Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-18 Thread Philip Thiem
You'd be surprises how often that can happen. I purchase from a wholesaler, and they don't check to see if the drives are good, though they have allways been good about replacing them. Many resalers are similar, though some do do some testing. Philip Thiem Michael Stone wrote: > > Quoting [EMA

dhcp and nis problems solved

1998-10-18 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: > Hi! > > Lee Bradshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >nis specific problems: >

Re: [Debian]: ISDN-PPP-Dialin mit dynamischen IP-Adressen

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "APB" == Arne P Boettger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: APB> Ich würde es gerne diversen Leuten ermöglichen, sich bei meiner APB> Linux-Kiste einzuwählen, wobei nicht unbedingt jeder vollen Zugriff APB> haben soll, z.B. auf telnet oder so. Und mit den Dateien hosts.access APB> und hosts.deny kann

Re: [Debian]: shutdown

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "EF" == Elmar Fasel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EF> Wie kann ich usern Rechte zum shutdown erteilen? Und wie ändere ich den EF> "cold reset" in einen "warm reset" (oder war es hard und soft? :-) ) Ich benutze das Paket "super" dazu. Folgende Zeilen in super.tab einfügen: ausschalten "/sbin/s

Re: Install Question

1998-10-18 Thread Robert Claeson
Joe Loyall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to install the Debian 2.0 distribution on a Compaq Prosignia VS, >which has a Compaq SCSI controller built into the motherboard. > >I don't see any Compaq SCSI devices listed in the Linux Hardware >Compatibility HOWTO document, and when I boot from th

Re: TROUBLE INSTALLING DEBIAN LINUX

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Mickelberry, Travis L wrote: > WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL LINUX EVERYTHING GOES FINE UNTIL I HAVE TO REBOOT > THE MACHINE...I MADE A BOOT FLOPPY AND IT TELLS ME TO LEAVE IT IN...SO > THEN I REBOOT AND IT SAYS LOADING LINUX...THEN IT SAY UNCOMPESSING LINUX > AND IT GET STUCK AND JUS

Install Question

1998-10-18 Thread Joe Loyall
I'm new to the Linux world, so please bear with my ignorance. I want to install the Debian 2.0 distribution on a Compaq Prosignia VS, which has a Compaq SCSI controller built into the motherboard. I don't see any Compaq SCSI devices listed in the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO document, and

TROUBLE INSTALLING DEBIAN LINUX

1998-10-18 Thread Mickelberry, Travis L
WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL LINUX EVERYTHING GOES FINE UNTIL I HAVE TO REBOOT THE MACHINE...I MADE A BOOT FLOPPY AND IT TELLS ME TO LEAVE IT IN...SO THEN I REBOOT AND IT SAYS LOADING LINUX...THEN IT SAY UNCOMPESSING LINUX AND IT GET STUCK AND JUST SITS THERE WITH TO FLOPPY DISK ACTIVITY...I HAVE TRIED 4

Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread marvin stodolsky
Ivan, From the info supplied, it seems you may have some yet Ill defined incompatibility between, Linux and your ATAPI CD, since the CD does work under Win95. You can try reading another CDROM. just do assess whether (unlikely) some problem with the Debian CD) This is only a slight diffi

test Exim header rewrite

1998-10-18 Thread Russell Cook
a test of header rewrite from should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] reply-to should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-18 Thread servis
*- George Bonser wrote about "just shoot me" | | I upgraded a remote server last night to slink and have not heard from it | since. I did notice that the telnet session I was on was ok and the box | could see incoming traffic but it could not reply. In other words, when I | try to telnet to the bo

Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: > A while ago, there was a buzz about Corel releasing a WP Suite 8 for > Linux. It was slated to come out mid-summer...I can't find any mention of > it anywhere on Corel's site. Did they give up on the idea, or what? All they have released so far is the WP 7 w

Re: Hrrm, sendmail again...

