New Install

2001-03-12 Thread Kevin C. Kelly
I am trying to do a CD install of 2.2rev2 from a commercial CD-ROM copy of Debian. No other operating system is on the computer. Every thing appears to going okay until the "Install operating system kernal and Modules" phase. What path do I choose for the "...Debian Archive Path"? Tried specify

Re: kernel compile error

2001-03-12 Thread Mircea Luca
Eric R Cheney wrote: > > Just want to follow-up and say thanks. The follow up because there were a > couple of hypotheses about what could go wrong. Jeremy Nickurak's > hypothesis did the trickso people compiling kernel's under unstable > take note. Maybe we would if the replies would've be

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-12 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all con

Re: New Install

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:44:44AM -0600, Kevin C. Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to do a CD install of 2.2rev2 from a commercial CD-ROM > copy of Debian. No other operating system is on the computer. Every > thing appears to going okay until the "Install operating system kernal

Re: gdm login

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:07:42PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just did a fresh install of woody and ximian gnome on my laptop. > Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to login using gdm > it goes black like it's going into X and then goes right back to gdm.

kernel panic: no init found

2001-03-12 Thread Alexander Gutfraind \(Sasha\)
Hey there! whenever i run lilo and install a newly compiled kernel (2.2.17 or 2.4.2) to the harddrive. For both kernels i get this error message: Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= parameter .. what is the problem and what is the soluti

Re: gdm login

2001-03-12 Thread Keith Johnson
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:07:42PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I just did a fresh install of woody and ximian gnome on my > laptop. Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to login using > gdm it goes black like it's going into X and then goes right back to > gdm. No errors of a

Re: colors in gvim, help please

2001-03-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > But I have to type this each time I run gvim. For sure there is a way > to put this information in the /etc/gvimrc file. I tried the followings > > set hi Normal guifg=black guibg=grey > hi Normal guifg=black guibg=grey > set guifg=black guibg=grey This works for

Re: Mozilla requires libnspr4?

2001-03-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Frank Copeland wrote: > > > If you installed the mozilla tarball I suspect you already have it. > > libnspr4 is built from the mozilla source. It is broken out into a > seperate package presumably because it may be useful for apps other > than mozilla. True. I found two versions, One with Mozilla

Fetchmail cannot access SMTP port (I use Exim)

2001-03-12 Thread MamoMC
A few mails above a wrote about a problem with Fetchmail, Exim and Procmail. Now I realize that most likely I have a problem with Fetchmail which, after downloading, says: --- fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from

Postgresql: What can I do now? Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance ] && /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance -a

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, I receive regulary the following mail, but don't know, how to fix it. Someone knows the solution? Please answer directly... thanks, Daniel Migowski -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ -x /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance ] && /usr/

Re: rpc.statd hacking but firewalled

2001-03-12 Thread Curtis Hogg
i don't recall what port rpc.statd binds to, but what it is is a part of the NFS system, so disabling rpc.statd, i think, will also break NFS mounting on your side. you can still mount remote systems i think. And, yes, it is a hack attempt.. by some scriptkiddie trying to use a common buffer overf

Mail question

2001-03-12 Thread Marko Simendic
Hello! > Hello all! >=20 > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa?=20 Km> Say you have two computers on your network, potato and mswin. Km> Are you asking how to send mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

default route by wvdial not set after temporary eth0-access (woody)

2001-03-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello ! I had potato on my machine until recently. To upgrade, I took my machine to work, edited /etc/networks/interface to use eth0 (instead of the ppp-link I ordinary use) and upgraded to woody. Now at home I want to use the ppp-link again. Unfortunately after wvdial I have to add the ppp-route

Re: Postgresql: What can I do now? Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance ] && /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance -a

2001-03-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Daniel Migowski wrote: >Hi, > >I receive regulary the following mail, but don't know, how to fix it. >Someone knows the solution? >NOTICE: Index pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (461 >) > IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (503). Recreate the index. You need to r

Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-12 Thread franck routier
Hi, I use unstable (latest upgrade) in my box and have the following problem : french accented characters are replaced by ? in some places, or just make the rest of the text be ignored : 1) é à è, ... are replaced by ? in gnome-terminals 2) titles are troncated in window titles under sawfish/gno

'apt-get install' warning

2001-03-12 Thread Debian User
I have following: przemek:~# apt-get install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5522kB of archives. After unpacking 14.2MB will be used.

