Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0500, Giulio Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to > remore > hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages are: > unable to resolve host... > something wicked happened... > do

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:06:28 PST, brian moore writes: >> So, if you happen to be on a network (like, say, a cable modem local loop) >> with some Windows PCs that have file/print sharing turned on, these may not >> represent a security problem. (Well, for *you*, anyway.) > >Or if you happen to be o

Re: creating a ssl cert with stunnel

2000-11-30 Thread Adam Shand
> if it is unsigned i think so. signed certs i think only have to match > the domain. but where is the domain listed if not in the the common name of the cert? > instead of "fixing" your ssl cert look into ditching outlook or fixing > outlook. i don't want to do that. i use fetchmail (haven't

Re: Linking Recursively

2000-11-30 Thread John
"lndir" is what you seem to be looking for and according to "dpkg -S lndir" its part of the xutils package. this is on woody of course :).. cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey all, > I'm looking for a utility/script which will travel recursively through a > directory tree and create links from

How to get rid of LILO

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew D Dixon
HI All, I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my laptop (don't worry I just want a little practice using fips so that I can install Debian on a friends laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the drive but when I try to boot from the hard disk it prints: LI to the screen and then hangs.

Re: How to get rid of LILO

2000-11-30 Thread Craige McWhirter
>From a win98/dos floppy: fdisk /mbr On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:26:45 Andrew D Dixon wrote: > HI All, > I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my laptop (don't worry I just want a > little practice using fips so that I can install Debian on a friends > laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the d

Re: How to get rid of LILO

2000-11-30 Thread aba
--- Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI All, > I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my laptop (don't > worry I just want a > little practice using fips so that I can install > Debian on a friends > laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the > drive but when I > try to boot from th

Re: new kdm not reading kdmrc??

2000-11-30 Thread Manegold
Nate Amsden wrote: > > Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > > > Ok, this seems silly but does anyone know why since one or two upgrades > > ago on kdm it would have stopped reading my /etc/kde2/kdmrc file? > > the session-types box has dropped down to just kde and failsafe... > > yes i noticed that too when

Re: How to get rid of LILO

2000-11-30 Thread Samuel Hathaway
aba wrote: > --- Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> HI All, >> I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my laptop (don't >> worry I just want a >> little practice using fips so that I can install >> Debian on a friends >> laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the >> drive but when I

Apache Package (woody)

2000-11-30 Thread Daniel Wagner
Hello. Does anybody know whats wrong with the apache-package from woody? When i install it the start fails, with the following message: --> Syntax error on line 251 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server c

Re: CRASHED MACHINE = FB.overflow:1

2000-11-30 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +, Gordon Dykes wrote: > > > > After a few minutes on the net my Debian box crashes and I can not > > work in ANY terminal. I can change between them but they all have > > the message > > > > "FB.overflow:1"

Re: Peculiar DENY from ipchains?

2000-11-30 Thread Leen Besselink
> > Anyone ever seen a DENY from IP chains like: > > > > Nov 29 19:44:14 john kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 > > PROTO=1 10.12.1.15:65535 63.81.184.67:65535 > > L=21 S=0xD0 I=46379 F=0x0042 T=255 (#82) > > > > where 10.12.1.15 is my ppp interface address? > > > > What's

Help: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled

2000-11-30 Thread a
I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message when booting Debian: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more info?

E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Permission denied)

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to use masquerading to upgrade debian on a laptop, via a local network. I have made /var/cache/apt/archives a soft link to a directory mounted using nfs. I have mounted it rw and have the no_root_squash option set, so there should be no problems I thought. But when I use apt-get dis

Re: How to get rid of LILO

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Samuel Hathaway wrote: > >> laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the > >> drive but when I > >> try to boot from the hard disk it prints: > >> > >> LI > >> > >> to the screen and then hangs. I think this is > >> residual from LILO, at > >> least that's my be

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-30 Thread Stephan Balmer
Hello, I've recently decided to get an apt-proxy for my two woodys behind a single 64k line... But since I'm not familiar with the sources.list format, I'm not shure about my apt-proxy.conf. The client always reports Connection failed on apt-get update :( Can someone mail me his apt-proxy.conf wi

