Re: using tcp.wrappers on echo server?

2000-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:24:39AM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > Hi all, > > have a customer who wants to use our echo server from two addresses only. > > have specified them in hosts.allow and hosts.deny as follows: > > /etc/hosts.allow > > echo: 203.6.6.6/255.255.255.255 > > /etc/hosts.

problem reading vim online dox

2000-06-16 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi happy people. In vim, if I type :help I get Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt" not found Press RETURN or enter command to continue I get this _exact_ same error message if i type any other help command, eg :help uganda The help files are in the vim-rt package, /usr/s

Problems with PCI modem.

2000-06-16 Thread PeHaSys
I've bought computer parts through compuplus and built a computer for me. I have, in my opinion, a weird problem. Modem is (from output of lspci -v) "Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com USR 56k Inte

kernel-2.2.16

2000-06-16 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi, I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug in the Linux kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade. So where can I find the kernel-2.2.16 source? This version is OK, I presume? OK! Thanks! Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

arp fails under potato

2000-06-16 Thread Alexander Perry
A dualboot machine has Win98, with Potato x86/linux installed using the test CDs as available from about three weeks ago. It did not have the option of being a slink machine because the application requires utah-glx for accelerated 3D support. All my local machines are slink->potato upgrades; this

Re: kernel-2.2.16

2000-06-16 Thread ktb
Umum Wijoyo wrote: > > Hi, > > I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug in the Linux > kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade. > So where can I find the kernel-2.2.16 source? This version is OK, I > presume? > > OK! Thanks! http://www.kernel.org/ hth, kent

Re: kernel-2.2.16

2000-06-16 Thread Matthew Dalton
ftp.kernel.org and it's various mirrors I guess in Indonesia it wouldn't be unusual to use the Australian mirror... plus that's the only one I know the URL for anyway... ftp.au.kernel.org Umum Wijoyo wrote: > > I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug in the Linux > kernel, a

Huge font

2000-06-16 Thread Glen Sawtell
Hi, I am a new debian user and I have a problem which none of my debian-using friends have come across. It seems that some apps like netscape, GIMP, spruce etc seem to be using a large size helvetica font for the text on buttons and input fields etc. It's quite annoying and I don't think it's

Re: Blinkenlights?

2000-06-16 Thread Engelen
> I cobbled together a kernel module to do this on the parallel port, > and a python module to drive the driver, plus a python program to > test it. Why do you want a kernel module? Can't I just use the 'outb' command in c (#include "asm/io.h" or so)? of course this requires root priviliges, but

Re: kernel-2.2.16

2000-06-16 Thread Dave Whiteley
I read somewhere that the 2.2.15 kernel in the current potato distribution has already been patched with the security fixes. Am I wrong? Dave > Umum Wijoyo wrote: >> >> I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug in >> the Linux >> kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade.

Re: Huge font

2000-06-16 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Glen Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am a new debian user and I have a problem which none of my debian-using >friends have come across. It seems that some apps like netscape, GIMP, spruce >etc >seem to be using a large size helvetica font for the text on buttons and

Re: mouse gpm/xwindow conflict revisited

2000-06-16 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
Preben Randhol wrote: > I have to turn off gpm every time I start the machine. I don't > understand why gpm starts as I'm sure I deleted the S20gpm link in > /etc/rc3.d. assuming that your /etc/inittab is untouched, you should remove it from /etc/rc2.d, however, using update-rc.d is recommended.

Re: Huge font

2000-06-16 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
> I am a new debian user and I have a problem which none of my > debian-using friends have come across. It seems that some apps like > netscape, GIMP, spruce etc seem to be using a large size helvetica > font for the text on buttons and input the FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" should

Re: Still about fetchmail...

2000-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The fetchmail FAQ isn't very detailed either, it just mentions to >install flex instead of using lex. I'm sure, you can find flex on >http://www.freshmeat.net/ Isn't 'apt-get install flex' much easier? :) -- Colin Watson

IDE/DMA problems?

