Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > check the binaries tooo... > > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > > > > Please remember that you're speaking to a

Re: apt and perl

2000-09-27 Thread George Bonser
> > /usr/bin/perl: error loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3 not > found Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. > > Yet when I type "locate libdb.so.3", it says that /usr/lib/libdb.so.3 > exists!! I certainly can't install any package to fix it, since I > can't instal

Playing VCDs in Full Screen

2000-09-27 Thread Gatut SE Ribowo
Dear Debian users... I'm a newbie and newcomer in this list. Actually, I'm using Corel LINUX 1.1, not Debian. I use it as a workstation, not a server. Concerning Corel LINUX is based on Debian, I hope that I will get valuable informations here. I have a question for now. Here is the condition: I

Re: apt and perl

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > libdb.so.3 => not found > > How would I go about setting my "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to include > libdb.so.3? > Let's say that you type 'locate libdb.so.3' and you get '/lib/libdb.so.3' (because that's where it is on my box). So in your .bashrc file (

boot information

2000-09-27 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a method of rereading the boot information, that gets displayed to the console, other than "dmesg"? It seems that the information that "dmesg" produces is not the same as what gets printed to the console. Thanks =

Re: Loading lp

2000-09-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:51:35PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > I recently installed Debian 2.2 (from scratch) on my desktop box. > Everything is fine, except that I can't get lp to load. I don't recall > having any particular difficulty in the past, but now I get: > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/l

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Michael Smith
Try using aide--it checks your filesystem (checksums, inodes, timestamps, lots more) to make sure that nothing's been tampered, and mails you a daily report. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/aide.html. It's good stuff, expecially on machines that are just sitting around with minimal

Problems.

2000-09-27 Thread DanSV
Howdy Folks. In case your just tuning in, I got some odd problems with my linux box. I run libranet/debian 2.2 (potato). Two problems: I have a linksys etherfast 10/100. Doesn't work, tried tulip, tulip.old, generic, nothing works. I have a pc-100 m598 motherboard. It has sound onboard, pc98,

Re: TOT: Virus reports to the list and x-envelope-to:

2000-09-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> If you are going to bounce a message, send it to the envelope George> sender or the Errors-To: address. Ethan> looks to me like the only header that seems appropriate is Ethan> Return-Path: Ethan> that is the only real header with

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
On 28 Sep 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > bash$ man debsums > bash$ dpkg --search `which top` > procps: /usr/bin/top > bash$ debsums -s procps > > Any output could be a problem. Of course this assumes that the listed > md5sums have not been tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > Okay

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Bryan" == Bryan Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bryan> Hi Andrew, Rather mysterious. Nothing has broken. Restarted Bryan> exim (in a deliberate attempt to break it - if the problem was Bryan> really there), and is continued to work. Even rebooted (I Bryan> would much rather have it br

Re: apt and perl

2000-09-27 Thread lbredeso
It says: libdb.so.3 => not found How would I go about setting my "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to include libdb.so.3? Quoting Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > /usr/bin/perl: error loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3 not > > found Cannot open

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > check the binaries tooo... > > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > > > > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do w

Re: IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote: > hi. i have no clue about all this fancy stuff. sounds > delightfully cool. if you get it straightened out, > PLEASE post a 'SOLVED' message so that the rest of us > dunces (speaking for what i hope is a large group and > not just me) can learn from your

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-09-27 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:19:53AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > Is there an address book for Mutt? I'm running woody. > > Thanks, > -- > Jack Morgan Debain GNU/Linux > Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web-site: www.mandinka.org Use th

apt and perl

2000-09-27 Thread lbredeso
Okay, I am having an unusual problem. I have woody installed, and somewhere along the line I decided to install XFree86 4.0.1 I realized after installing various packages after a "dist-upgrade" that apt would no longer get my packages for me! I unfortunately didn't look at which package was

Re: windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized)

2000-09-27 Thread Claudette Woodgate
This happened to me about a week ago as I was setting up Helix gnome. Gnome-session was started via .xinitrc, and all my windows were stuck in the upper left corner. I fired up gcc and chose Sawmill as the wm. Restarted X and everything was OK. > > > -Original Message- > From: Ulrich Grün

