Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
Which X config section? There are a number of different utilities, among them xconfigurator (command line), XF86Setup (graphical), and others. Don't sweat it, you can always change the setting later. If you've got a mouse with a small, round, 9-pin connector, you've got a PS/2 mouse. If it's go

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do > > "migrate" from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry > > in the config fil

Re: Subject: Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-28 Thread John Carline
Oki DZ wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Are you running 24 bpi in X? I have found that > > netscape dosen't like 24 bpp but will give the correct > > colors if X is run at 32 bpp. Don't know if 8 or 16 > > bpp settings cause problems. > > No, it's just 8 bpp. > Does X need

How to get a manual for an old 3486-vc-hd motherboard?

2000-04-28 Thread Shaul Karl
Can someone suggests how can I get a manual for an old 4386-vc-hd mother board? I have managed to find the following: 4386­VC­HD ISA Motherboard click layout ­ BIOS ID string ? <­­ please send yours in ­ 8­30 pin SIMM slots (1­128meg FPM DRAM) ­ 6­16bit ISA slots ­ 64­256k cache supp

Re: POP3 & SSL / SSH

2000-04-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Quick (?) question: How to set up pop3-fetching ( fetchmail on Linux > 2.(2|0).[0-9]+ ) with SSH / SSL? What package am I looking for? What problems > might I encounter? Never done this, so that's how much I know about this > particular topic. Thanks for your input. > in ~/.fetchmailrc (basic

Horde problems

2000-04-28 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! I'm trying to get Horde and Imp working. When I direct lynx to /horde the listing for index.php3 is displayed. I know php works because the phpinfo.php file works flawlessly. I do however run php4, but in the configuration of horde I have defined that Im using php4. any ideas? /nisse

POP3 & SSL / SSH

2000-04-28 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Quick (?) question: How to set up pop3-fetching ( fetchmail on Linux 2.(2|0).[0-9]+ ) with SSH / SSL? What package am I looking for? What problems might I encounter? Never done this, so that's how much I know about this particular topic. Thanks for your input. Cheers Sven

Simple mouse question....

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am installing potato and am in the X configuration section where I am asked to specify a mouse protocol type. Of the choices these 2 make sense: 4 PS/2 Mouse 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be selecting a serial port rather

Re: new perl dependencies

2000-04-28 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages > that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. > > I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection > mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency

Re: Using AucTeX with XEmacs 21

2000-04-28 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Apr 28, 2000, Joseph Martin wrote: > Hello All, > I have xemacs21.1.9 installed. I cannot install AucTex as it > conflicts with xemacs21. The description with the auctex says that > auctex is included with xemacs. When I open LaTeX files the buffer is > in LaTeX mode and the file is

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Brad
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 05:18:08PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Apr 28, w trillich scribbled: > > > i merely think i have a screwy setting here or there that's > > needlessly duplicating log messages. settings are the bane of > > my linux existence, still... > Now, stop right here for a

Re: potato on CD?

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to put potato on a CD? I need to upgrade to the latest, > but over my dialup connection it would be over two days of work (~200MB > to download). Is there a way to burn the required bits to a CD and then > use apt-get on it? Obviously you can

Using AucTeX with XEmacs 21

2000-04-28 Thread Joseph Martin
Hello All, I have xemacs21.1.9 installed. I cannot install AucTex as it conflicts with xemacs21. The description with the auctex says that auctex is included with xemacs. When I open LaTeX files the buffer is in LaTeX mode and the file is appropriately colorized. However I cannot us

new perl dependencies

2000-04-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency screen with just perl-5.005 and

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:45:11AM -0500, w trillich wrote > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > w trillich wrote: > > > > > we need them _both_ because... well... um... > > > > Because syslogd handles the userspace messages, klogd handles the kernel > > > > messages. > > > > > > there's still a AWFUL lot

Re: Any interest in an Aureal Vortex soundcard driver .debs?

2000-04-28 Thread Steve
Also interested... - Original Message - > Interested. VERY. > > Didi Damian wrote: > > > Sure there's interest. > > > > * Alan Sobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-04-2000 10:08 PM +0100] > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > > Subject says it all, I m

Re: .deb for the latest version of lilo? any ideas?

2000-04-28 Thread John Stevenson
It would be great if the latest version of lilo could be droped into the potato boot flopies, especially as one of the main problems our site has had was not being able to boot our laptops from the hard drive unless we got hold of partition magic or re-installed NT from scratch. We have pre-inst

Re: Thank you !