2000-06-16 Thread Horacio MG
Hello, currently I'm entering the BIOS quite often for enabling/disabling the IDE/SCSI boot, so that I can boot from an IDE (UDMA) HD or a SCSI HD as needed. All of a sudden, I've started to see some message from the kernel. Here is the 'dmesg' relevant part: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on

setting up ipmasq

2000-06-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have recompiled my kerenel to have all the required modules for ipmasq. Then I apt-get installed ipmasq package. My impression is that things should work straight away... But I am getting network unreachable when trying to access internet from a box be

AGP

2000-06-16 Thread Pablo Fanjul Gómez
Hi, ¿exists any problem with AGP video card for configuring X? sorry about my inglish, and thanks

Re: kernel-2.2.16

2000-06-16 Thread Corey Popelier
No you're not wrong. The debian packages for 2.2.15-3 address the recently proclaimed kernel exploits in regards to the POSIX setuid issues. Kernels for 2.0.x are not effected, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x users are advised to update. Full information is on the Debian website, linked off the main page. Ch

nroff 2 latex?

2000-06-16 Thread Dave Whiteley
Does anybody know of a filter that will do most (or even all) of the work of converting old documents in nroff format into latex? Dave -- E-Mail: Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Jun-2000 Time: 11:44:01 This message was sent by XFMail -

truss

2000-06-16 Thread John Gosling \(GOSLIJA @ GBNUHO\)
Date: 16-06-2000 11:45:13 AM Telephone: 680982 Subject: truss Hi, can you tell me what the LINUX equivalent of SVR4 'truss' is please. I,ve found 'gdb' but it is not suffient. Help! Regards John

Re: truss

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Norris
> Hi, can you tell me what the LINUX equivalent of SVR4 'truss' is please. > I,ve found 'gdb' but it is not suffient. You want 'strace'. Regards, Rob. pgpIYpvNSX9sI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Aureal Vortex2 soundcard in Woody

2000-06-16 Thread Martin Bishop
Hi Bruce, I don't know if this will work for you or not, but what I did was I made a soft link to the linux header in /usr/src/ called linux. After that I could compile the drive fine. See how you go. MB Bruce Z. Lysik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > > Been trying to get my Aureal Vortex

lilo

2000-06-16 Thread ddsmith
Howdy... Can someone tell me why LILO just hangs on LI when I start my machine? If you would be so kind as to take that a step farther and let me know how I can fix it I would be greatly appreciative. thanks

Re: lilo

2000-06-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try adding lniear to your lilo.conf and rerun lilo... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy... > Can someone tell me why LILO just hangs on LI when I start my > machine? > > If you would be so kind as to take that a step farther and let me > know how I can fix it

Re: setting up ipmasq

2000-06-16 Thread dyer
Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have recompiled my kerenel to have all the required modules > for ipmasq. Then I apt-get installed ipmasq package. My > impression is that things should work straight away... > > But I am getting network unreachable when trying to access

RE: serial mouse

2000-06-16 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
1) First make sure your are describing the mouse port as: /dev/ttyS0 NOT /ttys0 2) If you have installed gpm-frozenVer.deb, this update sets up to new mouse devices: /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctl and more over,with WARNING sets /dev/mouse -> /dev/gpmdata (a Bug report has been filed) Thus i

RE: Still about fetchmail...

2000-06-16 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
I had a similar problem. To fix it I downloaded (from metalab) a package called flex. Seems as though, lex is a part of the flex package. Wes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Rosenfeld Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 3:52 PM To: PAM,Thom

Re: lilo problem (LI hang)

2000-06-16 Thread Thomas Guettler
/usr/doc/lilo/manual on Debian: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. sorry, problems with maile

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:45:27PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > gave up. Somewhat. There are some bugs, though, which haven't been resolved. Both are considerably faster in full-screen mode. There is an alternative called

Error in the Potato rescue.bin

2000-06-16 Thread Nagarjuna G.
I have checked at a few of the ftp sites, where the file rescue.bin (of 1.44MB) image of POTATO distro has an error, and so cannot be downloaded. The file has the `Read error at byte 4035/1474560'. I have checked the ftp.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org sites. I donot know whom to report, if any of

How to enable some specify users to run pon and poff?

2000-06-16 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! My dialup ppp connection only can run by root, How to config to enable some specify (not all) users to run pon and poff ? Thanks

Re: Error in the Potato rescue.bin

2000-06-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:43:56PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > > I have checked at a few of the ftp sites, where the file rescue.bin (of > 1.44MB) image of POTATO distro has an error, and so cannot be downloaded. > The file has the `Read error at byte 4035/1474560'. I have checked the > ftp.debi

Re: How to enable some specify users to run pon and poff?

