Increasing maximum number of groups

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, Since the maximum number of groups of 32 doesn't fit my needs and I don't want to use ACL I'm trying to increase the maximum number of groups to 256 (which should do). So I've edited include/linux/limits.h and include/linux/limits.h and include/asm-i386/param.h setting NGROUPS_MAX and NGROU

Group of new files

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I got bunch of directories, each owned by a different group. Some users can only access (if I say access I mean rwx) one directory (so are only in 1 group), others are in more groups. Now if a user with default group foo creates any new files in a directory of group bar I want the files he

Raid system

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm trying to get RAID to work on my server. I got 2 disks (80 GB ATA) and a motherboard with RAID controller (ASUS PC-DL). The BIOS recognizes my RAID system, however debian (testing) doesn't. I guess it's a kernel driver problem, but I have no idea what to include in my kernel. Thanks,

Mkinitrd question

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, This 'll probably be a piece of cake for those of you who have any experience using mkinitrd, I found a howto on how to get my raid system to work. However I gotta make an image, the howto was written for RH and the mkinitrd of Debian seems to be something else. If anyone could tell met how

Initrd modules

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I've created a cramsfs initrd image and while booting the kernel says it's loaded okay. I've set the modules to all in mkinitrd.conf and just to be sure I've added the following modules to the modules file: scsi_mod, sd_mod and pdc-ultra (what seems to be the correct driver for my Promise 2

RE: Initrd modules

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
arl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2003 15:56 To: Ron Rademaker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Initrd modules On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Hello, > > I've created a cramsfs initrd image and while booting the kernel says &

Initrd trouble

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm still trying to get my system running with an initrd image, I'm at a lost :( Here is the output when trying to boot... Any ideas on what I should do would be very much appreciated (especcialy because I got to put this server in a serverpark within 24 hours...): RAMDISK: romfs filesyste

RAID controller

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm still trying to get my system to work with RAID, bit by bit I get a little further but now I've crossed across the next problem. I got my system booting with 2 hds attached to the Promise 20378 (SATA378), however when I activate RAID in the BIOS... The driver for the controller suddenly

Apache - groups - can anyone explain this?

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, If anyone could tell me how this is possible... Please do because I have no idea: My apache runs as user / group www-data / www-data I got Options ExecCGI Within my VirtualHost When I try to access: index.cgi on this virtualhost -> Forbidden Logs tell me:

Apache2 and.... php

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I guess this discussion has come along quite a few times already :) But I want to get it to work, I only want to use it! I've had it running fine for over a year on a RH server, but I just want to use debian. I'm running testing but found some php 4.3.3 packages that I installed... Why are

Netinst and Intel 82547

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
Title: Message Hello,   I'm trying to install debian on a new system using network install, this system has a asus pc-dl mainboard with onboard Intel 82547 Gigabit Lan controller... as you no doubt understand I'll need to have this LAN controller up and running in order to be able to install

Netinst and Intel 82547

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm trying to install debian on a new system using network install, this system has a asus pc-dl mainboard with onboard Intel 82547 Gigabit Lan controller... as you no doubt understand I'll need to have this LAN controller up and running in order to be able to install my system. The instal

Upgrading kernel for netinst cd

2003-09-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm trying to install a system with a Intel 82547 LAN controller using network install, however the e1000 driver doesn't support the 82547 until 2.4.22pre2, are there any netinst cd's that use the 2.4.22 kernel (or later)? Or is there any way I can create such a cd? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not

Umask trouble

2003-09-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello everyone, I'm trying to find some umask settings, however I'm afraid the ones I look for don't exist. Here's what I'm trying to achieve: When a user makes a file: -rwxrwxr-- When a user makes a directory: drwxrwx--x However when I use a umask that makes the files okay... the dirs are also

Dependency trouble after installing backport

2003-10-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I've installed a backport of exim4 for woody (because I want to use xasm and xasm needs exim 4), however this has caused some trouble. Namely pretty much any package that depends on exim (like mailscanner) thinks something is wrong and wants to completely remove my exim4 installation and r

Converting to raid

2003-10-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I've nearly finished installing a new server, this server has the Asus PC-DL mainboard with onboard RAID controller. I installed on one hd (a 80 GB ATA 100), but I do have another one of those hd's. Now I want create a mirroring RAID array between those two hd's, but I don't want to lose an

Dhcp and ssh

2003-12-06 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I've set up my network to use dhcp, there's one debian server and a couple of window$ workstations. The only problem I have now is that I can't login to the server with ssh any longer, the host file on the server is no longer correct and ssh disconnects me. Anyone know how I can set the dhc

Limit network speed

2003-12-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I have a little network at home with 2 window$ workstations and 1 debian gateway / dns / dhcp server. My network speed is pretty high (both on upload and download), however I want to limit the upload speed (cause I have a upload limit). The reason I want this is because when I use BitTorren

Re: Kernel VM problems.