2000-04-28 Thread w trillich
no problem. if you have seen any of my other posts, you'll know that i'm often in the same boat--looking for the right directive in an unknown config file for some mysterious program. i like the debian paradigm for updating software: they had a *.rpm (red-hat package manager) translation thing wit

Installing lp in potato...

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stordahl
When selecting the device driver module for lp (line printer) in potato I get this error: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed Installation fai

Re: potato on CD?

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stordahl
I picked up CD 1 via ftp from: ftp://gusp.infogroup.it/pub/debian/debian-cd/ and burned it as an iso image. Worked fine, I booted directly from it and am in the process of installing potato for the first time. Ron

StarOffice_5.1 doesn't run on an autofs/nfs home-dir + nis passwds

2000-04-28 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, I have StarOffice 5.1 installed on a client computer (home directories autofs mounted from an nfs server, and nis passwords), but it doesn't run anymore since I started to update slink (it worked ok with glibc2.0.7). It blocks in soffice_dir/bin/javaldx. I tested setting the HOME

Re: Netscape 6 -- related lib question(s)

2000-04-28 Thread montefin
Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > Please disregard my previous posting. > I can run Netscape 6 now; thanks to Eric Hanchrow for the response of > getting libstdc*.so. I planned to watch this thread because a.) I want to install Netscape 6 this weekend too. Though I have libstdc++2 libs, if it really w

Re: potato on CD?

2000-04-28 Thread Vitux
Ron Farrer wrote: > > Is there a way to put potato on a CD? I need to upgrade to the latest, > but over my dialup connection it would be over two days of work (~200MB > to download). Is there a way to burn the required bits to a CD and then > use apt-get on it? Obviously you can use a CD, but how

potato on CD?

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Farrer
Is there a way to put potato on a CD? I need to upgrade to the latest, but over my dialup connection it would be over two days of work (~200MB to download). Is there a way to burn the required bits to a CD and then use apt-get on it? Obviously you can use a CD, but how can I make a CD of potato th

FOLLOWUP: what happened to wmaker-gnome?

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What's the deal with wmaker-gnome? I tried to do a a dist-upgrade, > something I haven't done in a few months and it removed wmaker-gnome. > Trying to install it direct with 'apt-get install wmaker-gnome' produces > this: > > Note, selecting wmaker instead

Potato install glitches....

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am doing a CD boot install of potato and finding a few problems. First as to what version this is, about all I can tell you is that it says: kernel-image 2.2.14_2.2.14-2 and a little later it says debian rescue floppy ver 2.2.9 2000-03-28. I downloaded the entire CD image of disc 1 potato-i386-

netbase arp problem/bug?

2000-04-28 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, My internal network consists of 2 computers: a win98 box and a Debian upgraded to potato box. Here is the problem... If my debian box is booted first and then my win88 box second, the internal network does not work. If I boot the two systems in reverse (win98 first then debian) the inter

Re: Planning Upgrade.

2000-04-28 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Paulo! Paulo> Is there any way to make apt-get list the URL of the files it Paulo> would like to download? (If anyone wants to know why I need Paulo> this, an explanation follows). You should read /usr/doc/apt/offline.html, the process you mentioned later in your letter is well document

Re: Porting YTalk to Windows

2000-04-28 Thread Chris Walker
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> >>I am interested in porting YTalk to Windows. This has probably been done >>before. Do you know where I can find information about this. > >Hi, I'm the ytalk maintainer. Unfortunately I don't know of any ef

RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Dominic Blythe
compiling mod_perl 1.23 with apache 1.3.11. got a hint today that it could be because i used activate-module=src/modules/perl/mod_perl.c when i should use activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a got to wait til i get home tonight to try it. mod_perl itself does make, make install with no probs

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Vitux
Honoured Debianites. Isn't it about time to cut this thread? It seems to be evolving into the vi vs emacs vs pico vs idunnowhat or the everlasting dselect struggle. In other words, ideology... I've acquired quite a few tips following it, but now its getting out of hand. (IMHO, etc, please; let's

Re: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Eugene Teo
what problems you encountered? which versions you try to compile mod_perl? - Original Message - From: "Dominic Blythe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene Teo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian-User" Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 23:34 Subject: RE: sources.list l

RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Dominic Blythe
yeah. right on. i'll agree even more when i get mod_perl compiled in successfully ;-) > -Original Message- > From: Eugene Teo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 April 2000 16:32 > To: Dominic Blythe; Paul McHale; Debian-User > Subject: Re: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache

Re: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Eugene Teo
IMHO, apache should be compiled by hand. from there, you can control the dynamic modules and all that. much more flexibility. > i don't think there is a better way if there's no .deb. > it may not make you feel better, but my self-compiled > apache has been running ok for 36 hours now... > > of c

Re: startup/connection trubble [was Modules & name resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread Eugene Teo
> i'm getting into this debate. > what's the switches for ps that'll show all the daemons i'm running? > just ps just gives me the obvious processes. ps aux | more for linux or bsd, etc or ps -fu for SunOS > > no, NFS == Network File System (more accuratly known as No File > > Security ;-) it

RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Dominic Blythe
i don't think there is a better way if there's no .deb. it may not make you feel better, but my self-compiled apache has been running ok for 36 hours now... of course it's the uninstall that will be the asspain > -Original Message- > From: Paul McHale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28

Re: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:45:27AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > > Does anyone know the line in sources.list for retrieving apache source? In > the man page, it mentions adding deb-src to the line. I can't seem to get > the syntax correct. Does anyone have an example line? Here's mone: [EMAIL

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 28, w trillich scribbled: > > > there's still a AWFUL lot of overlap! > > > > No there's not. Please give the people who wrote linux some credit for > > sense. > > i saved the output from > tail -50 /var/log/syslog > tail -50 /var/log/daemon.log > and did a 'diff' on them:

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting w trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > w trillich wrote: > > > > > we need them _both_ because... well... um... > > > > Because syslogd handles the userspace messages, klogd handles the kernel > > > > messages. > > > > > > there's still a AWFUL lot of overlap! > > >

RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Dominic Blythe
well at least you got dselect to do it, i had to go back to dpkg. > -Original Message- > From: Paul McHale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 April 2000 16:01 > To: Dominic Blythe; Debian-User > Subject: RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source > > > I originally ha

RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Paul McHale
I originally had trouble getting apt-get to delete apache. For some reason it refused to. I then went back to dselect and it worked fine. I have since manually downloaded apache and am going to install it as you mentioned. If for no other reason, storm only comes with 1.3.3 and apache is up to

RE: startup/connection trubble [was Modules & name resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread Corey Popelier
Tried ps ax? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Dominic Blythe wrote: > i'm getting into this debate. > what's the switches for ps that'll show all the daemons i'm running? > just ps just gives me the obvious pro

.deb for the latest version of lilo? any ideas?

2000-04-28 Thread Eugene Teo
the subject says it all.

RE: startup/connection trubble [was Modules & name resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread Dominic Blythe
i'm getting into this debate. what's the switches for ps that'll show all the daemons i'm running? just ps just gives me the obvious processes. > -Original Message- > From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 April 2000 15:45 > To: w trillich > Cc: John Pearson; debian-user@l

RE: sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Dominic Blythe
why not just download it from apache? i'm not being glib, i really want to know why not, cos that's what i did and i'm always looking for better (different) ways to do things. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Does anyone know the line in sources.list for retrieving > apache source? In > the man pa

sources.list line to support retrieval of apache source

2000-04-28 Thread Paul McHale
Does anyone know the line in sources.list for retrieving apache source? In the man page, it mentions adding deb-src to the line. I can't seem to get the syntax correct. Does anyone have an example line? many thanks, paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions

Re: startup/connection trubble [was Modules & name resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 08:59:34AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > nfs = network fileshare system (or similar)? as in, a windows user > can see a volume icon on their desktop from the linux box? don't > need that... (the appletalk stuff is still operational... does > it need NFS?) no, NFS == Network

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread w trillich
Joey Hess wrote: > > w trillich wrote: > > > > we need them _both_ because... well... um... > > > Because syslogd handles the userspace messages, klogd handles the kernel > > > messages. > > > > there's still a AWFUL lot of overlap! > > No there's not. Please give the people who wrote linux som

Re: hacked?

2000-04-28 Thread Eugene Teo
> way cool. > > so if telnet is relatively secure, how about ftp? which server telnet is secure?!? hhee, i would rather stick to SSH and SCP ;) > do y'all'uns recommend for best security? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Re: hacked?