RE: windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized)

2000-09-27 Thread Ceaser Larry
-Original Message- From: Ulrich Grün [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:59 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized) My problem is, that all the windows are fixed on the upper panel on the left-abo

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > check the binaries tooo... > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would tell me if the

Re: 3c509 troubles

2000-09-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
I'm kind of new but maybe this will help. I'm using the 3c509b-tpc (etherlink III) with Debian 2.2 and just installed the 3c509 module during install along with the pertinent networking info and it's worked fine. I didn't have to use any special setup programs or files at all. In fact, if I

Re: Q: on Debian Bug-Tracking system

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would someone know if the bugs listed on debian.org/Bugs are the > 'current' outstanding bugs or just of all the bugs ever posted? It lists the all the bugs filed that the maintainer has not yet closed, which is likely someway between current outstanding

Re: lp module in Debian 2.2

2000-09-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
I just recently installed Debian 2.2 and had the same problem as well. When I tried to load the lp module during the install it failed. I tried installing it without any pararmeters (because it said that would grab all parallel ports) but that didn't seem to work. I also tried adding the exa

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-09-27 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Jack Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is there an address book for Mutt? I'm running woody. You can add aliases by hitting `a'. -- Kjetil Ødegaard, Orakeltjenesten ITEA, NTNU

Re: IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-27 Thread will trillich
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Missed the start of this thread. I need to do some tunnelling as > well. Here's the setup. I use my school's smtp/imap/news > servers. The servers can only be accessed from cs.ubc.ca (at least, I > haven't had any luck using them from elsewher

Mutt Address book

2000-09-27 Thread Jack Morgan
Is there an address book for Mutt? I'm running woody. Thanks, -- Jack Morgan Debain GNU/Linux Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-site: www.mandinka.org

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-27 Thread will trillich
Amaury Darsch wrote: > > Ok, > > Looks like you are really suffering with this one - I'll try to do my best > to help you. We will go step by step ... thanks! you have no idea...! > a) I assume you work with the kernel 2.2.17 # uname -a Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586

Re: sparc boxes

2000-09-27 Thread George Bonser
Ultra-5's are 64-bit. You can find them on E-Bay. Saw some nearly new ones in my local newspaper going for US$ 2K On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I've noticed that older sparc boxes are going for > reasonable prices on ebay. I've been running Debian > on Intel HW for sometime now

VI and Ispell

2000-09-27 Thread Jack Morgan
How cn i use Ispell in VI? I'm using VI as my editor for Mutt and want to be able to check my spelling. I'm a VI newbie so any help is greatly appreciated ;-) TIA -- Jack Morgan Debain GNU/Linux Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-site:

sb.o under 2.4.nn

2000-09-27 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Please respond to me as well as the list. I'm having trouble achieving sb.o functionality under 2.4.0-test8 for a ESS1869 card. Under a custom kernel 2.2.14, sound is set with: /sbin/modprobe sound /sbin/insmod uart401 /sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 e

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread Cam Ellison
They don't show up in my syslog. On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:44:03 -0500 (CDT), Brent Buchholz wrote: >On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Kent West wrote: > >>I know "dmesg" will show the boot-up messages generated (by the >>kernel?); however, this apparently doesn't show the errors generated by >>modules being

sparc boxes

2000-09-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I've noticed that older sparc boxes are going for reasonable prices on ebay. I've been running Debian on Intel HW for sometime now, and would like to hack on some Risc equipment, maybe some of the older sparc equipment would play well (and Debian runs on it). Problem is I know nothing about Sun eq

Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:42:18PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > It was called HPML and it's fairly dead. There is a CVS, but nothing more > > than a skeleton and a spec document. I think Wichert is working on > > something else. > > Yes, and he's go

Kernel compile errors

2000-09-27 Thread David Fisher
G'day all, I have had a very frustrating morning trying to compile a new 2.2.17 kernel from the tarball sources for my up-to-date woody machine. I get a make error on make zImage and on make bzImage, but not on make vmlinux. I was tearing my hair out over thisuntil I read the list this

getting network transfer rates

2000-09-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Is there a way that I can get the current network transfer rates, through both my dialup ppp0 interface, and the eth0 nic interface? I've seen the occasional tool to show this, but I'd like to know where they're getting their data from and maybe hack something myself. Perhaps somewh