.Xdefaults not read?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have set a .Xdefaults file in my home dir.However it seems to me it does not get read, should I set what I need in a different file? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 ___

Re: .Xdefaults not read?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Fluch
> I have set a .Xdefaults file in my home dir.However it seems to me it > does not get read, should I set what I need in a different file? Rename it to .Xresources ... Martin

Exim will only send mail online

2001-03-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
I can now only send mail out when I'm online. If I compose off line it is frozen, and when I come on line and try to send it, exim gives up with a message about unknown domains. Posting when on line still works, however. This is a new development; I think it follows an upgrade to a later exim in T

Re: rpc.statd hacking but firewalled

2001-03-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:38:53AM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > i don't recall what port rpc.statd binds to, but what it is is a part of > the NFS system, so disabling rpc.statd, i think, will also break NFS > mounting on your side. you can still mount remote systems i think. statd is bound to a ra

Re: HELP! HW problems, no ablitiy to boot

2001-03-12 Thread Bjarne S . Næss
Which scsi unit in the chain terminates the scsi chain? In my experience it is a jumper setting on scsi devices in pc parts. The last device on the chain has to be terminated. I've booted and run whithout termination but the system were very strange (ie a scsi cd-rom dissapeared). This was the b

RE: Again,, installed base from floppies & can mount pcmcia cdrom

2001-03-12 Thread destruss
Hi all: I often also use apt-get -iR /. HTH Dean On 12 Mar 2001, at 15:55, Matt Wong wrote: > Hi > > > can ls the directories on the cdrom. can migrate to "install" > > directory. > > find a *.deb for "i-386". but then when i type "apt-get install > > *deb", apt > > can't find the file.

unsbuscribe

2001-03-12 Thread Ricardo Villela de M Sarmento
-Mensagem Original- De: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviada em: sábado, 10 de março de 2001 15:38 Assunto: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #11

Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)

2001-03-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hi Balbir, [[ Forgive me for being overly curious, but is That your real name? if so from what language does it come? ]] On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I have installed dos, win98 and debian on my system using GRUB as the > bootloader. The installation

Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. Is there any powerpoint players for Linux.

Re: spontaneously changing partition types (GRUB)

2001-03-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:53:59PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: ... > 2) After installing grub the first time I boot it gives me the menu based > interface . Howver the second and subsequent times it drops me into the shell. sorry, overlooked this one. Well, that's to be expected:) Your /boot/gru

Configuring DHCPD

2001-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Hausheer
I am trying to figure out how to correctly configure my network so that dhcpd will start automaticlally on my firewall/router box. The situation: I have a box with 2 Linksys (tulip) based cards in it, one (eth0) grabs an address from my ISP (using dhcp-client). the other (eth1) is supposed to

Re: gdm login

2001-03-12 Thread Gary L. Dolan
Keith Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:07:42PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > I just did a fresh install of woody and ximian gnome on my > > laptop. Everything seems to be working fine, but when I try to login using > > gdm it goes black like it's going into X and then goes right b

IP Masquerade + VMware + pptp

2001-03-12 Thread franck routier
Has anyone experienced configuring IP Masquerade with pptp and VMware ? My situation is : - Debian box running unstable and kernel 2.4.2 - VMware + Windows 98 host system configured host-only - ADSL internet connexion using pptp protocol I would like my Windows virtual machine to access the net.

Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread francisco m . neto
» Knud Sørensen disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > > Hi > > I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. > > And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. > > Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. I guess StarOffice should be able to open and play it

RE: IP Masquerade + VMware + pptp

2001-03-12 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Has anyone experienced configuring IP Masquerade with pptp and VMware ? > > My situation is : > > - Debian box running unstable and kernel 2.4.2 > - VMware + Windows 98 host system configured host-only > - ADSL internet connexion using pptp protocol > > I would like my Windows virtual machine to

Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Greco
StarOffice 5.2 does an excellent job. Knud =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?= said on March 12, 2001 at 15:17 (+0100) > >Hi > >I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. > >And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. > >Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. > >

Re: Exim will only send mail online - SOLVED

2001-03-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Mar 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I can now only send mail out when I'm online. If I compose off line it > is frozen, and when I come on line and try to send it, exim gives up > with a message about unknown domains. Posting when on line still works, > however. > > This is a new development

Iptables

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
Hi, I am switching my firewall this weekend from RedHat to a Debian Box. I plan to install 2.4.2 and use the new filtering technology instead of Ipchains. Where can I find good Man pages and tutorials to start reading today (I don´t want to be surprised sunday night!) =) Best Regards, -- Marti

Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
> >I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. > > > >And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. > > > >Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. Nope, any solution would be based around either running an entire Windows installation in VMware, or using WINE..

Promise SuperTrak 100 IDE Radi 5 Cont.

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel Sand
Hi Debian Folks, I need some help. In the moment I assemble a new File Server System for my Work. In case of that this shouldn´t be not to expensive i choosed and IDE RAID system ( i know that SCSI with RAID should be a better choice ! But it isn´t cheap ! ) Their exists some sort of IDE Raid C

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should try to get this to work with WINE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Hamill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:06 To: Carl

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #12

2001-03-12 Thread Scott_Patterson
>I want to play genesis games with xmess, but I can't >seem to do it. I run xmess, but it says I'm missing >file (901??). Where do I get these? Am I doing >something wrong? Not sure what that error is. However, IIRC it's as simple as "xmess ". So, to run Sonic, I type "xmess genesis son

Re: Iptables

2001-03-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Martin Marconcini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find good Man pages and tutorials to start reading today (I > don´t want to be surprised sunday night!) The Netfilter homepage: http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ moritz PS: You know that you can simply build the iptables sour

Re: debconf problems

2001-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Delete the old verson of base.pm that is installed somewhere in the >> directories listed at the end of perl -V, but is not part of a debian >> package. It would also help if you can figure out where that copy of >> base.pm came from -- did you locally

debian-user-digest Digest V101 #18

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Richetta
Dear debian: Please stop sending this. You have failed on three previous attempts. Yes I have "sent mail" with several official "unsubscribe blah blahs" in them. Yes I ahve returned the unsubscribe confirmations. Your response has been that you cannot find me in the list you are sneding to.

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #18

2001-03-12 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 12-Mar-2001 Peter Richetta wrote: > Dear debian: Please stop sending this. > > You have failed on three previous attempts. > > > Yes I have "sent mail" with several official > "unsubscribe blah blahs" in them. > Yes I ahve returned the unsubscribe confirmations. > > Your response has bee

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint > presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should > try to get this to work with WINE. Well, it was about 18 months ago but I managed to get Word to r

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Yes indeed, i for one must say it's rather flexible. you can install it on a system and simply copy the few files into any location you need. I event copied it into the root of a presentation archives and later burned that onto a cdrom, then uninstalled the software and ran it from cdrom. Still wor

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Harald Thingelstad
b3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:45:06PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is > > first in the file and then online second? > > I'm not entirely sure if order matters or not... It does. If you keep the

Download here : RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presen tation)

2001-03-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
http://www.microsoft.com/Office/000/viewers.htm -Original Message- From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:54 To: 'Gavin Hamill'; Joris Lambrecht Cc: Carl Greco; Knud Sørensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Powerpoint player (extreme progr

Re: Kernel module compilation problem under 2.2

2001-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Welles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question -- I'm pretty sure > I'm dealing with a very simple problem, but I can't figure out how to > fix. > > I've written a kernel module which builds cleanly on a stock RH 7.0 > system, but when I try to

Re: default route by wvdial not set after temporary eth0-access (woody)

2001-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Helge Kreutzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had potato on my machine until recently. To upgrade, I took my > machine to work, edited /etc/networks/interface to use eth0 (instead > of the ppp-link I ordinary use) and upgraded to woody. > > Now at home I want to use the ppp-link again. Unfort

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Greco
If you whould prefer, as I do, not to install M$+VMware or wine on your Linux system, then install StarOffice 5.2 under debian. StarOffice will import `*.ppt' files. Joris Lambrecht said on March 12, 2001 at 17:07 (+0100) >This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Eric Richardson wrote: > > > Here are the questions. Thanks for all the help. I'll put what I'm thinking to do as a result of all the responses. > > 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is > first in the file and then online second? I'll put the CD's first in the

Re: question on Debian Official CD image

2001-03-12 Thread WONG YEUNG YAN
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Susumu Takuwa wrote: > First, at where have you got the ISO file? ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386 > If you see some symlink of package on windows, you will get > that information. I see. > Please tell me a package name that md5sum > is incorrect, of course

Re: enlightenment question

2001-03-12 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:52:05PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: > The colors show up but not the whole thing. I'm only getting colors and the > menus change but not the background the way the sample pictures show. Not all themes actually come with the background shown in the snapshot at e.themes.or

Re: named: suddenly "NSTATS" messages in syslog?

2001-03-12 Thread Iwan Mouwen
* Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010309 19:18]: > But it does this once EVERY HOUR?! > > Any other ideas?! add this to the options block in /etc/bind/named.conf statistics-interval 0; or change it to a large value, like 1440 (=24*60). The former will disable the statistics whil

Re: problem: kword in testing

2001-03-12 Thread Hunter Marshall
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:21:01AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:32:26AM -0800, Hunter Marshall > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have included the output of dpkg -l to waste bandwidth. :-) > > Yes, you have. > > $ dpkg -s kword > > ...will show relevent

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any comments on the proposed-updates? It's not testing but it is not > approved stable either. proposed-updates (which is a link to potato-proposed-updates/) contains updates to stable. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www

apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread Pollywog
I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem to work and I don't know why. I can access these via the web just not with apt. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian unstable contrib main non-free Any ideas?

Kernel 2.4 and mount from potato

2001-03-12 Thread Andrash Kovach
Hello guys! I've compiled the kernel source 2.4.2 with loopback device support & have run with potato install. When I going to mount a losetup-ed loopback device, mount hangs. Any idea? a2

Re: Kernel 2.4 and mount from potato

2001-03-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
I have been told that the loopback for 2.4.2 is broken.. but not sure and the later ac patch so fixed that Edwin Lau On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:43:28 Andrash Kovach wrote: > Hello guys! > > I've compiled the kernel source 2.4.2 with loopback device support & > have run with potato install. > When I

ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have set a ProFTP server running on port 2100. It is perfectly accesible from any Linux ftp client, even from browsers as Mozilla or Konqueror. The strange thing is that it can be accesed from clients running on windoze. Thy get the error: An error hapened when openning the folder in the FTP s

Re: Iptables

2001-03-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:57:48PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hi, I am switching my firewall this weekend from RedHat to a Debian Box. I > plan to install 2.4.2 and use the new filtering technology instead of > Ipchains. > > Where can I find good Man pages and tutorials to start reading tod

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net
Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients. -Rick ** Server Administrator [Linux - FreeBSD] Websites: www.shellz.nl www.tweakers.net ICQ#: 37416519 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sonido

2001-03-12 Thread roberto calvente aragon
Hola soy un usuario de Debian 2.2 potato y quisiera poder ver la television y tener sonido en Linux. Tengo la awe 64 sound blaster como tarjeta de sonido y la avermedia Capture 98 como tarjeta capturadora para poder ver la tele. Asi mismo tengo la S3 Virge como tarjeta de video. Me gustaria

