Re: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dude, you have the Happy99 virus on your windows box (you sent it to the list along with this email). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am going to set up a debian linux box and I want to run the samba > server. Obviously I have not done it yet, thus the question. I have > searched in vain, via Sa

Re: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread Svante Signell
According to the mail headers you are sending this message from a Windows95 box. Attached to this mail came also the virus Happy99.exe!! Please remove the virus from your machine!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am going to set up a debian linux box and I want to run the samba > server. Obviousl

Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)

2000-01-28 Thread Tassilo von Parseval
Hi folks, after someone has obviously tried to distribute the happy99.exe (nice try, by the way ;-), I just thought this might be the right time to ask something about wine. As a matter of fact I have two viruses stored as files ( I did not run them though ;-) and I am rather curious to see what t

Re: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread Michael Zielinski
Drankin - FYI - You've got Happy99, you might want to run a virus scan. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am going to set up a debian linux box and I want to run the samba > server. Obviously I have not done it yet, thus the question. I have > searched in vain, via Samba.org, for Debian specifi

Re: InterScan NT Alert

2000-01-28 Thread Martin Schulze
You should not send mail from your »root« account. The »root« is a login that bypasses all security protection on your system. The root account should only be used to perform system administration, and only used for as short a time as possible. You should *not* use the »root« account for daily us

Re: InterScan NT Alert

2000-01-28 Thread Martin Schulze
You should not send mail from your »root« account. The »root« is a login that bypasses all security protection on your system. The root account should only be used to perform system administration, and only used for as short a time as possible. You should *not* use the »root« account for daily us

Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Todd Suess
Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, this was the result. tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicato

RE: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Number one, get rid of the virus. Number 2, samba exists for Debian. "apt-get install samba" would be a good start on an existing Debian box; otherwise select it during the "dselect" part of your initial installation. Paul On 27-Jan-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am going to set up a debian

Re: Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)

2000-01-28 Thread I can. Thank you.
using vmware might be a better option - it creates machines that are completely separated from the rest of your system. if you trash the virtual machine you can just blast the whole thing and be on your way only problem with this is the hardware requirements for vmware are pretty steep - it's slow

RE: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Number one, get rid of the virus. Number 2, samba exists for Debian. "apt-get install samba" would be a good start on an existing Debian box; otherwise select it during the "dselect" part of your initial installation. The best place to check for Debian packages, is at www.debian.org. That is alw

RE: Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)

2000-01-28 Thread Paul Kallstrom
I wish I'd thought of that... Gonna hafta try it and find out, on a standalone box. My first guess would be that wine would dump, but until it's tried, we won't know. Paul BTW, I'm not sure he tried to distribute it; I'd be more inclined to think that he's not very security conscious. (He IS usi

Re: updatedb not working / bug in updatedb

2000-01-28 Thread Todd Suess
I noticed this as well, and I fixed it by copying frcode into the same dir as the updatedb program, it then works fine. I know it's a quick fix, but it worked. Regards, Todd On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After more tinkering around, I think I've found the problem. The probl

Re: Debconf problem after upgrade

2000-01-28 Thread Todd Suess
I get this message at times too, as far as I can tell, it's harmless. Todd On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I started to run 'apt-get upgrade' today and I get this: > > Configuring packages ... > WARNING: Using deprecated debconf compatibility library. > > I stopped the process fr

Help with bootp

2000-01-28 Thread Brian Schramm
I am running Debian Slink fully updated. I am working on hooking up an Xterminal to the network. I am using the bootp server as nothing more then a nfs server so it does not have bind installed on it. I have my other machine maped as the firwall, bind, isp conection and home directory. I have

RE: Laptop loses display

2000-01-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jan-2000 a user wrote: > I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe > > After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank? > Has anyone seen this before? > Could it be the terminal setting? > If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but never

Re: New WindowMaker

2000-01-28 Thread Chris McKillop
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:05:29AM -0500, paul wrote: > > Are there any problems if only one of the wmaker packages is installed? > As I understand from the dpkg bug, it should be okay if there is only a single package installed. > > Are there technical reasons for not continuing to pa