2000-04-28 Thread w trillich
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: > On the other hand, I do not feel as strongly as other posters that telnet > needs to be disabled in order to have a secure machine. Strong passwords > will work just as well. I have an account on a large Solaris network > where

Re: startup/connection trubble [was Modules & name resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread w trillich
John Pearson wrote: > > > The "net-pf-18" message is the kernel trying to load the module > > > for network protocol family 18, which linux/include/net/socket.h > > > lists as "Ash", with which I'm not familiar. If it represents a > > > protocol family that you don't intend to support, or you just

Re: Debian Security

2000-04-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:18:12AM -0700, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Thanks for the response. I was working for the government and we were > just hacked twice with a WindowsNT System. I am basically looking for > a way to make it hard to be hacked. Right now we are wide open and it > is mostly beca

Re: Any interest in an Aureal Vortex soundcard driver .debs?

2000-04-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Interested. VERY. Didi Damian wrote: > Sure there's interest. > > * Alan Sobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-04-2000 10:08 PM +0100] > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > Subject says it all, I made this for my own needs and I thought other > > > > people might

Re: more real runlevels?

2000-04-28 Thread Eugene Teo
I agree, besides that, if you regretted changing it from S -> K, you can undo the sequence ;) Eugene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 11:52 Subject: Re: more real runlevels?

Re: Debian Security

2000-04-28 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Thanks for the response. I was working for the government and we were just hacked twice with a WindowsNT System. I am basically looking for a way to make it hard to be hacked. Right now we are wide open and it is mostly because management wants there ICQ, MSN, etc.. and total access to HTTP and

Re: samba -- missing codepage/tree connect invalid?

2000-04-28 Thread w trillich
Tobias Knowles wrote: > > Hey, > > 1) how do i munge a codepage 850? or do i need to? > Not sure about that one...I have about 10 in ./samba/lib/codpages. > > > 2) how can i keep it from adding interface 11.33.97.5? > Add to smb.conf > interfaces = 192.168.1.1/24 127.0

Re: elvis vs. initial settings

2000-04-28 Thread w trillich
Steve Kirkendall wrote: > > w trillich wrote: > > 1) it ignores my startup settings and > It sounds like there's a bad command somewhere in your configuration > files. Unfortunately, elvis sometimes has trouble reporting problems > that occur during initialization, because the GUI isn't r

language support for update-menus?

2000-04-28 Thread Kent Nyberg
I like update-menus ALOT, but would like it even better if it had support for diffrent languages, like swedish and so on. Would this be impossible? I know its not much, its just the "net" graphics" and those things that needs to be changed.

Re: more real runlevels?

2000-04-28 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> When will Debian follow the Linux Standard Base with respect to init -> runlevels? The current scheme (still in potato, I haven't checked -> woody) basically has just 2 distinct levels - single user and fully -> operational. This throws away most of the power of sysvinit (which -> comes at the

Re: Planning Upgrade.

2000-04-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Have a look at the packages apt-move and, maybe best in your situation, apt-zip: $ apt-cache show apt-zip Package: apt-zip Version: 0.11 Priority: extra Section: admin Maintainer: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: apt (>= 0.3.10) Architecture: all Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/

Re: samba's /etc/samba/cmb.conf -- empty?

2000-04-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: > of course, since apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade didn't install > everything (or download everything, for that matter) i don't know > why i insist on thinking that apt-get install somepkg would include > the pertinences relating to that package. it doe

Re: telnet problems with Debian woody

2000-04-28 Thread Vicente Torres
Curtis Hogg wrote: > > A friend of mine (as am I) is running Debian 2.1 that has been > dist-upgraded to woody, and while he can telnet into my machine just fine, > I cannot telnet into his, the error received states- > > telnetd: getpty: permission denied > > the permissions on his ptys and tty

Re: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 11:02:13PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > My understanding is (more from windoze than linux) that installing on one > hrd drv and using it in a diff system is a bad idea, lots of different > hardware / configurations, unless you both have identical systems Amplifying other

Re: more real runlevels?

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:52:49PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:17:42PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > If so, what _is_ the proper way to do this with Debian? > > > > You can just delete the links you don't want > > I've always felt that it's better to change the link f

Re: kernel 2.2.12

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:33:31AM +0800, da Bobstopper wrote: > heya, people > > i've been having some troubles with a linux fileserver i've been maintaining > regarding seemingly random crashes and freezes. i'm inclined to put it down > to a hardware problem but i noticed i'd used a 2.2.12 kerne

Re: hacked?