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote: > Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients. I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a stupid bug where PASV mode didn't work... so I'd suggest try toggling passive

RE: rpc.statd hacking but firewalled

2001-03-12 Thread Marc Wilson
Try this in your firewall script: # anything NFS-like should not be accessible from outside NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq` for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS do $IPCHAINS -A input -i $extint -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 $PORT_NUM -j REJECT -l do $IPCHAINS

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Brian Johnston
you should also update from security.debian.org as there are known vulnerabilities against proftpd versions less than: 1.2.0pre10 see: Debian Security Advisory DSA-032-2 at http://www.debian.org/security Brian At 07:24 PM 3/12/2001 +, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Janse

Is there a better server avaliable?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:24:45PM +, Gavin Hamill dijo: -| On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote: -| -| > Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients. -| -| I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd -| 1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
You probably need to enable PASSIVE Mode on the Windows FTP CLient. That will make it. Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)

RE: Sonido

2001-03-12 Thread Carlos Laviola
Please, either post this to debian-user-es or write in english, and, preferably, post your messages using pure text instead of HTML. On 11-Mar-2001 roberto calvente aragon wrote: > Hola soy un usuario de Debian 2.2 potato y quisiera poder ver la television y > tener sonido en Linux. Tengo la awe 6

Re: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:39:02PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| You probably need to enable PASSIVE Mode on the Windows FTP CLient. -| -| That will make it. -| 1. I can't find a way to do this in Internet Explorer. 2. Isn't there any other way? I can't tell everybody to enable PASSIVE mode.

RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
1) Indeed you can't do it on Internet Explorer as far as I know. 2) I believe that no matter which client you will be using, if you wish to use an ftp server and pass through a firewall, you will have to enable passive mode on every client. Best Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DO

What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:09:42PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| 1) Indeed you can't do it on Internet Explorer as far as I know. -| 2) I believe that no matter which client you will be using, if you wi

RE: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
The reason for this is because many firewalls do not allow incoming connections to the site, but do allow users to establish outgoing connections. A passive data connection is established by the client to the server, whereas the default is for the server to establish the connection to the c

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi Daniel! Passive mode means that the server behaves passively. Traffic to an ftp server works as follows: Client (Port 1024-65535) initiates a connection to Server (usually port 21, but cinfigurable) Now: active: Server opens a data connection (backwards) from Port 20 to client (1024-65535) O

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread pollywog
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:32:23 Pollywog wrote: > I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem > to work and I don't know why. > I can access these via the web just not with apt. > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way > out of this? > ftp is bidirectional in that you go out on one port(21) and then the server communicates back on another port(23 I think). Passive mode means that it it a one port operatio

/etc/cron.daily/find

2001-03-12 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Why should updatedb be run with the option --localuser=nobody ? Can't this be run as root, because this way, not all files on my system are catalogued. Is there a reason for me not to remove this option? Thank in advance! --

Re: /etc/cron.daily/find

2001-03-12 Thread Mike Dresser
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Why should updatedb be run with the option --localuser=nobody ? > Can't this be run as root, because this way, not all files on my system > are catalogued. Is there a reason for me not to remove this option? > > Thank in advance! > > -- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

RE: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Some refinement;port 20 is ftp data port 21 is ftp port 23 is telnet -Original Message- From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:31 PM To: Daniel de los Reyes Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subj

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
So, may I ask a related question? I am trying to use ssh on a DSL-connected system, and apparently encountered similar problems. That is, rp-ppoe (or firewall) does not allow incoming connection. How do I use ssh? Is there a way to get around this problem using a similar approach such as th

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread Pat Day
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: > I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer > seem to work and I don't know why. > I can access these via the web just not with apt. > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/deb

But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have tryed a connection with no firewall in between and I still get the same error... Any ideas? El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:31:08PM -0700, Eric Richardson dijo: -| Daniel de los Reyes wrote: -| > -| > Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? -|