1998-10-18 Thread Russell Cook
George, Thanks for the help with my exim delivery problem. The problem was /var/spool/mail was group write, as you suggested. I can now receive mail from my ISP on my linux machine instead of having to use my Win95 machine. Now, I'm trying to get header rewrite to work properly, so my ISP will let

HDD sleep

1998-10-18 Thread Dave Swegen
I'm trying to set my system up so that I can leave the computer on while I sleep. I discovered that a fair amount of the noise was caused by the HDDs, and sending them to sleep made things a lot quiter. However, whilst I can spin down the secondary HDD (/usr), the main one (/) only remains asleep f

Re: screen and window

1998-10-18 Thread Zheng Wang
Thanks. I got it. I have another problem. Except the bash shell , I can not let the backspace work properly. I don't know how to config it. Could you help me out? Thanks again. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EM

Re: Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, again! I got it running again! Thanks for the help. 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse -Original Message- From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User Mail List Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Need help getti

permission denied in root.

1998-10-18 Thread Brent McMillan
I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and non-root alike. The directory is not mounted on my main partition (if that has

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:11:25PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > In my case, no, it is definately a problem with the linux ide driver and > > how it handles UDMA drives. I have seen exactly the same problem on two > > different systems with two dif

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-18 Thread David E. Stern
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, > you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) > and either disable sysklogd (chmod -

screen and window

1998-10-18 Thread john
In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config find the bit that looks a bit like this: Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "s" Monitor "l" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 End

Re: Hrrm, sendmail again...

1998-10-18 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert sendmail[20230]: MAA20230: from=root, size=267, > class=0, pri=30267, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert sendmail[20230]: MAA20230: to=mail, ctladdr=root > (0/0), > delay=00:00:0

Re: ../dists/sid

1998-10-18 Thread servis
*- Oz Dror wrote about "../dists/sid" | Hi | | What is in the directory ../dists/sid | it is not the stable nor the unstable distribution. | | -Oz It is a breading ground for future distributions. Sid will never become a distribution like hamm or bo. It is mostly for the ports to other archite

Re: Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hi, folks! > > I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC and > have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I grabbed all > the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the configuration steps, where I > was asked if I wished to have my system st

Re: Can't login as root

1998-10-18 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Shin Ogino wrote: > After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I > am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its > password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c > to kill process. This problem has been rai

sysklogd_1.3-29 is BROKEN was(Can't login as root)

1998-10-18 Thread servis
*- Shin Ogino wrote about "Can't login as root" | Hi, | | After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I | am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its | password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c | to kill process. | | How

Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread john
Ruud de Bruin writes: > Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > > and tried MANY times to install > > > However, i get consistent errors: > > > hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 > > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > > hdc:

Re: New motherboard (and processor)

1998-10-18 Thread homega
Michael Beattie dixit: > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I recently had the motherboard changed in my machine. There's nothing I've > > changed in Debian since, and it seems it had no problems with the change. > > Just one though, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work p

Can't login as root

1998-10-18 Thread Shin Ogino
Hi, After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c to kill process. However, I can login as any other users except for root. I tried to

Ack, sparc update is going nuts

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I ust setup a sparc system with debian (sid) and the load stays way up there because of update: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 16 root 1 0 344 324 284 S 312 36.1 0.6 486:37 update 15074 root 1

../dists/sid

1998-10-18 Thread Oz Dror
Hi What is in the directory ../dists/sid it is not the stable nor the unstable distribution. -Oz -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Hrrm, sendmail again...

1998-10-18 Thread e-van
First of all, thanks to those of you who helped me with my earlier sendmail recurring messages. :> It's no longer saying it can't resolve my local host. yay! However, it is still giving me the following recurring messages... perhaps they are normal. I'm afraid that newbie me doesn't know. :<

RE: SATAN .deb?

1998-10-18 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
What about tripwire? Its packaged? I thought Developers were required to show picture id and all... Just my 1/20 of 1 cent. Walter L. Preuninger II > -Original Message- > From: Bill Wohler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 18, 1998 12:50 PM > To: Thomas Adams > Cc: [EMAI

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-18 Thread bernie
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:11:25PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > In my case, no, it is definately a problem with the linux ide driver and > how it handles UDMA drives. I have seen exactly the same problem on two > different systems with two different hard drives of different manufacture > with dif

Re: SATAN .deb?

