Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-11 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Tue, 1999-12-07 at 23:13:32 +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages > depend on? > > When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are > installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - w

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I've seen setups like these being mentioned in the Postfix ML (more than one > > person there claimed more than 10 users under Cyrus IMAPD+Postfix). > > Sorry if this question look

Re: export PATH=.:$PATH (was:Re: Mailing list headers )

1999-12-11 Thread aphro
yeah, maybe, I'm well aware of the security risks involved in having . in the path as well as the risks involved in doing most everything i do as root and not as a normal user. haven't had a problem in almost 4 years so i dont se it as much of a big deal for the systems i run. wish i could get thi

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-11 Thread David Blackman
I ahve all of these xpm packages installed and my wp8 works just fine, so for simplicity, do what I do, grab everything with xpm in the name ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated binaries ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - development

AIC-7890

1999-12-11 Thread Paul Morris
 Do you know where I Can get Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller     Many Thanks   Paul

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Postfix is very easy to setup, very light on the cpu and is engineered for > security and speed (runs in a chroot jail in debian's default configuration, Hmm... my bad here. Debian's postfix can be very easily set to run chrooted (just change a bun

export PATH=.:$PATH (was:Re: Mailing list headers )

1999-12-11 Thread Eberhard Burr
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have thios in my .bashrc : > export PATH=.:$PATH ouch. One day, you'll execute something by accident... make that export PATH=${HOME}/bin/:${PATH} instead and put your shell scripts into ~/bin/ kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burr PGP key ID: DAF

Kernel-Package v6.27

1999-12-11 Thread wb4mle
I compiled a new kernel (2.3.31) with Potato(current) kpkg and the resulting .deb package says it installed fine but did not redirect the vmlinuz link. Just changing this symlink won't boot system. Not sure where to hunt "bug". -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0x

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Ronald Tin
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login > > > accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. > > > > > > What should I start with? > > > >

Re: vmware

1999-12-11 Thread aphro
www.vmware.com On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Jianbo Wang wrote: jwang >Hi, jwang > jwang >Does anybody know where I can find demo license for vmware? Thanks! jwang > jwang >Jianbo jwang > jwang > jwang > jwang > jwang >-- jwang >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null jwang >

Floppy-Disk MF2ED (2.88/4.0 MByte)

1999-12-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have two dotzend SONY floppy drives 2.88 MByte and I can get the floppys from BASF/EMTEC but for around US$ 5,- each without shipping and handling. (This is a Re-Seller price !!!) Does anyone know, where I can get the floppys cheaper ??? Distributors / Manufacturs / Adresses... (I am i

Re: vmware

1999-12-11 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 11 Dec, Jianbo Wang wrote about "vmware" > Hi, > > Does anybody know where I can find demo license for vmware? Thanks! > http://www5.vmware.com/forms/Download.cfm Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering

upgrade to potato

1999-12-11 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I used the command apt-get -f dist-upgrade -u to upgrade from slink to potato. I downloaded packages for about 12 hours and thought I was golden. The upgrade keeps hanging up after downloading the packages saying there was an error unpacking gnome-bin,gnome-session, and gnome-core. I tri

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-11 Thread ferret
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, dyer wrote: > > > > >> > > >> I have bought (two day ago) a modem, it says (in the windows software) > > >> that it is a "Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem" and it is on > > >> COM4. > > > > > >That says it all. Speakerphone Modem = Winmodem. Take it back and get a > >

Re: locking the console

1999-12-11 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >So I could scan /dev/tty[1-9]* to make sure nobody has typed anything >recently, then run this from the background. Or something. If nobody >else has written it I'll do it over Christmas. A possibly slightly easier and more complete way to check for conso

Re: HELP: babel and french produce strange things in potato....