RE: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jan-2000 Todd Suess wrote: > Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get > dist-upgrade, this was the result. > > tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > commun

Re: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicator-smotif-47 > communicator-spellchk-47 gconv-modules libc6-bin netscape-base-4 > netscape-base-47 netscape-java-47 This is caused by the removal of libc6

Re: system requirements for SCSI

2000-01-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers > so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower > computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't > require much from the pr

Re: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... First: your computer is infected with the Happy99 virus... > I am going to set up a debian linux box and I want to run the samba > server. > Obviously I have not done it yet, thus the question. I have searched > in vain, via Samba.org,

problem with slocate package

2000-01-28 Thread Pollywog
After an upgrade (potato) I saw the following error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/slocate_2.1-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I then checked to see if this version of slocate was installed: lilypad:/var/cache/apt/archives#dp

Re: Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)

2000-01-28 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:58:07PM -0500, Paul Kallstrom wrote: > BTW, I'm not sure he tried to distribute it; I'd be more inclined to think > that > he's not very security conscious. (He IS using windows, after all). Indeed, the "beauty" of happy99 is that it inserts itself into winsock and then

Virus Alert

2000-01-28 Thread isvw
InterScan has detected a virus TROJ_SKA in your mail traffic on 01/27/2000 20:45:16 with an action cleaned.

Re: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:46:21PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > Why would an dist-upgrade want to totally remove my Netscape, which works > fine? There is a reason why I like dselect (despite the wonky UI but I've gotten used to that): The key is that libc6 updated, and now conflicts with libc6-bin

Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

2000-01-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:47:36PM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:44:07PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've installed Flash plugin for netscape. Neither of the sites can > > autodetect that the plugin is installed. Even at www.flash.com I had > > to clic

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Dysthe) wrote: [Also to debian-devel] >On 27 Jan, paul wrote: >| 2) Libc5 version works a little better than libc6. > >I tried both. I have never been able to see much difference. Well, I was going to try out the libc6 version for a while when it appeared in potato (

logparser?

2000-01-28 Thread David S. Jackson
I was just wondering if there was a recommended script to use for parsing your nightly logs and mailing yourself a report. I see root gets these little reports about cracklib and setuid changes and so forth. Is there a more extensive script or set of scripts one can use that anyone can recommend?

Re: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Hartmut Figge
Todd Suess wrote: > > Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get > dist-upgrade, this was the result. > > tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > communicator-base-4

/dev/eth0 missing

2000-01-28 Thread Marc Sherman
I just installed potato, and installed the NE2000 driver (ne) for my ethernet card. I manually set the "option=..." and "alias eth0 ne" lines in modules.conf, and it loads correctly on boot (printing a success message to the console). However, when I look in /dev, there is no /dev/eth0 device; am

Re: libz1

2000-01-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
There's also a version in oldlibs (which is the one you're looking for). (this is potato) $ dpkg -s zlib1 Package: zlib1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: oldlibs Installed-Size: 81 Maintainer: Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: zlib Version: 1:1.1.3-5 Depends: libc5

Compiling egcs from Debian source pkg - again.

2000-01-28 Thread Shaun Cloherty
I got the DejaGnu test suite hitch I posted yesterday all sorted out, the build progresses much further now, but is still unsuccessfull, exiting early with; : : stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/ -c -DIN_GCC-g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DHAIFA-I. -I../../gcc -I../../gcc/config ../../gcc/c-lex.c In file

Re: Debian User mail list

2000-01-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Ehren Wilson wrote: > oh and the address I want is [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanx You are gettink Emails Now, Yes? Jason

Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, which made me very sad. What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, without further actions, but I assume that the happy fellow is somewhere in my winbox. Thanks, Antonio.

Re: Is Hard drive too big?