1998-10-18 Thread Bill Wohler
Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >it's an essential admin tool for checking your setup. > > This is the reason why it shouldn't be prepackaged. I really can't imagine > anybody concerned about security trusting a prepackaged security scanner. Wow, I guess we shouldn't be prepackaging

Can't login as root

1998-10-18 Thread Shin Ogino
Hi, After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c to kill process. However, I can login as any other users except for root. I tried to

Re: Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Jesse Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi, folks! Hi | I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC and have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I grabbed all the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the configuration steps, where I was asked

Re: Quick question on screen depth

1998-10-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Christian Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | How can I configure the SVGA Xserver to use a 16bpp resolution by default? | How am I supposed to switch to such a resolutio anyway? I haven't yet been | able to use anything else than 256 colors res. See in /etc/X11/XF86Config. In the Section "Screen"

screen and window

1998-10-18 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, everybody, I just installed debian and ran X. The problem I have is that the desktop itself is much big than the screen. So if I open a window, this window perhaps is not visible at all. I have to move my mouse around to find it. I tried Ctrl+alt+"+" (told by Brian). It reduce the font and al

boot log on debian 2.0

1998-10-18 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, Prior to the debian 2.0 installation I used to have a detail boot log on /usr/adm/messages. Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated -Oz -- <

Re: Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
> Jesse Evans wrote: > > Hi, folks! > > I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC > and have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I > grabbed all the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the > configuration steps, where I was asked if I wished

Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-18 Thread tko
Michael Beattie writes: > I imagine you have no NIC? If so, then for people that do, probably dont > need to do this. e.g.: No Sir, I do have a NIC installed. I'm using an unrouted address (192.168.x.x) And diald was doing the dirty deed 8-) inspite of the additional information in my /etc/hosts f

Re: Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 09:31:22AM -0700, Jesse Evans wrote: > messages scroll down until it gets to "starting xdm", after which the display > starts blinking on and off at a rate of about once per second. It only > accepts keyboard input during the on cycle, which is very short, thus > renderin

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-18 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 12 Oct 98 21:21:48 GMT, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Basic Unix Secruity 101 - If the person has physical access to the >machine, there *IS* *NO* *SECURITY*. Want proof? > >I pop the HD out, place it as slave on my machine, mount what I want, end >of story. Before this thr

Re: config printer.

1998-10-18 Thread Zheng Wang
I changed the filter from 5l to 4l and it works now. Thanks. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > If you think that

Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks!       I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC and have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I grabbed all the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the configuration steps, where I was asked if I wished to have my system start up

Re: Howto setup xfstt

1998-10-18 Thread servis
*- zhaoway wrote about "Howto setup xfstt" | I've got no any clue to setup xfstt, please help! | I copied all of my ttfonts to /var/ttfonts. | But I cannot find xfstt in /etc/init.d. There seems only have got xfs. | And I cannot find ttfonts in netscape. | | --zhaoway | If you are using the xfst

Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-18 Thread Noam Gordon
Hello everyone, I am a Linux newbie. I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully. I would like to set up ISDN dial-up to my ISP. My ISP asigns me an IP address AS WELL AS DNS server address , dynamically (In my win95 setup, I didn't need to input any info at all). I read in the Linux tutorial that wh

Howto setup xfstt

1998-10-18 Thread zhaoway
I've got no any clue to setup xfstt, please help! I copied all of my ttfonts to /var/ttfonts. But I cannot find xfstt in /etc/init.d. There seems only have got xfs. And I cannot find ttfonts in netscape. --zhaoway -- The _^_ zhaoway (Using Debian GNU/Linux) _ _/!!!\_ [EMAI

Root Password Not Needed

1998-10-18 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I am very inexperienced and seem to be able to login as root without having to supply a password. My machine boots straight to the root account without a passwd being required. If I do passwd to change root password it appears to take the new password but then if I do a login as root I do not hav

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Here is the most recent English version of SO4 - put some coffee on, it's 52 MB :-) ftp://ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01/ Tom

Quick question on screen depth

1998-10-18 Thread Christian Lavoie
How can I configure the SVGA Xserver to use a 16bpp resolution by default? How am I supposed to switch to such a resolutio anyway? I haven't yet been able to use anything else than 256 colors res. The Moose UIN: 947212 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security.

