Re: Travan TR-3 tape drive woes

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
Taper has been alternately stable and broken for some time now. I've been using tob on both slink and potato with good results for a few years. Bob On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:22:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK the taper in slink has been segfaulting on quite a few people. I > THINK

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 08:54:45PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > The real question is: What is causing the > dotted-quad to turn into a hostname? I suspect I think this is because you have specified a "ServerName" in your Apache configuration. If you remove (comment-out) that entry, it shouldn't

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:08:47PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > => > > => Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears to be safer than > > => upgrading with dselect. The offending

Re: Sendmail questions (almost there!) Followup

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
Relaying is now turned off by default in sendmail 8.9.3 (the version in slink). I added the following to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: FEATURE(access_db, hash -o /etc/mail/access)dnl I then ran sendmailconfig to create sendmail.cf In /etc/mail/access, I have: host.domain RELAY where host.domain

Re: Sound, sblive.

1999-07-15 Thread wim
Yep, the new drivers are _much_ better. I downloaded them too yestereday shortly after they became available. That is one of the reason why closed propietary drivers suck -- it takes forever to get updates. The beta before this version was for 2.2.5. On 15-Jul-99 Brian Greenfield wrote: > On T

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: > > > I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you > > actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc. > > I can't see how blindly using

Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0

1999-07-15 Thread Evan S
Heyo, I'm just wondering, if I want to upgrade to 2.2.10 in potato, how do I do that? I want to apt-get the source code so I can enable sound and such, do you know what command I do? And what steps are involved? When I used RH, it was a easier kernel process, but, since I tried Debian, it's much

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Olaf Conradi
+---[ On Jul 16, Craig Sanders scribbled ]--- | On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:24:24PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: | | > The ISC DHCP v3 BETA server supports DNS updates, I have not looked at it | > yet, but I assume that it uses dynamic dns with bind 8. | | if you don't want to use the beta DHCP

RE: PPPuzzles

1999-07-15 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Max, What is it you want to do over your ppp link? If it is just email and web, I would suggest running Netscape as an initial setup while you configure everything else.. try "apt-get communicator" (I think that is the package name) if your sources.list file is set up. Otherwise you need to co

Re: Sendmail questions (almost there!) Followup

1999-07-15 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mike Patterson wrote: > Ok, black is actually the 0.69, a machine dialing in with ppp. 0.1, the > relay, is "white". cool, we're on the same page then (I'm suddenly reminded of a Three Dog Night song ;-} ) > So I made the change above on white in the file /etc/mail/sendm

Re[2]: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
Thanks to all for the rapid-fire primer in perl. Come to think it, I now know _more_ about Perl than Hillary knows about New York! -- Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA --==++*++==-- "RMS's "curmudgeon-like"

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread Carl Mummert
>I tried this after reading the man page and it did not work, so I read the man >page again and it seems that --user is intended for use in closing a process, >not in starting one. damn. You're right. Rename the script below, edit the vars at the top, and you are i business. Sorry to have led y

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, I go for the debian way to. Something complete diferrent, but Windows has centralized settings (user.dat/system.dat) you cannot simple copy a program to a other system without knowing the complete settings in the resource files. When I program software (I'm a Win32 programmer that maintains

Re: Travan TR-3 tape drive woes

1999-07-15 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- AFAIK the taper in slink has been segfaulting on quite a few people. I THINK the taper from potato will work without problems under slink, but I'm not sure. I know that taper WAS working for me around march of this year. BTW, I was using taper to write LS-120 d

PPPuzzles

1999-07-15 Thread maxalbert
Greetings all-- Chapter 2 in my riveting saga. It seems that Debian 2.1.8 does not support the Diamond Supra 288i SP modem-- at least not mine. After two weeks of trying to get the OS to detect the damned thing, I gave up and replaced it with a scrounged-up Sportster 28800. Viola! Instant

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:24:24PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > The ISC DHCP v3 BETA server supports DNS updates, I have not looked at it > yet, but I assume that it uses dynamic dns with bind 8. if you don't want to use the beta DHCP server, there are alternatives. i've used dhcp-dns 0.5 on

Hot-Mail clone

1999-07-15 Thread Roy Pluschke
I need to set up a hot-mail clone -- is there anything out there deb or otherwise or do I have to roll my own solution. Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: > I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you > actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc. > I can't see how blindly using apt-get upgrade can be safer. Anyone > that trashes their system with dselec

VS: Newbie troubles: XF86Setup acts out strange

1999-07-15 Thread vw
Oh, my system: Compaq Deskpro XE 466. 486/66, 32M ram, 540 hd (soon to be doubled), on-board video, Siemens mcm 1702 monitor, Rockwell comp. 56K modem. thanx Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Wichmann, Viggo > Sendt:16. jul

Newbie troubles: XF86Setup acts out strange

1999-07-15 Thread vw
Hi Debians The 'box spent most of last night downloading stuff from debian (I just said yes to dselect's suggestions, in order to not meddle too much with dependencies) after spending all afternoon getting my modem up & running. No Problemo there. Wonderful program, apt is. Now I'm really excited t

Re: rxvt as default shell

1999-07-15 Thread Brett Carlane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to have rxvt used in place of xterm in > all instances? I'd like to do the equivalent of symlinking > xterm to rxvt but so that it won't get clobbered in a > future update. The most upgrade-proof approach to this, I think, is to use the Debian 'update-men

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > => > => Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears to be safer than > => upgrading with dselect. The offending packages are held back and > => netscape, etc., are not marked for remova

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: >> >>start-stop-daemon --start --exec $NEWT /path/to/executable ? > > The sense I get from the manpage is that you should use > > start-stop-daemon --start --user newt --exec /path/to/prog -- -program > -options I tried this after reading the man page and it di

Sendmail questions (almost there!) Followup

1999-07-15 Thread Mike Patterson
Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : 1) Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is setup correctly :if you can't do `host xxx.yyy.zzz', sendmail can't find :it either : 2) sendmail is restrictive by design - you have to tell it :that you know the blood is upon your hands ;-} : :

ppp/serial Help!

1999-07-15 Thread paul . walton
I`m fairly new to Linux and this is driving me mad. I have ppp as a loadable module, isapnp and setserial both set to /dev/ttyS2 0x03e8/0x3e8 irq 5. this works fine and detects my modem ok. I can dial in to my isp (using wvdial) the first time after a reboot but once i disconnect, and after a time

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread Carl Mummert
> >start-stop-daemon --start --exec $NEWT /path/to/executable ? The sense I get from the manpage is that you should use start-stop-daemon --start --user newt --exec /path/to/prog -- -program -options Carl

Travan TR-3 tape drive woes

1999-07-15 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Paul Miller writes: > > I'm having trouble with Linux and my TR-3 tape drive. It's attached to > the floppy cable and I've tested it in windows. I compiled the ftape and > zftape modules in kernel 2.2.10 and loaded them fine. The tape drive is > detected with no errors. Taper seg.faults

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: > > > IF you are using inetd, there is an option for which uid to use; > the sytnax is > > port type type user {no}wait user command > > > IF you don't use inetd, then you should use start-stop-daemon, which > allows you to specify the user and group . man

Re: Re[2]: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Carl Mummert
--cut #!/usr/bin/perl foreach (@ARGV) { printf "%#o %s \n", (stat($_))[2] & 0x1ff, $_; } --cut CaRL

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread William Schwartz
The way I understand it, D-DNS is EXACTLY what you are looking for. This will provide your internal hosts that are assigned an address from DHCP with a DNS entry as well... Will - Original Message - From: Olaf Conradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Olaf Conradi wrote: > +---[ On Jul 15, Will Lowe scribbled ]--- > | > How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to > | > the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP? > | > | Probably the only way I can think of is to remake the dns database

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Ben Cranston
> It works fine from the command line, > but I tried it in a shell script with no luck. > #! /bin/bash > perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat($1))[2] & 0x1ff)' > Needless to add I know as much about shell scripts > as Hillary does about New York. Yeah, the problem is that the $ is inside a ' (perl scri

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Olaf Conradi
+---[ On Jul 15, Will Lowe scribbled ]--- | > How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to | > the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP? | | Probably the only way I can think of is to remake the dns databases and | restart named every time you renew a DHCP lea

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:47:26PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat("FILENAME"))[2] & 0x1ff)' > > Great! > > It works fine from the command line, but I tried it in a shell script with no > luck. > > #! /bin/bash > perl

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Will Lowe
> How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to > the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP? Probably the only way I can think of is to remake the dns databases and restart named every time you renew a DHCP lease. I don't know if dhcpd allows you to run a comma

Re[2]: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat("FILENAME"))[2] & 0x1ff)' Great! It works fine from the command line, but I tried it in a shell script with no luck. #! /bin/bash perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat($1))[2] & 0x1ff)' Needless to add I know as much about shel

DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hi, I have a LAN with DHCP installed on the linux-box to give PC's and notebooks an IP address. On the same box runs Bind as DNS server. How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP? The linuxbox also runs WINS to ser

Re: Micro Channel Ethernet...

1999-07-15 Thread Matthew Mueller
I found another device driver disk, but it is taking forever to download. I found I had the same problem as you: version 2.1 wouldn't install (not recognizing /dev/eda) but 2.0 is working out. I am really looking for 3Com's 3c523 device driver, on a driver disk or elsewhere. Thanks for your help.

Re: Sound, sblive.

1999-07-15 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:14:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I emailed the [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever it was, and they said that >new beta drivers for 2.2.10 would be coming out this week that would fix my >problems. I guess I'll have to wait until then. It's out now, but it's had a change of name

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Carl Mummert
>Is there a command that will do (so to speak) the inverse of chmod, i.e. if >given the name of a file return its current permissions in octal? perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat("FILENAME"))[2] & 0x1ff)' Remove the # (leave everything else) to strip the leading 0 Carl

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Charles B \(Ben\) Cranston
> Is there a command that will do (so to speak) the inverse of chmod, i.e. if > given the name of a file return its current permissions in octal? Seems like "ls -l" followed by a filter to extract just that information? If the output of ls changes it would also have to change, so I think this wou

'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
Is there a command that will do (so to speak) the inverse of chmod, i.e. if given the name of a file return its current permissions in octal? -- Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA --==++*++==-- "RMS's "curmud

Re: modem configuration

1999-07-15 Thread John Hasler
> I ran pppconfig and finally thought I was getting somewhere, however when > I finished and then typed "pon" nothing happened (as before). Post the complete outputs of 'plog' and 'setserial -a /dev/ttyS1' . > I have to modprobe ppp every time I reboot else pon says the kernel lacks > support for

Re: SV: modem configuration

1999-07-15 Thread John Hasler
Vitux writes: > Kind of silly, that pon doesn't give any kind of information on what it's > doing... pon is just a short little script that starts pppd and exits: #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} To find out what pppd is doing use the 'plog' command. -- John Hasler

Re: NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread John Foster
Sera Hill wrote: > Netscape setup fine using the ./ns-install command (at least it *said* it > did), and it created the default dir (/usr/local/netscape), and when --- You may get this to work but I would delete it and do this. First put the file (Communicat

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:51:08PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > The man files for adding anything to the startup are really awful if you are > new to Linux. Is there a way for me have fetchamail start every time the > machine boots? .fetchmailrc is set to run in daemon mode but just getting >

Re: licq and xcmail lib errors

1999-07-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
Try 'ldconfig -v /' to force ld to check directories for new libraries. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: gcc problem after potato upgrade

1999-07-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the quick reply! I guess this means that dselect didn't mark the new version of the libg++ for installation. I assume that I should select the latest version libg++2.8.2-glibc2.1-2.91.66-2.deb and that should allow gcc to install correctly. Do I need to remove the old version first, o

Travan TR-3 tape drive woes

1999-07-15 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having trouble with Linux and my TR-3 tape drive. It's attached to the floppy cable and I've tested it in windows. I compiled the ftape and zftape modules in kernel 2.2.10 and loaded them fine. The tape drive is detected with no errors. Taper seg.faults when it backs up though, yet, taper

Re: Micro Channel Ethernet...

1999-07-15 Thread Robert Rati
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Matthew Mueller wrote: > Does anyone out there know if there is a linux driver for the 3Com 3c523? > I am trying to install Hamm on my PS/2 Model 55sx, but the networking won't > go. > > Thanks in advance, Ya, I have linux running on my PS/2 (same model actually) just fine.

RE: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?

1999-07-15 Thread David Karlin
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Keith G. Murphy" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for a new kernel. The will take the Linux kernel, cause there are much > device drivers, so they are only interested in hardware > support. Around this kernel they will make an AmigaOS. So nothing wil

Re: Nics that don't work?

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 06:36:46PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: > Robert Rati wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of nics that DON'T work in Linux? With all the winbloze > > wincrap running around, has there been nics made that don't work in Linux? > > Does anyone know if D-Link cards works in Linux? D

Micro Channel Ethernet...

1999-07-15 Thread Matthew Mueller
Does anyone out there know if there is a linux driver for the 3Com 3c523? I am trying to install Hamm on my PS/2 Model 55sx, but the networking won't go. Thanks in advance, Matthew Mueller Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin-Madison Phone: 608.263.8185 Email: [EMAIL PR

Install from CD-ROM problems

1999-07-15 Thread JARDINE, Jeff
> Hello, > I'm having trouble installing Debian 2.1 from CD. Specifically, I'm > stuck at the "Configure Device Driver Modules"/"Install Base System" point > in the installation process. My CD-ROM drive is a 4x from Creative Labs > (I'm not sure of the exact model - I can't find it in my m

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
Patrick: This used to happen to me all the time, until I changed the terminal emulator that I was using to telnet to the machine. (I think I changed from Windows telnet to TeraTerm Pro.) I don't know if it's only a coincidence, and I can't begin to explain why the choice of a terminal emulator w

Re: Tools to generate X interface for programs

1999-07-15 Thread Peter Allen
Romeu wrote: > > One which I can drag buttons, create forms an handle events, just like Delphi > an VB. > Is there such a tool? > > Christopher J. Morrone escreveu: > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, David Teague wrote: > > > > > Carl, Others: > > > > > > What tools does Debian have to generate X windo

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-15 Thread Peter Allen
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > Anyone know why I can find something more informative than the simple > comment "Segmentation fault " that comes up when I run apt-get install xxx? > An example follows: > > Selecting previously deselected package imap. > (Reading database ... 8612 fi

Re: Nics that don't work?

1999-07-15 Thread Peter Allen
Robert Rati wrote: > > Does anyone know of nics that DON'T work in Linux? With all the winbloze > wincrap running around, has there been nics made that don't work in Linux? > Does anyone know if D-Link cards works in Linux? Does Linux play nicely > with most PCI nics as well? TIA> > There are

Re: -y option in apt-get

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Renato" == Renato Katsuragawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Renato> So, I'd like to know if has a manner to do this in a really Renato> non-interactive installation. This can be done without any Renato> configuration. Not yet. It is no the TODO list, and is worked on. Ciao, Martin

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Debian" == Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [central vs. spreaded config files] Debian> Is this a design intention, is this a goal ? Yes. And it is an advantage. It is easier to handle, less error prone, and it allows for network distribution. If your central file defines the n

Re: StarPC...for home and business (http://www.leestar.com/promo/p450dvd.htm)

1999-07-15 Thread Peter Allen
Do you think they should be charged double for putting in pictures and html? Peter Allen

Re: modules - where to load them

1999-07-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: modules - where to load them Date: Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:17:41PM +1000 In reply to:Jason Carley Quoting Jason Carley([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > I was wondering whether there was a standard convention for which file to use > for > module loading. I am not sure

Re: NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread Robert Rati
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Sera Hill wrote: > Netscape setup fine using the ./ns-install command (at least it *said* it > did), and it created the default dir (/usr/local/netscape), and when I check > it, netscape's there. My mail server is a POP3 server. It's basically any > mail program I have. I'm

compiling samba-2.0.4 in slink fail.

1999-07-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I downloaded the sources for samba-2.0.4 from unstable and then tryied do compile under slink (kernel 2.0.35). I did a debian/rules binary and several parts of the process were smooth but it failed when tryied to mv smbmount from PATH/debian/tmp/usr/bin to PATH/debian

Re: NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread Sera Hill
Thanks. I'll go try that. -Original Message- >> Netscape (when I try to run it), says that it can't find libXpm.so.4 >Install library: > >$ dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 >xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 >xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 > >> Do I change the path variable by typing this in ete

Re: gcc problem after potato upgrade

1999-07-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:30:12AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded to potato a few days ago (I know, I should have used > apt-get!) and I have a conflict with gcc. > > I get an error during configuration that says something about > gcc-2.91.66-2.deb process ending with a

Re: NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread Sera Hill
>> I've been having troubles with working on the configuration of my connection >> with the graphics side of things. Can you help me out? Basically, I can't >> get mail from my server and I'm having difficulties with installing >> netscape. Is there anything you can recommend I do? Or should I

Re: Upgrade slink to a 2.2

1999-07-15 Thread Robert Rati
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an apt-get upgrade to move to a 2.2 kernel without causing > instability? I haven't used a kernel package in a long time. I dl my kernel source from www.kernel.org because the kernels are much more current there. You don't need to

Re: NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:43:06PM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: > I've been having troubles with working on the configuration of my connection > with the graphics side of things. Can you help me out? Basically, I can't > get mail from my server and I'm having difficulties with installing > netscape.

Upgrade slink to a 2.2

1999-07-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Is there an apt-get upgrade to move to a 2.2 kernel without causing instability? Thanks in advance, Patrick BTW, I've got slink in and working as it should on two machines this week so feeling pleased. Thanks everyone for all the tips.

FW: Re: Nics that don't work?

1999-07-15 Thread wim
-FW: Re: Nics that don't work?- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:07:06 - (/etc/localtimeøï_Dôÿ¿Ïü__ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sera Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Nics that don't work? What do you mean with the graphics side of things? To install netscape, simple untar it with 'ta

Re: NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread Robert Rati
> I've been having troubles with working on the configuration of my connection > with the graphics side of things. Can you help me out? Basically, I can't > get mail from my server and I'm having difficulties with installing > netscape. Is there anything you can recommend I do? Or should I chec

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I used dselect to upgrade because I did not see any talk about the apt-get upgrade command in time... My system now seems to have some "issues" I need to work through. I do not receive any perl warning at this moment, so I think I will concentrate on fixing

gcc problem after potato upgrade

1999-07-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I upgraded to potato a few days ago (I know, I should have used apt-get!) and I have a conflict with gcc. I get an error during configuration that says something about gcc-2.91.66-2.deb process ending with an error because of a conflict with /usr/bin/genclass which is also a part of libg++

Re: [possibly off-topic] pppdup package not working properly

1999-07-15 Thread S. Massy
yeah it appears to be indeed a bug after having a close look at the logs (and a bit of sleep) I noticed That the modem was alway receiving a sighup right after having established the serial connection (before starting pppd) it looks like pppupd was calling the killscript once the serial connection

NetScape & bash paths

1999-07-15 Thread Sera Hill
I've been having troubles with working on the configuration of my connection with the graphics side of things. Can you help me out? Basically, I can't get mail from my server and I'm having difficulties with installing netscape. Is there anything you can recommend I do? Or should I check in dif

Fw: Nics that don't work?

1999-07-15 Thread Sera Hill
>My D-Link card is working fine in the text-based world of Linux. I'm still >having trouble w/the graphics-based side of things, but I suspect that's my >fault (being a newbie). >HTH >-Sera >-Original Message- >>Does anyone know if D-Link cards works in Linux? >

Easy Interface for IPFWADM

1999-07-15 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I have a small ipfw set up. While I don't mind doing the work in VI to set the rules, some of the people I work with who will be managing the box want something a little easier to work with, a web based system would be great. Anyway, I don't have perl installed, and prob

RE: Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-15 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > The Red Hat box was on there first promo poster was at the Linux Expo in > North Carolina. That made Red Hat call the big bad lawyers. So in kind of a > parody of a parody and to give RH the finger they made the poster over with > Debian as the CD cov

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => => Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears to be safer than => upgrading with dselect. The offending packages are held back and => netscape, etc., are not marked for removal. Ahh! I was wondering why I saw around four packages held back when I l

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:27:06AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > I finally decided to try potato because I wanted an easy way of getting > the latest postgresql (6.5)... > > I was running slink and used dselect to upgrade. > > The biggest problem it seemed to find was a change in perl (DB1.

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread Carl Mummert
IF you are using inetd, there is an option for which uid to use; the sytnax is port type type user {no}wait user command IF you don't use inetd, then you should use start-stop-daemon, which allows you to specify the user and group . man start-stop-daemon Carl

RE: Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-15 Thread Person, Roderick
The Red Hat box was on there first promo poster was at the Linux Expo in North Carolina. That made Red Hat call the big bad lawyers. So in kind of a parody of a parody and to give RH the finger they made the poster over with Debian as the CD cover. I have the article is anyone is interested. Rod..

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: CD-RW woes. Again." > On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 07:03:33AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > >> and in your modules.conf: > > sorry, my what? i don't appear to have a modules.conf anywhere on > my system. > The newer file name is switched and called

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:07:26AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > => > =>I suggest staying out of the unstable branch for a few days. > > Thanks, Bryan. I find posts like that very helpful since this is the only > Debian list I subscribe to. I am u

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I forgot how to make a program start when the machine boots, but not have it > start as root. I want it to start as another user. Any ideas, anyone? Look at `su username -c ...' or setuid from the super package. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology

suid question, kind of

1999-07-15 Thread Pollywog
I forgot how to make a program start when the machine boots, but not have it start as root. I want it to start as another user. Any ideas, anyone? thanks -- Andrew

Re: preparing for first installation - which User's Guide?

1999-07-15 Thread David H. Silber
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:06:55PM +0200, Drew Parsons wrote: > I would have liked to install a stable version of potato (Debian 2.2), but > the stable release seems to be delayed, so maybe it is better to stick with > slink (Debian 2.1) for now, would you agree? The current version of potato *is*

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 07:03:33AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Ok, try this: > > ide-cd = module > ide-scsi = module > scsi-generic = kernel > scsi-cdrom = kernel right, done. > This is from memory... > > Now, whichever module (ide-cd or ide-scsi) gets loaded > first will attempt to control

Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-15 Thread Person, Roderick
Any one hear about the LinuxCare promo poster given away at the Bay Area Linux User Group meeting in June. It a woman covering her ass with a Debian CD cover. Anyway, does anyone know if I can get a copy of it on line somewhere? Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412)454-2616 "We're not that

DOSEMU incredibly slow?

1999-07-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I han't noticed before, but since the upgrade to slink DOSEMU is *incredibly* slow (perhaps 100 times slower than the real thing). Has anyone noticed a similar behaviour? I don't recall it being so slow before... -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamonta

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
The man files for adding anything to the startup are really awful if you are new to Linux. Is there a way for me have fetchamail start every time the machine boots? .fetchmailrc is set to run in daemon mode but just getting the thing to start if somehow the machine needs to be rebooted without

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Jul, Debian Developer wrote about "Centralized script ..." > I am beginning to realize that one of the biggest difference (drawback) of > Debian versus Caldera or SuSE is the abscence of a centralized file (i.e. > /etc/rc.config like in SuSE) to hold a bunch of environment variables that >

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:13:01AM -0500, Debian Developer wrote: > I am beginning to realize that one of the biggest difference (drawback) of > Debian versus Caldera or SuSE is the abscence of a centralized file (i.e. > /etc/rc.config like in SuSE) to hold a bunch of environment variabl

Still have X problems, was Re: Compaq Presario 1245 Touchpad , interface problems

1999-07-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
Thanks for everyone who supplied information on my problem. The touchpad now works, but I still can't get an XF86Config file that will run the screen in any mode higher than the "built-in" 320X220 resolution. The strange thing about this, is that XF86Setup seems to be able to get the hardware into

Re: Mail retrieval problems

1999-07-15 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
Jack Wilkinson wrote: > > all of the sudden, my mail can't be deleted off the server... my system was > stalled this morning after doing a dist-upgrade to today's potato updates, > and I can get my mail fine, but it won't remove the messages from the > server, so I'm getting each message every tim

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
See comments below. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of

-y option in apt-get

1999-07-15 Thread Renato Katsuragawa
Hi, The -y or --yes option of apt-get assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively but in some packages like lynx I have to write the default URL during the process. So, I'd like to know if has a manner to do this in a really non-interactive installation. This can be done without

Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Debian Developer
I am beginning to realize that one of the biggest difference (drawback) of Debian versus Caldera or SuSE is the abscence of a centralized file (i.e. /etc/rc.config like in SuSE) to hold a bunch of environment variables that define the behavior of the scripts in /etc/rc*.d Is this a design intentio

Mail retrieval problems

1999-07-15 Thread Jack Wilkinson
all of the sudden, my mail can't be deleted off the server... my system was stalled this morning after doing a dist-upgrade to today's potato updates, and I can get my mail fine, but it won't remove the messages from the server, so I'm getting each message every time I check my mail... any help ar

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