Re: Help: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:49:16 +0800, "a" writes: >I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message >when booting Debian: > >Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled > >Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more >info? No, I´ve seen this

Re: Help: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled

2000-11-30 Thread Edward Craig
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, a wrote: > I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message > when booting Debian: > > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled > > Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more > info? Intel did make a few

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Ignasi Tura
I won't say much more that has been said before (actually I wouldn't be able to say halfof the comments said, he). But, as an ex-Eudora Light user I'll tell you something that perhaps you'll appreciate a lot. When emptying the trash (200 messages per day, to say the least) the difference

RE: MY SQL

2000-11-30 Thread James Preece
this worked a treat, thanks for your/ everyone's help on this. -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 November 2000 09:33 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: MY SQL James Preece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to get this installed u

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:10:17PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: >> Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? >> >> i.e. >> >> tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz > > I think not directly, but you could try: > > $ tar cz ~user | s

is there anyone using cucipop?

2000-11-30 Thread martin
dear friends, i allready asked once, but i am afraid, my mail got lost somewhere...? so here again: i am trying to set up cucipop on a newly installed potato system. only trouble is, it dosent't like to run in APOP-mode, which would be very important here. the makevpopdb program complains about

Re: PHP & Apache 1.3.12

2000-11-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
Martin WHEELER wrote: > Since upgrading to Apache 1.3.12, I can't install PHP3 or 4, not nohow. > > apt-get install error message follows: > .. > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > php4: Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.9.1) but 1.3.12-2.0.potato.1 is to > be installed

Re: web mail

2000-11-30 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:56:03 -0500 (EST) , urbanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://www.linuxfreemail.com/ I think James wants something to actually provide the service off his own box, and mailgate, which is the s/ware used by linuxfreemail, is "not available to the public yet" (http://linu

recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and since I do not allow telnet logins he needs a Windows SSH client. I checked around and there are quite a number of them out there, can anybody recommend which is the best? I do not have a Windows machine to test them out on,

Re: Apache Package (woody)

2000-11-30 Thread Ed Osborne
I've seen this myself (although I get line 481 mispelt using apacheconfig) when adding/installing jserv as a package from dselect. Because of this error, it leaves the package (jserv) in a state of not fully installed. Quite a few modules that were uncommented in httpd.conf get commented out

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread John Griffiths
At 05:27 AM 11/30/2000 -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: >A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and >since I do not allow telnet logins he needs a Windows SSH client. Everyone here recommeded Putty to me when i had the same problem and its certainly working well for

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:27:24AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and > since I do not allow telnet logins he needs a Windows SSH client. I checked > around and there are quite a number of them out there, can anybody > recomme

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Stephan Balmer
> A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and > since I do not allow telnet logins he needs a Windows SSH client. I > checked > around and there are quite a number of them out there, can anybody > recommend which is the best? I use putty: - No ablity to save passwor

MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread James Preece
OK I have used apt-get install mysql-server, and it has installed it. It came back with an error saying :- starting Mysql database server: mysqld failed. My book says config files are in /usr/local by default, but this does not appear to be the case with Debian. I probably need to configure so

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-11-30 Thread David Purton
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Stephan Balmer wrote: > > Uuh, since I started writing this mail, 3 Debian-User Mails dropped in my > inbox. What is a good filter program? > procmail is good - read the stuff in /usr/doc/procmail it's easy to set up cheers ---

Re: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread John Griffiths
do a ps ax |grep mysql i bet you it IS running... all conf files will be in /etc under debian (i'm told) At 11:01 AM 11/30/2000 -, James Preece wrote: > >OK I have used apt-get install mysql-server, and it has installed it. > >It came back with an error saying :- > >starting Mysql database

Test-Please ignore

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Gift
Test...