1998-10-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > What I'm looking is information about securing Linux systems. Some > practical advices. Check out the Linux Security Autit FAQ and mailing list at: http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~security/index.txt See section 1.5 of th

StarOffice

1998-10-18 Thread D'jinnie
A while ago, someone mentioned that it was possible to d/l a version of StarOffice. I've looked at the (rather feeble) www.stardivision.com and couldn't find any mention of it. Could someone please post the location of it? Thanks! --- I love my country. I fear my government. D'jinnie/Jinn, encou

WP 8 Suite

1998-10-18 Thread D'jinnie
A while ago, there was a buzz about Corel releasing a WP Suite 8 for Linux. It was slated to come out mid-summer...I can't find any mention of it anywhere on Corel's site. Did they give up on the idea, or what? --- I love my country. I fear my government. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and se

Bug in docs/ cdrom.o problem solved

1998-10-18 Thread Remo Badii
I recently posted about a problem with the cdrom.o modules not being placed in /lib/modules/2.0.3x/cdrom when selecting only BLK_DEV_IDE, BLK_DEV_IDECD, and ISO9660_FS to have support for an IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. Indeed, contrary to the statements in the docs, it is necessary to select also the

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-10-18 Thread D'jinnie
I have an HP Omnibook 3000, 13.3" XGA TFT screen with a NeoMagic card. Although there is a functional X server for that card, I would personally recommend against it. Not to mention that SVGAlib doesn't like it :) Aside from the video card, I haven't had any problems installing Debian on it. From o

Re: RTF reader

1998-10-18 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 11:59:14AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good package for viewing .rtfs? My soundcard CD has > it's doc's in this format, and I need to read them in the hopes that it > will contain the IRQ and DMA values for my card... You can try Maxwell word processo

mountd/nfsd

1998-10-18 Thread David Boisvert
Hi! Sorry, this question is not strictly debian related. Ok, first, my mountd server always says that I can't mount the server from the client. Here is some info: lsmod: Module PagesUsed by lp 20 isofs 51 nls1[

Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread Ivan
At 11:56 AM 18-10-98 +0100, you wrote: > >> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) >> and tried MANY times to install > >You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from >those... > >Matthew > Matthew, appreciate your help but i wonder whet

Re: X and keyboard layouts

1998-10-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Hello, I use the DVORAK, and finally decided to get a hardware DVORAK keyboard to get rid of all the problems from myriad computers trying to give me a hard time about dvorak. So now all the machines think they are talking to a qwerty board and my config problems are a thing of the past. But I

Re: Security.

1998-10-18 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > > I would like to do some RTFMing about security, and would like to have > > some pointers. > > > > Thanks, > > Liran. > > --- > > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > > > > Well, if you can understand everything the ssh man

Re: New motherboard (and processor)

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I recently had the motherboard changed in my machine. There's nothing I've > changed in Debian since, and it seems it had no problems with the change. > Just one though, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work properly. It starts the shutting > do

RTF reader

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Can anyone recommend a good package for viewing .rtfs? My soundcard CD has it's doc's in this format, and I need to read them in the hopes that it will contain the IRQ and DMA values for my card... Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn

Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > and tried MANY times to install You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from those... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Compute

Re: BROWSER

1998-10-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Lukas Eppler wrote: > > forms. You might try lynx and configure it with zgv as graphical viewer > > (runs in the console, but is quick as hell). > Can you tell me how to configure lynx this way? I can't see an

Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread Ruud de Bruin
Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > and tried MANY times to install > However, i get consistent errors: > hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0 > end_reque

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-10-18 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 10:45:49PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Really? The SVGA server in hamm admits that it doesn't really support > the chip (not the NeoMagic 128 or something in a friend's Acer notebook > anyway) and we had to find another SVGA server on the web. Did you try xserver-neomag