RE: But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
a) What FTP Server are you connecting TO? b) Is public? Private? c) What is the error exactly? d) DO NOT USE IE for FTP, USE any win application there are dozens and many freeware. -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, t

Re: But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:08:07PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| -| a) What FTP Server are you connecting TO? I am running a ProFTP server on port 2100 -| b) Is public? Private? -| c) What is the error exactly? An error ocurred when openning the folder at ftp server. Check your access righ

Netscape/WindowMaker annoyance ("XmDisplay")

2001-03-12 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I am using Netscape 4.76 with WindowMaker 0.64.0 on a potato system, the latter being compiled from the sources in unstable. Occasionally Netscape won't start when I click on its icon -- from the error messages that are output to one of the consoles I can see this: Class: XmDisplay _M

RE: But there is NO firewall in between so what's the problem?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
> I am running a ProFTP server on port 2100 Okey. Then it?s a Public server you are running. >An error ocurred when openning the folder at ftp server. Check your access rights to the folder. >Details: >200 Type set to A >500 Illegal PORT command It's saying 'check your access rights to the folder

error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make ... and that's what I get: make[3]: Entering directory '/home/user1/programs/dx-4.1

Some logs... I don't understand this...

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Now, this is what I get from running proftp in foreground and debug level 5. The machine attempting the connection is a win machine with an IP address of 192.168.1.3 and is behind a Linux box doing IP-Masquerading with IP 62.42.25.105. I don't understand those starnge logs at the end about the p

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:39:34PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > Some refinement; port 20 is ftp data > port 21 is ftp > port 23 is telnet And even more refinement FTP supports two basic modes, 'passive' and 'active'. It's also UGLY as hell.

xdm font failure

2001-03-12 Thread Timothy Bedding
Okay, I solved the perl problem and managed to configure debconf. I will explain the debconf resolution after I have got X working... Now, I have a problem with xdm not working. It is xdm version 4.0.2 and it fails with the following output: How can I get xdm (or the X server) working? XFree86 Ve

Re: error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:12:09 +0100 Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program > (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on > the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make

Re: error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program > (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on > the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make ... and > tha

New installation from floppy and I have no network

2001-03-12 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I was forced to install Debian from floppy images (base 1 - 11). I went through the steps and I did not have a chance to configure a network. Did I miss a step? If I have only a floppy drive to get in new code, what are my options? Thanks -- Randy

Re: apt-get problems

2001-03-12 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: >I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem to >work and I don't know why. >I can access these via the web just not with apt. > >deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free ^ You'

kernel 2.4.2 and PPP

2001-03-12 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I just upgraded my 2.4.0 kernel to 2.4.2 (via 2 patches) and PPP immediately failed. The connection was made, but an IOCTL said there was an argument error, and PPPD aborted. The IOCTL command in question was for "PPPIOCGFLAGS". Anyone else had this problem, and know how to correct for i

Re: Ethernet questions

2001-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have Kingston PCI from my DSL (Pacbell). It was tulip driver which is a module for standard debian kernel. Put "tulip" in /etc/modules and reboot. Make sure to configure /etc/network/interfaces too. To be sure, check actual device by lspci command. Osamu On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:42:08AM -0

Re: kernel 2.4.2 and PPP

2001-03-12 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:32:51PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > I just upgraded my 2.4.0 kernel to 2.4.2 (via 2 patches) and PPP > immediately failed. The connection was made, but an IOCTL said there > was an argument error, and PPPD aborted. The IOCTL command in question was >

Rich text format.

2001-03-12 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text format in Linux. Thank you, Ry

Re: New installation from floppy and I have no network

2001-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes, you did miss step, I think. I hope you have LAN connection since you have NIC on system. If your NIC is not connected to Internet, you need to run ftp or http mirror of debian archive on some host of LAN since you have no CDROM on your system which yoiu are installing debian. There should

Re: rpc.statd hacking but firewalled

2001-03-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:27:46AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Try this in your firewall script: > > # anything NFS-like should not be accessible from outside > NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq` > for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS > do $IPCHAINS -A input -i $extint -

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