KDE and gdm

2000-11-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there I'm using gdm as login manager (which I really like...) The problem is, that I don't know how to start a KDE-session out of gdm. I have all KDE-packages installed, but I cannot choose sessions else than "Gnome", "Debian" and "Xsession" Any idea? joerg -- Did you know that if you play

Re: KDE and gdm

2000-11-30 Thread Craige McWhirter
As root: - cd /etc/gdm/Sessions - Copy one of the existing sessiom and give it a use ful name (KDE?) - Edit this new "Session" to start KDE - If you want KDE as the default, make a symlink to "Default" On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:40:20 Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi there > > I'm using gdm as login mana

gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
I'd been getting the "Warning: using shared memory" message from gpg since a system upgrade yesterday. Checking, I found that gpg was not set SUID. I've set the SUID bit, but am wondering why this changed. I can't find any notes about setting gnupg non-SUID in any of the obvious locations, or ha

Re: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread Silver
MySQL default nstallation under Debian : config files are in /etc/mysql log files are in /var/log databases are stored in /var/lib/mysql It should work when you install the debian packages mysql-server, mysql-client, libmysqlclient Else look for error in the logs, tweak the config file. Silver

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Silver
Ok, everyone is saying putty is working fine... I use SecureCRT (http://www.vandyke.com) which does also nice linux handling with a color terminal and stuff. Silver - Original Message - From: "Harry Henry Gebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:27 AM Subject:

Re: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread Craige McWhirter
My memory may be askew but I think My-Sql may need to have the default admin account setup before it will run. Sorry, I can't remember what it was. I do know I found it via Google though ;) On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:05:41 Silver wrote: > MySQL default nstallation under Debian : > config files are in

Re: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread Silver
Well during dpkg setup, you get a nice screen asking you password and stuff for admin account AFAIK. Silver - Original Message - From: "Craige McWhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James Preece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:09 PM

UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Alex Horsnell
Hi I have just started learning UNIX and unfortunatley my 'teacher' has been very busy lately and unable to show me anything. I have started on our company printers and am using putty, I don't have any problems in that area, but I would like to learn more. Does anyone out there have any prefered

RE: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread James Preece
This is working fine now. How do I go about building a database? Does anyone have a recourse I can look at on the web, or anyone one to take me to one side and beat me ? Any help as always gratefully received Cheers James. Step by step on and on.. we all stand together.

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:47:29PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > When you select a package and dselect jumps to a new screen, the > second column of states is the current state, and the 3rd is the > resulting state, including all packages needed to resolve > dependencies. Only packages affecte

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-30 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:38:09PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > > > > > No! Don't do this! By doing so you are lowering the security level of > > > your machine down to your user account. It's bad enough that security > > > depends on a root account; i

Re: configuring the kernel

2000-11-30 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Nate Amsden wrote: > ip forwarding is not in the kernel config. > do > echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > to turn it on, replace the 1 with a 0 to turn it off. it can be done on > the fly. > > in kernel 2.0 it was a kernel config option ... Yes, I just recently compiled a 2.0.38 kernel a

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Slin Lee
terraterm with the SSH plugin works very well with exceed. Slin - Original Message - From: "Silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 8:09 PM Subject: Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows > Ok, everyone is saying putty is working fine... > I use Secu

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: >> Yes, but did you manage to run gnapster-gtk, xdvi, or some other >> graphical tools under memprof? That didn't work here. > Well, yes and no. :-) > All the packages that I'm using here were packaged by Helix > Gnome and this includes both memprof and

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: >> From the debian-devel, I learnt that sometimes applications that >> send images to X to be displayed will cause that behavior; it looks >> like X allocated all that memory, but it's actually the app's fault. > Hummm. I see. I think that this is quite a strange be

Re: PHP & Apache 1.3.12

2000-11-30 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Just like apt is indicating, you need version 1.3.9 of apache, not > 1.3.12-something. So if you want to run apache-1.3.12, you'll have to > recompile php4 as well. Thanks for info. (I was trying to avoid that route :( Now -- anyone know who the

Installing KDE2 from CD

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Hunt
I have a CD from Linux Emporium (in the UK), which says it is taken from the kde ftp site. It has a Debian folder with packages for potato/i386 binary in /cdrom/Debian/dists/potato/i386-binary However I don't think that this is a proper path. Should there be a main/non-free/contrib in there somew

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, if you get that to configure the rest will too. At least that's what did it for me (and a few other folks too I think). try: update-alternatives --config perl and see that perl5.6 is set tobe the default version, if/when