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:02:05AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: [...] > On the other hand, I do not feel as strongly as other posters that telnet > needs to be disabled in order to have a secure machine. Strong passwords > will work just as well. I have an account on a large Solaris network

Re: /dev/null: permission denied - problem

2000-04-28 Thread Stephan Hachinger
OK, I've done so like you told me. It now works. I also mailed the selection list. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger > > - Original Message - > From: Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Stephan Hachinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:16 PM > Subjec

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 28, Joey Hess scribbled: > Marek Habersack wrote: > > > rwhod = server for 'whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I didn't write that :)) :P > > useless crap (IMHO) But I still hold on to this point of view - completely useless > No, rwhod doesn't have anything to do with whois. How useful it is

Re: hacked?

2000-04-28 Thread John Gould
Hi there, I guess that password complexity is not the issue here. It's incredibly easy to 'sniff' plain text passwords off of a LAN! However if your happy no one is going to attempt this then telnet without ssh is fine. Just my twopennyworth. Regards JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da

Re: Hard disk (df) reporting.

2000-04-28 Thread Brad
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:13:23AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Now I killed the process and deleted the file, but the amount of space > > used reported by df stayed the same. A du of / reported ~200Mb less, as I > > expected. > > > > "Sync" has not altered the report of df. Is this 200Mb

Re: Hard disk (df) reporting.

2000-04-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Now I killed the process and deleted the file, but the amount of space > used reported by df stayed the same. A du of / reported ~200Mb less, as I > expected. > > "Sync" has not altered the report of df. Is this 200Mb actually freed or > trapped still somehow? > probably there are still some pr

Hard disk (df) reporting.

2000-04-28 Thread Corey Popelier
I had a rogue civserver process that managed to append a lot of data to the ~/.gnome-errors file. In fact, the file rapidly grew to over 200Mb. Now I killed the process and deleted the file, but the amount of space used reported by df stayed the same. A du of / reported ~200Mb less, as I expected.

RE: High load

2000-04-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Recent versions of netscape will slow a 16Mb system to a crawl. How does the system respond when you aren't running netscape? What window manager are you using? What else are you running at the time. Check you netscape memory cache size. I would be wiling to bet the problem lies in the (lack o

High load

2000-04-28 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I recently installed a debian 2.1 on my machine which was earlier running redhat 5.2. (pentium 100MHz, 16mb ram). The machine becomes very very slow and unusable when I run netscape. I have dialup connection. The load average goes 100 and more. I have never seen load averages going above 2 ear

Re: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-28 Thread Arcady Genkin
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:37:09PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > While this is fine for building up a system once the base image has been > > created, I believe you'll find it easiest to install the base by booting > > the system. > > How about downl

REFUND

2000-04-28 Thread mcaudle
If you have received this message in error, please reply with the word CANCEL in the subject line. Hundreds of millions of dollars in utility/telecommunication errors are being refunded e

Re: what happened to wmaker-gnome?

2000-04-28 Thread Brad
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:35:44PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > > What's the deal with wmaker-gnome? I tried to do a a dist-upgrade, > something I haven't done in a few months and it removed wmaker-gnome. > Trying to install it direct with 'apt-get install wmaker-gnome' produces > this: > > Note,

Re: PCI Modem

2000-04-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Curtis Hogg wrote: buckmi >> buckmi >> 4. reboot. buckmi > buckmi >Done, but modem still doesn't respond to anything. buckmi > buckmi > buckmi >Any other ideas? buckmi > buckmi >-- Curtis Hogg to see if it is a winmodem or not i'd email the company that makes it and ask them

Re: PCI Modem

2000-04-28 Thread Curtis Hogg
My roommate has a PCI modem as well, though it's made by ESS not Wisecom.. supposedly it's not a Winmodem, but who can really tell. > assigned to a serial device. Do the following: > > 1. make sure you have pciutils installed. Check > > 2. run lspci -v and look for a reference to the "serial c

Re: samba's /etc/samba/cmb.conf -- empty?

2000-04-28 Thread Brad
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:45:29PM +0200, Harry ten Berge wrote: > > > There are sample 'smb.conf' files in 'samba-doc'. However, if you don't > want to spent a enormous amount of time (Samba is great, Samba is the > best, BUT IT'S HUGE!!!) configuring, take a look at > SWAT. It's a web-based con

Re: more real runlevels?