Re: [HELP]: FILESYSTEM ERROR ! :(((((((((((( IT'S SOLVED ! :)))

1998-10-18 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > I'm having serials problems with my linux partition ! :(( It happened > when the power was down ! :(( > > That's what appears: > > - cut here -- > Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul-98) > /dev/hda2 contains a file system with

New motherboard (and processor)

1998-10-18 Thread homega
Hi there, I recently had the motherboard changed in my machine. There's nothing I've changed in Debian since, and it seems it had no problems with the change. Just one though, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work properly. It starts the shutting down process down to the last line, but when it comes to act

Re: [HELP]: FILESYSTEM ERROR ! :((((((((((((

1998-10-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Nuno: It looks like the system wasn't shutdown properly. However your disk may have got itself a bad block. Try running /sbin/badblock and see what happens. Peter -Original Message- From: Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ; debian-devel@lists.debian

[HELP]: FILESYSTEM ERROR ! :((((((((((((

1998-10-18 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm having serials problems with my linux partition ! :(( It happened when the power was down ! :(( That's what appears: - cut here -- Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul-98) /dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check failed /dev/hda2: Unattached inode 70007

THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread Ivan
Hello again, I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) and tried MANY times to install However, i get consistent errors: hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0 end_request: I/O error, dev=16:00, sector note thaat i

Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing

1998-10-18 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On 18 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Nikolai" == Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nikolai> This means that you will need to use the ipchains package > Nikolai> (not yet debianisedq) to do firewalling/masq'ing. > > What do you mean, not yet Debianiz

Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing

1998-10-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Nikolai" == Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nikolai> This means that you will need to use the ipchains package Nikolai> (not yet debianisedq) to do firewalling/masq'ing. What do you mean, not yet Debianized? It's in netbase. manoj __> type -a ipch

Re: Using the config file from the default kernel

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > firstly, > /usr/src/linux should be a symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source-[ver]/ > > Secondly, what I do, is run make menuconfig once, then copy the config > file, and run it again to do the dirty work. make sure you copy the > .config file somewhere else before you start.. I always have a cop

Need a HOT system. K7 and Linux?

1998-10-18 Thread kaynjay
I hope this is not too far OT for the list ... I teach chemistry at a local community college and am seeking grant monies for the creation of a hub of high power PC's to perform heavy quantum mechanical calculations using GAMESS and the like (for you chemists out there .. ;). I really need some

Re: boca network card

1998-10-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I'm trying to get a BOCALANcard 2000 card to work. It's an ISA NE2000 | compatible card. The bios finds it. isapnp finds and configures it. I've | compiled 2.0.34 with NE2000 builtin but when I boot I don't see any | message that the kernel has found the card.

Re: [Debian]: vbox-Konfiguration

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MK" == Martin Kempa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MK> hatatitla:~> telnet localhost vboxd MK> Trying 127.0.0.1... MK> Connected to hatatitla. MK> Escape character is '^]'. MK> 580 You are not in my access list. Goodbye! MK> 281 . MK> Connection closed by foreign host. MK> hatatitla:~> MK> Dabe

CDROM module and make-kpkg again

1998-10-18 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, Let me repeat my question about the cdrom.o file which should go into /lib/modules/2.0.3x/cdrom. When I boot with the standard Debian 2.0.34 kernel, I get the message CD-44 E ATAPI CDROM Drive which is correct (I have a Teac CD-44E, swappable with a floppy drive in a Thinkpad 760) and

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-18 Thread shaul
I tried to look for slink's gdb. All I could find is some m68k staff. (I did find some relevant lines in Contents-i386.gz) What did I miss ? > > > What is the best way to have hamm system support debugging of ADA programs > > in > > gdb ? > > Install the slink version of gdb, try if it works;

bash without -O2

1998-10-18 Thread Wojtek Puchar
Bash is compiled without -O2 in all debian dists (hamm,slink i386,alpha) It's sufficient to change it in debian/rules in sources (find CFLAGS="-g" and change to CFLAGS="-O2") Wojtek

Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing

1998-10-18 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since > 2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use > IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken > ipfwadm it isn't possible t

Sendmail misconfigured?

