New Website
Just wanted to take a moment to let the Debian folks know that I think the new look of the website is a GREAT improvement! Good work, folks! George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: hmm... an idea
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic > IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have > the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? > > THanks > -Paul If you are wanting the host assigned by DHCP to be reachable from the internet, yeah, you will need something to update your zone file and restart DNS. There are several DYNDNS packages around, sign up for the systalk mailing list at ml.org and make an inquiry there. George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Problem installing a package with dpkg
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Katharine Osborne wrote: > > I've been through all the man/--help pages and I > have no idea how to fix/avoid this. If you have > any suggestions, please email me. > > thanks in advance. Download the package and install it manually with a --force overwrite option like this: dpkg -i --force overwrite And that should do it. George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: I hate dselect
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > > So following another suggestion on this list, I went into dselect > and tried to put some stuff on Hold. Only thing is, dselect's > "Select" option sucks! sucks! sucks! > > Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect > I could figure out how to work it, but the help screens indicated > that I could just select something like "Required Updated > Packages" and put that on Hold. But then dependency screens came > up, so as per the help screens, I pressed "R" to restore things > to the way they were, then I pressed "X" to exit and abandon all > changes. But when I went to the "Install" option to try the full > download again, all of a sudden the size of my download doubled. > From there it just went downhill. > Well, what I do is put the the stuff on hold, when it throws me into the conflict resolution screen, I put all THAT stuff on hold too. Then continue on.
Re: Block stupid/annoying sites
>> What about using REJECT instead of DENY? That way the browser should >> immediately be told that the destination (in this case >> ad.doubleclick.net) >> could not be reached. > > I believe DENY would cause the browser to time out, but not right away. I > only use DENY for spam hosts/nets so that the spammer wastes more time. > > -- There is an additional difference. If someone runs a port scan against a machine, anything that is denied will get no response. It will be as if there is nothing there. If you are rejecting traffic, they will be able to tell that there is something there that they are not allowed to access. They can simply adjust their activity from a different location to see if they can gain access to the rejected service. ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02-Sep-99 Time: 22:50:57 This message was sent by XFMail --
RE: filtering with exim
On 05-Sep-99 Mark R. Devlin wrote: > ># cut here # > if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel-changes@ > then > testprint $h_Subject: > if $h_Subject: matches "xxx" > then > save Mail/debian-changes-in > finish > else > testprint "Throw message away" > seen finish > endif > endif ># cut here # Are you saying that you do not like the above because it also saves the Installed messages that you would rather not save? Try: if $h_Subject: does not contain Installed and $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel-changes@ then whatever
RE: Help with exim -> Message frozen (fwd) ?
On 11-Sep-99 Colin Telmer wrote: > I recently moved from smail to exim and have occasionally been sent the > following note (below). I don't really know what it means (other than the > obvious:)) nor how to fix it. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Add localhost to the local_domains option in /etc/exim.conf > > -- > Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://www.telmer.com> > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:23:01 -0400 > From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Message frozen > > Message 11OwJY-0001rh-00 has been frozen. The sender is > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > The following address(es) have yet to be delivered: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: remote host address is the local host > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Sep-99 Time: 20:51:32 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Two ethernet cards
On 12-Sep-99 Neil Booth wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Literally all that came in the box was a manual, a cable for > Wake-On-LAN, and the card itself. > > Could you elaborate? > > Neil. If both cards are PCI there really should not be a problem. Try swapping the order of the cards in the PCI bus and see if that helps. Just curious, why are you using the different drivers for the two cards? Can't they both use the same one? ---------- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Sep-99 Time: 18:47:13 This message was sent by XFMail --
RE: One Without The Other
You only REALLY need the first one. On 12-Sep-99 Allix Primus wrote: > So is it possible to just extract the first binary and install debian with > the minimum amount of software or is the second one required ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Sep-99 Time: 19:44:17 This message was sent by XFMail -- So is it possible to just extract the first binary and install debian with the minimum amount of software or is the second one required ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Advansys Boot Disk
I have built a set for you using that driver but I am not sure what network options you need or what kind of machine you have. The result is an SMP 2.2.13-pre6 kernel (yeah, I know, it is a little behind) with the most popular NIC drivers and no ISDN support. Try the images at ftp://opensource.captech.com/captech/disks/slink/2.2.13pre6/ And see if they work. Let me know how you make out. On 25-Sep-99 Curtis M. Brune wrote: > Hello, > > I read with interest your posting of a boot disk with a 2.2.10 kernel > and "Advansys Support" -- I have a new Advansys Ultra2 Wide SCSI > controller (ASB3940U2W) that requires an updated advansys.o driver > available here > > http://www.advansys.com/support/software/os/linux.htm > > Do these boot disks you made include support for this SCSI card? > Alternatively is there an __EASY__ way for me to build my own boot disks > that only have different advansys.c and advansys.h files? Is there a > project i can download for building boot disks? I envision changing the > above two source files, typing "make" and having a new resc1440.bin and > drv1440.bin . Or am I just dreaming? > > Thanks, > Curt > > > As I this is written an upload of slink installation disks using the > 2.2.10 kernel is being uploaded to opensource.captech.com in the > /captech/disks/slink/2.2.10 directory > > These are TEST disks, you are welcome to TEST them. There was some SCSI > support and other less popular options removed because of the size of > the > 2.2.10 kernel. > > In the next few days I will be adding some more sets that have much more > support but are more specialized. There will be a no-scsi set that has a > lot of network and other peripheral options, a no-ide set that does much > the same for SCSI. More will follow including an SMP 2.2.10 install set. > I > have tested this all here and it appears to work. > > Of note is that these disks support things like Advansys and Initio disk > controllers as well as providing much better support for the NetGear > network cards. > > Also, the base disks include some things from potato recompiled for > slink. > The naming convention for some of these packages will change shortly so > be > careful. Right now I am using > _slink..deb > but that is likely to change to > _-slink..deb > > Basicly, this will not affect the majority of you so don't worry about > it. > > In any case, I am interested in any feedback or particular device > support > you might want. I can build a new set in a short period of time. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25-Sep-99 Time: 02:21:28 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: tar
On 27-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: >>From man tar: > > --exclude FILE > exclude file FILE > > -X, --exclude-from FILE > exclude files listed in FILE > Can you verify that this actually works? I tried it a couple of weeks ago and it seemed to include the files I excluded anyway. ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Sep-99 Time: 23:25:54 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError
I am kind of catching up on old email so I do not know if this problem got resolved but go into your BIOS and set the IDE controller to PIO Mode 3 or LOWER and it will work. This is a problem with some UDMA drives. I used to get them all the time ... constantly as a matter of fact until I turned off DMA and set PIO-3 on those interfaces. Newer kernels have better IDE drivers, BTW. On 28-Sep-99 Stephen R. Gore wrote: > B. Szyszka wrote: >> > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially >> > > since >> > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to >> > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the >> > > harddrive >> > > itself is the problem? >> > The surest test would be to use it with another motherboard for a while. >> >> Like I said, I can't afford to just go out and buy a new piece of hardware >> as >> I see fit. These things cost money. Are you tell me there's no way for me >> to check what hardware Linux might be having a problem with? >> > ---end quoted text--- > > The way to check is to: > 1) Read the documentation and HOWTOs in the kernel source. > or > 2) Reference your hardware (drive and chipset) in your questions, > and see if someone has had experience with them (likely). > > Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only > data I'm given is "These things cost money". Give us something to work > with. > > -- > Regards, > Steve > > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30-Sep-99 Time: 01:26:20 This message was sent by XFMail --
RE: How do I switch between JDK versions?
The debian /usr/lib/jdk/bin/java is really a symlink to a .java_wrapper script. Having a look at that script may clear some things up for you. On 02-Oct-99 Joe Emenaker wrote: > Probably a FAQ... but, here goes > > I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with > the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make > this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the > /etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's what you end up using. > > I've tried changing the links in /etc/alternatives, but it just turns into a > big mess. > > Aren't there any handy little scripts to switch back and forth? For example, > on my Windows machine, I have batch files called "JDK10", "JDK11", and > "JDK12" that switch between 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 respectively. > > * Is there anything like that in Debian? > > * Are they separate for jdk and jdk-dev? > > * Is is possible for each user on the system (via environment vars, I'd > guess) to pick which they want to use? > > Thanks in advance > > - Joe > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02-Oct-99 Time: 01:30:44 If it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here! --
RE: dual celeron m/b
I have a BP6 running dual Celeron 366's overclocked to 550. no problems so far. The trouble I have seen is that people get tempted to fiddle in the BIOS with CPU voltages and the like and end up causing themselves a lot of problems. The Abit cup voltage and clock settings are in BIOS and not jumpers, leads people to want to tinker with it a lot and crash their boxes. It is possible to get it into a state where it will not even. On 05-Oct-99 Kam Yee Lo wrote: > Just curious about Debian running dual celeron with better FPU? I'm > thinking of installing Debian on dual celeron for CAD. Is dual celeron > 500mhz faster than Pentium III 500mhz? I want good debian linux and > cheap dual celeron :) > > Anyone have dual celeron AbIT motherboard? > > Thanks > Griz > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Oct-99 Time: 19:28:47 If it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here! --
RE: hd (?) light (red) always on
I have a machine that does this until I mount the CDROM. Then I unmount it and the lamp behaves itself. On 05-Oct-99 Peter Mickle wrote: > hi- > > does anyone know why the harddrive light (red) might always be illuminated > while running under slink? on the same machine, i also have winNT installed, > and whenever it is running, the light comes on only periodically, while > opening an application for example. > > any opinion as to whether this might be hazardous to the machine? > > thanks - > > peter > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Oct-99 Time: 19:32:18 If it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here! --
RE: how do i NAT a legacy network ?
> > and i am a bit confused... > > > IP MASQ supports network NAT very wellbut the docs say that we have to > use > only private IPs. so .. can i use IP MASQ to hide my 95.x.x.x network > also > ?? Yes, you can ipmasq to nat anything. It simply uses masquerades the given source address to the outbound interface regardless of ip address. It just seems to be private addresses only from the documentaion since they assume that is what people will use it for. ------ E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 07-Oct-99 Time: 02:01:38 If it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here! --
routing daemons for debian
I am in need of a routing daemon capable of ospf. I notice that debian does not include gated. Is there an alternative package capable of this that I am overlooking? George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gated dying
It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following complaint: task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol not available Mar 15 22:30:31 calvin gated[27810]: Abort gated[27810] version 3-5-8: Protocol not available What am I missing? bo system upgraded to libc6 but not completely upgraded to hamm. George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gated dying
It looks like the kernel I was using is not configured for multicasting. On 16-Mar-98 George Bonser wrote: > It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following > complaint: > > task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol > not available > Mar 15 22:30:31 calvin gated[27810]: Abort gated[27810] version 3-5-8: > Protocol > not available > > What am I missing? > > bo system upgraded to libc6 but not completely upgraded to hamm. > > > > George Bonser > Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. > http://www.debian.org > Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What SCSI should I buy?
The driver included in the 2.1 kernels DOES support the UW card. I would suggest getting that driver, it does work with the 2.0 (and the 1.2) kernels. I am not sure which version of the driver is being shipped with Debian's kernel. That is driver version 3.1D and goes in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi as advansys.c and advansys.h. I can ship you a copy, if you need them. They are about 578K in size combined. On 16-Mar-98 Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Thanks to everybody who replied. I believe every SCSI-adaptor is > succesfully used by at least one person :-). Advansys seems to be > the best choice (or buslogic, but that wasn't one my friends initial > shopping list). Although I'm worried about one thing: my friend noted > that on the box of the Advansys U-version (he didn't give me any > id of the board sorry) Linux-support was mentioned but on the UW-version > there was nothing about Linux. Does anybody know Advansys' policy? I mean > are they commited to providing Linux support for all their SCSI-adaptors? > > Thanks again, > > Nico > > -- > -- > Nico De Ranter > Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) > 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** > New Phone number +32 2 724 86 41 !!! > *** > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tar
Even if someone has noclobber set in their shell? On 07-Dec-97 Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Steve Koop wrote: > >> Just Was wondering how to, or what is the switch to untar a file to >> overwrite and replace the existing files? > > No switch required, tar automatically overwrites files when extracting. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: printing
I think you are going to have to know what kind of printer you have and which port you connected it to. On 07-Dec-97 Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any tool anywhere where I can tell what printer do I have > and where is it and then the program takes care of everything, or do I > have to read everything there's to know about printcaps and magicfilters? > > TIA! > > Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ > PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"Lo importante es el concepto" > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing
Sorry for misunderstanding the original post. I thought that he was looking for a tool that would find the printer and could tell what kind it was. :/ Yeah, magicfilterconfig does a nice job of it if you are using the standard lpr. It is a little quirky if you are using LPRng. On 07-Dec-97 Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Pere Camps; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: >> >> Is there any tool anywhere where I can tell what printer do I have >> and where is it and then the program takes care of everything, or do I >> have to read everything there's to know about printcaps and magicfilters? >> > > Did you try running magicfilterconfig (as a root), after installing > magicfilter package? This scritp will ask you about the printer(s) that > you have and make a 'custom' /etc/printcap for you. it worked for me... > Oh, yeah...remove your existing /etc/printcap prior to running the > above script (for safety sake I used to move mine to /etc/printcap.old > so I could retrieve it later, but I had working printcap prior to > magicfilter) > > HTH > damir > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NNTPCACHE
On 08-Dec-97 A. M. Varon wrote: > > > NNTPCACHE is really a cool program. It's a proxy like squid, but instead > of proxying html, jpgs, etc., It proxies nntp newsgroups. It saves you > enormous bandwitdth just using this one. This baby can even filter spams > and connect to multiple nntpservers. > > A little hitch on this one is For non profit organizations and > educational institutions, it's free. For commercial use, you have to pay. > Therefore, It's not exactly free. > > Anybody care to compile it as a .deb file? I subscribed to the nntpcache mailing list for a long time. Development is on-again off-again but it does seem to creep along. WHat I like about it is that it is smart enough to know that if nobody is reading a group, it does not pull articles for it. If someone requests articles in a group that has no cached articles, it will go and get some. Basicly, it is like DNews. It pulls articles based on what is being read. It sure saves network bandwidth and disk space. Actually, a program could be built to do this with cnews + nntpd + suck. The program would have a cache table that it passes to suck in the form of a sucknewsrc. It would tail the nntplog and if a group is read that is not being cached, it could be added to the sucknewsrc and then get-news would be kicked off to pull some articles. If a group is not read in a configurable number of days, it is removed from the sucknewsrc and no articles would be pulled for that group until someone starts to read it again. Since cnews, suck, and nntpd are pretty stable programs and are already debian packages, a small glue program to do this should not be too difficult. It could be done with inn as well. This would avoid some of the problems that nntpcache has in the nntp part of its code. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: smail to exim
The largest hurdle that you are going to face is getting smail off of your system so you can install exim. You are going to need to force dpkg to remove this essential package. I would wait a little while, the package in unstable is much better than the one in stable and a new upstream source release was just announced this week. On 10-Dec-97 Kevin Traas wrote: > I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons > > Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on > how to proceed with this particular "roll-over" or let me know of any docs > I can RTFM, etc. Any caveats, things to watch for, etc. would be helpful. > > TIA, > Kevin Traas > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Replacing smail w/exim
try dpkg -r --force remove-essential smail or dpkg -r --force depends smail but I think it is the first one. On 11-Dec-97 Randy Edwards wrote: > I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is > to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I > believe is exim (correct me if I'm wrong:-). > >However, I'm in a catch-22. dselect/dpkg won't allow me to remove > smail because so many packages depend on it. And, dselect/dpkg won't > allow me to install exim because smail already exists. > >Could someone give me some tips on the "proper" way to accomplish > such a switch? Is there a way to override dselect/dpkg's dependencies > for such circumstances? Thanks in advance. > > -- > Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o > .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ > Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ > | ...because lockups are for convicts... > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is there a Debian specific published manual
On 11-Dec-97 Random wrote: > > I took a look at it. It seems fairly complete, but you can get the same > information from the HOWTO documents and the Debian FAQ. > > Corey The book is pretty handy if your internet connection is not set up yet ;) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: AMD K6
I am running one on one of my machines ... no problems. On 12-Dec-97 Fenrick wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with running the K6 and > Debian Linux? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Mail Server?
If there is a second dedicated IP address, you would use MX records in the DNS to do it. Otherwise, if there is only one IP address, you can use rinetd. On 12-Dec-97 Robinet David Jeremy wrote: > > Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a > client across the border. He has asked me about a separate mail server > (on top of the web/cgi server with the Net connection) to offload some of > the duties of the main server. > > I'm a little confused as to how exactly I would accomplish this. I know > it's possible. I'm familiar with PPP, and I've set up the one server to > communicate on the Net (with a little help from the HOWTO... :)... but > how would I have all incoming mail sent to the second computer for > processing etc? > > Thanks in advance. > > Dave Robinet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dtterm
Actually, simply copying the terminfo entry from the solaris machine to the debian machine worked. On 14-Dec-97 Oliver Elphick wrote: > George Bonser wrote: > > > >I take that back ... it does not work. Looks like I created a tercap type > >entry out of a terminfo description. Any idea how I can turn that back to > >a terminfo entery for linux or will the Solaris terminfo entry work ok? > > What you posted looked like a good terminfo entry. You probably need to > make a termcap entry as well, which should be added into /etc/termcap. > > `infocmp -C' should produce a termcap listing from the terminfo entry. > > -- > Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 > > Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending > such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together > with a £25 administration charge. > > > George Bonser Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setting up a cable-modem
On 14-Dec-97 Aaron Walker wrote: > The card is made by General Instruments. The TV cable does go into the back > of the > card. YIKES! That is ALL we need, RF interference problems from computers on the cable-TV circuit. The reason I was skeptical was that I was with a company desinging the power supplies for a couple of different cable modem companies. WHen asked why they didn't just put it on a card in the PC, the answer was RF interference problems. Sorry for doubting you, just that all the cable-modems I have seen have been ehternet to the computer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba
I do not think this is correct. I have seen Linux machines running SaMBa in both ipx and tcp/ip networks. On 15-Dec-97 Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >: Are you saying that with I can use any protocol (IPX, TCP/IP, or NetBEUI) >: with >: Samba on the win95 box? > > Samba (that runs on several Unix flavors, including of course Linux) > can _only_ use TCP/IP. Windows 95 can use TCP/IP, IPX/SPX or NetBEUI > to do Microsoft Networking. If you want a Windows 95 box to talk to a > Samba server, then it _must_ use TCP/IP because Samba only talks > TCP/IP. > > E.- > > -- > > Eloy A. Paris > Information Technology Department > Rockwell Automation de Venezuela > Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: PPPD and CHAPMS
I think Hammish posted last night that the names of the options have changed with pppd but the options file was not changed. It is a matter of entering the correct option names. Check posts made by Hammish in the last 24hrs. On 15-Dec-97 Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > Is there a paritcular reason why pppd distributed with debian doesn't have > support for MS chap compiled in? > >= > === > =mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >|__ Alexander Stavitskyhttp://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Oh yeah!
I suppose that all depends. There are some cards that the kernel drivers do not support that the commercial version does and it really boils down to how much you value your time. If the OSS drivers save you an hour or two, it is probably money well spent. For the $20 you get upgrades as future versions are become available and if you need to change sound cards, rerunning the OSS setup makes the switch a snap. I for one am happy to support the vendor of a quality Linux product. If the driver was junk, I would say so. Fact is, it is pretty good. > On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 09:43:12PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > For sound drivers, use the OSS commercial sound drivers. For $20, you > > can't beat it with a stick. > > But for most cards, you can beat it in value for money > with the free sound drivers in the kernel, in my experience > at least. > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 > CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: [comp.os.linux.hardware] Oracle on Linux
The fact is that SCO Oracle runs under linux using iBCS. This was a topic of discussion a while back in the Caldera list. The trouble with porting an application to Linux is a lack of standards. Different distributions bundle different versions of libraries, update their distributions at different times, users are always poking around in the configs. It would be a nightmare to support. The only way I see it happening is being bundled with a commercial Linux such as Caldera and not being supported if the user has deviated the machine from the standard platform. The only other way is some form of versioning that is adopted by all the major distributions. This would provide a known base configuration of certain vital libraries that a developer and support engineer could target. As it stands now, can you imagine the telephone calls from users ... "Hi, my Oracle worked yesterday but now it is broken since I updated libcwhat do you mean 'put the libc back' ... your program sucks!" And the company gets a bad name for producing a program targeted at a platform that changes weekly it seems. The problem with Linux is that nobody has control of the platform configuration. "Official" debian is a step in the right direction. Another step is for Debian consultants to support ONLY the "Official" configuration. On 16-Feb-98 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I thought people here might find this interesting. > > manoj > -- > An executive will always return to work from lunch early if no one > takes him. > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> > Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Smail uucp file
As far as I know, smail keeps no uucp file in /var/mail. On 19-Feb-98 Bill Belon wrote: > Greetings! I have a major problem. I'm the co-owner of a small ISP and > we're using Smail. Our uccp file was accidentally deleted from the > /var/mail directory. We have customers who are very unhappy right now. > Can you tell me the lines that the file contains? Or possibly give me a > copy of such a file? From there I can change the variables as necessary > to suit our system. Please respond as soon as possible. This is a > great emergency for us. > > Thank you for your consideration. > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Smail uucp file
The more I think about this the more I wonder exactly what you lost. The spool files of mail that are waiting to go to the uucp user are in /var/spool/uucp/ Smail keeps all of its configuration information in /etc/smail uucp keeps its configuration in /etc/uucp There are no files having to do with uucp and smail that are kept in /var/mail This is, if you are using Debian Linux. On 19-Feb-98 Bill Belon wrote: > Greetings! I have a major problem. I'm the co-owner of a small ISP and > we're using Smail. Our uccp file was accidentally deleted from the > /var/mail directory. We have customers who are very unhappy right now. > Can you tell me the lines that the file contains? Or possibly give me a > copy of such a file? From there I can change the variables as necessary > to suit our system. Please respond as soon as possible. This is a > great emergency for us. > > Thank you for your consideration. > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: make-kpkg
Try make-kpkg --bzimage kernel_package instead of simply make_kpkg and see if you have better luck. On 19-Feb-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: > When, having brought in kernel-source for 2.0.32 on my bo system, I: > > cd /usr/src/linux;make-kpkg > > a lot of compiling happens (after I answer the config questions) > and the command > > ld -m elf_i386 ... -o vmlinux > > executes, but aborts with > > /bin/ls: invalid tab size: text > > can any kind soul give ma a clue? I'm near the point of re-partitioning > and re-installing from the top, but I'd prefer to figure this out. > -- > - > Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mary bought a pair of skates > upon the ice to frisk > now wasn't that a crazy way > her sweet young *? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: FrameMaker
I have written to Adobe and they have informed me that no Linux version of FramMaker exists or is planned. On 21-Feb-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: > Is there a Debian package of FrameMaker or something that does > the same kinds of things? I've started using it a work and > would like to practice using it on my home machine. > -- > - > Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mary bought a pair of skates > upon the ice to frisk > now wasn't that a crazy way > her sweet young *? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Full /usr/ partition
What do you have in /usr/src? Much besides the linux source? If you have a lot in there, you might split that off. Go BlueHens! On 22-Feb-98 Scott McDermott wrote: > Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 09:02:33PM -0500: >> I'm running out of space on my /usr partition (500 megs). I have another >> 300 megs of unpartitioned space I could add to it, but I haven't got any >> idea where would be a logical place to split /usr -- I'd prefer not to >> combine them into one 300 meg partition. /usr/local is already a seperate >> partition. Any suggestions? > > /usr/bin as one and /usr/lib as another? > > -- > Scott > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Exim gone from Hamm?
I just updated a local mirror of Debian and I noticed that while it did not grab any new packages, it removed a few ... including Exim. Is exim gone from Debian? I manually checked ftp.debian.org and sure enough, no exim in hamm. George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Exim gone from Hamm?
I must have caught the site while they were moving thigs around. I see exim is back and is at a higher revision. On 22-Feb-98 George Bonser wrote: > > I just updated a local mirror of Debian and I noticed that while it did not > grab any new packages, it removed a few ... including Exim. Is exim gone > from > Debian? I manually checked ftp.debian.org and sure enough, no exim in hamm. > > > > George Bonser > If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) > http://www.debian.org > Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: .forward not working
Uhm, isn't smail finicky about the permissions on a .forward file? If it does not trust the file, it will not obey it. I am giving .sigs a break this month George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect
Just a short suggestion: Split dselect. A small one (dinstall?) just for installation and a more full-featured one for configuration management. I am giving .sigs a break this month George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect
The smaller version would have an easier interface, some packages pre-selected and less chances to get one in trouble at the expense of having a smaller subset of things to choose from. After it gets the basics installed (required packages). Then it would launch the more full-featured version that has NOTHING preselected and does NOT reselect the same packages that you had selected the last time that you ran it. On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > Just a short suggestion: > > > > Split dselect. A small one (dinstall?) just for installation and a more > > full-featured one for configuration management. > > Okay I will bite, Why? > > If you have a small dselect then the first thing to be installed would be > the larger dselect. > > Now perhaps two different programs with different roles would be a good > idea, but what would they be more specificaly? > > Here is an idea that seems to have been hinted at indirectly by a number > of posts and that is a configuration aide for newbies. It would present > them with a list of packages and tell them were the config files are and > direct them to the /usr/doc/package files, etc.. I donno. > > Jason > > I am giving .sigs a break this month George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect
On second thought, since the required packages are really just a continuation of base that is too large to fit on floppies, there really does not need to be a menu for that part of the install at all. Base would install then once it is in place, it asks where you want to continue the installation from (cdrom, partition, ftp, etc) then starts loading the required packages (assuming a clean install here). No dependancies to worry about here. Once THAT part is complete, the menu-driven dselect is started with NOTHING pre-selected (and it remembers no selections when you exit). On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > Just a short suggestion: > > > > Split dselect. A small one (dinstall?) just for installation and a more > > full-featured one for configuration management. > > Okay I will bite, Why? > > If you have a small dselect then the first thing to be installed would be > the larger dselect. > > Now perhaps two different programs with different roles would be a good > idea, but what would they be more specificaly? > > Here is an idea that seems to have been hinted at indirectly by a number > of posts and that is a configuration aide for newbies. It would present > them with a list of packages and tell them were the config files are and > direct them to the /usr/doc/package files, etc.. I donno. > > Jason > > I am giving .sigs a break this month George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect
My harping about remembering selections has to do with selecting to upgrade something that requires a reboot to take effect or messes the system up until it IS rebooted. Then not running dselect again for a month and in the meantime, a newer version of this is uploaded to the FTP site. You run dselect, forget that you had selected some obscure package that is quite large or requires reboot, select a bunch of docs, walk away while it is downloading come back to find that you need to reboot a network server and knock a bunch of folks "off the air" for a few minutes. I am giving .sigs a break this month George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vi
Yeah, I can see a Stanford - Berkeley ball game with one side yelling VI and then other side yelling EMACS ... or was it Giants and A's On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > But this discussion tends to be religious ;-) > > Heiko > -- > email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 > finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you guys read news offline?
suck has an rpost function. On 15 Apr 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup. > > Thanks a lot in advance! > Andy. > > Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FINALLY! Relay control for smail
According to a posting in comp.mail.smail by Bruse Becker, relay control has been added to smail as of version 3.2.0.93 This is a MOST WELCOME feature and a security asset to any site on the net running smail. Do we have this verison as a package yet? George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FINALLY! Relay control for smail
I have investigated exim ... I am part of a 50+ site uucp network with 6 uucp neighbors of my own. If each site changes connectivity only once per year, that is one change per week. smail's usage of pathalias uucp routing is great. Exim is fine if you have only smtp or maybe one uucp site. On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Tony Finch wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >According to a posting in comp.mail.smail by Bruse Becker, relay control > >has been added to smail as of version 3.2.0.93 > > > >This is a MOST WELCOME feature and a security asset to any site on the > >net running smail. Do we have this verison as a package yet? > > You might want to investigate Exim, which has more security facilities > than you can shake a stick at, and is just as easy to configure as > smail. > > Tony. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
samba woes
Samba worked fine when I installed it ... for 49 days to be exact. Then I rebooted and now the windows box does not see my printer. purging and reinstalling samba fixes it but a reboot kills it again. I suspect that something is not getting started correctly. Any ideas? George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
samba woes -- SOLVED
Loose nut behind the wheel. It works junst fine windows problem. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newby: dselect failure
One trick that I have learned is to SELECT NOTHING the first time you run dselect, simply let it install the PRESELECTED things only. THEN run dselect again and choose your other software. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup
FWIW, the debian lists just started showing up again on my news server from someplace in France. I rather LIKE using them in Unsenet format rather than mailing list format only because my mailbox gets enough clutter. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help!
Yeah, sendmail is ok till you have to deal with editing routing for a large uucp network :) mailertables are a PAIN compared to pathalias. On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, The Gardyan wrote: > I don't know if this is an option for you but I installed sendmail instead > of smail for my debian system and have not regretted that decision. > > Personally I think sendmail is better. > > my two cents. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help!
Linuxconf handles mailertable databases? I am not talking about sendmail.cf here. Even if Linuxconf DID handle it, poking in the routing information for 50 sites by hand from uucp maps is rediculous when you just run a single command (pathalias) that configured the routing table for you. On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Network Administrator wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > Yeah, sendmail is ok till you have to deal with editing routing for a > > large uucp network :) mailertables are a PAIN compared to pathalias. > > Ah but Linuxconf presumably insulates one from the gory details, so the > ease of use of Linuxconf kind of makes up for the lack of ease of use of > the underlying config files that Linuxconf manipulates for one; and > Linuxconf doesnt handle smail at all. That was what convinced me to make > the switch to sendmail, after long staying with smail for its easier > configuring. ts hard to get easier than Linuxconf, and if it lacks > something, bitching to Linuxconf's author tends to get results fairly > swiftly lately. > > Blessed Be. -MarkM- > > -- > We do remote Linux install, config, support and administration. Inquire. > > "The saddest thing is they WANT to be ignorant, INSIST on it in fact." > > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: binary problems
I have had to rerun ldconfig at times for no apparent reason in order to get my system behaving normally too. It seems like it sometimes "looses its mind" and re-running ldconfig gets things going again. It does not happen often, maybe once in a month. On Thu, 1 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: > > > [executable]: Exec format error. Binary file not executable. > > Just a wild guess. Try ldd on the file and ckeck that all the sharded > libraries are OK. > > For example: :-) > > timshel:/etc# ldd /usr/local/games/doom/linuxsdoom > libvga.so.1 (DLL Jump 1.1pl8) => > /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 > libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => /lib/libc.so.4 > > > ...RickM... > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?
The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with Frozen
I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda). It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is the low memory disk. This causes me a problem when I try to install, it asks me if I want to create partitions, I do, but it takes me right back to the menu, it will not launch cfdisk. Then I attemted to use the rescue disk from stable with the base disks from frozen. When I get to the device drivers disk, it dies with zcat not found. I then created a symlink from gunzip to zcat and it appeared to work but during the configure device driver modules phase, it died with not finding something in /usr/lib/modules... (it flashed so quickly I could not catch all of it.) Where can I find good installation disks for frozen?? George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with Frozen
Uhm, how do you tell the doggone boot disk that you want to run fdisk from the menus? At that point you have no prompt ... remember, this is a CLEAN system, there is no fdisk (or anything else) on it. On Mon, 12 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has > > no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda). > > > > It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is > > the low memory disk. This causes me a problem when I try to install, it > > asks me if I want to create partitions, I do, but it takes me right back > > to the menu, it will not launch cfdisk. > > Did you try using fdisk? It's not as attractive as cfdisk but it does the > job. > > > --Rick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with Frozen
Oh, I see. No, it never got to the installation menu .. it was still text at that point. Told me I needed a swap partition to run the GUI installation program ... then asks for the partition name or to create one. I pressed enter and it kicked me back to the selection again without creating the swap partition. I used the installation disk from stable to create the partitions then re-ran the disk from frozen and all is well. I am installing the base diskettes as I type this. > In your explaination you explain that you are asked to create partitions > but returned to THE MENU. This leads me to believe you are at the > installation menu. The last entry on the menu will let you drop to the > console. At the prompt type "fdisk /dev/hda". George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with Frozen
I had no trouble with the base disks but I created them from another system running Linux using dd. The important thing is to use FRESHLY FORMATTED diskettes. Do not overwrite a diskette with stuff on it. Use MS-DOS to format the diskette and then use rawrite. It is the boot disk (resc1440.bin) that I had trouble with. Grab the one out of stable/disks-i386/current/rsc1440.bin (note rsc vs. resc) and run that as far as creating and initializing the partitions, then put in the diskette from frozen and select reboot system from the installation menu and start over again with the frozen rescue drive. It worked well for me and I am installing via FTP using dselect as I type this. On Tue, 13 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > I'm about to do the sameinstall frozen on a brand new system. > > Whats the deal with the Base Disks, will they cause problems like > what happened below ? > Also, do problems still exist when rawriteing the base disks on a > dos/windows system ? > > I know I had trouble with that before..its difficult to write the > disks on a linux system when you are installing your only linux > system, and rawriteing the disks on a dos/windows system has problems. > > Thanks, > Matthew > > On Mon, 12 May 1997 21:42:04 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > >> I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has > >> no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda). > >> > >> It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is > >> the low memory disk. This causes me a problem when I try to install, it > >> asks me if I want to create partitions, I do, but it takes me right back > >> to the menu, it will not launch cfdisk. > > > >Did you try using fdisk? It's not as attractive as cfdisk but it does the > >job. > > > > > >--Rick > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >-- > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . > >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian setup?
I installed the 1.3 distribution in Frozen it asked me if I wanted shadow passwords ... YES!!! On Mon, 12 May 1997, JoKeR wrote: > When is shadow going to be included with the distribution (if it isn't > already). I haven't seen it recently on one of the mirrors. > > Thank you > > JoKeR > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Complaint about default install
Well it sure sucks that I have to pick through the list of default packages. emacs slipped past me and here I am on the end of a slow dial-up downloading a >5 Meg behemoth that I will never use. :( Sure would be nice if the defaults were a little more dial-up friendly. I would like to not have to worry so much about these little "gotchas". George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Complaint about default install
Thanks ... think I will keep it on the system at this point ... will delete it if space becomes a problem ... somebody, someday might want it. > Hit ctrl-C to stop it. recycle to install and answer no to continuing the > download of the emacs file. > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.2 is broken out of the box.
this > > by going back and installing every X font package in sight. Still, > > it's > > BROKEN! I already sent mail to package > > maintainer. > > > > 4) dselect uses the power of perl to create an installation package > > worthy of DOS shell script. Basically, the > > logic chart of dselect is: > > > > DEPENDENCIES SATISFIED -- YES -- > install > > | > > | -- NO -- > THROW A FIT > > > > The proper way to do things is to keep pitching stuff that can't > > immediately > > be installed to the end of the list so that > > prerequisites have a chance to be installed and configured. Should > > be easy enough to do. At least you picked the > > right tool :) > > > > 5) Any upgrades of dselect or dpkg should be done FIRST so that other > > packages which depend on the installation > > program knowing what is going on won't fail. > > > > 6) dselect uses perl to install. However any problems during a > > perl installation (as happened to me previously ) and dselect now > > fails. > > This is BAD, VERY BAD. dselect and dpkg are supposed to be the means > > to correct installation > > problems and they should not be affected by installation problems, > > especially perl which is non-trivial. I would suggest a > > protected copy of perl be included with upgrades of dselect. > > > > 7) Debian should really request that their description on www.linux.org > > be changed to: > > > > "Debian is maintained by 120 voluteers who can't be bothered to test > > their stuff." > > > > And you may think this is cruel, but Microsoft is still winning and > > I have a bad feeling about Red Hat. > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > --Rick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian as a server.
I missed the original messages but I will add my $.02 worth here. I have used Debian as a server for a lightly used home LAN and SMTP <--> UUCP mail and news gateway for about 9 months. SOme of the things that I am most pleased with are the continuing upgrades and ease of upgrading, stability, and the configuration of the packages. For the most part, software is in a standard configuration that conforms to the author's documentation and files are located in accordance with the Linux Filesystem Standard making things easy to find when you need to. The Debian system also uses samba for acting as the LAN print server. It is also the SMTP and POP mail gateway and a news server for local machines as well as providing mail and news for UUCP neighbors. All of this functionality would cost a fortune from Microsoft and I would probably spend many hours on the telephone with them trying to get things to work if my employer's NT network is any example. With the addition of shadow password support in 1.3, I have chosen Debian over Caldera Open Linux - Standard for a system that will have a permanent high-speed connection to the internet. NOTE that I like Caldera ... it is just that their software has not yet arrived and I am under a time constraint. You can always grab a copy of Debian ... even if it isn't "ready" yet, there are always folks here to lend a hand in getting me over the rough spots. This favor is returned when possible. Debian is not "point and click" or "plug and play" but then again, neither are the operating systems that claim to be, really. On Tue, 13 May 1997, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote: > Thanks, really. Thank you very much for your comprehensive good > news! > Andreas. > > : I use Debian Linux boxes for nearly all important (i.e. can't afford any > : downtime) internet related servers. I also use it as the main Windows > : SMB file server (with samba) at my main job. > : ... George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Possible frozen problem....
YES!!! I just noticed that too on the install that I did last night. This is, in my opinion, a major problem for anything that you put in the root directory. On Wed, 14 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > I just installed Frozen on a new system (clean hd). > First, I had a small problem with the rescue disk, but I think that > might be fixed with the 5/13/97 disk set that just came out. > But here is something really weird...I used 'matthew' as the first > account. After installing the base I noticed that my '/root' dir had > the owner of 'matthew' and the group of 'user' ?!? I'm sure this is > not normal and I know I didn't do anything but the install. > Has anyone noticed this, or am I missing something obvious ? > > Thanks, > Matthew > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: (repost w/o HTML) Debian 1.2 is broken out of the box.
FWIW, I installed the current 1.3 beta last night and suffered from no predependancy problems. The transfer did timeout a couple of times and required me to restart it but otherwise seemed to install OK. The only major problem noted is the root directory ownership problem. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
shadow problems with adduser
When I attempt to add a user account with adduser it prompts me for the password twice as I would expect then notifies me that the user was not found in /etc/shadow (no duh! I am trying to ADD a new user!) and kicks me back to the prompt for a password and it sticks in this loop. I have to go to another VT to kill adduser to get control back. QUESTION: How do I add a new user if I have shadow support? George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: shadow problems with adduser
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: delgroup and deluser are broken too. deluser looks for a file with the same name as the user entry in /etc/passwd and, of course, does not find it, delgroup dies with: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' > > I've had the same thing happen. I normally hit ctrl-C (which kills it) > then change the password either as root using "passwd user" or by logging > in as that user and changing the password, I forgett which one worked. > > I don't add users often on my system since it's private, so it's not a big > deal for me. I figure it will be fixed shortly. > > On Tue, 13 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > When I attempt to add a user account with adduser it prompts me > > for the password twice as I would expect then notifies me that the user > > was not found in /etc/shadow (no duh! I am trying to ADD a new user!) and > > kicks me back to the prompt for a password and it sticks in this loop. > > > > I have to go to another VT to kill adduser to get control back. > > > > QUESTION: How do I add a new user if I have shadow support? > > > > > > George Bonser > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > --Rick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fixes for delgroup
I fixed a couple of things in /usr/sbin/delgroup (but did not save the file first so I could make a diff). The changes are minor and at the top of the file. was: if [ -f /etc/gtmp]; changed to: if [-f /etc/gtmp]; then Was: $GID='id -g mail' changed to GID=$(id -d mail) (which really makes no sense unless the author wants to pick a "safe" GID. but I did not look into it any deeper ... the script appears to run now). George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fixes for delgroup
> > > Was: > > > > $GID='id -g mail' > > > > changed to > > > > GID=$(id -d mail) > > > > (which really makes no sense unless the author wants to pick a "safe" > > GID. but I did not look into it any deeper ... the script appears to run > > now). ment -g typed -d ... it was a long night. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how get smail to have a default domainname?
uhm ... visible_name=usc.edu in /etc/smail/config or wherever your config file is should do it. On 15 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: > > I want smail to send mail with a default domainname of usc.edu but > putting the line > > domains=usc.edu > > in /etc/smail.config does not allow this. > > -- > oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address > Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour > oo minimum for professional proofreading & technical assessment. > terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian as a server.
> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech > heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess > about it with it for days and weeks on end. And that stability only lasts till you install a new piece of software only to discover that it stomps on .dll's that other programs needed and now your new program works great but several of your previously working programs are now broken. Software from Microsoft is the worst for pulling this crap. Their logic is "it is our software, we are only letting you operate a copy so we will tidy things up a bit and if it blows up any non-Microcrap software that you might be depending on ... all the better .. err, I mean, sorry". I am sure glad that Debian's system of dependancies, though not always perfect, gets us around problems like this and the developers and maintainers seem to be careful not to create too many situations like this. In the past when I had new software clobber existing stuff, a quick bug report seemed to fix it. It looks like 1.3 is a fine system. Thanks for the shadow password support. My thanks to all of the Debian crew for a job well done! George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Real Audio
Yes, the raplayer may be called by any program. There are even some test files included with the raplayer that you invoke from the command line to test it after installation. You can get the Linux version at the RealAudio web page. On Sun, 18 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hey > > Does anyone know if there is a Real Audio player for Linux, without the > X-Windows/System (so: just text-only) ? > > thanks.. > > -- > // Remco van de Meent > // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl > // " Never make any mistaeks. " > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Real Audio
Hmmm. Yeah, raplayer launches a window. I don't have it on the system that I am using at the moment but I seem to recall a test program somewhere in the source tree, it has been almost a year so it might be changed now. They are probably assuming that you have a GUI browser. > I already grabbed that one, but you need the Xwindows system: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/raplayer3.0]$ raplayer > TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111 > Error: Can't open display: :0 > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: www chat system
Uhm, If you do not HAVE to physicly have the chat server on your machine, I know a company that will provide private web-based web chat for your application (help desk, whatever) and the user client program (it is a java applet that downloads the first time you use the chat) for web browsers. They charge a fee, you are welcome to add a profit. They would bill you, you bill the end user. THey will also train folks and staff them to handle questions, etc, if you are using it as a help desk type of operation or the company could use their own staff.' Let me know if you are interested, they are a major NSP with dilaups US and Canada (no, not Netcom). George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: www chat system
Try the one from Quaterdeck. It They sell the server and give away the client. I am not sure if they have a Linux client but they were working on one. On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > I have been asked to provide a web based chat system for a client at > my ISP. I tried to talk him into IRC or a MUD/MOO, but they want it > web based. Does anyone know of a set of programs/scripts/whatever > that will do this? > > Thanks, > Tim > > PS: If this works, I may package it up as a Debian package. > > -- > (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://www.buoy.com/~tps > "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." >- John Morley > ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my > own.** > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Network Driver Suggestion.
Had some trouble with Frozen. No driver for 3Com PCI network card (3C590C). This is a very handy card as it has all three interface connectors for ethernet. Luckily I had a NE2000 sitting around so I am grabbing the driver and kernel sources via FTP. Is it possible to include an option to the config menu to pull additional driver modules from an additional diskette, if needed, in future releases? For example, the menu might list several of the more popular NICs with a final option of Additional Modules From Diskette that might include less popular options. Having just installed the new Caldera Open Linux - Standard, their use of this approach got that system on the network pretty fast. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network Driver Suggestion.
Well, it looks like the 3c59x module was there all along :( I just didn't know it was there. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)
I found it pretty easy: look in /lib/modules/2.0.30/net and see if the module that you need is there, if it is, edit /etc/modules to comment out the incorrect module, enter the proper one on a new line and reboot. If it is not there and if you have kernel source installed, go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and look at the source for the module to see if it has an example compile line at the top or at the bottom of the source file. Compile it, do a manual insmod to make sure that it installs OK, if it does, copy the .o file to /lib/modules/net and enter the line in /etc/modules as above and reboot. An example compile command can be found at the end of the 3c59x.c file (for example). if all that fails, make a kernel. On Wed, 21 May 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Hi. > > I was getting a new unix trainee to install debian today for the first > time. They muffed choosing the right module for the ethernet card and made > it all the way through the install. > > The question is: Is there any way to get back to the screen with the menu > interface for loading modules into the kernel once you are done with the > install or is it a once only sorta thing? > > It would make their life easier... otherwise I'll just start teaching them > how to recompile the kernel :) > > Adam > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: News Server Configuration
INN is way too much of a resource hog to be using on anything but a dedicated machine. I would suggest that you use newsx or leafnode or c-news. INN is fine if you have a dedicated machine with a lot of RAM but for a small network where a system must wear many hats, you are probably much better off with batched news. > > I can't seem to get news running OK, I've put my news details into the > get-news.conf, and > running get-news seems to connect to my ISP's news server and download > messages, but they > seem to then dissapear completely. > > Is there a HOWTO or a FAQ that covers this configuration ? I've had a look > through but > not been able to find anything suitable. > > -- > -- > Alex Monaghan Network Support Analyst, Royal Mail Anglia > London Rd, Stevenage, SG1 1AA, UK > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > STD 01438 767081 > Postline5811 7081 > -- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: amd problem
Go to Radio Shack and get a tube of silicone heatsink compound. It is in the section where they sell IC's and mounting hardware. Remove the fan from the heatsink and smear a tiny bit on the heatskink where it contacts the CPU. (This stuff is difficult to clean up so BE CAREFUL with it), then put the fan back on the CPU. THis aids heat transfer between chip and fan and will help the CPU run much cooler (though the fan may FEEL warmer as it is now transferring more heat away from the CPU). On Thu, 22 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have a amd 5x86-133 cpu "not a k5" when chip gets warmed up my floppy > drives go belly up. i checked it out by putting a amd 486dx4 120 cpu in and > the problem dis appered.i also have two fans, one on heat sink other blowing > over heat sink. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
News batching problem since upgrading
I upgraded several packages last night from 1.2 to Frozen. Most of the packages were important packages in section base. I DID NOT upgrade bash or c-news. Why am I suddenly getting the following error when sendbatches runs? George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 11:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newscrisis Subject: news (urgent): sendbatches failure batching togo.1 for `bradco.sendme' failed expr: warning: unportable BRE: `^\(.*\)\.[^./]*$': using `^' as the first character of the basic regular expression is not portable; it is being ignored aborting -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: News batching problems since upgrade
I found the problem ... MAINTAINER OF CNEWS TAKE NOTE!!! I have a backup uucp ihave/sendme feed that only kicks in when one of our sites has a catastrophic failure of our other feeds. The cause of the problem is the new eval. It does not like a regular expression starting with ^ and will croak becaue of it. The $NEWSBIN/batch/batchih and batchsm and batchra scripts use an expression that causes the error. This explains why it never choked on any of my other feeds. A simple edit of these scripts has fixed the problem. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm and X or not?
Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before using X. On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > Can GPM and X co-exist or not? > > > I recently tried GPM, and it seemed to work in text consoles and co-exist > with X. I could switch back and forth between text consoles and the > virtual console displaying X. > > Then it crashed X. It seems that they co-exist as long as there is no > mouse activity for some length of time before you switch back to the X > server. If the mouse is moving when you switch to X, the X server crashes, > reporting an error about not being able to open a device. > > > Daniel > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm and X or not?
The documentation that I read saying to disable gpm was about a year or possibly more old. It could be that gpm has evolved to be more x-friendly since then. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
My Glitches during upgrade.
At boot time, system reports can not find hostname but after login a hostname command returns the proper name. installed the new kernel image but system reboots (resets) when it tries to load the 2.0.30 kernel. The old 2.0.27 kernel boots fine. Root .bash_profile did not have /sbin and /usr/sbin in the PATH George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: couldn't get a free page
I have seen the same problem with a small system (8MB) when attempting to mkfs a disk drive. I wonder if it has anything to do with the disk controller baing busy when the system attempts to swap. This is a BusTek ISA SCSI controller card that seems to want to load the BusLogic Driver. It is the only disk controller on the system and has three hard drives and a floppy attached. It probably would not happen with bus-mastering controllers or and local bus controllers such as VESA or PCI if my speculation is correct. What is your disk subsystem configuration. On Tue, 27 May 1997, David Miles wrote: > I installed debian on my computer last week. I left it sitting for the > weekend. When I returned, I found the following message updating every so > often on my screen: "couldn't get a free page" > > When I hit enter, I get the following statement "Out of memory for bash" a > few seconds later "Out of memory for init appeared" > > I am not sure what is going on. I have 6MB of Ram and at least 16 MB of > swapping space on my HD for the program. > > Please help > > dblm > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3com driver (v0.40 in 2.0.30)
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: > Yes, you can probably continue to use your old driver, but actually any > new vortex driver will probably work too if you disable bus mastering in > the driver (assuming you have a 3c905 boomerang). If you've been > following the vortex list, then you will have seen some of the solutions > people have posted. > Hmmm, I have a 590C and have not been following the Vortex list but had some problems yesterday with a corrupt filesystem after using dselect to install software over a high-speed connection. I attribute that problem to a faulty disk controller on the motherboard but could it have really been a problem with the NIC driver? Are there any quirks concerning that driver and my card that I should be aware of? George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Networking Win95, Debian Linux and Cable Modem
Read the IP-Masquerade mini-howto that you should find in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini on your linux machine provided you installed the linux docs. You need to put the local machines in a non-routable subnet. This is usually in the 192.168.1.xxx class C that is reserved for systems not directly on the net or, if you need more addresses than a class C you can use the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx space which is set aside for the same thing. On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Ross D. Gardler wrote: > I have two machines, one is a Win95 machine, one is a Linux machine. > > The Linux machine has a cable modem connection to the Internet. > > I would like to get the Win95 machine talking to the Linux Machine and to the > Internet via the cable modem. How do I do this? > > The Linux machine has two Ethernet cards and I have managed to get it to > recognise both but I can't seem to get it to talk to the Win95 machine. I > only have one IP address for the two machines, so do not know what to do with > the second. > > Any pointers? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian quality
> > BTW, while I was waiting for the BSDI upgrade, I upgraded my secondary > DNS server (a Debian box). It took about an hour :) I'm still working > on BSDI ... If Software in the Public Interest charged big bucks for Debian support, Debian might be a bear to install too ;) It is probably just a way to force you to buy the support contract. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ssh for Debian?
Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to swipe passwords, etc. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ssh for Debian?
Thanks folks, for all your help and pointers. I have the software that I needed. Gee, this list is great! George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: permissions
Dig around for things with names like cron.daily and cron.monthly in /etc. If you look at the scripts, you will see things such as umask settings and paramaters passed to the savelog command that look like -m 644. These are the permissions. Edit them (but save the original line commented out or save the original files in case you need to back out your changes). On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, System Account wrote: > Hello all. > > How can i set my logs (/var/log/) so they are not world readable? > I have tried chmod o-r messages (and others including ppp.log and > daemon.log) but after a reboot or when cron.daily runs some are agian > world readable. Is there anything that this would affect, other than the > general use of the last cmd for users? Also, are there any logs that need > to be readable by others? > > TIA > -Rob > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: > > [snip] > > I've been thinking about the entire newbie/documentation thing a lot > > lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the > > /usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless. And > > there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude. > > Midnight Commander (mc) could fill this role. As it happens the current > version is broken to the extent that it does not know how to access .deb > files. There is a bug report on this which is a month old but mc is still > useful as it can handle .gz files and the like. > I have a system here with Caldera Open Linux Standard and one thing that they did was create a default fvwm popup menu when you click on the root window. The first item in that window is "Help on Linux". Selecting that gives the next layer popup that includes links to such things as the woven docs (FAQ's, HOWTO's, etc in HTML) and launches a browser to read them. Since Debian could not launch Netscape by default, they COULD launch lynx in an Xterm or possibly the new GUI linux browser when it is ready. The point here is the default fvwm X configuration is VERY helpful allowing you to select things like configuration tools and the like from popup menus. Root has different menus than the users do. (actually root has more ADDITIONS to the default systemwide selection). Seems to me the first step would be in deciding on a default standard X window manager and then going on to the default menus from there. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
> I also find the idea of forcing the newbie into a particular X/Window > Manager configuration somewhat disturbing. One of the many reasons I > like Debian is that my PC looks like _my_ PC. > > So far I like the mc approach best. > > John Foster > > > 1) If we settled on some kind of a default, the system could be pretty much self-configuring. 2) You can't force anything on a newbie. Since they probably do not know what X is, they will be happy to have a more functional X system at startup and they can ALWAYS change it. Even COL has twm and olvm options in that same popup menu under the "Desktop" selections. I know that COL is a commercial system and I am not suggesting that Debian should be as extensive, I am simply expressing my opinion that it can be made a bit more functional "right out of the box" and have easy to find documentation a click away from the desktop. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
> A better approach could be to do a functional split, such as a > debian-X11, debian-config or debian-dist. This would reduce volume on > the main list without having people crossposting all over the place to > be sure to get an answer. > Either that or start a newsgroup heirarchy. debian. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