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:03:51PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Warning: Ignorant question coming... > > I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly > handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is > sent to the domain when I'm rebo

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > While telling me about the existence of vmstat, somebody at work said > that it excluded itself from its measurements. This might be rubbish, > though, as I've never actually looked at the code ... According to the man page, vmstat ex

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Sep-2000 Joey Hess wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> It first broke Postfix here. > > Details, please? I've been sitting comfy with the new libc since I use > postfix and I'd only heard of it breaking exim and sendmail. What > breakage are you seeing? My postfix is working fine. I breakage (I do

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread montefin
Why do I have this feeling that I just dodged a bullet? A big _Thank_ You to all who answered my 'Paranoid's Question' post from yesterday! montefin Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Those who run woody should probably subscribe to the debian-devel list. > There was a warning about the db2 problem (not t

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... or maybe a httpd running as nobody ??? but most likley just news...from his prior comments c ya alvin On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > * Try to find a way to track who is connecting to your computer at 7:35 in > > the morning with a packet sniffer - e

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya william yestrue that grepping is kinda sillybut i just want to see if anybody even tried...am gambling that most try but fail to get in... ( assuming too that they did not modify the log files and binaries etc ( to hide themself i need to add *grep and lsof to that list to get a

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 at 07:48:01 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > > > > Rememebr heisenberg's uncertanty principle - you can't measure an attribute > > of the system without affecting the system attribute you are measuring. > > If quantum

Re: compiling software

2000-09-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hm, not sure about the exact problem you're having, I've never used those packages. Getting stuff to compile can be tricky, experience helps because you start seeing the same problems over and over again. There is some theory but usually you only need a small subset of th

RE: no /dev/audio?

2000-09-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Sep-2000 cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > testing for sound (via "saytime"), i get a > "no-deivce" error; yet, i see "audio" in /dev. > > Script started on Wed Sep 27 17:28:28 2000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ saytime > opening /dev/audio: No such device > if the sound modules are not loade

Re: IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
Missed the start of this thread. I need to do some tunnelling as well. Here's the setup. I use my school's smtp/imap/news servers. The servers can only be accessed from cs.ubc.ca (at least, I haven't had any luck using them from elsewhere). My isp is not cs.ubc.ca. I

sawfish beeping on resize

2000-09-27 Thread Remco van 't Veer
I just installed sawfish (0.31-helix5) and notice something really annoying; every time a window is resized I hear a beep. Does anybody know how to get ride of this behaviour? TIA, Remco -- Patijn FNLC Clinton ETA splif GSM soviet strategic Ft. Bragg KGB PSUC Cthulhu Slobodan Milosevic POUM So

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > egrep -i "failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal > port|blocked|denied|passwd"\ > /var/log/messages* There is not much to gain by this. If the information is found in your logfile, they didn't get in :} > check the binaries tooo... > top, ps,

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Phil Brutsche wrote: > * Try to find a way to track who is connecting to your computer at 7:35 in > the morning with a packet sniffer - either with another computer on the > same hub or on your computer with a tcpdump binary you prepared > yourself. I suspect it's much ado about nothing. I'l

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Use "lsof -i | grep " to find out exactly what binary is running > on that port. Then you can find out where it's at. Are there any > other hidden utils, etc? I'd also do a "netstat -an"

Re: Print to windows Printer?

2000-09-27 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:15:43PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to > a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me? I've used "pbm2ppa" to print to an attached HP820Cse "windows only" printer. -- Thank you, Jo

Re: kde2 for potato

2000-09-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
KDE2 is only available for woody, however, just add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and you should be able to get what you need. <---add this to /etc/apt/sources.list---> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free # You may have to add this as well for some of the de

no /dev/audio?