2000-08-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like you're out of swap space or memory to me, I guess you'll probably have more luck posting this to the kernel-list, because this is a kernel problem. You could try to create a (bigger) swap partition, perhaps that will work. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Morten Lie

c2perl ??

2000-09-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Anybody knows if there's something like c2perl, which converts c source to perl ?? Ron Rademaker

Re: potato cd-images

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can get unofficial images on: ftp.fsn.hu I haven't had any succes finding a listfile (when I looked a month ago) for potato. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Could I get Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2 (potato) CD-images somehow? I think I'd > need a l

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the problem: - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this password (and user of course ;)) Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Did you use smbpasswd?? Th

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hmm, what does the smb.conf look like?? Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > problem: > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > Done. > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba wi

Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Oke, I've edited some things, try it... Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > > > problem: > > > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba w

Re: startx command

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Those are: /etc/init.d/xdm and all symlinks in /etc/rc.d that look something like Sxdm (the Kxdm are responsible for stopping X when you shutdown..) Ron Rademaker PS. You can probably do anything you want, whatever it is you want with only /etc/init.d/xdm (except if you want xdm to run in some

Re: mounting root via NFS

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Check out hte package: diskless Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > Is it possible to do this? I would like to set up an ``almost diskless'' > workstation, having only the kernel and a swap partition on the local HD. > aTdHvAaNnKcSe >

Re: Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
What does your route tables looks like, what does ifconfig give, what does ipchains -L give as output?? Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Hello. > > Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? > > I have a Slink-box that is supposed t

Re: Debian and router

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
First of all, I guess you'll want ip masquerading, you'll have to put that on in your ipchains. Can je ping outside from x.y.26.62 ? This is also the box you really should set up masquerading! Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wro

Re: your mail (netdate)

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
I used to use netdate also, but I found a fine replacement in rdate ;) Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > The command netdate found in slink seems to be missing in > potato. A search for this in potato at www.debian.org shows that it > is not there, wh

Re: permissions

2000-06-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
The b mean black device, the group / owner of the file are ID's you don't have on your system. You can't remove it, that could be because of attributes of the file, check out what lsattr gives you. The file is probably a corrupt file that should be there... Ron Rademaker On T

Re: jserv package

2000-06-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is one in woody, I just checked, don't about potato or slink... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, John F. Davis wrote: > Hello > > Is there a debian package for jserv? I have apache installed and > I want to install jserv without downloading the tar file

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 > kno

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 > t

Re: PICO

2000-06-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
der > > 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 Rademaker wrote: > > It'n in pine, pine is in non-free, you'll have to insta

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 do

Re: apt-get & kernel question

2000-06-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
The kernel doesn't matter AT ALL where the packages install, this is specified in the debian package. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Dean wrote: > Hi: >I recently upgraded to potato and decided to upgrade kernel to 2.2.15 > > same time. Everything went smoothly except

Re: speakfreely in tm5300 notebook

2000-06-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
e a debian package, you can get it at: ftp://rademaker.dhs.org in pub/linux/debian/packages/binary-i386/ ). However, this buffer overflow is only something that I think could be it, I'm not saying it is the problem! Ron Rademaker On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, erasmo perez wrote: > hello everybody

Re: boot error

2000-06-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like your root file system is mounted read only, try to do (as root): touch /a (if no error occurs, don't forget to do rm /a). If it's mounted read only, you can remount it read-write, but you better check out your /etc/fstab. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wr

RE: boot error

2000-06-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
AFAIK, the root filesystem is mounted read-write and remounted read-only on errors... Ron On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: > From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > > Anyone know why do I get the fol

Re: Re-send contents of a mail file

2000-06-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Can't he get it from his old box (get it with pop..) Ron On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Marcus Johansson wrote: > Hi! > > I have a pretty huge mail file for a user who want that transfered to his > Lotus Notes mail box. Is there any way of re-sending the contents of this > mail > file to his new mail

Re: Problem Compiling mod_perl in Apache

2000-06-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why compiling if there's a debian package?? Ron On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > I have been working at this all morning, and most of the afternoon and I > just can't seem to figure out how to solve this problem. I am trying to > compile mod_perl 1.24 statically with apache 1.3.12

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-06-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
mounting cdrom : mount -t iso9660 Info on perl: man perl (there's a lot of info there) Ron Rademaker On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, laxmisunil prakash wrote: > Dear friend, > I am using Debian linux.Please can I get some info on how to mount a > cdrom on my linux machine .pl

Re: Sendmail giving errors

2000-06-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
Knowing the errors would be nice ... ;) Ron On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > I seem to be having troubles with sendmail giving me errors when trying to > access the /etc/aliases.db file. Is there anything I can do remove these > errors, they seem to be causing sendmail to not send

Re: Package Information

2000-06-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can find this in dselect (of course) or you can get the files Packages or Packages.gz (gzipped version) from the a mirror. In these files are all descriptions and what the packages depend on, suggest, recommend etc. Ron Rademaker PS. You can also use dpkg -s for info on On Mon, 26 Jun

Re: Login Message

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you mean the message of the day, just edit /etc/motd and you done... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bill wrote: > Hi all > Can anyone tell me where to change the login message > when logging into Debian Box with SSH. > > Thanks in

Re: strange eth0 error

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've had similar errors, they dissapeared when I recompiled the kernel (and went from not-modules drivers to modules). Ron On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, David C Ables wrote: > > I have a somewhat unpredictable problem with my network card. it's using > the tulip driver module with potato and kernel 2.2.

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I prefer booting with a lilo option like init=/bin/sh, remounting the root partition read-write and edit again... Or perhaps you got sudo installed and configed?? That'll be the easiest ... Ron Rademaker On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van d

Re: how to upgrade debian to 2.2

2000-06-28 Thread Ron Rademaker
he upgrade will go completely smooth (don't know how the upgrade goes now, but a few months ago I experienced problems with libc6 and perl), but I think it won't give you much trouble. Maybe you can check out www.debian.org if you can find some more details on upgrading to potato. Ron Radem

Re: how to upgrade debian to 2.2

2000-07-02 Thread Ron Rademaker
> problems with libc6 and perl), but I think it won't give you much > > trouble. Maybe you can check out www.debian.org if you can find some more > > details on upgrading to potato. > > > > Ron Rademaker > > that'll probably help head off some difficult

Sendmail and multiple domains

2000-07-03 Thread Ron Rademaker
PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] has to go to some mailbox. Ron Rademaker

sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
/sendmail.cf ... makemap: Type dbm not supported in this version Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] Reloading sendmail ... I want to use dbm for virtusertable (docs told me to do so, how do I get Makemap to work with it?) Ron Rademaker

Re: sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
okay, I a little further now, only every mail stays in the mailq with the message: Deferrred HELP!! please Ron On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Alright I get the following message when I try to generate

Weird sendmail problem

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
anyone has got a clue about this, please let me know, I've been dealing with this for hours now and I'm kinda going insane here ;( Ron Rademaker

exim question

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
How can I use multiple domains with exim, eg both the domains domain.com and otherdomain.com run on a machine and I want this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar Ron Rademaker

Re: Kernel upgrade

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
/usr/src/linux-2.2.15 > and ln -s linux-2.2.15 linux. You should make the symlink when you're in /usr/src, not in /usr/src/linux-2.2.15. How about extracting the sources, domv linux linux-2.2.15 ln -s linux-2.2.15 linux Ron Rademaker > Afte

Re: su question

2000-07-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
Perhaps sudo can help you, with sudo you just do: sudo and it's executed with root privileges (after ofcourse you have given the user permission to use sudo). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, tom wrote: > howdy guys, > > This is one of those things that has > been pestering

Re: apt-get upgrade: now I can not login at ALL!!!help

2000-07-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try booting with the lilo option: init=/bin/sh This will provide you with a root shell where you can try to fix things... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jose M de Aguiar wrote: > Help! > > I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run > apt-get updat

Re: Database program

2000-07-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know about memory usage, but I think MySQL will work for you... Ron Rademaker On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for some sort of database or spreadsheet application to use > as a personal filing system. I'll be organizing a lot of different

Re: networking questions

2000-07-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you'll want to take a look at samba, with samba you can share your disks on your debian box to windows and the other way around AFAIK. But first off all you'll have to get the network to work. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Franco Cone wrote: > Howdy! > &

Re: reboots while backing up

2000-07-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I hav

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
I changed my line to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "Won't work" (The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's dutch..) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > I had in mind 'none' in

Re: Network problems

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
What do you get if you do: ifconfig route Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am currently building my own webserver but still I do have a > problem with my 3com 3C900-NIC. > > Although the kernel (2.2.16) is compiled wi

Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
xfree86 4.0 isn't packaged for debian (yet), patience... patience On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I had to upgrade my xserver to 4.0. Does anyone know which debian packages I > need to version to 4.0 so that I can safely use apt-get dist-upgrade? > > MO > > > -- > Uns

Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know, but I guess this will be a working workaround: change the name of /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 create phony /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 run apt-get dist-upgrade change all dirs back again Ron On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > >-- On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:34:53AM +0

Re: newusers command

2000-07-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
adduser is a perl script AFAIK, that uses useradd, so if you would edit the script, you can make it do what you want it to do. Ron On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that >

Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should try using the tecra image (on the official cd release of slink (2.1), it's on cd 2 if I recall correctly, so try booting from cd 2) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, e3c wrote: > I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to > recieve he

Re: Autologin on Serial Console

2000-07-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Simon Tennant wrote: > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in > the house. Cool ;) > > I curre

Domain names in spain

2000-07-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
Sorry for the off topic question, but I know there are people here that know the answer to my question: Where can I register domain names in Spain? (top level domain .es if I'm right) Thanks, Ron Rademaker

Re: no ftp at all.

2000-07-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
You could check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, and are you running a ftpd?? Another thing could be ipchains... Ron Rademaker On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote: > Here another riddle which I can't seem to solve > > I have two potato boxes (192.168.1.1 and 3) and

Re: no ftp at all.

2000-07-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
You'll have to install a ftpd if you want to be able to login to them with ftp. You could use something like wu-ftpd. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote: > hosts.allow is empty, hosts.deny has ALL: PARANOID. Both files are equal on > 192.168.1.1 and 3. I amended hosts.all

Re: how to automatically execute things?

2000-07-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
e something in xdm that can start netscape, I don't know. Ron Rademaker > > please help me a lost and tormented soul! > > Thank you. > > :) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

Re: telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
About telnet: It COULD be a misconfigured firewall (see what ipchains -L gives you) About ftp: firewall could also be the problem, but maybe you're not running a ftpd. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: > Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
the program is terminated and netscape isn't running anymore, if the password is incorrect, netscape is restarted. Perhaps this can be of any help. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > I'm going out of my mind > > when a user logs in a

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a > disk in a floppy or a cd in

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
How about cat /dev/fd0 will that work? Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that > was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But > they will still boot

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you want to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections To get the same packages installed on the other do: dpkg --get-selections < file (on the installed machine) copy the file from thatmachine to the new one dpkg --set-selections < file (on the new one) Ron Rademaker

Re: broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
What if you stop gpm, and try again. (Start a x session, go back to console and do /etc/init.dgpm stop as root, or stop gpm first and then start an x session). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, > if you can hel

Re: LINUX ON FAT32

2000-07-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
(you'll have to install win98 again, except if you got more then one partition already, in that case you can just remove one of those partitions and replace them by ext2), after that you can use lilo to set up multiboot. Hope this is of any help. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROT

Re: installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1

2000-07-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
What mouse do you got, subject tells me PS/2 and the mail says MS Bus mouse, if it's PS/2, you should use /dev/psaux. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, William Smith wrote: > After installing Debian Linux2.1 I tried installing X11 but get an error : > > "Fatal server error

Re: mysql-server root password

2000-07-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can also change the password by loggin in as root, and use mysql, change the password entry in the table user (with SQL statements, don't forget to use password=password('$password') instead of password=$password). Ron Rademaker On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Northwest Advantage wrote:

Re: Sendmail feature wanted

2000-08-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
You should use hash instead of dbm. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi All, > I use Sendmail to send and recive mail through Internet but I want the > following feature: when an e-mail comes to an unknow user, it will be &

Re: Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading

2000-08-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
What does it say when you do: ipchains -L Ron Rademaker On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: > HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ > support and I'm pretty sure that I got it right. I've read through the > HOW-TO but I

Re: missing perl manpages

2000-08-12 Thread Ron Rademaker
The manpages are in perl-5.005-doc, you'll have to remove perl 5.004 if you want to get rid of it. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. I have the following installed: > > in perl-5.004(no description available) >

Re: scrambled chars on tty

2000-08-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
You'll probably get the tty right again if you login on the tty and use 'reset' or 'setterm -reset'. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Hi... > > I'd just like to ask: > Why do several of my tty-s display scrambled characters? &

Re: Apache w/ Potato, strange .CGI functionality.

2000-08-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
Some pointers: - Is the first line of the script: #!/usr/bin/perl ?? or did you try the execution from the commandline by 'perl

Re: Location of eth0 files

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
In Slink (2.1) you can find what you're looking for in /etc/init.d/network, in Potato (2.2) and Woody (2.3) you can find it in /etc/network/interfaces. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, cxpx wrote: > I originally installed debian w/ dhcp.I am now going through a > firewall.

Re: Fixing Monitors Frequency

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
It'll probably work if you remove all the frequently lines from /etc/X11/XF86Config you don't wish to use... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to start X with a fixed monitor frequency? My monitor is > able to do more than 100H

Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
to the xfree 4.0 dirs and run ldconfig. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about installing xfree4.0.1 on my debian system, but > then I started worrying about how it would interfere with the debian > package management. >

Re: installation problem

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Is there an error?? My guess is that 60 meg is just not enough... Switch to another tty (ALT+F2) and type df, to see how much free space is left. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear sirs: > > I bought the Debian installation book by Thomas Down with t

Re: apt-get help

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Did you try: apt-get -f install, as it says?? It looks like you got exim installed, exim depends on some stuff and this is giving trouble... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to

Re: Licensing Information Request

2000-08-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'd advice you to go to www.debian.org and read the social contract, I think it'll give you enough information. Ron Rademaker PS. Basically it says that debian is and will remain 100% free (it also says what's meant by free), and some other things... On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dompni

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should go to www.exim.org, somewhere on that site you can find examples on configuring things (a tar.gz), a while ago I also configured exim for multiple domains and one of the examples (I can't recall which one) was a great help! Ron Rademaker On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Alec Smith

debugfs and superblock

2000-08-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
I want to change the filesystem size (according to the superblock), because it's different from the physical size. I guess I should do this with debugfs (or perhaps fsck), if anybody has any ideas on how to do this I'd like to hear them. Ron Rademaker PS. For those who wonder how I

Re: Debian 2.2 setup problem

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
What kind of errors do you get? I guess you get the problem when installing lilo, did you set the boot-flag on the partition (when partitioning the hd)? You don't need to load any drivers to complete the installation (except the driver for your network if you install over a network).

Re: Please help with command "man"

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try apt-get update before you try to install man. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: > Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486 > with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space. I just installed Linux and > read the tutorial found

Re: Help again with command "man".

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
-db you've downloaded / are going to download). Ron Rademaker PS. If you're using tcsh, you should do rehash before you can actually use man. On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: > Well I just found out why I can't use the method : apt-get install man-db > manpages or all th

Re: win and linux

2000-04-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
And if you're booting then; DON'T FORGET to press a key (I find caps-lock working nice) and then, at the LILO prompt type the label of the OS to boot (TAB shows your choices). Ron On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I'm too new for linux and loaded to my computer linux yesterday. H

Re: newbie questions - kill and lpd

2000-04-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and > > kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top. > > Any suggestions about what to do now? > This indicates, that the parent process of netscape is ha

Re: usb keyboard + mouse and xfree86

2000-04-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
USB is not supported in the 2.2.x kernels, however it is supported in the 2.3.x (I don't know in any version, but the newer ones support usb). You should try a 2.3 kernel. Ron On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Kendall Shaw wrote: > Do you think it's possible to use usb keyboard + mouse in xfree? The > keyboar

Re: apt-get problem

2000-04-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like your dns isn't working the way it should. Ron On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Bill wrote: > Hi all, > can someone tell me what is to be done to fix this problem. > > > sources.list > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debia

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