1999-12-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:41:15PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > i just recompiled a latex file (big mistake as it seems...) that uses the > babel > system and the setting french. now on compilation i get > [EMAIL PROTECTED] maong others and following this : > > ! Undefined con

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login > > accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. > > > > What should I start with? > > Either exim or postfix, definitely - they're very easy to configure. I've > not h

RE: /etc/hosts.deny "booby trap"

1999-12-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-Dec-1999 David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > The manpage of HOSTS_ACCESS has a section called "BOOBY TRAPS" which > describes how to automatically to do a finger on a machine which > is denied network via /etc/hosts.deny, and mail its output to root. > > I'm attmpting to set this up so that any

Re: Ispell module for html files

1999-12-11 Thread peter karlsson
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira: > Anyone knows about a module of ispell to fix errors in html files? The current version (since 3.1.20-2) of ispell in potato has a patch applied that provides support for spellchecking html files. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for > a large number of users... more than 65536. Ooh... that's quite a few :) > Using Debian of course. :) A noble cause! > It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have l

Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Ronald Tin
I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for a large number of users... more than 65536. Using Debian of course. :) It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start with? Are there good open sourced MTA and IMAP

vmware

1999-12-11 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, Does anybody know where I can find demo license for vmware? Thanks! Jianbo

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-11 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > $ ldd xwp Ah HA! This is the command I was looking for! Excellent. Now I can figure out a bit more stuff on my own, thanks!!! (You just taught a man to fish) > To get all of these, you need the following packages: > > libc5, xlib6, xpm4.7 Unfortuna

HELP: babel and french produce strange things in potato....

1999-12-11 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i just recompiled a latex file (big mistake as it seems...) that uses the babel system and the setting french. now on compilation i get [EMAIL PROTECTED] maong others and following this : ! Undefined control sequence. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...l \mathchardef [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can UMSDOS support long filenames on FAT32?

1999-12-11 Thread John Ericson
Hi, I have a fat32 partition which I mount by typing 'mount -t umsdos /dev/hdb3 /mnt'. On this partition I have files with names longer than 8 letters and now when I make a 'umssync .' all the files with long filenames get renamed to 8.3 format. Is there someway I can make Umsdos support long file

RE: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-11 Thread Harley Pebley
>> Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but >> amusing . . . >> Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force >This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? FWIW, the citation in the copy I received from another source had:

/etc/hosts.deny "booby trap"

1999-12-11 Thread David Karlin
Hello, The manpage of HOSTS_ACCESS has a section called "BOOBY TRAPS" which describes how to automatically to do a finger on a machine which is denied network via /etc/hosts.deny, and mail its output to root. I'm attmpting to set this up so that any telnet request from outside my lan is denied and

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-11 Thread Jor-el
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > Kenneth Stephen wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > > Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: > > > > > Exactly. See also http://garcon.unicom.com/FAQ/reply-to-harmful.html > > > Furthermore, I think that the

Re: /usr Read-only

1999-12-11 Thread Hans Gubitz
My apt.conf said: Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}. So dselect changed /usr from rw to ro. Thanks. Hans Gubitz On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 07:55:40PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: > On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! > > My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 >

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-11 Thread dyer
> > >> > >> I have bought (two day ago) a modem, it says (in the windows software) > >> that it is a "Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem" and it is on > >> COM4. > > > >That says it all. Speakerphone Modem = Winmodem. Take it back and get a > >real modem. > >-- > > Now I have an "Supra 2260 PCI

Re: dhcp & kernel question

1999-12-11 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : check your firewall .. that ipmasq package always blocks all : incoming/outgoing packets on my machines i always remove it. dhcp may be : starting up before ipmasq . Or, if you DO want to use ipmasq, remember to (re-)run the command 'ipmasq' AFTER dhcp get's the

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >X-Envelope-Sender: egm2@jps.net >Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 02:14:23 -0800 >From: "Eric G . Miller" >Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i >Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org >X-M

Re: masquerading

1999-12-11 Thread Igor Skypala
everything is OK, mistake was in routing table (wrong IP number) Thanks for help... igi > uninstaled ipmasq (with dselect) and masquerade _is_working_, > but only between linux box and internal network, when pinging > external host from internal net its unreachable :-( > _/_/_/_/_/ mailto: [E