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Varga
There is a pon or dialout group depending on the version of Debian you are using. Add the user to that group (adduser user group), and that's all. (Look at the group of /usr/sbin/pppd to know which group. Regards, Robert Varga On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > My dialup ppp co

Re: IDE/DMA problems?

2000-06-16 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi Horacio! I too get this message, but it started occurring when I attached an IDE CDROM to the same channel as the hard disk. I guess it's just stepping down or something. I was using a SCSI CDROM before and didn't have this problem. My suggestion would be to put the CDROM onto the other channe

Re: How to enable some specify users to run pon and poff?

2000-06-16 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > My dialup ppp connection only can run by root, > How to config to enable some specify (not all) users > to run pon and poff ? > > Thanks Add the users to the group "dip" in /etc/group dip:x:30:pollywog

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Instead of asking the Debian mailing list for help with VMware's Samba, > you should probably try using Debian's Samba -- which works just fine. :) Okay, sounds like a plan. > > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > g

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Lee Revell wrote: > With VMWare 2.0 on my box (Celeron 300A @ 450mhz, 320MB RAM, Quantum 10K > RPM LVD SCSI drive on an AHA2940U2W, TNT2 Ultra w/ 32MB video ram), > Win98 SE is sluggish but usable, like on a P233. The thing that really > kills usability for me is that the mou

Re: How to enable some specify users to run pon and poff?

2000-06-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:40:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: > > Add the users to the group "dip" in /etc/group > > dip:x:30:pollywog I found the user needed to be added to both groups, dip and dialout. usermod -G 20,30 username is your friend here. Read t

Re: IDE/DMA problems?

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Herrick
I too get this message at boot, but i have 2 IDE drives on the 1st controller, and a CD-ROM drive on the 2nd. I don't think it's a problem with CD/HD on the same controller - I think the kernel doesn't recognise the IDE controller. Anyone got any ideas? On 16/06/00 at 14:41 Jason Quigley spake the

Re: Error in the Potato rescue.bin

2000-06-16 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:43:56PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: ->> ->> I have checked at a few of the ftp sites, where the file rescue.bin (of ->> 1.44MB) image of POTATO distro has an error, and so cannot be downloaded. ->> The file has the `Read error at

modem-pcmcia

2000-06-16 Thread Wayne Sitton
I going to purchase a pcmcia modem for my laptop. Anyone know of one that is definately compatable with my debian(potato) laptop. Wayne

this is an unsecure session

2000-06-16 Thread Roy John Little
Dear list: I have just upgraded from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 by way of apt-get upgrade-dist, and all was upgraded successfully, as far as I could tell. I decided to reinitiate the session. The login prompt with the banner background appeared, with the disturbing difference that, instead of saying "Debi

PICO

2000-06-16 Thread Thiago
Wich package at deselect have the PICO TEXT EDITOR? i would like to use them. Thanks!! HISS - Hackers Internet Security Services www.hacker.com.br

Keeping up2date with 'unstable' without beeing connected to the internet

2000-06-16 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello, I'm running a few servers and workstation in a private network where I work. For security and variuous policy reasons it's not allowed beeing connected to the internet. I've now upgraded all machines to potato TC 2 and I'm very happy. But for developing I need some machines running unstabl

Re: Error in the Potato rescue.bin

2000-06-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:29:19PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:43:56PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > ->> > ->> I have checked at a few of the ftp sites, where the file rescue.bin (of > ->> 1.44MB) image of POTATO distro has

Re: The ALSA driver in potato is very outdated :-(

2000-06-16 Thread Thomas Hood
I installed the following debs from the woody archive or from incoming.debian.org. My kernel is a 2.2.15 that I compiled myself. In order to install the alsa-modules package I had to give the "--force-depends" option to dpkg. alsa-base_0.5.8a-1.deb alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.5.8a-1+2.2.15-1_i386.deb

Re: PICO

2000-06-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
It'n in pine, pine is in non-free, you'll have to install the pine sources and the diffs, then build a binary debian package that you can install. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Thiago wrote: > Wich package at deselect have the PICO TEXT EDITOR? i would like to use > them. > > Thanks!! > >

Re: PICO

2000-06-16 Thread S.P. van Noort
Install Nano, it's interface is exactly like Pico, especially the latest version in woody. It is GPL, so it is in main. Greetings, Sander P.S. I've lost the address of Thiago, so could someone (Ron ?) please send this message directly to him ? On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:49:55PM +0200, Ron

Re: How to enable some specify users to run pon and poff?