2000-09-27 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, testing for sound (via "saytime"), i get a "no-deivce" error; yet, i see "audio" in /dev. Script started on Wed Sep 27 17:28:28 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ saytime opening /dev/audio: No such device [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/ ¦less atibm audio ^ audio1 bpcd cdrom [snip] Script do

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > It first broke Postfix here. > > Details, please? I've been sitting comfy with the new libc since I use > postfix and I'd only heard of it breaking exim and sendmail. What > breakage are you seeing? My postfix is working fine. So the details are postfix cann

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve do the lsof and netstat thing and am curious try: egrep -i "failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal port|blocked|denied|passwd"\ /var/log/messages* try: last, w, who, tooo check the binaries tooo... top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... have

Re: Bug#72595: i2c: i2c (using make-kpkg modules-image) wants to write to /lib/modules/2.2.18pre11

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Richard A Nelson wrote: > Version: N/A > Severity: grave Never, EVER, EVER*** file a grave bug report without a version number. -- see shy jo

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Pollywog wrote: > It first broke Postfix here. Details, please? I've been sitting comfy with the new libc since I use postfix and I'd only heard of it breaking exim and sendmail. What breakage are you seeing? My postfix is working fine. -- see shy jo

Re: Paranoid's Question

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
montefin wrote: > Why hasn't woody done something really bad yet? > > Have I just been lucky for over two months playing 'apt-get upgrade > roulette'? Or, am I in pain and just don't know it? It seems you have not yet attempted the latest libc upgrade. :-) -- see shy jo

Screensavers in window maker...

2000-09-27 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I just upgraded my Debian box from 2.1 to 2.2 and I use windowmaker as window manager, but since I upgraded I have none screensaver options froms the windowmaker's main menu. Someone knows how can I install all the screensaver that I used to before my upgrade? TIA Rogelio

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 at 07:48:01 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > At 04:39 PM 9/27/00 +0100, you wrote: > >You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the > >first line, which is an "up to the time vmstat was started" figure, the > >last field in each line is the percentage of time t

RE: potato (libc6 is getting to me)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
You don't need to reinstall Linux, if that is what you intend to do. Just install the stable potato libc6 and friends and you will be fine. This information will show you which files you need to grab: http://togo.dhs.org/woody-libc-downgrade.html All I did was to copy ldconfig from my other mach

Potato file structure

2000-09-27 Thread csj
I am trying to put together my own unofficial Potato CDR. I don't want to use the pseudo-image script because it makes use of a program ("rsync") I am totally unfamiliar with. I have had limited success with the CDRW I had already burned. Basically it lets me install the base system (kernel, passw

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
Use "lsof -i | grep " to find out exactly what binary is running on that port. Then you can find out where it's at. Are there any other hidden utils, etc? I'd also do a "netstat -an" and see what is connected to your mystery port. Find out where your attacker is coming from. Robert Thus spa

I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
Well, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention and I had every unnecessary port closed... or so I thought. I was still running the portmapper. So when I ssh'd home today and nmapped myself, a couple of mysterious processes popped up. To begin with: I nmapped my box and saw, much to my dismay: P

potato (libc6 is getting to me)

2000-09-27 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Well I figured I have nothing to lose. I messed up my woody install *real* bad by trying to fix libc6. I'm going to install potato and be happy. Now, on ftp.debian.org : in /debian-cd/2.2_rev0/i386, there is 3 ISO images. Binary-i386-1.iso, binary-i386-2.iso and binary-i386-3.iso. I suppose I onl

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
The number of games available for Debian just keeps on growing. There are also wine, VMware and Win4Lin. On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:09:53PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote: > > > obvious one would be http/web stuff). seems very silly to offer that, > >

installation problems

2000-09-27 Thread Chris Kuck
I am installing debian for the first time and I have reached istalling the base system without a hitch. it tells me when i install the base system that the next thing to do is to install the base system. This will repeat at lest for 20 - 30 times (any more than that I thin k I would have gone cra

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
Those who run woody should probably subscribe to the debian-devel list. There was a warning about the db2 problem (not that it stopped me from upgrading). 8^( Today there have been messages on debian-devel about several programs that have exhibited problems are in the process of being recompiled

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
The gods must be looking out for me, at least temporarily. Here is what "dpkg --status libc6 libc6-dev" shows: Both packages: 2.1.94-1 HALLELUJAH (Knock on wood(y)) -Bryan WaltoN On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:51:06PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I don't know why your system was unaffected. Did

compiling software

2000-09-27 Thread john gennard
On previous occasions, I've asked for and received specific help on this topic. Now I must absorb the principles involved and thoroughly understand environment variables and permissions. Whilst I've gained some knowledge, it's fragmented and I just don't have a feeling for the overall picture.

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-27 Thread hawk
Subject: Re: ppp install failing (loopback?) In-Reply-To: Message from David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:43:13 BST." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I thoug

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote: > obvious one would be http/web stuff). seems very silly to offer that, > and then shut down your server just to play > 'how-many-ways-can-regedit-fsck-my-shell*'? But not everyone can afford to have a second computer to play games on :} That said, there

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I don't know why your system was unaffected. Did you also upgrade libc6-dev? -- Andrew On 27-Sep-2000 Bryan Walton wrote: > Hi Andrew, > Rather mysterious. Nothing has broken. Restarted exim (in a deliberate > attempt to break it - if the problem was really there), and is continued to >

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:03:51PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Warning: Ignorant question coming... > > I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly > handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is > sent to the domain when I'm rebo

Re: windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized)

2000-09-27 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:59:25PM +0200, Ulrich Grün wrote: > I have installed debian 2.2 with X_4.0.1 (the original X-server refused to > connect because of some errno=111). > Which one ? (It dowsn't matter anymore, anyway ...) > My problem is, that all the windows are fixed on the upper panel

IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:51:10PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > I don't know if it's sophisticated enough for what you want to do, but > setting up port forwarding using ssh is very easy. If all you want to do > is something like secure mail transfer, then it'll take you mere seconds > to set up, a

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Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly > handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is > sent to the domain when I'm rebooted into windows and playing games? This depends on the sendi

Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > It was called HPML and it's fairly dead. There is a CVS, but nothing more > than a skeleton and a spec document. I think Wichert is working on > something else. Yes, and he's gonna propose the non .deb people should use that too (as it's better then deb a

Re: X resources (was Re: Netscape big menu)

2000-09-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:28:58AM +1100, David Fisher wrote: > > For less ugly Netscape fonts and proper size scaling, > > the best solution I've found is to install the mozilla-fonts > > package at http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts, > > > > I have installed the rpm for these fon

Re: Multiple netscapes; multiple x servers; a question

2000-09-27 Thread Barry Samuels
Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife and I use the same debian box. We don't want to log > in and out, and so I've been logging in as her in KDE, > doing an xhost + mymachine and then using telnet/ssh to > log in as me. > > > Two possible solutions: > 1) Netscape 4.75 works and al

Re: libc5 / libc6

2000-09-27 Thread Barry Samuels
"Liam Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to see if asking APT to install the libc5 package in > simulate mode would suggest the removal of libc6 and it doesn't, > which suggests I could simply install the libc5 package. However, I'm > too scared to do it without checking that I'm not

RE: Postfix question

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
Will putting these hosts in the /etc/postfix/access list suffice? I just thought of that, but it's too simple ;) -- Andrew On 27-Sep-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I just migrated from Exim to Postfix (but I kept my Exim stuff just in case) > and it works well, but I have one small problem that I also ha

OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread William Jensen
Warning: Ignorant question coming... I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is sent to the domain when I'm rebooted into windows and playing games? Wm

Q: on Debian Bug-Tracking system

2000-09-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Would someone know if the bugs listed on debian.org/Bugs are the 'current' outstanding bugs or just of all the bugs ever posted? In working up a course outline for an up-coming class, I found a bunch of 'inconsistencies' in the doc packages (doc-base, dhelp, dwww). I decides to report them an

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread montefin
Hi, I'm in a somewhat similar situation to Bryan (below), except I didn't upgrade. My last woody upgrade was about a week and a half ago. Luckily, I posted the 'Paranoid's Question' to this list yesterday (9/26 at 18:54 MDT) just before attempting another upgrade. The cautionary replies I receive

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-27 Thread Josh Huber
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:24:37AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I *hate* the user interface for info. man is so much easier. > Is there a better way to use info other than the command line info command. > The > gnome-help-browser is OK but I can't do searches with it. Yeah, I reccommend you

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
Hi Andrew, Rather mysterious. Nothing has broken. Restarted exim (in a deliberate attempt to break it - if the problem was really there), and is continued to work. Even rebooted (I would much rather have it break when I am expecting it). Everything still works. And /sbin/ldconfig is

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:39 PM 9/27/00 +0100, you wrote: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found >/proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average >load values. You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the fi

list down?

2000-09-27 Thread William Jensen
I haven't seen anything my way since about midnight on 9/26. Is down? Or is this perhaps a side effect of the problems with apt-get upgrade recently? Wm

Reconfiguring network from dhcp?

2000-09-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
I have a box, currently getting IP, etc from DHCP. I'd like to change to a static IP. I know I can hack the parts together, but out of curiosity, is there a tool to reconfigure eth0 to a static IP? Robert :wq! --- Robe

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I won't stay away from Woody, because I almost never upgrade anything that might break the system, only packages that won't do any damage if they don't work. I would submit a bug report, but the developers probably already know what is going on. The one time I depart from my practice of not upgra

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Sep-2000 Bryan Walton wrote: > Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my > question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morning > (as well as yesterday). So, I am sure that I am running this libc6 package > that is breaking everything for

Postfix question

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I just migrated from Exim to Postfix (but I kept my Exim stuff just in case) and it works well, but I have one small problem that I also had with Exim. Sometimes a connection is attempted by some MTA that does not have a hostname in the DNS, or it has a hostname that does not resolve to its correc

Re: Which netscape version works?

2000-09-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using the meta packages is the way to go. But, the meta package is > navigator, not netscape. No, on the contrary, the meta package is netscape-smotif-475, but it doesn't include navigator, only communicator: $ apt-cache show netscape-smotif-475 Pac

RE: Exim

2000-09-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Sep-2000 Jake Griesbach wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this message is a repeat, I'm not suscribed to this mailing list. > > After doing an unstable upgrade this morning, I found that Exim isn't > working anymore (Exim bug #72588). There seems to be a problem with > libdb2: > yep, db2 is bor

zope-siteaccess

2000-09-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I did a fresh install of zope-2.2.1 and zope-siteaccess_2.0.0b3 from wood. Zope 2.2.1 is working fine but siteaccess is broken. I can't add a SiteRoot to any folder. The error I get is: - Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.

Exim

2000-09-27 Thread Jake Griesbach
Hi, Sorry if this message is a repeat, I'm not suscribed to this mailing list. After doing an unstable upgrade this morning, I found that Exim isn't working anymore (Exim bug #72588). There seems to be a problem with libdb2: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailq mailq: /usr/lib/libdb.so.2: no version inform

Re: reboot problem

2000-09-27 Thread cls-colo spgs
you may need a "scsi-free" kernel. now, where to ftp one from debian.org, i can't tell you at the moment. (i've got to be somewhere soon, so i can't do the research. maybe someone else can be of more assistance.) hth. bentley taylor. // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded slink to

3c509 troubles

2000-09-27 Thread Helpdesk
Greetings all, I just installed the latest version of debian and am having problems with my nic. The 3c5x9setup program tells me that it can't find a nic at 0x300. This is a 3c509b-tp card that worked fine under NT. I used 3c5x9cfg to verify that the i/o address is 300h (i also tried 310h with no

Re: lp module in Debian 2.2

2000-09-27 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I installed Debian 2.2 recently and the process went pretty smoothly > except for lp module for printer support. The installation of the module > fails even though I have a printer connected to the parallel port and

update off apache failed, but no notice

2000-09-27 Thread Thomas Guettler
I just updated apache to: 1.3.9-13.1 (testing distro) the restart failed, because my changes were incompatible with the new version. "apt-get install" was running in non-interactive mode, and I got no message that told me that it had failed. Is this always like this? Would be nice to get an email

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