2000-04-28 Thread Brad
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:17:42PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > If so, what _is_ the proper way to do this with Debian? > > You can just delete the links you don't want I've always felt that it's better to change the link from S to K, instead of just deleting it. Say for example you delete

problem with sendmail.

2000-04-28 Thread Curtis Hogg
I am getting the following error whenever i try to use fetchmail to get my pop3 mail. this wasn't a problem before... Apr 27 21:43:44 ayanami-rei sendmail[1969]: e3S3hiv01969: SYSERR(root): Can't create transcript file ./xfe3S3hiv01969: Permission denied I know that it's a permissions problem (ob

Re: what happened to wmaker-gnome?

2000-04-28 Thread Corey Popelier
> Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Did wmaker-gnome get pulled while I was sleeping? BTW this is a potato > > system (Alpha). > > I don't think it's required any more. I think Window Maker is > configured with support for both KDE and GNOME, so just install wmaker > and

Re: Any interest in an Aureal Vortex soundcard driver .debs?

2000-04-28 Thread Didi Damian
Sure there's interest. * Alan Sobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-04-2000 10:08 PM +0100] > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > Subject says it all, I made this for my own needs and I thought other > > > people might be interested. It is a source diff to Aureals 1

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do > "migrate" from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry > in the config file (/etc/login.conf?) would be sufficient. if your using slink changing

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Ok, so who *else* is using talwkatgig? I'd prefer to use tsrts.. Oki

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An easy trick for making a password that's hard to guess but easy > to remember is to use the first letter of each word in the first > line of a song you know well. Get pwgen package; it generates easy to remember (but hopefully difficult to guess

RE: Kernel panic

2000-04-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Antonio Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:59 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Kernel panic > > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:42. > This is happenning after compiling a new kernel. I can st

Re: Subject: Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Are you running 24 bpi in X? I have found that > netscape dosen't like 24 bpp but will give the correct > colors if X is run at 32 bpp. Don't know if 8 or 16 > bpp settings cause problems. No, it's just 8 bpp. Does X need 24bpp for showing some of t

RE: Semi-frequent lock-ups (unrealated)

2000-04-28 Thread Curtis Hogg
The # after 2.2.14 indicates what build of the kernel you're running... namely, if you recompile your kernel, this number will increase. Mine's at #17 =) -- Curtis Hogg Email 1 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email 2 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW - http://www.cyberhighway.net/~buckmins ---

RE: Semi-frequent lock-ups (unrealated)

2000-04-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of chris horn. > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:42 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Semi-frequent lock-ups > > > Hi. I'm running wiht packages from the newest update of Slink off the ftp.cs.un

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Re: Debian Security

2000-04-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:30:39PM -0700, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > This may be the wrong group for the following, but I went to the website > www.linuxsecurity.com and there stating that it is impossible to make > GNU/Linux -> Debian/Linux total secure because the root user has the > ability to chan

Re: startup/connection trubble [was Modules & name resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:50:09PM -0500, w trillich wrote > hey john -- thanks for the informative reply! > > John Pearson wrote: > > > > > my syslog was complaining of something quite similar, so maybe > > > you already helped my problem a bit. from syslog... > > > Apr 25 21:29:48 server modpro

telnet problems with Debian woody

2000-04-28 Thread Curtis Hogg
A friend of mine (as am I) is running Debian 2.1 that has been dist-upgraded to woody, and while he can telnet into my machine just fine, I cannot telnet into his, the error received states- telnetd: getpty: permission denied the permissions on his ptys and ttys and so on are the same as mine. Wh

Mounting SCSI CD-ROM during Install

2000-04-28 Thread Rob Lilley
Hi all, I am attempting to install the stable version of Debian 2.1 distributed by O'Reilly. All is fine until install asks me to identify the CD-ROM where the Debian CD is. All of my drives are SCSI and this includes the CD-ROM. The floppy is IDE and I am booting from it (."This disk uses Linux

Re: multi line regex's in vi ...

2000-04-28 Thread Adam Shand
> while you can specify that a substitution take place on many lines > (1,3s/// for lines 1-3, .,$s/// for lines "here" to end of file, or > %s/// for lines "all") VI is based on EX which is a line editor. yah, hence my question :) > there may be some advanced voodoo mumbo-jumbo that will allow