2000-06-16 Thread John Hasler
Nate writes: > I found the user needed to be added to both groups, dip and dialout. Then your system is somehow misconfigured. Pppd should run as root when opening the serial port: the user should not need permissions on it. > usermod -G 20,30 username > is your friend here. 'adduser username

Re: Error in the Potato rescue.bin

2000-06-16 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:29:19PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: ->> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: ->> ->> ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:43:56PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: ->> ->> ->> ->> I have checked at a few of the ftp sites, where the file res

Re: PICO

2000-06-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
Tried to forward the message, but the mail address has permanent errors... Ron On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, S.P. van Noort wrote: > Install Nano, it's interface is exactly like Pico, especially the latest > version in woody. It is GPL, so it is in main. > > Greetings, > > Sander > > P.S. I've lost t

Funny format CD's...

2000-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Is it possible to mount the 7th track of a CD? The first 6 being audio tracks, and the seventh the first and only data track? I believe it is possible to write another track to a CD-R device later, as long as the disk hasn't been fixated. I was just wondering if it was possible to add a data track

Additional Terminals

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debs How does one set up more than the default six terminals on a i386 potato machine? TIA Sven

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > > OK, but running with noauth gives a more simplified pppd message saying: > > > > LCP terminated by peer > That suggests that LCP protocol is being exchanged because the peer >

Re: mp3-encoder

2000-06-16 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bladeenc is faster but not as high quality as lame (YMMV). I > have been using bladeenc, but switched to lame for low bitrate > encodings. The latest lame beta (3.83) is quite fast.

Re: kernel-2.2.16

2000-06-16 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umum Wijoyo wrote: >> I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug >> in the Linux kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade. So >> where can I find the kernel-2.2.16 source? This version is OK, >> I presume? > Yes, the 2.2.16 kerne

Outgoing mail in Exim

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Is it possible to save a copy of all outgoing mail of some user to some place on the system? I mean similar to the way you can additionally forward someone's mail to another user account with the dot-forward mechanism. This is on a potato box with Exim 3.12. TIA Sven

network card

2000-06-16 Thread Wayne Sitton
On my linux laptop, I took off 2.1 and installed potato fresh. It recognized my pcmcia net card, but when I boot I get this message. eth0: 21140 transmit timed out resetting the card works fine on my windows laptop. it's a umax 250tx any ideas? Wayne

Re: Additional Terminals

2000-06-16 Thread David Z Maze
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> How does one set up more than the default six terminals on a i386 SB> potato machine? You need to add additional getty entries to /etc/inittab, and tell init to notice ('telinit q' as root works well here). You also need to make sure that your X serve

Re: Additional Terminals

2000-06-16 Thread Alexander Perry
Sven Burgener wrote: > How does one set up more than the default six terminals on a i386 potato > machine? Read /etc/inittab and insert additional lines referencing getty then execute "init q" as root to activate the changes.

Re: Funny format CD's...

2000-06-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Is it possible to mount the 7th track of a CD? The first 6 being audio > tracks, and the seventh the first and only data track? No, but there is a way of doing what you actually want (which, believe me, isn't this). > I believe

apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello With a sources.list like the following, will "apt-get dist-upgrade" cause the system to be upgraded the same way as it would happen with a simple "upgrade"? (I am running potato now) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US

Re: Additional Terminals

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
>Read /etc/inittab and insert additional lines referencing getty >then execute "init q" as root to activate the changes. Thanks, it indeed was that simple. Sven

S L O W mailserver

2000-06-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I have a really slow mail server problem. The guy says it shouldn't be slow but it is. I know he is running Red Hat on all his boxes on this ISP and don't know which mailserver he uses for POP3. My question is, can I some how trace all tcp/ip traffic to a file when I click on my mail

Re: Intel i810 XServer? NOW Goes

2000-06-16 Thread Dave Whiteley
Thanks for the pointer to the i810 data. I now have the system working well. To help others I have documented the stages I found necessary. Sorry if it is a bit long but I tried to make it as newbie friendly as possible. # The procedu

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-06-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
With potato the dist-upgrade will do the same as the normal upgrade,if you upgrade to woody, after that you don't upgrade for a while, you might have to do a dist-upgrade to really upgrade the system. I like to think: don't expect a upgrade to go smoothly, just be happy if it does... Ron Rademake