Re: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread Silver
Browse the mysql documentation and follow the tutorial : http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/commented/manual.php?section=Tutori al Silver - Original Message - From: "James Preece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "James Preece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursd

gnome desktop

2000-11-30 Thread h157056
Hi -there. I've got not so big, but annoying problem. How could I change the colour of icon's textlabels on my desktop? I haven't found anything in GNOME's control center. Also, if I try cliking desktop's backgound (with any button), I only get enlightenment's menu. -Petteri Heinonen [EMAIL PROTEC

unzip

2000-11-30 Thread Alistair Whittle
Hi, I have just installed debian GNU/Linux 2.2. The install worked fine, and I am now trying to install another application which requires a file to be unzipped. The unzip command for some reason does not register. Looking through man pages etc, there are other like gnuzip, gzip, zcat etc, al

RE: unzip

2000-11-30 Thread Steeve Lennmark
apt-get install unzip // Steeve. > -Original Message- > From: Alistair Whittle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 30 november 2000 14:37 > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: unzip > > > Hi, > > I have just installed debian GNU/Linux 2.2. The install > worked fine, and I

Configure networking?

2000-11-30 Thread ndw
Hi folks, I got a new laptop hard drive yesterday so I'm reinstalling Debian 2.2. The install sequence didn't recognize my PCMCIA card, so networking didn't get configured. Long story short, I rebuilt the kernel and pcmcia and the card now works. That is, I can bring it up by hand using ifconfig.

Re: unzip

2000-11-30 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you can install unzip (and almost every other application you might need) with: # apt-get install unzip Under Linux it is more common to use 'tarballs' or bzip2. Tar is standardly installed and you could use it the following way: $ tar -cvzf homedir.tar.gz /home/myself this (c)reates a new fi

Re: Configure networking?

2000-11-30 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I do not know how to config the entire network, but you can configure the files: /etc/resolve.conf: domain yourdomain.com search yourdomain.com other_much_used_domain.org etc.nl nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 For networkinterfaces: /etc/network/options ip_forward=no (set to yes for i

VPN Client

2000-11-30 Thread Chapman, Matt
Hello, Wondering what good VPN client is avail. to the linux world.. I need to connect to my Micro$oft network and connect to shares via samba... may even need to find a solution for connecting to the win 2000 servers via terminal services without installing win 98... I am curious if a linux citr

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:40:37AM +, Justin B Rye wrote: ... > Well, try tempfile: > > $ tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ > 'umask 077 && OUT=$(tempfile -d ~/ -p out -s .tgz) && cat >$OUT' Neat, finally a question simple enough for me to anwser and as a reward I get to learn some n

Re: cvs - howto? (aviplay)

2000-11-30 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:41:18AM +0100, Michael Mertins wrote: > Hi > I'm very interested in the development of avifile. > Now I heard it's going on and is updated by 'cvs'. How can I use it on my > Debianbox? Do I need a package to get it all started? You need the debian package cvs. There is al

Re: raid 5 partition table example

2000-11-30 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:34:58AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > If you use raid 5 would you want to also have separate partitions for > /home, /usr, etc. ? > If so, what would be the best way to partition them? > If you have done this, could you show me your partition table? I have > only been able t

What's the Debian way to install LAMP?

2000-11-30 Thread Rino Mardo
hi. i have debian 2.2, kernel-2.2.17 with 128MB ram and 6GB hd (lots of free space). wanting to install LAMP the debian way, i did the ff: apt-get install apache mysql-server mysql-client tested the installation by doing "lynx http://localhost/"; which shows the usual gnu and penguin graphic.

unzip - again

2000-11-30 Thread Alistair Whittle
Hi, Using 'apt-get install zip' worked like a charm to install the zip package. However, using the 'unzip' variant, the following error occurred: "Package unzip has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependancy, but was neve

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Alex Horsnell wrote: > Does anyone out there have any prefered methods/books on learning UNIX? Alex I (think I) recall that Linus used two books, Bach's The Design of the Unix Operating System and Sobel's Hand's on Unix -- Sobel, Hands on Linux is for Linux what Hands On

Re: gnome desktop

2000-11-30 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:37:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi -there. I've got not so big, but annoying problem. How could I change > the colour of icon's textlabels on my desktop? I haven't found anything > in GNOME's control center. Also, if I try cliking desktop's backgound > (with any

Re: gnome desktop

2000-11-30 Thread aba
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi -there. I've got not so big, but annoying > problem. How could I change > the colour of icon's textlabels on my desktop? I > haven't found anything > in GNOME's control center. Also, if I try cliking > desktop's backgound > (with any button), I only get enlightenm

Re: Help: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled

2000-11-30 Thread David Z. Maze
a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: a> I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message a> when booting Debian: a> a> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled a> a> Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more a> info? In fact, you do have

Wrong message - Was: How to install LAMP the Debian way

2000-11-30 Thread Rino Mardo
doh. sorry for the previous message i pasted an old one. anyway, here's my problem: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/test2.php on line 15 this appears whenever i tried to open "http://localhost/test2.php";. i installed LAMP using apt-get like so: apt-get in

PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

2000-11-30 Thread ndw
Hello (again) world, Network problems I expected, but this one I didn't: the mouse isn't working. The machine says it detects the PS/2 Mouse Port, but when I start gdm, the mouse pointer won't move. What else should I be checking for? --norm

RE: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread James Preece
http://docs.my-box.org/ some good pointer once you have a system. -Original Message- From: David Teague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2000 06:38 To: Alex Horsnell Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: UNIX help On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Alex Horsnell wrote: > Does a

Potato KDE packages

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Hunt
Are there such things as Debian potato KDE2 packages? _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Charles Lewis
I wondered if anyone was going to mention teraterm with the SSH plugin (available as a separate download). It's what we use here at the university, but now I'm curious about putty. Anyone know the feature differences? Chas [EMAIL PROTECTED] > terraterm with the SSH plugin works very well with exc

Re: unzip - again

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 08:28, Alistair Whittle wrote: > Hi, > > Using 'apt-get install zip' worked like a charm to install the zip package. > However, using the 'unzip' variant, the following error occurred: "Package > unzip has no available version, but exists in the database. This > typic

Re: Potato KDE packages

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 08:55, Richard Hunt wrote: > Are there such things as Debian potato KDE2 packages? > ___ >__ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : > http://explorer.msn.com deb http://kde.td

Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Hunt
Network problems I expected, but this one I didn't: the mouse isn't working. The machine says it detects the PS/2 Mouse Port, but when I start gdm, the mouse pointer won't move. Are you running gpm? I had this problem when gpm was running, so I deleted gpm and everything works fine. However, if

hdparm

2000-11-30 Thread Ray Percival
Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no problems and a great increase in performance) but now I want to add it to a startup script so my question is whe

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
If you have the budget for it, check out http://www.ora.com They have some of the most constently excellent books on the various unix tools and tasks (such as andministration, DNS configuration, Programming) that I've seen from any publisher. YMMV, but I swear by them, and have 8 paper books a

Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

2000-11-30 Thread Jay Ford
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Network problems I expected, but this one I didn't: the mouse > isn't working. The machine says it detects the PS/2 Mouse Port, > but when I start gdm, the mouse pointer won't move. > > What else should I be checking for? Here's what works for me: _

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Griffith Feeney
The Unix Programming Environment, Kernighan and Pike. Amazon.com or the nearest bookstore for many, many more. Perhaps better yet, try google.com > Google Web Directory > Computers > Operating Systems > Unix > Tutorials (or other stops along the way). At 04:37 AM 11/30/00, you wrote: >Hi > >I have

Re: hdparm

2000-11-30 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:03:45AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ray Percival wrote: > Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help > of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable > setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no > problems and a great increas

strange error message

2000-11-30 Thread Stephan Kulka
Yesterday I got this message: VM: can't open kpswap or something like that. I must admit that I am not quite sure about the exact message, because I switched off the computer ( I hope that was a good idea) and at the moment I have no access to this machine. It happened, when I started ssh, but pers

Re: Configure networking?