2000-01-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:35:36PM -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: > > > I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new > > harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, > > with a capacity of ~13GB. The f

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-01-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Dysthe) wrote: > > [Also to debian-devel] > > >On 27 Jan, paul wrote: > >| 2) Libc5 version works a little better than libc6. > > > >I tried both. I have never been able to see much difference. > > Well, I was going to try

Re: /dev/eth0 missing

2000-01-28 Thread Howard Mann
Marc Sherman wrote: > > I just installed potato, and installed the NE2000 driver > (ne) for my ethernet card. I manually set the "option=..." > and "alias eth0 ne" lines in modules.conf, and it loads > correctly on boot (printing a success message to the console). > However, when I look in /dev,

Re: New WindowMaker

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, chris said: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:05:29AM -0500, paul wrote: > > > > Are there any problems if only one of the wmaker packages is installed? > > > > As I understand from the dpkg bug, it should be okay if there is > only a single package installed. > > > > > A

netatalk setup

2000-01-28 Thread Guyren G Howe
While there is a debian netatalk distribution, I can't find any useful documentation for getting it working. Most of the instructions I can find refer to compiling and installing it on Red Hat, and the instructions don't match what I have. I've tried searching the debian archive, but it never turn

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread Howard Mann
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, > without further actions, but I assume that the happy fellow is somewhere > in my winbox. > Thanks, > An

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread dyer
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, > without further actions, but I assume that the happy fellow is somewhere > in my winbox. > Thanks, > Anto

RE: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Run regedit, search for happy.exe, then remove the key. Paul On 28-Jan-2000 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, > without further actions, but

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Antonio said: > I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, > without further actions, but I assume that the happy fellow is somewhere > in my winbox. > Yep,

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Go here and read: http://www.pchell.com/internet/happy99.shtml Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, > which made me very sad. > What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, > without further actions, but I assume

Re: netatalk setup

2000-01-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: socket: Invalid argument atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting Thinking I might need to load a module, I ran modconf, but there is nothing about appletalk, atalk or anything similar in the net section there, or anywhere else for that matter. Yet when I do apt-

Reading ext2fs from Windows?

2000-01-28 Thread Todd Suess
I was wondering if anyone knows of a WinBlows Utility for mounting and reading/writing to a ext2fs partition from Windows? It's useful to be able to read and write my vfat partitions from Debian, but is the reverse possible? Since I rarely boot windows anymore, I usually download everything to my

Re: less and color

2000-01-28 Thread Rob
My issue with this is that while -- ls --color=always | less -r -- works nicely, -- ls --color=always > file.txt -- does not ( color codes ). I would like to include aliases to 'ls' and 'less' in my login profile to have '--color' and '-r' respectively, but run into the aforementioned proble

apt-get and the ftp method

2000-01-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
apt-get using http works fine, but I have problems using the ftp method. My sources.list shows: deb ftp://ftp.it.net.au/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.it.net.au/debian-non-US frozen/non-US main contrib non-free but apt-get gives: elm:# apt-get update Ign file: unstable/main

How to use 2 IPs and 1 machine

2000-01-28 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i have 2 static IP address (actually i have 3 IP address one is assigned to a Win95 machine). i don't know the best way to utilize the resources i have. i was kinda wanting to make one IP to be used by my http server and the other to be used by my named and my mail server, but i don't

How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-28 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all the time on my machine is seriously messed up - currently my machine is already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the net). all i want to do i to keep the time on my machine correct.

Re: Booting from an 640MB MO-Disk with LILO?

2000-01-28 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
reiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) > ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) > ll_rw_block:device 08:00:only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) > Added Linux* > what does this mean? In trouble with 2048 by

kernel-image-2.2.14-compact: uname still reports 2.2.13

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: kernel-image-2.2.14-compact Version: 2.2.14-2 Severity: normal [04:09:47 shaul]$ uname -a Linux rakefet 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i586 unknown [04:10:11 shaul]$ ls -l /vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jan 28 03:53 /vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 [04:10:20

Re: apt-get and the ftp method

2000-01-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote: > There is no proxy involved and I can use ncftp to connect to the site so > it's not a firewall problem. I have removed my apt.conf so it's not that. > I also tried "Acquire::Ftp "true";" but could not find any output. The option is Debug::Acquire::Ftp

Re: Debian & SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
there is a debian distribution of SAMBA based on 2.0 its included in slink, and probably potato. i reccomend you use the latest CVS build of samba, as it seems to be MUCH MUCH better then 2.0, despite it's alpha/beta status. I worked with 2.0 for hours trying to fix problems to no avail, installe

Re: /dev/eth0 missing

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
eth0 is not a /dev device dont worry about it nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: msherm >I just installed potato, and installed the NE2000 driver msherm >(ne) for my ethernet card. I manually set the "option=..." msherm >and "alias eth0 ne" lines in modules.conf, and it loads msher

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
time to change to PINE :) nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri >I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, arodri >which made me very sad. arodri >What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, arodri >without further actions, b

Re: kernel-image-2.2.14-compact: uname still reports 2.2.13

2000-01-28 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 04:16:07AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > [04:09:47 shaul]$ uname -a > Linux rakefet 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i586 unknown > [04:10:11 shaul]$ ls -l /vmlinuz > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jan 28 03:53 /vmlinuz -> > /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 > [04:10:

Is the Jan 27 version of Packages.gz for potato/main safe?

2000-01-28 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I've been upgrading my potato installation about every day for months, and usually only a few packages get upgraded. But earlier today, I started my usual upgrade process, and pulled down the latest Packages.gz file for potato/main, and (I use dselect) noticed that many (thirty or more?) of my ins

CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty much everything except www. At the moment, it has a P166, and the load avg is around about 5. The highest once reached to 22. In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is rough

Re: Is the Jan 27 version of Packages.gz for potato/main safe?

2000-01-28 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > I've been upgrading my potato installation about every day for months, > and usually only a few packages get upgraded. But earlier today, I > started my usual upgrade process, and pulled down the latest > Packages.gz file for potato/

Re: Port forwarding

2000-01-28 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:37:13PM -0800, aphro wrote: > if its simple port redirection you could try rinetd, its a snap to setup, > i dont think it performs well under high load though it works great > though. Yes, but I think port forwarding woul do a better job for me. It has been no problem so

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
dual cpus would probably be best, dual cpu mainboards are usually higher quality then single cpu mainboards, which helps. load of 5 to 22 eh..damn. what does that machine do? nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: shao >Hi, shao > I am going to set up a new server which will serve prett

Re: updatedb not working / bug in updatedb

2000-01-28 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After more tinkering around, I think I've found the problem. The problem > is that updatedb is not able to execute the frcode program which it calls > to compress the database. In looking at an older version of updatedb, it > contains the line: > > : ${LIBEXECD

is there a way to see a log of whatever is happening inside the x-window?

2000-01-28 Thread joseph de los santos
Greetings! I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what x-windows is doing because whenever I try to do some things like click on settings or utilities etc, nothing is happening. I'm not sure if there are errors or whatever so I wanted to check and see what was happening. is th

Re: Some phylosofical questions (and kernel questions too)

2000-01-28 Thread Dänzer
--- Luis Campos de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. ftp ftp.kernel.org (get kernel-2.3.40, latest stable kernel until now) > tar/gz format. All 2.3.x (In fact, all kernels with an odd middle number) are unstable by definition. > 5. (as root, too. Same dir) make zImage >At this poi

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread dkphoto
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. That's why i

Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

2000-01-28 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Eric G . Miller" writes: > > > I've installed Flash plugin for netscape. Neither of the sites can > > > autodetect that the plugin is installed. Even at www.flash.com I had > > > to click on "If you know that you have Flash installed" link. > > > Typing "about:plugins" in netscape shows Flash in

Re: Timeservers in the Netherlands

2000-01-28 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:30 PM 1/27/00 +0100, Remco van 't Veer wrote: [snip] >-- >Northold Saddam Hussein amfetamine Roel van Duin Honduras PLO >Kosovo thrust supercomputer NSA Beatrix FSF XTC hacker semtex You KNOW that you're being logged... Euh, SH*T now I'm logged too!!! Sincerely, Usama Bin Laden.