Re: dhcp & kernel question

1999-12-11 Thread aphro
check your firewall .. that ipmasq package always blocks all incoming/outgoing packets on my machines i always remove it. dhcp may be starting up before ipmasq . nate On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, jason wrote: rohwed >so i decided to re reinstall my box w/ potato.. i had run slink for about rohwed >9 mo

q3demo w/3dfx banshee

1999-12-11 Thread aphro
i have been tryin to get this wroking for 2 hours now, and still cant. i went to www.3dfxgamers.com and grabbed the latest kernel module, and mesa driver, and XF86_3DFX driver for XF86 3.3.5 instaleld them all and it went ok as far as i could tell..manually compiling stuff from source rpms is a bi

dhcp & kernel question

1999-12-11 Thread jason
so i decided to re reinstall my box w/ potato.. i had run slink for about 9 months or so and wanted to play around.. etc etc - so i wiped the box and put a bare version of slink on .. then upgraded to potato via apt but when i download a new 2.2 kernel to compile my new kernel and get everything w

Debian 2.2

1999-12-11 Thread Tadas
Is Debian 2.2 (Potato) stable enough to use it? Tadas

Re: Can't access Swat.

1999-12-11 Thread aphro
check your inetd.conf and services files (in /etc) inetd.conf should have a line that looks like: swatstream tcp nowait.400 root/usr/sbin/swat swat and services should have a line that looks like: swat901/tcp make sure the binary that inetd.conf is pointing to (in thi

Help! My Debian blew up!

1999-12-11 Thread T.M. Hospedales
All of a sudden while trying to emacs -nw options to setup my new modem , things refuse to execute! It just stalls and doesn't do anything! I see no particular connection between things that work and those that dont: Working: xterm, ls, cat, fsck, vi Not: startx,emacs, xemacs, netscape, sys

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-11 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Peter> Not our problem. You are still breaking etiquette by doing so. Peter> Ravi> my apologies if i went out of the way to annoy anyone. they Peter> Ravi> were unintended. Even *after* apologising for unknowingly / unintentionally annoying a c

Re: sound blaster live

1999-12-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
If you are talking about emu10k1, which I assume you are, yes I have. key things to do. 1) make sure your kernel is configured with sound support as a module, and no other sound options are selected. Compile the kerel when you get out. "make dep; make clean; make bzlilo; make modules; make modul

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:34:56PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > On 09-Dec-1999, Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Peter Ross wrote: > > > > > > I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I > > > > fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink +

Can't access Swat.

1999-12-11 Thread ktb
I'm trying to set up a network with Samba and can't get Swat to open in my Netscape browser. I've tried, http://localhost:901/ which nets "Netscape unable to locate the server keyword.netscape.com Please check the server name and try again." http://xyf:901/ Gives the same error. (xyf is my h

Dpkg Woes

1999-12-11 Thread Todd Suess
Ok, if you read my previous email, you know I made a serious mistake and accidently deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status while I was cleaning out the old status files to save some space. Obviously, dpkg now has no idea of what packages are installed on my system, and is broken. Is there any way to g

sound blaster live

1999-12-11 Thread Jason Winters
has anyone successfully installed the Bata drivers for the sound blaster live sound card.  If so how?  I tried and I could not get it to work.

Re: I think i'm hosed.

1999-12-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/12/99 Todd Suess wrote: I have a feeling I will be reinstalling my system, but I was going thru and cleaning up old logs, etc and accidently deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status when I meant to delete the old status files. Is there any way to regenerate the status file or is dpkg now totally an

Re: linux.debian.user gatewayed no more?

1999-12-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately it seems I've to bridge at home:( Still hoping someone else would do it for the world to grab

I think i'm hosed.

1999-12-11 Thread Todd Suess
I have a feeling I will be reinstalling my system, but I was going thru and cleaning up old logs, etc and accidently deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status when I meant to delete the old status files. Is there any way to regenerate the status file or is dpkg now totally and horribly broken? Regards, To

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Stephen
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > Friday, December 10, 1999, 2:53:54 AM, Kenneth wrote: > > I think that this is a bad suggestion since there are some people (such as > > me) who use the Reply-To headers to ensure that the recipients have a valid > > reply address to reply to us. If the mai