(slink+0.75)->potato login problem

2000-06-16 Thread Peter Allen
Hi, I've just upgraded from "slink with a lot of potato" to potato. (apt-get -f dist-upgrade) having rebooted to let everything settle in (everything looked fine on boot), I then tried to login: When I try I can type my username, it waits three seconds and asks for my username again. (No password

Re: S L O W mailserver

2000-06-16 Thread Ernest Johanson
One way you could do this is to run tcpdump set to record packets with either a source or destination adress of the ISP's mail server. Then check your mail. The whole conversation will be recorded with timestamps. Use tee to pipe the output to a file. On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote

Re: html2ps

2000-06-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:54:18 +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > I would rather like to issue one command to create the complete manual (in > ps format) at once. Have a look at 'htmldoc' (which is in potato, haven't checked in slink). HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that i

Linux Firewall/Router

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a system with 3 nic's, i've currently got it working so it masquerades the internal lan (with private IP-space) to the external interface (with public-ip space). The problem is that I want the third interface to connect to a kind of DMZ, an are

Re: S L O W mailserver

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
>I have a really slow mail server problem. The guy says it shouldn't be >slow but it is. I know he is running Red Hat on all his boxes on this ISP >and don't know which mailserver he uses for POP3. On the mail server check whether the MTA is started from inetd. If so, change that to deamon. I noti

Unidentified subject!

2000-06-16 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey guys, is ftp.debian.org down ? Dingo. ).|.( '.`___'.` ' `(>~<)' ` -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Aureal Vortex2 soundcard in Woody

2000-06-16 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
> "MB" == Martin Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB> Hi Bruce, I don't know if this will work for you or not, but MB> what I did was I made a soft link to the linux header in MB> /usr/src/ called linux. After that I could compile the drive MB> fine. Aha! That seems to have

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:16:53AM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:58:55AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > Jun 16 08:30:28 kaynjay pppd[1599]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak > id=0x0 41 75 74 68 65 6e 74 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 66 61 69 6c 75 72 65] > A u t h e n t

Creating Potato CDs

2000-06-16 Thread Salman Ahmed
I have the debian-cd package installed. I edited the CONF.sh file. But the documentation didn't indicate how to create a local mirror of Potato .debs. The system I will be using to create this Potato CD is a potato system that I installed over the Internet using the boot disks. So, what command(s)

problems with zmailer

2000-06-16 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
I have been using a combination of zmailer 2.99.51.52pre3-2 and fetchmail 5.3.4-1 and I am getting some errors that indicate that apparently I need to change something relating to the DNS system but I can't figure out what (or even if I need it). Since I am running a simple ppp connection I wante

Re: S L O W mailserver

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Werner
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a really slow mail server problem. The guy says it shouldn't be > slow but it is. I know he is running Red Hat on all his boxes on this ISP > and don't know which mailserver he uses for POP3. > > My question is, can I some how trace all tcp/i

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi Kenward! You do realise you're using different user names in each example? Cheers, Jason. At 8:58 -0700 16/6/00, Kenward Vaughan wrote: >On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +0100, David Wright wrote: >> Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> > OK, but running with noauth gives a

Re: Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

2000-06-16 Thread Andre Berger
I have found out that I can point Netscape to /var/spool/mail/$USER by setting the file type of the Incoming Mail server to "Movemail" instead of POP3 (I use xemacs-21.1.10's movemail). So I can indeed use fetchmail without having to set up a POP3 server myself. Can I do alike for the Outgoing Mai

Re: SSH again!

2000-06-16 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi all, Thanks for all the replies. I believed that I got it to work somehow. Need to redo the steps again to make sure. Still, do not quite understand how all this work: 1. Can one steal/copy the *.pub keys and use it to logon? 2. It seemed to me that if I do not remember/supp

impatient upgrage question

2000-06-16 Thread balayo
impatient upgrage question Hey guys, I have a fresh, minimal slink on my box. While it's still minimal, I'd like to upgrade it to potato. Should I go ahead and wait till potato is released? anyway, can someone run down the steps to upgrading? What should I put in sources.list? I should be a

RE: network card

2000-06-16 Thread Wayne Sitton
Yes, I did. Wayne -Original Message- From: Adrian Thiele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 1:33 PM To: Wayne Sitton Subject: RE: network card Did you install the pcmcia card services manager? > -Original Message- > From: Wayne Sitton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

From:-line in Mutt

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi In my yet still very empty ~/.muttrc I have the following line: my_hdr From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now, this doesn't seem to do what I want: the domain I have here at home is made up and Exim doesn't like this when it's trying to deliver a mail I previously created with mutt:

Re: From:-line in Mutt

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Werner
Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi > > In my yet still very empty ~/.muttrc I have the following line: > > my_hdr From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now, this doesn't seem to do what I want: the domain I have here at home > is made up and Exim doesn't like this when it's trying to deliver a mail

I also need AVI to MPEG conversion software

2000-06-16 Thread Bruce Hain
Please let me know if one exists- and if so where to get hold of one.. Spidey

problem with passwd/su

2000-06-16 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hi, i just upgraded to potato from slink and i apparently forgot to do something somewhere because now anything what has something to do with password checking is sigfaulting, i would really appreciate if someone could help me to find where did i screwed up, i'm really in a tight spot ;) this is

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:13:18PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > Hi Kenward! > > You do realise you're using different user names in each example? ... @#$%^!! Where do I change that? A quick glance at this conf files shows no entry. Why is "kaynjay" passed on rather than the other? Kenward -

Re: From:-line in Mutt

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
[snipped your solution] >That line is at the very end of my exim.conf - I'm not sure if it's >important where in the file that line is, but that's where the original file >had something similar. As I looked at the end of exim.conf just now, I saw the following: # This rewriting rule is particula

Re: problem with passwd/su

2000-06-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 03:15:31PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > Hi, > > i just upgraded to potato from slink and i apparently forgot to do something > somewhere because now anything what has something to do with password checking > is sigfaulting, i would really appreciate if someone could

Re: problem with passwd/su

2000-06-16 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 03:15:31PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: ->> Hi, ->> ->> i just upgraded to potato from slink and i apparently forgot to do something ->> somewhere because now anything what has something to do with password checking ->> is si

Re: problem with passwd/su

2000-06-16 Thread Ben Collins
> #3 0x400aee4d in fprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #4 0x40063b27 in _pam_warn_modstruct () from /usr/lib/libpam_misc.so.0 > #5 0x40063d60 in misc_conv () from /usr/lib/libpam_misc.so.0 > #9 0x4004c6c8 in pam_fail_delay () from /usr/lib/libpam.so.0 > #10 0x4004ca5e in _pam_dispatch () from /us

help with gdmchooser

2000-06-16 Thread Bill Warner
after going through large amounts of documentation I can't seem to find anything on how to get gdmchooser to work how I think I understand it. I have never used or even seen it in use but I am guessing I should be able to turn on my computer have X start with gdm and be presented with a list of xd

Re: Keeping up2date with 'unstable' without beeing connected to the internet

2000-06-16 Thread Markus Fischer
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:57:01AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote : > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:35:29PM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > > > I'm running a few servers and workstation in a private network > > where I work. For security and variuous policy reasons it's not > > allowed beeing connected

reorganizing disks

2000-06-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Debians I want to move a whole debian install from one disk onto another. The second (new disk) is larger than the one debian is on right now: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 131 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id Syste

getting a proper mail setup?

2000-06-16 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
I was looking through the logs of my failed attempt of running fetchmail and zmailer and came across some relevent log entries generated from the client. What would I have to fix pray tell to force this to just pass the data that fetchmail grabs to my local inbox on my machine? Since I use ppp a

can't apt-get tp ftp.debian.org

2000-06-16 Thread Pollywog
I am unable to connect to ftp.debian.org Is it just me? -- Andrew

RE: can't apt-get tp ftp.debian.org

2000-06-16 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >I am unable to connect to ftp.debian.org >Is it just me? > >-- >Andrew > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I also had a problem with it just use one of the mirrors instead. For the united States ftp.us.deb

Can Linux and X run on TV?

2000-06-16 Thread JC
I'm considering buying a display card with TV output such as T9750. Can Linux and X run on TV? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'll leave the list in a minute.

md5sum

2000-06-16 Thread Andrew D. Dixon
I'm trying to download the CD images for the slink distribution of debian and when I run         md5sum -b binary-i386-1.iso   I get a checksum that doesn't match the one at       sunsite.org.uk/packages/debian-cd/2.1_r4/i386/MD5SUMS   when I ran the rsync:       rsync --verbose --progres

RE: Can Linux and X run on TV?

2000-06-16 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
>= Original Message From "JC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >I'm considering buying a display card with TV output such as T9750. Can >Linux and X run on TV? > >Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'll leave the list in a minute. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

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