Unidentified subject!

2000-01-28 Thread claude dunand
Est ce que les cartes pci ethernet accton 1207d-tx pci fast ethernet adapter 10/100 szont supportées ? Ou puis je trouver un pilote?Amicalement dunand claude Je possède une version mandrake 6.2 et mon streamer Seagate stt8000A ide atapi , qui est reconu en HDD au lançement de linux ne fonctio

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Most of the time servers are I/O bound. So it would be wise to spend your money on a good NIC, SCSI adapter, SCSI hard disk, fast (IO wise) MOBO, etc. If you can re-use the P166 then do it, otherwise put a nice celeron in your server and spend your money on the I/O stuff... Regards, Onno At 0

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: >already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across >ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used to discipline your clock and

Problems with XFree86 and Debian 2.1

2000-01-28 Thread alfred molina
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 8 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:19:11 +1100, Shao Zhang writes: > > In Australia here, the price of getting two P550 and one P700 is > roughly the same. So should I get two slower CPUs, or one fast > CPU. Which case will the server run faster/perform better? depends whether the load is cp

Re: need Identd

2000-01-28 Thread Mike Horansky
Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the line is in there is there anything else? > Jeanette > Is are there /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.deny files? What text is in them? The next time your try to irc and are denied, take a look at /var/log/daemon.log and see if identd is e

Re: How to use 2 IPs and 1 machine

2000-01-28 Thread Fitsch
Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > hi all > > i have 2 static IP address (actually i have 3 IP address one is assigned to a > Win95 machine). i don't know the best way to utilize the resources i have. > i was kinda wanting to make one IP to be used by my http server and the other > to be used by my

ascii file conversion Mac -> UNIX

2000-01-28 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi all! Are there any program, or perl one-liner, that convert Mac ascii files (with CR only as line terminator) to Unix ascii format? I have only found the dos2unix proggie. TIA Hans Ekbrand

X

2000-01-28 Thread Robyn Manning
I need to know which packages I need to install to run X. I have installed Linux from 7 floppies and I need X also, I have the following packages installed - kdeadmin kdebase kdelibs kdesupport ldso libc6 libncurses libpng li

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I was running a Web-Server on a GigaByte GA 586 HX with a Intel Pentium 200. Now I am using a GigaByte GA 586 DX which is a Dual-Pentium. OK, I have no two Pentium 200 but two AMD K5-166 and I have tried tu use them. The Two-K5-166 version is fast as a P II with 500 MHz. With the kernel

Re: Is the Jan 27 version of Packages.gz for potato/main safe?

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Guys, Last night I have downloaded the latest Base-Install and then I have used dselect to install MC, NFS-Server, PROFTPD, SAMBA and RSYNC. At the access methode "APT-GET" I have gotten following message: Need to get 11.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 1935 KB will be used. You are abo

Re: IMP

2000-01-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Lars Bungum wrote: > Mario, > > I am having the same problem with IMP as it seems you have - can't get > the folders to work as they should. > > I am just wondering if you found a solution to the problem? Hi Lars, Unfortunately, I haven't found any solution yet; a

Re: IMP

2000-01-28 Thread Lars Bungum
> Unfortunately, I haven't found any solution yet; and what's > worse - didn't receive any help from debian-user; I sent 2 messages > about the problem, but a) nobody cares, or b) nobody has this problem. > I tried to found the problem in the php3 code but I'm not > experienced with it.