1998-10-18 Thread Evan Van Dyke
I'm having the following somewhat annoying problem with sendmail... In my xconsole window I'm getting the following error message(s) a few times an hour... it it weren't cluttering up the window so that I couldn't see any messages wanted to see I wouldn't worry about it. Obviously, I"d love to k

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-18 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Bob Nielsen wrote: > The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, > you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) > and either disable sysklogd (chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd

Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing

1998-10-18 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Steve Lamb wrote: > Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since > 2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use > IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken > ipfwadm it isn't possible to add/remove IP-Masqing

Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing

1998-10-18 Thread Adam Moore
> Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since > 2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use > IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken I've never used ipchains, but according to xos.nl, kernels 2.1.102

Re: kernel compiling

1998-10-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> kernel-source puts the source in "/usr/src/kernel-source-`uname -r`" True enough. But starting from Slink (Debian 2.1) onwards, the kernel sources shall not be shipped unpacked; instead, they are in the file "/usr/s

RE: exim and fetchmail

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, RUSSELL COOK wrote: > Michael, > Thanks for the tip. I tried it as you suggested, but no good. As > clarification, I have a local net at home, named mydomain. The host I'm > trying to get my main delivered on is p90. So, should qualify_domain be p90 > or mydomain? Re

RE: exim and fetchmail

1998-10-18 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Michael, Thanks for the tip. I tried it as you suggested, but no good. As clarification, I have a local net at home, named mydomain. The host I'm trying to get my main delivered on is p90. So, should qualify_domain be p90 or mydomain? Regardless, exim tries to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) and either disable sysklogd (chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd) or install the hamm versi

2.1.x series with IP-Masqing

1998-10-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since 2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken ipfwadm it isn't possible to add/remove IP-Masqing rules like "normal." Th

Re: Telnet with slink

1998-10-18 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Phillip Neumann wrote: > [telnet to localhost not working] > > I realize that after upgrading telnet program were not avaible so i try > to install telnet package apt installed it ok. You need to install the telnetd package as well. -- /'"`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at

Re: PPP logging?

1998-10-18 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Ed Cogburn wrote: > W. Paul Mills wrote: >> >> 1.3-27 is faulty. -26 or -28 should work. > > Uh, I *am* running sysklogd 1.3-28 and my ppp logging is still broken. Make sure that you have a line in /etc/syslog.conf that reads local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log and make sure that

Re: kernel 2.1.xx

1998-10-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:26:51 +0200, Marco Machmer wrote: >i tried to make a new kernel 2.1.122 with make-kpkg. >i got the following error-message while i try to make a the new kernel >with 'make-kpkg--zimage buildpackage' >what can i do now? I all seriousness, try 2.1.125 since it is

Re: Using the config file from the default kernel

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to recompile my kernel (to use sound support). Will moving > /usr/src/linux/.config.save to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/.config > enable me to use the setup from the last kernel when I run make menuconfig > (i.e. I can take th

Re: PPP logging?

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Uh, I *am* running sysklogd 1.3-28 and my ppp logging is still broken. I found this too... try moving /etc/syslog.conf, and reinstalling it, (I never tried that approach) or ass this line at the bottom: local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log

Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) edit the /etc/hosts file and add your hostname behind the 'localhost' > example: > old '/etc/hosts' > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > new '/etc/hosts' > 127.0.0.1 localhost westgac3 << use the name returned by 'hostname' > I imagine you have no

Re: Security.

1998-10-18 Thread Keith Beattie
Liran Zvibel wrote: > > I would like to do some RTFMing about security, and would like to have > some pointers. > > Thanks, > Liran. > --- > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > Well, if you can understand everything the ssh man page has in it, then you'll have a much better understanding than m

Re: IDE message

1998-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: : Since switching to 2.1 I have been getting the following message at : bootup: : PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 : PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later : ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio :