone number as I communicate with my modem) > I didn't see how to really do this with "cu"; > seyon and minicom want to d

Re: problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Herbert Ho
have you tried restarting sawmill after you've gotten this messages? you can do this by clicking mouse button 3 on the root window. if this doesn't work, i'd suggest reposting this question on the sawmill mailing list...which will probable get you more reponse. =) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hope that hel

Re: problems with .sawmillrc

1999-11-16 Thread Herbert Ho
=) seems you already have posted to the sawmill mailing list...nm. *grin* herbert On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:38:54AM -0600, Herbert Ho wrote: > have you tried restarting sawmill after you've gotten this messages? > you can do this by clicking mouse button 3 on the root window. > > if this doe

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