2000-11-30 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I do not know how to config the entire network, but you can configure the | files: Thanks. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | We dance ar

Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

2000-11-30 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Jay Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Network problems I expected, but this one I didn't: the mouse | > isn't working. The machine says it detects the PS/2 Mouse Port, | > but when I start gdm, the mouse pointer won't move. | > | > What

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-30 Thread FB
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:27:13AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:47:29PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > Actually, I meant before I even select anything. I fire up dselect, and it > has already marked packages for installation, upgrade, removal, etc. I haven

Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

2000-11-30 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi: When you set up your mouse, did you change the device name to '/dev/psaux'? In debian 2.2 setup, the default is set to '/dev/mouse' and you have to change it. I found it confuding, too, because in 2.1, the default was set to '/dev/psaux'. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: <[EMA

Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody

2000-11-30 Thread Giulio Morgan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0500, Giulio Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to > > remore > > hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages are: > > unable to resolve h

ip source routing

2000-11-30 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
Is there a program to use the IPv4 source routing feature? I need to send some DNS requests (UPD packets port 53) but specifying through which routers it is going to be routed.

Re: How to get rid of LILO

2000-11-30 Thread George Kecskemeti
Hi. You need to fdisk /mbr, with the windows version of fdisk. I think. --

Re: unzip - again

2000-11-30 Thread Chewie
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:28:51PM -, Alistair Whittle wrote: > Hi, > > Using 'apt-get install zip' worked like a charm to install the zip package. > However, using the 'unzip' variant, the following error occurred: "Package > unzip has no available version, but exists in the database. This

Re: configuring the kernel

2000-11-30 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Salman Ahmed wrote: > rwl> It would be rather helpful to edit /etc/sysctl.conf with > rwl> "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" as another user recommended. > rwl> > > More than one way to skin a cat. > > You can also edit /etc/network/options, and make sure that > ip_forward=yes Now thats wh

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > > A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and > since I do not allow telnet logins he needs a Windows SSH client. I checked > around and there are quite a number of them out there, can anybody > recommend which is the best? I do not have a W

sendmail MD5 errors

2000-11-30 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I am running a current woody system, running imap, sendmail and MD5 passwords. Something has happened in the last week which is causing sendmail to post errors to the /var/log/auth.log every time I send a mail message. Nov 30 10:39:35 hecke sendmail[4482]: PLAIN: set secret for trs Nov 30 10:39

Re: Configure networking?

2000-11-30 Thread Chewie
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:42:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > > I got a new laptop hard drive yesterday so I'm reinstalling Debian 2.2. > The install sequence didn't recognize my PCMCIA card, so networking > didn't get configured. Long story short, I rebuilt the kernel and > pcm

Re: VPN Client

2000-11-30 Thread Nate Amsden
at my companies i have a dedicated linux box with vpnd running on it, and (unix)users can connect to it from anywhere, extremely reliable and very configurable. find vpnd on freshmeat.net ... nate "Chapman, Matt" wrote: > > Hello, > > Wondering what good VPN client is avail. to the linux world

My Linux router for the LAN only rings once (on request)

2000-11-30 Thread Piet Knoester
Compaq Deskrpo 2000 - 32 MB - Eicon Diva PCI - Intel Ethernet 100 Pro Debian 2.2 - Ipchains - Isdnutils Installed packet = "Newbie help" In at test now wit dynamic ip. After the boot of both the linux router and a connected windows98-pc a start of Netscape on the windows98-pc causes a dial-on-d

.deb (II)

2000-11-30 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! >> How should I install a *.deb file which was >> downloaded from the web to my >> system? > >dpkg -i *deb > after doing this do I need to run apt-get update in order to synchronize the apt data base with the new installed package? thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 30.11.2000 17:08 Uhr schrieb Keith G. Murphy unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Harry Henry Gebel wrote: >> >> A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and ... search for putty! fke

Re: Does the stock kernel support VESA Framebuffers?

2000-11-30 Thread David A. Rogers
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X > running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've > read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev > xserver... which requires that I

Re: .deb (II)

2000-11-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On 30 Nov 2000 14:57:26 -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > >> How should I install a *.deb file which was > >> downloaded from the web to my > >> system? > > > >dpkg -i *deb > > > > after doing this do I need to run apt-get update in order to synchronize > the apt data base with the new

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