`Powered by Debian' buttons

2000-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, bit of a weird request maybe, but I'm putting together a bit of a web-site, and I want the world to know that I'm proud to be using debian. I've got buttons (ie. little retangular graphics) saying it's powered by vim, mySQL, and php, and I'd love to add a little debian button to it as we

Re:

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, what do you do to install Linux from Floppys ??? I have tried it, but without success. Please can you help me ??? Oh yes, the package you need: Look in the packages(.gz) and search for a package you desire. E.g., "Package: fvwm95" Then go some lines down and you will find a line beginnin

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #171

2000-01-28 Thread Daan Mol
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Problems with kfm

2000-01-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have instaled kde 1.1.2 (after instaling 1.1.1) apparently with no problems but, kfm refuses to work :( --- bash-2.01$ kfm Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-1000/index.txt' X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2 Major opcode: 12 Aborted bash-2.01

Re: is there a way to see a log of whatever is happening inside the x-window?

2000-01-28 Thread David Z. Maze
joseph de los santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: joseph> I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what joseph> x-windows is doing because whenever I try to do some things joseph> like click on settings or utilities etc, nothing is happening. If you started X with 'startx', error mess

IP-Port-Forwarding under 2.0.36 (LRP)

2000-01-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I was looking for the file to "IP-Port-Forwarding". I do not know the filename exactly, but can anyone send me it compiled for kernel 2.0.36. Possible with a man page ??? How about depencies ??? Oh yes, now I have running on my Workstation v2.2 which does contain only ipchains. Thanks

Re: `Powered by Debian' buttons

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) wrote: >bit of a weird request maybe, but I'm putting together a bit of a >web-site, and I want the world to know that I'm proud to be using >debian. I've got buttons (ie. little retangular graphics) saying it's >powered by vim, mySQL, and php, and I'd love to add a

should named listen on udp ports over 1024 that change on restarts?

2000-01-28 Thread Robert Varga
I have noticed a strange thing. Bind allocates an udp port above 1024 randomly. Is this normal? It is compiled from the source on the debian ftp-mirror. It is version 8.2.2p5-7 I run bind as user/group named:named. Robert Varga

IP aliasing on loopback ( Slink )

2000-01-28 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, Please help me. I am trying to do IP aliasing on loopback, i,e create lo:0, lo:1 etc. The steps outlined in IP Aliasing mini-howto don't seem to work for me. Step 1 : I do /sbin/ifconfig lo:0 192.168.0.1 Now 192.168.0.1 appears as lo:0 in ifconfig Step 2 : Then I do

Re: ascii file conversion Mac -> UNIX

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Ekbrand) wrote: >Are there any program, or perl one-liner, that convert Mac ascii files >(with CR only as line terminator) to Unix ascii format? I have only found >the dos2unix proggie. perl -pe 's/\r/\n/g' Or, for fun: perl -015l012pe1 :), -- Colin Watson

Re: Reading ext2fs from Windows?

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Suess) wrote: >I was wondering if anyone knows of a WinBlows Utility for mounting and >reading/writing to a ext2fs partition from Windows? It's useful to be able >to read and write my vfat partitions from Debian, but is the reverse possible? >Since I rarely boot windows any

Re: Lilo & hdb

2000-01-28 Thread Matt Folwell
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:33:23AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: > You're right about the linux device structure regarding physical disks. I > however am using the same map-drive lines in my lilo.conf as you are, > except I am booting windows from the primary slave (hdb1). Why is it that > the s

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by > > page and change pages when I want to

Re: less and color

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> On 26/1/2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an > >alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping > >ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of > >more. However, when piping ls stdout to t

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the out

apt-get wants to remove netscape?

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
[15:56:55 /tmp]# apt-get dist-upgrade -s |less Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicator-smotif-47 communicator-spellchk-47 gconv-modules libc6-bin navigator-base-47 navigator-nethelp-

Re: less and color

2000-01-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Then ls is sensing its output device and works accordingly? How does it do > that? With the isatty(3) function. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which > first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: > /dev/cdrom > > ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. > > No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is th

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David said: > OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is > working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave > up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered > that my system sees all the folders on

Firewall question

2000-01-28 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a question about how powerful my firewall computer should be. I want to make a firewall for a small constellation of computers in my living room. Behind the firewall I will have two Win98 computers, one computer which boots Win98 or several flavors of Unix/Linux, and one Hurd box. Th

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